Show m L Of L LUM CLUB rOU RS Aim is to Promote Union of In Intellectual Women All Over I The World ITS v HEADQUARTERS A Clearing House In III Which Literary And Anil Artistic Virn of Members Will be he Offered for Sale Special Correspondence July Jul lIt seems doubtful LONDON If It tho Iho really rather high Ideal I the founders of ot the Iho new Lyceum 1 club have 1110 set et for tor them has had Justice done llano to tu It in such accounts of ot the club as aA havo holo bc n nH H Milt nt to 10 the United States since Its open opening ing the tho other diy da Probably It has boon heun stated that tho Lyceum starts with a It larger a I liner finer club clubhouse house than any an other womans club In Inthe the world worl l and no doubt a II good deal tins been said regarding the strikingly large number of ot distinguished women both bothIn In this Ihl country and 1111 the United States whom Miss Constance Smedley tho bright girl who conceived the Iho Idea Idell of ot the Lyceum club has succeeded led In In Interesting In the project The Lyceum Is of at course open to 10 professional women of ot every nation and alms to do foi tOI Its ilK members u t lot of ot services such as liS no social organization whether made up of ot men ln or women ever eer has hall undertaken before hut but tho scheme of the young authoress who founded It goes IU 8 n 0 good deal farther Ihal My lI Ideal said lIal l Miss to tho writer the 1110 other day Is III a 11 union of lit Intellectual women workers the Iho world over which will advance 1111 co the 1110 Interests of lit nil 1111 of or them That tho Iho Lyceum 1 club duh and for tor the Ih present has Its chief headquarters In London Is merely ac BC we 1 hope to mako our I club house hou e here a n meeting for Or I women workers of every I ry nationality as aswell well as nil a n sort of lit clearing house for rr their work Our hope Is III to 10 have oven Just HB liS pretentious quarters and facilities for tor aiding members in New Noll York the Ihl other great reut A WOMANS I UNION A womans union some ono OliO called the In my hearing a n few fl days IIII IIII O and that really It all up When Miss Idea of ot nn Inter club nf nt feminine writers art 1111 artists tK musicians other Intellectual workers was mooted It attracted no nil end of or ami nn no It known that Lady Frances the prime ministers hall bait become Its chairman and Mrs Hell wife nf of the editor or Ir tile the Times Its Itsko vice ko chairman and that holt of ot the In women In this IhlA country In Including Mrs Thomas Hardy Mrs II Miss Mrs II u Ih 1 and Mrs Irl Flor Annie 1 wore on the clubs for membership rame In III almost 1 as III fast a the rould be h recorded I No small number of ot them came the States rind every other civilized country In the Ih world In eluding China was wall too tOil TIVI WOm Ion PAY At the th outset It II had been heen thAt the qualification for form m In thin Ihl club duh bu IJU ac nr active tive work for tor p Ia y on fin th part of at nn un ap applicant tIlt heln to exclude h and beginners who had hlll MI 0 far tor shown holn no prom P this rule h hu s been h n to with the result Hint over It r 30 per c nt of or tho thon n applying were rejected The list II I If f members Includes tin names of ot two duchesses several 11 counters few II ladles It Is III true Irue bill hilI each of at them themis is B nn woman For In Instance stance the M of o Sutherland and her IrMO of or I edi arc ar both the of at work I i too loo well known to 10 n ed AnI com comment mont ment Mrs Irs daughter Is III now an Mrs Ir Inn Ian Malcolm one of or the Ih foremost LI born 1 hostesses but bUI nhe hp m I a It member nf or th Lyceum dub because silo she composes SOURS that published Tho Counter Feo doro h n another of ot titled tit h I members paints and soils IIII pictures The only anI exception to 10 the th club rut rule Is IH made mude In the case of or the wives of ot 1 m n and we 1 havo two of these Ih In III thu pel OM of ot tha s of at Malmesbury and an 1 LIIlI Lady Himer r rIN IN fin tar far bureaus of ot tho Iho Lyceum club have hav hen been opened op nell In Paris Purll and Prague Tin 1111 American membership Is III not yet et large to 10 Justify tho opening of ut n 0 depot In III New Nell York but bUI such an 1111 event teems not nol far ar ort off At present the of ot the Ihl Lyceum 1 being heln after directly by Mrs II Florence 1 Allen n Degan of ot New York YOlk Some time ago 1110 the Idea Idell of It the club was submitted by b Miss llIs to women nm among those Ih c who havo consented eon to 10 net 1 on the Iho American pro committees are Mrs Mr Frances Hodgson Mrs Irl Mary 1 J WIN kins Freeman Miss lIs Jeannetto L I Oil all dur Mrs and Mrs h president pl of ot the General Fed Federation of or Clubs the IhO thinK thing that American women will auk aRk about aboul the Lyceum club however hOlever IN III in what whitt Ill y It Is ht to be beof h hot of ot service to 10 Its Illi members the world over Ocr who may never get to 10 t 1 to HH II Hl lh JI IH I I H H HIIr j I t 1 i r i J Jj 1 j I t tt F i f t I f fT T d t tj tI j I f Ix 1 I I Irh Ii J I t tI I L Jo t 1 H l I I tl ll LADY LAD of at thu tho Prime Minister ot England Englund and Chairman of ot the New I Lyceum Club be hr put up nt nl the clubhouse In Ilca lillY The best way to 10 answer tho Iho ques que question tion Is IH to describe tho Information bu bureau reau which is the Iho most thing the new club that which makes It II entirely different from nn similar Institution the world 1 over oer FOIt Ho far as 1111 the Ihl literary lit crary member rH of or the Lyceum I reum club aro 1110 concerned this bu hu bureau reau will tIn the work of ot n II gigantic agency allenc for tor the placing of ot their work To with n complete resistor will willbo bo kept of oC the thO names and addressed n of oC editors publisher throughout the Ih world together with of o the of ot work each cach accepts and as 1111 to 10 rates times of or payment pa ment Tho stand standIng l lIng Ing of ot literary everywhere will willbe be Ill ascertained recorded too Hut It Is in 19 n clearing for the Iho work ot or writers that this bureau burrau will bo be of ot the greatest service With Its 01 1 the feminine writer of ot almost kind of ot a n astory ton story article or OJ what not 1101 can have It published provided It has saleable qualities practically tho Iho world 1 orld over Supposing for tor Instance an American member of ot the club writes a rI story and sends a II copy of or her manuscript to the headquarters Once Its quality lUll II I Is III established ll It will be h only a It question lIlIon of ot In how holl many it itcan can un be sold One of ot the Ih chief members of or the Ihl staff In each continental depot of ot the club will wll bo he a 11 translator who 1110 knows thoroughly the literary Held l In her country to these folk copies of lit American and l 1 articles and so 1111 forth will bo ho sent for Cor translation and ale In III this way It Is hI believed I that the production of nt say sav nn 1111 American 11 writer be hI disposed d of oC not only In her own country and In Ireat hut but In a I good ninny Kit states not to In mention the tho Hug colonies where deists of nt the Ly Lyceum r um club also nl o In process of ut establishment for such stor stories ies lell or articles will be h collected by tho representatives of ot the Lyceum club ami sent to the headquarter to bo 10 to 10 HIP author TO 0 HAVi IWI MANY MN FUNCTIONS There her I II not lIot to enumerate tho details of ot nil the functions that this unique bureau of ot Information will wi un undertake hut but they tie may be hr rap 11 With Wih Iho of ot the of ot the Ih Hil UK 11 of ot records a 1 complete lift l t IH II being of ot 1 pro professional researchers all 11 or the world 1111 It II Is II the Intention to 10 get ct In touch with wih eich of t them In order 1111 Unit n IH be ht undertaken on behalf of lit the Iw IIII morn bors of or the Lyceum Hub so lint In the of lit time Ihne nn Minn c c It In I me nl the other day Ia It 1 will wil lio II nearly n easy to II make Ilk references by b Proxy In 11 the 1111 of ot 10 or HI RI nn In OleI oneri Kiddy TUB WH WOULD Women painter v who ho belong to In II Lyceum club will wi be 1111 I Ith Ih de II information ax al to In the striding of nt Up exhibition hou tho Iho world the times during I hlll they are Ir mid the for tor nulo at It each The hf dub club will wi handl mem members lem bers In 11 HIP Ih sime p m way WiY as All It will wi handle th lr for n II by h an al Arh an II member could be bl cent to the dub which would lull keep It I going from exhibition to exhibition both in 11 this country rind on the continent until sold solI ar ur arrangements will wi be mad for of or tho work of ot 11 white url ll And so M far an nR the feminine composers who wil become members of ot Hie club nn ar concerned their Ih h work will 11 be bp offered In tn musical publishers anil 1111 com coni erts erI wi will willbo bo 10 arranged to tu introduce o it I To o all al p th I services of ot the Ih Lyceum club ellb Will 1 1 1011 after the I ht II ii of or their at lt th 1111 Is IH 10 0 for to l nn Jo for tOl American moron and 1111 other bers lers The only charged which the Iho dub club will 1 make to In served through this Information bureau will III be for tor out OUI epen CH CHIT P PIT IT SOUNDS HOUNDS 1110 lt It I like 1 0 u I big hll order hut hul from what I know of ot the clever oss I II who 1 ho thought whole thing out nm mid taking Into Inlo account the rIl 1 enormous of ot the th women whom has hall associated With 1 Ih lu r 1 I would not be ho surprised to I son the Iho thing done doneAs As A an al evidence of or Miss MIMS en energy 1 ergy Ir 1 U be he wild 1111 that nt the Ih she was Ins acquainted with not 1101 oni 11 nf r her h I distinguished ro roo A striking instance of the tho en her ed In II ul everyone Ihn heard of ot It IH the IJ fact that practically every I ed editor 1 publisher Miss 11 wih n 11 list IMI of o his contributors so they Uy might be Interested In the Lyceum club b LYCEUM 1 AH H A LUl Of at tho Iho Lyceum aH a n club little Ins las been Mild nl In this article ns I that thul thu most mOll Interesting points about It II have been hlll covered In II thi Ih II women workers worker who no ahron limy 11 In I iu hour however that tha I the 1 con contains rOi W O bedrooms which will Im h nt lt the disposal 11 of ot Its Ill foreign wh n In II at nl which cannot bo ho In II the tho metropolis In 11 point of ot Hii Tin ht nt the Lyceum will 1 1 bo hl another of ot Its Il Foreign 1 who Iho wish It II will also I letters of nt Introduction to 10 in insist M them th 1 to II put pili their time lm to In thi Ih best advantage and they th will he to the which uro to tl be ha held hell with wih the tl Idea hlen of ot making the tho as 11 UH ItH founder says 11 1 a I common meeting ground for tor intellectual women workers tho world over nr the Ihl American women of or prom prominence make of ot the club who will wil use Ile lul this summer are Ir II Wright who returned from other olho day tl with wih Miss 11 Ml IH s Laura IRura deon of ot college and 1111 Miss 1111 president of ur Mount Holyoke ol lk college collI The fhe Lyceum chili dul bus hll tho of ot being helli started In u 1 businesslike way WI Capital to n II practically unlimited u 11 m ex extent x tent Is behind enterprise und 1111 th Ihl rent 0 Ihn club premises nt IS Illy us lS well ns ni tle working of ot the Iho organization have been teed for tor |