H XOomtifs Clubs. H !J OHI OH! "MADAME, THE PRESIDENT." HB To the women In local clubs of the "Federa- B tion," the following from Town Topics will be of H .gossipy interest: m No doubt it is because Love is blind that he H ' stumbles along such stony, mountainous paths as those over which he is at present leading The fas- icinating President of the National Federation of Women's Clubs, and her adoring companion. After Aft-er my recent paragraphs anent the doings of this gay couple, "Madame the President" and the KS- ', ' "Professor" took flight as silently and softly as Ef they had come. Those who had watched them B ' j here, and were interested in them, marveled m thereat; but it was not until returning Southern H tourists stopping en route at the Virginia Hot H Springs spotted them, that their whereabouts H, leaked out. Thither they had removed, and, hid- H'' don away in a remote cottage, said to be the prop- H ! erty of the fair Atlanta widow, they have been H pursuing their idyl. A friend just up from the H, f Spring describes them, though their effort to sub- H 1 1 jugate their modish attire to the bucolic condi- H ij tions of their sylvan surroundings have effectual- H ly concealed them from general observation. H j' Their outings have been confined to by-paths, and H i their matutinal strolls to distant parts of the H mountains, far from the sounds of the revelry of H the hotel and of the gossip that has started with H the spread of the news of their presence. (J ?V (V H Wherever two or three women are gathered B together in these times, there is sure to be repre- Hb ' sented at least oneclub that belongs to the Fed H ' eration, and that does not hesitate o bewail what B I it pleases to call the scandal of "Madame the K - President." Now they have introduced into it the B fci wife of the "Professor," an invalid, It is said, B j'l and indignant, but held in leash by the widow's B 1 1 gold. The philosopher who said that woman B' ' especially the widow is the only animal known B who does not become quite and sedate with the B , accumulation of years, was a philosopher, indeed. Quite naturally, all the indignation the ladies feel is for the welfare of clubdom. They realize that individuals have their personal rights, etc., but clubs are different,' and the charming critics of their titular heads are regretting that it is not in their power to vote for "Madame the President" Presi-dent" a mild application of the water-cure as It was wont to be administered in the days of the Pilgrim Fathers.