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Show Whites aod Negroes on Terms of Equality Society Women of Chicago and Their Colored Guests at a Notable Function. CHICAGO, Nov. 2. Colored women an l white society women mingled on terms of equality at an afternoon reception and tea In Chicago, which was tho most remarkable re-markable social function nnd the very first of its .kind ever known tb have been hr!d In this country. Of the eighteen guests eleven wero colored and seven white. Tho hostess, Mrs. Henry W. Mc-Gee, Mc-Gee, wife of the well-known lawyer, Is a white society woman. The servants who waited on black and whito guests with equal deference, were white girls, superintended super-intended by the hostess's daughter. Supped Together. The eighteen women of black and white skin sat together in tho parlor and chatted cordially. Membors of each rae mado llttlo speeches, breathing love for each other and hope for closer loclul. business busi-ness and political relations. They sat down to tho same table and broke bread and supped tea together. The function, which was held in tho splendid residence of Mrs. McGce, 7720 Union avenue, seemed to tho participants a most happy affair. Frederick Douglass Center. The crusade of which it marked thf beginning. Is organized in tho form of a society called the "Frederick Douglas Center." The society was founded last April. Tho social affair colubraled the first "women's meeting." Mrs. Colin Parker Woolley, white. Js the founder and president of tho society, so-ciety, and its headquarters, until n permanent per-manent Institution can bo opened, on Wabash Wa-bash avenue, near Thirtieth street, on tho lines of a social settlement are In her home. 150 East Forty-fourth Street. To Help Negro. ' The declared object of the "Frcdjirlck Douglass Center" In a few words, Is to help the negro and to bring them Into closer friendly relations with the white population. Of the seven directors four are negroes and three are whites The membership of ninety Includes somo prominent professional persons of Chicago. Chi-cago. The eighteen women of both races who attended today's initial social and meeting meet-ing wore but one-tenth of the number invited. Mrs. McGee, the whlto hostess; Mrs. Woolley. tho whlto president of the society, and Mrs Ida B. Wells Bamett, a colored worker for the society and leader In tho movement, and Mrs. Elizabeth Eliza-beth Llndsey Davis, a colored club organizer or-ganizer and director In the new crusade, received, the guests on tholr arrival at the McGeo home. No Pronounced Color Effects. Tho colored women were moro expensively ex-pensively dressed than their white sisters sis-ters at today's function Th?re wtro few pronounced color effects. |