Show r f Women's Clubs T By CYNTHIA GREY It is easy to see why hy s some me man-edited man Journals journals journals Jour jour- nals try to be sarcastic In their their- reviews of ot Alice Mice Ames Winters Winter's new book bool The Business of Being a Club Woman oman They simply do not understand it It There Is a fundamental difference between a womans woman's conception o of a club and a mans man's conception conception conception concep concep- tion of oC a club I Most mens men's clubs are without serious purpose To a man a club is a place where you go to relax to pursue pleasure to have a good timeTo time To a woman a club usually Implies study and service And It Is with these two classes of club activities activities adivi- adivi ties that this new book deals The plotter and schemer and sleeper she writes menace American ideals It is to combat them that organized women are gathering forces through training self and through the exercise of new found political social and economic powers powers' r about bridge e or billiards or poker potter or horse racing or baseball or any an of the other things s dear to the heart of the clubman Not understanding understand understand- ing an any other kind of club he be scoffs at ItCan it itCan itCan It mans man's club singing America Can you OU picture a the Beautiful and reciting A 1 Collect for Club Women Women Wom Worn en asks aks one critic We Ve can cant can't t but we will say that we think it would be a good thing if men individually or collectively now and then recited a collect and put a little sincerity sincerity sincerity sin sin- into it itIn it In fact A Collect for or Club Women Is a good I thing for all of us It is so good that I repeat it I here Keep us us 0 O God from pettiness let us be belarge belarge belarge large larg-e In thou thoughts thought in word in de deed I ILet Let us be b done with fault finding and leave lea e eoff off self seeking S SS S May we put away all pretense and meet me-et with each other face tace to face without self pity and without t prejudice May lay we never be bs hasty in Judgment and and always s generous Teach us to put Into action our better im- im pulses straightforward and unafraid Let us take time for all things make us grow calm serene and gentle Grant Glant that we may mav realize it is the little things s that create differences that in the big things of life liCe we are one And may we strive to touch and to know the great reat common womans woman's heart of at us all and 0 O Lord God let us not forget to be kind |