Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-07-17
Chain of Friendship Clubs
AS Memorial of Great War

Writing in the New York World Maya
zine, Miss Alice Scott tells IN an interest
ing way Of the world wide chain ~
Friendship Clubs" which Miss Florence
Parbury, artist, author, aviator and
founder Of Friendship Clubs, hopes ~
establish The writer says.
10 belt the world with a chain of Friend
ship Clubs as n memorial Of the great war
Is the ambition of Miss Florence Parbury,
English artist, author and aviator, who Is
IN New York To- put her idea into action.
Miss Parbury would fix things 80 that
none Of us need ever be lonesome for
sympathetic friends IN any large city IN
the world
She was enthusiastic about this kind ~
a war memorial before she came ~ New
York. but in the weeks she has been here
she has turned into a zea ious evangelist
on the subject Of Friendship Clubs. That
is partly because she almost persisted of
loneliness in her apartment AZ the Cornno-
dore Hotel, where her maid was the only
person she had 70 talk to The idea evolve
from her war work in London, where she
dispensed hospitality to more than half
million men from the ends ~ the earth
in her Jacobean studios She maintained
open house there for several years during
the war Men from everywhere foe tod
into that club, found their kind had
good time and went back to France Or
New Zealand Dr India Then they would
write letters ~ sdggeat that il would
be splendid e hospitality centres like that
of the studios could BE- carried over INTO
peace times.
Miss Parbury expects n devote her life
to cIrclng the globe with these Friendship
Clubs She is the kird If woman who -
apt ~ accomplish whatever she sets ont to
do Perhaps that is because she comes
from line If history-rnaking ancestors
On her father side the family tree has it,
roots in William the ConqIeror. and on
her mother side 10 goes back 70 Alfred
the Great Her own grandfather was
George Parbury, one Of the hackers nf the
Suez Canal idea
Once she gets her Friendship Clubs
going Miss Parbury wont have much diff
fculty fitting from one friendly center
r. another for che is skilled IN the scIenee
Of avietion. She few from BournernOuth
with Morane in the first passenger me-
chne that was built She has done lot
Of flying since then, has given prizes and
done whateve she could to help tho
thing along as she says
When the ship bearing the new British
AfnUASStfiDT WIS AffAfHtfiE mo tNFW j OK
harbor, Miss Parbury few out over ( he
bay and dropped bunch Of flowers 0 n
board with q message Of welcome To
Lady Geddes.
This descendant Of Kings came 70 New
York without any letters Of introduction
She had never needed them IN London
or Paris or Rome. In New York she found
herself detached and solitary IN a world
that didn I seem TO care whether she
lived or dnsd. Never in all her life had
she experienced that feeling If separate
ness that came over her like a pail IN the
exclusion Of a twentv-third floor apart
ment that overiooks miles Of roofs and
chimnevs. She had her art, but she
wasn't absorbed in art to the exclusion Of
everyday life. And her sympathetic
imagination wandered 10 those hundreds
of Young women less fortunate than her
self in their isolation. because they haven Z
the means to live IN comfort when their