Evening star., 1922-10-23
PUSH CAMPAIGN
FOR new MEMBERS
Women's City Club Work En-
ters Many Branches.
Welcomes Candidates.

! The Women's city Club has started
creased membership with undimin.
ished enthusiasm. The women whe
! are actively at work in this drive
report that the main difficulty IL that
Washington women do not know
| about the club. or. hearing the story
OF what II has done in It's three short
years of existence. suppose 1t a closed
all save the well-to-do and strict re-
| Quirements as to membership.
| The simple truth Is that the foun-
| ders Of the club started in to make II
a source of pleasure and comfort to
just as many women as possible and
they made membership easy and the
dues light. The initiation fee is $40
and the dues $40 more. payable semi
annually. Any woman can become a
| member. II she Is known to other
club women in this city one Of them
her. both of them being members of
the Women's City Club. II she is a
stranger she almost certainly has q
membership card in some local club
or society in her home town. That
card is sufficient Introduction.
None So Far Rejected.
The membership committee recon-
mended her application, which must
of course be accompanied by the int
tiation fee. to the board of directors
and she Is given probationary MEM
bership. At the end of six months
she is received into full membership,
and 1t speaks well for the club. and
for the women drawn to 1t that never
once has the new member failed to
be accepted.
This club has no limitations. Poll
tics and religion, business or social
affiliations. age or youth-none of
these things enter into the matter.
There are in the club grandmothers-
perhaps there are great-grandmoth
ers-but they do not look it. and
there are girls who will not be old
enough to vote for several years.
All Types Belong.
in the difficult task of the Jupiter.
and there are frivolous women who
want to have q good time. There
are women who have leisure for cards
and teas and there are business
women who want to keep on doing
business after hours if they can there
by enrich their lives. and business
women who want to dance If they
can have a good floor pleasant ac-
Quaintances and desirable surround
ln&S.
There are plans for a musical Sec
ton and another for the encourage
ment of dramatic talent-right now
the chairman is looking for a few
aspiring pfaywrights who want to
furnish one or two-act plays for the
fair sex.
Has Many Facilities.
There is q circulating library and
q reading room and place to rest,
and by no means least. there is we'll
appointed restaurant where meals
are served at reasonable rates. There
are rooms where one can put up an
out -of-town guest and other rooms
that may be rented for card or dane
ing parties.
Nobody is making any money out
of this club. Nobody wants to make
1t "a paying proposition" 1t must
pay its own way, but after that Is
doine the pay comes in the pleasure
it affords It's members. and the SER
vice it can give the community. 1t
has no other ambition than to serve
the women Of this city and the city
itself. Every big city has a Women's
club Of this general description. but
few II any has one conducted on such
1t means much to the women. but
even more to the city.
Many Of the most prominent wom-
en- in Washington belong to it and its
members urge that every women
should feel 1t part Of her civic
duty to get In line.