Show I POTIER PALMER I WAS NOT THERE Mrs Potter Palmer and her society friends are In disfavor with ith their pro pro- teges of of- the Business BusinessWoman'S Womans club and the th threatened never again to accept their invitations On Thursday afternoon and evening Mrs Palmer gave gave her annu annual l reception for forthe forthe forthe the club There were tickets of admission si sion n at 1 and 2 and the money Is to be given to the club for a new gymnasium pr provided vided the omen club will ac accept ept the gift They are so angry however ov over r their reception by the society women women who were ere named as p patronesses of the affair affair affair af af- af- af fair that bat they held hele an indignation meetIng meeting meeting meet meet- ing in their ther club clubrooms rooms in the Atwood building The club has long Ions been divided as to o the advisability of receiving the patronage patron patron- patrone age of socie society y women There bere are those of the business women who protest against being patronized They pointed out the fact that l Mrs s Palmer absented herself from the afternoon affair of Thursday and nd that She he did not act as hostess hostes during the evening They reminded reminded re reI re- re minded their club members that not one of the women named as a patroness of the affair put in an n appearance for either afternoon or evening except l Charles Henrotin The others went to th the opera in the evening and many of them to the Fortnightly club in the afternoon af af- af- af Then hen there Y was s. s Richard M Mansfield who promised very shyly to appear if nothing was said about it beforehand He agreed to be the chief attraction of the afternoon n. n But the women looked from room to room for him In vain And we are not so o in love with celebrities celebrities celeb celeb- that we have to make a spectacle of ourselves s. s said one of the men t to td her sisters sisters- as they sat In their lunchroom yesterday We can keep house without Mr Mansfield Mansfield and without without with with- out Mrs Potter P Palmer I say let them alone I say weve we've been patronized en enough ugh we are supporting self we don don't peed need charity and why do we persist persist persist per per- i In ir taking it with hands out like beggars beggars' Some Sorpe club members urged that the raised through the reception be refused by bythe the club and that the organization organization organization give it out publicly that it would never again be entertained in the grand giand house But the more mora conservative urged that no attention be given to the matter mat mat- ter There w were ere a very few who saw no harm haim in Mrs 1 Palmers Palmer's presence The controlling element elemet in the club is much opposed to the whole performance Such utter r disregard for social usage I never saw prot protested sted one of the club committee women Of course we are not society w women omen and w we e do not know just how things are being done nowadays nowadays nowadays now now- in our best society but I think we all know what is and what is not courteous cour cour- and certainly the performance of or Thursday was not courtesy If Mrs Potter Palmer or Mi Mis Arthur Caton should walk into this club the they would be well received They hey are nov not our personal personal personal per per- acquaintances and I don dont don't t know that we sho should hl caie to have them lunch he hei e e every day but if they came ame or if we wp e invited them I am certain we Would entertain them m as we would any other guest If Jf If they extend to us their are they ther not bound to entertain u as they would their own friends and regular regular regular regu regu- lar guests Ye We are not society women and we know it I am not sure that w we e want ant to be he Neither are we begg beggars rs and I am certain we do not want to be treated as such There has been a growing tendency among club and society women to extend extend ex ex- ex- ex tend a of good fellowship to workingwomen The Business Women's club has been the recipient of many of these attentions and has accepted them In good faith Every since its year or organization organization or- or organization It has been given a tion by Mrs Palmer Some years ago Mrs Palmer received the guests herself but this ye year r she attended a meeting of of the Fortnightly club instead Even on former occasions when everything has apparently been lone done for the entertainment entertain entertain- ment merit of the guests there have been Who vho have felt that the effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort was futile and the affair ous Chicago Chicago Chronicle |