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Show Mrs. Henrotin, the president of this General Federation of Woman's Clubs, and an influential member of the Chicago Chi-cago Woman's club, is strongly in favor of admitting to membership the colored woman who is knocking at its door. According Ac-cording to report, she has only one disability, dis-ability, that of race, but her proposed membership is raising a row of dimensions dimen-sions in tho club. In taking this liberal stand, Mrs. Henrotin rebukes the narrow minded sisters, who, last May, in Phila delphia, opposed her candidacy for the first office of the federation because she is a Roman Catbolic. This, too, in the face of the most strongly defined rules of most women's clubs that religion and politics shall invariably bo tabooed sub-jects. sub-jects. New York Tim eg |