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Show 'EVERY TOWN SHOULD HAVE ITS R. A. D. CLUB,' SAYS CHAPERONE MISS ACN I S GOI Bl i v. M UU N HAIiE.) NEW YORK. You may be lonesome, lone-some, you may be socially fit, but you may not make friends with any of the 500 members of the Registered Acquaintance Ac-quaintance Dance club until Miss Ag-nee Ag-nee Gould has pronounced you eUgl-i blc. IPs this way. ou may be a little, milliner from Ohio with nothing In th, world to keep you company but a great I longing in your heart. Well, yon go to the offices of the I New York Community Service and you j ask to sde the official censor of the It. A I and you are ushered before I Miss Gould She says to you: "Are you different? Extreme? Radical? Because. If you ase, my , dear, you won't do for our club. It Sj a club for the lonjkoma but it Is a club wheer one meets onlv the socially safe and sane." If the little milliner proves to be just a 'human being" she Is listed in1 the R. A. D. social register. "Every town In the country should have a R. A. D. club.'" Miss Gould Bays. "You have no idea how many thousands thous-ands of lonely persons there are who want to become acquainted with people peo-ple "f their own sort." "But don't you think something should be done for people who aro different ?" she was a.sked. 'Yes. I would like to get all kinds of groups together. I have three groups now my Friday group, the most formal; for-mal; then Tuesday-, which Is less formal; for-mal; and Wednesday, which Is cxclu-slvely cxclu-slvely Jewish. I hope to organize more groups." . Meetings are held on the Hotel Ma-jestli Ma-jestli roof. The dues are one dollar entrance fee and four dollars a month. "And may the married become members?" Miss Gould was asked in parting. "Mercy, no' Thai's what the club Is really all about making it possible for the younger generation to marry, In their own set, without such long ,i its. " After you get married you are not supposed to come around. Yoti are not supposed to be lonelythen! |