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CLUBS MADE UP OF WOMEN
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Mrs. Peattle Writes of Some Things She Learned at Philadelphia.
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The Noisiest State of the Union Secured the Office of President for Mrs. [Heurotin?].
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An Interest in Material Current Affairs Does Not Mean the Overthrow of the Household.
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Since the women's club has reached a membership of about 400, it is perhaps permissable to print in the columns of this paper an article which will be interesting to those members alone. If this matter is incidentally of interest to other women, so much the better.

The women's club sent two delegates to the General Federation of Women's clubs at Philadelphia and fees, naturally, some curiosity as to that federation, and the meaning and results of it.

On the whole it was a demonstration which distinctly belonged to the close of this century. Forty-five for fifty thousand women were represented by the 600 delegates who assembled to discuss subjects relating to club developments and to higher education.

Men's clubs are very apt to be founded upon their vices. One dislike saying this, but it is really true. Eating, drinking, smoking and poker playing are the bonds that hold together the members of a good part of men's clubs. Women's clubs are different. Social, intellectual and philanthrophic motives are those which hold them together, and that there are in such motives the potentialities of closer comradeship that lies in the motives underlying men's clubs is evidenced by the fact that the Omaha Women's club is today the most successful and solvent club in this city.

The clubs with it met in representation at Philadelphia were similiar in their aims, although their line of study was often very different. The federation admits only such clubs as are chiefly social and intellectual in their work, for the reason that if it did otherwise it would be obliged to admit temeprance and suffrage organizations, and intellectual work would soon be swallowed up. In short the Women's club as a development of the last decade may be looked upon simply as a popular movement for higher education and for the abolition of that social cable for which women have been chiefly responsible the world over.

The New Century club house at Philadelphia is a beautiful structrure, with an audience chamber frescoed, lighted with electricity, exquisitely draped and finished: and with drawing rooms, dining room, tea rooms and committee rooms beneath. In this fine building the delegates met every forenoon. In the afternoon they met at the Chestnut Street theater. In the evening at the quaint old Academy of Music.

The mornings were given up to business, the afternoons to general discussions, and the evenings to the reading of papers and the giving of addresses. the orchestra of the Academy of Music enlivened the evening's programs. One evening was devoted to a reception at the New Century club house, at which 1,000 guests were present and which was owing to the number of distinguished women present one of the most brilliant affairs ever given in Philadelphia. At least, that was the verdict of Philadelphian women who were in a position to know.

Nothing was more striking about this peculiar social gathering than the beauty of the elderly woman- the women over 50. They were grande dames, with their white hair

CLUBS MADE UP OF WOMEN
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Mrs. Peattle Writes of Some Things She Learned at Philadelphia.
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The Noisiest State of the Union Secured the Office of President for Mrs. [Heurotin?].
_____________
An Interest in Material Current Affairs Does Not Mean the Overthrow of the Household.
__________

Since the women's club has reached a membership of about 400, it is perhaps permissable to print in the columns of this paper an article which will be interesting to those members alone. If this matter is incidentally of interest to other women, so much the better.

The women's club sent two delegates to the General Federation of Women's clubs at Philadelphia and fees, naturally, some curiosity as to that federation, and the meaning and results of it.

On the whole it was a demonstration which distinctly belonged to the close of this century. Forty-five for fifty thousand women were represented by the 600 delegates who assembled to discuss subjects relating to club developments and to higher education.

Men's clubs are very apt to be founded upon their vices. One dislike saying this, but it is really true. Eating, drinking, smoking and poker playing are the bonds that hold together the members of a good part of men's clubs. Women's clubs are different. Social, intellectual and philanthrophic motives are those which hold them together, and that there are in such motives the potentialities of closer comradeship that lies in the motives underlying men's clubs is evidenced by the fact that the Omaha Women's club is today the most successful and solvent club in this city.