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Show NOT A CLTJB WOMAN. There ft one prominent Chicago clubwoman club-woman who is wondering "What's the use?" Not long ago a party of Illinois members of the club to which she belonged be-longed was speeding across the State to a federation meeting. The women had their own special train and were having no end of good times meeting old acquaintances and tormina: new ones on the way to the federation, city. At a small town down the State a woman wo-man got on the car and settled herself, evidently for a long ride. She was wholly alone. No one seemed to know her. and aha made no advances toward getting acquainted. ac-quainted. The Chicago woman watched her for a time and then, unable to bear the woman's wo-man's loot of strangeness and lonesnme-ness, lonesnme-ness, she determined to go over. Introduce herself and make the woman acquainted with her sister travelers. Accordingly she settled her hat. straightened her skirts, and went over to where the lone woman was bitting. "How do you do?" she said, pleasantly. pleas-antly. The woman looked at her in bewilderment. bewilder-ment. "How do you do?" again said the clubwoman club-woman and. aa If to reassure her. added, smilingly: "Are you a clubwoman?" - The woman straightened. "A clubwoman?" she exclaimed. "A clubwoman? No, madame, I'm a Christian." Chris-tian." The leader returned to her seat without further pressing her acquaintance. ' |