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Show CLUB NOTES. The Reviewers give a breakfast at the Commercial Com-mercial club June 3rd, in honor of their retiring president, Mrs. Plummer. ; The Poet's Round Table met with Mrs. Rawlins Tuesday. The Jewish Relief Society and the Council of Jewish Women held a joint business meeting Tues-I Tues-I day. ; An eastern club which does not seem to have offices enough to go around has got into trouble over the election of an honbrary president. I The Friday club of Hillsboro, Ohio, has reg istered a protest against the comic valentine ' which they declare a libel on our far-famed Am- , erican sense of humor. The Home and Education section of the Literary Liter-ary Club finished the year's work last Monday somewhat behind the other sections. The New Jersey State Federation has a department de-partment of forestry, which is already at odds with the sportsmen over a bill forbidding trap shooting. A Massachusetts club is publishing an illustrated illustrat-ed weekly paper. The staff is composed entirely of women, and it goes without saying that it is pushing the rival weeklies hard when the very "devil" himself is a charming young miss. The Minnesota correspondent to "The Club Woman," naively says of an annual Federation , luncheon, "It lias never been made a compulsory affair." Has it come to this in Minesota? or does the lady merely suppose compulsory functions func-tions usual in other states? The General Federation is afraid it is not appreciated. ap-preciated. Its board of directors has just issued a circular leter setting forth the good works of the federation; among which it enumerates the cultivation of organized altruism, the promotion of beneficent movements for women and children, and the uplifting of public sentiment. Mrs. Booker Washington's article in "The Club Woman" on Negro Women's Club Work should interest the local club women who waxed excited I over the negro question last spring. It Is a conservative con-servative well written article and sets forth, among other facts of interest, that the National Association of Colored Women numbers one hundred hun-dred and sixty-live clubs, and that there is also a Northeastern and a Southern federation which are working especially toward the betterment of the negro homes. |
