Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-29 | Page 2 | Modern Club Women Discuss Topics Avoided Forty Years Ago

Modern Modem Club Women Discuss l Topics Avoided Forty Years Ago I v aTO- aTO AP The P The club woman ot of the tb l 1 Di s discussed literary tatters matters and tb the servant mant girl problem probe I. I lam lem at her ber annual convention contention Today To To- Today day ah she talks talk of ot international and es manifold Interests outside outaMo the home borne This la Is tb the change In the G General ral I Federation of ot is a Clubs shoe its sa initial Bi meeting In 1389 that two of Its ita oldest oUest members member recalled at t the UM board of directors h hero Mrs lIr tI I L. L and 11 Mrs Mary 1 Kno Mumford both of ot l Philadelphia I were th tM the only two Ift members attending th the th 1 1989 I session aon wi k n who also IM took an 11 active o part In t tho meeting n nearly forty forU y 7 year e eold ago oro Mrs Ir Mumford who Is la IC 36 years reer old NOrr scoffed at the tho Idea that Mrs Mr Ir Blankenburg who la I. three years HU HUhM her hM Junior could remember the dek de- de tails talla of ot oft meeting In New 1 York City a aa we wen an as she sho could She Sho was waa too young oung she sita In ID n lal elated But I remember how bow very tr careful careful care are ful wo we e all n hAd bad to bf be be retaliated d Mrs In those thoe days day It wasn't A r e very nice woman who would belong to R a club club that did lId anything but sponsor literary Ideas When then we first hinted that we w. would like Uke to do something a little more serious rlou a little more snore vital people began gan to wonder nice whether w we were tre So Fo at our first sneering mUne wo we were I y very careful artful and brought up noth- noth nothing I ing In that would tend to give tiro IYO ua us a ablack ablack black eye eyo before fore We wo cot got started Tho The first rant general meeting of ot club omen women from all parts part ot of the country country coun coun- un try W. W was called Ailed by the tho ls club dub of New York In n 1167 II ST ST. when that croup group celebrated ita its twenty Tint birthday by inviting a representative tive Uvo from oVer every oth other known woman's womans wom wom- ana an's club dub in n tho the country to 10 come coins to New York Sixty Invitations were ne extended but there were wre only about thirty thirty- five fin present bc because ause tho tOM those who lived too loo far awa away couldn't afford tho the time or money mony to come com clear to New York said Mid Mrs Airs That little nucleus haa has TOWn grown until until un un- til It comprises today tody more than wom women n In all per parts of the tho country as a. well 11 as many foreign countries Since SIMO most mOAt of ot the tho affiliated clubs were tro literary ones one man many of the names namu on that first roster were we-ra those thos of ot women writer writers JulIA Id Rowe Howe tho the Carey sisters o and Phoebe be Carlotta Wilbur a ami T Jenny Crowley were 0 among amone those thON who were we-ro present at tho the first meeting