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The New York herald., 1921-08-21
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CITY REAL ESTATE.

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The New York herald., 1921-02-20
Club Holds No Meetings
But Yields Wide Influence

The French Charm Club is. evidently.
misnomer. Its members do not meet to dis
cuss their interests; and, in fact. they do not
know each other as members But the heads
of the movement appear to be powerful and
capable, not only in society, but by their
unusual allies of business women of posi-
ton. This latter is highly significant.
They have. visibiy, all the money they
want for national French propaganda; and
while their motives are cinched in profound
patriotism. they admittedly get force from
personal and clan feeling-not to mention
wounds to the spirit which are easy to guess.
It is a hard time, In France. In Germany,
they talk polygamy
"The worst enemy Of the woman OF forty
is the man Of forty!" exclaimed the Countess
Andree. "The woman of forty is the mirror
in which he sees. with terror the shadow
OF his own degeneracy He forgets that
the wear and tear OF his past ten years have
not been hers. So the man of forty marries
the girl Of twenty-threei"
Alas" 7 said.
NO" she replied. Because. in spite Of
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Exhibits Pictures to Prove
Women of 90 Still Rule Paris

She scattered a bunch of photographs on
the table. They were portraits of beautiful
women. Then she called off. one by one.
their ages.
"In spite of the peril you see. women of
40 still rule Paris she said. Most of the
originals of these portraits were less beauti-
full when they were younger. Here is one
who had an insignificant nose and her eyes
were nondescript untll-but never mind
that! Here is one who has. not a single fine
feature yet the ensemble is n very beautiful
woman. 1t had to be learned-arrived at.
But IL this fat portrait is charming, how
much finer must be the breathing woman?"
She pointed out their defects, but they
were far worse when younger!"
1T was the photographers" she says,
who helped these women to become beaut
been much photographed. and the effort to
resemble ones best pictures with all the
retouches and the happy pose and express
sion) helped to carry them to beauty-more
than you could believe, not being of the
Charm Club"
For one thing, it must be systematic
done with system there is a strong influence
of self-suggestion. They come to resemble
their best photographs by degrees because
they have instructions how to study them
in series. and are expecting the results. Liv-
ing up to last months photograph makes
next months photograph more beautiful
It encourages.
II do not object to your dvulging this
particular beauty trick" said the Countess.
because II requires time and must be pur-
sued with system. Also, the enemy will not
The New York herald., 1921-02-20
In oval is Mrs Nicholas F. Brady,
who is keenly interested in and heads
the Carroll Club. At left is corner
of the lounge.

proper procedure and report back to the
members.
The curriculum laid down for the educa-
tional features of the club suggests the COM
bination of an industrial and finishing school,
There are classes in dressmaking, millinery
and cooking. The kitchens of the old Colony
Club were famous. Special attention is
given to instruction in the Spanish language
as necessary in future industrial develop
ment in this part of the world. There is
dramatic school and class in choral sing
ing.
The club faculty is composed of trained
and experienced teachers, whether it is in
the composition of cream of tomato soup or
in aesthetic dancing In the drama and in
choral singing have these young business
women proved themselves especially apt.
Recently the members of the dramatic club
staged four plays by Constance darcy
Mackaye. The Gee Club has $50 members,
under the direction of Miss Edith Bennett,
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woman of forty-aye, the woman going ON
past forty-can always triumph in her flow
erngl She requires will power, knowledge
of our little secrets. and announcement to
master that pathetic disdain which so often
tempts her to stand back and make room
for the younger set!"
have not seen page of the correspond
ence course, naturally. but am told that its
introduction, though addressed to French
wives means all women of forty or there
abouts, at this painful era in France which
has seen 100000 men, all marriageable or
married either killed or MANNED for life.
Women of forty" 1t says, charm your
husbands and fiances. 1t is easy. Were
proof needed, observe that the intuitions of
the very young man in this matter are un-
erring-the youth of seventeen. with senses
fresh and keen, begins with his orunde
passion for some woman of forty! II is
traditional, from Candide to Henry Esmond.
His first judgment, untroubled by calcua-
ton. awards the engraved apple where it
belongs"
The New York herald., 1921-02-20
Villagers Set Up
Cooperative Laundry

A NEW and interesting venture in the
II field of cooperation is the Green
wich Village Cooperative Laundry
now being run at Greenwich House, q Bar
row street. About a year ago a group of
people in the neighborhood combined in buy
ing shares, which are to pay per cent. for
the establishment of the laundry. These
funds were used for the purchase of equip
ment and Greenwich House supplied a light
and convenient room for the laundry in the
basement. Then regular laundresses were
hired and the work was started under the
direction of Mrs Lambert, one of the Green
wich House workers
Members OF the association are charged
for their laundry at the prevailing laundry
prices of the neighborhood, but every three
months the profits go back in the form of
dividends on the stock. 1t is expected that
these earnings will be from 20 to 80 per cent.
Aside from the financial gain, the patrons
have the advantage of knowing that the
laundry is done under sanitary conditions
and that no harmful washing powders are
being used. Although still young, the or
ganization is already great success. Sew
eral settlement houses of the vicinity are
members. and a similar cooperative plan Is
urged for settlements in other parts of the
city It has also been suggested that a CO.
operative laundry where women of the
neighborhood could come in to do their wash
ing might be of great Service.
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Cooperates With Other Societies
In Emergency Welfare Work

out of this social organization has
developed a logical emergency welfare work
which keeps in daily cooperation with the
Bureau of Boarding Houses, the Young
Women's Christian Association and the
Travellers Aid. The plight Of crippled chill
dren seems to appeal particularly to the
hearts of the members. Last Christmas the
dramatic club gave a performance in the
theatre before an audience of afflicted chill
dren.
In view of this partial outline of the
privileges and aims of the Carroll Club, is 1T
any wonder that the club has 5000 members
and a long waiting list? 1t is the first or
it's kind, but while only two years old its
influence has gone abroad. Yonkers is try
ing to get such an organization into being
So also is Rochester, and in last weeks mail
Mrs Brady and Mrs. Tohey received simlar
inquiries from cities in dozen other State
And the Sc ting is a clubhouse that. as
faithful copy of a Colonial mansion in Bos-
ton is pointed out as of the architec-
tural ornaments in New York. In England
the home of the Carroll Club would be called
Georgian but in America it is Colonial for
obvious reasons.
The interior decorations are faithfully
Adam Miss Elsie de Wolfe spent two years
in planning and collecting the fabrics ana
furniture in this country and abroad. The
green trellised tea room is place of artistic
beauty. The dining room walls are panelled
and painted, with no ornament save the
brackets on the wall and the picture over
the mantel The ballroom is of impressive
proportions. The theatre is as attractive as
II is utiIitarian. Miss De Wolfe called the
club "a house Of good taste
But that isn't all. Out in Chappaqua.
n. Y. within easy committing distance from
Forty second street, is The Gables. 1t is
the Carroll Country Club spacious ram
bling structure, with broad verandas. the
auintessence of bucolic comfort.
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I'd of French Charm Club Offers Proof Woman Is LOveest at ~

credit 1.-THE thing requires certain guam
tity of soul to see it. With us it is power
-ul!"
In the shadow of the romantic old chateau
anything seemed possible
But
"This is not beauty parlor!" said the
Charm Club lady brusquely. THE affair is
serious. For the first time in French society
young girls are getting out of hand. We
want our sisters to be happy. If the woman
of 40 becomes panic stricken she enters the
terrible 40s' Indeed they may be the ridic-
ulous 40s or the splendid 40s, as she makes
them
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What a crook he is, the man of forty!
He is vain and suspicious. Even when, as
often happens he joins physical integrity
to the graces of experience, he desires to
punish the unoffending loveliness which
walks beside him in the path of years! All.
YES, he makes the woman of forty suffer-
Would she be human not to resent it? Un-
spoken malice in her laughing eye causes
him in turn to grit his teeth with hate. So
two perfect creatures at the Towering of
their best too often turn their backs upon
each other, leaving opportunity open to
wiser hearts or heads-to young girls with
their queer intuitions, and the man of fifty
purged of petty vanity"
Zine women are the age they look" I
said, ,dazed.
mo, the woman of 40 Is positively love-
lest" replied the lovely specialist. painters
of voluptuous subjects-nymphs rolling on
green lawns, bacchantes sprawling in pagan
festivals or Courts of Neptune summing on
golden sands-have always been reproached
for doing chic because they partially age
their models Exactly! To attain the per-
lection of sensual beauty. such painters en-
large rotundities, exaggerate curves and ar
rive at an unearthly charm by giving the
nymbh OF IL whole set of outlines which
she ought not to have for ten or fifteen years
vet. What is this but glorifying the woman
of 40? The empty face Of IL is added to
fiatter the man of 40 who generally buys
the picture!
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Acadenicai Purity of Line Is Lost
Not at 30 But at "a, Says She

"As for academical purity of line she
concluded, ut is lost not at 40 but at "a.
The story Of Eberein Is classical Struck by
the pure outlines of a model of %, the sculp-
tor noted down her measurements. Five
weeks later in verifying them before con-
frerc not single one of those measurements
concorded with the girl from whom they
were talten--the academic anatomy had
bulged all along the line, toward the rounder
beauty priced by common mortals!"
The tantalizing thing. Of course. is to be
so near to the accumulated beauty secrets of
the French Charm Club and not to CLEAN
single one of them!
why. naturally, no!' replies the
The New York herald., 1921-02-20
Only Few of the Wonders
Are Set Forth in Summary

But those are a few of the wonders oi
the home of the Carroll Club. There is a
theatre with seating capacity equal TO that
of some of the professional playhouses where
the lights are brightest in Broadway. In
that theatre a few nights ago the dramati
organization within the Carroll Club pro
duced Greek play without cuts before an
audience that included persons who help
make fashionable life in New York what II
Is to-day. A few nights before those anna
teurs produced original comedy, and
week earlier a hundred members, forming
the Glee Club of the organization, gave
concert that delighted hundreds Of discrim-
mating hearers.
What is this Carroll Club? 1t is, like
many other recent and highly successful
achievements, a feminist movement.
What are the qualifications for member
ship? Personal eligibility after it has been
found that the applicant who must be under
thirty years old, has a regular vocation and
is a good Roman Catholic.
How old is the club? 1t will be two years
old in April.
And where is it? At 120 Madison avenue,
where it took up its existence soon after the
Colony Club. regarded the last word in
smart women's clubs decided that 1t would
rather live in the court end of town.
In fact, the Carroll Club is the Colony Club
OF the New York women with vocations, but.
while a youngster among such New York
clubs, 1t has gone on expanding until to-day
il has many times the membership of the
older social organization 1t succeeded in the
famed Madison avenue clubhouse, which
the late Stanford White designed.
The Carroll Club came about in natural
way when a woman of broad vision realized
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Huge Ballroom, Thea
tire, Fine Gymnasium
and Other Splendid
Facilities Offer So
cial, Educational and
Recreational Advan-
tages of the Best

who during her college days was choral club
leader at Smith College.
But woven into this broad educational idea
is the dominant social spirit, with frequent
plays in the theatre and choral concerts in
the gymnasium informal dances every Sat
urday night, with an orchestra of six musi-
clans to furnish the incentive, and with
three balls a year in one of the most beauti-
full bathrooms in New York. When those
three big events in the annual life of the
club come around the orchestra is swelled
to twelve musicians Every Sunday after
noon the members ask their friends in
for tea.
In the upper floors of the clubhouse are
dormtores where a member may get an
ideal nights lodging for rs cents, and here
is where the club has worked out one OF
tits big ideas. Girls who come strangers
to New York are welcomed when sent there
by the Travellers Aid. The strangers may
live at the club until they find positions or
suitable living accommodations, and if the
strange girl finds she has made a mistake
in coming to New York she is helped back
to her home town.
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his wear and tear the girl of twenty three
finds In the full man her profound satisfac-
ton Daily i'm Paris we see men Of forty
winning out against inexperienced young
fellows The correspondence course has
chapter on the best loved man in Paris >
who has been the subject of intrigues and
ouarrels since 1919-and he will be forty
two years old next Julyl"
She sghs heavily.
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Requires No Defence but
Stand
Forbidden Eyes of Mere Man

Countess. II have told too much already,
and the issues are too serious. Do you not
see that the sacred interests of the French
family are involved? / will say this: We
would be justified in anything!"
"A hint" wheedled, Just one beauty
secret"
Was it to put me off? Has she given us
a right one or a wrong one? They certainly
have warm feelings for the American sister.
On the other hand, mystery is essential.
SO in any case here goes.
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Booklet of Charms Forbidden
To the Eye of Mere Man

THE defence of the woman of forty?" says
the Countess who is nominal head OF the
Charm Club. you can call 1t that, although
she needs no defence. but information and
encouragement"
They have an extraordinary series of book
let's to put into her hands; and no French
man is ever to read the bookl
How can such condition be enforced?
THE pages can be kept from the general
male public" answers the Countess. I'VE
have taken a hint from those American cor
respondence schools, adapting their method
to our requirements. Part 1 must be re-
turned before Part can be received; Part
before receiving Part 3. and so on. Each
recipient must make a solemn statement that
no male eyes have read It, or explain the cir
cumstances in case OF failure In the latter
case advice will be given for the future.
Money s no object. II is for the French
famiy!"
There are secrets which every good woman
should know, they claim, of beauty. or
charm. Of attraction, of companionship. TO
meet disloyal competition. Women Of forty.
why stand in the shadow?
Some don't" I ventured
They do we'll" answered Andree. I'm
health, enjoying rational comforts, the
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w THILE SNUG thousands have moved
M in their narrow. very circum-
scribed circles of dinners and
dances and auction and theatre parties
proving again how very provincial this
monstrous town is. more than six thousand
persons of similar ideas and congenial tastes
have concentrated into one of the strongest
social organizations of Greater New York,
with clubhouse that cannot be exceled
in any of the other great cities of the world
in convenience. completeness and luxury of
surroundings.
1t is the Carroll Club, but how many per-
sons in this city who confess to a natural
inclination toward the social side of life ever
heard OF it?
1t is safe to say that not more than one
person in many thousand among the
millions in this great city have. judging
from such queries judiciously placed, and
the negative answer to the question is sad
commentary on the want of knowledge many
residents Of the American metropolis have
about what is going on among them.
They dine in a room of superb proportions
and classic lines. Their lounge is an in
terror that has won the enthusiastic approval
of opposing architects. In their ballroom a
thousand members of the club may dance in
comfort, and in the upper reaches of their
five story clubhouse is gymnasium with
an elevated running track where two nun
dred of the members may at once prove their
prowess. Down in the basement is an inn
mense swimming pool.
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In panel above is corner of the
luncheon room at the Carroll Club. In
circle at right is the artistic exterior
of the clubhouse, once the home of the
Colony Club.
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Carroll Club Jumps to the Lead in Feminist Movemen
Business Girls Organization in Wonderful
Former Home of the Colony Club Expands
Membership to 5000 in Less Than Years

il was just what thousands of her less for
tunate but equally human sisters were
dreaming about but unable for materia,
reasons to make a reality. 1t was Mrs.
Nicholas f. Brady who made the club with
its present 5000 members possible, and she
is type of some other American women of
resource and force who understand the
social and sociological significance of "the
psychological moment"
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Bought the Colony Club House.
But Changed Idea of MembersM

Mrs. Brady purchased the Colony Club
property when that club went up to 564 Park
avenue. Her suggestion that the successor
as a club should be organization of busi-
ness girls. self governing and with cultural
and educational aims met with an imme
diate response.
Yesterday a member of the club summed
up the result with this observation: You see
the only thing needed was the right
start"
Mrs Brady was elected the first president
of the club, and she has remained the diplo-
matte head since, with an advisory board
that is composed of Countess de Laugier-
Vilars, Mrs. John Marion, Mrs. w. Bourke
Cochran, Mrs John d. Ryan. Mrs. Cabot
Ward, Mrs. John A Jackson Miss Katherine
McCann, Mrs. Shane Leslie, Mrs. Thomas
Hughes Kelly, Mrs De Lancey Astor Kane,
Mrs. Robert j. Collier and Mrs. John Beverly
Duer.
The woman (the club is completely fem
The New York herald., 1921-02-20
By STERLING HELLO.

Special Correspondence to THE NEW YORK
HERALD.
Copyrioht, 1921, by THE New YORK HERALD.
TARBEs, South of France. Feb. 8.
,.VV TOMAN is loveliest at 4o!"
w The speaker. Countess Countess. andre
w de Tavernay, admitting to be
Al. would seem lovely claiming 25 She
proves her statement in her own case
And the thing she told is big-big.
Although the centre Of it is in Paris,
could have learned no details there of the
French Charm Club, where great ladies of
society and certain very great business
women joined up in a poignant feminine
work. extremely novel; extremely particular,
desire no boulevard publicity. On the con-
traryi But here. in the loveliest old town
of South France, in the shadow of romantic
chateau. the lovely woman who is its nomi-
nal head is willing that women I'm America
shall hear of it truthfully and not misunder.
stand from garbed rumors later. They cam
not join-the thing is limited to France.