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Volume III ' No. 1
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DR. H. H. POWELL'S LECTURES
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Monday evenings at 8 o'clock, Assembly Room. "The Bible." Beginning January 28. CLASSES IN THEME WRITING
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Every Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock. Auditorium. Third Monday evening, 7:30 o'clock, Room 212. Mrs. Parker S. Maddux, Leader. TALKS ON APPRECIATION OF ART
Monday mornings at 11 o'clock. Card Room, followed by visits to various San Francisco Art Exhibits. Mrs. Charles E. Curry, Leader. LEAGUE BRIDGE
Everv Tuesday, 2 o'clock and 7:30 o'clock, Assembly Room. LECTURES BY PROFESSOR BENJAMIN H. LEHMAN
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Every Thursday evening, 8 o'clock. Auditorium. Mrs. A. P. Black, Chairman. SUNDAY EVENING CONCERTS
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February 1 — Course for Volunteers in Social Service Room 212 11:00 A.M.
3 — Sunday Evening Concert, Mrs. Charles Christin,
Hostess Auditorium 8 :30 P. M.
5 — Course for Volunteers in Social Service Room 212 11:00 A.M.
Lecture by Professor Benjamin H. Lehman Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
Subject: "The Biographies of the Year" — Ludwig's "Goethe," Strachey's "Elizabeth and Essex," Rourke's "Troopers of the Gold Coast"
6 — Lecture on "Woman's Widening Horizon" Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Milton Marks
Subject: "Bringing San Francisco Up-to-Date"
Book Review Dinner Assembly Room 6:00 P.M.
Speaker: Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard Subject: "The Snake-Pit," by Sigrid Undset
7 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Miss Katherine Felton
Subject: "The Reduction of Child Dependency and Child Delinquency in San Francisco by Modern Child Caring Methods"
8 — Course for Volunteers in Social Service Room 212 11:00 A.M.
12 — Lecture by Professor Benjamin H. Lehman Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
Subject: "Three Poets" — Millay, "The Buck in the Snow" ; Benet, "John Brown's Body" ; Jeflers, "Cawdor" 15 — Discussion of Articles in Current Magazines . . . . Assembly Room 2:00P.M.
Mrs. Alden Ames, Chairman 17 — Sunday Evening Concert, Mrs. Alan Cline, Hostess . Auditorium 8:30 P.M.
18— Lecture by Carl Sandburg Auditorium 8:20 P.M.
Subject: "The Prairie Lincoln" Admission $1.00. All seats reserved 19 — Lecture by Professor Benjamin H. Lehman . . . .. Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
Subject: "The Shifting Philosophical Problem" — from Gosse's "Father and Son" to Beard's "Whith- er Mankind," including Radot's "Pasteur" and Shaw's "The Intelligent Woman's Guide" 20 — Volunteer Meetings
Shop Volunteers Board Room 10:00 A.M.
Day Restaurant Volunteers Board Room 10:45 A.M.
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Night Library Volunteers Board Room 6:30 P.M.
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25-28 — Decorative Arts Exhibition opens. Open to the public Auditorium
26 — Lecture by Professor Benjamin H. Lehman Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
Subject: "A Group of Novels" — "Orlando," "When I Grow Rich," "Georgie May," "Point Counter Point," "Peder Victorious," and others
28— Thursday Evening Program Assembly Room 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Ex-Governor Friend W. Richardson Subject: "India and the Orient"
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Elected January 14, 1929
Mrs. A. P. Black Miss Marion Fitzhugh Miss Emma Noonan
Mrs. William F. Booth, Jr. Mrs. Cleaveland Forbes Mrs. Howard G. Park
Mrs. Le Roy Briggs Mrs. Frederick Funston Miss Esther Phillips
Dr. Adelaide Brown Mrs. W. B. Hamilton Miss Mabel Pierce
Miss Sophronia Bunker Mrs. Lewis Hobart Mrs. Edward Rainey
Miss Marion Burr Mrs. Marcus S. Koshland Mrs. Paul Shoup
Mrs. Louis J. Carl Miss Marion Leale Mrs. H. A. Stephenson
Mrs. S.G. Chapman Mrs. Parker 8. Maddux Mrs. T. A. Stoddard
Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr. Miss Henrietta Moffat Miss Elisa May Willard
Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper Mrs. Harry Staats Moore Mrs. James T. Wood, Jr.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Volume III FEBRUARY ^ 1929 Number 1
SONTENTS
Club Calendar 2
Frontispiece 8
Editorial 17
Articles
Facts, Fads and Fallacies in Art ... 9 By Louise Janin
Contemporary Art in California ... 11 By Rose Pauson '
Beyond the City Limits 12
By Mrs. Parker S. Maddux
Books of the Month 13
By Eleanor Preston Watkins
Social Aspect of the Community Chest . 14 By Miss Alice Griffith
Coming Events in the Women's City Club 15-16
Sausalito — Village of Romance ... 18
A Beautiful Interlude 20
Lehman Lectures 21
Monthly Departments Financial— The Outlook for 1929 . . 26
By W. P. Letchworth
Travel — Sail On — to the West Indies . 22 By George R. Smith
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1929
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By Beth Sherwood
They tell me he was once a waiter
Slinging cheap plates of pork and beans, corned beef and
cabbage To a hungry crowd. They tell me he was once a farm hand Feeding pigs with mangy corn, Tossing hay with a long pitchfork. They tell me he has worked his way up — Up from the river bottoms — Up from the brown dirt of the back yards of the Middle
West And today he is here Reaching up to the stars To pull down words; Words that sing themselves;
Words that he bites off like Red Star chewing tobacco; Words that flow off his tongue like Western honey. And he plays with these words As he stands before us Gaunt and rugged. With a shock of silver straw for hair And two blue cornflowers for eyes. And a smile that he might have gotten From the sunshine on a millpond. And his voice is mellow And roughly sweet As he plays with these words And of them makes music — Music such as moonlit rivers — And music such as the clashing of dishpans — Music — And we listen.
And because we are very modern And today's poetry means to us The notes of a golden saxophone Played on the harps of the wind, or A drop of silver moonshine In a teacup of Delft blue. We are pleased, and we clap. And he brings out his old guitar And with the tank-a-tank-tank-a-tank He sings,
And his voice is sky — and castle — And a vein of silver In a red rock.
Like the voice of corn-huskers at twilight. And he sings Songs of the river And the darkies shuffling And the corn moon smiling Down the low purple hills; Songs of the river. And the fish boats sliding. And the watched sun sneering From the pastel sky. And then he reads of Jazzmen And his voice goes up and down Like the bucket in the old well by the barn; And you feel as you ought to be dancing Instead of sitting there, listening — Quiet life — And the Jazzmen
Croon and go hush-a-hush
With the slippery sandpaper.
And the red moon
Winks with huge right eye
From the top of the low river hills;
And then he reads of Chick Lorimer
And we wonder —
Who was Chick Lorimer?
And if he had ever kiiown her —
// he had ever seen her on the street
And tipped his hat and said
"Hello, Chick r
If his heart was one of the five — or fifty — that she broke
When she went away.
And he goes on and on,
And we wish he would never stop;
And we listen
And our ears are alive.
For we are listening to a man
Who has pulled himself up —
Up from the river bottoms —
Up from the brown dirt of the back yards of the Middle
West — To reach up into the murky, sooty skies about Chicago And other cities thereabouts — To reach up — and up — And pull down a star.
Miss Beth Sherwood
[Written by Miss Sherwood April 25, 1927, when she was a student at Mount Vernon School, Washington, D. C, after a visit and talk from Carl Sandburg. The students were given thirty minutes in which to write, and no corrections were permitted.]
WOMEN^S CITY CLUBx
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VOLUME III
SAN FRANCISCO ' FEBRUARY ' IQ^Q
NUMBER I
Fact:
rALLACIES IN AeT
By Louise Janin
[Miss Janin is a San Franciscan by birth and education, but for the last eight years has lived in Paris, where she is ranked as one of the leading artists of the world. She has more commissions at the moment than probably any other woman painter and had a picture purchased by the Luxembourg the first year of her residence in Paris. She contributes to the art magazines of Europe as an authority in the modern idiom and is hailed as a leader in contemporaneous thought in the realm in which
she has been so eminently successful. She is a daughter of Mrs. George Harry Mendell of San Francisco, and sister of Covington Janin.
Miss Janin was tendered a reception and tea at the Women's City Club January 15, when she gave an informal discussion of art and the salons and exhibitions of Paris. The occasion was an auspicious prelude to the Exhibit of Decorative Arts to be held at the City Club February 25 to March 10, with Mrs. Lovell Langstroth as general chairman.]
A babel of cults, creeds and isms howls about us today. The result is a lamentable confusion of -ideas that half the time are no more than notions.
The art of painting is the worst victim of this state of things. So much mischief has been wrought by half-edu- cated artists and professional phrase-makers that the oft- heard "I don't know anything about art" (why is it that we never hear with anything like the same frequency "I don't know anything about literature — about music — about religion") may readily be excused.
Now, if any of my readers make sometimes this despair- ing confession, I hope I may convince them that they really know more about art than they think they do. Take first the misconception regarding "decorative" and "ex- pressive" or "personal" forms of art. The spinster broider- ing a tea-cosy or the pueblo-dweller whose clay-smeared fingers are groping towards a new shape in his potter's craft may be doing something much more "personal" than is the laureled painter of bank-presidents.
Oh, that favorite cliche of so many underdone painters: "merely decorative" ! My answer to it — a casual one, for I could multiply instances if space permitted — is that Raphael decorated a number of chairs. I had occasion to remind the readers of "Drawing and Design" that "there was no caste-barrier between the makers of pictures and other craftsmen in the great ages before the guilds were abolished."
The "uglification" of all useful objects by the machine is being gradually overcome by a return to the hand-made article. Painting and sculpture, "fine arts" because un- touched by blighting industrialism, see their aristocratic prestige impinged upon by the plebeian. Industrial Art, whose case was brilliantly won during the Exposition In- ternationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Moderncs (1925). This manifestation (I managed, by the way, to slip into five sections of it, mostly with groups of decorative panels) was the greatest factor in the Modern Decorative Renaissance.
Even before this event, however, such names as Lalique,- with his exquisite objects in glass paste, Brandt, the master iron-worker, Dunand, whose lacquer screens recall the Japanese masters, were as familiar to the gallery-going pub- lic as were the pillars of the Salon. And in France the
modern interior decorator is ranked as a creative artist, in some instances a great one.
The sometimes radical simplicity of the "new furniture" (and this is precisely what shocks many f)eople inured to 18th century and Victorian fussiness) is offset by puritv' of line, exquisite finish, sumptuosity of materials — all the rare woods of the French Colonies are called into service, colored marble is lavishly used — and the sparing ornament that decorators permit themselves — whether in silver, bronze, pate de verre, gold leaf or ivory, must be precious, and of very emphatic design.
Now the painters and sculptors who collaborate with these ensembliers must of course possess the same qualities, above all, amusing decorative invention (modern decora- tion, like the modern poster, has to be effective) — even a certain classic idealism. And above all, Style. The man- nequins of Siegel, metal-painted, the latest fashion-plates, have familiarized us with the long, slim contours of a new feminine ideal (figures nine or ten heads high, the academic standards being seven and a half heads). These "bean- stalk" proportions may be traced, perhaps, to the influence of Marty or of Jean Dupas, who has a considerable follow- ing among the younger painters.
Other leaders of the new school, whose salient qualities are style, rhythm, and purity of form, are Maurice Denis, who is equally at home among medieval saints or pagan gods, and has inaugurated a Catholic revival in art — Marcel-Lenoir, the inspired peasant, chiefly famous for his frescoes in the Convent of Toulouse — Doumergue, to whom the modern daughter of Eve is pretext for the grand- iloquent gestures of a lesser Veronese — Jean Despujols, the ablest draughtsman of the "back to Ingres" movement that includes Rigal, Delorme, and a galaxy of young painters. The decorative graphism of the Russians lacolefiF, Sou- deikine, and Grigoriev, must not be neglected, nor the Greco-Eg}ptian stylism of the sculptors Janniot, Chana Orloff, Heuvelmans, Poisson, Traverse. Tegner, etc.
It is quite obvious that the type of work coming more and more into favor with architects, interior decorators and the general public cannot lend itself to a system based on mass production and Wall Street methods, such as that which has exploited for a decade the amorphous trifles of so-called "modern painting." In the Hrst place, a painting
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1929
Miss Louise Janin
{Photographed against an Oriental screen
which she painted)
designed, as a painting ought to he, ideally if not in fact, for a given space and a given setting, is one thing, while paintings thrown off at top speed at the bidding of an astute dealer in the "modern" and changing hands half a dozen times in the course of many years is quite another.
Pictures of what I may call the Ambulatory School are often put into the big public sales that are a prominent feature of Paris art life. The bidding on these articles has been prearranged between the auctioneers and the merchant owner. Two employees who enact the comedy are in- structed as to what figure — as high a one as the painter's renown, or lack of it, could possibly warrant — shall bring down the hammer of the auctioneer. He is satisfied with a commission and the painting, unbeknown to the duly im- pressed audience and newspaper reporters, returns to the dealer's storeroom to be brought again into the light of day when the opportune moments shall come. Other details of a clever mercantile system are too numerous and involved to describe in this short space. Suffice it to say that the specimens of wholesale production that some American suckers take seriously are bought not from love of art but as a speculation.
The worst thing that can be said about the wholesale buying system of "modern art" dealers abroad, who exact sometimes of their poulains (colts, in race-course termin- ology) five or six paintings in a week, limiting them to three or four stock sizes that determine the price and to an endless repetition of the same subjects and manner is that it stunts the growth of some very genuine talents. The hirelings of Messrs. Bernheim and Rosenberg, art critics and able salesmen, have taught the unlettered post-war manufacturers who speculate in the "modern" that bad drawing, deformation and sloppy execution are the sine qua nan of I' art a la mode. Which is not to be wondered at, for careful work takes time, and so does well-composed work. Paintings that satisfy an authentic artist are not to be had by the baker's dozen and for a song.
But the imposing modernist balloon is already punc- tured by the recent exposures of "fakes" in Germany (I
allude to the Van Gogh scandals) and growing public awareness of a fraudulent system, and is gradually subsid- ing. We may therefore expect to see the cotes (premiums) of brush-slingers like Derain, Vlaminck, Matisse, Utrillo, Dufy, etc., who started with a modicum of talent but who have become as commercial as Robert W. Chambers, fall within a short time to an insignificant figure. The really inventive spirits of twentieth century arts, such a Klimt, Kupka, Riveira, Lhote, Picasso (the last two, sympathetic because they are real seekers, forever dissatisfied with them- selves, would, as decorators, have shown what they were capable of had they not been commercially exploited by Monsieur Rosenberg), and such sculptors as Bourdelle, Maillol, Bernard, Janniot and Mestrovic, will survive in the history of art as pioneers even though some of the students of today, profiting by their experiments, may sur- pass them.
All styles in art and fashions in criticism are degrees of the swinging of the pendulum between ( 1 ) simplicity and elaboration, (2) photographic fidelity to nature and pure abstraction — i. e., Cubism, Orphism, etc. Non-representa- tional painting and sculpture need not frighten us if we remember that all art must have Style — subordination of the details to a preconceived rhythmic scheme — if it is to be called Art, and that even unobtrusive style is a slight degree of abstraction. Where natural forms are stylized or simplified out of even a remote resemblance, as in some designs of American aborigines, it matters nothing to those who enjoy the design as Form and Color that the artist had in mind trees or running waters or beasts or humans. He might as well have begun at the abstract end, and worked for the pure joy of rhythms that are like dances or musical phrases. And many painters and sculptors do this — it is, in fact, the only authentic contribution of the twentieth century to the plastic arts- — and the greatest satisfaction of my career has been the unfeigned enjoyment of my most
"Exotique" Decorative Panel by Louise Janin
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1929
abstract compositions by people, sometimes untutored, who had little or no acquaintance with current art fads or painting of any kind. If the thing is well done, (it is badl\ done in most Cubist paintings), effective, and sensuously beautiful it will speak to a savage.
But stay — you who read do admit plastic abstraction ! I'll not drag in Architecture (which, by the way, can be as expressive and personal as the human countenance) be- cause buildings are necessary things, but what about the picture frames on your wall? They are neither useful nor representational, they are there for abstract aesthetic rea- sons if they are tastefully chosen and not symbols of osten- tation, as were the pretentious gimcrack gilt frames of a former period. You will admit that they, like the pedestal of a statue, are necessary parts of a work of art. That is why I often make my own frames, when the one needed to bring out the aesthetic elements in a picture does not exist on the market. Now suppose that within the picture itself, as in the portrait of Madame Yorska that aroused so much
comment in my Paris exhibition of last October, I wreathe the head and bust of my subject with swirling spirals of yellow orange ? This not only expresses the dynamic, passionate, alive character of the woman herself, it obeys, like the picture frame, a law of aesthetic necessity.
I never take part in the arguments over Simplicit)' and Complexity because taste in that matter dep>ends so much on one's mood — how tired one is, how busy one is — in too much of a hurry, perhaps, to examine the details of a draw- ing or a Gothic fagade. By all means let us have art — good posters, for instance — that he who motors may read. But don't say that a Diirer is no good because you like Brancusi's Bird in Flight. Throughout all are the laws of balance, rhythm, contrast and harmony that no art fads can demolish. Look for them in all art manifestations, and don't listen to the screaming propagandists — unless these persons tickle your sense of humor.
And bear in mind that the respective merits of a Sung bowl and the Sistine Ceiling are in degree and not in kind.
Art in Califcrmia
By Rose Pauson
Miss Pauson is a member of the committee in charge of the Decorative
Arts Exhibit to be held in the A uditorium of the Women's City Club
February 25 to March 10, which is expected to be an important
art impetus in San Francisco.
CONTEMPORARY art tendencies as they f^nd their expression in California are particularly in- teresting because the artists are more free from European influences than are the Eastern artists. Our isolation from the European centers of art which some consider a disadvantage, is in many ways a benefit. Artists here are forced to express themselves more independently. They are not constantly in contact with the continental successes of the moment as are the workers in the East, and therefore California artists are forced to develop with less outside influence and more individual conceptions.
While the movement here has the same general modern impulse that is felt throughout the entire art world, still the California contemporary art expression is individual and independent. California has supplied a large number of original and creative workers in all the arts during her short history. Pioneering in art is as natural to this gen- eration as pioneering in life was to the Californian of the last generation. The free, daring and independent spirit of that generation is paralleled by the spirit of the art workers of today. In addition to our inherited freedom we have the greater and more direct influence of our natural environment.
The vigorous and independent quality of the work here is due to several other factors. We are less bound by con- ventions, our lives are freer and we have a closer contact with nature than in most centers of creative work. We find, too, less striving to be bizarre and smart and greater efforts to achieve natural and unaffected expression.
California artists are doing a great deal of important work. They are making a rich contribution to architecture, sculpture, painting, landscape gardening and the various decorative arts. Fine results are being achieved in con- temporary design and color in every medium. In architec- ture, for example, a new domestic type is being evolved. Its suitability to our environment and our lives makes it an essentially Californian expression. There is, on the ex- terior, as well as on the interior a generous use of color in these homes. In addition thev are often framed bv charm-
ing gardens which gives them a distinction peculiarly their own. These gardens also afford an opportunity for fresco painting which is having a very interesting development here. Many of our painters are turning to this medium of expression and greatly adding to the beauty of our out- door decoration. The fine work of our sculptors is also afforded a beautiful setting in these decorative gardens.
Our painters and sculptors show a healthy reaction to- ward life and express the joy of living in their works; con- trastingly strongly with the morbid tone of much of the contemporary work done elsewhere. This colorful qualit)' makes their work especially suitable for decoration in these modern California homes. In the decorative arts there are equally excellent developments. Much that is beautiful is being created in ceramics, metal work, textiles and other mediums. In printing too, some of the world's finest work is being produced.
The people of California know and appreciate only a very small part of this remarkable accomplishment. The art patron is still going to New York and to Europe for his works of art, and buys the works of California artists only after they have been acclaimed in other places. Thus, at present, we have the situation of the creative artist free from the domination of the East and of Europe, while many art patrons are still under their influences. The California artists consequently suffer from the lack of patrons and are often forced to join the group of workers in larger art centers, where their work becomes recognized in spite of infinitely greater competition. In the group of fifteen de- signers who recently organized the American Designers' Gallery in New York, there are three artists who were former workers in California and who received little or no recognition here. If California wishes to keep her artists here where they can continue to create in a free and un- hampered way and where they may develop a great western art expression, it is the responsibility of the California art patron to recognize the value of the work done here and to support it.
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CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for FEBRUARY
1929
By Edith Walker Maddux {Mrs. Parker S. Maddux)
PREVENTION OF WAR
Acceptance of the Kdlogg-Briand Anti-War ^A Pact by the United States Senate is favored by a -^ -^ninety-seven per cent vote of the National Council of The National Economic League. The question sub- mitted to the members of the League in a referendum mailed to them on November 2, was as follows: "Do you favor ratification by the United States of the Paris Multi- lateral Peace Pact (known as the Kellogg-Briand Treaty) as a step towards the prevention of war?"
The ballots returned up to November 21, show 1617 of the members to be in favor, and only 45 opposed to the ratification of the Pact. The returns from each State, which the League also publishes, would seem to indicate that public opinion regarding the Treaty is much the same in all parts of the country. From twenty-five states the verdict in favor of its ratification was unanimous.
The purpose of The National Economic League is to aid in giving expression to the informed and disinterested opinion of the country on questions of paramount im- portance. The five thousand members of its Council are directly nominated and elected from each State solely with this aim in view. •
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THE BRISTLING BALKANS
Rumania^ still a kingdom, has had a complete govern- mental overthrow in the replacement of the historically entrenched Premier Bratianu by Juliu Maniu, leader of the Peasant Party. The new cabinet comes out definitely to support the regency, oppose Prince Carol, stand by young King Michael, and remove all restrictions on the freedom of the press and liberty of speech.
Bulgaria suffered an exciting little rebellion led by one Ivan Michaeloff, who had organized an internal Macedonian revolution to free Macedonia, already torn by vendettas, by force of arms. Even though Michaeloff was far from the capital, there was rioting in Sofia, and King Boris, who has a very small army, was greatly disturbed. How- ever, civil war was averted, but the Macedonia Revolution- ary Organization still lives.
Hungary cannot have a king yet awhile regardless of the eager demands of the Union Party for the restoration of a Hapsburg. This source of unhappiness, however, is exceeded by the more general and increasing agitation over the treatment of "Hungarians" who are now resident minorities in the surrounding states. It will be recalled that Hungary, as a result of the war, lost to Czecho- slovakia 24,000 square miles and 3,520,000 people; to Rumania 40,000 square miles and 5,000,000 people; and to Jugo-Slavia 15,000 square miles and 3,500,000 people. No imagination is needed to appreciate the unreconciled rancor of a proud people.
Albania's coronation party has been postponed again, for the third time, so that Zogu may increase accommodations for foreign guests, install electric lights and bath tubs and try to get magnificently ready by next April.
TRANSPORTATION Turkey. Henry Ford is to establish an assembling plant at once. There are only 6,000 automobiles in the whole country, four-fifths of them American, and to be modern- ized, Turkey must be motorized.
China, on the other hand, may skip the motor age en- tirely and go up in the air for transportation. Air routes are already being planned for mail and passengers, and road-building is slow.
"THE HARDEST PROBLEM"
Just how much is Germany to pay in war damages? After ten years the Allies seem to be coming around to the point of view vainly asserted by America at the Peace Conference at Versailles, namely, that the amount which the Germans were to hand over in reparations ought to be definitely fixed. What has been happening all these years? The Ruhr valley is still occupied by French troops ; the Dawes plan has been successfully initiated under an Amer- ican Agent-General ; Germany has entered the League of Nations ; the Locarno security pacts have been signed ; the Kellogg-Briand anti-war treaty is on its way with significant signatures ; but the uncertainty of war debts and war damages is still with us. Emotions are keyed up. Notice the following from Volonte, (radical Parisian paper) : "Berlin is merely playing the same game as Wash- ington. The Rhineland and reparations are separate affairs, declare the Germans. But they will, just the same, be compelled to negotiate the two affairs at the same time. Reparations and debts are different affairs and we are con- cerned only about the second, declare the Americans. But if they want to collect their debts they will just the same have to finance reparations. . . . Let us by all means separate all the problems the war has left. . . . But let us negotiate them all at the same time." And Malcolm W. Davis comments as follows in The Outlook and Ifidependent:
"There the argument comes to the point: How much more may ill-mannered, uncultured, but nevertheless good- natured and wealthy Uncle Sam, come down after all in his demands on us Europeans for payment of war debts? And how much may he be persuaded to advance in private loans to transform them from obligations to the govern- ment into obligations to the citizens who become holders of bonds?"
AND UNITED STATES
The Conference of Governors, meeting in New Orleans, was much impressed with Governor Brewster's presenta- tion of President-elect Hoover's plan for an "employment reserve," an insurance against panic and unemployment. It would create a $3,000,000,000 reserve fund to provide employment in public work when business is slack, "not as a cure-all, but an alleviation;" "concerted action rather than centralized authority ;" "it would do for unemploy- ment what the Federal Reserve System does for finance." The value of the engineer in government needs no further proof.
The short session, and a "lame-duck" congress at that, very lame in spots, must undertake (but we hope not as undertakers) such important measures, among others, as the following: the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact; the Navy Bill ; Farm Relief ; Muscle Shoals ; Law Enforcement appropriations ; and perhaps the World Court. The Boulder Dam Bill has been debated and passed under the successful leadership of Senator Johnson and Congressman Swing, and has been signed by President Coolidge — a very expeditious and inordinately important piece of business, but the rest of the program cannot possibly be carried out before March 4, unless perchance an acute epidemic of laryngitis stops the talk in the Senate.
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Books or the Momtw
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The Jealous Gods By Gertrude Atherton Horace Liveright, New York Price $2.50
'ANY women have loved Alcibiades," said the dar- ling of the gods to Tiy the Egyptian. And of the women who h ive loved him, the latest and not least is his biographer, Gertrude Atherton. When she was reading the seventy books about Greece and the Greeks which she incredibly travelled through before writing "The Immortal Mar- riage," I think that she met young Alcibiades of the bronze curls, and loved him. Nor could she get him out of her system until she had prisoned the essence of that winged spirit in the amber of a book. Mrs. Atherton has a weakness for blondes. At tea in the Women's City Club, she was heard to say that "Blondes can get by with any- thing!" When reminded that she her- self is the type that gentlemen prefer, she replied, with that flash of humor which is her imperishable youth, "Well, I get by with a good deal, don't you think?"
But the gods are jealous. "Beautiful beyond all men in both face and form, in an age when handsome men were almost too common for remark, bril- liant, fascinating, eloquent, resource- ful, accomplished, audacious; full of surprises ; an impeccable soldier of iron endurance ; sprung from two of the greatest families of Hellas, boasting gods and heroes in their ancestry; and with the welfare of Athens ever on his silver tongue, the Athenians looked to him as their natural leader."
"No one admitted more freely than he that he delighted in ostentation and extravagance, for it had never occurred to him that he was not entitled to do anything that happened to please him. 'Arrogant? Why not?' he inquired of his old friend Aristophanes. 'What else did the gods intend that I should be when they endowed me with every virtue and all the good things of life? And does not the world admit my su- periority and encourage me to be Al- cibiades and none other? I shall do as I like and be as i like to the end of my days.' 'True, the gods have been kind to you,' said Aristophanes, dryly. 'But remember the gods turn sour some- times, and you are enough to excite the jealous wrath of Zeus himself. As for the world, you make an enemy a day.* 'I snap my fingers at my enemies'!"
"But degeneration had already set in, in the Athenian state." "Ah!"
Reiiciued by Eleanor Prlston Watkins
cried Alcibiades. "If Athens would but have helped me to be great! If she had but borne with me and be- lieved in me, I could have proved my- self a great man. Into me she crowded her essence and her genius, and in me lay her hope. If I go down to final disaster she will go with me." A gorgeous motion picture some dis- criminating director will make of this book. Mrs. Atherton calls it "A pro- cessional novel of the fifth century B. C, concerning one Alcibiades." It
Gertrude Atherton
is a processional of vivid pictures. The Bema on the Pnyx ; the Council in their robes of state ; Scythian archers ; Athenian citizens of every walk of life; Spartan envoys; and Alcibiades, "his head with its golden-bronze curls, gracefully garlanded, very high, his eagle glance raking the vast throng of his admirers" — Alcibiades, assuming the leadership of the Demos, Alcibi- ades shamelessly betraying the Spartan envoys, breaking the peace with Sparta, borne home on the shoulders of stout artisans, followed by the cheering pop- ulace. The banquet in the andron of his house, where twenty-four young Greeks welcomed Tiy the Egyptian.
Alcibiades at the banquet in the house of the hetaera Nemea, leading the young nobles in a drunken proces- sional which repeated the sacrosanct Mysteries of Eleusis.
Alcibiades winning the chariot race at the Olympian games with seven chariots and twenty-eight horses, lay- ing the olive branch on the altar of Athena. Alcibiades in his tent at Olympia, banqueting Diogenes the Syracusan, the Croesus of Sicily, with ducklings, peacocks' tongues, Thasian wine, for which he had raided the larder of his guest, and which he served on gold plate appropriated for the oc- casion from the treasure of the state.
Alcibiades leading a triumphal prog- ress through the Peloponnesus, "riding out of Athens by the Dipylon Gate, riding down the Sacred Way in the fresh morning air, saluting the tomb of Pericles." "Neither King nor Ty-
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rant, no monarch ever made a more royal progress."
Alcibiades in battles by land and sea. The mutilation of the Hermae, guardians of homes ; and the proces- sions of mourning women, crying "Wail Adonis! Wail Adonis!" Alci- biades impeached, defending himself on the Bema where first he reached his "heaven-kissing pinnacle." Alcibi- ades in the wilds of Thrace, at the court of the Persian satrap. The fiery climax, the slings and arrows of his most outrageous fortune.
In her book-talk, Mrs. Atherton said, "Tiy had to be invented to be the heroine, because there had to be one, and also an element of suspense. I had to keep that suspense going for thir- teen years — the hardest job I ever had to do! Alcibiades had a procession of other women in his life, but no sus- pense: they all went out in a few weeks — poof !"
It was an inspiration to bring Tiy from Egypt to Athens, contrasting the woman-dominating civilization of Egypt with the woman-secluded civ- ilization of Greece. She was the de- scendant of Queen Tiy, mother of Akhnaton, the dreamer-king who de- stroyed the old gods, and for twenty years made the religion of Egypt a monotheism. It quickens the imagina- tion ! One will not forget the picture of Tiy on her flat housetop, in the dawn, hands lifted in prajer to the sun-god. There is ^ book called "Por- traits of Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt," by Winifred Brunton. With the assistance of Eg>ptologists, she has made those old dead people live. Especially the beautiful face of Queen Tiy. One wonders if Mrs. Atherton found her inspiration in that portrait. After looking at it, and reading Ar- thur Weigall's "Life and Times of Akhnaton," her heroine becomes a living person.
Gertrude Atherton's forte is the his- torical romance. In "The Immortal Marriage" and "The Jealous Gods," she throws into high relief the con- trasting times and philosophies and careers of Pericles, follower of the gentle Anaxagoras, and Alcibiades, pupil of the sophists. The two books are well worth while, if it were only to bring back those long-ago days when we were very young, and in the gray- green volumes of "The Story of the Nations," first thrilled to the glory that was Greece. No fairyland, no Arcady, has ever held the purple light of dreams that lay on those Ionian shores.
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The Social Aspect of the Community Chest
By Miss Alice Griffith Chairman Directing Committee of the Department of Social IVork
THE Community Chest is a challenge to every citizen of San Francisco. To the socially- minded, the vision of a federation of all agencies organized to serve human need is one so compelling that it seems almost useless to present to the membership of the Women's City Club, founded on service, any of the details of this federation. Yet miscon- ceptions are possible, and the annual appeal for subscriptions looms so large that day by day activities are sometimes lost to sight.
In uniting the agencies in one finan- cial appeal, the founders of the Chest set them free to work together to solve their kindred problems.
Under the general jurisdiction of the Department of Social Work of the Chest, seven segregated groups, augmented by fellow workers in mu- nicipal and state departments, are gathered into Councils, serving in their several fields as expert advisers. Study of the agencies in each group, with information of new methods, adoption of adequate standards, and extension or curtailment of work, all are subjects of discussion and matters of recommendation. This develop- ment of the Councils has, in a meas- ure, been due to the fact that no large fund was available for the use of a Research Department. An immense amount of data is available from studies made by the Research Depart- ments of the great philanthropic foun- dations, and the Councils can thus formulate particular studies needed in San Francisco with a background of the extensive studies made na- tionally.
Each Council adopts its own form of organization, and as each Chest agency has the privilege of appointing two delegates — its executive officer and a member of its Board of Direct- ors— the Council is the closest link between the Social Department of the Chest and its member agency, for while each Council elects its Chair- man, the Chairman of the Social De- partment is ex officio a member. This democratic, yet expert, arm of the Chest exerts ever-widening influence. From its very nature, its development must be deliberate. Haste would mar its growth, for its roots must be deeply embedded and carefully nur- tured. The Chest realizes its signifi- cance more perfectly, perhaps, than the members of the directorates of the agencies.
To those members of the Women's City Club who sit as directors in any
of the Chest agencies, a direct appeal is made in this article. Inform your- self about the Council with which your agency is affiliated. Ask your ex- ecutive to give reports of Council matters at your meetings and help the Chest to solve for the community the problems which confront its citizen- ship, such as unemployment, prevent- able disease, and commercialized rec- reation with its attendant evils. Far- reaching ideals can be nurtured in the Councils. Practical realization of these ideals can be attained only by the sustained effort of the directors of
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each constituent agency, for the agen- cies are the Chest.
The Department of Social Work is also responsible for the appointment of three members of each Budget Study Committee, the two remaining members being appointed by, and members of, the Budget Committee. Again the group method is employed, and seven committees are at work in this important field. Annually the budget of each agency is carefully and sympathetically studied.
The Directing Committee of the Department of Social Work has a Chairman, Vice-chairman, and seven members elected by the social agen- cies. The Chairmen of the Social Service Exchange, the Adjustment Bureau, two Chairmen from the Councils, and two from the Budget Study Committees are also members. Thus, in the monthly or semi-monthly meetings all phases of the social pro- gram are presented for review, discus-
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sion, and direction. A monthly meet- ing of Council Chairmen and one of Budget Study Committee Chairmen are also held, and at these meetings, which are presided over by the Chair- man of the Directing Committee, the Chairman of the Executive Commit- tee and the Chairman of the Budget Committee are invariably present. There are also two regular monthly meetings of the Executive Committee. Thus, prompt action is always obtain- able when any question arises for ex- ecutive sanction. This brief outline will convey some idea of the great volume of volunteer service given to the co-ordination of the agencies of the city; yet, without the loyal and interested service of the Chest staff, not half the amount of work could be undertaken. The fundamentals of every detail are in their charge, and much of the inspiration comes from their conscientious consecration to duty.
As the inheritor of all that is best in the charitable and philanthropic organizations of which it is composed, the Chest stands as the outward ex- pression of all those intangible desires which led men and women in the past to found associations to correct an evil or to save a life. Many of these were organized before the municipal- ity and the state had adopted con- structive programs of education, health, recreation, protection, correc- tion, and reform. In the present day, with schools and playgrounds, health centers and hospitals, pension bureau and juvenile court well organized and firmly established and directed by able and responsible officials enabled by an aroused public opinion to fulfill their duties, these older volunteer agencies in some cases are unneces- sary. Readjustment is difficult, but if in the Councils their representatives meet in conference with public offi- cials, as well as with executives and directors of similar organizations, the incentive to adopt progressive stand- ards is imperative, and the new order conquers. With the united effort of all these organizations welded into one, with service as the keystone of the arch, co-operation and understand- ing at the foundation, with men of financial ability seeing eye to eye with social workers, and all developing per- sonal responsibility for the attainment of the goal, it is not too much to say that in ever-widening circles the Com- munity Chest is bringing a spiritual message to the people of San Fran- cisco.
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rYEMTS in WOMEN'S CITY CLUB
Carl
Sandburg , who will speak at the City Club Monday evening, February 18
CARL SANDBURG, author of "Abraham Lincoln : "The Prairie Years," "Chicago Po- ems," "Cornhuskers," "Smoke and Steel," "Slabs of the Sunburnt West," "Rootabaga Stories" and other epics of the West, will lecture at the Wom- en's City Club the evening of Febru- ary 18.
Sandburg, who is fifty years old, is poet, biographer, philosopher. He has lived close to the life of the prairie and the factory town and caught its essence, giving it back in poems after deep brooding. He has a lively curi- osity about the humbler occupations, and this brought him emotionally to Abraham Lincoln and made him Lin- coln's most understanding biographer.
In the poetic renaissance which is ascribed roughly to the last fifteen years, Sandburg is usually mentioned with Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Lee Masters, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell and other leaders who helped shape its destiny. Of them all, he is least affected by classical learning, and therefore per- haps most truly native.
At fifty, Carl Sandburg is a rare and many-sided individual. He has in him the protests and indignation of a social revolutionist, the whimsicality and wistfulness of a child and a seer's ability to see through veneers to essentials.
He is of the prairie, and with that love of the plains he detests the smear of factory towns. Yet he has found soft veils against the sky rising from dirty factory chimneys. Of the prai- rie he has written eloquently :
"I was born on the prairie, and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of its women, gave me a song and a slogan.
"The prairie sings to me in the fore- noon, and 1 know in the night I rest easy in the prairie arms, on the prairie heart."
Such sentimental lines come from a man who could write the robust poem on Chicago beginning "Hog Butcher for the world," and that other poem, "Tlie Windy City," in which he has caught up all the whirlpool of life in metropolitan districts, with his la- ment :
Forgive us if the monotonous
houses go mile on mile Along monotonous streets out to
the prairie. But among the best of his concep- tions is this little stanza, which was condemned by the guardians of Eng- lish speech over ten years ago for its "bucket of ashes" and copiously ridi- culed by Henry van Dyke. It goes: I speak of new cities and a new
people. I tell you the past is a bucket of
ashes. I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down, a sun dropped in the west. I tell you there is nothing in the world only an ocean of tomor- rows, a sky of tomorrows.
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Sandburg Committee
The lecture on "The Prairie Lin- coln" to be given by Carl Sandburg under the auspices of the City Club February 18 (Monday evening) has Miss Helen Holman as chairman in charge of the arrangements. The lec- ture will be held in the City Club Auditorium. Miss Holman is being assisted by Mrs. Ford Chambers, Mrs. E. W. Currier, Miss Mar- ion Fitzhugh, Miss Lutie Goldstein, Mrs. Frederick KroU, Miss Camilla Loyall, Mrs. J. R. McDonald, Mrs. Chester Moore, Miss Emma Noonan, Mrs. F. C. Porter, Mrs. Edwin Shel- don, Miss Edith Slack, Miss Elisa May Willard and Mrs. James T. Wood, Jr. Tickets are on sale at the Club and at Sherman, Clay and Co. Tickets $1.00. All seats reserved.
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Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting of the Na- tional League for Woman's Service will be held Thursday, March 14. at 8 o'clock, in the City Club Audito- rium. Comprehensive reports cover- ing all club activities will be made at the meeting.
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Language Classes
New classes in French and Italian are being organized. Members who are interested may obtain details at the Information Desk on the fourth floor.
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Talks for Shop Volunteers
A series of informal chats on the arts and crafts that make the home interesting will begin Wednesday morning, February 20. These talks are planned with the idea of keeping the Volunteers informed on the mer- chandise that is for sale in the Shop. ill
Talks for the Library Volunteers
On February 20 at 11 :30, Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard will talk to the Day Library Volunteers, and at 8:30 o'clock of the same day she will speak to the Night Library V^olunteers on how to answer the question so often put to librarians, "What's this book about?"
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Special Teas
At intervals special teas are ar- ranged in honor of prominent visitors to San Francisco, to which members of the club are always most cordially invited. Admission is twenty-five cents and tickets may be obtained at the Information Desk on the fourth floor, or, if the function is held in the Auditorium, tickets may be se- cured on the main floor. To facilitate the tea service, members and their guests are asked to remain seated after the program so that the volun- teers may more easily serve them.
Special Luncheons
In addition to the special teas which are arranged for honor guests, luncheons are also frequently given. As they must often be arranged on short notice, the only way these func- tions may be brought to the attention of members is by notices posted on the bulletin boards or given through the press. Luncheon reservations are usu- ally limited either by the size of the room or by contracts by which guests of honor may be bound. In such cases reservations are taken from the gen- eral membership in the order in which they are received. These luncheons are $1.25 per plate.
Bedroom Resenmtlons
As there is a great demand for bed- rooms, members who make reserva- tions and find that they cannot use the rooms are requested to immediately notify the Room Secretary. In cases where reservations arc not canceled, rooms will be charged for as if used.
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Mrs. Thomas E. Stoddard, who has returned to San Francisco after a cruise in South American waters zuith her husband. Dr. Stoddard
Mrs. Stoddard Returns
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Stoddard have returned to San Francisco after a three months' cruise to South Amer- ica. Mrs. Stoddard has been chair- man of the Committee on Educa- tional Training of the Women's City Club and has done notable work in that department, which was carried on by her committee in her absence.
Gotf Tea
Miss Harriet Adams, Golf Cap- tain, will entertain at a 4 o'clock Golf Tea in the American Room on Saturday afternoon, February 16. This tea is given to bring together a larger group of golfers in the Women's City Club, and to discuss plans for the Second Handicap Golf Tournament to be held at Ingleside Golf Course Sunday afternoon, March 17.
All golfing members desiring to attend the tea will please register at Information Desk on Fourth Floor.
Chorat Section
The Choral Section of the Wom- en's City Club began meeting regu- larly on Friday evening, January 25, and will henceforth meet at 7 :30 o'clock in the Assembly Room. All members who are interested in this newest activity are urged to enroll at once, so that they may have the bene- fit of all the instruction.
Golf
By Evelyn Larkin Chairman, Golf Committee
The first Annual Handicap Golf Tournament of the Women's City Club, held last October, proved such a success that the Golf Section is plan- ning a second one, to be held at Ingle- side Golf Course Sunday afternoon, March 17. Through the courtesy of Mrs. Margaret Kennelley, Manager of Ingleside, the Club will be allowed certain privileges as to reserved play- ing time, and given free rein to take charge of the course during the tour- nament.
Ted Robbins, City Club Golf Pro- fessional, will act as starter and ref- eree. He was congratulated upon the efficient manner in which he con- ducted the first tournament.
Anticipating the tournament. Miss Harriet Adams, Golf Captain, will give a tea in the American Room, Saturday afternoon, February 16, at 4 o'clock, to all members interested in golf. Plans for the tournament will be discussed and entries made. Any interested golfing member who would like to attend the tea is requested to register at the Information Desk on the Fourth Floor, so that provision may be made for everyone desiring to attend. < < *■
Bridge Parti/
The Tuesday Evening Bridge Sec- tion is planning another evening card party to be held sometime in March.
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Deco ratline Arts Exhibit
UNDER the auspices of the San Francisco Society of Women Artists and the Women's City Club, the second an- nual Decorative Arts Exhibit will be held in the auditorium of the Wom- en's City Club, February 25 to March 10. Mrs. Lovell Langstroth is execu- tive chairman of the exhibit, and will be assisted by the following commit- tee.
Miss Helen Forbes, Miss Rose Pauson, Mr. Rudolph Schaeffer, Mrs. Joseph Sloss, Mrs. Cleaveland Forbes, Mrs. Charles Felton, Mrs. John Bakewell, Mr. John Bakewell, Mr. Edgar Walter, Mr. Alexander Kaun, Mr. Jack Schnier, Mr. Nelson Poole, Mr. Walter Ratcliffe, Mrs. Le Roy Briggs, Mrs. Arthur L. Bailhache, Mr. Henry H.Gutterson, Mr. Worth Ryder, Mrs. Lorenzo Avenali, Mr. Albert Bender, Miss Lucy Allyne, Mr. Warren C. Perry, Mr. Ernest Weihe, Mr. Irving Morrow, Mrs. Clara Huntington, Miss Jean Boyd, Mr. Albert Evers.
The public is invited and there will be no admission fee.
The purpose of the exhibition is to bring to the community of San Fran- cisco and neighboring cities, a dem- onstration, supplied by resident artists, of one of the most important art de- velopments in modern times.
There is in San Francisco and throughout the Pacific Coast a vital interest in the whole modern art move- ment and it is to the end of fostering and developing that interest that the San Francisco Society of Women Artists and the Women's City Club are showing a second Decorative Arts Exhibition.
The exhibits will be groilped ac- cording to kind rather than according to artist. The decorations are under the general direction of Rudolph Schaeffer, who is planning a number of original and striking effects.
Mr. Schaeffer will have charge of assembling of exhibits which will be arranged in units according to the articles and textiles displayed. A pool with sculptural works will oc- cupy the center of the room and co- operation with the San Francisco Garden Club, Lucien Labaudt, For- rest Brissie, Jack Schnier and others, will result in artistic displays. A patio with frescoes will be arranged by Helen Forbes and Marion Simp- son. A representative from the San Francisco Institute of Architects will co-operate in the exhibit.
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1929
WOMEN'S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE
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FROM time to time endeavor has been made to estab- lish an institution where distinguished visitors to San Francisco may be entertained, a place where both men and women may meet to do honor to artists, writers, trav- elers or others conspicuous for their achievement along cultural or professional lines. That such a central point might serve as a rendezvous for local artists and writers, was also in the plan.
The attempts at organization and founding such a place never quite succeeded. Or, if brought to a feeble fruition, the results have not survived for any length of time. Re- cent years have been strewn with "Art Clubs" of various preflces, "Writers' Clubs," and the like.
And then, suddenly, as one realizes the presence of a quiet, gracious person who has entered the room and been standing there a long time unnoticed, we are aware that the Women's City Club has been filling the long needed place, has been doing it adequately for two years. Consider the number of notables entertained at the Women's City Club in the last year. The names constitute a cross section of the aesthetic life of the world. Opera singers, novelists, stage folk, commentators, explorers, lecturers, have filed under the door bearing the number, 465 Post Street, there to be extended hospitality representative of San Francisco.
Luncheons, teas, dinners, formal and informal receptions have succeeded each other in great variety, with persons important in world affairs as the central figures. Facilities for entertaining at the City Club are adapted to small groups or large crowds, and affairs have been arranged upon but a day's notice. The personnel of the board of directors and the entertainment and other committees af- fords intelligent leadership and gracious hostesses.
Last month was a fair example of the variety of interests represented in the entertainments offered at the City Club. There was a tea for Miss Louise Janin, world famous artist, come home with laurels thick upon her after an absence of eight years in Paris, a luncheon for Lowell Thomas, explorer and author.
Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of William Jennings Bryan, congresswoman from Florida, was given a lunch- eon. Fernanda Doria, another San Franciscan, returned with the plaudits of the world, but in another field of art, that of singing, was tendered a luncheon. Will Durant, philosopher and author, was another entertained. And so it goes. Men and women alike are welcomed, and all bring to the City Club a breath from other places, be it the plateau of Thibet, the Valley of the Nile, the ateliers of Paris, the Rialto of Broadway, the secluded studios of Long Island or the wind washed shores of California's Carmel.
Judges of Play writing
Competition Announced
HENRY Duffy, of the Alcazar Theatre and the Dufwin Chain of Theatres on the Pacific Coast, Sam Hume of Berkeley, and Gordon A. Davis, Director of Dramatics at Stanford University, will be the judges of the short play contest launched last month by the Women's City Club Magazine and which is open to the public, men and women alike, until March 1.
All three judges are too well known in the literary and artistic world to need further introduction to readers of the Women's City Club Magazine. Sam Hume is former director of pageantry in the United States and until his departure for Europe several years ago was director of dramatics at the University of California.
The work of the drama department at Stanford Uni- versity reflects great credit upon the intelligence and vision of Gordon A. Davis, who is by way of building up an institution at Palo Alto which will be to Stanford Univer- sity what Professor Baker's Harvard Workshop is to Cambridge.
Henry Duffy and his charming wife. Dale Winter, are stage favorites in San Francisco, but more than that they are distinguished in the theatrical world for their founding of a string of successful theatres where clean, wholesome, entertaining modern drama is given, the chain reaching from Portland and Seattle to Los Angeles.
Before the final reading of the plays submitted in the contest the manuscripts will be given a preliminary reading by a board of five members of the City Club, Mesdames Edward Erie Brownell, Charles Christin, Frederick H. Meyer, James T. Watkins and John Inglis Fletcher. All are recognized for their literary ability. Mesdames Brownell, Christin and Meyer are known as amateur actresses of much ability and are therefore fully cognizant of the points necessary to a good play. The winning play will be produced at the City Club, with the three judges and the author as the guests of honor at the performance. The prize is twenty-five dollars in cash.
The play may be one or two acts, or a series of episodes. It miay not be more than forty minutes long nor shorter than twenty. The text must be typewritten on one side of the paper and the manuscript accompanied by a sealed envelope in which the name and address of the author and the title of the play are written upon one sheet. The name of the author must not appear on the manuscript. Only the title of the play appears on the script.
Announcement of the contest, made last month in the Women's City Club M.ag.azine, has occasioned much comment, and interest is keen and widespread.
It has been said that the Women's City Club ALag.v zine is doing much to revive the literary afflatus which was California in the old days of Bret Harte and, later, of the Jack London and Frank Norris era.
The poetry contest of last year and the short story com- petition, recently closed, brought to light a wealth of material which indicated that the writers needed but an incentive. That given, they now have the added impetus of competition along other lines. It is the age of the theater, and over the country are a thousand persons at work on their "third acts." Many of them will, it is expected, cease chiseling on these long plays to write short plays for the City Club M.agazine.
One of the judges, when asked to officiate in the com- petition, suggested that it be prescribed that the locale of the play be California or the West. The Magazine does not restrict the locale nor will the merit of the play be judged according to its background — but a fine play with a California milieu would be enthusiastically hailed.
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IF a sailing ship tugging at its anchor makes you think of pirates, foam-crested seas and treasure trove ; if you can build castles in your mind's eye out of sunset-tinted clouds ; if fairies come to life and speak to you prettily from the embers of a driftwood fire ; why, then — no matter where you live — you are a Sausalitan. And, if no evil sprites be nigh to thwart you out of spite then some day this sunny little shore town will claim you for its own.
According to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Guide Book, Sausalito is "The Sorrento of America, an entrancing villa suburb 20 minutes from San Francisco, across the Golden Gate, set amid oak groves by the water- side on hills that rise directly from the bay and command views as fine as any to be found on that famous Route de la Corniche which Napoleon built along the Riviera from Nice to Mentone . . . Straits, islands, ships, cities, hills and vallej's spread themselves before you in such a panorama as one can find nowhere else. Not even the view from Virgil's tomb across the bay of Naples can compare with this."
But to Sausalitans "that is not half of it." To them the marine view is an ever-inspiring wonder ; the climate one that constantly lures them to long out-of-doors tramping trips, lunch-boxes pick-a-back ; the gnarled and twisted trees shading dim trails with bright wild flowers by the millions.
These things Sausalitans love and appreciate to the full, but after all it is the people vvho live in a community that shape its character. And the inhabitants of Sausalito are nothing if not picturesque. Quite a few are world-famous. All of them regard their village as the dearest, quaintest, most unspoiled spot on earth.
Sausalito and Richardson's Bay
Sausalito is a place where you are awakened in the morn- ing by tree squirrels sassing the family cat just outside your wide open window ; where all the doorbells are out of order and nobody would use them anyway, because they prefer the more informal knock or friendly "Yoo, hoo!"; where, if you ask the town clerk for a street number for your house he will tell you to "just take one"; where concrete streets are only tolerated and each trip to the village is a new adventure along a rocky shore as you cross the wharf where the big fish nets dry, passing the beach where they paint the boats, by the little shop set away back with the sign "Baby Buggy Wheels Retired," and
"Basket on arm, go into town . . . A woman marketing, as they do — Butter and eggs, and a fish or two."
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But in spite of these delightful whimsicalities Sausalito is essentially a haven for serious folk. For just as the real writers and painters and poets of New York City have sought working seclusion in Gramercy Square, leaving Greenwich Village to the posers and tourists, the western men and women who are really accomplishing things ar<- leaving the art colonies of the Coast to a similar fate and on the door plates of many lovely homes in Sausalito we find such names as Maynard Shipley, Founder and Presi- dent of the Science League of America; Frederick O'Brien, author of "White Shadows of the South Seas"; John D. Barry, writer, lecturer and philosopher; Dr. Albertine Richards Nash, nationally known psychologist ; and Harry Dixon, master craftsman in metals, whose original jewelry, fashioned from Sausalito jasper, has found its way from his unique little shop in Tillman Alley to the far parts of the world. These are only a few of the real celebrities in Sausalito — many "made," and many more "in the making."
And if you are a real Sausalitan, some day you will be there, too. Then, as you climb homeward you may rest a bit at the Poet's Seat, erected in memory of Sausalito's first poet, Daniel O'Connell, and resting, read in chiseled letters his own epitaph :
/ have a castle of silence, flanked by a lofty keep.
And across the drawbridge lieth the lovely chamber of
sleep; Its walls are draped in legends woven in threads of gold, Legends beloved in dreamland, in the tranquil days of old.
Here lies the Princess sleeping in the palace, solemn and
still. And knight and countess slumber, and even the noisy rill That flowed by the ancient tower has passed on its way to
the sea. And the deer are asleep in the forest, and the birds arc
asleep in the tree.
And I in my Castle of Silence, in my chamber of sleep, lie
down. Like the far-off murmur of forests come the turbulent
echoes of town. And the wrangling tongues about me have now no poiver
to keep My soul from the solace exceeding, the blessed Nirvana of
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A PATRON of the Beauty Parlor on the Swimming Pool floor of the Women's Cit}- Club writes this testimonial to the service which she received there last week :
I was utterly tired out with shop- ping, my face felt grimy with dust from the crowded shops and my eyes ached with seeing too many pretty things on the counters. My feet ached as well and I was irritable from sheer fatigue and the knowledge that I didn't look up to par. So I went to the Beauty Parlor. I told the attend- ant to do her best with me before dinner time, as I simply couldn't face my family — for their sakes and for my own.
The young woman — I think her name is Miss Barr — said, "What you need is a facial." I told her to shoot the works. Which rude language shows the depth of my state of mind at the moment.
Well, she did.
She took me firmly in hand, re- moved my hat and coat, gloves and packages. Then she told me to re- move my dress. That done, she placed me in a chair in a half-reclining posi- tion, pushed a cushioned stool under my feet, commanded me to relax, and proceeded to do her stuff.
She wrapped a towel around my head until I felt like Lawrence in Arabia, and smeared a delightfully fragrant, cooling cleansing cream over my face and neck. This she re- moved almost instantly with softest tissue which she blotted and patted instead of rubbing. This removed the grime — and how. The tissue was black as she threw the little dabs into the waste-basket.
Next was the application of a stim- ulant, a sharp, pungent, cool cream that made my cheeks and chin tingle. I won't attempt to repeat the patter she kept up, telling me what this was for and what that did and why I should press this muscle upward and pat my neck thusly. It was too tech- nical, but it indicated that that girl knew her job. She said she had been at it six years, so she ought to know it.
Then she patted some warm muscle oil, emphasizing the area under the eyes. The baggy look disappeared and I found I was going to sleep. I must have slipped down in the chair, be- cause I awoke with a start as she began to slap me smartly under the chin and mould my jowls with a brisk tap, tap.
Then came the most delicious stunt of all. She wrapped my face, eyes and all, in hot compresses saturated with
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a wonderful creme,and kept the wrap- pings hot as I could bear for twenty minutes. She would have kept them longer, but I hadn't the time. After that she applied an astringent, to tighten the muscles and at the same time close the pores. She patted and moulded and caressed that face as if it were clay and she a sculptor. Then a milk elixir, fragrant as attar of roses, then a cream-colored powder, and, next, rouge on the cheeks of the same color as a wonderful, indelible lip-stick. She shaped my eyebrows by plucking some wandering hairs and brushing them into a scimitar curve.
Then she gave me a shampoo with a "lus-tar" preparation which smelled of pine and tar and general cleanli- ness and left my hair shining and soft. She wanted to give me a finger wave before it dried, but we held consulta- tion and both decided that my partic- ular style was better with a straight "slick-back." That's another of her attributes — an ability to tell you what suits your individuality.
Well, when I left that place, pink and white and smooth and groomed, I wanted new worlds to conquer. I pinched myself to know it were I. If it hadn't been so near dinnertime, I should have had a manicure and a haircut, but my family was to meet me upstairs in the dining-room and I feared to keep waiting anyone who had not been soothed and rested as I had.
In patronizing the City Club Beauty Salon one may be assured that every possible sanitary precaution is taken. Fresh towels are used for every customer, and combs, brushes and all instruments are sterilized be- fore used.
Powell Lectures
The Reverend Dr. H. H. Powell of Grace Cathedral School, will give two series of lectures for City Club members and guests, every Monday morning during Lent, beginning Feb- ruary 18, on the "Life of St. Paul." Those who attended his Lenten Lec- tures last year and received such in- spiration from his talks will look forward to this new series by Dr. Powell. These lectures will be held in the Assembly Room at 1 1 o'clock.
For business and professional wom- en who cannot take advantage of Dr. Powell's morning lectures, he will give Bible talks every Monday even- ing at 7 :30, beginning January 28.
Mrs. W. B. Hamilton is chairman of the committee which is arranging the lectures.
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Lehman Lectures
Professor Benjamin H. Lehman
Before an enthusiastic audience Tuesday morning, January 22, Pro- fessor Benjamin H. Lehman of the University of California gave his first lecture on "Contemporary Litera- ture" at the Women's City Club, 465 Post Street. His subject was "The Renaissance in the American Thea- tre: An Impression of the New York Stage in Summer."
Professor Lehman will lecture each Tuesday morning at 1 1 o'clock to and including March 12. The subjects of his next five lectures are :
February 5 — The Biographies of the Year: Ludwig's "Goethe," Strachey's "Elizabeth and Es- sex," Rourke's "Troopers of the Gold Coast." February 12 — Three Poets: Mil- lay, "The Buck in the Snow" ; Benet, "John Brown's Body"; Jeffers, "Cawdor." February 19 — The Shifting Phil- osophical Problem: Gosse's "Father and Son" to Beard's "Whither Mankind," including Radot's "Pasteur" and Shaw's "The Intelligent Woman's Guide." February 26 — A group of novels: "Orlando," "When I Grow Rich," "Georgie May," "Point Counter Point," "Peder Victo- rious," and others. The Lehman Lecture Committee includes Mesdames Edward Rainey, chairman ; G. Adrian Applegarth, Edmund Butler, E. W. Currier, Marie Hicks Davidson, William B. Hamilton, William Heath, Madge Leach, Ernest J. Mott, F. C. Porter, Thomas Driscoll, Edwin Sheldon, Harry Stearns, M. N. Hosmer ; Misses Mary Lansdale and Dorothy Peyser.
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WITHIN an hour of one of the world's most magnificent hotels, The Royal Hawaiian, at Waikiki Beach, you will find primitive homes, where natives pound poi and w^eave tapa cloth. Nearby, Oriental farmers plow rice- fields with water-buffalo, and naked Hawaiians spear fish from coral ledges.
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WHILE the San Franciscan is arranging his muffler and donning his wraps, the dis- criminating traveler is enjoying sun- shine and suiTimery days in Havana, Jamaica, Trinidad, Port-au-Prince,, and cruising the West Indies. These emerald islands in the Caribbean Sea bring to mind naines famous in Amer- ican history and story — Columbus, Ponce de Leon, Cortez, Balboa, Henry Morgan and others.
The first call in the West Indies will be at old Havana. Steaming into harbor, one may see the lighthouse and ancient fortification, "Morro Castle," and, turning, face old Fort of La Punta and the Malecon, which is the waterfront parkway and the end of the Prado, Havana's "Fashion Row."
Havana is typically Spanish in its architecture, customs and population of over 300,000 persons in their un- concerning and carefree gayeties. Most of the residences of the Cuban capital, particularly those housing plantation owners, are huge in struc- ture, mostly stone, and have metal- framed windows.
About three-quarters of the build- ings are of only one story and the sky- scrapers rarely more than four stories in height.
An attractive drive to Havana's most interesting places will include the Prado, Plaza de Armas, Morro Castle, Colon Cemetery, the beautiful Central Park, and the old Cathedral, where lie the bones of Columbus.
The finest harbor in Cuba is San- tiago. In this bay Hobson sank the "Merrimac." Beyond the city of San- tiago are the hills of Spanish-Ameri- can War fame. These hills add color, making the city a very picturesque
The Holland America Line sight. This metropolis is situated 535 miles from the capital city of Havana, but may be reached by railroad.
From Santiago, the cruise next calls at the most fascinating of the West Indies, Kingston, on the Isle of Jamaica, often called the "Land of Spring and Streams," as its Carib name means. It is said Columbus reached these shores in 1494 in his search for gold, finding instead a par- adise at the end of his voyage.
Kingston is the capital of Jamaica and is up-to-date in many ways, elec- trically lighted, with trolley cars, modern hotels, theatres and museums.
Traveling from Colon to Panama via the Panama Canal includes many wonderful sights — Gatun Locks, Gamboa, Culebra Cut, and Pedro Miguel. One finds structures about the Canal which date back to 1671, when the old city of Panama was found by Morgan. A delight for the visitor from the North will be the picturesque churches, cathedrals and the quaint shops nestled away in these old European settlements of the New World.
Curacao is an island so typically Dutch that often its capital, Willen- stad, is called a bit of Holland placed in the Caribbean. Many times has the ownership changed hands since the discovery of the island. Curacao has been Spanish, Dutch, French and English, making an eventful history in the last 300 years. In the year 1815, by the Treaty of Paris, this island was restored to Holland.
Trinidad, most southern isle of the Caribbean Sea, just off the coast of South America, famous for the abun- dance of flowers and fruits, is pecu- liarly Oriental. About a third of the
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1929
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population on the Isle of Trinidad is made up of coolies; one quickly notes the Oriental traditions and customs.
This island of the West Indies is well-known for the distinct, dark-eyed type of attractive women with their grace and beautiful physique. It is not an unusual si<j;ht to see the entire stock of an Indian jeweler being worn by his wife and children.
Steaming north, passing numerous coral islands, is Barbados, farthest east of the West Indies. Here is Bridgetown with its decided Old English appearance. It is said by many to be the spa of the Caribbean Sea. Blooming flowers fill the air with a fairyland atmosphere never to be forgotten.
Though the entire island consists of only twenty miles, the population is more than 160,000. Through the isle run beautiful coral roadways, wind- ing their ways about the plantations and villages offering charming and assorted attractions.
Fort de France (capital of Marti- nique) is next. It was one of Colum- bus' discoveries in the year 1502 and was inhabited by the French in 1635. It passed to England and was re- stored to France in 1815. At St. Pierre are the ruins of a once beauti- ful and prosperous city of 40,000. Its devastation was caused by the erup- tion of Mt. Pelee.
One of the central attractions to be seen while stopping on the island of Martinique is the statue of Fort de France and aUo the statue of Empress Josephine, first wife of Napoleon, who was born in the town of Trois Islets nearby.
Northbound, the ship passes innu- merable coral reefs and islands, group'y called Leeward Islands, con- sisting of mountain peaks and emer- ald-shaded rolling hills. Many tales are told and stories written of the splendor and the thrilling history of their past.
Most important of these islands is St. Thomas, largest in the Virgin Island group. Charlotte Amalia, named after the Queen who was the consort of King Christian of Den- mark, is the onl\' town on the island. Few places afiord a finer panoramic view than this town gives in its lux- uriant beauty, where colorful houses spot the hillsides. The V^irgin Islands were purchased from Denmark by the United States in the year 1917 for $25,000,000, and St. Thomas is now a principal coaling station.
San Juan, on the beautiful island of Porto Rico, is a place of great his- toric interest, discovered by Colum- bus and settled by Ponce de Leon. Near the site where San Juan is now situated, dwellings of many nations
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The Spirit of joyous Carnival reigns at Havana. The lovely City ot the Caribbean is at her fairest. Summer long departed from northern climes revels in rapt- urous abandon. The earth, the sea, the sky, lend of their fairest. Now is the time to go.
Faithfully the splendid shi()s of the Panama Alail retrace the steps of the Conquistadors. From broad decks and the thousand comforts of a luxurious liner you step into the mellow charm of old Mexico, the soft Spanish cadences of Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua and after two days in the Canal zone, sail over friendly waters to quaint Colombia in South Amer- ica. Northward then, under the flaming Southern Cross, the lane of leisure leads to Havana.
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maj^ be found, from old Spain to America of today. The educational system closeh' resembles that of the United States, yet the charm of Ma- drid still exists in picturesque man- ner. Through the narrow streets and about the island are many fine auto- mobiles, but it is not an uncommon sight for one to witness a cart on wooden wheels drawn by lazy oxen.
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Have you, as a member, or your friends, taken advantage of the co- operation given by the Club's Travel Service ? It is conveniently located on the Main Floor and maintained pri- marily for your convenience. Infor- mation and folders are gladly given, without obligation on your part, of course. If jou have in mind a trip by road, rail or water — anywhere — write, telephone or stop next time you are in the Club and let us help you.
Women's City Club Travel Serv- ice, Main Lobby, Kearny 8400.
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Messages and Phone Calls
Members who expect callers or tele- phone calls at the City Club are re- quested to leave word at the Informa- tion Desk on the Fourth Floor and to call there for messages. No paging is permitted in the City Club. Every effort is made to locate members when they are called on the telephone, but unless it is known definitely where they are in the building it is difficult if not impossible, to find them, espe- cially if they are not known to the secretary on duty at the Information Desk.
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Dues are payable annually on March 1. A statement will be mailed to each member on or before February 15. On March 15 a second notice will be mailed to members whose dues are then unpaid. The by-laws provide that no further notice shall be re- quired. All members whose dues are unpaid April 1 shall be held delin- quent. In order to facilitate the cler- ical work performed by volunteers in connection with the payment of dues, members are requested, whenever pos- sible, to call at the City Club for the new membership cards after Febru- ary 16.
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1929
Forecast
By Fannie Lyne Black {Mrs. A. P. Black, President Women's City Club)
IN an organization of so large a membership as the Women's City Club there must be naturally a wide diversity of interests, inclinations and opinions as to the activities that provide the greatest pleasure and satis- faction. Realizing this situation, we aim to carry on as varied and wide-reaching a program as possible. We are alert for new and attractive projects, and are appreciative of information and suggestion from all sources.
At this early time of the year, it is well to survey the field and to consider what we have to offer in the way of activities that may be taken up with interest and profit. In the matter of lectures there are several very attractive courses.
Every Tuesday morning at eleven, during February and part of March, Professor Benjamin H. Lehman will give a talk in the Auditorium on "Contemporary Literature."
At the present writing, we are expecting to complete arrangements with Mrs. Irving Pichel for a course of lectures on "Contemporary Drama" to be given on Mon- day afternoons at three o'clock.
Dr. H. H. Powell is giving a series of talks on "The Bible" on Monday evenings in the Assembly Room, and he also offers a morning Lenten Course on "The Life of St. Paul."
In co-operation with the San Francisco Center, we are conducting a series of addresses under the title of "Wom- an's Widening Horizon." These talks are being given on Wednesday evenings, the first series in the Assembly Room of the Women's City Club, and the second in the St. Francis Hotel.
On Monday evening, February 18, the Women's City Club will present Carl Sandburg in his lecture "The Prairie Lincoln." This will be Sandburg's only appearance in San Francisco and we are counting upon a capacity audience in our Auditorium.
During the latter part of February and the early days of March, there will be a Decorative Arts Exhibition, under the auspices of the Women's City Club and the Society of Women Artists. This is the second exhibition given under the same management and the preparations indicate that in every particular, it will be one of great beauty and of practical value in decoration.
It is a great pleasure to announce the formation of a Choral section under the most favorable circumstances, which mean a most capable leader and a wonderful accom- panist. This section will undoubtedly be a great asset to the Club besides providing pleasure and training to the participants.
Another project new this year is the forming of a group to discuss important and interesting articles in the leading current magazines. This group will meet once a month after the magazines are out. There has been much interest in the formation of this section and as it also has the promise of capable leadership it will doubtless prove a delightful addition to our regular activities.
The Book Review dinners, held at six on the second Wednesday evening of each month, attract a large and enthusiastic group that fills the Assembly Room.
On Monday mornings at eleven, there are talks on "The Appreciation of Art," and the "Current Events" section on Wednesday mornings and on the third Monday evening of each month maintains its popularity and enthusiastic interest.
For regular evening entertainment we have the Bridge Group on Tuesday and the Thursday evening programs at which addresses on a wide variety of subjects are presented.
V^ahoe Winter Sports
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1929
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The Outlook for 1929
By W. P. Letchworth of JVm. Cavalier &' Co.
IN attempting to formulate our ideas as to the outlook for 1929, we are disposed to regard general business conditions and the money situation as being the most vital factors bearing on the stock and bond markets.
The business situation is now generally favorable and the outlook on the whole is for continued high activity, at least through the first half of the new year. The purchas- ing power of the country promises to continue to be at a high level. On the other hand, industry has been producing at such a high rate in the past year that there is only a limited number of lines in which any substantial expansion may be expected to develop this year.
During the past ten years, prosperity has not been preva- lent in all phases of business activity. Many industries have suffered from over-production or from an over-ex- tended capacity to produce. This situation has resulted in severe price competition and, in many cases, in actual loss. Among the industries which have suffered in recent years and in which the outlook is now distinctly brighter, we mention particularly meat packing, oil producing, sugar refining, leather and shoes, railroad equipment, and fertil- izers. We must not overlook the fact, however, that the outlook for certain other lines, particularly shipping, coal, paper, and the tractions, is still clouded or clearly un- favorable.
During the last decade, the building industry has pros- pered perhaps more than any other one line. This is, no doubt, largely due to the absence of the normal amount of construction during the war period. A year ago one might have thought that the building deficit had been overcome, but construction during 1928 continued at a high level. A situation such as this illustrates the danger of forecasting a recession in business based on present high activity.
The money situation continues to show general firmness, but there is no lack of funds for business purposes and no indication of a financial stringency. Money rates have shown a marked increase during 1928, but whatever the rates on money used in the security market may be, our banking system is sufficiently flexible to supply business with necessary funds at rates which will not be burdensome.
In general, relatively high interest rates will probably persist this year, unless considerable speculative liquidation occurs. This situation, however, is now looked upon with much less anxiety than existed a few months ago. Money and credit conditions are fundamentally sound, and unless speculation runs rampant and upsets balances, there need be no apprehension of materially higher rates.
The bond market is really a part of the money market in the broader sense, and so long as the latter remains stable there need be no fear of an upset in the former. There are indeed a number of factors which point toward improvement in the bond market. Among these factors are the large increase in savings bank deposits and the increas- ing revenues of insurance companies. These institutions must employ a considerable portion of their funds in bonds. Also the number of private investors is continually increas- ing and there is a large accumulation of funds in their hands which ordinarily seeks investment in bonds.
On the whole, it would appear that the early part of 1929 is likely to bring an increasing demand for invest- ments and a moderate amount of new financing with very little immediate danger of offerings in excess of purchasing ability. Having confidence in the general financial stabil- ity of the company, we unhesitatingly recommend the pur- chase of first class railroad public utility and industrial bonds at this time.
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Dog Derby
leads ^^^ Winter Sports
TahoC' — ■ Truckee
Just overnight from Califor- nia cities, via Southern Pacific, there's plenty of snow,— and all those sports only snow can bring.
The Dog Derby
Dog teams from Alaska, Can- ada and various points of the United States have gathered at Truckee and Tahoe for the win- ter sports celebration, Feb. 10, 11 and 12, and the Sierra $6000 Dog Derby of 90 miles to be run on these three days. Tud Kent, "Scotty" Allen and other famous racing drivers are now busy conditioning their dogs in the Sierra snows. Trains equip- ped with "grandstands" like those that follow the boat races on the Hudson, will follow the teams as they race.
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The Stock market outlook is of course, by its very nature, more un- certain. Our markets have become too large for all stocks to be subject to the same influences and conditions; in other words, it is becoming more and more a market of individual issues which must be considered on their particular merit or weakness. A knowledge of individual values is essential. In general, however, it may be said that the two most important basic factors affecting the stock mar- ket are business profits and money conditions. Believing in the continued favorable outlook for these two basic factors, and without minimizing the myriad of uncertainties that go to make up the speculative risk, we still think that semi-investment funds may be used to purchase carefully selected common stocks. ^ ^ ^
Lowell Thomas Entertained
The Women's City Club enter- tained Lowell Thomas, world tra- veler, editorial observer and well- known author, at a luncheon Satur- day, January 19. Some of the guests present were:
Mrs. A. P. Black, Mrs. Phillip King Brown, Miss Ella Bailey, Mrs. Henry J. Crocker, Mrs. Charles E. Curry, Miss Elsa Garrett, Mrs. Jo- seph D. Grant, Mrs. William D. Hamilton, Miss Helen Holman, Mrs. Marcus Koshland, Mrs. C. G. Cam- bron, Mrs. Harry Mann, Mrs. Louis F. Monteagle, Miss Laura McKin- stry, Mrs. Howard Park, Mrs. Mat- teo Sandona, Mrs. Paul Shoup, Mrs. John J. Valentine, Mrs. Willis Walker, Mrs. Willard O. Waymon, Mrs. W. F. Booth, Jr., Mrs. Le Roy Briggs, Dr. Adelaide Brown, Miss Sophronia Bunker, Mrs. Louis J. Carl, Mrs. S. G. Chapman, Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr., Miss Mary C. Dunham, Mrs. Milton H. Esberg, Mrs. Cleaveland Forbes, Mrs. Lovell Langstroth, Miss Marion Leale, Mrs. Parker S. Maddux, Miss Henrietta Moffat, Mrs. Harry Staats Moore, Miss Emma L. Noonan, Miss Esther Phillips, Mrs. Edward Rainey, Miss Mabel Pierce, Mrs. H. A. Stephen- son, Mrs. T. A. Stoddard, Mrs. H. L. Terwilliger, Miss Elisa May Wil- lard, Mrs. James T. Wood, Jr., Mrs. J. R. McDonald, Mrs. John L. Tay- lor, Mrs. C. E. French and Mrs. L. A. Enge. i i ■«
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For the convenience of members of the Women's City Club, the Informa- tion Desk heretofore on the Fourth Floor is now in the lobby on the Main Floor.
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New Year Reflections
By May Preuss, Califomians, Inc.
New Year reflections have led me to think of the City Club and of contributions to the communitj' through its various activities within the building and its contacts with the outside world. From this I turned to the Vocational Information Bu- reau, a contribution to both member- ship and community alike. I have kept closely in touch with the work- ing of this Bureau and sometimes it seems to me that the Community knows more about it than our members do. For those who have not heard of its aims and purposes, this brief sketch, compiled from reports and interviews, should be of interest.
The Vocational Information Bu- reau, successor to the Vocational and Placement Bureau, was organized by the National League for Women's Service to fill a need in the Commu- nity for a place where accurate in- formation regarding opportunities for women might be found. Though not strictly an employment office, still it is responsible for much indirect place- ment. By its supplying leads and making contacts many a caller is put in touch with suitable employment and to the Bureau is given credit for their success. No statistics show how many women are served in this way, but letters testify to the value of this work.
Here the college girl finds informa- tion that gives her an insight into the requirementsof the commercial world. Problems of many kinds are brought to the Bureau for solution. But of these the Director gives no details. Many organizations and institu- tions use the Bureau as a source of information. Letters are received from all parts of the states asking for in- formation and suggestions. How many know that during 1928 the Bureau received an endowment from one of San Francisco's leading pro- fessional men as a tribute to the work being carried on ?
Special Functlorid
Many of the special functions in honor of distinguished visitors are arranged by the Hospitality Commit- tee on short notice and announcements of such functions cannot be made through the magazine. An efifort is always made to announce them through the papers. Members who are interested in attending special functions are asked to leave their names at the Information Desk on the Fourth Floor. The Volunteer Service will endeavor to notify them by telephone of special events.
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Miss Florence Locke
Amj/ Lowell Poem Read at Women s City Club
Miss Florence Locke read Amy Lowell's poem, "The Bronze Horses," January 10 at the Women's City Club, delighting a large audience with her diction and the artistry of the set- tings.
Miss Locke is a Californian who received her training for the stage in England under many famous artists, among them Mme. Adey Brunei, who was also the teacher of the brilliant star, Miss Lynn Fontaine of the Theater Guild in New York. She made her debut in London, returning to California to develop a unique art — the interpretation of classic plays and poems and such modern works as present unusual value and beauty.
Miss Locke has appeared many times in San Francisco and Berkeley, where for two seasons she played lead- ing roles in playes produced under the direction of Sam Hume and Irving Pichel, and starred in such plays as Shaw's "Captain Brassbound" and A. A. Milne's "Belinda." She is a mem- ber of the faculty of Miss Ransom and Miss Bridge's School in Pied- mont. A notable achievement of Miss Locke each year is the Shakespeare play which she produces and directs in conjunction with Garnet Holme.
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Names Omitted
In connection with the Annual Election of Directors on January 14, it was discovered that several mem- bers who voted by mail did not sign their ballots or enclose them in sealed envelopes with their names on the outside. It was impossible to check ofif the names of these members as hav- ing voted and therefore their state- ment for dues will include the twenty- five cents for not voting imposed by the By-Laws.
women's city club MACJAZINE for FEBRUARY
1929
New Beauty Manager
Mrs. Pauline Deane has been ap- pointed manager of the Beauty Salon of the Women's City Club, the for- mer manager, Mrs. Minerva Russ finding that her duties as general di- rector of the Minerva Products de- mand her full time. Mrs. Russ has been with the Beauty Salon of the City Club many months and, notwith- standing the change in management will continue in an advisory capa- city.
Mrs. Deane has for years been head of one of the most exclusive of the New York Beauty Salons and comes to the Women's City Club with high recommendation. Many San Fran- cisco society women know of her work in New York from having patronized the shop where she directed activities.
The Beauty Salon committee has made a re-survey of prices in the department and any change of prices has been made only after comparison with other shops giving the same high type of service. The permanent wave price of $10.00 (which includes a shampoo and finger wave) has been continued as a special feature of the department.
Members who wish to make sugges- tions or offer constructive criticism looking toward the development of this department are invited to write to the committee, which meets at regular intervals.
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Magazine Group of Volunteers
With the February issue the Women's City Club Magazine enters its third year, and it is timely to pay a tribute to the devoted volun- teers who for the past two years have taken full charge of all details in connection with the addressing of the wrappers for the magazine and mail- ing them. This group, under the leadership of Mrs. A. B. Stephens, meets every Monday afternoon to ad- dress the wrappers and when the magazines are received from the print- er around the first of the month, spends many hours in preparing the magazine for mailing. Some of the members who have helped with the mailing over a long period of months are: Mrs. A. B. Stephens, Mrs. H. L. Ives, Mrs. L. E. Barnes, Mrs. A. R. Bastedo, Miss Emma Beardsley, Mrs. Anna L. Bradford, Miss Dorcas Burtchaell, Mrs. S. E. Crichton, Miss Margaret Curry, Miss C. M. Dinkelspiel, Miss Sally Jones, Mrs. Addison P. Niles, Miss Ethel Perkins, Mrs. Olga Salsmann, Mrs. M. H. Stoneberger, Miss Sarah Tomlinson, and Mrs. G. W. Woodland.
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Adults and children will be admitted to classes or private
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The precision of Miss Wynestock's methods places
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FOR SALE — Beautiful old Brazilian to- paz set with ruby, emeralds and pearls. Has been in historic Spanish family 150 years. Can be seen at the League Shop, Women's City Club.
"PIN MONEY" — One of San Francis- co's oldest and most reliable business firms offers you an opportunity to add materially to your personal or family income by spending a few hours daily at your tele- phone in your own home. No experience needed; we train you. Address Box 10, Women's City Club Magazine.
PEOPLE OF WEALTH, when provid- ing for benevolent work, could perform no greater deed of mercy than befriending the insane through The American Equity Association. It invites your membership and support. Miss Winnifred Springer, 465 Post Street, Room 210.
WANTED — By refined woman, several hours evening work. References. Tele- phone Fillmore 0285.
Splendid Work of Volunteers
The Volunteer Service has been complimented upon the efficient man- ner in which they handled the details of the annual election January 14. The Chairman of the Election Com- mittee, Mrs. R. W. Wright, was un- able to be present on Election Day, but her place was taken by Mrs. Frank White, who so ably handled the election last year. The polls were open from 9 to 6 o'clock. Thirty- one workers gave one hundred and eighty-two hours of service. The volunteers who helped with the elec- tion were : Mrs. R. W. Wright, Mrs. Frank White, Mrs. A. B. Stephens, Mrs. Mabel Barr, Mrs. D. E. Bow- man, Mrs. J. E. Powrie, Miss Dorcas Burtchaell, Miss Anna Knief, Mrs. George E. Townsend, Mrs. W. F. Ten Winkel, Mrs. H. P. Blanchard, Mrs. M. B. Johnson, Mrs. C. E. French, Mrs. Bruce Adams, Mrs. Bert Lazarus, Mrs. K. F. Clark, Mrs. E. K. Kahman, Mrs. C. C. Stevenson, Mrs. Maude M. Kane, Mrs. H. M. Huff, Mrs. Julius Mc- Clymont, Miss M. F. Gray, Mrs. Gordon Hill, Mrs. Daisy Lawton, Miss Martha Lowey, Miss A. R. Cook, Miss Agnes Jacoby, Mrs. E. Gutherlet, Mrs. L. M. Dunn, Miss M. L. Harrington and Mrs. P. C. Rockwell.
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Splashes from the Pool
The Women's City Club swim- ming team of seven is now in full swing, with Mary Daniels as cap- tain. Other members of the team are Edith Hurtgen, Katherine Keith, Louise Mason, Carol Seller and Eve- lyn and Lienor Degener.
The team is training diligently to be ready to take part in various swim- ming meets in and around the bay region.
Coaching days are Mondays and Thursdays at 4 o'clock.
Junior and juvenile swimmers are especially invited to attend in order to get all the practice possible for the first meet of the season to be held in March, and also to pass the beginners' and swimmers' tests given by the American Red Cross.
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A section for the discussion of lead- ing articles in the current magazines has been organized with Mrs. Alden Ames as chairman. The group will meet the second Friday of each month at two o'clock in the Assembly Room. This section is open to all members and their guests without charge. The first meeting will be February 8.
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For that final touch to a perfect dinner
ANGEL CAKES
FRUIT CAKES
PLUM PUDDING
MINCE and
PUMPKIN PIES
DANISH PASTRY
RUSSELL'S STORES AT . ,
820 Post Street
288 Claremont Boulevard
Eleventh Avenue at Geary
214 Sutter Street
O
PILLOWS renovated and recovered, fluffed and sterilized. An essential detail of "Spring house cleaning."
SUPERIOR
BLANKET and CURTAIN CLEANING WORKS
Telephone HEmlock 1337
160 Fourteenth Street
MJOHNS
i cleaners of Fine Garments ,
CLEANING
Why not renovate your personal wardrobe between seasons?
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FRanklin 4444
BOSTON
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eringCo.
GRaystone 0759 ITALIAN FURNITURE : IMPORTED 1957 Polk Street, San Francisco
DAILY DELIVERY OF
Fresh, Salt, Smoked Fish and Shellfish
to Any Part of the City
Your telephone order will receive careful
attention — Call UNderhill 6075
Monterey Sea Food Co.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers
In the Mission — Sixteenth Street Market
1985 Mission Street
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1929
Woman's Widening Horizon
The course on Woman's Widening Horizon, arranged for Wednesday evenings at 8:00 o'clock at the Women's City Club is intended pri- marily for business and professional women who are unable to attend sessions during the day, but is open without charge to any member of the Women's City Club and the San Francisco Center. Mrs. Jesse C. Col- man is chairman of the Center Com- mittee on Cooperation which is con- ducting the course with the Women's City Club.
On February 6 Milton Marks will speak on "Bringing San Francisco Up to Date." Mr. Marks is chair- man of the judiciary committee of the Board of Supervisors, and in that capacity has had unusual opportunity to observe the needs of San Francisco. This meeting will be held in the Assembly Room of the Women's City Club.
The last three meetings of the course will be held at 8 :00 o'clock p. m. in the Borgia Room of the St. Francis Hotel.
February 13 Mrs. Frank G. Law will speak on "Behind the Scenes at Sacramento." Mrs. Law for some years has lobbied in Sacramento for the bills sponsored by the California League of Women Voters, and is at present chairman of the Legislative Committee of that organization. I February 20 there will be a talk :on a national subject, the speaker to be announced.
February 27 there will be a talk on an international problem. Mrs. William Palmer Lucas, chairman of the International Relations Commit- tee of the Center, has charge of this meeting. ^ ^ ^
Catering Facilities
The Women's City Club has fa- cilities for serving luncheons and dinners to groups of any size to three hundred and fifty. Organizations which have used the catering facilities of the City Club have expressed themselves as being well satisified. Members can help the City Club very much by bringing organizations in which they are interested to the Club and by giving the manager the names of individuals in groups or other or- ganizations who make arrangements for luncheons, dinners and other func- tions, in order that she may communi- cate with them and lay before them the catering facilities of the City Club. The number of functions given at the City Club is steadily increasing, but it is desirable that the private dining rooms of the club be used every day.
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When on a Diet...
Nutradiet Natural Foods
Fruits pac\ed without sugar. Vegetables packed without salt.
For regular and special diets,
when it is desirable to eliminate
sweets or salt.
Nutradiet comprises a complete variety of the choic- est fruits, berries, vegetables, and steel-cut natural whole grain cereals . . . Whole O'Wheat, Whole O'Oats and Whole Natural Brown Rice.
IVrite for a chemical analysis, also a list of grocers having Nutradiet for sale
THE NUTRADIET CO.
155 BERRY STREET ' SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
GENNARO RUSSO
Importer of
Corals, Fine Cameos, Tortoise Shell, Art Goods, Peasant Dresses, Em- broideries. Portraits on Cameos by special order.
ROOM 617, HOTEL ST. FRANCIS Telephone DOuglas 1000
MRS. DAY'S BROWN BREAD
NutritloLur and non-Jattening .... and delicious as well! Give this bread a trial., .you will like it I Served in the Club. : : : On sale at leading grocers.
GOBLIN
FRUIT JUICES
The Pineapple The Orange The Grape
Nutrition Scr-icc in All Schools
CALIFORNIA FRUIT JUICE CO.
Telephone OOuglas 3613
NUTS from the Four Corners of the World!
All popular varieties —
almonds, pecans, cashews,
walnuts, pistachios and
brazil nuts — for luncheon —
bridge — dinner; available
in bulk or in attractive
gift boxes.
On sale at the Club and at the
BUDDY SQUIRREL NUT SHOPS
235 Powell St.
990 Market St. 1513 Fillmore St.
San Francisco
1332 Broadway, Oakland
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1929
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Mrs. Housekeeper states the relief is immeasurable.
How about your White Elephants? Bekins keeps them safe and accessible, at any one of their depositories.
Phone nearest Bekins Depository for further information:
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Vacuum sealed in a new friction top key-can, M. J. B. comes to you with all the natural goodness of freshly packed coffee.
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■i€/ViE ANiD Garden
arch ' 1929
Subscription $1.00 a year ' 15 cents a copy
Volume III ' No. 2
lO^ltE ""^fllUtSi are^ thej> results oftheJ> lessons In buying learned through 86 years of experience, thej> quantities bought^ foi^ our four^ big stores, and thej> Sloanej) policy of moderates prices. Here thej> furnishing budgets will buy thej> utmost^ real worth.
FURNITURE : RUGS : CARPETS : DRAPERIES
Freight Paid in the United States. Charge Accounts I iwited.
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB CALENDAR
MARCH 1 MARCH 31. 1929
DR. H. H. POWELL'S LECTURES
Monday mornings through Lent at 11 o'clock, Assembly Room. "Life of St. Paul." Monday evenings at 8 o'clock, Assembly Room. "The Bible."
CLASSES IN THEME WRITING
Every Monday evening at 7:15. Mrs. S. J. Lisberger in charge. Room 212.
CURRENT EVENTS
Every Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock. Auditorium. Third Monday evening, 7:30 o'clock. Room 212. Mrs. Parker S. Maddux, Leader.
TALKS ON APPRECIATION OF ART
Monday mornings at 11 o'clock, Card Room, followed by visits to various San Francisco Art Exhibits. Mrs. Charles E. Curry, Leader.
LEAGUE BRIDGE
Every Tuesday, 2 o'clock and 7:30 o'clock, Assembly Room.
THURSDAY EVENING PROGRAMS
Every Thursday evening, 8 o'clock, Auditorium. Mrs. A. P. Black, Chairman.
CHORAL SECTION
Every Friday evening at 7:30. Mrs. Jessie Taylor, Director.
SUNDAY EVENING CONCERTS
Alternate Sunday evenings, 8:30 o'clock. Auditorium. Mrs. Leonard A. Woolams, Chair- man Music Committee.
March 1 to 10 inclusive — Decorative Arts Exhibition Auditorium 10 A. M. to
10 P.M. daily
3 — Sunday Evening Concert, Mrs. Sidney Van Wyck, Hostess Lounge 8:30 P. M.
S — Lecture by Professor Benjamin H. Lehman Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
7 — Thursday Evening Program Assembly Room 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Madame H. A. C. Van der Flier Subject: The Royal Art of Tapestry Weaving
12 — Lecture by Professor Benjamin H. Lehman Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
14— ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
15 — Discussion Outstanding Articles in Current Magazines . Assembly Room 2:00 P.M. Mrs. Alden Ames, Chairman
17 — Sunday Evening Concert, Mrs. Carlo Morbio, Hostess . Auditorium 8:30 P. M.
20 — Volunteer Service Meetings
Shop Volunteers Board Room 10:00 A.M.
Day Restaurant Board Room 10:45 A.M.
Day Library Board Room 11:15A.M.
Night Restaurant Board Room 7:30 P.M.
Night Library Board Room 8:30 P.M.
31 — Women's Citv Club Golf Tournament
ESTABLISHED 1852
SHREVE 6P COMPANY
JEWELERS and SILVERSMITHS Post Street at Grant Avenue . ^ ^ . ^ . , San Francisco
THE
l^omen'g Citj> Club iWaga^ine Retool Birectorp
BOYS' SCHOOLS
THE POTTER SCHOOL
A Day School for Boys Primary, Grammar and High School Departments . . . featur- ing small classes and individual instruction. Prepares for all Easrern and Western colleges.
I. R. DAMON, A. M. (Harvard)
Headmaster 18f 9 Pacific Ave. Telephone West 711
DREW
a'Year High School Course admits to college. Cri-dits valid in high school.
Sj^ T T f\ /^ T Grammar Course. Kj JCT KJ \J L/ accredited, save 9 half time
Private Lessons, any hour. Night, Day. Both sexes. Annapolis, West Point, College Board tutoring. Secretarial'Acadcmic two-year course, entitles to High School Diploma. Civil Service Coaching — all lines.
2901 California St.
Phone WEst 7069
GIRLS* SCHOOLS
The 'Margaret Bentley School
[Accredited] LUCY L. SOULE, Principal
High School, Intermediate and
Primary Grades
Home department limited
2722 Benvenue Avenue, Berkeley, Calif.
Telephone Thornv?all 3820
The Sarah Dix Hamlin School
Thirty-fourth year
Boarding and Day School for Girls of all ages.
Pre-primary school giving special instruction
in French. College preparatory.
Ne'w Term Opens January 28th
A booklet of information will be furnished upon request.
Mrs. Ed^vard B. Stanw^ood, B. L.
Principal ZI20 Broadway Phone WEst aaii
BOYS' AND GIRLS' SCHOOLS^
The
Airy Mountain School
Boarding and Day School
Out'of-door living
Group Activities Individual Instruction
Grammar School Curriculum
with French
ANNETTE HASKELL FLAGG, Director
Mill Valley, California
Telephone M. V. 524
FRENCH INSTRUCTION
YOU MAY GO TO FRANCE... Learn
the beauties of the French language.
Private lessons by
ARNOLD DE NEUFORD
Information at des\ in Club lobbv.
The Choice of a School
... is so personal a matter, of such importance to both your child and to you, that you w^ish naturally to give it much consideration. This School Directory is published for your benefit primarily . . . and we hope that in these pages you will find the school that fulfills your individual ' requirements.
Booklets for the schools rep- resented in this Directory may be secured at the Infor- mation Desk, Main Floor, Women's City Club.
SCHOOL OF GARDENING
The CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF GARDENING FOR WOMEN
offers a two-years' course in practical gardening
to women who wish to take up gardening as a
tirofession or to equip then-.selves for making .and
working their home gardens. Communicate with
MISS JUDITH WALROND-SKINNER
R. F. D. Route I, Box 173
Hayward, Calif.
SPECIAL SCHOOL
Ready for Play
A SCHOOL FOR NERVOUS AND RETARDED CHILDREN
THE CEDARS
CORA C. MYERS. Head
A School in a natural environment of
distinctive beauty " where children
develop latent talents.
Address
THE CEDARS
Ross, Marin County, California
SECRETARIAL SCHOOLS
Y Ext; f resox
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Extra skill, extra resourcefulness; and extra remuneration are the results of that extraordi nary business preparation
MUNSONWISE TRAILING
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CO-tDUCATIONAl
600 Sutter St., San Francisco
Phone FRanklin 0)0t
Sriid for .Cttttog
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California Secretarial School
Instruction Day and Evening
Benjamin F. Priest President
(S^
Indxvuiuai
Instruction
tor Indrviduat
"Heeds.
RUSS BUILDING
SAN FRANCISCO
4i(k
MacALEER SCHOOL For Private Secretaries
Each student receives individual instruction.
A booklet of information will be
furnished upon request.
Mary Genevieve MacAleer, Principal
68 Post Street Telephone DAvenport 6473
DANCING SCHOOL
ESTELLA REED STUDIO OF THE DANCE
Announces Special Courses and 'Lectures in
HISTORY OF ART
Given by DR. N. DEBROT of Utrecht University, Holland
466 Geary St. PRospect 0842
SCHOOL OF POPULAR MUSIC
CliCISTENSEN
Sckool of Popular jlVlusic
Mode
lano
Rapid Method — Beginners and Advanced Pupils
Individual Instruction
ELEVATED SHOPS, 150 POWELL STREET
Hours 10:30 A. M. to 9:00 P. M.
Phone GArfield 4079
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1929
Women's City Club M agazine
Published Monthly at 465 Post Street
Telephone KEarny 8400
Entered as second-class matter April 14, 1928, at the Post Office at San Francisco, California, under the act of March 3, 1879.
SAN FRANCISCO
Volume III MARCH < 1929
Number 2
©ONTENTS
Club Calendar 1
Frontispiece 8
Editorial 16
Articles
Gardening as a Career for Women . . 9 By Judith Waldrond-Skinner
Why a Gardener ? 11
By Alicia Mosgrove
Changing Phases of Small House Design 12
By Marc N. Goodnow
The Architects' Small House Service Bu- reau 14
By Robert T. Jones Periodic Medical Examination .... 15 Affairs of Women's City Club . . . . 17
Beyond the City Limits 18
By Mrs. Parker S. Maddux
California Spring Blossom and Wild Flower Association 19
Books of the Month 20
By Eleanor Preston Watkins
Heard in the Lounge 25
Monthly Departments
Financial — Genesis of Stock Market . . 26 By Lucrezia Kemper
Travel — Paradoxical Hawaii .... 22
By Irene Cowley
Music in the Women's City Club ... 29 By Anna Cora Winchell
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An OIL JAR
to gracej> youi^ garden
)HIS Oil Jar, like all of our garden pieces, is available in six colors... tur- quoise, green, blue, warm grey, pulsichrome and terra cotta. Come to our salesroom and make your selection.
GLADDING, McBE AN & CO.
445 Ninth Street, San Francisco
Colorful
Garden
Books
Free Upon Request
if you mention this
magazine
New Ideas Jor Your Garden
will be gained by looking over pictures of garden arrangements in our books. Photo- graphs of shrubs and flowers, many in natu- ral colors, show just how the plants look %vhen mature.
CLIMBING ROSES
"Niles Three"
Hoosier Beauty — dark red
Los Angeles — flame pink
Mme. Edouard Hcrriot — coral red
These three of our very best, extra heavy,
vigorous plants at a special offer of
$2.15 Postpaid
California Nursery Company
NILES, CALIFORNIA George C. Roeding, Jr., President
Our nursery covers 300 acres. You will enjoy seeing our display grounds and many interesting specimens.
EiroWEB •5TONBi
FLAGGING aFLOORING
The METTOWEE
FLAGSTONE displayed in
the gardens at the Decorative
Arts Exhibition is available for
your garden.
Barnes Corning Company
220 Montgomery Street ' San Francisco
V, O M K \ S CITY C I. U K \1 A O A /. I N E / 0 r MARCH I 9 2 <J
Reproductions
and Antiquej>
Furniture
AntLquej> Spanish Doors
Metal Grilles
Garden^ Furniturej>
WILLIAM D. McCANN
Interior Decoration ^o* post street
SAN FRANCISCO. C A L.
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. , ; HE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY OF WOMEN ARTISTS AND THE WOMEN^S CITY CLUB CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO THE SECOND EXHIBITION OF DECORATIVE ARTS IN THE AUDITORIUM OF THE WOMEN^S CITY CLUB, 465 POST STREET. ^ ^ ^ o»
THE EXHIBITION WILL BE OPEN DAILY FROM MONDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTY-FIFTH TO SUNDAY. MARCH TENTH, INCLUSIVE j» HOURS FROM 10 A. M. TO 10 P. M.
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1929
for every occasion.,.
MJB
COFFEE
With every meal and for every social aflfair M. J. B. Coffee is the perfect treat for friendly enjoyment. ■ ■ ■ »
M. J. B. Coffee is served in the Women's City Club
feasant 'Dresses
Created m the Czecho'
Slova\ian Home Town
Atmosphere
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'ashing, quaint, different ... so fascinating as to cap- tivate the fashion-wise of the world's style centers. Al- though they favor peasant lines, they are Parisianly chic. Nothing but the finest of seasonable materials en- ters into their making . . . and yet they are inexpensive.
They are
simply impossible of
imitation
T/ie first of the Spring
Models are no^v being
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ORIGINAL
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418 GEARY STREET
Opposite Geary and Curran Theaters
FRANKLIN 9062
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You can get the complete facts at our display salon
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475 SUTTER STREET, SAN FRANCISCO Or call DOUGLAS 6444
An Old^Fashioned Home in an Old-Fashioned Garden
A congenial resting spot, of widely known reputation
as an attractive and comfortable hotel.
Open to guests throughout the year.
Few minutes' walk from ferry.
HOTEL HOLLY OAKS
SAUSALITO
Telephone Sausalito 8
Or write Mary Irwin Sichel, Managing Owner
m)
heru Considering Your Easten Outfit . . .
You need not go to great expense. Last season's ensemble, frocks and sport things will probably look as good as new when cleaned the "F. Thomas way" . . . and for variety, we can possibly dye the odd coat or dress the new Spring shades. ^»J
To arrange for regular service . . .
Telephone HEmlock 0180
The F. THOMAS
Parisian Dyeing and Cleaning Works 27 Tenth Street, San Francisco
WOMEN S
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M A R C H
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Ualuahle Information
is the forte of the Women's City Club Magazine. You will find news of personal interest not alone in the articles and Club notes but in the advertising columns as well. The products and services of the following advertisers are recommended to you. Will you, when patronizing them, make a special point of mentioning the Magazine?
Art Rattan Works
The Band Box
Barnes Corning Company
Bekins Van & Storage Company
The Bowl Shop
Buddy Squirrel Nut Shop
Byington Electric Company
California Nursery Company California Stelos Company William Cavalier Company Central California Fruit Company Crow's Nest Farm for Children
Cunard Line
Czechoslovakian Art Shop Mrs. Day's Brown Bread Frigidaire Corporation
Mme. van der Flier
Gladding, McBean Company Dr. Edith M. Hickey (D. C.)
Hotel Holly Oaks
Hourly Service Bureau
M. Johns
H. L. Ladd
The League Shop
Liggett & Myers Company (Chesterfield Cigarettes)
Back
Lipton's Tea .....Third
Los Angeles Steamship Company
Lundy Travel Bureau
M. J. B. Coffee
Marchetti Motor Patents, Inc
Market Street Railway Company
A. F. Marten
Matson Navigation Company
Anita K. Mayer
William D. McCann
McDonnell & Company
Metropolitan Union Market
Monterey Sea Food Company
Musical West
R. N. Nason & Company
North American Investment Corporation
The Nutradiet Company
Oronite '■
Panama Mail Steamship Company
Persian Art Centre
Poirier
Rhoda-on-the-Roof
Roos Brothers
Gennaro Russo
Samarkand Ice Cream.. Third
San Francisco Ladies' Protection and Relief Society
Third
Santa Fe Railway Company
Shreve & Company
W. & J. Sloane Second
Snarol
Sommer & Kaufmann
Southern Pacific Company
J. Spaulding & Company
Speedo Twins — Dee Miller
Streicher's
Superior Blanket and Curtain Cleaning Works
Temple Tours
F. Thomas Parisian Dyeing and Cleaning Works
Visiting Nurse Association Third
Walk-Over Shoe Store
Juliat Wynestock
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SCHOOL DIRECTORY 2
Airy Mountain School Margaret Bentley School California Secretarial
School The Cedars Christensen School of
Popular Music Arnold de Neuford Drew School
Potter School
Peters Wright Dancing
School Sarah Dix Hamlin School Munson School MacAleer School Estella Reed Studio of
the Dance
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
OF CLUB MEMBERS 27
Miss Mary L. Barclay Florence R. Keene
Mrs. Fitzhugh Anna S. Hunt
in model*!! motifts
REPTILES
Angles, swagger quirks and turns express trend moderne in fashion- approved reptilian footwear. Sun- tans and Vionnet Blue for costumes sophisticate. Pastel Pinks, Blues, Greens, glorify Spring frocks . . . Iwenty-two Fifth Avenue models in genuine watersnake at §16.50; twelve in Java lizard at $22.,50. ..our initial presentation. ■• ■■ ■■ ■• ■■
Oit display in the Cluh Lobby.
STREICHER^S
COSTVttlE BOOTERY
Why a Woman's Department . . . ?
A lady lost a handbag on a Market Street Railway car. She was unable to wait for re- covery by the regular Lost and Found Depart- ment. She called SUtter 3200 and was placed in touch with Mrs. Helen A. Doble. in charge
of the Women's Department.
who recovered the lost property
for her.
3'^MARKET^y
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SAMUEL KAHN
Preside tit
At the Women's City Club Swimming Pool
To say "the iwiters fine" were to be trite and superfluous. It's patent. Miss Isabel Letham, swimming director, here presents a few of her leading mermaids and a water baby. The girls are: Upper, Misses Elinor Degener, Evelyn Degener and Louise Mason; lower, left to right. Misses Katherine Keith, Mary Daniels and Katherine Kergan. The lad is John Pruett, three and one-half years old.
WOMEN^S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE
VOLUME III
SAN FRANCISCO ' MARCH ' I929
NUMBER 2
Gardemim© as a Career eceWcmem
fh Judith Walurond-Skinner
"Oh, Adatn was a gardtnir, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees. So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away. And the Glory of the Garden it shall never pass away!"
— RuDYARD Kipling
DESPITE the fact that not until the beginning of this century did America realize generally the pos- sibilities of gardening as a profession for women, it has gone ahead rapidly, especially within the last few years. The interest in gardens and gardening has increased, as well as the demand for gardeners — for gardeners who love their work, who know plants and how to care for them and to use them, and a future for the woman as a trained gardener has definitely opened.
People who really enjoy gardens appreciate a woman who can handle things intelligently. She is likely to be more interested and sympathetic than a man ; she comes from the same class as her employer and is a companion as well as a worker.
It is difificult to realize that gardening requires more than just capable hands and strong muscles. There are so many interesting opportunities for women, and the land- scape architects feel a real need for someone who can fill the gap between their work and the common laborer, some- one who can attend to the detailed planning of borders, or special gardens, and supervise their planting and care.
For the girl interested in art there is garden design and planning, or she may specialize in color schemes for the garden, herbaceous borders, rock gardens or special plant- ing plans. For the student who is interested in science more technical branches are open — teaching, plant breed- ing, improvement of varieties and so on. The girl with organizing ability may oversee large estates, thus having an endless variety of interesting problems. What we term "jobbing" gardening has proven interesting, instructive and remunerative. In this work one takes charge of several small gardens in a district, combining advisory work with the replanning of old gardens. When a sufficiently large clientele is worked up the student may employ others under her, doing only the most interesting work herself, but keeping a close watch over her workers so that the work has the finish which her training demands. The com- mercial side may appeal to others, and here nursery work may be combined with the supervision of small gardens.
To the outdoor type of girl who is a lover of Nature, gardening should most certainly appeal. When she knows that there is a future in this work she will feel justified in
preparing herself by special training. But, no matter what branch of horticulture she eventually takes up, certain initial advantages make for success:
1. A sound education is a necessary background. It fits one to make intelligent use of recent scientific work bearing on her subject, and gives the ability to tackle intelligently the problems which confront her.
2. Good physique is an advantage because much of the work is strenuous and during her training days it is im- portant that she be able to handle all garden operations properly herself if she is to direct others later. However, the health of a girl who is not over robust will often im- prove during training so that she will make a successful gardener.
3. Character will tell as much in this as in any profes- sion. Initiative, foresight, resourcefulness and adaptability are needed by those who would overcome the difficulty of climates, soils and seasons, while the handling of living things requires keen observation, patience, understanding and attention to detail. Another great asset is the ability to take responsibility and to direct others, for the aim should be to become an employer or director of labor, and the girl with abilit}- and character will find wider and more interesting and remunerative posts open to her.
4. A good training is the best foundation for all branches of horticulture. At present there are only three schools of gardening for women in the United States — two in the East and one in California. The latter school is modelled after the European garden and horticultural colleges. The course in gardening is two years, covering all branches of horticulture, horticultural botany, the study of soils and fertilizers, insect pests and plant diseases. These are covered both practically and theoretically. The practical side is emphasized. A man may obtain his preliminary' training as a garden boy. but a girl cannot do so. And, since garden- ing is essentially a craft, although students may pass bril- liant theoretical examinations, they cannot make or keep a garden without practical knowledge. For this reason the bulk of the student's time in general training is spent on practical work, but it is realized that women cannot com- pete with men on a purely physical basis and they are given a good sound knowledge of the principles underlying the
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work so that they may use their brains as well as their hands. Upon the completion of such a course it is quite possible for a student to earn her living, or she may decide to study along some particular branch which has interested her during her training.
The remuneration is an important consideration to all of us, but of course it will depend largely upon the in- dividual capacity and experience. The first year after train- ing the student should consider well spent in gaining expe- rience, as a physician does an interneship, and she should therefore be content with a moderate return, say from $100 to $125 a month, but it is possible to earn from $700 to $1800 a year with maintenance and from $1200 to $1800 without maintenance.
There are disadvantages in every career, but to the girl who chooses gardening I should say, "Be sure you love it," for it is a profession which requires you to put your whole
heart into it. It will often seem slow and monotonous to the girl who is doing it merely from a monetary point of view with no love of plants and the great outdoor life. As many of the positions are in the country, to a certain extent one is cut ofif from town life. You may be the only woman on the job and therefore feel a lack of companion- ship in your work. But to those who love Nature there are many advantages — it is a free life, no stuffy office, the great wide sky above you and the clean fresh air around you.
There is nothing cut and dried in Nature and each day brings new problems. There is the joy of creation ; watch- ing the young plants develop and grow; the artists's joy of making a picture ; the excitement of discovery, every season bringing its new gifts ; the more practical advantage of an uncrowded profession which is paying, and above all things health giving.
Homt V '//v/ ( ' niit'rsity. California, of Dr. David Starr Jordan, now Chancellor Emeritus. As President of Stanford I 'niiersJy he presented President H'^over his degree.
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1929
Why a Gaedemei?
I HOLD the theory that children brought up in an environment of gardening, intelligently taught to observe and care for plants, are apt to
Philndeiidron Plant
become gardeners. It is true in my own case and is true of all the gar- deners mentioned in this article.
Between the time of writing my short garden article and its publica- tion in the Women's City Club AIagazink of March a year ago, 1 decided to carry out my original gar- den plan. This necessitated the re- moval of a lawn of mixed weeds. Now that lawn was very carefully seeded — one of strong rye, warranted to weed itself, and another seed armed or footed with creeping roots to make a sod. The soil was right. But what happened? The rye became spineless as wind and water deposited maraud- ing weeds, disappeared, and the other modestly gave way. It formed a per- fect spot for setting-up exercises and reduced my girth, but as a lawn, how I despised it !
People, lured by that article, came to see the garden and saw a mound of mud. I was ashamed, but held forth on the silliness of lawns in this arid land, and on the expense. In place of the lawn I made four Hower beds edged with box. and standard fuchsia in the center of each bed, and brick walks. If these same people had
By Alicia Mosgrove
come back in the summer, they would have been repaid by seeing the finest rows of violas in the world. Please come again.
I now have some steps that lead up to my cliff, and there in this natural place I shall have a rock garden. How- grateful they will be for this Froebel- lian treatment, and, following the na- ture of the plants, I shall be re- warded.
Speaking of the greatest of edu- cators, Froebel, I am led to write of my experiences of gardening with children. 1 was for many years a kindergartner, and through trial and error found a successful method of having children do gardening. When 1 was young I thought each child had to have an individual garden plot, a small rectangle planted to a few rad- ishes, carrots and sickly lettuce. Have you ever superintended fifty small hu- mans in their effort to water their gardens, with the result they water each other's feet? The vegetables lan- guish and the parents complain of ruined shoes. You may have borne a phenomenon who has the power of consecutive interest which makes the flowers bloom in the spring, but take my advice, keep your illusions and use my method.
Children are more like small chick- ens than any other perambulating spe- cies, in that they are always under foot. For some purposes this trait is invaluable, and it is the one you en- courage in the gardening experiment. You also use the instinctive trait of
possession. Given a garden, you wan- der around it with these inquisitive chicks, each chick holding a seed or bulb in complete possession. You then
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plant our garden. The hole is dug by
you, the seed or bulb is planted by the
child, covered b> the soil and watered
(Coiititiited on ptu/c .')1 )
Mrs. Jiithms' Liardi n. " l:nd of thf Trail' 11
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I 929
Changing Phases of Smalt House Design
By Marc N. Goodnow /// The Architect and Engirieer
CHANGING phases of American life have kept the in so much of our work architect busy these past five jears in devising ways and means of translating public demand into terms of good architectural design and construction. Fre- quently it has been a question of whether to lead or follow, whether to do the real right thing at the risk of of^fending or losing a client or of giving 'em what they want and riding in the bandwagon.
A good part of this work in California has been in offsetting where possible the inevitable fads that creep into popular movements and in stabilizing a method or a treatment that defies precedent or threatens to upend well-grounded principles. A review of the architect's work in these parts for the period would disclose a profes- sional influence in sobering many trends that promised no great good for the small house as an institution.
Speaking only for domestic architecture, it is rather easy to see that while the picturesque is still a discernible quality, the brazen and bizarre have definitely subsided. Where formerly so-called ornamentation was a desid- eratum for the exterior of many houses, today there is a more introspective view of the small dwelling with a con- sequent enhancement of many values that make for greater beauty and livability.
If California architects have done nothing else in the past five years except to introduce the element of livability as a keynote of the American home, they have done suffi- cient to mark them with distinction. For that quality at least seems to have touched a responsive chord and opened to Eastern visitors a new opportunity for increasing the delights of their own homes, even though of a very differ- ent architectural style.
Perhaps the thing could have been done only in Cali- fornia, where climate works hand in hand with the archi- tect. At least it was no less a person than Alfred Hopkins, architect of New York City, who wrote in his book on American country houses:
"It is to the far West we shall have to go — for that progress and originality in American architecture lacking
When you can substitute sun- shine and warm breezes for blizzards and a thermometer which is suffering from chilblains; when you can have open doors and open loggias connecting one room with another, and forget steam heat and storm windows, then the architect has nothing to hamper him but his imag- ination."
But the imagination of the architect has not been the only imagination at work. Various types of builders and even many owners have evinced a rather well developed flair for innovations that are as unsound and impractical as they are restless and strained. Jazz plaster has not died without a struggle and cheap imitations of genuine, design and construction have continued to fight with their backs to the wall ; but at least the number of good houses has grown and in them are exemplified many principles that, fortunately, are being emulated.
To anyone who studies the progress of domestic archi- tecture in California, there must come the quick realiza- tion that what may be called an outdoor quality has entered more vitally into recent house planning than any other element of livability. A direct outgrowth of climate, by way of the patio, this closer relation of the house with the greenery of the garden, the light and warmth of the sun and vistas of blue skies, wooded hillsides and even ocean waves, has produced charms as delightful as they are unique.
Nor does this type of planning stop with the house of Spanish precedent; in fact, it has become a recognizable feature of many English houses, which, in California, need just those same elements if they are to be an appro- priate expression of domestic life within the State. The box-like arrangement of rooms that once characterized Colonial and other house planning in this section has given way either to a "U"-shaped plan, or one in which a wing projects from the main axis to form at least a partial shelter or a background for an outdoor terrace or an enclosure similar to the patio.
This, at least, has been both a logical and a genuine
[Courtesy "The Arcliiteet and Engineer"^
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1929
The Women s City Club Golf Tournament, which opens April 7, will have this Group among its entrants. They are. left to right: Ted Robbins, instructor. Miss Ada McLure, Miss Jean Daub, Miss Christine Ramsey, Miss L. M. Ruffino, Mrs. J. F. Toole, Mrs. M. Maloney. Mrs. L. R. Chandler, and Mrs. J. B. Harvey.
demand on the part of the public which has sensed the indefinable charm that issues from well-screened but sunlit enclosures, or cloistered nooks with decorative tiles and comfortable furnishings just outside the threshold. It has represented a laudable desire to bring the outdoors indoors, to frame many beautiful pictures that otherwise would be lost.
Hardly less noticeable have been certain other changes and developments in interior phases of the house. Bath- rooms have grown in necessity and number, what with present-day emphasis on milady's toilette. The small house with two bedrooms may now boast of separate baths, or a bath and a shower. The second toilet, on the service porch, has already become almost as staple as the front doorstep.
We find, too, that the twin bed has been followed by a growing demand for a separate sleeping room for each member of the marital partnership, or if not for individual use, then for guest purposes or for a maid. Here the automobile also is somewhat responsible ; ease of travel has increased social visits, possibly even irregular hours, together with the need for ready accommodation on short notice. All in the modern trend.
The worry which some architects may have experienced over the call to combine the living room and dining room, fearing that the order meant death to certain well-estab- lished family standards, seems not to have been well- grounded ; for the fad apparently has spent its force. The number and character of inconveniences encountered in serving the meal and in setting the room to rights after- ward have outweighed the advantage gained in conserving space.
The dining room remains an American institution with traditions too deep to be easily or quickly uprooted. The kitchen nook may have definitely replaced the breakfast room, but its use as a convenience does not jeopardize the older and more formal room in which to serve the one or two main meals of the day.
The garage is, of course, playing a more and more conspicuous part in the design of the small house. Not only are certain economies being effected in locating it as an integral part of the dwelling, but its importance in the daily scheme of life, coupled with the desire to give more space to the garden, is bringing it forward as a feature of the front elevation.
Much of the former prejudice aigainst this latter treat- ment has subsided with the realization that the garage
can be tied in architecturally with the design, and that it may also be handled in such a way as to further the need for shielding the patio or garden from the noises of the street. On the narrow city lot the garage, in skilled hands, is becoming an appropriate part of the front facade. The garage is so placed as to give greater depth to the house or to form a side wall of a front garden or screen a more private patio opening directly upon a covered porch. Elimination of the driveway along the entire side of the house may mean opportunity for greater width of rooms or other features now either cramped or entirely done away with.
The growing need for an appreciation of privacy has even accentuated the importance of the vestibule or front entry; this feature is now much more common in archi- tectural planning than in former years, though the dimen- sions of the house may not have increased appreciably.
With respect to materials, one finds equally notable changes coming into the small house, partly at the instance of the owner, partly on the initiative of the architect. And these, too, have required the exercise of some restraint to bring them into harmonious relation with both the pur- poses for which they are used and the effect which they create.
The use of decorative tiles, for example, has grown rapidly and widely. Floor tiles have gradually crept into living and dining rooms and even hallways of the small house. Wrought iron has caught the popular fancy, and in the Spanish house certainly has become a much more standard product than at any time.
In Southern California, particularly, both brick and concrete tile have shown new degrees of adaptability to small house architecture. The vogue of the textured plaster house gave birth to new texture treatments in ma- sonry construction that have added no little charm to the scene. Both brick and concrete houses, washed with a light coat of white cement, have brought a fresh and interesting note into the picture.
In all this the architect's house has lost none of its picturesque quality, but it has absorbed a certain simplic- ity from both the materials of which it is built and the way in which they have been handled. The better work displays a freer use of natural elements, treated in a simple, frank and natural way. There is, as it were, more of architectural candor, and less disposition to overcoat or camouflage. The tang (or is it the taint?) of the movie set seems to have lost its savor.
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1929
The Architects Smalt House Service Bureau
By Robert T. Jones, Editor
THE Small House Bureau began as an experiment. Now, after eight j'ears of experience, we have an opportunity to see what has been done. The experi- ment was an attempt on the part of a group of architects to see how they could contribute anything to the solution of the small house problem.
At that time the designing of small houses and the control of their construction was very largely in the hands of material dealers. For years they had supplied a stock plan service, including technical documents which, more often than not, were unworthy. From the point of view of good architecture, houses built from these plans were often wholly unsatisfactory.
Studying this situation, a group of architects believed that they could prepare the technical documents for a group of small houses which could be distributed in com- petition with existing stock plans, bringing to the small home builders of the nation this minimum of good archi- tectural service.
It was admitted that the small home builder would not employ the individual practicing architect, for reasons which were satisfactory to him and which, of course, are familiar to all architects. There was, of course, and there still exists an academic objection to stock plans in that they involve repetition and in that they are not devised particularly to suit individual requirements.
However, in a situation where the tastes of a very large majority of home builders seem to be identical and with a definite limitation of the amount of money to be expended, it was believed that this academic objection to a stock plan service was not tenable.
It w^as hoped that through a widespread program of education home builders might not only be inclined to subscribe to this better technical service, but that they
The Architect and Engineer
could be brought in the end to employ the local practicing architect if for nothing more than to write the specifica- tions and supervise the construction where bureau plans were used.
The application of this formula, running through a period of eight years, has produced results that are inspir- ing. All over the nation houses have been built from designs supplied by the Architects' Small House Service Bureau. There is a growing tendency, stimulated by the propaganda of the Bureau, to employ architects to super- vise the construction of these houses.
We believe the contribution the Small House Service Bureau has made to improve the taste of home builders, to make them conscious of the material advantages of building from well-organized plans and specifications, has Had an enormously beneficial effect. The results can be seen in the residential districts of practically all of our cities and towns, particularly in the East and Middle West,
In carrying on its program of education, the Bureau has secured the co-operation of a large number of impor- tant newspapers that each week carry designs and tech- nical matter relating to home building. The Bureau also publishes a magazine which has a national distribution almost exclusively among prospective home builders.
Since the first nucleus of the Bureau, which was formed in Minneapolis in 1920, the organization has been ex- tended with Regional Bureaus in all the important centers of the country, excepting the South and the South Pacific regions. Plans are in progress at the present time for the incorporation of Regional Bureaus to serve these districts, with particular reference to the special local conditions surrounding the building of homes.
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W O M K X ' S CI r Y C I- U B M A C, A /. I N H / '» r M A R C Jl
1929
PcM€ti€ Health CxA>aL^ATi€r^s
Under the Auspices oj the Women's City Cllh
The board of directors of the Women's City Club has voted to arrange a health examination for members of the Club, the time this year to be April 1 to April 13, inclusive. This will be the second perquisite of this nature to be offered the members. The first examination was last year from October 1 to October 13 and the result was so satisfactory and so highly appreciated by the members that the directors voted to offer the privilege again. Forty-eight women were examined last year. They were punctilious in keeping their appointments. One person failed, due to acute illness.
The applicants ranged from thirty to seventy years of age. Many remarked on the satisfaction of the gynaecolo- gical examination at the hands of women physicians, and numerous comments were made on the exhaustive details of the medical service, and above all the fact that a careful resume, the next day, after a study of all findings, was given each applicant and a forelooking policy as to better health outlined for her. Each person was given a book on exercise and health published by the Women's Foundation for Positive Health.
Examinations will be made daily between the hours of 4 and 6 o'clock and 7 to 9 :30 o'clock.
This is an opportunity to check up one's health. Records of each case will be given the applicant, or sent, if she chooses, to her physician. In each case, thorough health conservation advice, based on the findings, will be given. Reports on special examinations and chemical and micro- scopic tests will be embodied in the final rep^>rt and recommendation.
The staff conducting these examinations has been care- fully selected and the Committee on the Health Examina- tions assures City Club members that they will be in able hands and their condition of health thoroughly considered.
Conservation of health, based on periodic health exam- inations, is the slogan of the new p<jsitive health movement.
Examinations will be made in the rooms of the Women's City Club.
Members Avishing to avail themselves of this opportunity will sign the attached blank and return it with check, and by return mail will receive an appointment and full par- ticulars. Appointments \\ ill be made in order of applica- tion.
Examining Staff
The staff for the health examinations includes:
General Examinations
Ina M. RiCHTER, M. D.— A. B. Bryn Mawr ; M. D. Johns Hopkins; Interne in Medicine, Johns Hopkins; Staff Member of Children's Hospital in Medicine; In- structor in Medicine, University of California Medical School.
Ethel Owen, M. D.— A. B. Stanford; M. D. Stanford; Interne Lane-Stanford Hospital; Medical work Red Cross in France; Medical Director Arequipa Sanita- rium ; In charge of Health of Nurses, Stanford Hospital ; Medical Examiner, Stanford University Campus.
Gynaecological Examinations
Alice Maxwell, M. D. — A. B. University of California ; M. D. University of California; Interne University of California Hospital ; Resident in Gynaecology ; Asso- ciate Professor Gynaecology, University of California ; Gynaecologist to the University of California Hospital ; Surgeon to Children's Hospital.
Alma Pennington, M. D — A. B. University of Cali- fornia; M. D. University of California; Medical In- terne University of California Hospital ; Surgical Serv-
ice at New England Hospital, Boston ; Surgical Service Woman's Hospital, New York ; Medical Service at Vassar College ; Staff Member Surgical Service Chil- dren's Hospital.
Laboratory Work
Aghavni a. Shaghoian, M. D. — A. B. University of California; M. D. University of California; Interne University of California Medical Department ; Resi- dent Children's Hospital ; Physician to Y. W. C. A. ; Physician to House of Friendship. Hilda Davis, M. D. — Graduate of University of Liver- pool, 1923; Interne at the Children's Hospital, San Francisco, 1924-25 ; Assistant Resident in Medicine at University of California Hospital.
A graduate nurse will be on hand to assist the several physicians.
Members desiring further information before deciding may address: Dr. Adelaide Brown, Chairman Committee on Health Examinations, Women's City Club, 465 Post Street, San Francisco, in writing, or by telephone. Gray- stone 0728, between 2 and 4 o'clock dailv (except Satur- day).
Mail this
Application
to Women's
City Club,
465 Post
Street,
San Francisco
HEALTH EXAMINATION BLANK
I enclose herewith check for $10.00 to cover the expense of the Health Examina- tion. Further information as to tests, hour of appointment, may be sent to the fol- lowing address:
Nam Addr
Telephone Suinher
I prefer an afternoon D evening D appointment.
Checks to be made payable to the Women's Citv Club, San Francisco, and ad- dressed to Miss Emma Noonan, Secretary Health Examinations, Women's Citv Club, 465 Post Street.
Committee on Health Examinations: Mrs. S. G. Chapman, .Mrs. Parker S. Mad- dux, Miss Emma Noonan, Ina M. Richter, M. I)., Sirs. A. P. Black. Adelaide Brown, M. D., Chairman.
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WOMEN S CITY C I. U B MAGAZINE tor M A R C H
1929
WOMEN'S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE
Published Monthly at San Francisco
465 Post Street
Telephone Kearny 8400
MAGAZINE COMMITTEE
Mrs. Harry Staats -Moore, Chairman
Mrs. George Osborne Wilson
Mrs. Frederick Faulkner
Mrs. Frederick W. Kroll
Marie Hicks Davidson, Editor
Ruth Callahan, Advertising Manager
MARCH
1929
EBITOMIAL
ITP is very human for one to crave recognition of one's "good deeds. That is the reason flattery has been able to achieve things that other agencies could not do. Virtue w^ould dip her flag many times oftener were it not that we dread disapproval and conversely like commenda- tion of our neighbors. Kindness and graciousness often would yield to selfishness were there no appraising lobby. ■-.But notwithstanding that many are endued with this •very, human trait of wanting recognition, there is a large preponderance of persons content to contribute as much as possible to the sum total of public good without hope or expectation of thanks, gratitude, reward or remuneration. These persons are satisfied that service is its own reward. ■ Their compensation is in the knowledge of a thing well done, offered on the altar of good intention. They do not give much thought to anything beyond the deed itself. They are not concerned with plaudits; would be embar- rassed, probably, at any manifestation of appreciation.
However, there is a small minority which sags under the feeling that their efforts are not taken into account. They feel that they are lost in the great aggregate. It is a complex of some kind, and it causes complaint.
"Others are patted on the back and stroked on the head. Why can't I have a little of the approval that is being passed around?"
In the Volunteer Service, the outstanding feature which distinguishes the Women's City Club of San Francisco from all other clubs, it is remarkable that the women who give their time regularly and faithfully never seem to expect recognition that they are doing anything notable. Not one has ever expressed any feeling that she was being submerged. Not a committee has ever demonstrated any- thing other than a desire to be a cog in the wheel. No one expects to be singled out from the rank and file, and each is, apparently, quite satified that what she does is for the City Club as an institution and for humanity in general. It is a psychological marvel, say the heads of the Volunteer Service Department.
Miss Leale's Statement
Miss Leale said, upon her election to the Presidency of the Women's City Club :
"I was interested in the building project only as a step for the future in the proper housing of an ideal. This ideal of the National League for Woman's Service was well planted ; its roots are deep. I am grateful for being allowed now to be an integral part in the development of this pro- gram of the service of many, working together under this glorious standard."
Mlss Leale Elected President of the Women s City Club
Miss Marion Whitfield Leale was named president of the Women's City Club at the annual election held February 18.
Other officers elected were Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper, first vice-president ; Mrs. Paul Shoup, second vice-presi- dent; Miss Mabel Pierce, third vice-president; Mrs. W. F. Booth, Jr., corresponding secretary; Mrs. James Theo- dore Wood, Jr., recording secretary, and Mrs. S. G. Chap- man, treasurer.
Miss Leale has been identified with the Women's City Club since its beginning and before that was a founder of the National League for Woman's Service, the organiza- tion from which the City Club grew. She was one of the band of devoted women who met in the early days of America's participation in the war and established the insti- tution which nurtured the canteens and subsequently the clubrooms known simply as 333 Kearny.
It was while the National League was functioning at 333 Kearny Street that the City Club idea was developed. Miss Leale was chairman of the building project which flowered into the building, 465 Post Street, now the City Club of San Francisco. She watched every beam and girder as it went into the structure, every stratum of cement, every unit of plumbing. During the first year of occupancy of the new building she was executive secretary. She has been a member of the board of directors since then, and now is president, a matter of much gratification to the women who know of her earnest and constructive work in the institution and of her idealism with its practical pro- pulsion.
Miss Marion Whitfield Leale
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1929
WoMEM's City Cluib Affmes
Beauty Salon Is Mecca of City Club Beauty Seekers
The Beauty Salon of the Women's City Club is steadily growing in popu- larity. Each day finds a new convert to the belief that it is one of the most thoroughly equipped places of its kind in the city. As it grows in favor it in- creases in patronage and each patron becomes an enthusiastic "booster." Experts are there who have spent years learning the business of trans- forming plainness into loveliness.
Do you want a permanent or a finger wave? This is the place to get it, quickly and satisfactorily.
Would you have your fading hair "touched up"? There is no greater privacy and certainty of results than here.
A manicure? Or shampoo? Go to the front of the Club on the lower main floor. Each operator is an expert in her line. Mrs. Pauline Deane, the new manager, would not have any but the most experienced and capable. Facial treatments are the specialty of the Beauty Salon. Scalp, hair and skin are cared for intelligently, either at single treatments or over a course of treatments.
Also there is a barber who cuts the hair to suit the individual's face and head, with particular attention given the style as its affects the person's height or weight. His "bobs" have become famous for their chic.
Mrs. Minerva Russ, whose prod- ucts are sold at and used in the Women's City Club Beauty Salon, will talk over the radio station KGO during the California hour three times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday between nine and ten o'clock in the morning.
Mrs. Russ will be in the Beauty Salon on the lower main floor on the afternoon of the days on which she makes her talks over the radio, from two to four o'clock, and will be glad to give personal advice on the care of the skin and hair and to suggest the proper beauty preparations for use at home. There will be no charge for this service.
This is an unusual opportunity for members of the Club and patrons of the Beauty Salon to secure expert ad- vice on any phase of beauty culture.
As a convenience to business wom- en, Mrs. Russ will be in the Beauty Parlor by appointment on Monday evenings between the hours of six and seven for consultation with women who cannot come during the day. Ap- pointments may be made by telephon- ing Kearny 8400.
Annual Meeting The annual meeting of the Na- tional League for Woman's Service, founder of the Women's City Club, will be held Thursday evening, March 14, at eight o'clock in the Auditorium of the City Club. Comprehensive re- ports will be rendered on all the busi- ness and activities of the City Club. The social feature of the evening will be the dinner parties which will pre- cede the business meeting. The direc- tors will attend a dinner in the Na- tional Defenders Room and all mem- bers who are interested in joining them are requested to make reserva- tions as early as possible. i 1 i
French Classes Mme. Olivier is taking registra- tions for the summer French classes, which will be given after April 1. Those interested in taking the lessons are asked to register at the Informa- tion Desk on the First Floor. The summer courses are limited to two in a class. Fees for individual lessons is $16.00 for twenty lessons, and for two in a class $12.50 each. The lessons will be given at the City Club and may be arranged to suit the students, the courses to be completed between April 1 and August 31.
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Flowers Wanted Now that spring is here and more flowers are appearing in the gardens, the City Club will appreciate any donations of flowers or greens.
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New Tea Room
As an experiment the City Club is planning to serve afternoon tea in the Annex instead of in the National De- fenders Room. This a cosy, attractive room, and with the spring flowers and candles on the tables, makes a pleasing meeting place for tea. / *■ /
Stockings for Rugs Miss K. Foley, State Home Teacher for the Blind of California, and instructor in the Braille System of Writing for the Blind, is asking for donations of silk stockings in any and all colors, which the blind weave into most attractive mats. These donations may be sent direct to Miss Foley, Argyle Apartments, 146 McAllister Street, / y <
Executive Officers of the Women's City Club are always willing and glad to receive suggestions of members in matters affecting the City Club. Miss Tomlinson, Executive- Secretary, may be found in her offices on the Fourth Floor during the day.
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Plchel to Lecture
Irving Pichel, dramatic director and actor, will give six talks on "The Contemporary Theater" at the Wom- en's City Club, Monday mornings, at eleven o'clock, beginning March 18.
Mrs. A. P. Black is chairman of the committee in charge of the lec- tures. Mr. Pichel wrote, in reply to the City Club's invitation to give the course:
"It is my suggestion that the series of talks be called the Contemporar>' Theater. They will consist of discus- sions of plays in New York as they are produced, plays of the San Fran- cisco theaters when they are of suffi- cient interest to warrant interpreta- tion, and a general discussion of phases of the theater of today which are sug- gested by specific plays which are under discussion. Inasmuch as the spring season in San Francisco holds promise of a number of interesting things, such as Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," Heyward's "Porgy," etc., the discussions should involve rather stimulating generaliza- tions, illustrated by plays we shall have anopportunityof seeing. It maybe possible from time to time, to include readings of plajs not available in pub- lished form."
Course tickets will be $3.00. Single admissions seventy-five cents. / / /
Mayflower Luncheon The Society of Mayflower De- scendants in California gave a lunch- eon at the Women's City Club Fri- day, February 22, in honor of the Very Reverend and Mrs. Howard Chandler Robbins of New York.
Dean Robbins is Elder General of the General Society of Mayflower De- scendants and Elder of the New York Society of A4 ay flower Descendants. He is Dean of the Protestant Episco- pal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, a distinguished churchman, scholar and a gifted writer.
Among the guests who greeted the distinguished prelate were Dr. Charles Mills Gayley, Governor of the Cali- fornia Mayflower Society, and Mrs. Gayley, Dr. Rawlins Cadwallader, Mrs. Rawlins Cadwallader, Mr. Theodore Gray, Dr. Charles Francis Griffin, Mr. Bartholomew S. Noyes, Major Edward H. Pearce, Mrs. Avis Y. Brownlee, Mr. Miles Stand- ish, Mr. William B. Sawyer, Jr.. Mrs. Louis F. Monteagle, Mr. and Mrs. Ransom Pratt, Bishop and Mrs. L. C. Sanford. Fresno, Bishop and Mrs. Parsons, San Francisco, Mr. E. B. Cushman.
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1929
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OUR "Near-West" neighbor, China, seems to be traveling blithely along the road of progress toward a strong centralized government. The recent Disbandment Conference at Nanking included all the great Provincial Governors and resolved to retain only an army of 600,000 men out of the 1,500,000 who have been engaged in the Chinese Civil War. The plan is to have the disbanded troops work on public im- provements, especially the highways. One of the interesting attempts at re- habilitation is the "beggars' univer- sity" at Canton to teach mendicants useful trades. Japan has come to an agreement with China in regard to her customs autonomy — the last of the great powers to make amends — and an American commission, headed by Dr. Kemmerer, is on its way toward helping the new Chinese Republic to solve its financial and budgetary prob- lems, great as they are.
Women
We hear so much of the zeal of Chinese women for higher education it may be of interest to quote Sophie Chan Zen (in Pacific Affairs, of Jan- uary, the Bulletin of the Institute of Pacific Relations), describing a "rep- resentative of the more ordinary type of Chinese womanhood ... a pjerfect woman in the eyes of the old-fashioned Chinese fully possesses the four great virtues of moral excellence, refined speech, good manners and practical ability, virtues which, though old- fashioned, even an ultra-modern man could not afford to despise." And in- cidentally it may be of equal interest to American women to note two some- what superficial decrees from Europe: the first from Italy, prohibiting "beauty parlors;" and the second from Rumania, a resolution adopted in Bucharest by the Rumanian Women's League, "Each husband should be compelled by law to grant his wife a minimum yearly holiday of one month, alone."
South America Since the good will trip of Mr. Hoover, South America press com- ment has been more freely copied in North America papers and a friendly and explanatory attitude has been manifest. One Uruguayan journalist regrets, even as we do, the fact that we have been misrepresented by our sensational films and our jazz tunes to such an extent that it will take a long and patient period of education to re-
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trieve our reputations. So much notice has quite rightfuly been taken of the Kellogg treaty, outlawing war as a national policy, that not enough has been said of the importance of the arbitration and conciliation agree- ments of the Pan-American arbitra- tion conference, signed by the United States on January 5.
"Under these treaties if the United States threatens to land marines in an American country, a committee of inquiry, either at Montevideo or at Washington, may upon its own initia- tive, intervene in the dispute with its good offices. The United States is bound to submit to its jurisdiction un- til an investigation is made," said Ray- mond Buell of the Foreign Policy As- sociation at the recent meeting in Washington of the National Commit- tee on the Cause and Cure of War. As usual, the Monroe Doctrine holds the center of the international contro- versial stage.
Jugo-Slavia A new despotism was declared Jan- uary 1, when King Alexander pro- claimed the Jugo-Slavian Constitution of 1921 abolished, "the laws of the land in force unless cancelled by my royal decree," and Parliament dis- solved. In Spain, with a rebellion re- cently crushed, and in Portugal, Hun- gary and Persia there are other dic- tatorships resting upon the power of the military; while Russia and Italy are under the despotism of party dic- tatorship. Just where has the world been made safe for democracy ?
The Papacy The Roman question has at last been settled after 58 or more years, and by the treaty signed February 1 1 by Mussolini, acting for King Victor Emmanuel III, and by Cardinal Gasparri, acting for Pope Pius XI, the Pope is no longer "a prisoner in his own palace." The head of the Church is once more a temporal sovereign, though he insists that he wishes no political subjects, and he has been given absolute independence and sovereignty over a small, but signifi- cant tract of land adjoining the Vatican, along with the Gandolfo pal- ace. The indemnity of $87,500,000 he will devote, it is said, to foreign missions.
Paris
The Reparations Committee has convened with Owen Young (of the Dawes Plan) acting as Chairman, and J. P. Morgan, stating with cryptic simplicity, "We are here to help."
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ONE of the agencies which has probably done more to preserve native flora to California than any other unit is the California Spring Blossom and Wild Flower Associa- tion, which annually gives an exhibi- tion of notable educational value and also does much toward conservation.
The California Spring Blossom and Wild Flower Association was founded in 1923 with the platform to promote the cultivation of flowers, conserve the flora of the State and give an annual flower show in San Francisco.
In October, 1923, the Association, accompanied by Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls, made a gala day in plant- ing California poppies and lupines on Twin Peaks. In the same month, the same groups went in Government tugs to Yerba Buena Island and had a memorable picnic as they planted poppy and lupine seeds. Later the Association secured wild flower seeds and native pines, sequoias and cypresses which were planted upon Alcatraz and Angel Islands under the direc- tion of the Commandants of those posts.
. Opposite the main entrance to the Ferry Building is a small garden ap- propriately named by Keith Wake- man, the Shakespearean actress, the "Garden of Welcome," which was planned and planted at a cost of $2100 by the Association. This gar- den is supported entirely by our efforts, which include planting, care and renewals.
In an angle formed by the Aqua- rium and the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, Miss Alice Eastwood, internationally known botanist and herbalist of the Academy, dreamed of having a garden of Shakespeare's flowers. To this end the California Spring Blossom and Wild Flower Association bent its efforts, and in June, 1928, the angle covered by a beautiful green sward surrounded by flower plots, dotted with trees and ornamented with wall, sun dial, fountain, bust of Shake- speare and panels of quotations, was dedicated.
This year the Association will give its seventh annual Flower Show, with the dominant note a golden one, on April 3 and 4, at Native Sons' Hall, 314 Mason street. Among the nov- elties offered this year are hanging baskets of any combination of plants one desires, a table of historic plants and a fern pool. Wild flowers, plant families, drawings of plants by San Francisco school children and many miniature garden plots will be shown.
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THERE is an embarrassment of riches in books that might be called worth while, for one reason or another. But first in origin- ality and charm, of the recent fiction, I would place "The Happy Moun- tain," by Maristan Chapman.
Wait-Still-on-the-Lord Lowe went out of the Southern mountains to the outland, a-hunting for "words that have a lilt to them," and the story of his journeying is a book full of words with a lilt! Mrs. Chapman is doing something which has not been done before. A few have tried, more or less successfully, to reproduce the dialect of the Southern mountaineer, the "hill-billy,"— John Fox, Charles Eg- bert Craddock, James Lane Allen. But not alone do the characters of this book speak the hill-man's language ; the author herself thinks in that Eng- lish which is still Elizabethan, — the mountain tongue which savors of the time of the Virgin Queen, with pic- turesque additions from Scottish clans, and Irish words harking back to sojourns within the Pale of Ulster. Pilgrim's Progress and King James's edition of the Bible have lent rhythm and music to a tongue which breaks naturally into sheer poetry. Could any phrase be lovelier than "an ear-kissing sound"? And this? — "Whenever he saw her anew, it seemed to Waits that the difference between Dena and other girls was that Dena had mystery around the corners of her mouth. 'Hit gives a person the kind of feeling he gets looking toward the next bend in the road, and wondering what's around the corners of her mouth. 'Hit paraphrase of the mountain echo! "They heard the lost spirit of the sound come haunting up the ravine."
One who knows the Southern mountains feels the ache of nostalgia, resurrecting memories of purple moun- tains, of sun-bonneted hill-women who came down from them with pails of huckleberries, and spoke quaint words which fitted into childhood's shining mosaic. For those who do not know the South, there is novelty here, and an invitation.
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by A Iain-Four nier;
Houghton Mifflin Company; $2.50.
From a far country comes "The Wanderer," but akin in spirit to Wait- Still-on-the-Lord Lowe, — "sib," the hill-man would have said. It is a trans- lation of "Le Grand Meaulnes," of which Havelock Ellis says, "It is a high pleasure to introduce the English translation of so exquisite a master-
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1929
piece. 'Le Grand Meaulnes' may now be counted among the permanent hu- man possessions."
Its essence is as impossible to cap- ture as sunlight on morning dew, or, rather, the gray elusiveness of a wisp of fog. It is as lovely and as impon- derable as Kipling's "They." Half- dream, half-reality, one cannot tell where the school-boy adventure ends, and the wistful dreaming of boyhood begins. It is Youth, dreaming, wistful Youth, plus Gallic pessimism and despair, which our hill-man never had.
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As I write, on Lincoln's birthday, I am glad that I have read "With Malice Toward None." The book gives an unusual, perhaps a unique in- terpretation of the Great Emancipa- tor. We long have known his patience, tolerance, persistence, and the far ideal which saw beyond struggling fac- tions, his country become truly "one out of many," though by a blood baptism. We long have known that he would have laid down his life to avert those rivers of blood. When the news came to Virginia of Lincoln's assassination, my own grandfather, who owned slaves, but never sold one, exclaimed: "This is the greatest trag- edy that has befallen the South!" Honore Morrow's sympathetic story of his life leaves us clearly to know that Lincoln's death was a greater tragedy for the South than for the North, — and that his own greatest tragedy was to be a frustrated recon- ciler.
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"The Island Within," by Ludwig Lewisohti ; Harper and Brothers.
Yet another of the Wanderers, of those who walk alone, dreaming of the unknowable, reaching for the im- possible,— those of whom Browning says that their "reach exceeds their grasp"! Mr. Lewisohn has written another and more beautiful history of the Wandering Jew. In the genera- tions of one family he has drawn with a trenchant pencil his own race, — its pride and poetry, its sensitiveness, its beauty, its ugliness, — a deeply appeal- ing and explanatory revelation writ- ten from "The Island Within" as no other could have written from with- out.
He begins far back in Vilna, with the progenitors, Reb Mendel, and Braine, his wife, devout, orthodox, fiercely proud of the grandfather's seven-branched candelabra, his pray- ing shawls, his Chanukah lamps of (Continued on page ?>2)
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WINTER snow on the tip of Mauna Kea, towering moun- tain peak of the Island of Hawaii, while on the same island bronzed bathers lie on the amber beaches! This is only one of the con- trasts to be found in that winter play- ground out in the middle of the Pa- cific. For Hawaii is a land of charm- ing whims to suit the most varied tastes of the winter travelers who flee from colder climes to the genial warmth of the semi-tropics.
There is the very old and the ultra new in Hawaii. There are grass huts in certain sections of the Kona and Puna Districts — still inhabited. While in cosmopolitan Honolulu there are superb hotels rivaling those of the Mediterranean Riviera.
Native spear fishermen dart alert glances through the swirling Avaters of tidal creek and stream, presenting an eerie sight at night with their lighted torches held aloft. Nearby, a modernly equipped cruiser belonging to an exclusive fishing club puts out to sea, the sportsmen aboard carrying rod and line with which they w'ill combat huge tuna, barracuda, sword- fish and dolphin.
In a certain idjllic Hawaiian vil- lage an automobile is a vara avis to the dusky Polynesian natives — some- thing about which to run home on fleet, brown feet to tell the family. While on the excellent roads on pic-
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turesque Oahu the sleek and wolfish motors of the winter visitors are driven over the heights of precipitous Nuuanu Pali, over which Kameha- meha I drove the battling Oahuans in his conquest of the Islands; through miles of pineapple fields; through the blossoming gardens of Honolulu ; and up and down the billboard-less high- ways that skirt the bays and beaches.
And at Waikiki Beach there is the gaiety of social function, or the dreamy languor of the drowsing beach. There is the exhilaration of a thrilling surfboard ride from far out beyond the breakers to the glistening shore — and at night the sound of a lazily strummed guitar while the slender coco palms silhouetted against the sky shyly guard the beauty of the perfumed night.
Straight to this paradoxical domain speed the white liners from Los An- geles over what is now recognized to be the smoothest route for its length in all the world's waters — the South- ern Route from Los Angeles to Ha- waii — breathing the very spirit of Hawaii with every serene knot. Fit- ting indeed that the liners match the luxury of that route, majestic argosies chosen by the travel-aware people of America as appropriate to transport them to that land of the Golden Fleece just five and a half days away from Southern California, the other Pacific playground.
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European trips for the summer are being outlined by prospective travelers, with the Mediterranean tour invari- ably included in the itinerary. Deau- ville, the Riviera, the Lido — all the famous watering places are now in full swing with the hotels making reserva- tions clear into the late autumn. Life at these places is as carefree and color- ful as anywhere in the world and no- where is pleasure expressed in such fas- cinating terms. Motor trips through the cathedral towns of France; ex- cursions in the lower reaches of the Czecho Slovakian countries, where the mountaineers are as picturesque as an opera chorus ; cruises to the fjords of Scandinavia, even as far as the fringes of Franzjosefland; walking tours of England; these are but a few of the interesting things offered by the sum- mer bookings of railways and steam- ship lines.
It is still not too late to consider the Nile trip with its detour through the Suez Canal and into the Holy Land and to places made historic by General Allenby in the recent war. The ba- zaars of Alexandria, the hordes of Eura- sians in every Egyptian city en route make this trip one of ethnic study as well as geographic exploration. Many people are going to all parts of the Asiatic fastnesses, or at least attempt- ing to go, lured by the stories of the Afghanistan revolt and the Khyber Pass, for nothing tempts certain in- trepid souls more than an embargo. / *• /
Bridge Party Mrs. J. V. Rounsefell is chairman of a committee which is arranging a bridge breakfast for members and guests Thursday, April 4, at 12:30 o'clock, in the City Club Auditorium. Price of tables will be $5.00. Single tickets $1.25. The following mem- bers will assist Mrs. Rounsefell : Mrs. A. P. Black, Mrs. Paul C. Butte, Mrs. W. W. Wymore, Miss Nell Gillespie, Mrs. Nettie Metzger, Mrs. H. C. Judson, Mrs. Shirley Walker, Mrs. Phoebe Rockwell, Mrs. Pearl Baumann, Mrs. J. D. Britt, Mrs. Harry Durbrow, Miss Anna Beaver and ]\'Irs. E. A. Hables.
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Said the matron to the dowager (the difference is subtle, but definite) as they sat at tea in the lounge of the Women's City Club — that satisfying cup of tea that Volunteers serve and that is not so abundant that it spoils the appetite for dinner and not so exiguous as to be scanty: "I have walked myself lame going about to the various hotels and tea rooms com- paring prices and menus and I'm get- ting two distinct kinds of consolation, tired as I am."
"As what?"
"Well, for one thing I think I've walked off a couple of pounds. And for another, I have the satisfaction of knowing that for all-around satisfac- tion and service the City Club can't be excelled when you want to give a dinner party. We're obligated to about everybody we know and we de- cided to throw a party. My dinner service and dining-room accommo- dates only twelve, and we wanted to have about forty. So I began getting prices. I find that here we can have a private room, a delicious dinner and faultless service for much less than it would cost at one of the hotels. With a maid to take hats and coats and whatnot."
"What about decorations?" in- quired the dowager, punctilious and elegant. She would be.
"The Club attends to that, too. I told Mr. Monahan about what I wanted and what I cared to spend, and he's taking care of it," the matron replied, crossing her slim legs and leaning back into the depths of a deep chair to relax. "It's perfect, my dear, and too simple to be true. Think of all that telephoning one is spared. Why, when 1 have a dinner party at home I begin early in the morning of the day before. First the oyster mar- ket, then the fish and fowl, then the vegetables, then the dessert, not to speak of the cigarettes and the candy and the extra ice and the dozen other things that make an old woman of you at the last hour, that especial mo- ment when your husband looks at you and makes a mental note that you're not holding your own with your class- mates. Of course he doesn't know what you've been through all day. He's fresh and pink from a steaming tub, while you've been in the kitchen trying to tell strange caterers what and how and when to serve. Here Monahan does all that worrying, if any. Me for the Club."
"But what do you do with your guests after dinner?"
"Take 'em to the American Room for bridge. And there again is an ad- vantage. Tables are already set up. Cards and score pads are ready.
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Your vacation trip ideal will start on Saturday, May 18, when the Malolo, the finest ship on the Pacific, sails for Honolulu on this "Vacation Special" cruise which, owing to the Malolo's speed of four days to Hawaii, will allow you a stay of seven days in the Islands, seeing Honolulu, the Island of Oahu, and enjoying a special side trip on the Malolo to Hilo and the Volcano, returning to San Fran- cisco at 9 A. M. Monday, June 3.
This springtime cruise in- cludes, if desired, all transpor- tation, hotels in Honolulu and at the Volcano, and sightseeing. Hawaii's flowering trees are then in full bloom. You will enjoy surfriding and outrigger canoeing at Waikiki, golf on the famous Waialae course, motor- ing, tropic fruits, fascinating native life.
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Genesis of Stock Market
By LucREZiA Kemper
MARKETS and market places are almost as old as man himself and it is to these market places man owes his present high degree of civilization and cities their being. The first step in the education of prim- itive man came when the thought dawned in his mind that it would be better if instead of throwing stones at his neighbors he traded these stones for some article the neigh- bor had produced or found.
With tribes trading with, instead of fighting, each other, market places sprang up for the convenience of all. Men congregated at these trading posts to display their wares and cities grew up to accommodate the traders. Soon after men began to specialize in the exchange of certain com- modities. Some formed markets for the exchange of sheep, some for cattle, some for silks, spices, perfumes and jewels and later for the exchange of securities.
It is with this latter market place, where men exchange the securities of their business for funds to assist in that business, that we shall deal.
The security market is, in the years of the world, not an old institution. Securities, as they are known today — stocks and bonds — have not been in existence much over three hundred years. The founding of some of the large security markets such as the San Francisco Stock Exchange is still within the memory of living man. The largest exchange in the world, the New York Stock Exchange, was founded only ninety j'ears before the San Francisco Stock Exchange. There are older stock exchanges in the world, but all are young when compared with the antiquity of other market places.
The stock exchange is a market place where the broker of the buyer of securities meets the broker of the seller. On the floor of the Exchange the selling broker offers the securities he has. The buying brokers bid for them. The securities go to the highest bidder.
There is no mystery about a stock exchange. Its reasons for being are simple. It is the place where transactions occur — nothing more.
Nor does the Exchange have anything to do with the fixing of prices. The price is made by what the buyers are willing to pay. If there are many buyers for the same stock, it will naturally go higher. If there are no buyers at the price at which the security is offered, the seller will have to keep his stock or lower his price. The broker has no part in this. When a security is given a broker to sell, the seller fixes the price at which he will part with it and the buyer decides the price he will pay.
There have been many myths about the fixing of prices and the undoing of the uninitiate by a group of insiders. This is pure unadulterated hokum. The man who owns securities has the right to say what he will take for them if he wants to sell. The buyer has the right to say what he will pay if he wants to buy. As a result of this, prices are fixed by the investing public. If said public gets an idea it wants a certain stock, large numbers rush in and buy. This sends the price up. Psychologically, the human family is still in the sheep age. One day someone gets tired holding and sells. Just as one man may start everybody buying, one man selling, starts all men selling, the market is glutted and the price goes down.
The law of supply and demand is always working, be it in potatoes, soup-bones, or securities. The results of its operations may be obscured for weeks or even months, but sooner or later they stand forth.
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how many more would be killed if they flocked in such great numbers, as they do to the stock exchange, into the inner workings of steel mills or flour plants with no more knowledge about them than they have when they rush into the stock market.
The percentage of loss in the stock market is no greater than in any other line of endeavor, just noisier. The hysteria indulged in when the market is depressed is really a fantasmagoria created by persons whose own careless- ness, in heeding safeguards, have led to their undoing.
Why, if one may ask a question should there be all the hue and cry when a man or even a group of men lose money in the purchase of secur- ities? They have only lost some money. On the other hand, why not write volumes and run red headlines when a farmer, a merchant or a mani/fac- turer meets with misfortune, for here indeed is tragedy. These have lost their all ; money, job and the tools with which they labor. They must be- gin again at the beginning, ofttimes, with their greatest asset, youth, behind them. There is no loud outcry when losses happen in these fields. Silently they go down to oblivion. Somebody says it is too bad and perhaps there is a paid notice in the home paper asking the creditors to file their claims and that is all. Nothing spectacular, noth- ing to wax hysterical over, but if there is a reaction in the stock market, Ah! that's a Roman Holiday.
Everybody but the right one is blamed. The insiders whoever they may be, are berated, the pool interests are soundly thrashed and all the thou- sand and one intangible fianciful fig- ures that imagery has conjured are lashed by the buying public at large. When as a matter of cold fact, these figures of fancy who have been so thor- oughly accused are none other than the buying public consisting of you, the reader and me the writer, and all the neighbors 'round about.
For after all when it comes to the final analysis of the matter, the stock exchange is only a channel through which the securities of industry flow to meet the wishes of the investing public. They select from its offerings as they see fit at the price they are willing to pay. It is the place where their inter- ests are safeguarded to the ultimate against fraud and deception and where at any time they find a free and open market for the purchase or sale of securities. Further than this, is can- not go for it is only a market place brought into being by the investing public and careless though they are, they, with their buying and selling habits, keep it alive.
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The closing date of the Women's City Club Magazine's Playwrit- ing Contest, announced in January to close March 1, has been extended to May 1. This has been done by the Magazine Committee in response to request of the judges of the competi- tion, who believe that the extension will result in a richer garnering of representative material from which to select the winning play. The number of manuscripts already received attests the interest being taken in the contest.
The judges are Henry Duffy of the Alcazar and President Theaters, San Francisco ; Gordon A. Davis, Direct- or of Dramatics of Stanford Univer- sity, and Samuel Hume of Berkeley, former Director of Dramatics at the Urtiversity of California.
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Dinner Before Annual Meeting
The new board of directors will dine at the City Club preceding the annual meeting March 14, As the directors are desirous of meeting the members, and as accommodations will be taxed to capacity, members are urged to make reservations as early as possible, and in no case later than March 13.
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Lenten Talks The Lenten talks which the Rev- erend H. H. Powell has been giving at the Women's City Club will be continued throughout March. They have been w^ell attended, and members and guests find them stimulating and illuminating. Dr. Powell is dean of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. The talks are given Monday mornings at eleven o'clock on "The Life of St. Paul." His Monday eve- ning talks are on the general topic, "The Bible," and begin at 7:30. ■f -f -t
Business and Professional Women
"Beauty, your birthright. Take it," was the subject of Anita Carolyn Rouse at the luncheon of the Business and Professional Women's Club, Feb- ruary 19, at the Women's City Club. Miss Rouse is a well-known writer and co-editor of the "Children's En- cyclopedia." Mrs. May Riley, the new president, presided at the lunch- eon. / / <
Choral Section A Choral Section has been organ- ized under the leadership of Mrs. John L. Taylor. Mrs. Horatio F. StoU is accompanist. There are twenty en- rolled in the section. Mrs. Taylor is desirous of securing more members.
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Music in the Women's City Club
By Anna Cora Winchell
UNDER the h&stess-ship of Mrs. Charles Christin, the Sunday Evening Concert of February 3 ofifered three resident mu- sicians. Daisy Saville, violinist, gave special pleasure throughout the eve- ning in her numbers, which comprised the Handel Sonata No. 6, the Pug- nani Prelude and Allegro, the Pabre- Martini Andantino and the Beetho- ven-Kreisler Rondino. Miss Saville draws a firm bow and produces fine, living tones in which intelligent in- terpretation shows to advantage. She might easily have played further, ac- cording to the spirit manifested by her audience.
Suzanne Pasmore, one of the far- famed "Pasmore Trio" comprising three sisters, lent herself as a soloist on this occasion and gave most inter- esting piano numbers. They were the Bach-Burmeister E flat minor Pre- lude, the "Seventeen Variations" of Mendelssohn, opus 54, and "Three Arabian Preludes" by Fieleyhan — "Arabian Love Song," "Serenade in the Desert" and "Bedouin Dance." Miss Pasmore essayed difficult work in these lists and showed herself an earnest student in the mastery of the scores. The technical demands of the first group tax the greater artists; the Orientalism of the second group was alluring.
Merle Scott, a young singer, gave two groups with her master, the ven- erable H. B. Pasmore, at the piano. Her vocalization, not yet fully ma- ture, still showed versatility in the Schubert "Ave Maria," the Old Eng- lish Air, "When Love is Kind," and Meyerbeer's "Figlio Mio" from "Le Prophet."
The bi-weekly concerts continue to prove their worth through the con- stant attendance of most appreciative audiences which consist, not only of the members of the Women's City Club, but many guests. The organi- zation of a Woman's Choral is well under way, directed by Mrs. Jessie Wilson Taylor. There is a demand for concerted singing among the mem- bers and enthusiasm was very appar- ent in the first attendance a fort- night ago.
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The next Golf Tournament of the Women's City Club Golf Section will be held Sunday, April 7. Entrants may send or leave their names to Har- riet L. Adams, Golf Captain, at the Information Desk in the lobby of the Women's City Club, first floor.
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WHY A GARDENER?
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by the child; and trust the child to remember the exact spot in which his bulb or seed was planted. If you plant gourds or corn, he can garner the seed and plant the seed of the seed and observe the cycle. Bird seed in sponges, hyacinth bulbs in glasses — I could tell you dozens of ways to fasci- nate children in plant life. Success attends this child gardening, and that is one of the most important elements in education.
There is a very well known garden in San Francisco that no one should omit mentioning when writing on gardens. When you "rave" to Mrs. Jenkins about her garden, she replies, "Given a steep hillside of sand, facing the Pacific Ocean, swept by the trade winds and drenched with fog, I was forced to plant in this manner." Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins are great gardeners in every sense of the word. To hold the sand, they brought in rocks and built comfortably graded paths — com- fortable on which to walk and garden — and at the end of the trail an en- chanting little tea house overlooking two pools — fish ponds of irregular shape — a little water efifect coveted by every gardener. Mrs. Jenkins told me that her ponds had been orange with goldfish, but the kingfishers (always pests) had discovered them. But such planting — a rock garden with every plant happily planted and growing! Alpine plants that should be looked at with a microscope, so exquisite and tiny are the flowers. Such succulents, in this their natural habitat, colored like rubies and carne- lians. Some species are very large and have magnificent flowers, and some are minute. Every spot in that garden is planted as it should be and under her hand everything grows.
There is another expert in these parts named James West. He knows everything about cacti, succulents and Alpine plants. He told me that he had poor success in growing Alpines until he thought out the life of a seed. He did not blame the seed man. The Alpine seed drops among the rocks, and then what happens? The snow covers it. He could not take his seeds to the snow, so he put them on ice for a few weeks, and all his seeds germi- nated. I call this first-page news.
Mrs. Jenkins and I have Philoden- drons (Greek, meaning tree-loving) for house plants. They are very styl- ish in form and historically interest- ing in plant life. John Muir lived with us and every day told us some- thing interesting about plant life. He thought no garden was worthy of {Continued on page 32)
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respect without a Ghinkgo tree (com- monly called maiden-hair), because this tree is the sole remainder of a numerous tribe in geologic times and therefore our oldest tree. Next in age comes the Philodendron, the first effort of Nature to serrate the leaf. This plant if placed in a dark corner puts forth very small leaves that are the exact shape of the leaf of the Ghinkgo tree. Each new leaf of the Philodendron is an event, because it may be on only holes or it may be finely serrated, with the divisions held by filaments. They do all sorts of queer things and are grateful for understanding care.
Why a gardener? If you ask Mrs. Jenkins — if you ask me — we'd say "because our mothers were gardeners and we as little chicks poked our little noses in every hole our mothers dug in the fragrant earth and were told of the mysteries that Mother Earth taught them."
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BOOK REVIEWS {Continued from page 21) dimly gleaming brass. The migration of Ef raim, the son to Prussia, the slow attrition of German ways until his successful eldest son marries a Ger- man girl, and takes a German name, and Efraim cries, "May his name be blotted out!" The emigration of Efraim's j^oungest son, Jacob, to America, and the building up of fam- ily and fortune in New York. And in his son, Arthur, the poignant unfold- ing of an inner life, with its happiness and hurt, its ambitions and rebuffs, and its surprising denouement. The psychology is keenly revealing, amaz- ingly appealing. One turns back the leaves to re-read pages of analytic thought that seems quite new. One is tempted to discuss what can be appre- ciated only by reading and re-reading, — and particularly that Mosaic song of triumphs in which Arthur found his pride of ancestry, comparable to the descendants of the Covenanters, — the "pages written nearly a thousand years ago by Reb Efraim ben Red Jacob," how destruction came upon the con- gregations who let themselves be slain for the sake of the name of the Eter- nal,— the persecution of the Jews by the Crusaders.
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Constitution and By-laws
The Constitution and By-Laws of the National League for Woman's Service have never been printed, but typewritten copies may be obtained at the Executive Office on the fourth floor.
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STEI.OS CO,
133 GEARY ST., SAN FRANCISCO 469 FIFTEENTH ST., OAKLAND
Largest repair service itt the West
HOW OFTEN
Do You Serve a Tempting
FISH ENTREE?
Many housewives slight fish menus
because of the inconveniences
of shopping.
We deliver daily to any part of the city.
You may order fresh fish here nwith entire confidence in our service.
Monterey Sea Food Co.
1985 Mission UNderhill 6075
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FOR SALE— -Beautiful old Brazilian to- paz set with ruby, emeralds and pearls. Has been in historic Spanish family 150 years. Can be seen at the League Shop, Women's City Club.
MONOGRAMS— Sterling silver, indi- vidual designs, hand-made. Add beauty and an original touch to your hat, purse or blouse by ordering one of these dis- tinctive monograms immediately. Tele- phone GRaystone 6425 between 6:00 and 8:00 P. M. for information, or address Box 12, Women's City Club Magazine.
FOR RENT— Charming Sausalito cot- tage, three rooms and bath, fireplace and big porch, close to boat. Ask for Mrs. Quelle, at Laneside Apartments, 191 Bulk- ley Ave. Telephone Sausalito 1.
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ANNIVERSARY NUMBER
pril ' 1929
Subscription $1.00 a year ' 15 cents a copy
Volume III ' No. 3
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Wings of Progress
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REO ANNOUNCES
— a special limitea eoition of Flying ClouJ THE MASTER
On the first of eacli monlli, beginning with March, every Reo Flying Cloud dealer will get his usual quota of cars— ptiM one car more.
This car, each month, will be an absolutely in- dividual creation— a limited de luxe edition of Flying Cloud the Matter. It will be upholstered in a special fabric never before used in motor cars. This fabric, made by Cheney Brothers, will be designed and woven solely for this car. The color scheme of the body will be in perfect harmony with the upholstery — an en- semble created by one of the foremost stylists in the country.
The Reo "Car of the Month" for March is shown here. Each dealer will be allotted one — no more. Each dealer will sell one — no more. lu the very large cities a few additional cars will be available . . . but even there the number will be defi- nitely limited.
The woman ^vho purchases this "Car of the Month" will have an individual car in the truest sense. Only rarely will she meet its duplicate on the high road ... It will be priced at only a hundred dollars more than the regular sport eedan of Reo Flying Cloud the Master . .
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB CALENDAR
APRIL 1 — APRIL 30. 1929
DOCTOR H. H. POWELL'S LECTURES ON THE BIBLE
Monday evenings at 7:30, Room 208. CURRENT EVENTS
Every Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock, Auditorium. Third Monday evening, 7:30 o'clock. Room 212. Mrs. Parker S. Maddux, Leader.
TALKS ON APPRECIATION OF ART
Monday mornings at 12 M, Card Room. Mrs. Charles E. Curry, Leader.
LEAGUE BRIDGE
Every Tuesday, 2 o'clock and 7:30 o'clock. Assembly Room.
THURSDAY EVENING PROGRAMS
Every Thursday evening, 8 o'clock, Auditorium. Mrs. A. P. Black, Chairman.
CHORAL SECTION
Every Friday evening at 7:30. Mrs. Jessie Taylor, Director. SUNDAY EVENING CONCERTS
Alternate Sunday evenings, 8:30 o'clock. Auditorium. Mrs. Leonard A. Woolams, Chair- man Music Committee.
April 2 — Lecture by Professor Alexander Kaun Assembly Room 11:00 A.M.
Subject: Lenin and His Legacy 3 — Book Review Dinner, Mrs. Thomas Stoddard, presiding . Assembly Room 6:00 P.M.
4 — Women's City Club Bridge Breakfast Auditorium 12:30 P.M.
Thursday Evening Program Assembly Room 8:00 P.M.
Subject: "Modern Progress in Ancient Capitals" Speaker: Miss Mary Wallace Weir
5 — Children's Swimming Meet Pool 4:30 P.M.
7 — Sunday Evening Concert, Miss Ruth Viola Davis, Hostess Auditorium 8:30 P.M.
Women's City Club Golf Tournament Ingleside Golf Links
9 — Lecture by Professor Alexander Kaun . Assembly Room 11:00 A.M.
Subject: Women in Revolution (third of series of lec- tures on "Portraits and Problems of the Russian Rev- olution")
11 — Thursday Evening Program Assembly Room 8:00 P.M.
Subject: "The Story of the Southwest Country" Speaker: Miss Mary Tucker
15 — Lecture by Irving Pichel Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
Subject: "Themes of Popular Contemporary Drama"
16 — Lecture by Professor Alexander Kaun Assembly Room 11:00 A.M.
Subject: Sex, Marriage, Divorce in Soviet Russia 17 — Volunteer Meetings
Shop Volunteers Board Room 10:00 A.M.
Day Restaurant Captains Board Room 10:45 A.M.
Day Library Volunteers Board Room 11:15 A.M.
Night Restaurant Captains Board Room 7:30 P.M.
Night Library Volunteers Board Room 8:30 P.M.
18 — Thursday Evening Program Assembly Room 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Mr. Frederick Robbins Subject: "We Go A-wandering in Holland" 19 — Discussion of Outstanding Articles in Current Magazines Assembly Room 2:00 P.M.
Mrs. Alden Ames, Chairman 21 — Sunday Evening Concert, Mrs. Romolo Sbarboro, Hostess . Auditorium 8:30 P.M.
22 — Lecture by Irving Pichel Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
Subject: American Folk Plays
23 — Lecture by Professor Alexander Kaun Assembly Room 11:00 A.M.
Subject: The Russian Rhythm
25 — Thursday Evening Program Assembly Room 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Mr. R. S. Wheeler Subject: "John Bull at Home"
29 — Lecture by Irving Pichel Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
Subject: The Negro in Contemporary Drama
30 — Lecture by Professor Alexander Kaun Assembly Room 11:00 A.M.
Subject: The Russian Theatre, Past and Present May 1 — Book Review Dinner. Informal Talk by Mrs. Thomas A.
Stoddard Assembly Room 6:00 P.M.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS of Women's City Club of San Francisco Elected January 14, 1929
Mrs. A. P. Black Mrs. S. G. Chapman Mrs. Marcus S. Koshland Miss Mabel Pierce
Mrs. William F. Booth, Jr. Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr. Miss Marion Leale Mrs. Edward Rainey
Mrs. Le Roy Briggs Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper Mrs. Parker 8. Maddux Mrs. Paul Shoup
Dr. Adelaide Brown Miss Marion Fitzhugh Miss Henrietta Moffat Mrs. H. A. Stephenson
Miss Sophronia Bunker Mrs. Cleaveland Forbes Mrs. Harry Staats Moore Mrs. T. A. Stoddard
Miss Marion Burr Mrs. Frederick Funston Miss Emma Noonan Miss Elisa May Willard
Mrs. Louis J. Carl Mrs. W. B. Hamilton Mrs. Howard G. Park Mrs. James T. Wood, Jr.
Mrs. Lewis Hobart Miss Esther Phillips
women's city club magazine for APRIL
1929
harming Homespun Presses and Ensembles
may be made from the new all-wool hand-loomed dress lengths imported by the League Shop.
Richly colored . . . varied in design ... a yard in width and four yards in length. Priced from $18.50 up.
New gift suggestions include smart woven sport scarfs and bags, bizarre lamps, and dis- tinctive wood plaques sand- etched on California Redwood.
The LEAGUE SHOP
Owned and operated by the
WOMEN'S CITY CLUB
In the corner of the Main Lobby
^is modem 'ice man* calls once "With Irigidaitc - anJ the ice stays always
THE "COLD CONTROL"
an exclusive feature of the new
FRIGIDAIRE
Temperatures to suit your various needs. You can regulate the speed of freezing ice cubes and desserts.
Call at our display rooms and see the perfections of the new Frigidaire — and learn how delicious recipes are now made possible by the Cold Control.
[Frigidaire Sales Corporation
Sir Francis Drake Hotel Building
475 Sutter Street San Francisco
Or call DO uglas 6444
An OIL JAR
to gracej> your garden
)HIS Oil Jar, like all of our garden pieces, is available in six colors... tur- quoise, green, blue, warm grey, puisichrome and terra cotta. Come to our salesroom and make your selection.
GLADDING, McBEAN & CO.
445 Ninth Street, San Francisco
At Hotel Del Monte...
MJB
COFFEE
Fastidious patrons of California's most famous resort enjoy the full-flavored richness of M. J. B. Coffee. It is served exclusively at Hotel Del Monte.
And in theWomen's City Club it's M. J. B. Coflfee !
THE
Womtn'^ Citj> Club jWaga^ine ^tfjool Birectorp
BOYS* SCHOOLS
THE POTTER SCHOOL
A Day School for Boys Primary, Grammar and High School Departments . , . featur- ing small classes and individual instruction. Prepares for all Eastern and Western colleges.
I. R. DAMON, A. M. (Harvard)
Headmaster 18f9 Pacific Ave. Telephone West 711
DREW
SCHOOL
A'Year High School Course admita to college. Credits valid in high acbool.
Grammar Courae,
accredited, saves half time.
Private Leaaona, any hour. Night, Day. Both sexes. Annapolis, West Point, College Board tutoring. Secretarial' Academic twcyear course, entitles to High School Diploma. Civil Service Coaching — all lines.
agoi California St.
Phone WEst 7069
GIRLS' SCHOOLS
The Margaret Bentley School
[Accredited] LUCY L. SOULE, Principal
High School, Intermediate and
Prinnary Grades
Home department limited
2722 Benvenue Avenue, Berkeley, Calif.
Telephone Thornwall 3820
The Sarah Dix Hamlin School
Thirty-fourth year
Boarding and Day School for Girls of all ages.
Pre-primary school giving special instruction
in French. College preparatory.
New Term Opens January 28th
A booklet of information will be furnished upon request.
Mrs. Edward B. Stan wood, B. L.
Principal 2120 Broad-w^ay Phone WEst 221 1
The Choice of a School
... is so personal a matter, of such importance to both your child and to you, that you wish naturally to give it much consideration. This School Directory is published for your benefit primarily . . . and we hope that in these pages you will find the school that fulfills your individual requirements.
Booklets for the schools rep- resented in this Directory may be secured at the Infor- mation Desk, Main Floor, Women's City Club.
BOYS* AND GIRLS' SCHOOLS
The
Airy Mountain School
Boarding and Day School
Out'of-door living
Group Activities Individual Instruction
Grammar School Curriculum
with French ANNETTB HASKELL FLAGG, Director Mill Valley, California TeUphoMM. V. 9»4 *
SCHOOL OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
IMPROVE YOURSELF
Evening classes in Poise, Conversation, Clothes, Social and Business Etiquette, Personality, Habits — one evening weekly, 7 to 8 p. m. Send for descriptive folder. $7.50 for course.
THE PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
301 Russ Building
DO uglas 6495; after 5 p. m., EV ergreen 3831
CROWS NEST FARM for Children
Telephone Fillmore 7625
SAN JUAN BAUTISTA
Third Season
June II to September
A Summer Camp for little boys and girls. Scientific diet, swimming, hiking — a whole- some, out-of-doors life in real farm country.
Daily Sun Baths
Illustrated booklet and information on request.
Mrs. Alice B. Canfield
Director
2653 Steiner Street, San Francisco
SECRETARIAL SCHOOLS
Y EXTI f resoi
Extra skill, extra resourcefulness*, and extra remuneration are the results of that extraordinary business preparation
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CO-EDUCATION Al.
<00 Sutler St., Sjn FrancUc* Phone FRanklin 0)0<
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California Secretarial Schoel
Instruction Dat AMD Evening
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RUSS BUILDING . . SAN HtANCMOO
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MacALEER SCHOOL For Private Secretaries
Each student receives individual instruction.
A booklet of information will be
furnished upon request.
Mary Genevieve MacAleer, Principal
68 Post Street Telephone DAvenport 6473
FRENCH INSTRUCTION
rOU MAT GO TO FRANCE... Learn
the beauties of the French language.
Private lessons by
ARNOLD DE NEUFORD
Information at desX in Club lobbv.
SCHOOL OF POPULAR MUSIC
CliRISTENSEN
Scnool of Popular Af.usic
JVlodern I ^^ M M Piano
Rapid Method — Beginners and Advanced Pupils
Individual Instruction
ELEVATED SHOPS, 150 POWELL STREET
Hours 10:30 A. M. to 9:00 P. M.
Phone GArfield 4079
women's city club magazine for APRIL
1929
Women's City Club Magazine
Published Monthly at 465 Post Street
Telephone KEarny 8400
Entered as second-class matter April 14, 1928, at the Post Office at San Francisco, California, under the act of March 3, 1879.
SAN FRANCISCO
Volume III
APRIL Y 1929
Number 3
QONTENTS
Club Calendar 2
Frontispiece 8
Editorial 18
Blank for Volunteer Service 19
Articles
As the Fourth Year Unfolds .... 9 By Marion W. Leale
Annual Membership Meeting of the
Women's City Club lU
Story of Albert Sidney Johnston ... 13 By Elsie G. Johnston Prichard
Activities in the Women's City Club . . 14
Decorative Arts Exhibit Illustrations . 16-17
Beyond the City Limits 19
By Mrs. Parker S. Maddux
Club Notes 20-21
Decorative Arts Exhibit 23
By Beatrice Judd Ryan
Is Mankind Like That? 27
By Rudolph Ericson
Monthly Departments
Travel — Native Market of Dar-Es-
Salaam 15
By Inglis Fletcher
Financial — Aviation Securities .... 28 By R. D. MacKenzie
Tailored Detail...
The Plaza Tie
with Alain Spring
.MONG those first to show the new. Walk -Over presents the PLAZA TIE. ..a Main Spring Arch model; thus introducing, for the first time this season, a com- bination of priceless color harmony . . . sunbucn calf with champagne calf tongue and under-lay.
We wish to extend
a special invitation to
WOMEN'S CITY CLUB
members to come in
and acquaint themselves
with our
Main Spring Arch
footwear.
844 MARKET STREET
SAN FRANCISCO
OAKLAND : BERKELEY SAN ;OSE
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women's city club magazine for APRIL
1929
What Are You Doing with Kerosene?
Nowadays, Burnbrite Kerosene has a new place in the household. This finer kerosene offers a whole alphabet of valued uses. Housewives every- where have learned to profit by them.
Ask today, at your grocer's or at the nearest red, green and cream service station, for the handy pamphlet about this "Kerosene of a Thousand Uses."
Learn about using it for cleaning, polishing, removing stains, as a disin- fectant— even in washing clothes !
Burnbrite Kerosene makes house- work easier in a score of useful ways. It's the "better" kerosene, yet costs no more than any other brand. A new, patented refining process has made Burnbrite Kerosene possible. It burns with a clear, white flame, and a clean, sweet odor.
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Refiners of Associated Gasoline . . . Cycol
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.T the great tea expositions in Cey- lon and India, Lip- ton's Tea Estates were awarded the First Prize and Gold Medal for the finest tea grown.
r ^J&'^^^^nrea Planter
Ceylon
LIPTONS
Tea Merchant by appointment to
LARGEST SALE IN THE WORLD
UNDERWEIGHT or OVERWEIGHT?
If you are run-down and under-weight 0 r uncom- fortably over-weight, we can help you regain your health and figure. Instruction given individually if preferred. Special classes for Business Women in the evening and for women of lei- sure morning and afternoon. Swedish Massage, Cabinet Baths, Hydrotherapy, Sun- ray Treatments. Nurse al- ways in attendance.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
SAN FRANCISCO ACADEMY OF PHYSICAL CULTURE
Lower Main Floor, Women's City Club Building Telephones: KEarny 8400 and KEarny 8170
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Arent we all —
a bit prone to pass responsibility to others?
Many readers have been very loyal the past two years, and their interest is apparent in the Magazine's steady growth — but this year each and every member must take her part if we are to make this department of the Women's City Club an unqualified success. Will you, personally, mention the Women's City Club Magazine this month when you pat- ronize the following advertisers?
Page
American Studios 22
Acme Fruit and Produce Company 32
Associated Oil Company 6
Bekins Van and Storage Company 27
The Bowl Shop 20
Byington Electric Company 25
California Stelos Company 20
Crow's Nest Farm for Children 21
Czecho-Slovak Art Shop 7
Del Monte Creamery 24
Dairy Delivery Company 32
Paul Elder Company 22
Frigidaire Sales Corporation 3
Gladding, McBean & Company 3
D. C. Heger 20
Dr. Edith M. Hickey (D. C.) 25
Hotel Holly Oaks 7
M. Johhs 20
H. L. Ladd 22
The League Shop 3
Liggett & Myers Company (Chesterfield Cigarettes)
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Lipton's Tea 6
Los Angeles Steamship Company 25
Lundy Travel Bureau 27
M. J. B. Coffee 3
Market Street Railway Company 30
Matson Navigation Company 26
McDonnell & Company 28
Metropolitan Union Market 24
Monterey Sea Food Company 24
Gabriel Moulin 32
North American Investment Corporation 29
The Nutradiet Company 31
O'Connor, MofTatt & Company 23
Panama Mail Steamship Company 25
Pelican Paper Company 22
Persian Art Centre 32
Pickwick Corporation 29
Poirier 20
Reo Motor Car Company of California 1
Rhoda-on-the-Roof 22
Roigil's 22
Roos Bros 21
Gennaro Russo 22
Samarkand Ice Cream 30
San Francisco Examiner 29
San Francisco Institute of Physical Culture 6
San Francisco Ladies' Protection and Relief Society 30
San Francisco Municipal Chorus 21
Santa Fe Railway Company 26
W. & J. Sloane Third Cover
Howard F. Smith & Company Second Cover
Southern Pacific Company 24
Standard Oil Company (Oronite) 31
Streicher's 23
Superior Blanket and Curtain Cleaning Works 32
Tanner Motor Tours 20
F. Thomas Parisian Dyeing and Cleaning Works 30
Walk-Over Shoe Store 5
Juliat Wynestock 7
SCHOOL DIRECTORY 3
Airy Mountain School Drew School
Margaret Bentley School Potter School
California Secretarial Sarah Dix Hamlin School
School Munson School
Christensen School of MacAleer School
Popular Music Personal Development
Arnold de Neuford Institute
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
OF CLUB MEMBERS 27
Miss Mary L. Barclay Florence R. Keene
Mrs. Fitzhugh Miss M. Philomene Hagan
'Peasant Presses
Created in the Czecho'
Slovakyan Home Toum
Atmosphere
i^ ASHING, quaint, differ- ent ... so fascinating as to captivate the fashion- wise of the world's style centers. Although they fa- vor peasant lines, they are Parisianly chic. Nothing but the finest of season- able materials enters into their making . . . and yet they are inexpensive.
They are
simply impossible of
imitation
The first of the Spring
Models are noiv being
shoivn
ORIGINAL
Cz^echo-Slovak Art Shop
418 GEARY STREET FRanklin 9062 Opposite Geary and Curran Theaters
Pistyan
New York
Paris
Los Angeles
An Old ^Fashioned Home in an Old-^Fashioned Garden
A congenial resting spot, of widely known reputation
as an attractive and comfortable hotel.
Open to guests throughout the year.
Few minutes' walk from ferry.
HOTEL HOLLY OAKS
SAUSALITO
Telephone Sausalito 8
Or write Mary Irwin Sichel, Managing Owner
CI
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Technique of the Russian Ballet
Poise . . . Grace . . . Body Development
Class instruction or private lessons for adults and
children . . . beginners and advanced pupils.
Special care given juveniles.
Classes for •it.-omen in exercises that develop poise and correct over^'eight
Miss Juliat Wynestock
San Francisco Studio in the Whitcomb Hotel
MARKET AT CIVIC CENTER
HEmlock 3200
Af-pointmcnts may be made Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
AT THE HELM
fXECUTIVE COiMMITTEE
of Women's City Club for 1929-1930. Left to right: Mrs. Paul Shoup.
Second Vice-President ; Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper, First Vice-President ;
Miss Marion H' . Leale, President; Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr.,
Recording Secretary,'- Mrs. S. G. Chapman, Treasurer; Mrs.
fV. F. Booth, Jr., Corresponding Secretary, and Miss
Mabel Pierce, Third Vice-President.
WOMEN^S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE
VOLUME III
SAN FRANCISCO ' APRIL
1929
NUMBER 3
As THE f O
By Marion Wh
President Wojnens City
THE last lap in the establishment of the financial pro- gram under which our clubhouse was builded is upon us. This year we make the first amortization payment — in other words, after this our interest charges reduce and likewise our obligations in geometric progres- sion. It is readily seen then that 1929 brings the test of the earning capacity of our clubhouse. This is as it should be. Those who wisely outlined the financing of the Women's City Club of San Francisco put no impossible drain on the first few years, while the new machinery was getting into gear. They arranged a rapidly accelerating scale, however, after the first year, feeling sure that this was justified. And so we come to the hour when the test of this policy is at hand.
Being persuaded that to those of us who believe in its soundness comes the duty of supporting its program to the full, many of the familiar leaders of the building project have again accepted office. The policies of the year are therefore definite. The renting of all areas originally scheduled for income for the first five years must be ac- complished— stores, show-cases, second floor space, audi- toriums. The clubroom facilities must be used to capacity — swimming pool, beauty salon, dining rooms, card rooms, bedrooms. The incidental earnings must be added to the exchequer — guest-card privileges, profit from League Shop and Sage Circulating Library, magazine profit, gifts of bonds, etc. With each member enthusiastic in her personal use of her own clubhouse, this financial program easily be- comes a reality, justifying the vision of our founders.
Advisedly I have put "the cart before the horse" by men- tioning first the financial angle of the year's policy, for on
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ITFIELD LeALE
Club of San Francisco
this depends the buying of our very own home. I want to stress, however, not the result — increased earnings — but rather the cause.
We are banded together in the National League for Woman's Service for one purpose — "to offer opportunities for the guidance, the training and the development of women through its various departments of service to women." Housed in one of the most beautiful of the mod- ern clubhouses in the United States, this organization has as its reason for existence "an idea whose day has come." At the conference of twelve City Club Presidents in Boston last year, I listened intently to the discussion of the future development of women's clubs. I realized then as never before why the Women's City Club of San Francisco need never fear degeneration. I wish there were another noun available for us, for "club" does not describe us. Visitors call it "atmosphere," "homelikeness," "spirit," and pro- nounce it unique. It is all this and more. We have the secret of success. We are women of every creed and social environment; of diverse interests and tastes; the home- maker, the business woman, the professional woman ; the artist, the author, the musician. We serve together. We move forward, not by the accomplishment of any one genius but by the united work of seven thousand women joined in an eternal program — to be developed through the ages.
And so we have come to the opening of another fiscal year — our twelfth birthday. Our hopes for this year are large. We have a program demanding the most of our volunteer efforts. I pledge all I have to the task you have assigned me. In turn I ask each of you to give of yourself in this program of volunteer service for which our club is famous throughout the world.
There Was a Miracle
By Abigail Cresson
There was a miracle of loaves and fishes, A miracle of water turned to wine . . , Through the bare earth a little leaf blade pushes, Slim as a sword and delicate and fine . . .
From a brown seed no larger than a pin point, A leaf, a stem, a bud. a flower, and then From flower a seed in rhythmical rotation To leaf and stem and bud and flower again . . .
There was a miracle of loaves and fishes; But I have seen the miracle of spring! The wonder that is life itself unfolding — I have no room for doubt of anything!
\V O M E X ' S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for APRIL
1929
Annual Membership Meeting of the Women s City Club
THE annual membership meet- ing of the Women's City Club was held Thursday evening, March 14, at the Women's City Club, with a "no hostess" dinner before the regular order of business for all who desired to join the board of directors in the dining room.
Miss Marion Leak, newly elected president of the Women's City Club, called the meeting to order and after but a few sentences turned the meet- ing over to Mrs. A. P. Black, retiring president, who gave a review of her stewardship and called for reports of the four departments and several com- mittees which had carried on the work of the Women's City Club in the last year.
The reports of the departments (Beauty Salon, League Shop, Swim- ming Pool and Vocational Guidance Bureau) and of the committees are given in this issue of the Women's City Club Magazine so far as space permits. The balance will be pub- lished in the April issue.
At the conclusion of the annual re- ports Mrs. Black turned the meeting back to Miss Leak's chairmanship and the new president outlined the respon- sibilities facing the incoming adminis- tration.
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Antiual Report of the President
The business of being President of the Women's City Club involves a clear conception of the scope of the organization as a whole and a keen sense of her obligation to work for its best interests. Her daily task is to meet propositions and problems as they are presented and to give to each its just share of consideration. She works toward her ideals by maintaining for the organization as high a standard of operation as conditions will permit, by seeking to preserve and enhance its suc- cess in the purpose for which it was initiated and by realizing that the trust placed in her demands that she make the well-being and prosperity of the Club her chief concern.
During the past year, we tried to keep these things clearly in mind. Our aim was to make the Club a center of hospitality, to strengthen its place in the regard of the community ; to spon- sor such propositions of education and entertainment that will give the Club the reputation of standing only for what is worthy and valuable ; to real- ize the human values in so democratic an organization b^- meeting each mem- ber according to her circumstances and social need ; to spread an atmosphere
of confidence throughout the member- ship that the officers invested with the power of leadership are constantly con- cerned with promoting the best inter- ests of the Club and of increasing its advantages.
Linked with all these obligations was the necessity of a close considera- tion of our financial undertaking. We were concerned with efficiency in care- ful management, with refraining from expenditures that could be avoided, and from entertaining propositions that were uncertain as to profit or loss. We have the satisfaction to know that several of our departments have made progress financially and that none has met with an alarming loss.
The year was an active one, filled with much business, as the reports of the various committees have disclosed. Some new projects of interest and im- portance were initiated. Among these may be mentioned the two all-day con- ferences devoted to the discussion of the subject of "The Development and Beautification of San Francisco." These conferences were arranged by Mrs. Parker Maddux, who secured able and noted speakers to present spe- cial phases of the general subject. The conferences attracted sufficient interest to warrant their continuance at inter- vals.
The first Decorative Art Exhibition arranged by the Society of Women Artists with the Club co-operating, was held in our Auditorium last April. Encouraged by this display as a pioneer effort in aid of a worthy object, the Board of Directors entered into the same agreement for the second and more extensive exhibition held this year. A system of periodic health examina- tions was initiated for club members during the first two weeks of October. This was arranged somewhat after the plan adopted by the Boston City Club, but all special requirements, such as securing competent physicians and see- ing that medical regulations were properly met, were made by Dr. Ade- laide Brown. She reported that com- petent authority considered this proj- ect one of the most important pieces of service work undertaken by the Club. A second period of these health exam- inations will occur during the first two weeks of April.
In accordance with the thought of providing entertainment varied enough to attract all temperaments, a bridge tea was planned and successfully car- ried out on December 6. The com- mittee for this party acted under the capable chairmanship of Mrs. J. V. Rounsefell, and nearly 100 tables
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were sold at $4.00 apiece, giving a good financial return to the Club. The success of this venture led to the plan- ning of another party to take the form of a bridge breakfast, set for April 4 at 12:30.
During the months of November, December and January a series of Sat- urday matinees for children were given under the auspices of the City Club and Miss Alice Seckels. These entertainments were very popular with a number of children, but the preva- lence of different forms of illness pre- vented the large audiences we had hoped for. However, they were not operated at a loss and we considered the project a worthy one.
A number of interesting and profit- able lecture courses were carried on through the year. In December Pro- fessor Benjamin H. Lehman gave a short course on Shakespeare, prepara- tory to the season of plays by the Stratford-on-Avon Company. Two long courses on literary subjects were also presented by Professor Lehman, beginning each year in January. Dur- ing October and November, Professor Edward M. Hulme gave a course of six lectures describing conditions in European countries as noted and ob- served in a recent tour. Dr. H. H. Powell presented of course of Lenten Lectures last year, taking as his sub- ject "The Life of Christ." He is giv- ing a similar course this year on "The Life of St. Paul" and also a Monday evening course on "The Bible." On single lectures presented, two are no- table— that of Miss Maude Royden. last March, and that of Carl Sand- burg, in February of this year.
One of the new activities of the Club is a Choral recently organized under the competent leadership of Mrs. John L. Taylor, with Mrs. Horatio Stoll as accompanist. Such a section will be a valuable asset to the Club for its musical program, besides giving pleasure and benefit to the group of singers.
The Club was the recipent of sev- eral valuable gifts during the past year. Mrs. Sarah Rosenstock, on the occasion of her eighty-fifth birthday last September, sent a check for five hundred dollars to the library fund, in memory of her daughter, Mrs. Hilda Nuttall. This was in addition to the sum of $2500 given previously to the same fund.
Early in the year a letter was re- ceived from Dr. Charles Miner Cooper, signifying his purpose of bear- ing the expense of operating the De- partment of Vocational Guidance for
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the year. This generous gift amounted to $2100.
Two bonds of the Post Street In- vestment Company were presented to the Club by Miss Gail Sheridan and Miss Blanche Rawdon, respectively.
Many persons of note and distinc- tion were entertained at the Club at special functions during the year. The names of these ladies and gentlemen have been noted in the report of the Chairman of our Hospitality Com- mittee.
In making this report, I am mindful of the friendliness, helpfulness and co-
operation which were shown me from all directions throughout the year and which made possible the activity and progress achieved by the Club. I wish also to bear testimony to the unfailing, thoughtful and efficient support which was given me by our Executive Secre- tary, Miss Carlie Tomlinson. It was more than co-operation, for in many cases it was suggestion from a mind alert and concerned with all matters of possible advantage to the Club. These suggestions, whenever found feasible, we acted upon and worked
out together. It was all this friendli- ness and uniform courtesy from mem- bership and staff that made the year a serene and happy period and kept the way clear for the creative and con- structive activity that made it success- ful. It was a matter of thankfulness to be able to render service and to feel confident that if wc could not reach the goal of our ambition, we did in- deed make some progress in a forward direction.
Respectfully submitted, Fannie Lvne Black. President.
Vocational Information Bureau
During the last year 1459 persons made use of the Bureau and 801 tele- phone calls were answered. They touched upon many subjects.
Apart from local correspondence, letters were received from and writ- ten to nine states outside California, and to twenty towns in this state.
We were in touch, through corre- spondence or interview, with the fol- lowing: Columbia University; Educa- tional and Industrial Union, Boston ; University of Michigan ; Mt. Holy- oke ; Stanford University; University of California; Mills College; Uni- versity of Southern California; State Teachers College, San Jose ; The Vo- cational Bureau, Pasadena ; The Bu- reau of Vocational Service, Los An- geles; The President, Bay Branch American Association of University Women.
Our callers were sent by the uni- versities, schools, social agencies, vo- cational bureaus of southern Califor- nia, personnel departments in stores and organizations, Californians Incor- porated, Chamber of Commerce, Brit- ish Consulate General, Y. W. C. A. (local and international), clerical and domestic employment agencies, mem- bers of the Club and strangers. They included many Club members, among whom were members of our Board of Directors.
Among visitors from other parts were the following: Mary Anderson, Director Women's Department, Bu- reau of Labor, Washington, D. C. ; Jo Coffin, printer. New York; Miss Christian, Chicago ; on their way to the Pan-Pacific Institute; Miss M. Gutteridge, Welfare Worker, Mel- bourne, Australia ; Mrs. M. Joy, Di- rector Adult Education, University of Southern California; Miss Phin- ney, National Y. W. C. A., New York; Miss Fox, Women's City Club, Chicago ; Celia Case, Field Represen- tative National Retail Merchants As- sociation ; Miss Blanche Clark, Rep- resentative Better Homes in America; Miss Winifred M. Hausam, Los Angeles.
The Director, Miss Macrae, at- tended the Conference of Social Work at Yosemite, addressed a meeting at Lux School, and made many calls in order to acquire information.
Evening meetings were arranged for April and October. The April subject was "Merchandising." Speak- ers: Richard M. Neustadt and Mary J. Cantor, White House. Mrs. Katherine P. Edson was the October speaker. The subject was: "Women at the Pan-Pacific Institute." Both meetings were preceded by a dinner.
The first part of the course for Vol- unteers in Social Service was held from October 4 to November 22. The general theme was Child Welfare. The first five talks were in co-opera- tion with the Junior League. The speakers were : Doctors Olga Bridg- man, Adelaide Brown, Jean Mac- Farlane, Anita M. Meuhl, R. L, Richards, Misses Emma H. Noonan and Mary I. Preston. The second part was held from January 15 to March 2. The speakers were: Mrs. M. Paige, Miss Piekarskie, Mrs. R. Rypine, Miss E. Shirpser, Miss H. Whitney. These talks were amplified by visits to the Children's Hospital, the Nursery School and the San An- selmo Orphanage.
My committee was ever ready with its support and advice. To Doctor Adelaide Brown and Miss Emma H. Noonan, a sub-comjnittee, special thanks are due for their work in con- nection with the course for Volunteers in Social Service.
The many expressions of apprecia- tion received through the year testified to the results the Bureau has achieved in its work of supplying information, making contacts and guiding these who called upon its service.
Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper,
Chairman.
Last October the Golf Section held its First Annual Handicap Golf Tournament at the Ingleside Golf Course, where the Women's City Club members were allowed certain privileges as to reserved playing time, and given free rein to take charge of the course during the tournament. At the Ingleside Club House the com- forts and needs of the players were well looked after. Ted Robbins, the City Club Golf professional, acted as starter and referee, and due to his
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superintendence and tireless efforts, the success of the day was largely at- tributable. In the evening Mrs. Black presided at a golf dinner, which was held in the Defenders' Dining Room, where speeches were made, and the trophies awarded.
February 16 Miss Harriett Adams. Captain of the Golf Team, gave a large Golf Tea in tlie American Room to all members interested in golf ; the objective being to discuss plans and make entries for the Second Handicap
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Golf Tournament, which will again be held at Ingleside on Sunday after- noon. April 7. at one o'clock, under the direction and personal supervision of Miss Adams and Mr. Robbins. In the evening there will be a golf dinner in the Defenders' Room, at which Miss Alarion Leale. our new Presi- dent, will preside. The trophies have already been purchased and are on dis- play in the middle case of the main arcade.
Miss Evelvn Larkin, Chairman.
women's city club magazine for APRIL
1929
Beauty Salon Annual Report
The Beauty Salon has been oper- ated as a department of the Club since September, 1927. Before that, you will remember, it was a concession, the development of which was satis- factory neither to the Club nor to the concessionaire, and the arrangement was terminated by a cash settlement and a cancellation of the contract.
At the beginning of 1928, your Committee decided to make an effort to secure volume of business. To this end the work of the operators was watched carefully that we might re- tain only the best, and the amount in dollars and cents done by each was checked regularly. To attract mem- bers to the department and acquaint them with the quality of the services offered there, various specials at re- duced prices were advertised. But the volume increased very slowly.
Later in the year a number of ex- pedients in management were tried
This has been a very busy, very happy twelve months in our beautiful pool whose popularity seems to be ever increasing — 24,548 was the total attendance for the year, of which number 8,789 were guests. As for swimming lessons, the total was 2,817 — an average of ten each day. There were also special periods set aside for coaching those who are preparing to enter contests and swimming exhibi- tions.
Many parties and swimming units have added interest for the children and their friends. The first official meet of the year was held in the club pool on March 9th, with national and state champions competing. It is in- teresting to know that the 100 yards back-stroke race was made in the best time ever recorded by a Pacific Coast swimmer. There were fifty compet- itors in this meet, twenty of whom were daughters of Club members.
Miss Edith Hurtgen, daughter of Mrs. Alfred Hurtgen, placed second in the fifty yards free style champion- ship for junior women at Sutro Baths.
In April, American Red Cross Be- ginners' and Swimmers' Tests were given, all the children who took part being successful.
During the past year there has been apparently no abatement of interest in current world topics regardless of the fact that the leader of the section was obliged to omit meetings for near- ly three months owing to her illness. Attendance Wednesday mornings av-
that the utmost efficiency might be had from the personnel, but the increase in volume remained dishearteningly slow. The committee now realized that the recognition by the members of the Beauty Salon as a department of serv- ice to themselves and of profit to the Club was to be a work of slow and patient education. The overhead was reduced by the elimination of an oper- ator and the appointment of a desk clerk.
At this time the expansion of the Minerva Products Co. required the whole attention of Mrs. Russ who had managed the department, and Mrs. Pauline Deane was made manager, Mrs. Russ continuing in an advisory capacity to the Committee. Meetings were held by the Committee with the manager and the personnel, an esprit- de-corps established and many small economies in operation effected.
Swimming Pool
At Easter, fifty swimmers partici- pated in an interesting meet.
During May, the Polytechnic High School held a meet in the Club pool, a large number of swimmers competing.
Miss Hurtgen again distinguished herself by swimming the 100 yards Pacific Coast junior back-stroke championship, although in her first j'ear of competitive swimming.
No swimming meets were held in June, July or August owing to the demand for lessons. However, Red Cross Beginners' and Swimmers' Tests were again given, in which six- teen children were successful.
In September, the swimmers en- joyed a picnic at Fort Baker. Forty- one children with their mothers at- tended.
October brought a gay Hallowe'en party, when the gallery was crowded with parents and friends to watch sixty j'oung swimmers compete. Per- haps the most auspicious event in this month was the organization of the Women's City Club Swimming Team. Eight swimmers qualified and these girls will carry the Club colors at all swimming meets in and around San Francisco.
In the month of December two meets were held, one the annual event
Current Events Section
erages about 125, and has been as high as 175; in the evening group, now held the third ]\Ionday of each month, about 50 attend.
By vote of both groups in attend- ance, a resume in lecture form is given instead of discussion, although ques-
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The gross income for the year was $13,776.88. The gross expenses were $16,108.90, showing a net loss for the year of $2232.02 (rent). Because this was the first full year that the Club operated this department, there is no comparison possible between 1928 and the preceding year. A comparison of the last four months of 1927 with the corresponding months of 1928 are in- teresting only in that they show an increase of one and one-half times in the gross income.
While your committee cannot claim any success from its efforts for 1928, it feels that a certain amount of ground work has been done and is still confident that this department will eventually be operated with profit by the Club. How soon that will be de- pends largely upon the support re- ceived from the members, their helpful criticism and their encouragement.
Mrs. S. G. Chapman, Chairman.
of the Eakin Play School, the other our own Christmas party.
Throughout the year many groups took advantage of the privilege granted them in the use of the Club swimming pool. Among these are the Zellerbach Paper Company, Federal Reserve Bank Club, members of the Stock and Bond Association, groups from Stanford Hospital, Sarah Dix Hamlin School, Lux School and Camp Fire. Also several members have given swimming parties.
These special activities, in addition to the routine work, are most effi- ciently managed by three teachers and an office staff of two. The committee would pay them tribute for scrupulous attention to duty, and maintenance of highest standards in work and play.
Very grateful mention should be given the volunteers, through whose service the pool is open each Sunday morning from ten o'clock until twelve. This is a pleasant time for a swim and an opportunity which we urge more of you to embrace.
The City Club Swimming Pool is spotless and never over-crowded. We commend it to you, your daughters and friends as a delightful asset in the maintenance of beauty and health.
Edith L. Stephenson, Chairman.
tions are encouraged. This is the fourth continuous year of Current Events and this volunteer service is free to members and friends of the Club.
Mrs. Parker S. Maddux,
Chairman.
women's city club magazine for APRIL
1929
Albert Xidmey Johmstqm
and the Story of the Attempted'' Re pub tic of the Pacific'
An Episode of Early California History
By Elsie G. Johnston Prichard
Member Women's City Club of San Francisco
Granddaughter of General Albert Sidney Johnston
MANY and various have been the statements as to "who saved California to the Union," and astounding in the ex- treme are some of the claims put forth, and the statements made as to occur- rences at that time.
From the statements of eye-wit- nesses, and participants, I have pre- pared some account of the actual events in San Francisco in the spring of 1861, including the attempt to form a "Republic of the Pacific," here and align it with the States of the South- ern Confederacy.
In his personal narrative of early times in San Francisco, Harpending says: "The attitude of California was a matter of supreme moment, not understood, however, at the time. Had this isolated State on the Pacific joined the Confederate States it would have complicated the problems of war pro- foundly. With the City of San Fran- cisco and its then impregnable forti- fications in Confederate hands, the outward flow of gold, on which the Union cause depended in a large meas- ure, would have ceased. ... It was the easiest thing in the world to open and maintain connection through savage Arizona into Texas, one of the strong- holds of the South. It does not need a military expert to figure out what a vital advantage to the Confederacy the control of the Pacific would have proved. ... I am going to relate for the first time the inside story of the well planned effort to carry California out of the Union, and by what a nar- row margin (the absolute loyalty to his trust of one man) it finally failed of its acomplishment when success seemed absolutely secured."
One afternoon Harpending was told be at at the house of a well- known Southern sympathizer at nine o'clock that night, and there was formed a band of men whose hope it was to make California a part of the Southern Confederacy.
Of this band each member was re- sponsible for the organization of a fight- ing force of say one hundred men. Each member selected an agent or captain devoted to the cause of the South, and these bands were scattered in places about the bay, ostensibly engaged in some peaceful occupation, such as
wood-chopping, fishing, or the like, but in reality awaiting the word to act. Only the general (of the band) knew the location of the various detach- ments.
"Our plans were to paralyze all organized resistance by a simultaneous
General Albert Sidney Johnston
attack. The Federal army was little more than a shadow. About two hundred soldiers were at Fort Point, (now Fort Scott) less than a hundred at Alca- traz, and a handful at Mare Island, and at the war arsenal at Benicia. We proposed to carry these strongholds by a night attack, and also seize the arsenals in San Francisco, and with this abounding military equipment, to organize an army of Southern sym- pathizers, sufficient to beat down armed resistance. We had already under discipline a body of fine fighting men, far more than enough to take the initial step with a certainty of suc- cess. All of which may seem chimerical at this late day, but then, take my word, it was an opportunity absolutely within our grasp."
At least thirty per cent of the popula- tion of California was from the South. Of the remainder, a large proportion were foreign born, amongst whom were many French, who were, with one accord, Southern sympathizers.
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The large number of native Spanish- Californians were for the most part Southern in feeling also. The South- ern pioneers and the Spaniards here had always been on terms of friend- ship and understanding, and many a young Spanish-Californian fought in the Confederate Army — going South with some well-loved Southern-born "compadre" perhaps, and donning the gray uniform to fight — and sometimes give up his life — in his friend's cause.
To quote again from Harpending:
"The Republic of the Pacific that we intended to organize as a prelim- inary would have been well received by many who later were almost clamorous in the support of the Fed- eral Government. Everything was in readiness by the middle of January, 1861. It only remained to strike the blow. General Albert Sidney John- ston was in command of the military department of the Pacific. Johnston was born in Kentucky, but in later years spoke of and considered Texas his state. Thus he had a double bond of sympathy for the South. This was the man who had the fate of California absolutely in his hands. No one doubted the drift of his inclinations. No one who knew them and his exacting sense of honor doubted his absolute loyalty to any trust, in all of our deliberations, General Johnston only figured as a factor to be taken by surprise and sub- dued by force. We wished him well, hoped he might not sufier in the brief struggle, but nobody dreamed for an instant that his integrity as com- mander in chief of the army could be tampered with."
A few words concerning General Johnston's attitude towards the ques- tions preceding the war are necessary to show you what type of a man and what type of a mind there was to con- front the problems of the time.
General Johnston understood the delicate and complicated mechanism of our government ; but he also knew that the sovereignty of the States was the Palladium of our liberties, and was to be respected and defended with jealous care. He had no doubts as to which party was the aggressor, and his con- victions, as well as his sympathies, were with his own State and section.
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1929
EM-s City Club Affai:
Fine for Failure to Vote Article VIII of the Constitution and By-Laws of The National League for Woman's Service, which operates and maintains the Women's City Club at 465 Post Street, San Francisco, reads :
"The annual election of the Board of Directors by the League member- ship shall be held on the second Mon- day in January at the League between the hours of 9 a. m. and 6 p. m. Signed ballots may be sent by mail. One week prior to the election the Presi- dent shall appoint an election commit- tee consisting of three members of the League. It shall be the duty of the election committee to provide a ballot box and printed ballots and to make a written return of the results of the election to the President and the Ex- ecutive Secretary. THERE SHALL BE A FINE OF TWENTY-FIVE CENTS IMPOSED ON EACH MEMBER WHO FAILS TO VOTE AT THE ANNUAL ELECTION."
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Gift jo r Clut) Auditor Lum Mrs. J. P. Rettenmeyer has given to the City Club the handsome silk shades which were placed over the electric lights in the Auditorium for the Decorative Arts Exhibit recently held at the Club. The shades were much admired at that time and have since remained.
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Peter Ilyan, San Francisco painter, is doing a portrait of Mrs. Herbert Hoover for the Women's City Club. Mrs. Hoover, who is a member of the Women's City Club, herself selected the photograph from which the artist is working and it is expected that shortly there will be a handsome pic- ture of the First Lady of America hanging in a conspicuous place in the City Club. , , ,
Mrs. Edward H. Clark Recording Secretary
Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr., has been appointed by the board of direct- ors of the Women's City Club to fill the vacancy made by the moving of Mrs. James Theodore Wood, Jr., re- cording secretary, to Los Angeles.
Mrs. Clark has been a member of the Board of Directors of the City Club for the last year. Mrs. Wood was but recently made recording sec- retary and the Board of Directors is sorry to lose her services. She and her husband will make their home in Los Angeles indefinitely.
Health Examinations
The second Health examination for members of the Women's City Club will begin April 1 and close April 13. Dr. Adelaide Brown is chairman of the committee which is arranging for the examination and many members have availed themselves of the privi- lege of having expert authorities in medicine and surgery take inventory of their physical fitness, having filled out the blank which was published in the March number of the Women's City Club Magazine.
Last year's examination took place in October and was eminently suc- cessful.
The staff for the health examina- tions includes :
General Examinations: Ina M. Richter, M. D. ; Ethel Owen, M. D.
Gynaecological Examinations: Al- ice Maxwell, M. D.; Alma Penning- ton, M. D.
Laboratory Work: Aghavni A. Shaghoian, M. D. ; Hilda Davis, M. D.
A graduate nurse will be on hand to assist the several physicians.
Members desiring further informa- tion may address Dr. Adelaide Brown, Chairman Committee on Health Exa- minations, Women's City Club, 465 Post Street, San Francisco, in writing, or by telephone, GR aystone 0728, be- tween 2 and 4 o'clock daily (except Saturday) .
Dr. Brown's committee includes: Mrs. S. G. Chapman, Mrs. Parker S. Maddux, Miss Emma Noonan, Ina M. Richter, M. D., and Mrs. A. P. Black.
Guest Tea Charge Changed
Owing to the fact that each activity and department of the Women's City Club is expected to defray its own expenses and a budget of its output and increment is carefully kept, it has been voted to change the price of the tea service at the occasional teas in honor of distinguished visitors from twenty-five to thirty-five cents. It was found that the original charge did not entirely cover the actual cost of serv- ing the teas. Charge for tea in the Lounge for members remains the same. ^ ^ ^
Suggestion Box There is now a suggestion box at the Information Desk on the Main Floor, where members may leave sug- gestions which they may wish brought before City Club executives.
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Display Cases in Charge oj Mrs. Howard Park
Mrs. Howard G. Park has been appointed chairman of a committee in charge of the rental of showcases in the lobby of the Women's City Club.
There are six attractive cases in clearest glass with walnut frames or any other finish the lessee may desire. They will be rented as units or di- vided into compartments, according to the space wanted by the lessee, and will be rented from month to month or by yearly contract. If taken by the year there is a discount.
Many thousands pass through the lobby of the City Club in the course of a few weeks, thereby giving inten- sive advertising value to the display cases. Merchandise shown in the cases has been "turned over" many times its value in a few days, it has been proven by actual test. The lobby is more than a passage from street to lounge. It is a rendezvous for members and their friends and the merchandise in display cases always engages the atten- tion of "those who wait."
Prospective lessees may address Mrs. Park at the Women's City Club, 465 Post Street.
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Volunteers Asked to Fill in Blank
Mrs. W. F. Booth, Jr., the City Club's newly appointed chairman of Volunteer Service, calls attention to the blank on this page which may be filled by members who wish to volun- teer their services in cafeteria, library, League Shop, Lounge Tea or other place in the Club which Volunteers work.
Mrs. Booth expects so many to vol- unteer their services that the shifts will be short, with an adequate substi- tute list to fall back upon in case of emergency. The Volunteer Service regime has been one of the depart- ments to which the City Club has "pointed with pride," and each suc- ceeding year finds a larger army, but, conversely, more to do.
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Check Room Congestion Attention of City Club members using the check rooms is called to the fact that there are many articles and packages now accumulated in the check room, which has resulted in crowded shelves. It is probable that many have forgotten articles which they have checked. It would be a great help to the check girl if members would call for packages as soon as possible.
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The Nature Market of Dar-esSalaam
By Ingljs Fletcher
[Mrs. Fletcher spent last summer in the interior of East Africa and ijent "safari" into regions never before trod hy a iihite ivoman.)
\?> a bit of inspiration came the AA decision to visit the Native -*■ •*- Market of Dar-es-Salaam. We went off the ship and at the Customs dock we took a rickshaw. We, being the Englishman who had volunteered to show me Eastern bargaining, and myself. A smiling native "boy" at- tired in a tattered pair of khaki shorts and a once white balbriggan under- vest which reached almost to his bare brown knees, drew up in answer to our call for "rickshaw" and we clam- bered in. (The sun was getting low but still a trifle fierce so I had on a large white felt hat with an inter- lining of red flannel to keep out the rays of the sun.) We bobbed along over the rough streets which were be- ing repaired, one boy pulling and one pushing the rickshaw from the rear — down through the main street, past the station and into the Native quarter.
Here the character of the place changed quickly, streets narrowed, Indian names over open shops and hotels. East Indians in long robes and turbans and smartly dressed modern Indians, wearing the habitual white drill of the European in the tropics; slim, swarthy, with rather tragic eyes. These Indians have become the trad- ers of East Africa. Everywhere the Banyan, as they are called, has the shops that deal with the native. He sells the bright calico that the African native uses for his clothes — and the bright beads which are the delight of the women. The red fezzed Moham- medan and his sewing machine are seen on the veranda of the cottages, thatched with palm fibre, along the roads. He makes the clothes for both European and native.
Past the Indian section of the town we ran in the narrow streets of the native village — picturesque setting, with tall cocoanut palms rising to great heights, outlined against an ex- traordinarily blue sky.
The native huts are made of mud, plastered on to bamboo frames with sloping roofs of palm thatched, which extends well out past the walls on all sides, forming a veranda. On the ver- anda the native life goes on — the in- side being used as a sleeping room only. The cooking pots are outside, the maize is ground there in stone mor- tars with big wooden pestles. Fish laid on huge copper trays is fried over charcoal fires by native women kneel- ing before the trays. Dressed in vivid calico clothes in flamboyant designs, scarlet, bright blue, yellow, wrapped
about their bare bronze shoulders and arms, their hair braided in rows, with shaved parts between each row, these women are exotic figures. A copper- smith beats out his trays — heating the copper over a small fire ; an old man sleeps on his grass mat ; children, naked, roam on the streets, agile as monkeys in getting out of the way of rickshaws, bikes and occasional motors.
Some of the huts were round, some surrounded by a fence of palms laced together to make a compact lattice. The huts were teeming with people, men, women and children — no race suicide in Africa amongst the blacks.
After winding in and out of long lanes and streets we came upon a huge square — the size of about four city
Sitges hy the Sea, on the Mediterranean,
tiventy miles from Barcelona, is on the
road to Africa. This Romanesque-Gothic
house, high above the sea, adds neiv
beauty to the shore.
blocks, in the center a huge market, built with uprights and roof, but no walls, being open all the way through. It was a gorgeous splash of color set in mango and casuarina trees.
Rows and rows of vegetables, fruits, fish, meats and grain in piles. The merchants sat on the floor, their wares in front of them — smiling Indians in white muslin coats and trousers — na- tive men and women in red or blue wrapped cloths. The vegetables were arranged in little piles, or in palm fibre hand woven baskets which the Swahili is so skillful in making.
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The vegetable stalls were a still life picture, worthy of the brush of some great artist — yellow carrots, blood red beets, red sweet p<Jtatoes in heaps, little piles of string beans and peas, red and yellow tomatoes, glisten- ing purple egg-plant ; each pile of vege- tables set on the green plantain leaves with rows of baskets behind them holding the extra supplies. As tempt- ing in arrangement as the colored fruit and food advertisements in our modern magazine.
A grain stall held little baskets of rice, white maize ground in different sizes, yellow maize, green peas and beans dried, bulbs, ochre. Across from the vegetable stall a fruit vendor had green, yellow and red bananas, casava root, mangoes, pomegranates, kashew nuts, oranges, sugar cane, huge tan- gerines, lemons as large as oranges, green limes, papaias — green on the outside, brilliant orange when cut open, squash, calabash, melons — all in- viting.
On one side long tables set for tea. Here the East Indian woman has her tea and rests from the labor of select- ing food for her household. She ar- rives in a rickshaw, a brilliant sari wrapped about her, thrown over one shoulder and over the back of the head. Underneath a cerise sari could be seen the brilliant green vest and an orange skirt and the sari itself bound and striped in silver or gold banding. The older Indian children were as bril- liantly attired as their mammas, wear- ing round velvet caps embroidered in tinsel and gold thread.
Very pretty, these East Indian women, when young — large, soft brown eyes, olive skin with a faint tinge of color, scarlet lips and delicate oval faces and blue-black hair demure- ly parted in the middle. They wander through the market, giving it a kaleidoscopic range of color and flit- ting like huge butterflies from place to place, moving softly with tinkling anklets and little bells jangling, clink- ing of bracelets as they walked.
Huge stalwart native Swahili wom- en, the natives of Tanganyika — broad of back, erect, with baskets on their heads, bare feet and legs, moved back and forth bargaining. The noise of the talk of an Eastern native market is almost a mob sound — a full throated mumbling undertone, punctuated by the women's shrill voices — the crying and screaming of the huckster, and the wailing of tired children. Wares {Continued on page 24)
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W O M E X S C I T ^■ C T. U B M A C A Z I X E for APRIL
1929
WOMEN'S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE
Published Al'/ritlily at San Francisco
465 Post Street
Telephone Kearny 84.00
MAGAZINE COMMITTEE
Mrs. Harry Staats Moore, Chairman
Mrs. George Osborne Wilson
Mrs. Frederick Faulkner
Mrs. Frederick W. Kroll
MARIE HICKS DAVIDSON, Editor
Ruth Callahan, Advertising Manager
VOLUME III
1929
NUMBER 3
EBITOMIAIv
WITH the beginning of its fourth year in its build- ing at 465 Post Street, San Francisco, the Women's City Club takes stock.
The annual membership meeting, held Thursday eve- ning, March 14, was well attended, and those present were apprised of the achievement of the City Club in the last year, accomplishment in spiritual values as well as material. But, of course, the entire membership of the Women's City Club was not there. It were hardly pos- sible to assemble the entire seven thousand. Therefore, report of what transpired is given in the columns of the WoMEx's City Club Magazixe. It is condensed, naturally, and inadequate for the reason that the personal equation of any concourse is difficult to transcribe. The feeling, the atmosphere of co-operation and solidarity escapes the written word.
One of the planks of the City Club's constitution is that of membership representation.
Members are entitled to know of the modus operandi of their club. They are urged to familiarize themselves with the privileges and prerogatives of membership and to assume the responsibilities which accompany those priv- ileges, since no good thing is unaccompanied by responsi- bility.
Conversely, City Club officials want to know the com- position of the membership. It is possible that there are many talents which would redound to the good of the Club and the repute of the members possessing them. It is possible that many want to serve the Club within their ability and do not know how to proffer their time. Were it possible to take a census of the accomplishments, graces, qualities, attributes and qualifications of the members it would be done. Since that is scarcely practicable the next best thing is to have the members of^er their services in whatsoever departments they want to serve. To that end a blank is provided in this issue of the magazine in which members may specify the service they wish to offer.
It is expected that the next few months will see en- thusiastic participation by many members heretofore in- active in City Club affairs, women who hitherto have not realized that there are many gracious things which they may do in the various departments of Volunteer Service. So small a thing as bringing to the City Club a cluster of dewy fresh flowers from her garden will be appreciated. So utilitarian a thing as ladling a bowl of soup at the cafeteria counter will be equally a gesture in the name of Woman's Service.
Editorial
{From the San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 1926) [Editor's Note: On the third anniversary of the Women's City Club's installation in its new building, the sentiment herein- below reprinted is quite as true now as it was then.]
WoMEx's City Club Moxumext To Service
"The Women's City Club is a splendid example of a wartime service organization preserved for the constructive purjxises of peace. During the week it has dedicated and opened for service its magnificent new club building on Post Street. This is a monument not only to the idealism but to the business sagacity of the women who planned and executed the project. And San Francisco is the richer be- cause of this fine addition to its institutions of community service.
"EverA'one recalls in the war days the Red Cross women, the canteen workers, the Motor Corps and the laborers in a host of other activities affiliated with the National League for Woman's Service. When the armistice came, it seemed a pity to many of these women that the ties so created should be broken and that so effective an organiza- tion for community service should be dissolved. And from the resolve that they would not cease their activities has been built the fine institution known as the Women's City Club.
"The financing of the project called for a high degree of business ability, but the women were equal to the task. Bank assistance was obtained by guaranteeing to increase the membership rolls to 6000. This was done. Further, the club workers were called on to raise $215,000 in three months through the sale of bonds. They finished the cam- paign in six weeks. The financiers were then convinced of the soundness of the plan and the necessary money was made available.
"The Women's City Club aims to be the hospitality center of the city. When volunteer workers are needed to complete a work of community service, its ambition will be to see that this service is gladly given. Not a placement bureau, it plans to maintain a vocational guidance depart- ment both for the stranger as well as its own members. And it will also be active in providing lecture courses and those social diversions that are associated with club activ- ities in general.
"A unique feature of the club's organization is the vol- unteer character of the service on which most of the club's activities depend. Women volunteers gladly give their time in service at the club and in performing countless other services in the club's interest. It is this desire to help that has made possible the splendid institution reared and dedi- cated on Post Street." y < <
Garnet Holme
[Garnet Holme, distinguished exponent of pageant and drama, who died last month as the result of a fall, was directing an amateur theatrical production of two short plays, written by Mrs. Frederick Kroll and Mrs. Carlo Sutro Morlaio, both mem- bers of the Women's City Club.]
A friend he was who made that word ring true.
By test of time, of trust, of loyalty;
By strength of wisdom, balm of sympathy ;
By gentleness to each one that he knew.
His understanding out of humor grew,
fVith him, impatience was a rarity.
His heart o'erfloircd with warmth of charity;
The kindly thing he never failed to do.
He has passed on — and yet his spirit stays
To guide us as we play our little parts —
His teachings ever lingeh in our ears.
An inspiration to us all our days —
A fragrant memory within our hearts,
For us to bless and cherish through the years.
— Patricia Mo:tBio.
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CITY C L U n MAGAZINE for APRIL
1929
Ceyomd the City Limits
Ireland
SENTIMENTAL regrets are outweighed by efficient pride in the Irish Free State's success in utilizing the River Shannon for elec- trical power. This engineering feat will be completed in a few months with a generation of 115,800 horse- power available for industry, agricul- ture, et cetera. Light and heat for 130 towns and villages mean such an increase of comfortable living in the isle of little fuel that the question of whether the project "pays" or not is negligible. The Government of the Free State supplied the capital for the scheme.
More of Jugo-Slavia
Within three weeks of the assump- tion of dictatorial power by King Alexander the following reforms were initiated : A carefully thought-out unified penal code ; a Czech adviser to unify the fiscal system, with the punishment of dishonest officials; the opening of the frontier between Jugo- Slavia and Bulgaria, with negotia- tions for a commercial treaty and a mixed commission to obviate further border troubles; an economic confer- ence of the states of the Little En- tente ; renewal of the negotiations with Greece for a pact of friendship and the settlement of the dispute over the free zone at Saloniki ; and the dis- solving of all the political parties whose quarrels have retarded progress for ten years.
It is also good news that a new book is out, called "The Balkan Pivot: Yugo-Slavia," from the able pens of Charles A. Beard and George Radin, collaborating.
By Edith Walker Maddux
More About Wotnen
Persian women are demanding for the time being just three things: first, the right to make the acquaintance of a future husband before marriage ; second, the right to work outside their own homes; third, that the law relat- ing to divorce give women equal rights with men. In India, on the other hand, at the opening of the All- India Women's Conference, these pointed words were spoken by the Junior Maharani of Travancore: "Only by the diffusion of education and the capacity to think independ- ently and steadily can women's prob- lems such as the purdah, child mar- riage, child widowhood, and the de- pendent economic position of women in the family be solved."
The women of the United States have been the victims of all sorts of opprobrious epithets and adjectives hurled at them by foreign guests they have entertained (after the guests have reached their homes), and the foreign reviews have been spattered with such terms as "superficial," "pro- vincial," "pampered," "uneducated" and "gold-worshipping." It is indeed a relief to read that we have at last found a champion in The Spectator, the dignified English weekly, as quoted in a recent number of Time:
"Are they spoiled ? . . . There are many towns in America without one single, solitary servant, towns where all the women have to do their own housework, cooking, most of the wash- ing, and usually the gardening! . . .
"The ordinary American is not rich. . . . Salary or income may be larger than that of his opposite in England, but his expenses are bigger; and that is why, were he living in England, his wife could have one
servant, possibly two of them. . . . Certainly her children are a help to her very soon. . . . By the time he [an American boy] is seven years old he is a handy man in the house, with chores to do, which he really does. Then take the little girls. ... At the age when her little English cousin is having her hands washed for her and her frock buttoned, Mamie is pro- moted— note the word — to setting the table and tidying after meals. . . .
"That is why American women do their housekeeping so deftly and with so little fuss. They have always known how! They have grown up without servants, and it has never occurred to them that there is any- thing derogatory — or splendid — about housework or cooking. Everybody does it. . . . The wife of the ordinary middle-class American cannot then, in the nature of things, be spoiled. . . .
"The millionaires of America, though much in the public eye, are in a microscopic minority, and it is no fairer to judge [American women] by the wives of millionaires than it would be, for example, to generalize about Englishwomen from the owners of boxes at the Opera."
Italy
Signor Mussolini announces the establishment of the Italian Academy for the artistic and scientific recon- struction of Italy. Senator Tommaso Tittoni will preside over the "Immor- tals" whose membership will be lim- ited to sixty and probably nominated by the Government rather than self- elected, as in France. The academi- cians will guard the culture of the past, vitalize the present and future art and literature of Italy, and publish an International Review in several languages, including English.
Mail this filled-in blank to Women's City Club, 465 Post Street, San Francisco
VOLUNTEER SERVICE BLANK
Members wishing to enroll as volunteers in any branch of the Women's City Club Volunteer Service are requested to fill in the blank and mail to Mrs. W. F. Booth, Jr., care of Women's City Club, or leave at the Information Desk, first floor. Mem- bers unable to give service at the Club may be of great value if willing to do telephon- ing at home. This applies to members living in San Francisco and vicinity.
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1929
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PicheL Lectures Four of the six lectures of the Irving Pichel series on the Contem- porary Theatre remain to be given, the dates being April 15, 22, 29 and May 6.
The subjects, in the order in which they are to be given, are: "Themes of Popular Contemporary Drama," "American Folk Plays," "The Negro in Contemporary Drama," "Talking Pictures."
Mrs. A. P. Black is chairman of the committee in charge of the Pichel Lec- tures, which are attracting much at- tention for their scholarly appeal and interesting manner of delivery. Others on the committee are: Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard, Mrs. Le Roy Brigg Mrs. F. H. Meyer, Mrs. Eugene Elkus, Mrs. Carlo Morbio, Mrs. J C. Crawford, Mrs. F. W. KroU, Mrs William Kent, Jr., Mrs. George L Bell, Mrs. George Pinckard, Mrs James Rolph, Jr., Mrs. J. J. Cuddy and Mrs. Agnes Cushing.
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To Describe Travels Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard, who re- cently returned from a long tour of South America, will give an account of her travels at the Book Review Dinner of April 3. This will be given in lieu of the regular book review which is usually a feature of the first Wednesday of the month at the City Club and is response to many requests.
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Mrs. Gladys M. Fetch was guest of the Women's City Club at a tea on Wednesday, March 20. Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper, and members of the Hospitality Committee, were the host- esses. Mrs. Fetch has resided in Nor- way for many years and spoke on some of the scenic wonders of that country. She was introduced by the Norwegian consul at San Francisco, Mr. C. F. Smith.
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1929
April Conference on City Planning
Do we really think we have a clean city? If not, why not? What arc some of the things that especially de- face it? Can we do anything to help matters ? These questions and many others the committee in charge of the Third Conference on the Improve- ment and Beautification of San Fran- cisco hope to have answered on Thurs- day, April 18th. The general subject of the day will be "Spring House- cleaning for San Francisco," and speakers of note are being invited to present these subjects: Billboards; Cluttered and Dirty Streets; Civic Pride and the Lack of it ; Vacant Lots and the Police Power. If you are espe- cially interested and can offer sugges- tions or help, please communicate with Mrs. A. P. Black, Chairman of the Conference.
The subjects for discussion ought to interest every citizen, whether prop- erty-owner or not, and members are urged to save the day and to extend an invitation to all their friends to attend.
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Music Committee Report Under the direction of the Music Committee Sunday Evening Concerts have been given at the Women's City Club by vocalists and instrumental- ists of artistry and renown. The con- certs have been given alternate Sun- day evenings except for a short period during the summer. Of recent months the concerts have been given in the City Club Auditorium instead of in the Lounge, as formerly. Both places have proven eminently satisfactory from the acoustic point of view.
Elsa Woolams, Chairman.
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Summer French Courses Special private summer courses in French will be available after the first of April. Madame Olivier, in- structor, will be glad to give all needed information. Appointments may be made through the Information Desk on the Main Floor. Prices: twenty lessons — one in class, $16.50; two in class, $12.50.
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New Membership Cards Beginning April 1, members are re- quested to show new membership cards at all hours on leaving the ele- vators above the second floor. With the change in cards, in order to pro- tect the membership it is imperative that the greatest strictness be observed in requiring the elevator men to see the new cards before passengers leave the elevators.
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Dr. K aun to Talk on Russian Rei^olution
Professor Alexander Kaun of the University of California will give a course of six lectures on "Portraits and Problems of the Russian Revolu- tion" Tuesday mornings at 1 1 o'clock at the Women's City Club, beginning March 9 and continuing every Tues- day to and including April 30.
Mrs. Edward Rainey is chairman of the committee which arranged the lectures and from her or at the infor- mation desk on the first floor of the Women's City Club, 465 Post Street, may be purchased the season tickets for the lectures. The course is $3.00 and single lectures will be 75 cents.
Professor Kaun's subjects will be:
1. The Tiuilight of the Roma?iovs.
The last emperor and empress as seen in their intimate letters and diaries, with the black shadow of Rasputin hovering over their doom.
2. Lenin and His Legacy. Lenin, the
man and the leader, against the background of Russia before and during the revolution. His heirs.
3. Women in Revolution. Some of
Russia's stormy daughters, fear- lessly destructive and creatively constructive.
4. Sex, Marriage, Divorce in Soviet
Russia. Post-revolutionary mor- als and family relations.
5. The Russian Rhythm. Representa-
tive poets before and since the revolution, with readings in the original and in translation.
6. The Russian Theater^ Past and
Present. The Moscow Art The- ater, Tairov's Kamerny Thea- ter, Meyerhold's experiments and other phases. Illustrated.
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Annual Report Flower Committee
The gist of my report, as Chairman of the Flower Committee, must be that the demand is far exceeding the supply of flowers and greens. Owing to the increasing number of functions being given by the Club requiring floral decoration, the situation is some- what acute. The faithful contributors are carrying the burden which we wish might be lightened by a greater contributing bodw
We all wish our Club beautified by flowers, and that we may succeed in this — every member possible must co- operate.
We sincerely hope the coming of spring will bring many new volunteers to supply, transport and arrange "Flowers and Greens."
Mrs. S. D. Britt, Chairman.
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At the City Club With the Decorative Arts Exhibition
By Beatrice Judd Ryan
THE Decorative Arts Exhibition sponsored jointly by the San Francisco Women Artists and the Women's City Club has come and gone, setting a new standard for ex- hibits of its kind, not only in San Francisco but for those we saw in New York City as well. The noble proportions of the City Club Audi- torium made an exceptionally happy background for the ensemble of which Mr. Rudolph Schaeffer can justly be proud. The success of the exhibit was largely due to the able generalship of Mrs. Arthur L. Bailhache, President of the Women Artists, and her ex- ecutive committee — Mrs. Lovell Langstroth, Miss Rose Pauson, Mrs. Hyman Rosenthal and Mrs. Charles Felton.
To those of us who vibrate to the modern tendency the exhibit held a genuine thrill and to the crowds who visited it daily, at least a questioning interest. As a whole there was a large- ness of repose about the exhibit in es- sence similar to the skyscraper. One felt perhaps here was a fitting interior to dwell within those gigantic walls of steel and concrete.
It is impossible in reviewing such a large group to mention each individual exhibitor's work and although there were several outstanding disappoint- ments, for the most part a high crafts- manship was maintained plus a crea- tive spark to which California may well look forward.
The City Club stage came to life and became a lounge which held win- dows of sand-blasted glass, prismatic in color, centered between ones of white, designed by Rudolph Schaeffer and executed by Fred Weisenburger and George Loeffert. The fineness of Rose Pauson's silver and gold hand blocked curtains that hung next to these windows was rather lost in the midst of the intensive surroundings. This was also true of the "Alantis," a group in brass, original in conception and beautiful of line, one of Peter Krasnow's best, which was recently purchased by Albert Bender.
The delightfully fresh frescoes by Florence Alston Swift, Marian Simp- son and Helen Forbes were set in a garden court planted with evergreens by Alicia Mosgrove. The statue by Bufano in the same group, to us seemed out of key, just as did the Easter lilies placed against the gray wall in the Garden Club alcove across the way.
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Crossing Great Salt Lake is only one of the many scenic adventures along the Overland Route to the East.
Fifteen miles west of Ogden you actually "go to sea by rail" — over Southern Pacific's famous "cut-off" across the mighty Great Salt Lake.
For nearly 103 miles your "San Francisco Overland Limited" skims over this remarkable man-made pathway. The Wasatch Mountains of Utah rim this vast dead sea. The beauty of the great open spaces, the silence of the desert, the wheel of seagulls far from their native oceans, the strange play of sunsets, make the passage of Great Salt Lake one of the memorable events of your journey.
Near Promontory Point, where your Overland first reaches the west-
ern side of Great Salt Lake, frontier history has been made. Here, on May 10, 1869, the eastward — andwestward — pushing lines of America's first transcontinental railroad met and linked the nation with a golden spike. That forever ended the day of the "covered wagon." The work of the intrepid pioneers was finished.
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{Continued from page 15) are cried stridently by the vendors, and there is a surging and moving crowd of white robed, red fezzed Mo- hammedan natives, Arabs, Indians and the raw native dressed in as near nothing as possible. Extraordinarily interesting — the Native Market — hu- manity in the mass, struggling for food.
Bargaining loudly for his little bur- den of firewood, bought from day to day because he has never money enough for a large supply, putting his casava root in a basket and a bunch of bananas on top and putting the load on his head, the native marches off to his hut — and the cares of the day are past. Just the first and most primitive instinct satisfied — food in the stomach. Then to lie in the sun on a mat of palm leaf of his wife's weaving and life is a gorgeous series of undisturbed daj-s.
Cocoanuts are one of the chief sources of food — palm wine and maize being the extras that give zest to life ; the Saturday night "beer drink" is as much a part of living as the maize porridge in the early morning.
On the outer edge of the square were rows and rows of green mango and casuarina trees, flamboyant trees in scarlet bloom, yellow acacias and bushes of frangipani in white blos- som. Under these trees on the edge of the square were the Indian shops — the five and ten cent stores of this Eastern world. They were as brilliant as the markets.
The stores and stalls open from the houses, being really part of the ver- andas. Rows of shelves with brilliant printed calico for the native women, silks for the Indian women, pots, pans and bowls of enamel and the inevitable blue enamel teapot — native woven baskets and mats. The shelves a mass of color, fringed with strings of beads and rows of tassels of the most bril- liant shades of red, green, blue, orange, purple, yellow, violet hanging from the edges of the roof frame the picture.
We walked through the stalls and bazaars, watched the merchants and the buying. They grow so violent at times one might think that a row was about to ensue, but when it gets to the place where you think it is indi- cated that the native police must inter- fere the row subsides suddenly ; money changes hands and the purchaser walks ofi" delighted with his bargain — and the seller smiling over his side of it.
From our rickshaw we discovered a brass worker seated over his fire. Ham- mered copper pots and pans of every size and a charming Zanzibar chest were on a table. It was this chest that attracted us as we went past and after the market was visited the rickshaw
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boy was ordered back to the street of the brass worker. The box was an old one of extraordinary beauty. Some dark hardwood, studded in handmade brass nails and corners and ornaments of brass in odd designs very thinly cut and pierced and set on with brass stud- ding. Inside were cunningly devised drawers and sliding panels with places for cash and pens and papers. Old and well used. My companion sniffed when the price was mentioned but he allowed the brass worker to expound at length on the age, beauty, value of this box he was selling to the tourist. After the brass worker, his lips stained with betel leaf, had told in broken English and much waving of hands, backed up by the words of half a dozen members of his household and his neighbors, that there was never such a box bought in Dar-es-Salaam of the value of this box, the wood and the workmanship being extraordinary, the Englishman, tall and imposing in white clothes with his white helmet, pointed with his stick to defects and flaws in the box, without verbal com- ment. On the top he traced (with his stick) the line where brass strap- ping had been moved — and without a word, waited. More gesticulating from the brass worker, more violent denial of mars on the Zanzibar chest. After this had gone on for some time the Englishman straightened himself up, planted his feet a little apart, looked the gesticulating loquacious Arab firmly in the eye and began to talk in Arabic.
The effect was immediate. The Arab brass worker wilted, literally. He had thought he was dealing with a tourist off the ship and his price, conversation and explanations were based accordingly. But here was a "pukka sahib," as the Indians say — a true gentleman, one who knew prices, Zanzibar boxes — and, most of all, understood buying in the Eastern man- ner. The brass worker spat out betel leaf juice, shrugged his shoulders and lifted his hands, palm open. The Englishman looked at the box once more, poked it with his cane a time or two and named a figure, about a third of the original asking price. There was no fight left in the Arab. He nodded his head, held out his hand and took the money without a word. The grinning rickshaw boys (for they were interested spectators of the scene) loaded the Zanzibar box on the hood of the rickshaw, we stepped in, the still grinning boys got into the shafts — the pusher lit the lantern, and we were off through the twilight streets to the dock.
The last bit of drama was played out at the customs shed. It was after six and the customs shed was closed,
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but a native askari stood at the head of the steps to inspvect every parcel and every box for dutiable curios and trophies.
The Englishman strode through the crowd of natives that blocked the way, tall and imperious, followed by the rickshaw boy with the Zanzibar box on his head. "Bwana," the askari said "Stop, stop — customs." "Customs be hanged," the Englishman muttered and strode on. The askari stopped the boy and waved to the customs shed. The rickshaw boy, the Zanzibar box waving periously on his head, hesi- tated. The Englishman strode over, pointed with his cane to the boy and the box. "What do you mean, stop- ping my boy?" The askari explained, "Customs, curios — duty." "What, that old box — duty — you damn well won't charge me duty. Boy, get down to the boat with that box — quick about it." He glared at the boy who fled down the stairs, then turned on the askari and snapped a few sentences in Chinyanja at him. The askari listened, looked at the tall English- man's eyes a moment, then gave way and weakly waved his hand to the dis- appearing rickshaw boy, that all was well. A last gesture of affirmation — to save face with the crowd of grinning native onlookers.
"A damn silly bit of business," said the Englishman, as we got into the little boat to row out to the ship, "duty on an eighteen shilling box — rather not — !" And as the native rowers pulled away toward the ship in the twilight he continued, "Pleas- ant bit of business, that, bargaining with these Arabs, I like it — not too bad either — eighteen shillings for a pukka Zanzibar box — I'd have hated to have seen you done in by one of those filthy swine."
And I, having been delighted, amused and admiring, in turn, with the whole affair, assented. *■ / /
Deco ratline Arts Exhibit
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Altogether the most completely sat- isfying ensemble was the bedroom de- signed and carried out by the hand of Jacques Schnier.
The Labaudt screen, which was stunning when seen elsewhere, lost its brilliant effectiveness in his exhibit which as a whole seemed unrelated. Another charming screen, by Esther Bruton, one of the finest pieces in the exhibit, was placed in the upper gal- lery. A copper bowl by Harry Dixon remains in memory.
A really important fresco by Carol Wurtenberger showed more than a technical knowledge.
Seventeen thousand persons attended the exhibit.
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1929
Is Mankind Like That?
By Rudolph Ericson
I WAS a stranger and your editor took me in. And when your right hand (which generally is your write hand) itches, you fall an easy prey to invitations to con- tribute.
A stranger but also a neighbor. Since last Crucifixion day my office has been next door to the Women's City Club. In fact my neighborhood is blessed with women ; beautiful women to the left of me, good women to the right of me and busy women often assemble under the church roof which shelters my study. I am in the same position as a small piece of cheese between slices of health bread. That ought to make a parson good for something — even if it is only writing.
The Easter-tide is with us. One of the books the season has invited us to read is Dimnet's "The Art of Thinking," a delightful piece of real literature which has made even such a philosophical mind as John Dewey say: "Before a work like 'The Art of Thinking' one is likely to be dumb or to indulge only in ejaculations; and when asked why one likes it, to reply, 'Go and see for yourself."
As a preacher I must have a text. Dimnet gave it to me. Here it is: "Mankind is like Herculaneum — covered over with a hard crust under which the remains of real life lie forgotten. Poets and philosophers never lose their way to some of the subterranean chambers in which childhood once lived happy without knowing it. But the millions know nothing except the thick lava of habit and repetition. A small section of people tells them what they are to think and they think it."
Most of us place ourselves in that section. If we are not elected to it we appoint ourselves.
But whatever class we find ourselves in, crusted or un- shelled, Easter finds us. That great day spells history to some, tradition to others. To all of us it is an inevitable symbol of life that demands expression and laughs at the vanishing locksmiths. Our fancy may turn in the same direction as the proverbial young man's. Love and spring always danced hand in hand over the meadows. You can't stop it. A wise man, centuries before Christians, Puritans, mid-Victorians and Mencken admirers came into existence, put it this way: "No floods can ever quench this love, no rivers drown it."
Easter is a part of spring, the great festival of life. It is a time when it is easier to shake off shackles that rust around our personalities. Elsie Robinson reminded us the other day of the old truth that even a blade of grass breaks the hard surface. But how few of us dare to break through the crust of foolish conventionality and traditional respect- ability of the damnable sort. Some folks seem to welcome the lava stream. We remember them as once being full of life and originality but some of life's finishing schools fin- ished them. They are now among the millions living who are already dead. Their real countenances are like the made-up face of a certain Chicago society leader of two decades ago of whom it was said that if she lost control and fell for humor, she actually "cracked" a smile.
Some of us would rather be on top of the lava than under it. Life is glorious in the springtime and the "high cost of dying" bids us wait and try life more vigorously with added sincerity and frankness.
The great figure of Easter is that Palestinian gentleman whose life was so strong and so beautiful and of such eternal quality that his near friends and followers were compelled to give us the symbols of the empty cross and the open sepulchre. Nothing so breaks the crust of lava and releases creative moods and expressions in us as when we take the life and ethics of a deathless Christ in earnest.
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Ai^Lation Securities
By R. D. Mackenzie
ALTHOUGH a new industry can not possibly have a financial history it may offer pros{>ects so attrac- tive and substantial as to compel consideraticn. Aeronautics is no longer a "game" but an industry. There is money to be made in it. But, as in any business, success will come to the intelligently planned, efficiently organized, adequately financed concern, directed and manned by expe- rienced personnel and producing a superior product, whether that product be transportation, plane parts, or the finished airplane.
While recognizing that aeronautical securities lack seasoning, our anahsis of the industry has convinced us that carefully selected and diversified stocks have a proper place in the modern investment list. Also, that a well chosen list of this sort is certain to include enough of the successful ventures so that an investor need not be alarmed by the possibility of occasional losses.
An elaborate investigation made in connection with the valuation of motor stock disclosed the fact that all new industries follow similar courses of development in arriving at maturity. During the so-called inventive stage only slight gains are made each year. After the public has be- come convinced of the feasibility of the industry and en- thused with the commercial and financial possibilities, gains are recorded at the rate of approximately 50% per annum. In the typical new American industry this rate of expansion continues until the industrj' itself has become thoroughly seasoned, after which the rate of growth declines to approx- imately the annual increase in national wealth.
We are just now entering the "boom" period of the aircraft industry and may reasonably expect approximately a 50% growth during each of the first five or ten years. Almost daily new companies are announced and prices of stocks having even a remote aircraft connection are being bid up sharply in the scramble of the public to participate in the early stages of the industry's growth.
These new promotions as well as expansions in some of the older companies cover the entire field of aero- nautics. Manufacturers have already announced production schedules aggregating a total of somewhere around $80,- 000,000 in retail value of finished products during the cur- rent 3'ear, and have indicated that the rate will be stepped up sharply in 1930. Just now, practically all manufacturing is being done on contracts or to supply orders already booked. Some of the companies, however, have already begun volume production of standardized products for sale through dealer organizations similar to those employed by automobile manufacturers.
Owing to the constant changes occurring in designs of both motors and planes and the possibility of a serious upset which might be caused by the introduction of rad- ically different models, an aircraft inventory is highly perishable. This, in itself, appears to be a sufficient check against immediate over-production by the builders.
Competition in the industry has not reached the stage where reduction of the present liberal profit margins is being considered, and judging from the huge volume of un- filled orders already booked, earnings of the leading pro- ducers will, in the current year, attain new high records. However, a period of readjustment, possibly in 1930, ap- pears to be inevitable. Naturally, some of the weaker com- petitors will fail to survive the test.
As a safeguard against losses during such a period, which all new industries must undergo before they emerge from infancy into more robust maturity, investors would do well to look closely into the management of individual
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companies and above all know that they are adequately financed. Then follow the leaders in each division. Even so it may be necessary to discard from time to time stocks that develop signs of fundamental weakness and switch to others that are forging ahead.
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Airplane transportation stocks ofifer the greatest possibilities and at the same time the most vexatious prob- lems. We look forward to a time not far distant when all first class mail moving distances of more than 400 miles will go in the air. The same may be said for express and fast freight. Long before maximum devel- opment has been reached, the present lines will probably be merged into great systems comparable wTth the greatest of our railroad and steamship lines. In fact, it is reasonably certain that these latter companies will be closely linked up with air transport, sharing in the management of the mammoth mergers to be consummated in the future.
For the present, companies operat- ing air mail routes under favorable government contracts are those most likely to achieve financial success. Owing to the much greater operating expense incidental to passenger traffic and the uncertainty of immediate stable revenue, air lines Avithout good mail contracts may prove quite dis- appointing to early investors. Com- petition for future new contracts or renewals can not fail to bring reduc- tion in the rates. State and federal regulation will attempt to reduce net profits to a fair return on invested capital. The bright side of the picture is that the personnel, management, goodwill and franchises now being de- veloped by the leaders in air transpor- tation will be of inestimable value in building up the huge systems of the future and stockholders can reasonably expect to be handsomely rewarded, r y /
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League Shop Report
The League Shop has had its strug- gles the past year. Three times the executive was changed and each change was followed by a period of readjustment long or short, according to the thoroughness with which the previous executive had carried on her allotted work. These necessary changes were not good for the Shop and had it not been for our splendid group of Shop Volunteers our periods of readjustment with their consequen- tial financial losses would have been prolonged.
Our present executive, Mrs. Dube- lan, came to us the very last days of October — a most trying time — with the holidaj's not far distant; however, due to her executive ability and pleas- ing personality and with the splendid co-operation of the volunteers, the Christmas trade was handled so well that the gross receipts for the month of December were $3989.57, an in- crease of $1310.77 over the corre- sponding month of 1927.
Until very recently, our Economy Shop on the mezzanine floor has not had an opportunity of proving its serv- ice because it was impossible for the Shop Executive to give real attention to this department in addition to her many duties in the Shop proper. In October Mrs. Robert Donaldson ac- cepted the Chairmanship and since then the department has been sys- tematized, old stock returned to con- signors and prices drastically reduced. We hope in the future to keep the price range of garments under ten dol- lars, thus making it a real service to the potential buyer. Mrs. Donaldson is in charge, personally, every Thurs- day afternoon, to receive consignments and donations of clothing which are greatly needed in this department.
For the Shop Volunteers, talks on art and subjects related to the types of merchandise sold in the shop were given at various times and so helpful did these prove that under the leader- ship of Mrs. King, arrangements are now made to have these talks monthly. At no time during the Shop's existence have we had such a splendid and reli- able group of Shop Volunteers as now.
The Sewing Committee contributed generously of their time to the needs of the Shop previous to and during the holiday season. Donations were re- ceived from various members which proved an added source of income.
Notwithstanding the many vicissi- tudes of the past year, and the fact that our clientele is drawn from mem- bers, the Shop not only paid its month- ly rental to the Club but in addition made a net profit of $447.00.
Miss Ethel A. Young, Chairman.
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Annual Bridge Report
The Bridge Group meeting every Tuesday afternoon and evening has been conducted along the lines laid out last 3'ear. There has been a volunteer hostess in charge, one for each month of the year. They have helped to form the tables and to make new members welcome.
The number of tables playing have been about the same as last year, varying from sixteen to thirty, according to the time of the year. Usually there are more people wanting to play during the winter months than in the sum- mertime.
Mrs. Nettie Metzger, our bridge teacher, has been regular in attend- ance, and cheerfully given of her time, both afternoon and evening, to instruct those tables requiring her help. For the tables availing themselves of her instructions for the entire evening there is a small fee of $1.00 per table for members and twenty-five cents ex- tra for each non-member playing at this table. Alany are now taking in- structions in Contract bridge.
The group gave only one party this year, a Valentine bridge party. We sold eighty tables at $4.00 a table. After paying dining room expenses and the bill for prizes — one for each table — we cleared $99.75.
When Mr. Work, the bridge au- thority, was asked to lecture here at the Club, the group agreed to stand back of the exp>ense if there was a deficit. I am sorry to say there was a deficit of $72.00, so the office was in- structed to clear this item with the money made at the party.
There remains a small balance still to the credit of the group.
Pearl Baumann, Chairman.
Attention . . . Shoppers
The League Shop Committee is about to place a Suggestion Box in the Shop near the desk and invites com- munications from her patrons as to just what they would like us to carry in stock. Please feel free to tell us what you think of the Shop and make any helpful suggestions that we may improve the service as you see a need. Please sign all notes placed in the box.
Hiking
As spring approaches an interest in hiking is awakened. If a sufficient number of members is interested, a hiking group will be organized. Those who are interested are asked to leave their names at the Information Desk in the lobby or write to the Executive Secretary.
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THE MONTH
WOMEN'S CITY CLUB CALENDAR
MAY I — MAY 31. 1929
CURRENT EVENTS
Even^ Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock, Auditorium. Third Monday evening, 7:30 o'clock, Room 214. Mrs. Parker S. Maddux, Leader.
TALKS ON APPRECIATION OF ART
Monday mornings at 12 M. Card Room. Mrs. Charles E. Curry, Leader.
LEAGUE BRIDGE
Every Tuesday, 2 o'clock and 7:30 o'clock, Assembly Room.
THURSDAY EVENING PROGRAMS
Every Thursday evening, 8 o'clock, Auditorium. Mrs. A. P. Black, Chairman.
CHORAL SECTION
Every Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Mrs. Jessie Taylor, Director.
SUNDAY EVENING CONCERTS
Alternate Sunday evenings, 8:30 o'clock, Auditorium. Mrs. Leonard A. Woolams, Chair- man of the Music Committee.
Wed. May 1 — Book Review Dinner Assembly Room
Book to be reviewed: "Orlando" by Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard will review the book
6 :00 P. M.
8:00 P.M.
8:30 P.M.
11:00 A.M. 8 :00 P. M.
Thurs. May 2 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium
Speaker: Mr. Winfield Scott
Subject: Literary Trails and Tracks in California
Sun. May 5 — Sunday Evening Concert. Mrs. Henry Marcus,
Hostess Auditorium
Mon. May 6 — Lecture by Irving Pichel Assembly Room 11:00 A.M.
Subject: Talking Pictures
Tues. May 7 — Meeting of Volunteer Tea Hostesses Board Room
Thurs. May 9 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium
Speaker: Mrs. Rose V. S. Berry
Subject: The Exhibition of Sculpture at the Palace of the Legion of Honor
Wed. May 15 — Volunteer Meetings —
Shop Volunteers Board Room
Day Restaurant Captains Board Room
Day Library Volunteers Board Room
Night Restaurant Captains Board Room
Night Library Volunteers Board Room
Thurs. May 16 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium
Speaker: Miss Marion Delaney Subject: "Lytton Strachey — Biographer"
Fri. May 17 — Monthly Talk on "Outstanding Articles in Current
Magazines." Mrs. Alden Ames, Chairman Assembly Room 2:00 P.M.
Mon. May 20 — Joint Meeting and Tea for Board of Directors and
Volunteers American Room 3:30 P.M.
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BOYS' SCHOOLS
THE POTTER SCHOOL
J Day School for Boys
Primary, Grammar and High School Departments . . . featur- ing small classes and individual instruction. Prepares for all Eastern and Western colleges.
I. R. DAMON. A. M. (Harvard)
Headmaster 1899 Pacific Ave. Telephone West 711
DREW
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S'Year High School Course admits to college. Credits valid in high school.
Gratnmar Course
accredited, saves half time
Private Lessons, any hour. Night, Day. Both sexes. Annapolis, West Point, College Board tutoring. Secretarial' Academic two-year course, entitles to High School Diploma. Civil Service Coaching — all lines.
2901 California St.
Phone WEst 7069
Booklets for the schools rep- resented in this Directory may be secured at the Infor- mation Desk, Main Floor, Women's City Club.
BOYS' AND GIRLS' SCHOOLS
The Airy Mountain School
Boarding and Day School
Out-of-door living
Group Activities Individual Instruction
Grammar School Curriculum
with French
ANNETTE HASKELL FLAGG, Director
Mill Valley, California
Telephone M. V. 514
SCHOOL OF POPULAR MUSIC
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IMoclern I y^k ^ m Piano
Rapid Method — Beginners and Advanced Pupils
Individual Instruction
ELEVATED SHOPS, ISO POWELL STREET
Hours 10:30 A. M. to 9:00 P. M.
Phone GArfield 4079
GIRLS' SCHOOLS
The Margaret Bentley School
[Accredited] LUCY L. SOULE, Principal
High School, Intermediate and Primary Grades
Home department limited
2722 Benvenue Avenue, Berkeley, Calif. Telephone Thornwall 3820
The Sarah Dix Hamlin School
Thirty-fourth year
Boarding and Day School for Girls of all ages.
Pre-primary school giving special instruction
in French. College preparatory.
Fall Term Opens September loth
j4 booklet of information will he furnished upon request.
Mrs. Edward B. Stan wood, B. L.
Principal
2120 Broadway Phone WE st 221 1
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Telephone FI llmore 7625
SAN JUAN BAUTISTA
Third Season
June II to September
A Summer Camp for little boys and girls. Scientific diet, swimming, hiking- — a whole- some, out-of-doors life in real farm country.
Daily Sun Baths
Illustrated booklet and information on request.
Mrs. Alice B. Canfield
Director
2653 Steiner Street, San Francisco
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ART SCHOOL
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL of FINE ARTS
Affiliated with the University of California
Chestnut and Jones Streets San Francisco
SUMMER SESSION JUNE 17th to JULY 27th
Professional training in the fine and applied arts; cour-ses for art teachers; special Saturday classes for children and adults. Day and Night School.
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1929
Women's City Club Magazine
Published Monthly at 465 Post Street
Telephone KEarny 8400
Entered as second-class matter April 14, 1928, at the Post Office at San Francisco, California, under the act of March 3, 1879.
SAN FRANCISCO
Volume III
MAY < 1929
Number 4
SONTENTS
Club Calendar 2
Frontispiece 6
Editorial 15
Articles
Where the Latch is Out 7
By Katherine M. Howard
Roster of Reciprocal Clubs 8
From the Lookout 9
By Anne C. E. Allinson
Annual Reports of Committees of the
Women's City Club . . 10-13-14-20-21
Story of Albert Sidney Johnston ... 11 By Elsie G. Johnston Prichard
Activities in the Women's City Club . . 12
Down El Camino Real 16-17
By Laura Bride Powers
Beyond the City Limits 19
By Mrs. Parker S. Maddux
Glimpses Into the Near East .... 19 By Mary Wallace Weir
Monthly Departments
Travel — Across the Andes 15
By Beatrice Stoddard
Financial — Investors will Have
Their Innings 28
By Agnes Alwyn
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Some of the Women's Clubs which have extended hospitality to San Francisco Women's City Club mem- bers: (1) Detroit City Club; (2) Providence Plantations Club, recently erected in the business section of the city; (3) New York City Club; (4) The Town Club of St. Louis. This seven-story building erected at a cost of $400,000 in the heart of the business district of St. Louis, was wholly financed by women; (5) a vista in the Illinois Women's Athletic Club; (6) the "Old Kitchen" in Women's City Club of Boston; (center) Exterior of Illinois Women's City Club.
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SAN FRANCISCO * MAY * IQ^Q
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Doors of Other City Clubs Swing Open to Welcome Members of San Francisco City Club. Reciprocal Privileges Appreciated by Travelers
Dotting the landscape of the United States and Europe are some twenty-four Women's Clubs which have recip- rocal relations with the Women's City Club of San Fran- cisco. That is, if one is a member of the San Francisco City Club and goes to visit a city in which one or several of these reciprocal clubs is situated she has the privilege of using that one or several clubs as she would her own, providing she has had the foresight to procure cards of
introduction or identification. Credentials accepted, the rest is an interlude of satisfaction and pleasant contacts for the visitor, who is accorded every courtesy that she could possibly expect in her own club. Following is a recital of her experience by Mrs. Howard, which is, in gist, the report brought to the City Club from every traveler who goes armed and engined with the proper cards.
By Katherine M. Howard {Mrs. Horace P. Howard)
MRS. M. J. BURNSIDE, Miss Irene Ferguson and I left here last May for Europe. Being members of the Women's City Club and in good standing, we decided that we would take with us cards to the clubs in other cities which had reciprocal relations with the San Francisco Women's City Club, for we had been told by other travelers who had availed themselves of the reciprocal privileges that it was a very great advantage indeed ; that the clubs to which they had presented cards had exerted every effort to extend the courtesy of the city visited.
Cards were provided us by the City Club and arrange- ments made for our stays in the several cities where we stopped. Really, it was like having a personally conducted tour, and I feel that City Club members ought to realize with even greater appreciation what this reciprocal priv- ilege means. To arrive in a strange city, be driven to the desk of an attractive club, present a card which is virtually an "open sesame" to the building and the city, is indeed a rare vouchsafement.
We stayed two weeks at the American Club in London, as perfectly appointed an institution as may be found, with excellent food and unsurpassed service, situated in the heart of London's most exclusive residence district, the famous Mayfair of tradition. It is at 46 Grosvenor Street, just off Grosvenor Square and in easy walking distance of Bond Street, the very intriguing shopping section of Lon- don which many find more fascinating even than the Paris shops. It is also but a short distance from Hyde Park, Park Lane and many other interesting and historic places. Princess Mary's home, Devonshire House, and the two houses of the Duke of Westminster are quite near. In fact, most of the property thereabout is owned by the Duke of Westminster and at the expiration of a ninety-nine-year lease reverts to his estate, carrying the improvements. The
club house is two residences combined. They were pur- chased by Sir Edgar Speyer, a German banker, who remodeled them into one structure. He was banished from England during the recent war and came to America at the close of the war. After refusing flattering offers for the building, he sold it to the American Women's Club at a reduced price. It is luxuriously appointed, one of the bedrooms even having a sunken bath of solid silver. Natu- rally, it is finished and furnished as handsomely as an extremely wealthy couple of taste would dictate. It is not so large, naturally, as our San Francisco City Club, but charming in every detail. There is a pipe organ, ballroom, library and all the other accoutrements of a perfectly ap- pointed club.
We also had the privilege of the Halcyon Club, not so fortunately housed, but interesting in its membership of women prominent in the literary world.
In Paris we stayed over the allotted period of two weeks at the American Women's Club and I cannot say too much in praise of the atmosphere and service of that lovely place. Anything one could possibly wish had been antici- pated. Some woman before us had asked for it and the management had profited by previous requests and experi- ences, so that it seemed there was nothing left to be done for our comfort. Certainly we couldn't think of anything to make us more comfortable. The Club is delightfully situated, as in London, with porches and garden where tea was served daily. Your Parisian must have her tea out of doors if the weather permits, and it was most pleasant.
In Geneva we took advantage of the privileges offered by the International Club and were able, through their efforts and very great courtesy, to get into the League of Nations Conferences and to see all of the League of Nations departments in a more leisurely and satisfactory manner than is the lot of most tourists.
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On the return trip we lunched at the Women's City Clubs in New York and Washington, D. C, and were entertained at the Women's Athletic Club in Chicago, which is, I believe, the largest in the world, with ten thousand active members.
It was all very pleasant, with no incident or circum- stance to mar our visits at any of these places, but withal I should like to say in passing that nowhere did we find atmosphere or activities with which our own City Club does not compare very, very favorably.
It was due to the fact that we were members of the San Francisco City Club that we were extended such charming hospitality, and it is quite logical, therefore, that we appreciate our own club all the more for that reason. Not only does it mean much in our own community, but it means much elsewhere. I hope that all women who come to our Club with cards from London, Paris, Chicago, Detroit, Geneva, New York or elsewhere will receive as much kindness, consideration and friendliness as we did in other lands. And I think they will, for San Francisco hospitality, we found, is quite a tradition abroad.
The club house is a necessity today for the modern woman whose interests have widened beyond her own doorstep. It is the center of her community activities for better living, health, education and morals, and also for her own education and further development. It is also a social necessity. In this day of crowded living it furnishes her some of the advantages of the old-fashioned home without its responsibilities. For entertaining, whether it be a chance guest or a debutante party, it offers her the convenience of a modern hotel with the charm of her own home. It offers peculiar advantages to the business woman, as it provides a place of relaxation from business cares, companionship if she is lonely, or restful solitude if she desires to be alone. The gymnasium and the swimming- pool included in many up-to-date women's clubs offer the opportunity to keep fit amid the demands of city life.
Staircase and carvings on second floor of the American Women's Club of London
Following are the Women's Clubs with which The San Francisco Women's City Club has reciprocal relations:
United States
Boston, Mass. Women's City Club 40 Beacon St.
Chicago, 111. Women's City Club 360 No. Michigan Blvd.
Chicago, 111. Illinois Women's Athletic Club 115 E. Pearson St.
Cleveland, Ohio Women's City Club 826 E. 13th St.
Detroit, Mich. Women's City Club 2110 Park Ave.
Kansas City, Mo. Women's City Club - 1111 Grand Ave.
New York City Women's City Club 22 Park Ave.
Philadelphia Women's City Club 1622 Locust Street
Pittsburgh, Penn. Women's City Club
Providence, R. I. Providence Plantations 77 Franklin St.
Rochester, N. Y. Women's City Club 29-31 Chestnut St.
St. Louis, Mo. The Town Club 1120-22 Locust St.
St. Paul, Minn. Women's City Club 324 Cedar St.
Washington, D. C. Women's City Club 22 Jackson Place
Abroad
Brisbane, Australia Brisbane Women's Club Albert House, Albert St.
Dunedin,
New Zealand Otago Women's Club Stuart St.
Edinburgh, Scotland The Caledonian Club 13-14 Charlotte Square
Glasgow, Scotland The Lady Artists Club 5 Blytheswood Square
London England American Women's Club 45 Grosvenor Sq., London, W.I., Eng.
The Halcyon Club 13-14 Cork St.
The Pioneer Club 12 Cavendish Place, Cavendish Sq.,
London, W. 1
Paris France The American Women's Club 61 Rue Boissiere
Shanghai, China The American Women's Club 66 Szechuen Road
Wellington,
New Zealand The Pioneer Club Lambton Quay, Wellington No. 382
Montreal, Canada The Themis Club 626 Sherbrook Street W.
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A NNE C. E. ALLINSON, dean of women at Pem- ^A broke University, Providence, Rhode Island, is JL jL. president of Providence Plantations Club, with which the Women's City Club of San Francisco has recip- rocal relations. In a recent number of Providence Planta- tions Club Bulletin Mrs. Allinson writes a message which is particularly pertinent. It is entitled "From the Look- out" and follows:
"The Club House never closes ... I am again impressed by the fact that it takes all of us together to make this Club worth maintaining. Year by year I have profoundly desired that every detail should have the hall-mark, 'Excel- lence.' Some of this excellence depends upon those whose hands do the work — the cooks, the waitresses, the chamber- maids and cleaning women, the janitors and engineers. Some of it depends upon the members of the staff whose skill and vigilance direct the work. Some of it depends upon the officers and committees who shape the policy and plan the activities. Some of it depends upon the members, whose spirit, in the last analysis, makes this Club a spir- itual benefit, or a mere material comfort and luxury.
"Shall we not continue to have a Club in which respect and good-will exist between woman and woman, so that inside our doors all external differences drop away, and we become equal parts of a splendid whole? Sometimes members say to me that they feel that they only take and never give in the Club. But in that very sentence they do give, they contribute, they add to a spirit of good-will and friendly partnership. ^
"With all my heart I thank the officers and committees for work of the highest excellence — in any but a voluntary corporation, it would, in many cases, command a large salary. But without your spirit — generous, and large- minded — it would be work wasted on material ends. Only a spiritual end can justify such voluntary devotion. That end is in your hands."
In "A Meditation," Mrs. Allinson writes: "The mental atmosphere of the times is charged with realism, whether novelists are making novels, or painters making pictures, or presidents making policies, or persons making personal relationships. Between us and the facts there must be no veil. How we really feel and think, rather than how some tradition pretends that we feel and think, must govern conduct and expression. Rhetoric is at a discount. Government, literature, art, and all social codes must throw away invented illusions and grapple with reality.
"It strikes me that in April and May we enter upon a realistic period of hope! Mr. Chesterton says that any- body can be hopeful on a spring morning, when the sun is shining, and scorns the obviousness. But, after all, if realism is all in all, why not apply the test to hope and faith as well as to love ? We are going to be hopeful, not because we cheat ourselves with something out of sight, but because the visibly burgeoning earth shows us that leaves come back on the trees, that seeds fructify, that the winter of our discontent is over. From time immemorial, among all peoples, spring festivals have been celebrated because the facts of spring are undeniable and put mankind in a realistically festal mood.
"But human nature is not exhausted in its relationship to the natural world. 'Idealism' is not the antithesis of 'realism,' but another segment of the circle of truth. Dreams and visions are as real as the apple blossoms and the lilacs. Beyond the loveliest earth and sky man has believed he saw, and continues to believe he sees, beauties impalpable, beauties intangible, and yet real. In western civilization the great historic affirmation of this vision of hope in darkness, life in death, is the festival of Easter. It is the garment of Light thrown upon the sweet nakedness of Spring."
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Annual Report HospltaUty Committee, 1928
FROM March, 1928, to March, 1929, the Club entertained at luncheon, tea or dinner the fol- lowing distinguished guests who, whether individually or in groups, have brought us in touch with man\' parts of the world and with a delight- ful diversity of interests and profes- sions, which activity has been most gratifying to the Hospitality Com- mittee.
Our first guest of honor was a famous woman preacher. Miss Maude Royden, of London.
Next, there came to us Mrs. Kiang Kang-Hu from far-away China, a pio- neer in the education of women and children of her country.
Miss Ethel Barrymore, the famous actress.
Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton, re- tiring president of the National League of Penwomen. and distin- guished writer. Mrs. W. B. Hamil- ton acted as hostess.
Miss Jane Cowl, another beloved actress.
Mademoiselle Adrienne d'Ambri- court, of the Mary Dugan Company.
Miss Jane Addams. Mrs. Black, having discovered it was her birthday, ordered a cake with candles for the luncheon.
Miss Amelia Earhart, internation- ally known aviatrix, formerly engaged in social service work in Boston.
Miss Florence Roberts, of the Alca- zar Theater.
Guy Bates Post, the well-known actor,
Mrs. James Waterman Wise, ear- nest exponent of the Youth Move- ment of the world.
Mr.Tetsuzan Hori, Japanese artist.
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, brilliant daughter of William Jennings Bryan.
Mrs. Archibald Flower, who gave an illustrated talk on Straford-upon- Avon.
Mrs. Margaret Sanger, lecturer in her special field.
Mr. Will Durant, noted author and philosopher.
Miss Louise Janin, gifted Califor- nia artist who has made an outstand- ing success abroad.
Mr. Lowell Thomas, writer, lec- turer and explorer.
Lady Grenfell, wife of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, whose sacrificial services in Labrador are widely appreciated.
We were happy to be joint hostesses with our Music Committee in arrang- ing affairs in honor of the distin- guished representatives of the musical world, as follows:
Mr. Edward Lemare, the cele- brated organist.
Mr. Albert Coates, guest leader of the Summer Symphony.
M. Henri Pontbriand, the noted tenor.
Signor and Signora IVIolinari. Signor Molinari was a guest con- ductor of the Summer Symphony.
Mr. and Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Mr. Gabrilowitsch was also a guest conductor of the Summer Symphony, and his wife, Clara Clemens, the charming daughter of Mark Twain.
During the Grand Opera Season in September, the stars of the opera com- pany were entertained, with Mr. Gae- tano Merola, general director of the Opera Association.
Miss Fernanda Doria (Pratt), our gifted California song-bird.
The principals of the Beggar's Opera Company. They graciously entertained us with an exceptionally fine program of music.
Some of the members of the D'Oy- ley Carte Opera Company. Mrs. Koshland took them to the Symphony Concert the same afternoon.
We had the splendid cooperation of the Association of American Univer- sity Women in arranging for the en- tertainment of notable men and wom- en in the fields of education and phil- anthropy. They were hostesses with us in greeting.
The visiting delegates of the Amer- ican Society of Occupational Therapy to the Convention of the American Hospital Association convening in San Francisco.
Mr. Harold W. Hackett, repre- senting Kobe College, Japan.
Miss Emma Gunther, of Columbia University.
Upon the occasion of the tea in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Flower of Stratford-upon-Avon, both the American Association of Univer- sity Women and our good friends, the English-Speaking Union, gave up their individual claims and joined us as hostesses.
At the semi-annual Club member- ship tea, Mrs. Black presided. She also presided at the tea in honor of Dr. Louis L Newman, rabbi of Tem- ple Emanu-El, and the dinner in
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honor of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Camp- bell.
When Miss Virginia Cummings, winner of the short story contest in the Club Magazine, was the guest of honor, Mrs. William Palmer Lucas was hostess.
The Club is also proud of a highly successful Christmas party and a bridge tea.
Invitations or guest cards or flowers were sent to the following list of vis- itors to San Francisco who, for lack of time, were unable to accept our hos- pitality :
Miss Edith Pye and Mademoiselle Camille Drevet, representing the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Miss Kim, of Ewha College, Korea.
Mme. Marguerite Melville Liszni- ewska, distinguished pianist.
Viscount and Viscountess Allenby.
Commander Evangeline Booth.
Mr. and Mrs. George Arliss and Miss Innescourt.
Mr. Ernest Bloch.
Miss May Robson.
Madame Halide Edib.
Madame Sarojini Naidu.
Dr. Alfred Adler.
However, we hope they have at least touched the spirit of hospitality that the Club aims to stand for in our community.
Once again may 1 stress the fact that all these affairs, without excep- tion, are planned for the purpose of giving to the whole membership the privilege of meeting personally those who accept our hospitality. Many times parties have to be arranged at the eleventh hour ; therefore we beg members to take the responsibility of hearing about them and to consider themselves always as hostesses, the committee being merely their instru- ment through which their hospitality is expressed.
On behalf of the Hospitality Com- mittee, I desire to express apprecia- tion to the House Staff, the Music Committee, the Hospitality Commit- tee of the American Association of University Women, the English- Speaking Union, as well as our gra- cious president, Mrs. Black, and other members of the Club, for their con- stant assistance and hearty coopera- tion in the past year's work.
Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper,
Chairman.
women's city C I- U B magazine for MAY
1929
Albert Xidmey Johmstqm
(/// last month's City Club Magazine, Miss Elsie Johnston Prichard, member of the San Francisco City Club, began the story of how her grandfather. General Albert Sidney Johnston, saved Californi/i to the Union in 1861. Below is the conclusion of the fascinating story of the attempted "Republic of the Pacific."
MOREOVER, he had learned from the patriots of 1776 the inherent right of every people to select their own form of government, and to maintain their independence even by revolution. When Texas seceded the alternative was presented to him. On one side was the grand nationality whose flag he had borne, whose authority he had upheld, to whose glory he had con- secrated his career, and in whose serv- ice were embarked all his plans for power, prosperity, and worldly ad- vancement. On the other was his feeble State and her concurring sisters, as yet not united even in a defensive league, rent by faction, unprepared for war, and as yet making no definite call upon his services. Ambition would have told him that, in the United States Army, he stood at the head of the list of active officers, and that above him were none except those whom age or meagre ability excluded from rivalry, and that the large re- sources and commanding ability of the established government offered every advantage a soldier could wish. When he made his choice, it was the easy triumph of duty over interest, and of affection for his own people over all that ambition could hold out. Until Texas seceded he went forward un- swervingly in the service of his em- ployer, the General Government; but when that event presented a definite issue, he promptly took his choice, and since his people and his State had left the Union, in the army he would not remain. Thinking the knowledge of his resignation might weaken his moral hold over the soldiers, or promote a revolutionary spirit among the South- erners resident in California, he kept the fact concealed.
It was finally decided by the pro- moters of the "Republic of the Pa- cific" to send a committee of three to call upon General Johnston, not to foolishly intimate or suggest anything, but to see what they could gather that might guide them in their further course. Harpending, to his delight, was one of the three selected. He says: "I will never forget that meet- ing. We were ushered into the pres- ence of General Albert Sidney John- ston. He was a blond giant of a man with a mass of heavy hair, untouched by age, although he was nearing sixty. He had the nobility of bearing that marks a great leader of men, and it
seemed to my youthful imagination that I was looking at some superman of ancient history, like Hannibal or Caesar come to life, again.
"He bade us courteously be seated. 'Before we go further,' he said in a matter-of-fact, off-hand way, 'There is something that I want to mention. I have heard foolish talk about an at- tempt to seize the strongholds of the government under my charge. Know- ing this, I have prepared for emer- gencies, and will defend the property of the United States with every re- source at my command, and with the last drop of blood in my body. Tell that to all our Southern friends.'
"Whether itwas a direct hint to us, I know not. We sat there like we were petrified. Then, in an easy way, he launched into a general conversation, in which we joined as best we might. After an hour we departed. We had learned a lot, but not what we wished to know. Of course the foreknowledge and inflexible stand of General John- ston was a body blow and facer com- binded."
Knowing his unwavering stand so discouraged the band, so much that after a short time, it was finally dis- banded.
General Johnston quietly removed the arms from the exposed arsenal at Benicia, to the virtually impregnable fortress of Alcatraz, and informed the governor, (John Downey) that in case of any outbreak or insurrection, they could be employed by the militia to repress it. To this fact Governor Downey had more than once borne testimony.
So failed the plan to make Southern California a part of the Southern Con- federacy. Many accusations were made by the Federals and by many politicians against General Johnston, including a remarkable story to the effect that General Charles Sumner, who was sent out to relieve General Johnston, got off the steamer in a smJill boat, landed at Alcatraz. and accused General Johnston of treach- ery. As a matter of fact. General Johnston did not live on Alcatraz, but in San Francisco, and Sumner himself refutes this story, saying that he met General Johnston in San Francisco the day after he (Sumner) landed there, and that the meeting was friendly and pleasant.
Sumner's own report states that he arrived in San Francisco on April 24,
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and on the 25th took charge of the department. He says: "It gives me pleasure to state that the command was turned over to me in good order. General Johnston had forwarded his resignation before I arrived, but he continued to hold the command and was carrying out the orders of the government."
General Sumner said to General Johnston, "General, I wish you would reconsider and recall your resignation. General Scott bade me say to you that he wished for you for active service, and that you should be second only to himself." General Johnston replied, "I thank General Scott for his opinion of me, but nothing can change my de- termination."
On the 30th of June, General John- ston left California for Texas, going with a party of thirty-three across the plains.
Of his death at Shiloh, on April 6, 1862, you all know, but of the manner of it, I would like to tell you.
On the morning of the sixth, as Gen- eral Johnson and his staff were riding toward the front, he saw some wounded Federal prisoners lying under a tree, and ordered his surgeon, Dr. Yandell, to stop and attend to them. Dr. Yandell remonstrated, say- ing, "General, my place is by your side." General Johnston said, "Dr. Yandell, 1 order you to stay and at- tend to these men. I have worn that uniform, and I cannot bear seeing men wearing it suffering." Dr. Yandell, perforce stayed with the men.
Shortly afterwards, General John- ston was leading a most successful charge, when in the very moment of victory, he was hit, a bullet cutting an artery in his knee, and he bled to death. Had his surgeon been with him, it would have been a simple mat- ter to have stopped the bleeding and saved his life.
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man give his life for his friend," but what shall be said of Albert Sidney Johnston, who yielded up his splendid life that his \\-ounded foemen might not suffer?
It is indeed fitting that the United States Government should have erected that wonderful tribute to a fallen foe — a monument to Albert Sidney Johnston, on the field of Shiloh, to mark the spot where the South's great general fell.
women's city club M AGAZINE for MAY
1929
>VoMEM's City CluI) Arr
All Passes Collected When a member forgets or has mis- laid her membership card and is given an emergency pass — which is without charge — the pass is to be taken up by the elevator operator. That is, it is good for but one occasion.
Guest passes also will be taken up by the elevator operator. City Club members have the privilege of issuing passes for guests on particular occa- sions, so that when the hostess is un- able to accompany her guest the latter may be admitted to the function or occasion for which the pass is issued. These passes are issued at the Infor- mation Desk in the main arcade and each shall contain the name of the member at whose request it is issued. As the guest leaves the elevator the pass is taken up by the operator.
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New Library Books A number of new books were pur- chased for the Women's City Club librar}- in April. Some of the outstand- ing ones are: "A Lost Commander," the biography of Florence Nightingale by M. R. S. Andrews; "Red Tiger," by Phillips Russell ; "Seven Torches of Character," by Basil King; "Glad- stone and Palmerston," bv Philip Guedalla; "Dark Hester," by A. D. Sedg\vick ; "Kingdom of God and Other Plays," by G. M. Sierra ; "The Buffer," by A. H. Rice; "Seven Dials Mystery," by Agatha Christie.
A great deal of thought is given to the selection of new books and on the library shelves may be found the best of non-fiction and novels. Circulation increases each month, which means that new members are being daily added to the files.
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Showcases to Rent Mrs. Howard G. Park, chairman in charge of the renting of the show- cases in the entrance corridor, will re- ceive names of prospective patrons and make appointments for interviews. Communications may be addressed to her at the City Club', 465 Post Street, San Francisco. ^ ^ ^
Business Callers The alcove sitting room at the end of the main arcade provides a con- venient and comfortable place for members to receive gentlemen who call upon business. It is desirable that the use of the rooms on the fourth floor be restricted as far as possible to social purjwses, and members are asked to co-operate by having business callers meet them either on the main floor or on the second floor.
Two Interesting Announcements
Advance notice of two events well worth marking of¥ on the calendar for September is given by the Women's City Club Committee on Programs and Entertainment. One of these is a series of eight lectures on "Interna- tional Barriers" to be given by pro- fessors from the University of Cali- fornia and Stanford University, the names of the speakers to be announced later. City Club members will be en- titled to the entire course for the reg- istration fee of one dollar. Non-mem- bers of the City Club will be charged four dollars for the course. The gen- eral topic will be treated from the standpoint of politics, religion, esthet- ics, race, economy, psychology', educa- tion, co-ordination and other points of contact or dissimilarity, and from any point of view, considering the speak- ers, will be made one of the stimulat- ing courses of the coming season.
The second event will be a section to be devoted to the study of outdoor phenomena under the direction of Mrs. G. • Earle Kelly, well known botanist and lecturer. Mrs. Kelly's lectures will be accompanied by field trips upon which members will be privileged to learn more about the stars, birds, trees and flowers that filled their vacation days.
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Spode for June Brides
The League Shop calls attention to its stock of Spode ware, as a sugges- tion for gifts to the June bride. Spode is an English pottery made first by Spode who originally was associated with the great Wedgewood in one of the ancient guilds. The two men eventually dissolved partnership and each subsequently bestowed his name upon a certain kind of pxDttery. The Spode ware in the League Shop offers a variety of colors and prices.
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Rest Room Moved
The Rest Room, sometimes known as the Silence Room, has been moved to Room 230 in order to insure greater quiet to members who wish to take ad- vantage of its comforts. Members wishing to use the Rest Room will procure a key at the check room on the fourth floor. > > >
Vocational Guidance Quarters
Moved
The Vocational Guidance Bureau,
one of the important departments of
the Women's City Club has been
moved to Room 212.
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Volunteer Service Tea The Board of Directors of the Women's City Club and workers in the Volunteer Service will meet at tea to be held in the American Room Monday afternoon at 3 :30 o'clock. May 20. Tea will be thirty-five cents per service.
As the Volunteer Service files may not be complete, all Volunteers are asked to be present whether or not they receive invitations. > > >
House Rules
The house rules provide that no children shall be taken into the Lounge, Library or Rest Room, that children under twelve years of age must be accompanied by a member. The Swimming Pool may be used by : "Girls under eighteen years of age and boys under eight years of age when accompanied by a member. "A member's daughters under eighteen years of age, unaccompan- ied, if a letter from the mother is on file in the swimming office, giv- ing the daughter permission to use the plunge." r / r
Gijts to City Club The board of directors of the City Club expresses appreciation for the following gifts : A lithograph of draw- ing by Henrietta Shore, from the artist. Blotter and desk set for the president's desk, from Mrs. William B. Hamilton. A vase of crackle ware for the president's desk, from Mrs. Perry Eyre. f t -t
New Membership Cards City Club members are asked to dis- play their new membership cards to the elevator operators. Although the operator may know a member he has no way of knowing whether or not she has paid her dues for the coming jear unless he sees her card.
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Pool Closed Sundays After May 1 the City Club Swim- ming Pool will be closed Sundays. Sunday attendance has not justified keeping the Pool open that day.
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Choral Altos Wanted Mrs. John L. Taylor, who directs the City Club Choral every Friday evening at 7 :30 o'clock in Room 208 of the City Club, states that there is a preponderance of soprano voices and is desirous of having a number of alto voices to strike a balance. Members wishing to join, regardless of the reg- ister of their voices, are asked to join the class Friday evenings or leave their names at the Information desk.
women's city club magazine for MAY
1929
Annual Report Education Committee
The Education Committee submits the following report for the year end- ing March, 1929:
The Special Province of this Com- mittee during the past year has been the fostering of study groups as an effective means whereby individual members might come into closer con- tacts with the benefits and ideas of our Club.
Classes with Fees will be the first consideration on this report.
Madame Olivier, who has so generously and ably taught the French for five years, has had the usual marked success.
Madame Steffani has just com- pleted two recently organized series of lessons in Italian, and is begin- ning a third.
Mrs. L. G. Leonard conducted a class in Parliamentary Law during the months of April and May. Courses free to members and friends. Luncheon Talks. Mrs. Edgar Kierulff, Chairman. Beginning in April and continuing until the sum- mer vacation, Mrs. Herman Owen gave a series of instructive and in- teresting luncheon talks on "Studies in Economics" on each Tuesday of the week.
Book Review Dinner. Miss Ida Lord, Mrs. May Riley, Chairmen. Following close upon the heels of these noon-hour meetings, a Book Review dinner-hour group was formed in June. Nearly one hun- dred women attend these dollar dinners regularly the first Wednes- day evening of each month. Twen- ty-four new novels have been re- viewed; one of these by Miss Lil- lian O'Neil, three by Mrs. Leslie Conner Williams and eighteen books by the chairman, Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard.
Reading of Plays. Miss Lillian O'Neil, Leader. This very enjoy- able activity, carried on every Wednesday for several months, was discontinued only because of the ill- ness of the leader.
Theme Writing. Mrs. S. J. Lis- berger. Leader. An eight weeks' course in the fundamentals of prose writing has just been completed.
Magazine Discussion. Mrs. Al- den Ames, Leader. This recently organized group is finding enthusi- astic response.
Art Appreciation. Mrs. Charles E. Curry, Leader.
Dr. Powell's Lectures. Airs. W. B. Hamilton, Chairman.
Beatrice Stoddard, Chairman.
Annual Report House Committee
Bedrooms:
Eleven bedrooms repapered.
Twenty-seven bedrooms partially repapered.
Six ceilings retinted.
Fifteen radiators refinished.
Three bathroom floors painted.
Three public toilet floors painted.
Three showers redone. Fourth Floor:
Lavatory and dressing room walls enameled.
Waste paper receptacles repainted.
Closet space added to tea kitchen.
Tea kitchen floor painted and run- ner laid.
Lounge and library draperies cleaned.
Five Turkish rugs cleaned.
Thirteen pairs of net curtains — made by Sewing Committee.
Lounge couch and chair cleaned. Third Floor:
Cafeteria window drapes cleaned.
Cafeteria steam room repainted.
Galvanized iron placed in kitchen to protect parts of wall. Second Floor:
Rooms 212 and 211 retinted.
Thirty-two chairs for our Assembly Room painted.
Curtains for windows and door of same room made by Sewing Com- mittee.
Doors and baseboards also painted. First Floor:
Room secretary's desk installed and counter adjusted.
Some repairing of walls in main lobby and Auditorium. Lower Main Floor:
Walls of upper and lower balcony of swimming pool painted, show- er replastered and painted, corri- dors, walls and lavatories re- touched.
The large room partitioned and a portion assigned for third floor crockery reserve.
Eight chairs and three stools re- painted.
Cecil Hamilton, Chairman. / / r
The Auditorium
The City Club auditorium, located on the main floor and easily accessible from the street is ideal for meetings, lectures, concerts, receptions and teas. As it is one of the sources of revenue, members can render the City Club real service by interesting possible renters in the auditorium. The Sun- day Evening Concerts are now held in the auditorium. From time to time club functions are also held there.
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Annual Report
Thursday Ei>ening
Program Committee
The Thursday Evening Programs have held a place in the Club's activ- ities since the earliest period of its ex- istence. During the year just com- pleted fifty of these programs have been presented. They were carried on through the summer without inter- ruption. The only two that were omitted in the year were those of Thanksgiving night and of December 27, occurring between Christmas and New Year, when holiday events were foremost in interest and attention. It is a noteworthy fact that every speaker agreeing to appear kept the appoint- ment on time, so that in every in- stance the scheduled program was given, and no audience turned away without hearing the lecture previously announced.
A great variety of subjects was pre- sented and it is safe to say that every speaker brought some message of edu- cational and informational value. Some programs were more distin- guished than others, but generally they were of a high standard and character. The audiences, though varying in size, have always been attentive and appre- ciative. Two of the lectures were given in co-operation with the Depart- ment of Vocational Guidance and one with the San Francisco Center.
The topics presented, with their speakers, may be classified as follows:
Educational — Twelve lectures.
Literature and Drama — Seven lec- tures.
Dramatic Readings — Six programs.
Abstract Subjects — Two.
Pantomime — One.
Nature Lectures — Four.
Travel Talks — Five.
Life and Conditions in Foreign Countries — Three.
Art — Five Lectures.
History and Biography — Four lec- tures.
The season of 1928 closed with a Christmas party, for which an attrac- tive program was arranged by Mrs. Carlo Morbio, comprising two short plays, choral singing, vocal duet and solo numbers, and ending with Vir- gina reels and refreshments.
Mrs. A. P. Black, Chairman.
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Flowers Acceptable
Regular and occasional contribu- tions of greens and flowers for the decoration of City Club rooms are needed at all times. If members can- not send large quantities, small quan- tities are most acceptable and add to the attractiveness of the Club.
women's city club magazine for MAY
1929
Annual Report "^ Library Committee
THE constant use of the club library by the members shows what an important feature the library is of our club life. We wish we could buy enough books to really satis- fy the demand, but that is something no library can ever do, and we can at least claim that no money is wasted on inferior books and that, so far as our funds permit, the most important cur- rent books — both fiction and non-fiction — are in our library. It is impossible to buy more than one copy of each book, but in some cases gifts from club mem- bers supply extra copies, and members are referred to the Sage Circulating Library, on the first floor, for the newest fiction whenever copies are out.
The librarian reports that there has been a greater demand for Strachey's "Elizabeth and Essex" than for any other book, except the "Bridge of San Luis Rey."
The library's income for the year was $824.95. This sum has to cover magazine subscriptions and all sup- plies ; that is, book-plates, pockets and labels, as well as the purchase of books. Of the year's income, $550.30 was from fines for overdue books. When you feel sorry to have to pay a fine, it may be a cheering thought to think that the money you pay is used to buy more books for the library.
During the last year, the non-fiction has all been classified and numbered
according to the best library system, so that now each book has its perman- ent place, according to subject, and may be found from the call number on the catalogue card. We have ac- quired a standard card catalogue case and have in it a complete and correct file of cards by author, title, and are now finishing the subject cards. It is a satisfaction to feel that our library system, on a small scale, is the same as that of the great public libraries of the country.
In September, Mrs. Sarah Rosen- stock most generously gave $500.00 to be added to the fund of $2500 pre- viously given by her in memory of her daughter, Hilda R. Nuttall. The in- come from this fund is used for the purchase of non-fiction exclusively, and each book has a special book-plate inscribed "Hilda R. Nuttall Fund." From this fund have been bought such books as "Troupers of the Gold Coast," with its interesting account of actors of the 50's and 60's in San Francisco, Carl Sandburg's "Good Morning, America," Bertrand Rus- sell's "Skeptical Essays," Beebe's "Be- neath Tropic Seas," Fosdick's "Pil- grimage of Palestine" and Saxon's "Fabulous New Orleans," with its beautiful illustrations.
Gifts of books are always welcomed. This year several members have given the books they received from the Liter-
ary Guild, and often the gifts have supplied extra copies of books in great demand, such as "Isadora Duncan's Life," "Bridge of San Luis Rey," "Trader Horn" and "Revolt in the Desert." When books are given which the library does not need, they are sold for the benefit of the library. $43.80 was realized from the sale of books this year.
In March last year, after the new members came in, 129 of them at once applied for library cards. In April, 73 new readers' cards were added and in May, 79 more. In general, not a day passes Avithout a library card be- ing issued to someone who has never used the library before. There are now, by actual count, 2871 club mem- bers who borrow books from the li- brary. During the winter an average of 110 books is issued each day and a recent inspection of the files of "books out" showed about 928 books to be out in circulation on one day. The number of volumes in our library cannot increase much more, as our shelves are already full, but as good, new books come in we weed out the older and less used ones, so that the library, while not increasing in num- bers, is steadily improving in quality. E. M. Willard, Chairman.
Annual Report""^ Sewing Committee
The following articles were made by the Sewing Committee during the past year :
52 sets of apron, collar and cuffs
for dining room maids. 12 pairs of extra cuf¥s. 17 pink aprons for Beauty Salon operators. 8 aprons for chambermaids. 15 organdie collar and cuff sets for
dining room captains. 12 Hoover caps for volunteers.
13 pair of curtains for lounge. 30 card table covers.
3 dozen cheesecloth dusters for Club use. 64 glass towels. 36 breakfast doilies.
6 table cloths, cut and hemmed. 10 colored bed spreads. 21 colored slips to match. 64 dozen napkins labeled and 14 napkins rehemmed.
For the Shop :
42 bundles of dusters. 16 men's handkerchiefs beautifully finished with hand-rolled hems by Miss May and Mrs. Moran. We also made and delivered arti- cles to order in the amount of $3.50, which we turned over to the Shop.
In all the committee held forty-five meetings, with a total of 1,409 hours of service.
Ethel H. Porter, Chairman.
A cup for the young one.
The dark one luho sang; (The wine of old Paris
Has a sharp-sweet tang). No one can ever tell
The things that he told . . . (Did you mark his slim hands.
And his robes of gold?)
To One Who Goes Away
(For Dennis King)
Some will say he acted
A part from the Past; (Is a tree not lovely
When a ship's tall mastf) Some tmll say, "I saw him —
A poet . . . and a king." (And some . . . who love beauty
"Once I heard him sing . . . !")
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A cup for the young one
Who leaves us this night; (Our hearts may repeat it.
Only words are trite . . .) Drink to the Vagabond,
(How the sharp wine sears . . We shall remember him —
Many . . . many . . . years . . .
— The Chicago Tribune.
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women's city club magazine for MAY
1929
WOMEN'S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE
Published Monthly at San Francisco
465 Post Street
Telephone KE amy 8400
MAGAZINE COMMITTEE
Mrs. Harry Staats Moore, Chairman
Mrs. George Osborne Wilson
Mrs. Frederick Faulkner
Mrs. Frederick W. Kroll
MARIE HICKS DAVIDSON, Managing Editor
Ruth Callahan, Advertising Manager
VOLUME m
MAY * 1929
number. 4
EBITOMIAL
IN the recent payment of annual dues in the Women's City Club there were very few lapses of membership — remarkably few as compared to similar "turnovers" in clubs of composition and organization like the City Club. In fact, it was expected that the waiting list would be reduced in some measure by the moving up of names long registered into places made vacant by non-payment of dues. But, contrary to previous experience, the decrease of the waiting list was unappreciable.
Which demonstrates that members value their affiliation with the City Club, and are on the alert to keep it. It has been noted also that members are using the various depart- ments of the Club with greater regularity than formerly.
But even with the increased patronage of the depart- ments they still are not used to capacity. In these days of smaller living quarters and difficulties of domestic service, women find it a great convenience to entertain at their clubs, and the City Club is making preparation for a greater volume of this kind of business.
Most clubs find that the great problem of management is that of making the dining room pay. The club restau- rant is apt to suffer from a fluctuating patronage. But all departments need stimulation from time to time, and the Women's City Club is no exception to the general rule. Whether it be the beauty salon, the swimming pool or the League Shop, there can be no slump or sagging if each department is to pay its quota on the investment. Mem- bers, therefore, will realize that there is a responsibility of affiliation. They are asked to patronize the Club as much as possible. Use the departments, for they are there for the convenience and comfort and entertainment of those who are enrolled in the Club books. Members are the only ones, after all, who may put their shoulders to the wheel, for the City Club is cooperative and not endowed. It must "run on its own power" or it defeats its purpose. The Club, like the individual, owes a responsibility to the community. It must keep up its end and it expects each one of its seven thousand component parts (members) to do their parts. Paying one's dues is only the beginning of the member's responsibility.
From Maine to California the biggest business enter- prise in which the women of the United States are inter- ested is the building of club houses. Already there is an investment of more than fifty million dollars. Naturally one club in one city is not expecting to stand alone. There is an interchange of club privileges which makes for better understanding between units of membership and between countries, for reciprocal relations between American and European clubs is now a common thing.
City Club Volunteers to Help at Conference
The Volunteer Service of the Women's City Club will do its bit next month when the National Conference of Social Work is held in San Francisco June 26 to July 3. It is the fifty-sixth annual meeting and the comprehensive aspects of its discussions promise great benefit to the ad- vancement of social work generally.
Mrs. M. C. Sloss, member of the City Club, is chair- man of the Entertainment Committee and has asked the City Club for volunteers to assist in the many ways that such a committee functions.
Some of Mrs. Sloss' sub-committees are as follows:
Hospitality, Miss Katherine Donohoe ;
Flowers, Mrs. William Hinckley Taylor;
Trips to Tamalpais and Muir Woods, Miss Laura Mc- Kinstry and Mrs. Milton Esberg;
Trips to Universities, Mrs. J. R. McDonald ;
Tours of Social Agencies, Mrs. Bernard Breeden ;
Trips to Chinatown, Dr. Teresa Meikle ;
Motor Corps Committee, Mrs. Selma Anspacher ;
Dancing, Mrs. Jerd Sullivan.
The Conference will be held at Exposition Auditorium, San Francisco.
A glance at the subjects covered by the twelve main divisions of the Conference, by which the programs are built up, will show the scope and indicate the varied types of social workers, and others who might find much value in the Conference sessions.
The Divisions are: Children, Delinquents and Correc- tion, Health, The Family, Industrial and Economic Prob- lems, Neighborhood and Community Life, Mental Hy- giene, Organization of Social Forces, Public Officials and Administration, The Immigrant, Professional Standards and Education, Educational Publicity.
The following kindred groups are this year planning meetings at the time of the Conference, or a few days before :
American Association of Hospital Social Workers;
American Association for Labor Legislation ;
American Association for Organizing Family Social work ;
American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers ;
American Association of Social Workers;
American Birth Control League ;
American Red Cross ;
American Social Hygiene Association ;
Association of Community Chests and Councils;
Association of Schools of Professional Social Work ;
Big Brother and Big Sister Federation, Inc.;
Child Welfare League of America ;
Committee on Publicity Methods in Social Work ;
Committee on Relations with Social Agencies of the National Association of Legal Aid Organizations;
Committee on Social Administration ;
Girls Protective Council ;
Inter-City Conference on Illegitimacy;
International Association of Policewomen;
Joint Vocational Service ;
Mothers' Aid Group ;
National Association of Travelers Aid Societies ;
National Association of \'isiting Teachers;
National Community Center Association ;
National Conference of International Institutes;
National Conference of Jewish Social Service ;
National Conference of Social Service of the Protestant Episcopal Church ;
National Probation Association ;
National Tuberculosis Association ;
Salvation Army;
State Conference Secretaries.
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ON those dramatic summer mornings of 1769, when Don Caspar de Portola and Fray Juan Crespi were marching through the wilderness of Alta California with their drooping dragoons, mule- teers and trailing pack-trains, seeking to re-discover Monterey Bay — and then fell upon the unknown harbor of San Francisco — every voice was raised in song at sunrise — the "Morning Hymn to the Virgin," after the man- ner of Spaniards in all New Spain. And until the Gringos came, the cus- tom prevailed at all the Missions, presidios and ranches in colonial Cali- fornia, when the first rayS of the sun came up over the hills, a guerdon of song ascending all along the coast.
Thus was California born in song. Song to assuage loneliness and suffer- ing.
Particularly was it true of the ter- ritory around San Francisco Bay — from Mission San Francisco de Assisi (Dolores) and the Presidio of St. Francis, down El Camino Real to Mission San Carlos de Barromeo del Carmelo (Carmel), "Capital of the Missions." Thus it led by the hospit- able door of Mission Santa Clara (1777) and to the adjoining pueblo of San Jose de Guadalupe, and be- yond. Yes, that was the beginning of the famous "Alameda," the broad avenue of trees that connected the Mission of Santa Clara (now the site of the Universitv of Santa Clara) with San Jose de Guadalupe. All old Californians remember with joy the lovely old boulevarde arched over- head with the trees planted along the roadside by the padres, to beautify the new world to which they had exiled themselves. Gone now, almost com- pletely. A thing of romantic beauty, that took over a century to develop. A few years to destroy. However, this historic segment of El Camino Real, so intimately associated with the birth of California, seems to be in line of re-establishment. Here's hoping!
Then on the opposite shore — Con- tra Costa — was Mission San Jose (not "de Guadalupe" like the pueblo) with its far-flung ranches in later days, where music flourished almost from
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the outset. For here was stationed for a time the amazing old Padre Duran, who had trained his Indian neophytes to read music by means of colored notes. Thus the old Franciscan monk preceded Mme. Montessori and the rest of them by a century or more. Some of these music books, incident- ally, are the treasured heirlooms of the Franciscans at Mission Santa Barbara, eloquent evidence of the birth of mu- sic in California at the very beginning of our nation. Even before it.
Padre Duran later was stationed at Mission San Juan Bautista,on the road to the Presidio Pueblo of Monterey and the Mission San Carlos (Car- mel). Here he had trained an orches- tra, his Indian boys playing the violin, viola, bass viol, triangle, drums and cymbals. Their music was heard with joy by the early colonists on feastdays, who came to hear them from the pre- sidios. Missions and ranches, on horse- back, or in carretas. Only the very young and very old in the lumbering two-wheeled carts, ox-drawn. Gayly hung with garlands, if the occasion were a wedding or a ball, old and young singing and dancing in the carts as they ambled along El Camino Real. And it is of record that these Indians sang well, under the baton of Fray Duran — the Alabade sung all over California — and many of the simpler Gregorian chants. This pio- neer of music in the West ended his days in Santa Barbara Mission, where his music traditions are carried on to this day by the young Franciscan clerics. Incidentally, these same young clerics will sing out the joy in their hearts at Mission San Antonio de Padua, (1771) on June 16, (Sun- day) celebrating San Antonio Day (June 13) in the manner of the pas- toral days of California. For this year the century-old custom will be revived with a dramatic significance — the return of the lovely old Mission near Jolon to the Franciscans who reared it. Not since the decree of confiscation, camouflaged as "seculari- zation" under Pie Pico in 1835-43, and sold under the hammer, have the sons of St. Francis been in possession of that which their Indian neophytes
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had created, under their care and di- rection. The restitution was made during the year by Bishop MacGinley of the Fresno-Monterey diocese. So it is to be a gala occasion, following the fiesta spirit of the old. days, the church service over.
And to celebrate the historic return in historic fashion, the old Gregorian chants will be sung by the clerics from St. Anthony's College at Santa Bar- bara Mission. Cowl and gown again to swing the censer in the sanctuary, older than our nation. It might be said in passing that the church with its beautiful facade, and its long row of arches were saved from destruction by the California Historic Landmarks League in 1902-7. Walls rebuilt and roofs laid, to save what seemed to the organization too precious an heirloom of America to be permitted to perish. Efforts to have the landmark occupied were unavailing, until now.
While on the subject of California's first music, it is interesting to note that a barrel organ stands in the loft of Mission San Juan Bautista, and a pipe organ in Mission San Jose that hark back to the very beginning of the West. The former is said to have been the gift of Vancouver to the padres on his famous voyage of obser- vation along the Pacific Coast. It still conceals in its interior two or three tunes, that, coaxed out, are consider- ably unhieratic. If memory betrays me not, "The Devil's Hornpipe" is one. The violin, bass viol and other instruments of Mission San Antonio are in concealment.
Sacred music was not the only type of musical art that marked the coloni- zation of California. And here is one of the greatest contrasts between the racial characteristics of the colonists on the Atlantic and on the Pacific. Wherever the Spaniard settled, there he brought his guitar, his violin and his singing voice; his senora and their senorita their castinets and their dulcet voices. Latin temperament. Even during those first bitter years of star- vation, scurvy and death — and the dramatic story has never been told — the resilient spirits of the First Pio- neers of California took hold. And wherever and whenever feastdays, weddings, christenings, birthdays, namedays, or visits from voyagers of- fered excuse, the counti'yside rang with song and the twang of the guitar.
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WOMEN S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for' M A Y
1929
Beauties ^Billboards y Plans &' Complaints
By Edith Walker Maddux
APRIL showers dampened the ardor of city and regional "- planters and there was a un- expectedly small audience to hear the discussion of "San Francisco's Part in the Development and Beautification of California" at the third city planning conference sponsored by the Women's City Club, held on April 18 in the Auditorium. "Billboards" proved to be the excitement of the hour, during the morning, the luncheon, and even into the afternoon ; and Mrs. W. L. Lawton of New York, Chairman of the National Committee on Outdoor Advertising, gave a very clear and convincing talk at 11 a. m. on what has been done in other states and what ought to be done here to preserve our scenic highways. She had photographs to prove her points and she had statis- tics to show the rise of public opinion against the undue encroachments of all kinds of disfiguring outdoor signs. Ex- citement increased at the luncheon when Mayor Sol Elias of Modesto told a most vivid story of his experi- ence in making his city one of the cleanest and most beautiful towns in the whole country. He read his bill- board ordinance — drastic, to be sure, but successful — and he recounted his experiences leading up to its passage, especially stressing the complete sup- port of the taxpayers and the strength of public opinion. In the afternoon Mr. Chauncey Goodrich outlined the legal aspects of the restriction of out- door advertising, noting an encourag-
ing tendency of the courts in other states to consider the aesthetic side of the question as a determining factor in recent decisions. He was followed by Mr. Frank McKee of the High- way Committee of the California De- velopment Association who presented the proposed plan of scenic areas to be rendered signless by means of pledge-agreements with property own- ers. This plan occasioned a very deep interest, some searching questions and a lively discussion.
Other speakers were Mrs. Cabot Brown who outlined the plans and achievements of the Garden Club, Mr. Irving Morrow, who spoke "From an Architect's Standpoint," and Mr. Ernest Weihe on "Some Difficulties in the Way of Improvement." Mr. Morrow enlarged upon the need of ruthlessness in a city plan, asserting that compromise could not cope with the increasing problems of traffic con- gestion, the high buildings and the cavernous arteries of the modern metropolis. He urged also the social aspect of planning — better homes for all the people — recreational facilities and such little niceties as even road- beds, in addition to monumental ad- ornments. Mr. Weihe pleaded for a cultured taste and if that were too much to ask of the body politic, at least a recognition of expert advice before the adoption of so-called improve- ments. He cited instances of tragical mistakes in our own development, and his warnings were impressive and pic- turesque.
Neu^ York Theatre Guild Comes West
Heralded as "an event of the thea- ter" and with efforts being made by its sponsors to make it a civic affair as well as an achievement of the theater, the Theater Guild of New York will shortly send four of its outstanding successes to the Geary Theater in San Francisco.
With the Guild's favorite players in the casts, "The Doctor's Dilem- ma," Bernard Shaw's comedy ; "The Second Man," S. N. Behrman's smart comedy; "Ned McCobb's Daughter," Sidney Howard's comedy drama, and "John Ferguson," St. John Ervine's gripping human tragedy, will be given one week each at the Geary Theater, beginning Monday night, May 13.
Selby C. Oppenheimer, San Fran- cisco impresario, is associated with Homer F. Curran, theater operator and producer, in bringing the Theater Guild to San Francisco. This is Mr. Oppenheimer's third big theater ven- ture here, having previously handled
and was responsible for the playing of "The Miracle" and "Chauve Souris."
"San Francisco has been reading about the Theater Guild of New York for ten years, and we, out here, like the rest of the country, have come to recognize as New York does that the Guild represents the very finest achievements of the stage of today," said Mr. Oppenheimer. "The Guild stands for fine productions, the new technique of the theater, the realism of life. Every one of the four plays has a popular appeal."
This is the first Western tour of the Theater Guild players in their own plays, and it is the Guild's unan- nounced intention to send on tour every year its greatest successes.
San Francisco has been quick to realize the importance of the coming of the Theater Guild players and early reservations for groups of eight and ten seats indicate a heavy patron- age.
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Sunday Concerts
in Woodland Theatre Win
National Recognition
One of the most important com- munity activities supported by the people of the entire Peninsula is the series of concerts given on Sunday afternoons during the summer months in the beautiful Woodland Theatre at Hillsborough which has been called the most perfect outdoor little Theatre in America.
Guest conductors of international repute and popularity have been secured each year to direct the per- sonnel of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra engaged for these concerts, the popularity of which has increased to such an extent with each successive season that the theatre which seats about two thousand is filled to capacity every Sunday.
The Philharmonic Society of San Mateo County, which includes on its Board of Directors many of the most prominent of social, civic, and business leaders of the Peninsula, has just made announcement of the concerts for the fourth season commencing Sunday, June 23rd and continuing through August 11th. Following the estab- lished policy of securing notable con- ductors, the Society has engaged Bernardino Molinari, Eugene Goos- sens, Alfred Hertz, and Bruno Walter, with a fifth yet to be announced.
It is the aim of the Music Com- mittee of which Mrs. George N. Armsby is chairman, to include in the programs presented at these concerts, not only the well known and familiar classic compositions of musical litera- ture, but also to introduce at each con- cert at least one new symphony.
Nights
ISIight falls on the lone
Sahara, and spark by spark
Arabs I have known Light fires in the dark.
Of the specks of ash in the smoke.
Which atom knows From what fire it awoke,
Or whither it goes?
In the wilds of Space, in the dark.
Spiral nebulae Tivirl spark upon spark.
Whereof one are we.
Who can say for what task
They arose or whither they slipf And all the Spirits I ask Stand finger on Up.
' — Lord Dunsany
in Atlantic Monthly.
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1929
BiE
THE City Limits
Italy
THE LIST of "immortals" is out and excitement centers about the omissions rather than the in- clusions. When such men as Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy's greatest living poet; Guglielmo Ferrero, the histor- ian ; Benedetto Croce, historian of modern Italy; Giovanni Papini, auth- or of the "Life of Christ"; Ugo Ojet- ti, art critic; and Benelli, the poet and dramatist ("L'Amore dei Tre Re"), are not to be found in the Academy of the famed, the glory of its lustre is somehow dimmed. To be sure, the rumor is that D'Annunzio characteris- tically and vehemently refused the honor ; yet the list of omissions is cer- tainly a roster of Italy's most noted writers as recognized by the outside world. A further omission, quite to be expected but no less regretted, is that of Grazia Deledda, the woman novel- ist who in 1927 won the Nobel litera- ture prize. What price is glory?
There is however, absolute unity in every department of Italian life for the first time in its glorious history, according to the speech of the King
By Edith Walker Maddux
addressed to the new Fascist Four Hundred, enphcmistically called a Parliament.
China
Even though the best informed Chinese in San Francisco, especially Dr. Chew, assure us of the genuine unity and growing strength of the Nationalist Government, there are still carping critics (some of whom have never been there) who expect the worst from the recent revolts in and about Wuchang and Hangkow, and the continued warfare in Shantung.
The slowness of adjustment be- tween the old life and the new in China is illustrated by the dispute be- tween the water-carriers of Peiping (Peking) and the municipal water works, where riots are occurring as the workmen are laying the new pipes. The water-carriers, some 10,000 of them, will be rendered destitute when the modern system of distribution com- pletely replaces their laborious method, centuries old, of wheeling water in huge casks on barrows from door to
door. Another "shocking" innovation is the petition (to the Nationalist Gov- ernment) of the actors and actresses that they be allowed to play together in the theaters of Peiping, following such a venture which has been tried out for several years in Shanghai and Tientsin.
Hupeh Province has appointed the first woman district magistrate in China, Miss Kuo Fung-Min, who was one of several hundred candidates tak- ing examinations in January. Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the so-called Christ- ian General, not to be outdone in feminism, has established an Institute of Chinese Women, in the dedication of which he voiced the hope that his countrywomen, with such educational opportunities, might soon rival their most illustrious sisters in the European world, even Mme. Curie and Mme. KoUontay!
Conferences
Two burning questions: Are rep- arations wrecked and is disarmament dishonored ?
Glimpses Into the Near East.... Yesterday and Today
By Mary Wallace Weir
Manager Western Division, Near East College Association ; Former
Member of Faculty, Constantinople fVoman's College; now a guest
at the Women's City Club.
A FEW years ago a woman going to Constantinople or to the . Balkans looked upon it as an adventure. Today so great is the in- terest in other countries and inter- national affairs that one can scarcely be on the deep colored Bosphorus, drift aldng the Grand Canal in Ven- ice, or step out of a cafe in Sofia with- out meeting a friend from the Pacific Coast.
With each successive season travel- ers return with news of the many advanced changes which are taking place in the Near East. Often it is said that with the changes, the color has gone from those great meeting places of the East and the West where travelers come from all corners of the earth. Although it is true the color, the costumes, the modes, and the man- ners have changed, the rare beauty of land and sky and water, the skyline of unequaled old Stamboul, continue to charm and entrance the beholder as in those earlier days. And the sun still
drops behind Sulmanieh, the Magnifi- cent, silhouetting its noble dome and minarets against a background of gor- geous gold.
The camel train no longer halts in the shadow of the mosque of Moham- med the Conqueror ; the fringed, cur- tained araba is superseded by the auto- mobile ; and cobble stones are being replaced by modern pavements in the narrow winding streets which are fast becoming broad, smooth highways. The airplane hums overhead ; the tele- phone bell is heard through the open window ; a traffic officer in bright red helmet, red belt, and gay European clothes waves his wand with twisted lines of red and white and keeps the cars in the one-way lanes ; a snatch of opera in Berlin comes over the radio which this Near Eastern section of the world may hear as it passes by. The su-je clanks his little brass cups and the warning cry of the hamal scatters the crowd which has grown more orderly under the rule of the
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guardian of the laws of the road. The droning voice of the "reader" in the "coffee house" attracts an ever grow- ing group of men who congregate for the news of the day. The man of the street no longer smokes his narghile and tells the stories of the old hodjas; he is applying himself to mastering the new alphabet or recounting the latest adventure of the road.
The woman of yesterday in the tchartchaf, which so completely dis- guised her and made her the counter- part of her sisters, is rarely seen ex- cept in the remote villages. The veil, too, has gone. The woman of today in modish gown and soft turban of matching color walks briskly through the streets unattended, if she wishes, in pursuit of her profession or voca- tion with almost a Western air. The changes which have brought her this liberty are vast and far-reaching. They are new avenues of communica-
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Annual Report
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This year's report is one in progress of organization of the growing volun- teer army. With the election of a sec- retary of the committee, Mrs. Wil- liam F. Booth, Jr., the card filing of all volunteer lists has gone forward, which will soon complete the record of members who have served or are serving. Any history which will help this record is appreciated by the com- mittee. W^ith this statistical file, no volunteer should in the future be "lost." A book for registrations is at the Executive Secretary's office, on the fourth floor, and, once enrolled here, the volunteer is assigned by the com- mittee to the service she has chosen. It is the earnest hope of committee and sub-chairmen that this roll will grow daily in the coming year.
All the old services — departmental as well as outside activities — have been continued in 1928, with the new services — the one at Stanford Hos- pital and the other "Special Tea" vol- unteers in the Club house — added to the list.
Meetings of each group of volun- teers have been held regularly once a month. A secretary in each group has taken minutes so that all suggestions for the betterment of service have been developed. Half the meeting hour in three of the groups has been devoted to specific educational lec- tures. The Shop Volunteers initiated the idea because of a desire to learn facts concerning the merchandise to be sold. Lectures on bookbinding, weaving, Christmas cards, etchings, were the result. The Library Volun- teers, both day and evening groups, have had lectures on card cataloging and filing, and "What's the Book About." These lectures have been ex- ceedingly interesting and valuable and all members are invited to attend.
With the Volunteer Service Com- mittee as a central head ; with sub- chairmen (eleven in number) enthu- siastically responsible for their depart- ments; with captains, in turn, inti- mately directing the various groups, this organization plan of the Volun- teer Service has been established this year.
The unique_ feature of the Club — this volunteer service — draws the comments of all visitors. Service is its own reward. The committee invites each Club member to experience this joy of being a volunteer.
Respectfully submitted, Gertrude G. Carl, Chairman,
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Magazine Committee Report 1928-1929
The Magazine Committee believes that the Women's City Club Mag- azine has made substantial progress in the last year, both in literary at- tractiveness and in financial revenue. Not only has the magazine carried more club news, thereby contributing in degree to the increment of the club, but it has carried more advertising. The committee and editor have en- deavored to arrive at a fair proportion of ads to the amount of reading mat- ter and believe that the last several issues have achieved a happy ratio. To keep the cost of printing at a minimum and at the same time publish a maga- zine of interest to members and adver- tisers alike has been a delicate job.
The magazine has conducted a poetry and short story competition, both attracting much favorable atten- tion to the club. It is now offering a prize for a twenty-minute play. It gave publicity to the two health ex- aminations for members, these also arousing much club interest. The magazine has continually emphasized the different departments of the club, as the Beauty Salon, the Restaurant, the Swimming Pool and the Vocation- al Guidance Bureau, featuring the ad- vantages offered by these particular departments, thus building up the pat- ronage in prop>ortion to the publicity given. The committee believes that the magazine has been a great com- mon denominator among members, an agency to acquaint them with the func- tions, privileges and responsibilities of membership.
Financially, the Women's City Club Magazine holds its own as a department of the club.
The committee takes this means of emphasizing to the members that the financial success of the magazine is entirely in the hands of the members. The only way by which the advertiser can be convinced that his investment in the Women's City Club Mag- azine is paying dividends is to be told by patrons that they read his adver- tisement in the columns of the Wom- en's City Club Magazine. There- fore, co-operation of members in this respect is vital.
Elizabeth H. Moore, Chairman.
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Among the members of the Wom- en's City Club who will spend the summer in Europe is Mrs. Webster Wardell Jennings, who is forming a group to tour Europe under her direction.
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Second Golf Tournament
Seven foursomes participated in the second handicap tournament of the Women's City Club Golf Team, which took place at Ingleside Golf Course Sunday, April 7, under the direction of Harriet L. Adams, cap- tain, with Ted Robbins as referee.
Trophies were won by :
Miss Hermina Wocker, first low gross.
Mrs. R. C. Rosenberg, second low gross.
Miss Sadie Kuklinski, first low net.
Miss L. M. Ruffini, second low net.
Miss Ada McLure, blind bogie.
Miss Erna Schoenholz, consolation.
Following the Tournament the team and friends assembled at a din- ner in the National Defenders' Room.
Miss Evelyn Larkin, chairman of the Golf Committee, presided and short talks were made by Miss Marion Whitfield Leale, President of the City Club, Miss Harriett Adams, Captain of the golf team and Ted Robbins. Others present were :
Miss Helen L. Wild
Miss Nadine Berton
Mrs. Orah M. Nichols- Wellge
Miss Ethel Riley
Miss Minnie Mannerberg
Miss Emma Lorich
Miss Etta Lorich
Mrs. Vivian Hatch Locke
Miss Helen H. Bridge
Mrs. W. J. Hoyt
Miss Jessie Tompkins
Mrs. Solly Walter
Miss Hermine Wocker
Miss Mary Isabel Wocker
Miss Edna Dickey
Mrs. Herbert M. Lee
Miss Sadie Kuklinski
Mrs. C. J. Fitzgerald
Miss Bessie Lovell
Miss Anne Baggs
Mrs. Josephine Baggs
Miss Christine Ramsey
Miss May Turnblad
Miss Ada McLure
Mrs. M. E. McLure
Miss Edith Teel
Miss May L. Jamison
Miss Amie R. Cook
Miss Mary R. Walsh
Miss Erna Schoenholz
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Notice of dues and other mail sent to a number of members of the Wom- en's City Club have been returned, which leads the executive office to conclude that these members have moved. To each of the names here given notice has been sent of dues pay- able and the City Club Magazine has been sent two successive months and all mail has been returned to the City Club. Will members whose names appear below send their correct addresses to the City Club Executive Secretary ?
Aiken, Mrs. A. G. Aukener, Mrs. F. A. Bacon, Mrs. Edward R. Bailey, Mrs. Theresa Bennett, Mrs. Clement Bennett, Miss Myrtle Elizabeth Bentz, Mrs. Philip George Boyrie, Mrs. H. E. Brittan, Mrs. Belle Brockhagen, Mrs. Robert H. Carlson, Mrs. Everett Carr, Mrs. I^arriet Carrau, Mrs. Leon W. Colman, Mrs. Charles Davidson, Mrs. F. A. Davis, Mrs. George Little Dearing. Mrs. A. C. Dohrmann, Miss Wanda Eisenhour, Miss Myrtle Eldredge, Miss Lois Elliott, Mrs. H. F. Ferrante, Miss Rose Fredericks, Miss Elizabeth M. Godfrey, Miss Adele Grier, Mrs. Arthur J. Hall, Mrs. Harvey M. Hannon, Miss Catherine Heywood, Mrs. Winifred Holt, Mrs. Grace T. Jackson, Mrs. S. B. Tones. Mrs. Robert V. Keesling, Mrs. M. E. Kivette, Mrs. F. N. Knewing, Mrs. Jennie G. Knight, Mrs. Helen Gray Knowles, Mrs. H. W. Koll, Miss Matilda M. Laskey, Miss Lillian F. Lee, Mrs. Cuyler, Jr. Legna, Miss Ada Lovell, Miss Bertha C. MacDonald, Mrs. William Mann, Miss Gertrude Mencke, Miss Angela Metcalfe, Miss Fay Mills. Mrs. F. C. Montgomery, Miss Madge M. Moody, Mrs. Alice D. Nathan. Mrs. Manuel O'Donnell, Mrs. John R. Pierson, ^liss D. B. Polebitski, Miss G. Rice, Mrs. J. B. Richardson, Mrs. D. N. Riebe, Mrs. H. Paul Rigby, Miss Irene Roberts. Miss Viola Rowe, Mrs. J. F. Rubury. Miss Cecilia Russell, Miss Eugenia -Saksbury, Mrs. N. R. Selig, Mrs. Leonard Shirley, Mrs. L. W. Skaller. Mrs. George Skinner, Mrs. Alpha B. Smith, Miss Jaqueline Spencer, Mrs. A. J. Stone, Mrs. B. W. ITrquhart. Miss Nancy W.ilker, Miss Edwina Wishnew. Miss Lee Wood, Mrs. A.
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Extract from her diary, ivrttten iv/iile Dr.
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Autumn, in South America.
IT is eleven o'clock on a balmy morning in spring — the twenty- eighth day of October. The air is sweet with the blended fragrance of orange blossoms and roses in the tidy little Plaza of Santa Rosa de los Andes, a quaint old village that lies dreaming, tucked away in the lap of fertile foothills. From this place, the Chilean terminus of the Transandine Railway, we begin our day's glorious adventure.
The white sunshine of the moun- tains glints sharply upon the generous amount of nickel and brass ornament- ing the spick and span electric engine of the Limited de Luxe train, espe- cially built for service on this railway. We eagerly board the train, and settle ourselves comfortably in spacious, movable, leather-padded, wicker arm- chairs in a handsomely appointed car, fitted with individual tables, luxurious plate-glass double windows, and mod- ern heating and lighting equipment.
At first, our way is gentle. Orange- gold poppies blaze by the wayside. The round, smooth, green hills slope to the fertile valleys, where brooks splash near tiny thatch-roofed dwell- ings. But soon we ascend rapidly. Tall stalks of brown cactus with long white spines peer at us, where poppies glowed. We cross a mighty ravine, steep and narrow. Hundreds of feet below us, the bounding Aconcagua River surges through to the sea. It is told that at this spot, Salto del Sol- dado — "Soldier's Leap" — a devoted patriot galloped to freedom from his Spanish pursuers. Presently, the only signs of man are small squat stone huts here and there, used for refuge in the days when adventurous souls made this passage of the heights in coach or on muleback. The grade in- creases. Freshness of growth gives place to bare rock, and at Rio Blanco we gain our first fair glimpse of the snows. Eagerly expectant, we make our first acquaintance with the mighty Cordillera de los Andes.
Our eyes follow the towering snow- clad flanks stretching themselves up to the sharp-pointed peaks, spotlessly white, that press into the deep azure of the sky. Something serene, aristo- cratic, aloof abides in these heights. Man is allowed to pass, unnoticed. Peace eternal dwells here. Upward
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and onward, taking the turns and twists, zigzagging up to the snow- sheds of Juncal, we climb three thou- sand feet in the ten miles distance from Rio Blanco. We are silenced by the majesty and beauty of the scene, and ponder on the mystical romance that has marked, and still marks to this day, the "crossing of the Andes."
Stately mountain after stately mountain rises sheer to the sky from the floor of the valley, their smooth, glistening white surfaces broken only by some gigantic, jutting buttress of rock, or sharply cut wind-swept ledge. Their snow-crowned heads are touched into magic radiance by the noonday sun.
Suddenly, we look out across an immense expanse of deep dark blue, on to the breath-taking loveliness of Laffo del Inca. Calm and lustrous, "Inca's Lake" lay like a precious great sapphire, surrounded by the pur- ple snow-flecked sides of its titanic jewel-case, nine thousand feet above the sea. The quiet waters in these purple-blue shadows never increase nor decrease in quantity.
Ever upward climbs our train by steeply winding cliffs, circling the edges of great gaping ravines, bring- ing to view, at every turn, massive rock scenery of prodigious grandeur. In a short time we reach Caracoles, the Chilean entrance to the famous tunnel, nearly two miles long, the center of which not only marks the highest spot on the line, ten thousand five hundred and twelve feet, but also the international boundary between the two republics. The train takes sixteen minutes to drive through to Argentina. As we enter the tunnel, the numerous electric lights in the car flash on at once. The roaring in our ears becomes louder. We settle our heads back, against the soft, inviting cushions that fit snugly into the curves of our necks, and prepare to sit very quietly so that there may be no ill effects from the high altitude. Alas, for our well-laid plans! We awake with a start. We have slept through the entire momentous sixteen minutes!
If our journeying had led us weary miles on muleback to the crest of this ridge, we should have found there that silent sentinel and symbol of Peace— "The Christ of the Andes." {Continued on page 26)
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1929
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To women — the women of Buenos Aires — belongs the credit and honor for the thought and effort to erect this monument. On a line selected by King Edward VII of Great Britain, on the very tip of the watershed, at an elevation of nearly thirteen thousand feet above the two great oceans, amid the booming of guns and solemn mu- sic, this figure of "Christ the Redeem- er," cast from ancient bronze cannons, was unveiled March thirteenth, 1904, to mark the boundary between Argen- tina and Chile — a symbol of eternal Peace between the two nations. Carved on the base of the statue are these words :
"Sooner shall these mountains crumble into dust than the peo- ple of Argentina and Chile break the peace which they have sworn to maintain at the feet of Christ the Redeeiner."
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The train comes out of the mouth of the tunnel on the Argentine side at Las Cuevas. The time-table and our watches agree. It is twenty minutes past fifteen o'clock or three-twenty. From this point we begin a gradual descent. In the pale, clear, sunlit atmosphere we sight, in the distant north, the Monarch of the Andes, Mt. Aconcagua, the loftiest peak in the Western Hemisphere. This moun- tain lifts its perpetually snow-crowned head in solemn majesty above the sur- rounding crests. As the train proceeds by rack-rail down the narrow gorge, we look up to the heights where ice- blue glaciers first bring to life swift foaming rivers; up to heights where white masses of cloud are pierced by jagged peaks, and float down the deeply riven flanks of the mountains.
Steeply, our descent continues. In this half hour, as the higher Andes fade from sight, their snowy crests now turned to a huge brazier of coals by the setting sun, in contrast to their massive unblemished whiteness at high noon, they become, to our uplifted senses, a symbol of the subtle shifting of the soul of the scene. Austere Dig- nity, serene, vast, full of peace, pale and spotless, is giving place to Move- ment, tumultuous, swift ; place to bar- ren Desolation ; place to Color — pur- ple, grey, crimson, orange — now sep- arate, and changeable.
The mountains here are hostile giants of stone, whereas in Chile they were benign kings in ermine. They stand towering and ominous, guarding the mighty walls of their turreted fortresses of weather-beaten shelves of stone rising tier on tier. In this weird and uncanny region stands a group of lofty iron-grey pinnacles known as
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Los Pen'ttentes — "The Penitents." This mountain lifts its spires to Heaven like an ancient Gothic cathe- dral. The surrounding tall, slender, sharp-pointed rocks are cowled monks, who move, in slow procession, up the rugged steeps for Evensong.
This valley of stone derives its name from Mt. Tupungato, whose great height may now be seen forty miles distant. The railway turns and twists, crosses on clif¥s high above dashing, foaming, tumbling mountain waters. These torrential rivers rush white and crystalline, churning in and out between ruddy banks. Two hours ago we crossed a red muddy river gliding sluggishly between grey banks. In the long shadows and pale light of the dying day, a sense of mysticism falls about these giants of stone, with now only occasional splashes of snow across their brows ; about the steep, wide canyons with bare, red walls. Rocks — rocks — everywhere. No veg- etation— no animals — no birds. Great grey brother, his sheer, smooth, rocky side paneled in red and yellow, stands shoulder to shoulder with red brother, with lofty precipice of purple and yellow. White clouds tipped with gold, purple clouds, crimson clouds shot through with black, wreath each ruddy crest. This wild, barbaric blending of color with the cruel, re- lentless strength of these great stone barriers fills our hearts wath solemn wonder.
We stop now for a moment at the tiny hamlet Punta de Vacas. Wild nature grows gentler here. The slopes of the mountains slip down close to the railway track, and are covered with fine grey pulverized rock. Green grass and pure mountain air soothe our senses. Then, once more the land- scape turns desolate and dread, and we come out onto a vast, open, undu- lating plain, dreary and barren, spotted with dry bushes and cactus. Grey, gaunt mountains hem in this plain on every side. The wind whistles vicious- ly. In the deepening dusk we see the tall, melancholy poplar trees, im- ported and planted to shelter and pro- tect the station, bend and sway with their ever-fluttering leaves. This place, Uspallata, marks the end of the pass, and the end of the old mule trail on the Argentine side. Sudden night comes down. It is twenty-two o'clock. The train pulls into the station of the vineyard-surrounded stately city of Mendosa. We have crossed the Andes !
The comforts of the train and the food have been excellent ; the day one of the Weatherman's best. The love- liness, the majesty, and the wonder of this journey will dwell with us for- ever.
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Im^estors Wilt Hai^e Their Innings
By Agnes N. Alwyn
THE New York Stock Exchange provided a sensation during the final days of last March which will doubt- less fill a hectic page in financial history. Not only did we have a record day of over eight million shares traded, but we also witnessed the harrowing spectacle of bears on the rampage driving lambs to cover, and the bulls, in their turn, stopping the bears and turning the market back to price levels comparable with the day's open- ing. Many lambs were sufiEiciently scared to vow "never again!"
For months the Federal Reserve Board has thought that the credit of the country was being jeopardized by over- extended loans to the stock market. It has been using every weapon at its command and has succeeded in materially reducing brokers' loans. The Federal Reserve ratio has been increased, and the entire credit situation seems to be in a fair way to readjustment.
The stock market is being held in leash. The low volume of trading shows plainly the absence of lambs from the market. It reflects professional trading. Even the profes- sionals are handling stock very gingerly, so, obviously, it is no place for the amateur.
After a year of "whoopee" speculation, investors are to have their innings. Time money must come to reasonable levels. Mr. Andrew Mellon has sounded the note, and those who follow his sound advice and "buy bonds" will see them take their place in the spot light and improve in price as the time money rate declines. During the recent market break, call money rose to unparalleled levels. That bankers were not in accord as to the best course to pursue was made evident by the action of the president of a well- known bank.
He came to the rescue of the frantic stock market with an offer of twenty-five million dollars, saying that sum was available to brokers "irrespective of Federal Reserve policy or anything else." He further said, "We certainly would not stand by and see a situation arise where money became impossible to secure at any price." Many people well versed in the intricacies of finance think that his action turned the tide at the crisis and was of incalculable benefit on the constructive side.
All of which brings to mind the homely old saying that "When doctors disagree the patient had best look out for himself." The present day investor therefore wants to know how he should act individually while existing condi- tions in the financial world are as uncertain as they appear to be.
Upon the premise that speculative excess will be curbed the next important movement in interest rates will be downward, and the next important movement in bond prices will be upward. When easier credit conditions pre- vail the effect on bond prices will be very favorable.
The common stock investor who buj's with long term investment in view has two very important problems. Those are to select not only the right stock, but to buy it at the right price. Right price is based upon earning power and intrinsic value, plus the future possibilities of the com- pany in which one buys stock. As a general rule of thumb one should favor the companies whose stocks show steadily increased earnings. It is a healthy sign when earnings arc on the upgrade. One should buy when a sound stock offers at a true investment value.
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Many real investment opportunities are overlooked, left on the bargain counter, so to speak. Among these are some of the soundest and strongest securities in California and the West, Ultimately most securities reach their right price level. The overpriced ones usually come down, the undervalued securities rise in price. Capital is al- ways seeking sound investment oppor- tunity, and quite naturally wants to work where the best yield is to be had with safety. The result is that under- valued securities are discovered, their true worth recognized by keen judges of real values, and finally the market price reflects intrinsic worth.
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The greatest deception that many people practice to their own detriment is to think they are investors and then buy like speculators.
Briefly stated speculation is a gamble for profits on a buy and sell transaction. In such buying little thought is given either to safety of principal or income. The main idea is to get in and out, with a profit. Everyone who has tried it knows the last part is the hardest.
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1929
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{Continued from page 19) tion, new phases of education, new experiences of travel and of contacts with all of the world which were im- possible under the old regime.
Intense nationalism takes on a new meaning when applied to problems of development. Religious prejudice and fanaticism are being modified by edu- cation and association with those of other faiths. Age-old customs are changing with the adoption of modern conveniences and improvements. The former place of women in the social scale no longer exists in the enlight- ened communities. With education and the great upheaval following the World War, the increased opportuni- ties for women and their capacity and ability to seize these opportunities have brought about a development that is astounding. The education of the youth of the country, constantly increasing during the past sixty years in the American colleges of the Near East, has given and will continue to give those countries in their hour of awakening a group of progressive, able leaders with an international con- sciousness who are being called upon to help in the adjustment of their countries to this era of progress and advancement.
The Near East colleges offer to the youth of these countries modern op- portunities for scientific training and specialized study. They also provide, through the international character of the student body, a demonstration in mutual understanding and good will.
It was Dr. Fosdick who said, after a visit to that part of the world, that in the Near East there is a particular need of a special kind of leadership ; that one comes back feeling not at all like criticizing anybody or thinking it worth while to condemn any race or religion ; that the leadership essential to helping the Near East must be a leadership brought about through men and women of different national- ities and opinions being trained to- gether, so that across the lines that divide the common people, these trained leaders will understand each other arid recognize the good in all. Dr. Fosdick does not see any other way of achieving the leadership that is indispensable to the Near East ex- cept through the American colleges.
Dr. George H. Huntington, vice- president of Robert College, says: "Races lay aside the prejudices and antipathies inherited from the past, and especially from the late war, and live together in the colleges in the spirit of good will and international cooperation. Athletic sports know no line of race or religion. No one asks the faith of the captains of the teams,
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or the race of chosen goal-keepers. The same spirit prevails in dramatics and debating, in student publications and in the college orchestras, and even in the student association for self- government, which controls the cam- pus life."
Through the activities of college life, athletics, special training in ped- agogics and sociology, in the sciences and music and art, the women of the Near East are being prepared for home-making and their social life. Through such development they share in social work and community welfare and are being stimulated to prepare themselves for the various professions.
Halide Edib, one of the first Turk- ish graduates of Constantinople Woman's College — a world figure ; a teacher, a writer and a statesman. Her "Memoirs" and "Turkish Or- deal" written in English have given the world a picture of the birth of a new Turkey from the Turkish point of view — a contribution of real value to international understanding.
Safie Ali, also a graduate of Con- stantinople Woman's College, took her medical training in Europe and returned to Stamboul to organize Child Welfare clinics and to make possible a new record in infant mor- tality in that ancient center.
Margaret Demchevskey, following her graduation from Constantinople Woman's College, served for several years as librarian of that institution. After further preparation in London she has been appointed head of the libraries of Bulgaria.
Miss Kyrias and her sister; Mrs. Daco, Albanian graduates of Con- stantinople Woman's College, have established in Albania a School for Girls, the first of its kind in that country.
Nurses who have been graduated from the Training School for Nurses at the American University of Beirut have penetrated the desert and the hills of Arabia and Iraq, taking the message of health to the women and children of those remote places.
The recognition of the modern woman by the man of the Near East is most significant. In the senior class at Beirut recently there were forty- nine men and one woman, and the woman was unanimously elected the president of her class. The men of the Near East are coveting for their daughters and their wives an educa- tion and the opportunities which they have grown to appreciate as essential to the development and success of the people of their countries.
This wave of progress and the cre- ating of new modes of living in these countries of the Near East have
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EUROPEAN TOUR— Select party of six now being formed by Club member, using internationally known "Master Tours" service. 74 days — England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italj'. For information, G. H. Sisson, 437 Pacific Bldg., S. F. Phones KE arny 5966, GA rfield 2543. Folders available Women's City Club Travel Service.
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brought to their men and women alike a challenge which they are meeting through the training which may be received at the American colleges in the Near East. The creative spirit is what every worthy college seeks to arouse in its students, as it is they who must create, is being actively awakened through international con- tacts. This deep understanding is best expressed in a motto adopted by stu- dent organizations in these colleges —
"The realm in which we share is vastly larger than the realm in which we dijfer."
So, in the Near East through the six colleges, there is "what might be termed a League of Nations in opera- tion— a practical, working demonstra- tion of America's sincere desire to extend the hand of fellowship and good will to all nations, y / /
Mrs. Maddux Honored
Mrs. Parker S. Maddux, one of the distinguished contributors to the Women's City Club Magazine and chairman of the City Club's Cur- rent Events Section, has been ap- pointed by Mayor Rolph to the City Planning Commission.
The City Planning Commission is now recognized by the San Francisco Charter as one of the valuable depart- ments of the municipal regime, follow- ing an amendment voted at the last November election. Other members of the Commission are Judge Matt I. Sullivan, Major Charles Kendrick, W. W. Chapin and Roy Rossiter. One of the first big jobs of the Com- mission will be the securing of an ap- propriation or assembling of a fund with which to hire experts to lay out a definite and official ground plan of streets, parks and areas for San Fran- cisco, i i i
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Every woman can have beautiful hair, if she will give it a little attention. Each condition needs individual treatment. For the dry scalp, the use of fine penetrating oils and tonics, or specially prepared medicated oil shampoo is an absolute necessity, combined with massage of the scalp and brushing. The oily scalp is usually caused by excessive shampooing, with strong or caustic soaps, which weak- en the oil glands and cause them to over- flow. This condition can be easily reme- died by the daily use of specially pre- pared tonics and astringents. Coupon books $7.50 good for six treatments.
A special reduction of 15% on all Minerva Scalp and Hair Preparations.
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB CALENDAR
JUNE 1— JUNE 30. 1929
CURRENT EVENTS
Every Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock, Auditorium. Third Monday evening, 7:30 o'clock, Room 214. Mrs. Parker S. Maddux, Leader.
TALKS ON APPRECIATION OF ART
Monday mornings at 12 M. Card Room. Mrs. Charles E. Curry, Leader.
LEAGUE BRIDGE
Every Tuesday, 2 o'clock and 7:30 o'clock, Assembly Room.
THURSDAY EVENING PROGRAMS
Every Thursday evening, 8 o'clock, Auditorium. Mrs. A. P. Black, Chairman.
SUNDAY EVENING CONCERTS
Alternate Sunday evenings, 8:30 o'clock, Auditorium. Mrs. Horatio F. Stoll, Chairman of the Music Committee.
Tuesday, June A — ^Tea for New Members American Room 3:30 P.M.
Wednesday, June 5 — Book Revievy Dinner Assembly Room 6:00 P.M.
Mrs. Thomas Stoddard vyill review "Dark Hester," by Anne D. Sedgwick
Thursday, June 6 — Thursday Evening Program Assembly Room 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Mr. Addison Pierce Munroe
Subject: "Early American Ideals of Citizen- ship"
Mr. Munroe will be the guest of the Club at National De-
dinner preceding the evening program fenders' Room 6:45 P.M.
Monday, June 10 — Formal Musical Tea Auditorium 3:00 P.M.
Miss Georgette Szoke will sing and dance in costumes of Roumania and other European countries
Tuesday, June 11 — Bridge Party, under auspices of Bridge Com- mittee Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
(Tables $3.00; single tickets 75 cents). Mem- bers and guests Tea for New Members American Room 3:30 P.M.
Thursday, June 13 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Rabbi Jacob Nieto
Subject: "What the Juvenile Court Can Do"
Monday, June 17 — Informal Tea American Room 3:00 P.M.
Mrs. Albert M. Chesley will talk on "Exchang- ing Ideas with Young People of Europe"
Tuesday, June 18 — Tea for New Members American Room 3:30 P.M.
Thursday, June 20 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Colonel Wilbur S. Tupper Subject: "New Zealand and the South Seas"
Friday, June 21 — Discussion of Articles in Current Magazines . Board Room 2:00 P.M.
for June Weddings, Birthdays and Anniversaries
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SAN FRANCISCO
Volume III JUNE i 1929
Number 5
SONTENTS
Club Calendar 2
Frontispiece 8
Editorial 17
Articles
Make Your Bets ........ 9
By Dean Southern Jennings
The Fine Art of Travel 11
By Idwal Jones
The De la Guerra House, Santa Barbara 12 By Laura Bride Powers
The Lure of a Yacht 13
By J. Stuart Fletcher
Nation's Sculpture Exhibit at the Legion
of Honor 16
By Beatrice Judd Ryan
Activities in the Women's City Club 14-15-18
Down El Camino Real 19
Swim? 20
By Alma C. Bennett
Monthly Departments
Travel — A Club in the Orient .... 22 By Elizabeth Blossom Knox
Finance — The Romance of Kettleman Hills 27
By Hubert J. Sober
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BOYS' SCHOOLS
THE POTTER SCHOOL
A Day School for Boys
Primary, Grammar and High School Departments . . . featur- ing small classes and individual instruction. Prepares for all Easrern and Western colleges.
I. R. DAMON, A. M. (Harvard)
Headmaster 1899 Pacific Ave. Telephone West 711
DREW
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S'Year High School Course admits to college. Credits valid in high school.
Grammar Course
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Private Lessons, any hour. Night, Day. Both sexes Annapolis, West Point, College Board tutoring. Secretarial' Academic two^ear course, entitles to High School Diploma. Civil Service Coaching — all line*.
2901 California St.
Phone WEst 7069
PACIFIC COAST MILITARY ACADEMY
A private boarding school for boys between
5 and 14 years of age.
Summer Session starts June 16.
Fall Term starts September 10.
For information zurite
MAJOR ROYAL W. PARK
Box 611-W^ Menlo Park, Calif.
HIS is the time to choose the school for your boy or girl. In the Fall there may not be vacancies in the school of \'our choice, and it M^ill be necessary to decide upon a substitute. Each month in this Directory you will find an excellent list of schools where your children will be happy and receive careful instruction. For your convenience, catalogs for the schools represented here will be found at the Information Desk, Main Lobby, Women's City Club.
GIRLS' SCHOOLS
The Sarah Dix Hamlin School
Thirty-fourth year
Boarding and Day School for Girls of all ages.
Pre-primary school giving special instruction
in French. College preparatory.
Fall Term Opens September loth
A booklet of information mill be furnished upon request.
Mrs. Edward B. St an wood, B. L.
Principal aiao Broadway Phone WE st aaii
The Margaret Bentley School
[Accredited]
LUCY L. SOULE, Principal
High School, Intermediate and
Primary Grades
Home department limited
2722 Benvenue Avenue, Berkeley, Calif.
Telephone Thornwall 3820
The Merriman School
Pre-primary to College — Accredited Resident and Day School for Girls
MIRA C. MERRIMAN, IDA BODY
Principals 597 Eldorado Avenue Oakland, California
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Summer Classes ... July 8 to August 1 1 Color : Textile : Interior Decoration
STUDIOS: 136 ST. ANNE STREET : SAN FRANCISCO : Telephone DAvenport 6980
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Seventh Season, Opens June 29
LAKE TAHOE, CALIFORNIA
An exclusive Camp for Girls in the high Sierras of California. Real Camping Trips, Excellent Horses, Wonderful Swimming under most careful supervision.
For further information, descriptive booklets, etc., write
FLORENCE P. BOSSE
562 Sutter St., San Francisco
BOYS' and GIRLS' SCHOOLS
The Airy Mountain School
Boarding and Day Sdtool
Out'of-door living
Group Activities Individual Instruction
Grammar School Curriculum
with French
ANNETTE HASKELL FLAGG. Director
Mill Valley, California
Telephone M. V. 5*4
The ALICE B. CANFIELD SCHOOL
[established 1925]
SUMMER RECREATION SESSION
June 10 to August 10
in charge of
Dorothy Lee Garry, Associate Director
Hours 9:00 A. M.- 4:30 P. M. 9:00 A. M.-12:00 M. 1:00 P. M.- 4:30 P. M.
Woodwork, Music, Sewing, Modeling, Hand Activities, Supervised Outdoor Play
$5.00 per week, morning or afternoon sessions $8.00 per week, all-day sessions
2653 STEINER STREET
Between Pacific Avenue and Broadway
FI Umore 7625
NURSING SCHOOL
MOUNT 2I0N HOSPITAL ^SJJgf.V.G'^
IN CALIFORNIA
Offers to High School graduates or equiva- lent 28 months' course in an accredited School of Nursing. New nurses' home. Indi- vidual bedrooms, large living room, laborato- ries and recreation rooms. Located in the Po °^ '^^ *^'*y- Non-sectarian. University of California scholarship. Classes admitted Feb., June and Oct. Illustrated booklet on request. Address Superintendent of Nurses,
Mount Zion Hospital, 2200 Post Street, San Francisco, California.
SECRET ARIAL^SCHOOL
California Secretarial School
Instruction Day ahd Evbninc
Benjamin F. Priest Prtsidenl
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SCHOOL OF POPULAR MUSIC
Ctil^lSTENSEN
Scnool of Popular AILusic
AloJern I /^ M M Piano
Rapid Method — Beginners and Advanced Pupil>
Individual Instruction
ELEVATED SHOPS, 150 POWELL STREEI
Hours 10:30 A. M. to 9:00 P. M.
Phone GArfield 4079
'he choice of a school or camp for your child demands much careful thought, for, of course, each offers a different environ- ment and influence. The pur- pose of this Directory is to help you to find the one school or camp where your boy or girl will be happiest — and we ask only that you mention the Women's City Club Magazine when writ- ing these schools.
SECRETARIAL SCHOOLS
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Each student receives individual instruction.
A booklet of information will be
furnished upon request.
Mary Genevieve MacAleer, Principal
68 Post Street Telephone DAvenport 6473
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If your plans this summer take you to the East don't fail to go at least one way by the Feather River Route. Whether a short or a long vacation you'll find lots of recreation and rest in the most glorious mountain country in California. The Scenic Limited will take you anywhere you want to go with every travel comfort.
Ask any Western Pacific agent for special rates and information about hotels and delightful resorts in the Feather River country.
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WOMEN S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE
for JUNE
1929
Index to Advertisers
Page
American Express Company 22
Associated Oil Company Third Cover
Bekins Van and Storage Company 32
B. W. Burridge Company 22
Byington Electric Company 32
California Camera Club 26
California Stelos Company '. 30
Casa Bay wood 19
Doris Conner 23
Dairy Delivery Company 32
Del Monte Creamery 31
de Fremery & Company 28
Eldortha Hat Shop 22
En Route Service 21
Eureka Inn 26
Nelly Gaflfney, Inc 20
Galland Mercantile Company 30
Gladding, McBean & Company 7
Gray Line, Inc 26
Dr. Edith M. Hickey (D. C.) 25
Home and Garden Shop 19
M. Johns 31
H. L. Ladd * 19
The League Shop 2
Leslie California Salt Co 32
Levy Brothers 19
H. Liebes & Company 7
Liggett & Myers Company (Chesterfield Cigarettes)
Back Cover
Lipton's Tea Third Cover
Los Angeles Steamship Company 25
McDonnell & Company 28
Metropolitan Union Market 30
Gabriel Moulin 30
North American Investment Corporation 29
The Nutradiet Company 31
O'Connor, Moffatt & Company 23
Moroni Olsen Circuit Repertory Company 21
Panama Mail Steamship Company 25
Post-Taylor Garage Company 25
Reo Motor Car Company of California Second Cover
Roos Brothers 21
Gennaro Russo 26
Samarkand Ice Cream Company Third Cover
San Francisco Examiner 23
San Francisco Academy of Physical Cultu.e 6
Sir Francis Drake Hotel 20
W. & J. Sloane 1
Howard F. Smith & Company 29
Southern Pacific Company 26
Standard Oil Company (Oronite) 30
Streicher's 27
Superior Blanket and Curtain Cleaning Works 31
Temple of Nikko 6
Tuttle Cheese Company 31
T. Thomas Parisian Dyeing and Cleaning Works 27
Walk-Over Shoe Store 3
Western Pacific Company 6
Yosemite Park and Curry Company 24
SCHOOL DIRECTORY
Airy Mountain School Margaret Bentley School California Secretarial
School Alice B. Canfield School Christensen School of
Popular Music Drew School
Sarah Dix Hamlin School Miss Harker's School Lake Tahoe Camp for Girls
Merriman School Munson School MacAleer School Mount Zion Hospital School of Nursing
Pacific Coast Military
School ^Potter School
Rudolph Schaeffer School of Rhythmo-Chromatic Design
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY OF CLUB MEMBERS 27
Mrs. Lucia Raymond Stei-
del Mrs. Fitzhugh
Miss M. Philomene Hagan Miss Georgina F. McLen-
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A. Ijhing of beauty.
As the poet said, is a joy forever. This vase, for instance, one of the creations of the craftsmen who fashion our Garden Pottery, will add charm to your home, where- ever you may place it.
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445 NINTH STREET San Francisco
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Oh, the little bronze ship at the anchor chain tugs And the light on the bright sails gleams; In the moonshine and mist it is headed southwest For a cruise on the sea of dreams.
Oh, the little bronze ship has returned to its place.
To the stone by the poplar trees.
And the little bronze sails, though they gleam in the sun,
Will not answer the morning breeze.
Now the ghost song has died on the pale phantom lips.
And gone are the master and men.
And the little bronze ship is back safe from the trip
Till it goes on a cruise again.
— W. O. McGeehan.
Inscription on Stei>enson Aionument
in Portsmouth Square
San Francisco
'To be honest, to be kind. To earn a little, to spend a little less. To make upon the whole a family happier for his presence. To renounce when that shall be necessary and not be
embittered. To keep a few friends, but these without capitulation — Above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends
with himself — Here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and
delicacy."
San Francisco
The Clock To^ver at the Water Gate
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By Dean Southern Jennings {Son of Mrs. PFebster Wardell Jennings, incinher of San Francisco IVonien's City Club)
R'
lEN ne va plus!"
The sing-song drone of the croupier's voice cut short the flow of little white chips on the monster gaming table in the great Casino at Monte Carlo.
Then — that momentary silence, infinitesimal as the march of the tide on the rocks below — and the tiny ivory ball spun madly around the wheel. Stupid eyes stared and blinked — bright feverish faces crowded one on the other — watching — hoping —
"Le numero treize!"
The tension had snapped. The croupier's rakes shot out — grim tentacles that ironically play with your fate — giving and taking — mostly taking. Some of those around that massive board turned away — forced smiles flickering across their trembling lips.
"Rien ne va plus!"
The game was on again.
Day after day — hour upon hour — the ponderous wheels whirl in that huge Casino — atop the crags of the Mediter- ranean shore on the colorful French Riviera.
The Riviera! Paradise re-created. Beauty — splendor — sunlight — magnificence !
Who amongst you has never heard that magic name — Nice? Or of those other gems on that diadem of the blue Mediterranean — Monaco — Mentone — Monte Carlo — Cap d'Antibes?
The strange legend — Eve, going forth from the Gar- den of Eden with the lemon — hastily plucked in flight.
Later — roaming about the earth — throwing the lemon down at Mentone — where it took seed — flourished and began another Paradise.
Nice — where the aristocracy of a score of nations gathers to play — live and laugh. Monaco — the tiny principality — eight miles of territory — often called the French annex.
All these — and more — poured recklessly into one gor- geous mass of color-perfume and scenic splendor — make the Riviera.
I write of the Riviera because the thought is pleasant.
Because — as I drive along Halfmoon Bay — or wander along the seashore at Carmel — or look down from the heights of the Presidio out through the Golden Gate — 1 see a remarkable comparison.
The thought is pleasant !
I build a kaleidoscope of twisted patterns.
Life and death — laughter and tears — beauty and sor- didness.
They're all there — in that curving stretch of shore — backed by the mountains — faced with the turquoise sea.
Nice — the Promenade des Anglais — boulevard of tlie nations. A bizarre melting pot of the fun-seeker. Black —
high brown — pale yellow and white skins — furtive eyes — innocent ejes — slouches and military shoulders.
Children on the sands. Rich children — trailed by smirking governesses — poor children, trailed by poverty — yet equally happy — equally gay.
There is a Hindu, turban-crowned, prayer beads jan- gling on bony wrists. Here an American tourist — gawky, awed, bewildered. Camera — bag — cane — sun glasses and a cap. Home was never like this — if the folks could see me now.
Farther down — on that sun-bleached promenade — the Casino de la Jetee — justly holding its name. For it juts out over the lapping waves — built on a pier.
Its great doors yawning — inviting.
Sidewalk cafes — tables and tables — reaching almost to the curb. The Tower of Babel takes a back seat here. A "rubberneck" bus rumbles by. The sitters stare and giggle — leer and scolif. Some of them were in the same car the day before. Ah, but they're not tourists now.
Out in the sea — a palatial yacht tosses with the waves. Farther beyond — an ocean liner — steaming for Monte Carlo and anchor. More grist for the mill. True — Monte Carlo is the magnet !
The Riviera without Monte Carlo — is Life without Love.
We're all gamblers.
Gamblers in life — gamblers with destiny.
Why not then — gamble at Monte Carlo ?
Those clicking wheels and shiny chips are sweet-voiced sirens that even Ulysses would fear to face.
That is why I would like to tell you more about that tremendous House of Chance — up there on the hill. It has its stories — its skeletons — its tragedies and drama.
Woven with the chink of the coins and the hum of the wheel.
The Casino towers on a bluff overlooking the sea. Gar- dens that sing a song of beauty — beckoning palms and soft breezes. Exotic in their enchantment. Yet even they — delightful though they may be — can't keep you from mounting the stone steps.
The Casino at Monte Carlo was designed by Charles Garnier — he who planned the great Opera House in Paris. It is a magnificent piece of architecture. Powerful and imposing.
You enter the door — zealously guarded by liveried and tuxedoed attendants and footmen. You pay a small admis- sion fee — present your passport, and there you are!
It's too late to back out now. Who wants to?
The hum of agitated voices sifts through the lobby. Beautifully dressed women — jewels and grace. Immacu-
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late gentlemen — suave — polished and cosmopolitan. There are others too — pale green pouches under their eyes. Rest- less hands itching for the touch of the chips.
Enter the gambling halls. Here a number of long tables, in the center of each of which is a sunken bowl — with its revolving wheel. Turning — whirling madly — clicking oft disaster and good luck.
At each table are four croupiers and a fifth man to watch the players. Each of these men pasty-faced, nervous, blase and almost seedy in appearance. A frightful exist- ence. Nerves stretched to the breaking point. They only work in two-hour shifts. Poorly paid vassals of the Syndi- cate which controls the Casino.
Seated around the tables are the inveterates. Pitifully "keeping score." Each has his or her "system." Each one has the secret knowledge that will bring them riches — or oblivion. All think they are the only one knowing when the right number will turn up. But a hundred "sj'Stems" will never break that bank. The game is honest.
Over there in one corner, perched in a chair at the end
of the table, is the Duchess of . A dour old lady —
always dressed in white — a long white veil hiding the mass of wrinkles in the withered face. Yet once a month she comes there — with her "allowance" — and plays until the last franc is gone- — devoured by the wheel — drawn in by the rake.
There are others. Lord , who arrives promptly
at nine o'clock every night. He, too, crouches over the green baize cloth — giving — giving — always giving. Look at the masks around your table. French, Russian, Ameri- can, English. Wealthy planters from Brazil — wealthier manufacturers from Chicago. Counts, Dukes, Princesses, teachers and shoe clerks.
Life turns on its X-rays here.
Should you — I say should jou win — will you be able to pocket those winnings and leave? Could you resist the call of the wheel that says: "Don't leave — I will give you more — more — more !"
Very few stifle that temptation.
They tell a story — just one of the hundreds — of a man who won the favor of the wheel one night. In a few hours he had gathered $80,000 worth of chips. The croupier reported the loss to the director of the Casino.
"Ah, yes," he laughed gently, "that is excellent!"
The man played on — lost his winnings and $50,000 of his own money. The wheel spun on.
Death stalks the grounds of that House of Chance. A conservative estimate of the suicides that are brought on directly or indirectly through gambling losses is eight a month. Some say twelve or fifteen.
The police have strict orders to search the grounds
every morning for bodies. Shoulders are shrugged, the press is bribed and pouf ! Forgotten. If a man is desperate enough and has lost all his money — the bank, as a rule, will give him enough to get home.
One dark night — they tell this story at the Casino with ill grace — a stranger dashed madly from the door — rushed into the garden and disappeared. A minute later a shot — a scream and the frantic search for the body by the attend- ants.
They found him lying under a bench — a smoking revol- ver in one hand. Quickly, following the rules of the Casino, an attendant stuffed the unfortunate suicide's pockets with money and returned to notify police. When they returned for the body, it had strangely disappeared — with some several thousand francs of the Casino's funds.
The profits of the Casino are enormous.
The Prince of Monaco, monarch of the little princi- pality, and his board of directors are all fabulously wealthy.
The annual income from the Casino, even after paying all the expenses of the building, employees' salaries and relieving the subjects of the principality from taxation, runs into millions of dollars.
Not long ago, news dispatches from Nice told a weird incident that occurred at the height of the gambling season.
A man named Labon took a seat at one of the tables. He placed a chip valued at 1000 francs ($40) on the number 17. The wheel spun — the ball tumbled round the edge and finally dropped into the tiny slot.
"Numero 17 i" the croupier droned.
Thirty-five thousand francs took their place alongside of \l. Labon's original stake. He did not move. The wheel spun again. Number 17 "repeated." M. Labon sat in his seat nonchalantly — leaving the chips stacked on the number.
A third time the racing ball clicked around in its path. A third time it chose number 17. M. Labon now had half a million francs stacked on the table. A puzzled croupier stared at him — then shouted in amazement.
M. Labon was dead.
His weak heart had failed to stand the shock of that first win. And now, his widow is suing the Casino for the entire half million francs. The Syndicate refuses to pay more than the first 35,000.
Every night the spacious gambling rooms are a mass of humanity — flirting with fate — toying with Lady Luck. And of all the people in this world, the subjects of Monaco are the only ones forbidden to enter.
Tragedy and ruin are there — yes, but beauty also.
You can have both.
It's not an easy choice.
From the *' Vision of Sir Launfar
And what is so rare as a day in Junef
Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune.
And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether ive look, or whether ive listen PTe hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and toivcrs, And, groping blindly above it for light.
Climbs to a soul in grass and floivers ; The flush of life may well be seen
Thrilling back over hills and valleys;
The coivslip startles in meadozvs green.
The buttercup catches the sun in her chalice. And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean
To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun,
Atilt like a blossom among the leaves. And lets his illumined being o'errun
If ith the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; He sings to the ivide world, and she to her nest, — /// the nice ear of Nature ivhich song is the best?
— James Russell Lowell.
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The Fine Art of Trai^ei
By I DUAL Jones {Reprinted hy permission of TheSan Francisco Examiner)
TRAVEL — the most educative of sports!" Thus a folder sent me by a tourist agency. It has a red and green cover, with gendarmes on it, the Eiffel Tower, ultra-chic ladies as boneless as angleworms, the Arc de Triomphe, and other wonders. It is a cubistic effort to break down my morale, weak enough with this spring feeling and a dose of sulphur and molasses.
If it weren't for that slogan I would have reached for my favorite suitcase. Travel is educative enough — for those susceptible to educative influences.
BUT travel is not a sport. Sightseeing, scooting across in a liner, colliding with fire hydrants in a London fog, staring at the Venus de Milo, dropping pebbles on the heads of boatmen down on the Seine — these might be sports, even educative. But they are not travel.
Travel is no sport, it is a career, one of the creative arts. Millions of people make a mess of it when they attempt travel, because they think it a sport and don't take it seriously enough. Many who try it are ruined forever by just dabbling in the art, like persons who go in for music, and never go further than "Winner's Easy Steps to Jazz." Just ama- teurs, with the wrong idea.
THE best traveler I know is a man whose name will go here as Reisberg. He is a heavy-built, rich stock broker, who makes millions on the Exchange. Just how I don't know, for it is a mystery to me.
Anyway, he calls his soul his own, and five months a year he travels. About June 1 he locks up his gorgeous flat, leaves the key at the corner drug store and disappears — ostensibly on a hunt for Saracens.
Saracens are just his alibi. He pretends to hunt up traces of them in the south of Europe, and says he will write a book on them some day. The Saracens never did anything but ruin things — and whenever he sees ruins he is convinced the Saracens have been there, and down go notes for his book, which will never be written.
It is just a blind. He merely rejoices in movement — the sort of creative energy the bird expends in flight.
HE knows history and literature. He has studied half a dozen lan- guages, knows music and carries with him that instrument invented especially for travelers — the harmonica. He has trained himself to eat anything. His stomach can undergo terrible hardships, and is hardened against the effects of garlic juice, Spanish wine — which can etch steel — and overloads of spaghetti.
He has no illusions about any country. The Balkans are one solidified odor of goat meat and leeks. He can go that stuff three times a day for weeks.
In Spain — which has twelve Grand Hotel Splendides with sky-high rates for those that like that sort of thing — he tramps like everybody else to the inns, carrying his own food, and, after bargaining with the witch inside, who will cook it in rancid oil, he dines and goes to sleep amid the mules.
He can sleep anywhere, even on the floor of a third-class Toledo mixed train, with his head on the seat, and a ton of mattresses, jars, winepots, infants, chickens in baskets and inert peasants on top of him. If he can see a good painting 350 miles away up in the hills, after all that trouble, he thinks he is well paid.
MANY are called but few are chosen for travel like this Reisberg. He is a Rachmaninoff of travel. He won't say much about it, because it is his secret passion. To his daughter he says:
Don't go, unless you feel you hive to. Buck around Man- hattan in an iron steamboat and get cinders in your eyes. Go to Welfare Island and see some interesting /naladies. That's good foreign training. Then yon U have sense and stay home and fry bacon.
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The De la GuerraiNor lego) House . . . Santa Barbara
By Laura Bride Powers
BY far the most interesting private home in Califor- nia, from the points of view of age, social tradition, history, and simple architectural beauty, expressing its time and customs, is the De la Guerra (Noriega) house in Santa Barbara. Opposite the Plaza, where in the old days the social life of the old Presidio town of early Cali- fornia was staged, it was then, as now, the center of interest. It dates its existence from 1826 (the timbers freighted from Monterey), built by Don Jose de la Guerra Noriega, comandante of the Presidio of Santa Barbara, and foremost citizen of colonial California, measured by character, charm, culture, and wealth. And let us not forget his hospitality, and that of his family — a numerous family, it may be added, as was the wont of early Cali- fornia. None of the earlier voyagers to the far-flung Spanish-Mexican frontier failed to visit Santa Barbara Mission and its nearby Presidio, dominated by this distin- guished gentleman and soldier. I think it was Cilly- Duhaut, the haughty French explorer, who wrote the earliest description of the hospitality of Captain De la Guerra and his gracious ladies, whom he characterized as the most "cultured and charming family in California, whose home is open to all travelers who come with cre- dentials." He goes on to say that the sala, with its wide, deep windows, and white w^alls, was a charming place, furnished with the cultivated taste of an educated Euro- pean ; that the balls given for distinguished visitors to California by the "host of Santa Barbara" were never to be forgotten for their simple elegance, nor the beauty and grace of the women, all of whom danced la jota, the contra danza, and other Spanish or Mexican dances of the period, as well as the fashionable dances then prevail- ing in fashionable circles in Paris and Madrid. It is inter- esting to note that it was in this same long, w^de sala, opening off the tile-roofed veranda and patio, that the romantic wedding ceremony detailed in Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast" took place. And interest is inten- sified by the fact the lovely bride was a daughter of the household — Anita, if memory serves me truly, who gave her heart to Alfred Robinson, world traveler, who, arrested by the ineffable charm of the patriarchal life in California, and particularly in Santa Barbara, tarried there, until he had won the famous beauty. It is one of the vagaries of fortune, though in this instance rather a happy one, that the historic sala is now in use as the home
of art. Incidentally, art seems to have adapted itself quite naturally to the old environment of love, beauty, romance and chivalry. Here the Art Society of Santa Barbara has its salon.
The house has continued in the possession of the family through all the vicissitudes of fortune, even through the tragic drop in the cattle market after the Civil War, which fairly crippled all Spanish (southern) California, all of which was given over to cattle. But some years ago, only two of the family remained to occupy the romantic old place, and it was much too large, and many expensive repairs were needed. There came to Santa Barbara, at this juncture, Bernard Hoffman, a business man from New York, who had come west to play. He landed in Santa Barbara, and his eye fell upon the De la Guerra house. He had the spirit and the understanding to know what it symbolized, both to the charming owners, and to Californians. So, with great tact, arrangements were made that he would restore the house to its original beauty, add to it — of course in the spirit of the house that Don Jose had created — an open-air eating-place, with studios surrounding the tiled and fountained garden-restaurant. At night, under the stars, the fountain playing, castanets ringing, flowers exhaling sweetness. El Paseo is nowhere else to be found outside of Mexico or Castile.
It is almost superfluous to say that, at the earnest solici- tation of Mr. Hoffman, the two gracious ladies remained in the east wing, there to remain the hostesses of Santa Barbara, whenever she should elect to become hostess to the world — Senorita Delphine De la Guerra and her sister, Mrs. Lee De la Guerra. During the year, the latter passed away, to the grief of all who, up and down the State, had enjoyed the precious privilege of knowing the chatelaines under their own rooftree. Their part in the first Santa Barbara Fiesta, costumed in the lovely things of their girlhood — combs, mantillas, shawls, silk dresses that had known voyages in damp trunks in deep keels — are memories to conjure with. And the official tea given by the ladies, on the broad veranda in the patio, flanked by high representatives of the army and navy, and members of the family from up and down the State, including the Carrillos, Orenas, Ortegas, Osios, Vallejos, Ximenex, and other established Spanish families, could have no duplication anywhere in the world.
Romanc^e
I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me. Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.
I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room. Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom. And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white In rainfall at morning and dew-fall at night.
And this shall be for music when no one else is near. The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire. Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.
— Robert Louis Stevenson.
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The Lure cr a Yacht
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T must have been that black baby, all right. I tried to avoid him though."
"Say, fellow, the next time that you let a black cat cross your bows there'll be trouble on this ship."
"But, Skipper, I tried to avoid that blasted cat. Why, I tell you he fol- lowed me all over the yard. It was funny the way he outsailed me and got across before I could beat out of there."
"Funny! Say, I suppose that sixth place in the opening race of the season is a humorous situation. You are a fine one."
"Well, that may be so. But, hang it all, why do they let that cook keep a black cat around a yacht club any- way? It would make old Davey Jones turn over twice in his grave. How do you ever expect us to win any races for the club, with that cat round to 'Jonah' the races?"
"Say, fellow, where are you going with your wind up like that?"
"Don't annoy me. I'm off to stran- gle that cook and his blooming cat."
There are other things besides races, and all isn't hung on supersti- tion, in this yachting sport. The im- portance of racing and the signifi- cance of superstitions will vary with the individual, but they will all agree that there is only one real sport. A true yachtsman will make you a trade of all the tennis rackets, golf gear, and polo ponies on the continent for a sleek, trim lady of the sea. How they love their boats, these men ! There is something of that age-old lure of the waters which catches them by the shoulder and sails them out into the spray. Wind and tide become an in- separable part of them. From the tiny Whitehall to the longest steamer the story is the same.
Some men prefer to race, some to cruise. There is the chap whose wide, comfortable, shoal draft boat, by its very looks, brings before you the pic- ture of a wide and comfortable gen- tleman, who, pipe in mouth, and trolling rod in had, sails leisurely on- ward into the glory of the golden and purple sunset. Far up into the inte- rior on all the navigable water 30U will find his craft. Around the tule- fringed bend of some upper reach of the Sacramento will slide her white prow. Perhaps you'll barely see his rigging and masts against the willows on the upper San Joaquin, or at dusk see the blue smoke of his galley stove
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and smell the aroma of simmering chowder and coffee coming down the breeze.
There is another sort of cruising yachtsman whose staunch, powerful hull you will find up and down the coast and far out to sea. When first she comes in sight you may not be able to surely distinguish her from the white crest of some faroff comber. Gradually, as she comes nearer, you will make out the white of her hull and rigging. You lose sight as she goes tobogganing sharply downward into the trough of some mountainous sea. Presently comes the roar of her powerful motors, now interrupted by the rush of water about her exhaust ports, and now gurgling, sputtering, roaring forth as she climbs clear, onto the crest of the next sea. Maybe she is a stout schooner whose rigging rat- tles and sails tremble in anticipation as, momentarily, she finds herself in the trough with the wind blanketed ol^ by the oncoming wave. Now she climbs, catches the gale full in the face, heels over, and then goes driving off with a "bone in her teeth."
These husky, short-ended, powerful boats range far down and up the sea- board. They will be found in Alaska, at the Canal, and even down to Ta- hiti. The skippers are weather-
tanned, square-jawed fellows — real seagoing sailormen.
The racing men of yachting are a sporting, fighting crowd, who play the game for all that it is worth. To them is the zest and joy of a combat against both the elements and skillful men. The racing man has a doubled pleasure. There is the satisfaction of having closely gauged a tide, or well used a wind, and there is the keen delight of having outwitted and fairly defeated another skipper.
The racing yacht, like the fast horse, is a highly specialized thorough- bred. Like the race horse, her lines are long and lean and her rig is high. Her trim, tall mast and close-fitting canvas speak of the infinite care given every detail of her gear, from stem to gudgeon. She is groomed and tuned like the finest of horseflesh or the fast- est of motors. The skipper will drive his racing-machine to the edge of her sailing endurance and know that his ship will give her utmost. But she must be sailed by a skipper with a fighting spirit or she will not give her all. "Well ridden" is synonymous with "Well sailed."
It is a great sport. You may ask any yachtsman. But remember, whether you motor or sail, whether you cruise or race, beware of black cats ! !
^^ I- rciiicis } (icht Club. Sen Francisco
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Large Number of Dinner Guests Hear Dr. and Mrs. James H. Cousins
ONE hundred and seventy-five guests attended the dinner given Monday evening, May 20, at the Women's City Club in honor of Dr. and Mrs. James H. Cousins, who have spent many years in India and are conversant with its present economic and sociological con- ditions as well as its art and literature.
The decorations of the dinner ta- bles, set in the Main Dining Room, followed a scheme of yellow, with masses of blooms used to carry out the effect. Miss Marion Leale, president of the Women's City Club, presided.
Dr. Cousins spoke on the poetry and mysticism of India, of her con- flicts of consciousness in religion and politics and of the growth of a defin'te race expression through her literature, sometimes metaphysical, sometimes realistic.
Mrs. Cousins was a militant suf- fragist in London before going to India and naturally is deeply inter- ested in the political and economic status of women in the places where she has more recently dwelt. She said that suffrage had been granted the women of India as an appreciation of their war work, the franchise coming to them quietly, without struggle or demand, conferred as an accolade for gallantry under fire. She refuted many of the generalities uttered in Katherine Mayo's book. "Mother India."
Guests of honor at the dinner were Gerald Campbell, British Consul General at San Francisco, and Mrs. Campbell, Miss Persis Coleman, Pro- fessor Samuel Seward of the English Department of Stanford University, Miss Cora Williams and Professor Guerard of Stanford University.
A number of parties were arranged for the dinner and lecture, hostesses entertaining from two to twelve. A table of nine, arranged by Mrs. Jo- seph Bell, who lives at the City Club, seated Mrs. Bell, Mrs. Harry Mann, Mrs. Harry Durbrow, Mrs. Robert J. Davis, Mrs. S. Walters, Miss Elizabeth Crane, Miss E. A. Frontin, Mrs. William P. Plummer and Mrs. Phoebe Rockwell.
Miss Mabel Pierce and Miss Elisa May Willard had a table together, their guests being Mrs. Franklin B. Harwood, Dr. Caleb S. S. Dutton, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Perry and Mr. Alfred Hincks.
Others who entertained friends were Mrs. Herman Owen, Mrs. A. B. Washington, Miss Margaret M. Lothrop, Miss I. L. Macrae, Miss A. Woods, Mrs. Ira W. Sloss, Miss Emma Noonan, Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper, Mrs. Paul Shoup.
A dinner party and reunion of San Francisco Chapter, Kappa Alpha Theta, held in another part of the City Club, later joined the party in the main dining room to hear Dr. and Mrs. Cousins speak. Mrs. Harry Staats Moore, member of the Wom- en's City Club board of directors, is national president of Kappa Alpha Theta and was among the guests. Others in the group were Mrs. Rob- ert Cross, Miss Edith Slack, Mrs. Robertson Ward, Mrs. George Batte, Mrs. George Osborne Wilson, Mrs. George Gunn, Mrs. Holt Alden, Mrs. E. K. Busse, Miss Eleanor Da- vidson, Mrs. Oscar Catoire, Miss Alice Cochrane, Miss Benice Balcom and Miss Helen Parsons.
Airs. Cooper Honors Jhss Leale at Luncheon
Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper was hostess at a luncheon given in honor of Miss Marion Whitfield Leale, President of the Women's City Club, in the National Defenders' Room, Friday, May 10. The guests included the members of the Board of Directors and Chairmen of Committees of the Women's City Club. Mrs. Cooper is Chairman of the Hospitality Com- mittee of the Women's City Club.
The decorations were unusually lovely. Flame colored poppies, yellow calla lilies, roses in the sunset shades and other blooms in a large russet basket adorned the center of the table. From this radiated garlands in reds and yellows, the whole making a strik- ing pattern of color. Miss Leale was presented with a cluster of gardenias
and lavender pansies.
Guests were, besides Miss Leale : Mesdames
Cleaveland Forbes A. P. Black
S. G. Chapman
Lewis Hobart
Frederick P'unston
W. B. Hamilton
Harry Staats Moore
Louis Carl
James T. Wood, Jr.
Horatio F. Stoll
Edward Rainey
Leroy Briggs
William F. Booth, Jr.
Howard G. Park
Misses
Henrietta Mofifat
Mabel Pierce
Esther Phillips
Emma Noonan
Katherine Donohoe
Margaret Mary Morgan
Elisa May Willard
Emogene Hutchinson
VisL
on^
When I from life's unrest had earned the grace
Of utter ease beside a quiet stream ;
When all that was had vanished to a dream In eyes awakened out of time and place, Then, in the cup of one great moment's space,
Was crushed the living wine from things that seem.
I drank the joy of very beauty's gleam, And saw God's glory face to shining face.
Almost my brow ivas chastened to the ground.
But for an inner Voice that said: "Arise!
IVisdom is wisdo/n only to the wise.
Thou art thyself the royal thou hast crowned.
In beauty thine oicn beauty thou hast found; ^
And thou hast looked on God with God's own eyes!'
James H. Cousins.
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Lectures on International
Barriers to be Given at
Women's Cltij Club
The Women's City Club will spon- sor a series of exceptionally interestinjj; lectures on "International Barriers" this autumn and winter, the first of which will be given in September. The speaker will be Dr. Graham Stu- art of the Department of Political Science, Stanford University. Dr. Stuart has received appointment as Carnegie Professor of International Relations to the Universities of Tou- louse, Montpellier, Poitiers, in France, and also has been selected by the Rockefeller Foundation to make a special study of Tangier.
Members of the City Club are for- tunate in their opportunity of hearing Professor Stuart, for he is delaying his departure for his new posts just long enough to open the City Club's course on International Barriers. A more detailed program of this series will be announced in the July number of the City Club Magazine. Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard is chairman of the Committee on Programs and En- tertainments which has arranged for this series. Mrs. Henry Francis Grady is special chairman for this course and will preside at Dr. Stuart's lecture.
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Outdoor Group to Hear Airs. G. Earle Kelly
Members of the City Club who are fond of botany and things out of doors will find much pleasure in the course of discussions to be given this fall by Mrs. G. Earle Kelly, naturalist and lecturer. Mrs. Kelly says of the plants and the outdoor world: "Since our lives depend upon plant life, supply nearly everything we eat, practically everything we wear, purify the very air we breathe, we should know some- thing about them." Further informa- tion of the lectures, which begin in September, will be given next month.
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Salad Days
With the approach of summer a special feature will be made of salads in the dining room and in the cafeteria. In the dining room the seventy-five cent plate luncheons will offer a choice of cold meats or salad. There will be a different salad on the menu every day so that those who like a salad as a main luncheon dish may have it on the seventy-five cent luncheon, which includes rolls, a beverage and dessert. In the Cafeteria a wide assortment of salads is offered daily and if one's favorite is not on the menu it will be quickly made to order.
To Be Guests at City Club In Month of June
Between thirty and forty prominent club women from various parts of the United States have made reservations at the Women's City Club for the week of June 26 to July 3, when they will number among the 5,000 dele- gates expected to attend the annual meeting of the National Conference of Social Work to be held in San Francisco at that time,
Mrs. Edmond S. Kelly, chairman of the Santa Barbara Conference of Social Work, will head a delegation of twenty Santa Barbara social work- ers who will make the Women's City Club their headquarters during con- ference week.
From the eastern states will come Miss May H. Roger, of the Genesee Hospital, New York; Mrs. Robert Douns Noonan, a prominent member of the Women's City Club of Phila- delphia; Mrs. Ethel L. Allison, New York; Miss Mary Anderson, of the Women's Bureau, United States De- partment of Labor, Washington, D. C.
Mrs. E. F. Runge, of the children's probation office, St. Louis, will be another delegate to register at the Women's City Club. Two Los Ange- les visitors will be Miss Winnifred M. Hausam, director of the Bureau of Vocational Service, Los Angeles, and her assistant. Miss Helen G. Fisk. <• / y
New Books In Library
New books added in May to the shelves of the Women's City Club Library were:
A Preface to Morals, by Walter Lippmann, Hows and Whys of Hu- man Behavior J by G. A. Dorsey; I Dis- covered Greece, by Harry Franck, Rome Haul, by Walter D. Edmonds, Kristin Lovransdatter, by Sigrid Und- set. The Stoke Silver Case, by Lynn Brock, Henry the Eighth, by Francis Hackett, Four Faces of Silva, by Rob- ert Casey, Dr. Artz, by Robert Hich- ens. Six Mrs. Greenes, by Lorna Rea, Alid-Channel, by Ludwig Lewisohn, Dark Star, by Lorna Moon, Perma- nent Wave, by Virginia Sullivan, Storm House, by Kathleen Norris. ^ y Y
Bridge Party. . .June 1 1
The Bridge Committee, of which Miss Emogene C. Hutchinson is chair- man, will give a bridge party in the City Club Auditorium Tuesday eve- ning, June 11. at 8 o'clock. The price of tables, including refreshments, is $3.00 ; single tickets 75 cents. Tickets may be purchased at the information desk or from Miss Hutchinson.
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Three Teas at Women's
City Club Will Welcome
A ew AI e mbe rs
Three teas will be held in the month of June at the Women's City Club to welcome the new members recently moved up on the long waiting list of applicants by virtue of vacan- cies occurring within the prescribed limit of membership. The teas will be held on the afternoons of June 4, 11 and 18 from 3:30 to 5 o'clock in the American Room.
The new members will be divided into three groups, with a different group to be entertained each after- noon. They will be apportioned al- phabetically and a different group of directors will be hostesses at each tea. Miss Marion Leale, president of the City Club, will preside at each.
Miss Mabel Pierce, Miss Henri- etta Moffat, Mrs. Paul Shoup, Mrs. William F. Booth, Jr., and Mrs. Howard G. Park will be hostesses for June 4.
Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr., Miss Elisa May Willard, Mrs. Lewis P. Hobart, Miss Marion Burr and Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard will be hostesses for June 11, and Mrs. Harry Staats Moore, Miss Sophronia Bunker, Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper, Mrs. Wil- liam B. Hamilton and Mrs. Frederick Funston will be hostesses at the third and last on June 18.
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Sunday Ei^ening Concerts to Resume September 22
Mrs. Horatio F. Stoll recently ap- pointed chairman of the Music Com- mittee of the W^omen's City Club, announces that there will be no Sun- day Evening Concerts in June, July or August. The first concert after the summer vacation will be given September 22 and thereafter on the first Sunday of each month except in October, when the concert will be given October 6. Mrs. M. E. Blanch- ard is vice-chairman of the Music Committee.
The Music Committee will give re- ceptions from time to time during the summer in honor of visiting artists, as the guest conductors of the Summer Symphony Series or leading artists of the San Francisco Opera Association season. < < »■
Donation for French Books
Mrs. J. R. Folsom has given S25.00 to the \Vomen's City Club Library for the purpose of purchasing French books for its shelves. There has been a brisk demand for French books, both fiction and reference and the donation is particularly greatly appreciated.
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CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for JUNE
1929
Nation s Sculpture Exhibit at the Legion oj Honor
THE American Sculpture Ex- hibit at the Legion of Honor is causing the reactionaries to af- firm "This is Art" and the progres- sives to answer "Where?" Betwixt and between there is a lot of art dis- cussion and some discriminate think- ing, and for that we thank Mr. Ar- cher Huntington and the American Sculpture Society for choosing our beautiful Legion of Honor, three thousand miles across the Lincoln Highway, to exhibit again "The End of the Trail" and all the rest of this bewildering assemblage of our na- tional sculpture.
In view of the largeness of effort plus the enormous expense, we do not wish to seem ungrateful, nor are we.
Seated Figure, by Jacques Schnier, San Francisco sculptor
The exhibit is giving countless thou- sands in California, who are unable to travel, an opportunity to view sculpture, by men whose names are nationally known, and in the illus- trious gathering of 1325 pieces we note with satisfaction that the few Californian exhibitors hold their own. In discussing the exhibit pro and con with Mr. Leo Lentelli, who is responsible for the effectiveness of ar- rangement of the entire inside exhibit, he declared with finality: "Contem- porary sculpture, there it is. What can we do about it?" But is it repre- sentative? Not altogether. We can only judge by what we know hap-
By Beatrice Judd Ryan
pened in California. Ralph Stackpole did not send. After reading the invi- tation, the names of the jury and some of the exhibitors, from his viewpoint the exhibit did not interest him. Peter Krasnow of Los Angeles did send, 1 am told, and was turned down by the jury. These are two of the strongest sculptors in California. May not this have been the case in other states? Contrariwise, if this exhibit is a hun- dred per cent representative, then the monumental art of sculpture in Amer- ica lags sadly behind music, painting and literature, and seems utterly de- void of any creative national expres- sion. Which is not altogether surpris- ing when we note that 98 out of the 275 exhibitors are foreign-born.
The American people love volume, consequently such a colossal exhibit cannot help but stimulate a wider popular interest in sculpture and for those who have a growing art con- sciousness it will doubtless help crys- tallize their taste in favor of wha: our young moderns are doing.
Sculpture, according to Mr. Web- ster, is the act or art of cutting, hew- ing or carving stone, metal or wood. If this be a true definition, there is some point in the contention of one of our California painters that the ex- hibit is an excellent one of modeling but not sculpture. As we turn the pages of the handsome catalogue, the illustrations most certainly are model- ing but woefully lacking in that feel of monumental dignity that we find in the cut direct sculpture of the mod- erns. Many of the smaller sculptures do have this vital quality. It would seem that as our sculpture assumes greater proportions it becomes more blatantly commonplace. It is a strange circumstance that those sculptors des- tined to design memorials to commem- orate the dead of the World War should be men whose art spirit re- mains untouched by that cataclysm. As Professor Eugene Neuhaus puts it humorously, "The members of the American Sculpture Society came through the war utterly unscathed."
We believe the world's struggle turned the trend of conviction from meaningless tradition, unthinking con- servatism. If that way brought the war, we would try to find a new way. This struggle, this eager searching, we find in music, literature and painting. Because it is absent from our national sculpture the exhibit leaves us cold.
Of course there are the exceptions. Manship obviously is a master in clas-
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sical beauty. Epstein, the powerful, is represented by three pieces in the ex- hibit, none of which thrill me person- ally as did the reproductions of the War Memorial in London. After see- ing the Archipenko exhibition in Los Angeles we feel he is inadequately represented. Joe Davidson's portrait- ure has all the facility of the clever artist in a crayon sketch, but he gives us nothing of the inner spirit which is suggested by the work of Malvinia Hoffman. Laurent, who was French- born, and Warneke, who is German by birth, both have a creative quality in their work which is refreshing. In a short article, such as this, it is not possible to review such an extensive exhibition, but it will be an instructive game, and one which we recommend to those interested in art, to go out to the Legion and seek out for them- selves the creative, vital bits of sculp- ture, which are scattered throughout the exhibition.
"Girl and Penguins," by Edgar li'^alter, San Francisco sculptor
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE
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VOLUME III
JUNE ' 1929
NUMBER 5
EDITOMIAL
IT is probable that no club is ever used to capacity all the time. There are crowded days on occasion, just as every household has intervals when the guest rooms and the dining room are impressed into their utmost service.
But households are not maintained for the same reason nor on the basis of clubs. Their sustenance is not derived from within. The San Francisco Women's City Club is expected to be even more than self-sustaining. It is sched- uled to pay off its own cost, and within a definitely pre- scribed time. Therefore each department must do its quota, as originally budgeted. Guest rooms and restau- rant, swimming pool and beauty salon, League Shop and Magazine, library and lectures — all have their bit to do, and if one sags under its obligation temporarily or perma- nently the others must compensate. A bit of temporary depression is to be expected now and then, and often means little more than an occasional scrawl of red ink in a black column. Nobody worries about it. But if the red should persist month after month there would of necessity be a readjustment.
It is the job of the directors of any institution, corpora- tion, or organization operated for a profit to see that every department contributes according to the budget. The Women's City Club is no exception to the rule. Rail- road presidents and bank heads may resign or die or be succeeded in tenure, but if their organizations are sound the individual or personal equation is not too important. The departments carry on. The institution is autogenous. It was the aim of the City Club founders to follow this pattern. The result is a club in which there are depart- ments without stratification, committees without bureau- cracy, a unique composite of representation by selection, a social unit of value and distinction to the community, and "it does not yet appear what we shall be."
In the meantime, members are reminded that theirs is the responsibility and privilege to use all departments to capacity. Do they play bridge? There is a weekly bridge party. Do they want French lessons? Or lectures? Or good food properly served? Or music? All are to be found within the circumference of the~ City Club's activ- ities. Each activity functions in its own orbit and invites patronage. In June are two especial teas which, it is expected, will interest many, one a "musical tea" and the other to be accompanied by a talk on the young people of Europe and an exhibit of handcraft from eleven European countries.
Mrs. Herbert Hoover^
Member Women's City Club of San Francisco
From"The American Women's Club Magazine," London,
March Number
10YAL to our country, as we are at all times, greeting enthusiastically each new President on his inaugu- ^ ration, I am sure that this year our hearts will turn with unusual warmth to the White House, to welcome not unly the President (an old and valued friend) but our Mrs. Hoover, who is to be the First Lady of the Land — so admirably fitted is she with her dignity, tact, and gra- cious hospitality.
This Club claims Mrs, Hoover as its own, and feels honoured in the honours bestowed upon her. For four years she acted as Vice-President, and for two as President, of the Society of American Women, as our organization was known at that time, and only ceased to hold office on her return to America.
Her help to the Society during these six years was inval- uable. She was full of enthusiasm and vision. Her dream for the Society was to see it established in a large and beautiful house. She left before this dream could be real- ized, but I am sure she must rejoice that her idea has materialized so solidly and well.
As Vice-President during the writer's Presidency she was a constant help and inspiration, smoothing out the rough places and inciting to further efforts. She shared with her husband the faculty of making other people work and bringing out the best in them.
On the declaration of war Mrs. Hoover accepted the Presidency of the Society, an office she had emphatically declined until the urgency of the strenuous work appealed to her. Then she urged the members into the work of caring for the women and children refugees from the con- tinent, and organized with others a knitting factory for the old and feeble dependents of the soldiers, thus not only providing comforts for the men, but giving their women a feeling that they were of use in the world.
The history of the next two jears is all war work, and this work banded together the American women in Lon- don in a new way, inspiring a singleness of purpose and giving impetus to the further growth of the Society into a Club.
With all her public work Mrs. Hoover's family and home life were very near her heart. Her husband and her two boys had always first claim, and her beautiful home was a frequent gathering-place for musical and literary afternoons. Nobody ever felt shy or strange in Mrs. Hoover's house. Her garden luncheons were delightful events, thirty or forty people gathered around a horseshoe table in a garden in the heart of London.
The unostentatious and tactful kindnesses shown to those less favoured than herself will never be numbered, but will, I am sure, have produced a host of grateful friends who will join with this Club in wishing not only a successful but also a happy career in the White House to our dear friend Lou Henry Hoover. J. T. C.
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The Night Will Ne^er Stay By Eleanor Far j eon The night will never stay, The night will still go by. Though with a million stars You pin it to the sky.
Though you bind it with the blowing wind And buckle it with the moon, The night will slip away Like sorrow or a tune.
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Mayflower Descendant to Talk at City Club
Addison Pierce Munroe, National
President, Society of Mayflower
Descendants
ADDISON Pierce Munroe of Providence, Rhode Island, Gov- ^ernor-General of the National Society of IVIayflower descendants, and Airs. Addison will be guests of honor at a dinner to be given by the Wom- en's City Club, Thursday evening, June 6. After the dinner Mr. Mun- roe will speak to the regular Thursday Evening Group on "Early American Ideals of Citizenship."
He was elected Governor-General of the Society of Alayflower Descend- ants in 1924, succeeding the late John Packwood Tilden of New York. He had previously served as Secretary- General for eight years. He is a past Governor of the Rhode Island Society of Mayflower Descendants ; Past President of the Rhode Island Society, Sons of the American Revo- lution ; Vice-President of the Rhode Island Historical Society; a Director of the Rhode Island Society of Colo- nial Wars and of the Order of Foun- ders and Patriots of America; former Vice-President of the American Hu- mane Association ; former President, Rhode Island Society. Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Vice-President, Providence Animal Rescue League.
Mrs. Munroe is a member of the Society of Colonial Dames of Rhode Island ; a member of Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolu- tion; a member of the Rhode Island Women's Club and of the Providence Fortnightly Club.
The General Societv of Mavflower
Descendants was organized at Ply- mouth, Massachusetts, January 12, 1897. Its members are the proven living descendants of passengers in the good ship Mayflower which dropped anchor in Providence Harbor in De- cember 1620. Of the 104 passengers who made that memorable voyage, only 23 heads of families are known to have living descendants. The Gen- eral Society has a membership of over 6,000, with branches in 23 states and holds a convention at Plymouth, Mas- sachusetts, once in three years. The object of the Society is "To perpetuate to a remote posterity the memory of our Pilgrim Fathers. To maintain and defend the principle of civil and religious liberty as set forth in the Compact of the Mayflower 'for ye glorie of God, and the advancement of ye Christian faith, and honor of our countrie'." Ex-President Calvin Cool- idge wrote of the Pilgrims :
"Three centuries ago, the Pilgrims of the Mayfloiver made landing at Plymouth Rock. They came undeck- ed with honors of nobility. They were not children of fortune, but of tribulation. Persecution, not prefer- ence brought them hither. Measured by the standards of men of their time, they were the humble of the earth. Measured by their later accomplish- ments, they were the mighty. No captain ever led his forces to such a conquest. Oblivious of rank, yet men trace to them their lineage as to a royal house."
The California Branch of the Gen- eral Society of Mayflower Descend- ants was organized at San Francisco January 11, 1908 by the late Herbert Folger of Berkeley. In size it ranks third of the 23 branches, being exceed- ed in numbers only by Massachusetts and New York. Dr. Charles Mills Gayley, for many years Dean of the Department of English in the Univer- sity of California, has been its Gov- ernor ever since it was started. Its present Secretary and only woman officer is Mrs. Avis Yates Brownlee, a member of the Women's City Club.
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The American Room of the City Club was the setting for a tea given May 9 by Mrs. D. T. Berry in honor of Miss Dorothy Brown. Spring flowers were used in pastel shades. Assisting Mrs. Berry were Mrs. C. G. Brown and Mrs. E. A. Lane. Seventy guests were entertained. ■f -f ■/
Judges of theWoMEx'sCiTvCLUB Magazixe Play Contest which ended May 1, are working on the manu- scripts and the awards will be made in a few weeks.
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The Yacht
By Eleaxor Prestox Watkixs
Around the cliff she comes
Like a morning cloud, Radiant in the sun.
And innocently proud ; Her IV hit e sails spread.
As a fair young girl Smiles with lifted head
And eyes
Unworldly wise, Secure of love and truth. Beauty and youth.
The sun shines on her,
And the waves caress: Is anything so lovely
On the seaf The puffing tugs and steamers.
They may pass. But all beauty lies
In her serenity. The loud efficiency Of wise experience and age
Is only ruth. And cannot compensate
Our wistful hearts For the lost white grace
Of youth.
Miss Helen Wills, woman tennis champion of the icorld, who was pre- sented to Queen Mary at the Court of St. James May 10. Aliss IV ills is ex- hibiting her paintings and drawings in London this month.
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El Cam i no Real, Highway of the King
CONSIDER a modern holiday along the paved smoothness of El Camino Real ! Automo- hiles in a continuous procession. Air- planes overhead, so many of them that they create no more comment than tlie birds circling.
Hikers in clothes scant and com- fortable. Baseball games at intervals. Or polo. Golf links every few miles, segments of open country between cottages and shops. Towns, school- houses, hospitals, street cars, luxury, food stalls. Such is the thoroughfare leading south from Presidio San Fran- cisco, down the peninsula.
Consider, then, a feastday of less than a hundred years ago along the same highway of romance. Then there were la jota, and la contra- danza and the fandango to fill the soft nights. Later the dances and their music from Europe and the Atlantic were brought to the pueblos and pre- sidios— our cities of today — by voy- agers, by incoming officials, soldiers and colonists. Music was a vital force in their lives.
At these times. El Camino Real would be dotted along its length with haughty caballeros, rollicking vaque- ros, senoritas riding double with their lovers, carretas hung with garlands, full of dogs, children, servants, the old and the young, off for the party that usually lasted a week, singing and dancing on the way. That was old California, "land of milk and honey." Music and hospitality and good fel- lowship its earliest characteristics. A rich heritage to build upon.
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Dramatists Challenged by Community Chest
Ruth Comfort Mitchell, Irving Pi- chel and Charles Caldwell Dobie be- lieve that social service provides mate- rial which can be effectively drama- tized. They will act as judges in a contest sponsored by Mrs. Eugene Elkus, drama chairman for the Com- munity Chest department of public re- lations.
Preference will be given to one-act plays; but the judges will also con- sider three-act plays and pageants.
All manuscripts must be typewrit- ten double spaced on one side of the paper. Authors should keep copies of their plays and enclose return postage with each manuscript submitted for the contest. One or more plays may be submitted bv any author. The con- test closes SEPTEMBER 15. 1Q2Q.
Send manuscripts to Mrs. L. C. Wil- liams, 20 Second St., San Francisco.
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^^S terminably slowly passed each ^^ second. Outside the windows the blue sky cupped down upon the horizon. At his desk the doctor was reading his records and I was waiting for his advice. Always tired, even the blue sky weighed down upon me, and in the great outdoors a nervous, sense- less fear dogged every step.
He turned in his chair and asked, "Do you swim?"
Surprised at the question, I blurted, "Very little."
"Do you like swimming?"
"Not particularly; haven't years."
"Do you know anywhere would swim ?"
How the questions persisted as I felt drawn into a vortex.
"Yes," I answered, "I am a mem- ber of the Women's City Club and there is a pool in the building."
"Do you like it?"
"Never been in it," I snapped back. This in the latter part of 1927.
"One of the finest. Swim half an hour daily and after a month return to my office. If you don't know how to swim, learn. You promise it?"
Reluctantly I assented and left.
Swim! Strange idea! Swim — umph!
Someone had written about the "conquest of fear," and now I was to swim. The thought was tormenting. Well, I had promised.
The following morning, like a mar- t\T to a watery fate, I stepped ever so cautiously into the pool, slowly de- scending with "reluctant feet" until I reached the bottom. "Half an hour," he had said; yes, there was a clock overhead. I splashed around gently in the shallowest part, oh, how long half an hour can be. Finally it was time to step out.
The next day I went again and noticed someone swimming on her back ; mustered courage to ask how she so successfully managed the feat. She had been taking lessons ; the in- structor was over there at the other side. Yes, someone else was taking a lesson now, "one, two, three, four, five, six," patiently counted to the strokes. The pupil swam right across the pool. "One, two" — could I ever do that? And I had promised. At last the clock overhead showed the time fulfilled. 1 stepped out, and ar- ranged for lessons.
"Oh yes, some day you will swim across the pool." I clutched at the
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water passed through my tense grasp. Our director smiled patiently as again she illustrated the motions and I clumsily imitated. "It will come with practice," and at the thought I felt helpless in an ocean of water. The days followed with her explana- tions, my imitations, and lo, I too swam across the pool. The witchery of a convincing smile! I exulted in my achievement. Practice days, les- son days, more strokes — I counted them proudly like pearls upon a chain. Deep water — a victory! How that clock's fingers raced around.
Six weeks later the doctor's office. Questions and tests; a volley of run- ning comments; improvement, greater endurance, relaxation, splendid in- struction. Muscles ached? — of course, new motions. Keep on ! Tired ? "No," came the answer — "hungry."
Six months later, the doctor's of- fice again. I grunted. "Just sprained my leg and I don't want to give up my swimming for it" — tragic tone of losing a precious plaything. "But how well you look!" "The sprain?"
"Not serious. You can swim. What an improvement!" He fairly beamed at the thought. Then, "What can 30U do now?"
The list of accomplishments was lengthy and varied in its items — swimming down the pool, diving, more swimming, more diving, so many ways to do it. I gaily chatted on in a lively recital of all. He was reading his records now, a smile lurking on his face. What a merry tick his clock had! The blue sky fairly sparkled outside the windows as the rays of the westering sun touched the tops of the buildings.
Stupid little sprain ! On such a day one could enjoy a walk. Impatient thoughts raced through my mind.
He closed the cover over the rec- ords, laughed outright. "Springboard diving into nine feet of water. Not afraid?"
"No," I fairly shouted; "great fun."
"What an improvement!" He laughed again. "Into nine feet of water. There's health in that pool for you. Nine feet of water."
Wonderful idea that was! Swim? Someone once wrote a book on the "conquest of fear." Umph ! How quickly the half hour goes! Must dive once more and swim another length.
Conquest? What? Great sport!
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1929
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Volunteers and Board Members
Meet at Pleasant Tea Party
Nearly a hundred members of the Women's City Club assembled at the tea given Monday afternoon, May 20, for the Volunteers and Board of Directors of the Club.
The tea was a notably pleasant affair, affording opportunity for the women who give hours of volunteer service to meet the members of the board. Twenty-two members of a board of thirty-one were present. The others were ill or out of town, several in Europe for the summer.
Miss Marion Leale made a brief address of welcome to the guests and Mrs. William F. Booth, Jr., chair- man of the Volunteer Service Com- mittee, responded. So enjoyable was the event that those present suggested that a similar affair be held every three months.
Members of the board present were :
Mrs. W. F. Booth, Jr.
Dr. Adelaide Brown
Miss Sophronia Bunker
Miss Marion Burr
Mrs. S. G. Chapman
Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr.
Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper
Mrs. Cleaveland Forbes
Mrs. Frederick Funston
Mrs. W. B. Hamilton
Mrs. Lewis P. Hobart
Miss Marion Leale
Miss Henrietta Moffat
Mrs. Harry Staats Moore
Miss Emma L. Noonan
Mrs. Howard G. Park
Miss Mabel Pierce
Mrs. Edward Rainey
Mrs. Paul Shoup
Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard
Miss Elisa May Willard
Mrs. James Theodore Woods
Tea was served by Mrs. Booth and the other members of the committee, which includes Mrs. Drummond MacGavin, Mrs. Hans Lisser, Miss Elsie Howell and Mrs. W. E. Hett- man.
New Lockers in Swimming Pool Dressing Rooms
For the convenience of members who use the swimming pool, lockers have been provided. The size of the lockers and the rental charges are as follows :
12x12 inches $2.50 for six months.
12x36 inches $3.50 for six months.
12x72 inches $5.00 for six months.
There are also other lockers avail- able for rent by members. Out of town members, especially, find it con- venient to have places to deposit ar- ticles.
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By Elizabeth Blossom Knox
THE Maple Club in Tokyo is perhaps the most characteristic, if not the most beautiful club in the world. The house, with its succession of Japanese rooms, their matted floors and sliding paper parti- tions, its banqueting hall of some size sparsely furnished and ornamented with priceless lacquer and old bronzes, is very unusual and exquisite. But j'ou realize the house is of little mo- ment. It is the garden that counts.
The garden, large and wonderfully laid out, and shaded by the trees that give the club its name. In the spring they are lovely, bursting in their new green ; in the summer one has tea under their deep shade ; but the color- ing in the autumn makes it most won- derful of all. This is perhaps one thing which makes this club famous. It also has a rock-garden, as only the Japanese know how to make them, effective and interesting to the most minute detail. It has the tiny, run- ning stream, so necessary in Japan, spanned by red-hooped bridges, under which the goldfish play with the water-lilies. It has many lanterns, some new, some very old, and all pic- turesque. But we may say it has all that a Japanese garden should have — a really, truly, perfect Japanese gar- den.
Perhaps our ride to the club house, in the rubber-tired, smooth and swift- running 'rickhsha, has something to do with the pleasure we experience after we arrive at the Maple Club. Tokyo by day, with the sun that is risen shin- ing down on the picturesque and noisy people, is only equaled by Tokyo at night, the bobbing lantern on your 'rickhsha threading its way through the gaily-lighted streets, where lamps shine dimly through those paper-en- cased Japanese houses. So we reach the entrance to the Maple Club in a frame of mind conducive to enjoy- ment of the delights that await us within. We discard our foolish- heeled slippers and put on the Jap- anese sandals and we slide into the large room and into our place, and seat ourselves cross-legged before the small, oblong, teak-wood table. We drink the tiny cup of saki. a stimulant to our appetite, and an aid to our endurance, and we prepare ourselves for the worst. We consume fish. Fish, uncooked and wriggling, fish dried, pickled fish, and fish a la con- serve. We partake of much rice. Saki, the national drink, is distilled from rice, and one must imbibe this sparingly. There is rice in the bam- boo soup, there is rice with the jellied eels, rice with the duck — and such
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duck ! — and there is a sweetmeat made of rice! And, of course, there is tea. Forever tea ! The pale, yellow, Jap- anese tea, served in tiny cups without handles. Tea, with nothing to help it out. Just tea, tea, tea, dos^ns of cups of tea. We surely know we are in Japan.
As you may imagine, hours are con- sumed partaking of this feast, and the only thing that renders it endurable to the foreigner is the delightful en- tertainment which continually takes place. The Geishas, the most famous and beautiful and graceful Geishas in all Japan ! They dance the entire eve- ning, sometimes alone, sometimes a number of them, in beautifully col- ored kimonos, depicting some sort of an Oriental tale. I have rarely seen anything more truly exquisite than these sylph-like, wonderfully graceful, fascinating Geishas of Japan! Your fish is neglected, your tea untasted, your appetite is unappeased, but your eyes feast on a pageant of loveliness, which you never forget. The accom- panying music of the sam-i-sen, and at times the singing, gives an effect de- sired of a performance unusually per- fect. No wonder the chop-sticks lie idle and our ambition to learn to wield them is not realized. Eating seems almost abhorrent. One can often eat, but the dancing at the Maple Club is unequaled in all Japan and perhaps in the world !
The garden contains many lovely flowers, but I think the wisteria the finest of all. There is only one other place in Japan which excels in flora, and this is the canyon of the Tenru- gana river, said to contain the finest wild flora in the country. Your voy- age on the Tenrugana is made in a small boat, towed up the river by strong Japanese boys. You are a little bit weary to begin with. You have spent the night in a noisy Japanese inn, and little sleep visits your head, supported by the hard, wooden pillow. The noise in the street is never-ceas- ing. The blind masseur sends forth his peculiar cry, asking for clients. This profession of the masseur in Japan is set aside solely for the blind, and their remarkable sense of touch makes of them the finest masseurs in the world! So we pass a wakeful night on our floor-bed, and we arise at four in the morning, to have the first bath. You see, the bath is a sort of family institution, or hotel institu- tion, and if you wish to observe the privacy heretofore deemed necessary, it is well to bathe early. You soap oH before you enter the enormous steam-
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ing tub, then you soak a bit in the bath, then you make way for the procession of your successors.
But the early bath gives us an early start for our trip up the river, the river of the snake, winding deep down in the canyon, the banks of which are massed with flowers. This is where the wild wisteria which garlands the banks on either side eclipses that flower which makes the garden of the Maple Club so wonderful. The purple and mauve of the wild flower is more beautiful and more lavish than any cultivated plant, and with it are the wild azaleas in every known color and tint. As you climb up the low hills, we find the iris. So beautiful it is, it might be mis- taken for an orchid.
The canyon of the Tenrugana is very famous, but out of Japan I have never met a Japanese who has visited it. The Japanese gentlemen travel little in their own coun- try. I have demanded of embassy secretaries, I have asked ambassadors, I have questioned the family of the Em- peror, "Your beautiful Tenrugana River, you of course know it well ?" and I have received always the same definite "No" for answer. When a Japanese says "No," there is no possible chance for any further conversation on that subject, and it necessarily is abandoned. "No" means "no," nothing more. It is finished.
But I cannot criticize the Japanese in their lack of curiosity to see their own country. I had traveled much since a young girl in our own country and abroad, and I had never seen our Yosemite Valley! Like the Boston man who had never seen Bunker Hill, and he found it such a distinction that now he would not see it for any- thing! So I dodged when our beautiful valley was spoken of, but unfortunately, when I was found to be a Califor- nian, out of mere politeness the Valley of the Yosemite was made the topic of conversation. I at once disclaimed ever having visited it! I had never seen this loveliest bit of our state ! This statement evoked horror in the minds and faces of my companions! I discarded the frankness for a discreet silence. A silence might mean anything! But I found my lack of words aroused suspicion and I was eyed with disfavor. So I began to lie ! And to lie very
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Straight and to the point; and I lied rather well. I said I had been to the Yosemite and I began to very much enjoy my visit to the Yosemite. I talked about it quite fluently and with fervor, and 1 began to believe every- thing I said, as a liar generally does! And do you know, when 1 came to California in 1916, and a friend in- vited me to motor to the Yosemite, 1 could not for the life of me tell whether I had been there or not ! And when I did see the Yosemite Valley in all the glory of its falls and trees and everything else in early summer, it did not one whit surpass the valley as I had seen it, in order to escape being murdered as a disloyal Californian !
But to return to our Maple Club. They say the greatest show the Maple Club ever gave was when they enter- tained General Booth ! Now, the Jap- anese dearly love to celebrate. It does not matter much what they celebrate, just so they celebrate. I have never experienced a finer Fourth of July than I lived through in Yokohama. Such noise, such firecrackers, such fireworks, surely never were seen ! Far out in the Yokohama Bay, Wash- ington was pictured in fireworks! Likewise the Goddess of Liberty, in the midst of pinwheels and shooting bouquets. Remarkable, magnificent, and tremendously enjoyed by the Jap- anese. Just why they did all this on July 4th they did not know, but they derived quite as much enjoyment from it as from the birthday of their Em- peror. Then came July 14th, the Fall of the Bastille! And the "Marseil- laise" was sung and shouted and played and the French were in the ascendant. I am sure the Japanese enjoyed this memory of the French Revolution just as much as they did the day that proclaimed our liberty. So, when Japan found she was to have a real, live American general, she did her utmost to welcome him, and show him the greatest respect. Tokyo was en fete. Flags, lanterns, gaily dressed throngs, shouts and music. General Booth was driven all over in an open landau and the "banzai" was shouted long and with fervor. He was indeed welcomed ! And the culmination of the welcome was the Maple Club! It was extravagantly decorated ! The choicest of fish was brought wriggling to the table. Saki was partaken of at frequent intervals. The most lovely and marvelous Geishas danced, to the strums of the sam-i-sen. It was a gala night, rarely seen. And General Booth made a speech which few un- derstood. But he was an imposing, fine-looking old man and a great gen- eral. So he was applauded with enthu- siasm. The day after the Maple Club
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On June 9 the famous "Over- land Limited" cuts its schedule to 58 hours. This third cut in less than two years makes a total reduction in time of 10 hours.
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festivities, General Booth regretfully left this hospitable country and sailed for Manila. It would always live in his memory. Such a welcome ! Such kindness! When his boat steamed out of Yokohama harbor, the "banzai" was long and loud, and echoed in his ears for days and days. And so quiet returned to Tokyo and to the Maple Club! Soon there was a rumor. Much talking in Tokyo. This General Booth, he was a queer sort of a gen- eral. He was not a real general like a Japanese general ; just a sort of a gen- eral ! A mistake had been made. Per- haps it had not been necessary, so many flags in Tokyo, so many lovely Geishas at the Maple Club! There had been one very great mistake ! Still, they argued, he was a general, and a general of an army, and that had recruits all over the world. And he was much beloved and did a great and noble work. So why not the flags, why not the Maple Club, with its finest fish and dancing girls? Why not everything?
So, when General Booth spent a few hours in Yokohama harbor on his return from Manila to the United Slates, he was again made welcome to Japan, and when his boat steamed out of the bay there were still heard the "banzai" and still loyal was the "Sa- yonara." ^ ^ ^
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The Romance of Kettle man Hills
By Hubert J. Soher
FIGURES are romantic. So are facts. But there is nothing as romantic in the business world as history climaxing itself in success. Everybody adores a win- ner and the person who perseveres and wins has a substan- tial advantage over the person who progresses because of circumstance; all of which is apropos of this article, which we might appropriately term "The Romance of Kettleman Hills."
On the western edge of the San Joaquin Valley midway between north and south ends is a ridge of hills possibly not more than 300 feet in elevation above the floor of the valley that extends monotonously flat north and south for a distance of nearly 400 miles. The ridge itself extends approximately 35 miles from the north end to the south abutment through three counties — Fresno, Kings and Kern — and is severed by two small valleys in the central region. Consequently the hills are divided into what are popularly termed North, Central and South Domes. The north end of the North Dome is approximately 16 miles south of the city of Coalinga, 30 miles west of Hanford, and the south end of the South Dome approximately 30 miles west from the city of Taft. Between the Kettleman Hills and the Coast Range Mountains to the west is a narrow valley possibly three miles wide popularly termed Kettleman Fields. To the north and west of the Kettle- man Hills is a range of mountains called the Kreyenhagen Hills. North and west of Kreyenhagen is another group of hills well known to the oil fraternity as the Jacalitos Hills. Surrounding the city of Coalinga, principally to the northeast and northwest, are two distinct oil fields, one known as the East Side and one as the West Side.
This is a brief picture of the petroleum situation exist- ing in that locality, of which the East Side and West Side hills of Coalinga have been proven and have operated for years, possibly being the oldest large oil field in California.
The Kettleman Hills on the south have recently been proven with partial extent and now are the scene of fever- ish excitement, almost akin to a gold rush, where men and companies are vying with each other in an attempt to bring in the liquid gold as fast as human skill and modern machinery will permit. The Jacalitos and the Kreyen- hagen groups have not as yet been proven, but these two regions form part of the story of the romance of Kettle- man Hills and hence are mentioned.
During the past 30 or 40 years geologists have deduced from their calculations and science that oil did exist in the Kettleman and Kreyenhagen and Jacalitos structures. Numerous efforts were made and fortunes have been sunk in attempts to reach the chasms beneath the upper crusts of the earth so that the inches wide bits might penetrate the petroleum deposits and release them for the utilization of mankind. Their efforts until recently were almost totally unsuccessful. Not until the past few years, pos- sibly three or four, were they even encouraged by signs that would have led them to believe that their deductions had the semblance of accuracy. Two or three wells were drilled and signs of oil were brought in, although this is sometimes meaningless. Oil in small quantities and infe- rior quality has no commercial value and does not pay the cost of drilling or operation. One of the most eminent geologists California has ever known, and incidentally a ranking politician of the State, Ralph Arnold, in a bril- liant report to the Government, made a most positive state- ment that in his opinion oil in paying quantities would be found on each of the three structures. This report was made several years ago and the book today is becoming
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almost a Bible among Kettleman drillers, for its deduc- tions and theories have proven quite correct, and as they relate to Kreyenhagen and Jacalitos they lend hope to the possibility existing in the two adjoining theoretical fields.
It was generally recognized during the past year or two that oil might be found provided men could drill deep enough to find it. A decade back produced wells of 2,000 feet depth, which was considered a satisfactory distance to drill for petroleum. As each year has progressed almost another 500 feet has been added with some irregularity until wells are now drilled from 7,000 to 8,000 feet with- out much difficulty, due to the improved machinery avail- able and the better skill employed by the technical experts in charge of all drilling.
The Millham Exploration Company, a subsidiary of Mexican Seaboard, which is dominated by Ogden Mills and John Hays Hammond, from which it gets its name, determined to use the skill in deep well drilling that its operators had successfully employed in bringing in deep wells in Mexico.
The drilling was completed under stringent difficulties in October of last year, when the well blew in uncon- trolled and became one of the wonders of the world in that it produced 4,000 barrels of crude oil which was nearer to the natural gasoline gravity than any previously encountered in the history of the world. The well abso- lutely proved that at least a portion of the field was oil- bearing and as a consequence the owners of the property on the three structures took into consideration the possi- bility of finding oil at other locations and drilling by other companies was immediately started. The second well to be brought in by the General Petroleum on its own lease seven miles south of the Millham and one mile from the south end of the North Dome field was identical in every way to that of the first producer, and those who at first doubted the productivity of the field were convinced that a real new wonder discovery had been made. The second well has since been capped and is being deepened in order to thoroughly explore the depth of the oil-bearing sand between the top of the formation which was pierced. The discovery well is in such bad shape that it is practically impossible to shut it down, and it continues to flow ap- proximately 4,100 barrels per day, with a gas pressure of 60,000,000 cubic feet. The initial well will undoubtedly produce in excess of $1,000,000 per annum revenue, prob- ably as high as $3,000,000. If one well can produce $1,000,000 per annum or more, the property in that vicinity and on top of the structure is theoretically worth at least that much to those excitedly bidding for petro- leum. Hence a billion dollars in minimum values has been added to the wealth of the three counties in the San Joa- quin Valley, and success founded upon faith, perseverance and skill is bearing its' fruits for those who are entitled to it.
Some believe that the Kettleman Fields are but a link in a chain of pools that extend from Coalinga continuously southward to that of Wheeler Ridge on the south at the entrance to the Ridge Route on the road from the San Joaquin Valley to Los Angeles, taking in Devil's Den, Lost Hills, Midway, Sunset, extending through the cities of Taft, Maricopa, Fellows and McKittrick.
If this article is to have a finishing romantic touch, may we point out the happy ending to the story as it now exists. Coalinga was perhaps the first oil city of the West, and its prosperity is almost entirely dependent upon the prosperity of the industry. During the past year conditions in the petroleum business have been drastically unsound and prices have dropped to such an extent that three-fourths of the Coalinga field was closed up. The town of Coalinga was suffering and has been suffering from the throes of a depression for several years, almost to the breaking point
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1929
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over the past winter, when the Mill- ham well was brought in. Now a dif- ferent picture exists. Coalinga resi- dents claim there is no boom. If, how- ever, one contemplates a visit to that city he must apply several days in ad- vance for reservations at the hotel, or he will find it impossible to find ac- commodations, as there is hardly a room available for transients or a store for business men. While business is striding profits are accruing to those who had faith and remained, and a general spirit of optimism prevails in the belief that Coalinga is the gate- way to the greatest oil field in the world and will soon share to the full- est degree in prosperity.
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Vocational Guidance Bureau Now in Room No. 212
A change of location within the City Club, but not of policy, marks the present year for the Vocational Guidance Bureau, of which Miss I. L. Macrae is executive secretary.
The new address is Room 212, on the Post Street side of the second floor. The former location. Room 230, is now the rest room.
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Summer "Specials' in City Club Beauty Salon
Beginning June 15 and continuing to July 15, the Beauty Salon of the Women's City Club is offering a facial "special" for two dollars. A coupon book, selling at $12.50, gives six facials at $2.50 each, or five treat- ments at $2.50 each and one at $3.50.
The Beauty Salon is offering these "specials" to prove to members how gratefully their skins and general ap- pearance respond to treatment as given by the experts in charge.
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City Club Stationery
Members may obtain the engraved stationery of the Women's City Club at the Library Desk. The price is two sheets and envelopes for 15 cents.
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Membership Cards and Passes All persons going above the second floor must show membership cards and passes. Passes may be obtained at the information desk on the main floor and must be surrendered \i\km\ leaving the elevator. y «■ «■
Choral Takes Vacation The Choral Section has been dis- continued during the summer months, but expects to resume meetings in August. Mrs. Jessie Taylor is di- rector.
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Miss Szoke was the "Jeanne d'Arc" in the recent San Francisco celebra- tion of the French heroine's victories and is a member of Andre Ferrier's French Theater Company. She will give songs and dances in costume of Roumania, Russia, France, Germany, Kentucky and Hungary. She has ap- peared before the San Francisco Mu- sical Club and the Channing Club and has been enthusiastically received. Members may bring friends.
Citi/ Club Post Cards
Post cards of both the interior and exterior of the San Francisco Wom- en's City Club are on sale at the infor- mation desk on the main floor. The prices are five cents and two for fif- teen cents.
New Rest Room
The Rest Room is now located on the second floor. Room 230. The key to the room may be obtained at the check room on the fourth floor.
Informal Tea and Talk
An informal tea will be given in the American Room of the Women's City Club the afternoon of June 17, when Mrs. Albert M. Chesley, who has spent the last eight years abroad, will talk on "Exchanging Ideas with Young People of Europe." Admission will be fifty cents.
Mrs. Chesley accompanied her hus- band in eleven European countries training young men for leadership in boys' work. She knows from actual observation conditions from the Baltic and Poland to Roumania. There will be exhibited at the tea specimens of handiwork of the peoples visited. Etchings, embroideries, jewelry, sil- vercraft and similar articles will be shown.
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1929
Learn To Swim Before Vacation
If you are going away for the sum- mer, your vacation will be more en- joyable if you know how to swim. If you remain in town, the swimming pool ofifers a delightful and healthful form of recreation.
Special rates for private lessons will be oiiFered to members during the month of June. Instruction in life- saving will be given without cost to those interested.
Inquiries and appointments may be made at the Swimming Office between 9 A.M. and 8:30 P. M. 1 -f -f
Moroni Olsen Players Return
The Circuit Repertory Company of the Moroni Olsen Players are return- ing to San Francisco for a three weeks' engagement at the Community Play- house, 609 Sutter Street, and will give three plays, changing plays every Monday evening.
Their season will open with that delightful comedy, made dear to the hearts of every theatre-goer by Maude Adams, "What Every Woman Knows," by J. M. Barrie. The next play will be "Autumn Fire," by T. C. Murray, which was acted first by the Abbey Players in Dublin and later John L. Shine produced it with great success in New York. "Candida," one of the "pleasant plays" by Ber- nard Shaw, will conclude the bill.
Long years of association has made this company unique for its well-nigh perfect ensemble. The one idea of the entire company is "the play is the thing" ; a fine production is their first aim and there is no thought of the "star system." The celebrated poet Vachel Lindsay said of the Moroni Olsen Players, "They are like a flock of birds flying straight toward the sun together — perfectly balanced, with no thought of the star system."
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The Women's City Club, 465 Post Street Dear Madam :
I am taking this pleasure to write you a few lines concerning an extra- ordinary publication in the coming is- sue of your magazine.
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Enclose please find a full page of my cordial descriptions and also the translations into Chinese.
Please read it carefully and correct it in case you find any errors in the English part. I thank.
During the Holiday season of the previous year, we have had a very successful sale in our Perfumed Chin- ese candles, a new and novel thing in the market.
We have sold approximately over five hundred pairs of these candles. Each pair being placed in a Chinese colored box. We are happy to say that this splendid result was entirely due to the advertisement which we placed in the "Women's City Club Magazine."
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB CALENDAR
JULY I-IULY 31. 1929
CURRENT EVENTS
Temporarily discontinued. Members are requested to watch bulletin board for announce- ment of date talks will be resumed.
TALKS ON APPRECIATION OF ART
Discontinued through June and July, to be resumed August 5th. LEAGUE BRIDGE
Every Tuesday, 2 o'clock, in the Board Room, and 7:30 o'clock. Assembly Room. THURSDAY EVENING PROGRAMS
Every Thursday evening, 8 o'clock, Auditorium. Mrs. A. P. Black, Chairman.
SUNDAY EVENING CONCERTS
Discontinued until September 22nd. Thereafter second Sunday evening of every month at 8:15 o'clock. Mrs. Horatio F. Stoll, Chairman of the Music Committee.
Thursday, July 4 — Thursday Evening Program omitted
Wednesday, July 10 — Book Review Dinner National Z>^-
Mrs. Thomas Stoddard will review "No Love," fenders' Room 6:00 P.M.
by David Garnett, and "Scarlet Sister Mary,"
which won the Pulitzer Prize for 1928, by
Julia Peterkin
Thursday, July 11 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Mr. Earle G. Linsley Subject: "V^^hy Visit Athens.'*"
Thursday, July 18 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Mrs. Kathryn Northrup will read "The King- dom of God," by Martinez Sierra.
Friday, July 19 — Discussion of Articles in Current Magazines . Board Room 2:00 P.M.
Thursday, July 25 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Mrs. Anna Brinton Subject to be announced
Group Exhibition of the Beaux Arts members. Auditorium July 1st to 12th
STANDING COMMITTEES '.oj the WOMEN'S CITY CLUB oj SAN FRANCISCO
FINANCE
Miss Emma Noonan, Chairman
Miss Mabel Pierce
Mrs. Paul Shoup
Mrs. Ira W. Sloss
Mrs. S. G. Chapman, ex officio
MAGAZINE
Mrs. H. S. Moore, Chairman Mrs. George Osborne Wilson Mrs. Frederick Faulkner Mrs. Frederick W. Kroll Mrs. Marie Hicks Davidson
PROGRAMS and ENTERTAINMENT Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard, Chairman Mrs. H. A. Stephenson Mrs. William Lynch Sub-Chairmen
Mrs. Horatio F. Stoll, Music Mrs. A. P. Black, Thursday Evening Programs
Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard, Book Re- vieivs
Mrs. Parker S. Maddux, Current Events
Mrs. Charles E. Curry, Art Reviews
Mrs. Alden Ames, Magazine Reviews LIBRARY
Miss Elisa May Willard, Chairman Mrs. Franklin Harwood Mrs. Frederick Meyer ART
Mrs. Lovell Langstroth, Chairman HOUSE
Mrs. William B. Hamilton, Chairman Mrs. Frederick Funston Mrs. Ethel Maxwell
Mrs. Charles Walcott Durbrow, Associate
RECIPROCAL RELATIONS Miss Esther Phillips, Chairman Mrs. Marcus S. Koshland Mrs. Edward Rainey
GUEST PRIVILEGE
Miss Esther Phillips, Chairman Miss Emma Noonan
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE and INFORMATION
Miss Margaret Mary Morgan, Chairman Dr. Adelaide Brown Miss Emma Noonan Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper Mrs. Joseph Sloss Mrs. Herman Owen Associates
Miss Margaret Lothrop
Miss Esther Phillips
Miss May Preuss
Mrs. Leslie Ganyard
BRIDGE
Miss Emogene Hutchinson, Chairman
LEAGUE SHOP
Miss Marion Burr, Chairman
VOLUNTEER SERVICE Mrs. William F. Booth, Jr., Chairman Mrs. Drummond MacGavin Miss Elsie Howell Mrs. Hans Lisser Mrs. Walter E. Hettman Associates
Mrs. Louis J. Carl
Mrs. S. G. Chapman
PERIODIC HEALTH
EXAMINATIONS
Adelaide Brown, M. D., Chairman
Mrs. A. P. Black
Mrs. S. G. Chapman
Mrs. Parker S. Maddux
Miss Emma Noonan
Ina M. Richter, M. D.
AMERICAN ROOM
Miss Mabel L. Pierce, Chairman
BEAUTY SALON Mrs. Louis J. Carl, Chairman Mrs. Harry Staats Moore Mrs. Frederick Funston
SEWING
Mrs. F. C. Porter, Chairman
Mrs. J. E. Brandon, Secretary
Mrs. William Middleton, Vice-Chairman
Mrs. Cora Chapman
Mrs. Frank Werner
SWIMMING POOL
Mrs. H. A. Stephenson, Chairman
DISPLAY CASES
Mrs. Howard Park, Chairman
Mrs. Bert Lazarus
Mrs. William Boardman
Mrs. CO. G.Miller
HOSPITALITY
Mrs. Miss Miss Miss Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Miss Mrs. Miss Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Miss Miss Mrs. Mrs.
Charles Miner Cooper, Chairman
Edith Slack, Vice-Chairman
Ella M. ^aWey, Secretary
Laura McKinstry
Howard Park
Le Roy Briggs
A. P. Black
Charles E. Curry
Elsa Garrett
William B. Hamilton
Marion Huntington
Marcus S. Koshland
Matteo Sandona
Paul Shoup
Willis Walker
Lewis P. Hobart
Perry Eyre
Ruth Turner
Maude Woods
J. R. McDonald
Leonard A. Woolams
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1929
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Adults $2.00 per day . . . Rates for Children
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CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for JULY
1929
Women's City Club M aga zine
Published Monthly at 465 Post Street
Telephone KEarny 8400
Entered as aecond-class matter April 14, 1928, at the Post OfiBce at San Francisco, California, under the act of March 3, 1879.
SAN FRANCISCO
Volume III JULY / 1929
Number 6
SONTENTS
Club Calendar 1
Frontispiece 6
Editorial 17
Articles
Half Forgotten Builders of the West .... 7
By John M. Oskison
San Francisco Opera Season 11
By Isabel Stine Leis
Women's City Club Affairs 13
Beyond the City Limits 14
By Edith Walker Maddux
Atalantas of the New Age 15
By Dean Southern Jennings
Summer Vacation Reading 16
By Eleanor Preston Watkins
Art Review 18
By Beatrice Judd Ryan
Tientsin Sends a Message 23
By Eleanor Laidley Miller
That Sun-kissed Look 27
By Mary Constance Ford
OFFICERS OF THE WOMEN'S CITY CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO
President, Miss Marion W. Leale
First Vice-Presidetit, Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper
Second Vice-President, Mrs. Paul Shoup
Third Vice-President, Miss Mabel Pierce
Recording Secretary, Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr.
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. W. F. Booth, Jr.
Treasurer, Mrs. S. G. Chapman
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
of Women's City CI
Mrs. A. P. Black Mrs. William F. Booth, Jr. Mrs. Le RoyBriggs Dr. Adelaide Brown Miss Sophronia Bunker Miss Marion Burr Mrs. Louis J. Carl Mrs. S. G. Chapman Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr. Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper Miss Marion Fitzhugh Mrs. Cleaveland Forbes Mrs. Frederick Funston Mrs. W. B. Hamilton Mrs. Lewis Hobart
ub of San Francisco
Mrs. Marcus S. Koshland Miss Marion Leale Mrs. Parker S. Maddux Miss Henrietta Moffat Mrs. Harry Staats Moore Miss Emma Noonan Mrs. Howard G. Park Miss Esther Phillips Miss Mabel Pierce Mrs. Edward Rainey Mrs. Paul Shoup Mrs. H. A. Stephenson Mrs. T.A.Stoddard Miss Elisa May Willard Mrs. James T. Wood, Jr.
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE
VOLUME III
SAN FRANCISCO »• JULY * I92.9
NUMBER 6
Half Forgotten Builders of the Wfest
{From a talk before the California Writers' Club at the Women's City Club, Tuesday evening, June 4)
By John M. Oskison
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BECAUSE my father was a pioneer of the West, I, as a writer, have a special interest in the men like him who helped to lay the foundations of this coun- try over which we romp — not exactly irreverently, but rather without any knowledge or interest whatever con- cerning our backgrounds.
Perhaps we're too near to those builders to realize their significance. To us they have not become figures of history ; so often have I heard, in California, "Yes, father (or grandfather) was a forty-niner; we tried to get him to write his experiences, but he never did." Spoken regret- fully— but not too regretfully! I suspect the family was often bored by the old man's chatter — or the old woman's.
It wasn't altogether due to shyness that they hesitated to take up the pen ; too often they were nearly illiterate, and we, their white-collar, college-educated descendants, shamed them from its use. They secretly thought us smarties, lacking the intestinal fortitude (our way of say- ing their short and ugly word) of real men and women, but we certainly did have something on them in the way of education. If only we had not made them self conscious! If only we had convinced them that in the narration of living history the substance is all-important, the form so unimportant!
Few left their own records, and fewer had their Bos- wells — unfortunately. And we, closest to them in time and sympathy, have been distracted by other kinds of so-called western writing — making pictures of feathered Indians and two-gun bad men for the kids of Seventh Avenue, New York. Or, like Bancroft and the compiler of "The Jesuit Relations," we have piled up mountains of docu- ments that utterly daunt the average reader.
What we have neglected to provide is illustrated by what the Spaniard Cabeza de Vaca did supply when, after long years of adventuring, he returned to Spain and to a circle of sophisticated, eager, imaginative literary people who insisted upon his writing about his wanderings across America as the surviving white man of a great expedition. It is a glowing, gorgeous tale — crisp and living.
In the calendar of explorer-builders of our West, you must come down almost to Fremont, in 1842, before find- ing an adequately reported series of adventures, although many trappers, traders, builders of frontier posts had gone before "The Pathfinder." Pike had been over many of the same trails thirty-six years before, and Pike had found the real first comers already well established at Santa Fe, Pursley, the trapper who had already discovered gold at the head of the Platte river, and Manuel Lisa, and the two Frenchmen, Auguste and Pierre Chouteau, who had built up a considerable trade in furs, had followed the
beaver clear up to the sources of the Missouri river. Agents and trappers for the Pacific Fur Company, too, had been traversing the far West thirty-two years before Fremont set out with the very useful political, financial and pub- licity backing of his father-in-law, Senator Benton.
The men I have in mind were shamefully neglectful of their opportunities; they far outran their press agents! Then refused to celebrate themselves. Worse, their fam- ilies usually disowned them ; at home, the father, through with his own adventuring, usually thought that the boy who headed West into the unknown was a lazy, no-account victim of restlessness — otherwise, he would have remained at home to help open new plough land and drive the oxen up and down the paternal furrows; or, as a "bound boy," serve a proper apprenticeship and take up a trade. When the wanderer — the errant, if not the black, sheep — did ultimately return home, no admiring relative met him with shining eyes and note book to take down his tales. Even to this day, the inquirer meets at those old family homesteads some half hostile keeper of scanty letters and chance records and relics who says, in attitude and intona- tion if not in words, "Why the dickens do you want to know about him?" Now there was Tom, who went to the State University and got into the Legislature and —
With the first comers and builders of the east coast of America the story is different. First settlers of New Eng- land and Virginia, Puritans and gentlemen, were perhaps too expressive. They did great things and kept full current records of their doings. They also bred up very soon a bevy of fine historians — it was one of their good ones who wrote about the best of all western books of travel, "The Oregon Trail." Another, Richard Henry Dana, wrote "Two Years Before the Mast" and put into it unforget- table pictures of early California.
It was never easy to get their stories from the real builders of the West for another reason: They feared to be known as "windy." It was so with my father. He could not have written, like most of them, he never be- lieved that schooling could help in bucking the difficult conditions of frontier life ; and I remember quite well the look in his eyes when I, with the bud of romantic fiction sprouting inside me, clumsily tried to draw him out ; it said, "My boy, you don't catch me lining up with those old blow-hards!" You see. the blow-hards weren't quite real.
My father belonged in spirit with that long list of in- articulate, restless first western Americans to whom goes the credit for opening up the region west of the Mississippi. I like to say their names: Jim Bridger, Jim Beckwourth, Captain Fitzpatrick. Tom Fitzgerald, whom the Indians called "Bad Hand," the Bent brothers, Lucien Maxwell,
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Carson — men from the new farms of the Mississippi Val- ley who followed the trails of the French voyageurs, trappers and traders, the Chouteaus, the Sublettes, Ceran St. Vrain, Baptiste Lajeunesse, and of the Scotchmen Mc- Laughlin and Ross, men who had in their day followed an earlier trail marked dimly by La Salle, Joliet, Father de Smet, and other Jesuit missionaries — fanatic gentlemen of France dedicated to the service of the Lord. Or "Black ' Harris, Hugh Glass, Andrew Henry, the Smiths — Jedi- diah and "Pegleg" — and old man Clyman, who ended his life on a farm near Napa only a few years ago. Or, taking a lower line of latitude, traced the footsteps of DeSoto, and of that other shining expedition that dwindled to two men between Florida and New Mexico — Cabeza de Vaca and his negro companion.
In search of facts and color for my book about Sam Houston, "A Texas Titan," I came upon one after an- other of these half forgotten first builders. What I found was unsatisfactory, either dull records of movement and dates or exaggerated, glamorous, badly written prose epics. The heroes of the Alamo ! That tragic — and wholly fool- hardy— gesture of defiance worked on the imagination of western historians and fiction writers; out of it came abundant, and curious, memoirs — like the book supposed to have been written by Davy Crockett, only the final chapter done by another. If you could believe the record, Davy kept up his journal very fully, picturesquely and faithfully until within two hours of the time the Mexicans swarmed upon him and killed him — and dictated his dying words to some admirer amongst his executioners!
Except for Houston, however, the real builders of the Texas Republic who did not die at the Alamo have been little known.
I came upon Stephen Austin, the "Little Father of Texas," who in the service of his people merely died of overwork, exposure and disease. He did not survive to record the important role he played. I was glad to find, however, that serious and trained researchers of Texas history were working patiently and laboriously through the State archives to trace his life and accomplishments. I found men and women who honestly believed that Austin ought to rank higher in Texas history than Houston. To me, Houston appealed because of his dramatic sense, but I am not sure that those others are wrong. Austin failed to attract the spotlight by the sort of tragic climax that was loved by western biographers.
I should like to do a book about Austin, a flame of a man, educated, chivalrous, a thin, honest little leader of as rough and reckless and generally unprincipled a horde of credulous and greedy adventurers as ever invaded another civilization and swore by God that only the Americans were fit to inherit the earth. He blazed out against those who would break their word, rebel against the Nation that had invited them into its boundaries and drive the yellow- belly Mexicans back across the Rio Grande.
Speaking generally, we have only distorted pictures of the half forgotten builders. Bowie, another Alamo victim, is merely a symbol, dripping blood and brandishing the famous knife. Crockett only at the Alamo, nothing about his political shrewdness and ability, his career in Congress, his battles with Jackson over Jackson's ruthless Indian policy. Kit Carson whipping his weight in wildcats every other day, with Indian scalps hanging from his belt, noth- ing about the time he sat down while with Fremont and made his will because he felt sure that the bully boys Fremont had selected for his companions didn't know enough about the plains, Indians and mountain travel to avert being "rubbed out" on the way to California.
George Catlin, if we know him at all, is known only as an unskilled, naive but interesting painter of Indians. We know nothing of his years with the Mandan Sioux, of his
genuine liking for the Indians. How many of us know his "creed?"
"I love the people who have always made me welcome
with the best they had. I love a people who are honest
without laws, who have no jails and no poorhouses. I
love a people who keep the Commandments without
ever having read them or heard them preached from the
pulpit. I love a people who never swear, who never take
the name of God in vain. I love a people who love their
neighbors as they love themselves. ... I love a people
who have never raised a hand against me, or stolen my
property, where there was no law to punish for either.
I love a people who have never fought a battle with
white men except on their own ground. ... I love
all people who do the best they can, and oh! how I love
a people who don't live for the love of money."
And Jim Beckwourth, who survived many years of
trapping, guiding, racketing back and forth across the
mountains, to settle at length to a quiet last decade in a
pleasant California valley, what do you hear, if anything,
about him ? Only that he was a mighty slayer of Indians
— killing Indians became to the average American a sport,
as lion hunting became for the English, and our moving
picture men ! Perhaps you hear, too, that he was a mulatto
— "wasn't it strange that a man with negro blood should
have been so brave and adventurous!" But of Beckwourth 's
life as a Crow Indian chief, his knowledge of Indian
politics and history and their extraordinary woods and
plains craft, you get nothing.
Someone, in time, will no doubt resurrect Beckwourth and set him up before us as the real man he was — tall, gaunt, scarred, bearded, violent, helping other mountain men to steal pigs and rob bee-hives when he got back to the peace of Missouri settlements, sticking loyally to Gen- eral Ashley, his boss, through months of incredible hard- ships after Ashley had mortally insulted him, carrying the General on his back to save his life but refusing to speak to him, his career as "Medicine Calf," mythical lost child of a Crow Indian mother, leader of many Crow dog- soldiers, prodigal of Indian and Mexican wives, and al- ways retaining the romantic memory of a timorous girl somewhere back in civilization waiting for him to make money enough in the mountains to return and marry her and set up as a respectable farmer. Which he never did.
What do we know of Peter Ogden, and Provo — Jim Bridger's contemporaries — pioneers and builders of Utah ? I confess that I know nothing, though I have read until I have revolted against the stuff more and more about the wicked Mormons. There was a case of over-press-agenting, and only because the Mormons pursued their logical con- tention that a country is best developed by the children of able and enterprising men, who should have as many wives as they could properly support in order to beget as many able builders as possible!
I know less about Sutter than I want to know. A man of great diversity of charm, of practical mind, of color. The first comer to California who really loved to develop its resources, who was able to convert the wandering Indians and the horseback Mexicans to his gospel of indus- try ; they were puzzled by his passion for labor and posses- sions, but they liked him and could well appreciate the good things to eat and drink that came from his planning. Then Marshall discovered gold — the famous nugget that Mrs. Weimer boiled along with her man's flannel shirt to see if the gold would wash. It didn't — and poor Sutter found himself deserted by every man that had strength to ride, walk or crawl to the diggings. Ruined by gold ! Left alone, he became the prey of squatters, then of State and United States courts — until today we read of renewed efforts of his descendants to recover something from the wreck.
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We hear of Sutter, visit the revamped Fort he built, and say, "He was a funny old duck!" Beyond that, we evidently don't venture. If we want a vivid, dramatic account of Sutter, we must turn to the study made by a French Swiss, "Sutter's Gold." It is largely a product of the imagination, no doubt, but it is fascinating and essen- tially true as an interpretation. By American chroniclers, Sutter is submerged in the story of the taking of California from Mexico, the job on which Fremont spent much time and from which he acquired glory — and in the story of gold.
As written for most of us, the history of California is somewhat disappointing. We feel we ought to glow over it, but in fact we find it rather dull. Too much about gold! Gold-hunting is an exciting idea, but the reality is not interesting. Bret Harte's tales — which now seem rather naive when we reread them — were only slightly colored by gold, and Mark Twain was desperate in the mines. Calvin Higbie and the Gillis boys were good fel- lows, but they really had no highly dramatic tales to tell. Mark had to belabor and embroider and patch together many fragments in order to get his jumping frog and Calaveras skull classics into shape.
Across the front of one of the State buildings at Sacra- mento is a line from Sam Walter Foss — an imaginative and appealing line:
Bring Me Men to Match My Mountains.
We — Californians generally — know the mountains well, their geography, geology, veins and ancient lake margins where gold was found, snowfall and run-off of streams that can be used for power and irrigation, timber resources, summer resort and tourist-attracting possibilities. So much to our credit. We pretend also to know the men who we believe heeded that call for men to match the mountains. We cherish the belief that we honor and celebrate those
who responded. We have erected a statue of Marshall — after permitting him to end his days in bitter poverty. Yet in talking or writing about them we keep on repeating the old and incomplete and distorted tags. We are apparently content with the dusty labels plastered on them when they were long ago laid on the shelf of State history.
California writers ought to be eager to revive these real first builders of the West. There is a genuine interest in biography done neither as a prose lyric nor as a contemptu- ous record of scandal and weakness out of which accom- plishments emerged accidentally, as it were. I believe we have the fair-mindedness and the leisure, now, to care for what Jim Beckwourth called the mountain style of biog- raphy: setting out, first, something of the merits of the man, getting his measure established by a living record of his deeds before beginning to round him out by tales of his shortcomings. It was true that men like Bridger and Beck- wourth smelled terribly when shut up in a warm room, but if I were writing their stories I don't think I would emphasize this over the facts that Bridger was first to penetrate to Salt Lake, and Beckwourth was the saviour of his party.
"His camp fires became cities!" That was said of one pioneer whose accomplishments were properly recorded. It might have been said of scores. For a writer, it is a fascinating occupation to revive the half-forgotten. I know it was so in the case of Sam Houston ; and when I found that three other writers were on that one job — each start- ing without knowledge of the others' intentions — I thought with satisfaction, "Old Sam at least is likely to emerge for today's reader as a builder of the West!"
So many others await us writers! Let me name some of them again: Bridger, Fitzgerald, the Chouteaus, the Sub- lettes, St. Vrain, Beckwourth, Ross, McLaughlin, Hugh Glass, Austin, Catlin, Ogden, John Bidwell of Chic even the old California horse thief, "Pegleg" Smith!
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Representation of one of the oil paniiniys in the exhibition of J-rancesc Cugat now being held in the Women's City Club
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Without vision
(Submitted to Women's City Club Magazine Poetrj^ Contest)
/ am not one who recognizes gold. Conserving effort for it; nor whose touch Will change a baser metal. I have sold Aly birthright many times for nothing much.
I hear them talk of this or that rich vein. But never have I understood them quite. They hoard their visions of each tiny grain As if the vision in themselves ivere bright.
The righteousness of misers who inter Their blessings for a dream that sanctifies Their empty days with scent of lavender. Is not for me. Although they may be luise
To hold themselves aloof , I find I must Tt.ke everything thr.t glitters — even rust. DOROTHE BeNDON,
Mills College.
Queena jMano, Sun Francisco favorite, sings here in September uith tin- San Francisco Opera Company in some of her most charming roles
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"International Barriers '
The series of lectures on "Interna- tional Barriers" to be given at the Women's City Club this fall and win- ter under the sponsorship of the com- mittee on Programs and Eentertain- ment, of which Mrs. Thomas A, Stoddard is chairman, will open Wednesday evening, September 11, with a discourse by Dr. Frank Russell of the University of California, whose subject will be "Cultural Barriers." Dr. Russell is professor of political science and dean of the undergraduate division at the University of Cali- fornia.
The lectures will thereafter be given on the second Wednesday eve- ning of each month until April. The series is under the especial chairman- ship of Mrs. Henry Francis Grady for the East Bay region and Miss Emma Noonan for th? San Francisco side.
Tickets for the course on Interna- tional Barriers are now on sale at the Information Desk on the first floor and may be procured from Mrs. Stod- dard or Mrs. Grady or Miss Noonan. They are one dollar for the course for Women's City Club members and four dollars per course for non-mem- bers of the City Club. This is an unprecedented rate for lectures of this type, eight for one dollar, twelve and a half cents each, and the City Club feels that it can make this possible only to members.
The other lectures on subsequent second Wednesday evenings of each month will be given in the following order :
October: "Racial Barriers," Dr. Allan Blaisdell, director of Interna- tional House at the University of California, Berkeley.
November: "Barriers of the West- ern Hemisphere," Dr. David P. Bar- rows, professor of political science. University of California.
December : Speaker and subject to be announced later.
January: "Economic Barriers," Dr. Ira Cross, professor of economics. University of California.
February: "Psychological Bar- riers," Dr. George Stratton, professor and chairman of the department of psychology, University of California.
March: "Philosophical Barriers," Dr. Hermon Swartz, president of the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley.
April: "Co-ordination of Interna- tional Barriers," Dr. Kenneth Saun- ders, Pacific School of Religion, Berkelev.
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San Francisco Opera Company Offers Alluring
Bill for Coming Season
THE first announcement of the seventh season of the San Fran- cisco Opera Association has ar- rived, and there are a number of bits of news in this circular, both pleasant and unpleasant.
Unpleasant: That the season each year backs up its date earlier and earlier so that one wonders if some day the opening night will be on Ad- mission Day or the Fourth of July. The nearer our season touches mid- summer, the sooner people have to leave their comfortable country homes, and the less time they have to procure new gowns for the performances be- cause who knows what one wants for the coming winter when it is necessary to shop for a wardrobe in August.
Second unpleasantness : No new operas this season ; though when one recalls the p>oor houses for the most beautiful of modern operas, "L'Amore Dei Tre Re," and the most intensely dramatic with superb settings and cast, "Le Cena Delle Bef¥e," then we feel that we must forgive Maestro Merola. But what a black eye to San Francisco this is! Why must people fight their way in to "Cavalleria" and "Trovatore," and not take the trouble to leave their own firesides when some- thing new and inspiring is given.
Third unpleasantness: That Mr. Merola, who does all things well, will not give "Martha" as a matinee. It is beloved of the old and the growing old, who never tire of its music, and who never venture out at night. It is also an opera for the young who can only leave school for a Saturday after- noon.
First pleasantness: That half of the operas of the season are comedies, and one will not have finished smiling over recollections of "Hansel and Gretel" and "L'Elisir d'Amore" when the "Barber" arrives, followed shortly by "Gianni Schicchi," "Martha," and "Don Pasquale." Was this done on purpose ? More likely perhaps because of the return to our opera family of Giuseppe DeLuca, a peerless comedian.
Second pleasantness : The return to San Francisco of Queena Mario. San Francisco should take a great deal of credit to itself about Miss Mario, as we were among her first enthusiastic audiences before she "made the Met."
A strange coincidence in this season is that with two exceptions — "Aida" and "Trovatore" — every opera to be given is an opera that belongs to Miss
By Isabel Stine Leis
Mario's repertoire and is among her best liked op^eras. In looking over the announcement, it almost seems as if Miss Mario had handed over a num- ber of her roles to Madame Rethberg, and an equal number to Miss Mor- gana to sing, as though she could not do them all.
San Francisco knows well Miss Mario's interpretation of Mimi, her Martha, her Nedda, her Gilda, her Rosina; and if they have not heard them themselves, they have learned from others of her Adina in "L'Elisir d'Amore" and her Norina in "Don Pasquale," not to forget many beauti- ful performances at the Metropolitan, of her Marguerite.
If you are studying orchestration some day your teacher will place the score of "Hansel and Gretel" in your hands and will say in an awed tone, "This is the most perfectly orches- trated opera ever written." You will take it home and you will read it and you will say, "How simple," but that is too often said about all truly great works, "How simple." Therein lies its perfection and its art.
Engelbert Humperdinck was a pro- tege of Richard Wagner and his "Hansel and Gretel" is the happy child of the Wagnerian influence and the German folk-song. It is said by the Wise-ones to be the best and most lasting of the post- Wagnerian dramas. It was first produced in 1893. It seems strange that the two best known and best liked works of Hump)erdinck were not originally w^ritten as operas. The birth of "Hansel and Gretel" was for some settings of songs for the text of this story that Humperdinck's sister had written to amuse her children, and "Konigskinder" was originally a melody drama with a spoken text.
Miss Mario made a tremendous suc- cess with her part of Gretel in the season before last at the Metropolitan Opera House. The first to tell the good news to us in San Francisco was Nina Morgana while she was here for her recital at the Fairmont, which goes to show what good camaraderie there is among real artists.
Miss Mario has long wanted to sing "Manon" for us. Maestro Merola wanted to give this opera at our very first season in 1^23, but Gigli would not learn his role in French. He had always sung it in Italian, but Mr. Merola would not give "Manon" un- less it was sung in the language in
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which it was written. This opera was one of Geraldine Farrar's favorites. She presented her costumes and acces- sories — a perfectly new outfit — to Miss Mario, and the San Franciscans who are "Gerry flappers" can wax sentimental over this bit of news.
Madame Rethberg, spoken of as the most perfect singer of the day, needs no comment. People were more than pleased with her last season. '
Nina Morgana in a recital here at an "Alice Seckels Matinee" won much delighted comment, even though the acoustics tried to ruin her beautiful f)erformance.
Miss Meisle, a very good student as well as a finished artist, has already made herself very popular \vith San Francisco audiences.
I did not think it was possible for Maestro Merola to find another opera in which to star Tito Schipa, but here are two — one of them a favorite of Caruso. Though an old opera, first produced in 1832, "L'Elisir d'Amore" is new to us. Wiseacres say that it and "Don Pasquale" are the best of the sixty-five operas Donizetti wrote, the librettos of his comedies being superior to those of his tragedies. This is rather rough on Sir Walter Scott who un- wittingly supplied two of the stories, "Lucia" and "The Lady of the Lake."
This joyous, happy season may be a disappointment to a group of people who think that unless violent and hor- rible deaths are on display it is not Grand Opera ; but these beautiful, charming stories with their lovely arias will be heard in the repertoire of opera houses all over the world when some of the violent ones are forgotten.
We are happy to see two artists new to us last year return again, Danise and Barra. Barra is a trifle strange to American Opera traditions but a nice artist and a gentleman com- ing of a very old Neapolitan family — Baron Caracciollo is his real name. Danise, though illness prevented his appearance for the first three perform- ances allotted to him enlarged his group of admirers by his singing in the operas in which he was able to appear. Especially fine was his interpretation of Girard in "Andre Chenier. '
The audiences will be pleased with Lauri-Volpi, a comparatively new dramatic tenor, who now ranks with Martinelli and Gigli at the Metro- politan Opera House. Toscanini chose him to be the tenor for his recent short
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season in Berlin, so he must be super- lative for Maestro Toscanini deals only with this kind. Lauri-Volpi sings opening night as the Duke in "Rigo- letto," and later in "Trovatore," "Pagliacci," "Faust," and "Aida."
Two outstanding artists of the season will be Giuseppe DeLuca and Leon Rothier. The latter has not been West since his appearances with Mr. Merola at the Stanford Stadium Operas in 1922. The most stirring scene I have ever witnessed in Grand Opera was w^hen Mons. Rothier read the account in one of the evening papers of his appearance the night be- fore. Among other rash statements made by this venturesome young critic was that Rothier's diction was poor. As Leon Rothier is known all over the opera world for his beautiful and perfect diction he had the right to address her, but as he addressed her in French he received no answer as she did not know what he had said. Can not someone start a Conservatory for Musical Critics?
I notice that Mr. Merola is bring- ing artists who have not either been here before or those who are too well seasoned to care what "dreadful images of thought" are hurled at them by the critics. We are the losers by the acid pens of the above mentioned ladies and gentlemen because many
artists will not face the firing squad of our reviewers. Why should they? They are beloved of the opera world and as they are demanded by other opera houses why should they travel such a distance to be shot at as in- nocent bystanders are while the ama- teurs of the town are praised to the skies.
We are truly gratified to see the return of such good artists as Millo Picco, Louis D'Angelo, and Pompilio Malatesta. These artists seem always to be the backbone of the performance. The virtuosi of song may come and flare, but these character artists "carry the show."
It is joyful news to read that we are to hear "Gianni Schicchi" again this season, though one regrets that we are not to hear the whole of Puccini's "Trilogy" (the three short operas, "II Tabarro," "Suor Angelica," and "Gianni Schicchi"). As the rights to give these operas are dreadfully high and they require a double cast — "II Tabarro" and "Suor Angelica" need- ing so different a type from the artists required for a performance of "Gianni Schicchi" — that doubtless is the reason the "Trilogy" is not on our list this year. The night of "Gianni Schicchi" will demand a lot of Giuseppe De- Luca, first as Tonio in "Pagliacci" and later as "Gianni Schicchi." Mr.
Merola must indeed have great powers of persuasion as perhaps never before has so much been demanded of De Luca in one evening.
Some complaints have been made on holding the opera at Dreamland Audi- torium again this year but I think they were thoughtless remarks as the most surprising thing about last year's season was the constant remark heard everywhere, "This is the best season we have ever had." In trying to un- derstand this remark so often voiced, and remembering past beautiful per- formances second to none in many in- stances— there is but one conclusion and that is that it must be the hall these performances were given in that deserves the credit. Certainly we heard better, especially in the front balcony where the acoustics are as good as any that we know of any place.
There may be other disappointments or criticisms made about our coming season, but every one can be very satis- factorily answered in every instance as the powers that be (principally Mr. Merola) have done their very, very best to procure us the beautiful per- formances that we are soon to hear. And there is every reason to believe that if there were any disapfX)intments, or changes that had to be made, the organization was the first to suffer the disappointment.
This could be a bit of almost any vacation trail in the Orient or South America, matter of geography, it's a palm-fringed bayou in the Philippines.
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1929
I
Women's City Club
New Permanent Wa^e Swimming Is An Art
Aldchine Swimming is an art, an asset, a
City Club members are delighted pleasure, with the results achieved in the Beauty And why not ? Not only is there an
Salon on the Swimming Pool floor bv aesthetic appeal in the smooth, flow-
the new permanent wave machine, '"g strokes of a good swimmer but
and the attendants are kept busy full there is a practical value in the physical
time operating it. benefits to be gained by this exercise.
The new machine is a Duart of the ^o popular is this sport, so universally
latest pattern and is equipped to do "f^ it been adopted by old and young
twenty-four curls at one time. It is alike, that not to know the technique
practically perfect so far as mechanics «^ ^. ^^^ «^ ^^e simpler strokes is to
are concerned and there cannot, from ^<^"^'^ ^" unnecessary deficiency in
its very construction, be such a thing ""^^ g^"f^/ education,
as burning of the patron's hair. Auto- . ^^^^\r\ "'"'^ elementary truths
matic controls of heat and other de- '" V"^ V education is that people
vices make it a joy to operate and be ^"J^ <J,°'."g "^'f that which they do
operated upon, say the attendants in '^^''- ^^'\ ^"^ proficiency in swim-
the Salon ming are closely related to enjoyment
There 'is a new barber, one who °* f^^ activity and what better place
studies the profile and shapes the coif- ^l ^J'"" ^han in the club pool under
fure to suit the features. He has a the direction of trained instructors.
wide vogue in the city, especially in ^^" ^P"^ ""^ T T°"°''' "^ '
*L .. r^ r .u ^^ -k ^ you can learn today and eniov tomor-
the younger set. One of the attributes ' ^ j / '^
of the Beauty Salon hair-cutting de- ' i i 1
partment and, for the matter of that, Women S City Club
of all its departments, is the privacy o • • jy #
insured to patrons. But one patron is CjWimming 1 OOi
permitted in the room at a time, unless Members will be interested to note
she wants to have a friend or relative the reasonable rates ofifered for swim-
with her. ming lessons at the club pool. Special
The place is one of the attractive attention is called to the low rates of
departments of the City Club, its class lessons: nearness to the Swimming Pool and Private Lessons
the gymnasium making it one of the (half-hour lessons)
real and practical conveniences to Members (single lesson) $1.00
members. Business hums there in Guests (single lesson) 1.25
mornings especially. There is an at- Members (course of ten lessons) 7.50
tractive "summer special" in facials Guests (course of ten lessons)... .10. 00 now being offered, and one of the Class Lessons
articles of merchandise being offered (half-hour lessons)
for sale is the sunburn powder now so Class members (four or more
popular. Pomades, powders, creams persons) (ten lessons) $5.00
and astringents are arrayed in such a Class for Guests (ten lessons).... 6.50
manner that it is a strong-minded Guests (joining members' class)
woman who can resist their lure. each time 75
^ -I ■> Fifteen-minute lessons (mem-
Out-of-Doors ^^'''^ : , V ;■• 'I?
T>, . ^, • *^ , 11 1 1 r if teen-minute lessons (guests).. .65
Uunng this month, we are all look- n
ing, with longing eyes, toward the Swimming Rates
country. As many of us as can man- Members ... $ .35
age to do so, are hurrying to go there. Members dip ticket (ten on
Mrs. G. Earle Kelly, who will have ^ticket) 3.00
charge of the Out-of-Doors Group Daughters and wards dip tickets
that is to be organized in September, ^ ^t^" °" ^'"^^P , ; 2.50
hopes that we shall all so enjoy the daughters and wards of mem- country this summer that we come ^ ^^'^ (under eighteen years) 35
home eager to study with her and learn ^°"' ""'^^'' ^'^^^ >'^^'^ «* ^g« ^5
more about the birds, flowers, plants, Cruests 50
trees and gardens which now so allure A member may bring any number
us. y Y Y of guests at this rate. Members may
/^/ A 77/ purchase Courtesv Cards for guests at
L^CUO nag ^h^ Swimming Office. Daughters and
The Club flag will be placed at wards of members must be accom-
half-staff whenever the Executive panied by the member or must have a
Office is notified of a member's death, letter on file in s\\ imming office.
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Aff,
airs
Book Rei^iew Dinner
What is the Book Review Dinner ?
Lest some of the members and their friends no not realize that a very en- joyable event takes place in this Club, on the evening of the first Wednesday of every month, a few words about this monthly meeting including a wel- come to all who care to attend are apt and meet.
The special dinner for one dollar is served, promptly, at six o'clock, in the Assembly Room. There is no other fee. At seven o'clock, Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard, the leader, begins an in- tensive review of an outstanding late novel. The meeting closes at eight o'clock, thus leaving the evening free for any other engagement. Members are invited to bring guests. Postcards, indicating the name of the book to be reviewed and the date are always mailed to every member or friend whose address is given to the office. It is requested that reservations for places be made. The attendance at each dinner for this past year has ranged from fifty-six to one hundred women. The type of novel considered may be judged by the last three books reviewed: "The Snake Pit," by Sigrid Undset; "Dark Hester," by Anne Douglas Sedgewick; "Orlando," by Virginia Woolf. The next Book Re- view Dinner will be held from six to eight o'clock on the evening of the second Wednesday, July 10, on ac- count of the Fourth of July holiday. The book will be "No Love," by David Garnett.
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Sundai/ Concerts to Resume September 22nd
The Sunday Evening Concerts of the Women's City Club will resume September 22 with a special pro- gram being arranged under the direc- tion of Mrs. Horatio Stoll, music chairman, and Mrs. M. E. Blanchard, vice-chairman.
Thereafter the Sunday Evening Concerts will be given but once a month, the second Sunday having been decided upon unless otherwise desig- nated from time to time.
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Summer Attractions
It is suggested to members of the Women's City Club that the summer lull is a good time to "try out" the various departments of the Club to savor the improvements and changes made from time to time in the res- taurant, the swimming pool, the beauty salon or the League Shop.
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1929
Beyond the City Limits
Our Nearest Neighbor
THE Mexican rebellion has been successfully quelled by the gov- ernment forces under the Secre- tary of War (ex-President) Calles, who has been accorded great glory and incidentally has dishonorably dis- charged 55 generals. President Portes Gil is now turning his attention to a temperance plan including the prohi- bition of all beverages of high alco- holic content, the limitation of licensed drinking places, instruction to school children on the evils of the drink habit, government cinemas on the evils of drink, and organization of open-air mass meetings to preach the virtues of prohibition. He has also been holding secret conferences with representa- tives of the Catholic church in the earnest hope of adjusting the critical conditions which have resulted from the irritating "religious laws."
China
is not so successful in the elimination of civil war, which recently ravaged Kwantung, temporarily endangering even the city of Canton. Much more serious, however, are the reports of the terrible famine conditions in Kan- su, which has suffered civil war, anar- chy and misgovernment for years. The sufferings there are appalling, and relief, all too inadequate, is being hastened. Marshal Feng has been ex- pelled from the executive council of
By Edith Walker Maddux
the Nationalist party and declared a rebel, under the persistent suspicion of being friendly with Russian Commun- ists; and it is authoritatively stated that critical tension exists in Harbin, where Nationalist officials have been raiding Russian consulate offices in the hope of finding incriminating docu- ments. The road to democracy in Asia is long and devious.
Great Britain
The expected victory for the Labor party in the general election May 30th has resulted in the formation of a new ministry by Ramsay MacDonald, who glorifies Labor and World Peace in an official promise "to restore friend- ship of all nations." The Liberal party, although winning but 57 seats in Parliament, yet holds a certain bal- ance of power, since these votes, by combining with either the Conserva- tives or the Labor group, can carry the day of discussion. There were but 14 women elected out of more than 60 who ran ; and one woman, Margaret Bondfield, has been honored by being named Minister of Labor.
Reparations
A compromise, brilliantly effected after what seemed to be a hopeless deadlock, has brought special glory to Owen D. Young. In brief, the ac- cepted plan promises full payment by Germany to the Allies, over a 37-year
period, of a considerably reduced sum ; an International Bank to handle the collections; and a further period of 22 years during which Germany will set- tle the remainder of her war debts with America alone : i. e., for Ger- many, 59 years of definite financial obligations. Although the negotia- tions were subject to the demands for the economic stabilization of the world as assisted by the American ex- perts, officially the United States gov- ernment was not in any sense a par- ticipator in the Parisian conference.
France
If Paris shocks America, that is not news; but if America shocks Paris — ! L' Illustration J as translated and re- printed in the Kansas City Times, states that the Parisians were horrified to the extent of hisses at the presenta- tion of the film which was released in the United States as "Our Dancing Daughters," but was captioned in Paris "Les Nouvelles Vierges." Says the French reviewer: "As a study of customs, it is decidedly significant. It is curious that the Americans who criticize the immorality of our litera- ture should present themselves in such colors. . . , We certainly hope we would be wronging the young Amer- ican girl by accepting as true to life these scenes in which she appears to us."
One of the Francesc Cugat Paintings on Exhibition
in the Assembly Room, Second Floor of the
fVomen's City Club
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Atalantas of the New Age
By Dean Southern Jennings
". . . . And then did the warriors shout, for Atalanta stooped to grasp the third golden apple . . . try as she might . . . Hippomenes sped by the judges to conquer . . . having therefore won the beautiful maid of Boeotia and vanquished her flying feet."
IT is 1929. There are no golden apples to tempt the woman ath- lete of today.
Herein, perhaps, lies the explana- tion for the amazing feats of modern womanhood in the realm of athletics. Smashing performances that bring more glory than e'er the fabled laurel wreath.
Though the critics wail . . . "what are we coming to?" . . . girls and women have found a new way to ex- press their emotions and release the pent-up energy of the generation.
More than that — they excel in the arts — the ballroom — the concert stage.
They have always done so, you say ? Perhaps — perhaps.
But we are speaking of athletics.
Had you been among those who saw seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Robinson of Chicago, pounding down the beaten cinder path at Amsterdam last year — shattering all records for the one- hundred-meter dash — you would have pondered and wondered.
Or — perhaps you would have doubted if you had seen the tiny Jap- anese girl struggle past the finish line and collapse after a grueling race.
Recently I was discussing women's athletics with a sport writer from a San Francisco newspaper.
"You know," he said, "I think they are trying to do too much at a time. Women ought to stick to their own field. Tennis, golf, a little track — not much more than that. The others are too much of a strain and women aren't built for them."
Then there is the classic tale of the proud husband who said : "My wife is the greatest athlete in the world. She's got 'em all stopped. You ought to see her handle a broom. Now, there's an art ! And does she make beds like nobody's business? Another thing, the miles she walks around the house. I'd like to see some of those women athletes try it!"
Do you agree with the sport writer and the proud husband ?
Naturally, when the subject of women athletes is mentioned, we cry with a loud voice: "Helen Wills!"
The beautiful Berkeley girl — un- doubtedly the most famous woman athlete in the world — has eclipsed even the fame and glamor of the tem-
peramental French tennis star, Su- zanne Lenglen.
Miss Wills is in London at the time of writing, seeking her third world championship. Oddly enough, there are five California women in this great tournament. Names of the great — colossi of the tennis firmament.
May Sutton Bundy, Elizabeth Ryan, Edith Cross, Helen Wills and that other famous Helen — Helen Ja- cobs. Californians to be proud of.
But to talk of Helen Wills is futile.
For her deeds are too- well-known. But to answer a question someone once asked :
"How does Helen Wills compare with the leading men players of the world? Can she beat them?"
Yes — some of them. But only a few. It's the story of Atalanta — with the apples left on the tree.
Let's forget tennis. There are wom- en in sports that the average woman has never heard of — women whose athletic achievements are unbeliev- able. Women baseball players — foot- ballers— boxers — track stars.
There's Vivian Hartwick, for in- stance, the amazing Vallejo girl who can throw a feather farther than most men can throw a baseball. This sensa- tional girl athlete, at a recent meet, broke the world's record for the base- ball throw and immediately after- wards announced that she would enter a convent.
There is pretty Margaret Jenkins of California, who tosses the heavy javelin more than one hundred feet. Vivian Cartwright, whose discus throwing has astounded coaches.
You could go on like this forever.
All these girls are Californians. They're the dazzling stars of the track world — just as their brother athletes from the universities of California, Stanford and Southern California are the greatest in the United States.
If you wish to be a champion ath- lete— live in California!
The coach who originated that statement came from Missouri — can't use his name — but he is right. \Wt know he is right !
Women have even begun to take up boxing in a small way. I heard of a divorce case recently, wherein the hus- band complained that his wife was
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taking boxing lessons and that he feared the consequences.
In Germany the women play foot- ball— in France they run Marathon races — in Switzerland they chase mountain goats — in Africa they hunt lions — in Spain they loaf.
But it is in the United States that woman has reached the peak of ath- letic prominence and developed a craze for body-building sports such as ten- nis, golf, track and swimming.
Who can forget the meteoric ad- vance of swimming after Gertrude Ederle swam the English Channel ? This magnificent swimmer, with the endurance and strength of modern \outh, set an example that has tre- mendously popularized swimming.
An indication of its spread is seen in the huge crowds that flock to the Fleishhacker Pool at the beach every day — the crowded classes at the vari- ous women's clubs — the activities at the many swimming tanks in the Bay region.
In recent jears the performances of the peerless Ederle, Martha Norelius, Eleanor Garratti of San Rafael, Hel- en Zabriskie and scores of others have created an era of super athletic achievement.
The romantic tale of Hero and Le- ander might have been reversed if the women of the ancient world had prac- ticed paddling across the Hellespont with the same enthusiasm that the women swimmers of today attempt channel swimming.
When Glenna CoUett, America's glorious woman golfer, goes around a course with an extremely low score, few realize that even Bobby Jones and his magic sticks at their best are only a few strokes better than Miss Collett.
It's the age of achievement — wom- an's achievement!
The end of the trail is still far in the distance.
So it is with all branches of sport. America's women are building, ad- vancing— smashing records — reaching sport's Hall of Fame. There are even greater deeds ahead — though the ones behind are brilliant and almost un- believable.
It's the American woman's idea of "Veni-Vidi-Vici!"
Caesar himself could have done no more.
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1929
Summer Vacation Reading
GooDBY Wisconsin. By Glenway Westcott; Harper and Brothers.
Glenway Westcott is the author of "The Grandmothers," Harper prize novel for 1927. His latest book con- tains a prelude and a rat.'ier tragic collection of Wisconsin sketches: The Runaways, Adolescence, A Guilty Woman, The Dove Came Down, Like a Lover, In a Thicket, Prohibi- tion, The Sailor, The Wedding March, The Whistling Swan. Book Chat calls "Goodby Wisconsin" "a pungent, earthy book." So it is.
These sad young men who write so well, and find only sad and ugly things to write about! Murderesses, prisons, morons, drunkards — all the woeful derelicts of the Mid-West ! Like a strong-lensed camera held at close range, Glenway Westcott re- ports every detail with a dazzling accuracy. But his camera is focused low, on swamps and ditches and stag- nant pools. Not often is it lifted to a flowering branch or a hilltop. I think it is not because his Wisconsin has no beauty. He even mentions her beauty, now and then. But his words of com- parison, even of sunlit winter frost, are weary and dreary. Perhaps it is the shock of the Mid-West in-the- making, upon the fresh eyes, the over- refined palate of the young artiste re- turned from his Paris, his Ville- franche, his Greece.
His great talent and his sad photo- graphic use of it, in this book, with no answer to his riddle, no gleam in his gloom, are unsatisfying as the beautifully painted picture of a butcher-shop in a recent exhibition of ultra-modern artists. Every bone, every bit of gristle, every rib of the hanging carcass marvelously painted with a master brush ! But why waste precious young hours in contempla- tion of blood and beef and bone, even though they be raw stuf? which shall give us our body-framework for thought and imagination and love and joy? Why stay in a butcher-shop, anyhow? Someone must stay there, for our sake ; but that is his hard luck. Was it because of this that Westcott called his book "Goodby, Wiscon- sin"?
Yet, aside from the dreariness of his subject-matter (like the Russians), one reads the book with keen delight in his fresh, unusual, quite exquisite style. One wonders whether he could, if he would, photograph the spirit as
Reviewed by Eleanor Preston Watkins
beautifully as he pictures flesh and clay. Is it intentional, that he shuts the sunshine out? Or does he "see ugly," as some of our young artists do?
Wisconsin! "The state with a beautiful name — glaciers once having made of it their pasture — is an an- thology, a collection of all the kinds of landscape, perfect examples side by side. Ranges of hills — in long, lus- trous necklaces; — peacock lakes; — sad forests full of springs; the springs have a feverish breath. All summer the horizon trembles, hypnotically flickering over the full grain, the taf- feta corn, and the labor in them of dark, over-clothed men, singing wom- en, awe-stricken children. These say nothing; their motionless jaws give an account of their self-pity, dignity, en- durance. In the sky, mocking marble palaces, an Eldorado of sterile cloud."
Surely he reads himself into our farm-laborers !
"You seem to be on a lofty plateau, and you can see with your own eyes that the world is convex. The villages are almost as lonely as the farms. It is like Russia with vodka prohibited, and no stationary peasantry."
"One would think of Wisconsin as the ideal state to live in, a paragon of civic success, but for the fact that the young people all dream of getting away. And there are already a fair number of Middle-Westerners about the world; a sort of vagrant chosen race, like the Jews." Wisconsin is "a great maternal source of, among other things, ability and brutal ardor and ingenuity and imagination — scarcely revisited, abandoned, almost unable to profit by its fruitfulness in men."
His prelude is a sort of explanation of his collection of Wisconsin sketches; in a sense, an apology, per- haps! He says of the young folk of Wisconsin : "They do ask for a cer- tain cheerfulness ; one cannot expect those who seek the future in literature to be altogether discouraged. I have not hitherto believed that the search for the future in literature often leads to good literature ; be that as it may. No more weather-beaten farmers, they beg; no more of the inarticulate, no more love limited to unfortunate stables, and desperation growing faint between rows of spoiled corn, no more poverty-stricken purity, no more jeer- ing and complaining about lament- able small towns. They or their fath- ers have had enough of all this. Who can blame them ? . . .
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"This book is no eagle for these ambitious, often heavy-hearted Gany- medes. Nor is it very instructive. How could I expect natives of Wis- consin to see in the first story in the collection or the last my comment on, let us say, their flight to such ques- tionable Utopias as New York and Montparnasse? It does represent, the whole collection, be it Wisconsin's fault or my own, a strangely limited moral order. Drunkenness; old or young initiations into love ; homesick- ness in one's father's home for one's own, wherever it may be ; — the fear of God ; — more drunkenness. Roads and piazzas and lawns (always out of the corner of one's eye the haunting landscape, the haunted sky, the brin- dled fields with their over-ornate weather). That is all there is to it. And set beside a complicatedly unfold- ing reality, it seems too little or not enough. This, perhaps, is the artist's discouragement, when he has tried to paint the Grand Canyon, or a world in the making.
"What may be called honest por- trayal of a period of transition, of spiritual circumstances changing for an entire race, requires a fastidious realism, minute notation of events in their exact order, and the special sobriety of doctors or witnesses at a trial. . . . The rest is lyricism ; the hero's shameless ode in praise of his own fortune ; or, even in the great, dim, half-attentive courtyard of the Mississippi Valley, a sort of serenade. . . . The future of American civiliza- tion is a genuine riddle, a sort of sphinx with the perfect face of a movie star, with a dead-leaf complex- ion which is the result of this climate, our heating system, our habits." . . ,
After all that Westcott says of his own book, and all that I have said of it, one remembers it for its crystalline style, though he writes of turgid things. And most clearly of all, in the last story, does one remember the tragically beautiful song of the dying swan.
Genghis Khan, the Emperor of All
Men; $3.50. Tamerlane, the Earth-shaker ; $3.50. By Harold Lamb; Robert McBride and Company, publishers, New York. Do you like to wander back to the dim days when "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan {Continued on page 20)
women's city club magazine fur JULY
1929
WOMEN'S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE
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VOLUME ni
JULY ' 1929
number 6
EOITOMIAIL
A PRIVILEGE to City Club members, voted at the last meeting of the board of directors, is that per- ■ mitting them to extend guest cards throughout the summer at an especial rate and without the necessity of periodic renewal.
This dispensation permits the issuance of a guest card valid from June 15 to September 15 for the price of five dollars, payable either by the guest or the member at whose request the card is issued.
Members are thereby privileged to extend to friends and relatives opportunity to live at the Women's City Club or to use it as do the resident members. It offers hospitality to summer visitors in San Francisco and to members the privilege of exhibiting to their guests the charm and comfort of the City Club, the opportunity of partaking of everything the Club has to offer, its summer program of entertainment, its bedrooms, its cuisine, swim- ming pool, beauty salon, library and lounge, of a centrally located place to meet friends.
Heretofore the guest card privilege has permitted a member to issue a card for two weeks only, for a charge of fifty cents, renewable for another two weeks upon request of a member and at a charge of another fifty cents, the privilege thereupon to cease. This was permissible only to women living more than fifty miles from San Francisco. The new arrangement as voted by the board extends a three months' use of the card for five dollars.
The City Club thereby becomes a factor and a unit in the Hospitality of the West and its members become com- municants in the rites of extending that far-famed, intan- gible, impalpable, but very real quality that attaches par- ticularly to San Francisco.
There is imposed upon members by the laws of hospi- tality the obligation to meet, when possible, the guests in the house, to enjoy them and to extend to them every courtesy of fellowship. Many distinguished women come to San Francisco in the course of a year, and few but are entertained in the Women's City Club at some time during their stay. The bedrooms were all filled in the last fort- night during the Conference of Social Workers Avhich assembled in San Francisco June 26. It was the pleasant duty of the City Club flower committee to place fruits and flowers in the visitors' rooms throughout their stay.
In an Old Spanish Town^
MRS. DAISY C. SAGE of the Woman's City Club Library, by this time in Europe for a sum- mer of travel, writes the following description of Spanish America as she saw it en route through the Panama Canal to New York, whence she sailed :
Well, the first part of our trip is over. It was all that we expected it to be, and more. The trip through the Canal was a thrilling experience. Leaving Auxm at four o'clock, we saw the Miraflores Locks illuminated, a beau- tiful sight. When we had passed through and were out on the Lake, a surprise (promised by Captain Paulsen to all who would be on deck at four A. M.) came to pass. A wonderful tropical sunrise. Gorgeous colors and cloud effects reflected in the Lake. Gold changing to mauve and crimson and orange, until the whole lake was one rippling mass of color. All of the Canal Zone was inter- esting and made us proud of the fact that we are Ameri- cans, for when one realizes that American brains and money have made this fifty miles of Canal not only me- chanically perfect but have taken a disease-infested country and rendered it sanitary for one hundred miles inland on either side, one is overwhelmed with admiration.
After Panama the most interesting stop was Cartagena, S. A. It is rather off the beaten track and the Panama Mail boats stop on account of mail contracts. A bit of the old world, with all the glamor of romantic story. It is the only walled city in the Western Hemisphere and one of the finest examples of medieval architecture in the world. Founded in 1533 by the Spaniards, who imported architects to plan a city like Seville, with winding streets and balconied buildings. They also imported engineers to build a wall forty feet high and forty' feet thick, com- pletely surrounding the city. To this apparently impreg- nable stronghold was brought the gold and silver and precious stones collected from Spanish colonies and to it also came the Spanish galleons bringing out necessities for the colonies. When these two great caravans of wealth met in Cartagena there was a great fair lasting sixty days.
Since it was the depository of so much wealth, it became the prey of all the enemies of Spain, especially of pirates, and was sacked and pillaged many times. W^e took an auto from the ship and when we passed through one of the great gates that pierce the ancient walls we entered another civilization. I doubt if even in Spain we would see anything more medieval. Balconied houses overhang- ing the streets, iron grilled windows behind which dark- skinned girls peered out, winding, narrow streets, colorful and mysterious.
We reached the Cathedral just in time to see the Corpus Christi Procession (May 30). The church was full of kneeling women, all in white with white lace mantillas on their heads. Seen through clouds of incense, the high altar, which is of gold, the priests in their holiday vest- ments and the sea of white kneeling figures made a lovely picture. Our driver took us to a corner where we could see the passing of the Host. One could but be impressed by such a spectacle. First came the city oflScials, then four priests holding a gleaming canopy over the prelate carrying the sacred emblem. An acolyte swinging a censer walked ahead. Everyone on the street dropped to their knees and remained until it had passed.
Opposite the Cathedral is the Pare de Bolivar with a fine equestrian statue of the liberator. Opposite stands a palace which was once the headquarters of the Inquisition. I was interested to learn that it was not until 1821 that it was abolished in Cartagena.
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1929
Recapitulation :=^^ Hai^e Grown!
By Beatrice Judd Ryan
WHEN we look back and re- member the taboo on Art in San Francisco five, six, seven years ago, we realize that today a new and real Art activity has awakened in our community. The old saying, "It is better to be damned than not no- ticed at all," has proved true. Those many and some bitter discussions on Art which seemed to get nowhere have served their purpose. Through much travail a new Art consciousness is being born.
Seven years ago the Fine Arts Pal- ace was closed. We had no museum where current exhibitions could be held. The more intimate dealers like Helgesen, Rabjohn and Furman had discontinued their galleries. The San Francisco Art Association and School was housed in most inadequate build- ings. The Sketch Club of Women Artists was a dead issue. The news- papers had no regular Art news. Ray Boynton's interesting column in the Sunday Examiner had come to an end. When artists met in groups at the different studios the discussion invari- ably turned on how a downtown gal- lery could be established by them for exhibitions.
In November, 1922, we wrote for a San Francisco magazine on "The Artist and Cooperation. "The artist, by the very nature of his work, is serv-
ing the public, but there is no depart- ment in our community life where co- operation is so sorely needed as be- tween artists, and between artists and the public they serve."
It was the desire to promote this closer cooperation in San Francisco that the Galerie Beaux Arts was es- tablished. There was a great need for a gallery association where artists of the community could exhibit and sell their work, where standards would be maintained away from the com- mercial aspect, a gallery where the public could come and find out what the artists of their community were doing, a gallery with business men for patrons and women sponsors who would back their wisdom and discrim- ination by purchase.
In the five years that the Beaux Arts has functioned in this respect a new Art life has awakened and grown in San Francisco. The Legion of Honor has been built and given to the city by Mrs. Spreckels. The San Francisco Art Association has erected its beautiful new school, the finest anywhere in America. From the dy- ing embers of the old Sketch Club has arisen with new dignity and fire The San Francisco Association of Women Artists. The last two years this or- ganization has given San Francisco annually a Decorative Art Exhibition
at the Women's City Club that was equal to the New York exhibits. Re- cently at the Legion of Honor we have had the Carnegie and the New York Central Galleries' Exhibitions of Painting and now the American Sculpture Show.
The East West Gallery has held interesting exhibits from away, the Rockwell Kent and the current show- ing of Boris Deutsch. Deutsch, a young Russian Jew from Los Angeles, who has lived thirteen years in this country, but whose creative mind still broods over his race with an intensive sympathy and understanding, depicts his people with an art which combines vitality and spirituality which shows flashes of genius.
After five years of growth at 116 Maiden Lane, The Galerie Beaux Arts will move into its new quarters in August at 166 Geary, where there will be three daylight galleries. In the meantime a group showing, by the Beaux Arts members, will be held in the Auditorium of the Women's City Club, June 28 to July 12. This ex- hibit is given with the cooperation of the Women's City Club and there will be paintings shown by twenty or more California painters — Boynton, Stackpole, Dixon, Piazzoni, Van Sloun, Cuneo, Forbes, Hansen, For- tune, Poole, Duncan, Labaudt, Tufts.
Miss Helen Wills and Miss Harriet Walker leaving the American Women's Club in London on their way to be presented at the first Court of the season. They both looked very charming in simple frocks made alike. Miss Wills in parchment-colored satin. Miss Walker in a lovely shade of pale green, but while the former carried a feather fan, the latter had a bouquet of white gardenias. The American Women's Club in London has reciprocal relations with the Women's City Club of San Francisco.
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Letler from Fernanda Dor la
THE following letter refers to a luncheon tendered by the Wom- en's City Club to Fernanda Doria ( Fernanda Pratt ) , San Francisco contralto, who returned to her native city after a five years' absence in Eu- rope, where she sang in opera in Eng- land and Italy. She was accompanied upon her visit home by her mother, Mrs. Ernest Simpson, also a favorite in San Francisco society.
"Forgive me that the press of each day's obligations has prevented me from carrying out a pleasure I had promised myself — that of writing you about the truly beautiful luncheon given in my honor at the Women's City Club and how deeply I appre- ciated it.
"It was an occasion which will always be a bright memory. There will always remain with me the beauty of the surroundings, the presence of dear friends and the warmth of my welcome home.
"I am also so glad we made the 'tour' of the Club with you. It seems so wonderful that the rare spirit of the little organization has been so pre- served and even intensified in this larger form which reaches so many more people. The Women's City Club has already played a big part, but the best of it is that it is going to go on to a greater destiny."
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"Would like to say that the dinner- bridge that I had at the Club on June 11th in the Mural Room for twelve friends was very satisfactory in every way, and I was greatly pleased."
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Then take Harold Lamb's magic carpet, and go — with Genghis Khan and Tamerlane.
These are not story-books, to be read at a sitting. They are scholarly studies of a neglected period of his- tory. The Boston Transcript said of the story of Genghis Khan: "The whole colorful history is spread out like a magnificent moving panorama, and dull would he be of soul who would not thrill to it. . . Lamb has written a great book ; great because he has filled an important void in his- tory, and great because he has told the truth as he found it."
And, by the way, it is pronounced Jeen-gis Khan ! Mr. Lamb said so, and he should know, for he has spent years delving among the traditions of the Mongols. And he did not write "Tales from Shakespeare,^' though he told us that one bewildered lady came up to him after a lecture, and assured him seriously that she preferred it to all his other books !
Harold Lamb has long been known as a writer of historic romances and tales of derring-do, much loved by boys yearning for adventure and by the tired business man. His scenes were laid in the Orient, in the times when history faded into tradition. Much study, much research, much dreaming of forgotten things — and now Harold Lamb has become a his- torian, making his own contribution to our knowledge of the days when the world was young!
When Mr. Lamb talked of his two historical romances (or romantic his- tories), he showed us very old books, mines from which he had quarried his ore ; old books from medieval monas- teries, manuscripts still untranslated from Arabic and Persian. The bib- liography appended to his books is appalling, to one who has but an ordi- nary mind !
He said that he had great difficulty in making Genghis Khan live. For that reason, perhaps, his "Emperor of All Men" seems a gigantic shadowy figure moving in the mists of history. But Tamerlane (Timur y Leng, "the lame Timur," vulgarized into Tam- erlane) becomes a living, thrilling hu- man being, nearer than Alexander, as real as Napoleon.
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Let's have a few dates: 1206 — Genghis Khan becomes em- peror of the Mongols. 1215-24 — He conquers Northern China, overthrows the Kho- rasmian empire, invades Rus- sia, conquers Bokhara and Samarcand, Nishapoor, He- rat, Lahore, Peshawur — his armies victorious from the China Sea to the banks of the Dnieper. 1264— Kublai Khan builds Pekin,
and makes it his capital. 1280 — He becomes emperor of all China, and founder of the Mongol dynasty. 1335 — Birth of Tamerlane. 1363 — He begins his career of con- quest. 1369 — He becomes king of Trans- oxiana, and makes Samar- cand the capital of his new empire. 1382 — The Tartars sack Moscow. 1386-90 — Tamerlane subjugates
Persia. 1392 — Tamerlane invades India,
and takes Delhi. "Five hundred and fifty years ago a man tried to make himself master of the world. In everything he under- took he was successful. One after the other, he overcame the armies of more than half the world. He tore down cities, and rebuilt them in the way he wished. . . . More perhaps than any human being within a life Tamerlane attempted 'to grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, and then remould it nearer to the heart's desire'."
"The fantasies of the poets have been followed by the silence of the historians. Tamerlane could not eas- ily be classified. He was part of no dynasty — he founded one. He was not, like Attila, one of the barbarians who harried Rome — out there in the limbo of things he built a Rome of his own in the desert. And when he built he used no previous pattern of archi- tecture ; he made a new one according to his own inclinations, out of cliffs and mountain-peaks and a solitary dome that he saw in Damascus before he burned that city. This swelling dome of Tamerlane's fancy has become the motif of Russian design, and is the crown of the Taj Mahal. And the Taj Mahal was built by one of the Moghuls — Tamerlane's great-grand- children."
"There is today near the junction of the Trans-Siberian railway a stone obelisk bearing on one side the word Europe and on the other Asia. In Tamerlane's day this stone would have been placed some fifty degrees of longitude farther west, about in the suburbs of Venice. Europe proper
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The good knight Ruy de Gonzales Clavijo, sent by the King of Castile as envoy to Samarkand, returned to re- port in his own way who Tamerlane was: "Tamerlane, Lord of Samar- kand, having conquered all the land of the Mongols and India; also hav- ing conquered the Land of the Sun; . . . also having reduced all Persia and Medea, with the empire of Tabriz, and the City of the Sultan ; also hav- ing conquered the Land of Silk with the Land of the Gates ; also having conquered Armenia the Less, and Er- zerum, and the land of the Kurds ; having conquered in battle the Lord of India ; . . . having destroyed the city of Damascus, and reduced the cities of Aleppo, of Babylon, and Bagdad, he came against the Turk Bayazid (which is one of the greatest Lords of the world), and gave him battle, con- quering him and taking him prisoner."
Clavijo himself as envoy of the Franks was treated courteously be- cause "even the smallest fish have their place in the sea."
"In the European pageantry of kings Tamerlane has been given no place ; in the pages of history there is only a fleeting impression of the terror he caused. But to the men of Asia he is still The Lord."
"We must penetrate the veil of ter- ror and go beyond the tower of human skulls, past Constantinople, and over the sea into Asia — along the highway of the Land of the Sun, on the road to Samarkand."
It is the same road, but a long journey from the China of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane to China of today. China of Chang-tso-lin, of Chiang-kai-shek. China of the Kuo- Min-Tang. The same battlefield, but one wonders whether there is a prom- ise of the empire of the spirit. When the death of Sun Sat Yen was com- memorated in San Francisco on March 12th, the anthem of Kuo-Min- Tang was sung. It is in the rhythm of the Confucian odes.
Reading such books as these of the Orient, I like to illustrate them with the vivid pictures from those two fas- cinating magazines Asw, published in Concord, N. H., and Japan, published here in San Francisco. The Orient moves slowly, and the caravan routes are the same as when Europe was "only a province of Asia," when Gen- ghis Khan was the Emperor of All Men, and when the halting tread of Tamerlane shook the earth.
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Tientsin Sends a Message
By Eleanor Laidley Miller 6 Barracks Road, Tientsin, China
ONE of my most delightful Christmas presents was a year's subscription to the Magazine of the Women's City Club of San Francisco. The copy for March has just arrived, and has been read with the usual interest by each member of the family. I always get much pleasure from it as well as in- teresting news of many people I knew years ago in clubdom and out of it.
Eleanor Jane, who is nearly twelve, reads all about the juvenile theater, and wishes she could enjoy the plays there every week with a preceding tiffin party, there being nothing of the kind here. The pictures, the usual Saturday diversion, are too often very uninteresting for young people.
When we have finished with the Magazine, I send it to the Tientsin Woman's Club, where it is on the table and read with much interest, and I am very proud of it as representing my well beloved native city. Perhaps something about the Tientsin Wom- an's Club may be of interest to your readers.
The Tientsin Woman's Club was formed as such in May, 1923 ; so it is still very young. It had as its nu- cleus three already existing clubs for women — the Social Service Club, or- ganized in 1919, primarily for aiding those who suffered at the time as the result of flood and famine ; the Moth- ers' Club, organized in 1920; and the Music Study Club, organized in 1921. These three joined — the Mothers' Club changing its name to the Depart- ment of Home and Children, and all becoming departments of the one main club.
For more specialized study along various lines, such as language, Bible, et cetera, circles were formed, and any eight or more may, with the approval of the board, form a circle for some new study.
The department of social service supports a school for very poor Chi- nese girls, runs a clinic, and is guard- ian for two orphan girls.
The Club is unusual because of its international character.
Included in a membership of about two hundred last year were nineteen different nationalities. The mingling of these women of many countries in the social hour and in the work of the Club, is a practical demonstration of real international good will.
In this place, where the membership changes frequently, it is no small effort to keep the Club up to a satisfactory standard, and the issuance of the
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Visitors to Peking have often wish- ed they could have seen the places of the Forbidden City in the days of its glor\^ The great rooms and halls seem barren and cold now. Only a few westerners have had the privilege of seeing the palaces when they were thronged with princes and princesses and their attendants. Miss Katherine Carl, not only saw all this, but lived in the palace while she painted the por- trait of the empress dowager, and her informal chatty talk on her experi- ences was much enjoyed by the club members.
There are several charitable socie- ties in Tientsin, the principal one, the Ladies Benevolent Society, having been founded twenty-five years ago with the purpose of extending aid to foreigners who found themselves in distressed circumstances so far from their home lands. During the past twenty-five years hundreds of people, men, women and children, have been helped with food, rent, school, hos- pital bills settled, clothes furnished, and passages to other parts of the world paid. Help to establish them- selves in business was given to many in order that they might earn their living by their own crafts. The scope of this work may be visualized by this list of cases helped during the last year :
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In all, forty-five cases of thirteen nationalities.
The great number of Russians, both white and red, who have poured into Tientsin during the past few years has brought about a distressing state of aiiFairs for them. There is now a Russian Society, trying to deal with the situation. There are also the : Austrian Benevolent Society German Benevolent Society Russian Benevolent Society Jewish Benevolent Society St. Andrew's Society St. George's Society United Services (Great War)
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In the latter, the activity is almost entirely confined to Chinese.
During the extremely cold months of winter, soup kitchens are main- tained for destitute Russian children — one meal a day — and for rickshaw and bund coolies, and all possible help is given at all times to the great num- ber of blind Chinese children by special organizations whose work is efficient and unobtrusive. With all these organizations at work it would seem that the foreigners are well looked after. However, being a firm believer in the Community Chest idea, I feel that if the same system could be in force in Tientsin, it would make for more efficient disp>osal of these various funds.
While the methods are different and the people among whom the work is done varies so much, the same spirit obtains in China as in the homeland — to lend a hand in time of trouble.
When the halcyon time comes that I shall return to the beautiful city beside the Golden Gate, I shall lose no time in making myself ac- quainted with the Women's City Club of San Francisco.
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The department of Vocational Guidance and Information of the Women's City Club has outlined a course of lectures to be given this fall under its guidance, the general subject to be the application of psychology to sane living. Home-making, employ- ment, professional development, dan- gers of high pressure living and kin- dred subjects will be expounded by leading authorities without any of the sensational or extravagant phases which are popularly associated with applied psychology.
There will be a different speaker each time, with round table discus- sions following each discourse. Meet- ings will be held in the evening and will be open to members and their friends. Full particulars will be given in succeeding numbers of the City Club Magazine.
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Nights of magic close days of enchant- ment on the C R U I S E-Tour of the Panama Mail to New York . . . Old legends of pirates bold and dashing Caballeros become stor- ies of only yesterday in ten romance-tinted cities of the Spanish Main . . . Once in your life at least you will want to see these fas- cinating Lands of Long Ago — Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua, the Panama Canal, Colombia and Havana . . . On the CRUISE-Tour you can do so at no extra cost.
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1929
MEMBERS
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SAN FRANCISCO STOCK EXCHANGE
Our Branch Office in the Financial Center Building, 405 Montgomery Street, is maintained for the special use and convenience of women clients
Special Market Letters on Request
DIRECT PRIVATE WIRES TO CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB
Catering Department
Includes
Main Dining Room, Private Dining
Kooms and Cafeteria
MAIN DINING-ROOM
Combination Breakfast - - - 35c to 65c
Table d'hote Luncheon - - 75c and $1.00
Table d'hote Dinner $L00
. . . also a la carte service from 7 A. M. to 8 P. M.
Members making reservations for Luncheon may use Card Tables WITHOUT CHARGE for afternoon.
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Special Luncheon 50c
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Private Rooms seating from ten to four hundred guests available for Bridge Luncheons, Tea, Dinner and Card Parties, with refreshments
Telephone KEarny 8400 for Reservations
Volunteer' Servicer
Mrs. William F. Booth, Jr., chairman of the Volunteer Service Committee, has sent the following letter to all new members of the Women's City Club, and has had many responses:
"The Women's City Club, of which you have recently become a member, has, as you know, "Service" as its ideal. In fact, the idea of Volunteer Service is the principal reason for the existence of the City Club of San Francisco.
To enjoy the Club in the real sense, its spirit must be caught by each member, shared and passed on.
The Volunteer Service Committee has prepared the fol- lowing list in order that members may know in what activ- ities Volunteer Service plays a part.
There are three types of Service: Regular — demanding service given to a definite department at a definite time (usually a few hours each week) ; Substitute — acting occa- sionally in the place of a regular; Emergency — willingness to make a real effort to answer calls on short notice in times of need.
Surely each member is able to contribute in some way. We ask you to check the service which most appeals to you, specifying which type you are able to fill, and mail the same to me, in care of the Women's City Club.
Clerical Red Cross Work
Cafeteria Sewing
Library Shop
Magazine (addressing or Tea Hostess
wrapping) Motor Corps
Stanford Hospital
Ushers"
Summer' Markets
By McDonnell & Company
REVIEWING the last sixty days, it would seem that much has been accomplished marketwise in reducing the temperature of the public's specula- tive fever and in alleviating the growing pains of the col- lateral credit situation. In certain quarters, where a pos- sible overextended position existed, corrective processes have exercised a potent influence. Positions have been materially reduced and large operators have curtailed their activities considerably. Gradually the market has resolved itself into more-or-less of a trading affair and the summer months will probably continue to reflect less- ening activity and restrictive price swings. As we approach the fall months, broader markets and price movements in the better-class shares may be expected in anticipation of seasonal quickening of trade and business.
The old adage — "Buy only the best" — has certainly been exemplified in the recent general reaction. While the high-priced issues and seasoned investment stocks de- clined alike in sympathy with their more volatile neighbors, in the subsequent recovery, as featured in many instances, the stable stocks were the first to rally and to regain a large percentage of lost ground. Selling waves, occasioned by public liquidation, are no respecters of values; but, while sound stocks fortified with large equities may be temporarily depressed, they cannot permanently be ignored.
The reaction and price adjustment, while drastic, has proved most beneficial from a technical market standpoint. The general situation has become very much clarified. Business throughout the country is running along at a normal rate and large firms and corporations are pro- gramming for the future with confidence. The reparation settlement, the O'Fallon decision, and the constructive legislative program of the government in respect to agri- culture may all be considered as particularly favorable factors.
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1929
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That Sun-Kissed Look
By Mary Constance Ford
In June issue of "The Independent
Woman"
THE world seems suddenly to have lost its heart to the nut- brown maid. Everywhere one hears echoes of sun-tan and sun-backs, and it looks as though the bare-legged girl with cheeks of tan has captured fashion's fancy. Tan, real and artifi- cial, has been popular in Europe for several summers, but we have been reluctant to give up our ideal of fair faces and white hands. Now all at once everyone is experimenting with sunburn. Cosmetic chemists who here- tofore lay awake nights pondering ways to circumvent Old King Sol are hurriedly bringing out gold and brown and copper lotions, paints and powders to simulate or complement that sun- kissed look.
And girls are asking me all sorts of questions about the new craze. What will tan do to the skin ? How can one become brown as a berry instead of red as a beet ? What about the artifi- cial tans? I, in turn, have been ask- ing the doctors and the beauty special- ists the same questions, and trying meantime dozens of new preparations.
Doctors, of course, are enthusiastic about the healthful qualities of sun- shine. A good dose of ultra-violet rays is worth a whole shelf of medicines. At the same time the dermatologists tell us that over-exposure to the sun's rays is bound to coarsen the skin. They point to the typical rough, red, coarse skin of seamen, fishermen, farmers who are exposed to all sorts of weath- ering. Deep tanning, they say, will inevitably injure the delicate texture of a fine, fair skin. So there you are. How to be fashionably brown and healthily sun-tanned and at the same time keep the skin soft and fine, is your problem and mine this summer.
It seems to me that all of us, to be on the safe side, should follow the rules laid down for the pink-and- white girls who burn painfully, get unbecomingly red, and yet do not tan. We should take on tan slowly, and keep the skin well protected. Any simple face lotion applied as a powder- base will help to prevent a bad burn, and there is now on the market a spe- cial sunburn lotion to prevent irrita- tion which will not in any way inter- fere with tan. Needless to say, arms, hands, neck, and back should be treated as well as the face. Otherwise it is a serious problem to look lovely in an evening frock.
On coming indoors, a cream should be used to soothe the face, and more
cleansing cool and otion ap-
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1929
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Invites You to Enjoy Its Hospitality
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plied. This simple procedure, fol- lowed for a week, will give a clear, even tan, without irritation and peel- ing skin.
If the desire for a beige complexion comes over you suddenly, don't try to gratify it in one flaming afternoon at the beach. Try an artificial tan. Sev- eral of the beauty specialists have stains which will give you a gypsy skin for comparatively little expense and trouble. These stains are clear liquids, which can be smoothly applied with a pad of cotton and which will color the skin for several days. An- other specialist has a preparation which looks like a suntan liquid pow- der, but is really a stain. This is easily removed by washing the face with soap and water. These make-ups looked quite exotic to me when I first saw them, but it was a shivery day in March with a cold north wind blow- ing. Probably when we are more ac- customed to them, they will look as natural as rouge.
A becoming shade of one of the new powders — not too yellow, rather a rosy ochre — should be used. The lip- stick or cream rouge should be of an orange cast or a clear, dark red, de- pending on what you are wearing and which color is most becoming.
For a very temporary effect, use a liquid powder plus a good sun-tan in face powder.
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Summer Library Rates
Special rates for City Club mem- bers on their vacations have been made by the Sage Library of the Women's City Club.
Regular subscribers of the Sage Library (that is, persons who pay six dollars per year for membership in the Sage Circulating Library) who have books sent to their summer addresses upon payment of the postage involved and deposit of fifty cents, the latter amount to be returned at the expira- tion of the vacation period.
Non-subscribers will be permitted to have books which regularly are let at five cents per day at the summer rate of twenty-five cents per week, plus the postage involved and the de- posit of fifty cents, the latter amount returnable at the close of the vacation period.
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Bridge Party
Miss Emogene Hitchinson, chair- man of the Bridge Committee of the Women's City Club, announces that the Club will sponsor a bridge party in October, the date to be announced later. It will probably be given Hal- lowe'en week.
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929
The Philosopher^
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
And what are you that, missing you,
I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days
With weeping for your sake?
And what are you that, missing you.
As many days as crawl, I should be listening to the wind
And looking at the wall?
I know a man that's a braver man And twenty men as kind.
And what are you that you should be The one man in my mind?
Yet women's ways are witless ivays.
As any sage will tell — And what am I that I should love
So wisely and so well?
Su dderu L IghU^
I have been here before.
But when or how I cannot tell; I know the grass beyond the door.
That sweet, keen smell. The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
You have been mine before — How long ago I may not know;
But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so.
Some veil did fall — / knew it all of yore.
Has this been thus before?
And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our loves restore
In death's despite. And day and night yield one delight Once more? — Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Dana
When I was a little lad
With folly on my lips. Fain was I for journeying
All the seas in ships. But now across the southern swell
Every dawn I hear The little streams of Duna
Running clear.
When I was a young man.
Before my beard was gray. All to ships and sailormen
I gave my heart away. But I'm weary of the sea-wind,
I'm weary of the foam. And the little stars of Duna
Call me home.
— Marjorie Pickthall (Dodd, Mead& Co.)
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1929
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Hotel, Club and Restaurant Flat Work
Table Linen Furnished to Cafes
Table Cloths, Tops, Napkins,
Glass and Dish Towels,
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Coats and Gowns furnished
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Every community has certain stores that are known for the outstanding quality of the food they selL
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The Concrete Mixer
(Submitted to Women's City Club Magazine Poetry Contest) I'm the Concrete Mixer; Old, and ugly, and noisy; That's me. I'm all rusty, and I'm all covered with mud. But, believe me, I can work. I take your gravel. Your sand, and cement. Into my stomach. And mix it around. Then pour it forth. Your precious Concrete, For you to fashion into Buildings, and roads. And statues.
I'm crude, I know; But, I love buildings. And roads, and statues.
Hugh Brown, Palo Alto. / / f
French Pudding Pie
Mrs. R. L, McKnight submits the following recipe for French Pudding Pie:
Mix the following ingredients the same as for cake :
1 Cup Sugar y2 Cup Butter Yolk of 4 eggs
2 Tablespoons Flour ^ Cup Milk
Make a rich piecrust. Cover a deep pie tin and drop plum preserves over crust. Pour in the cake mixture and bake in a moderate oven. When done add the whites of the eggs beaten very light, sweetened and flavored with va- nilla. Return to oven and bake a light brown.
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Tamale Loaf
Yi can tomatoes. Yi can corn. 13/2 tablespoonfuls Grandma's pep- per. Y2 teaspoonful salt. 1 tablespoonful olive oil.
3 tablespoonfuls butter.
Yi cup ripe olives (cut ofif pits). Yi teaspoonful pepper. 1 onion chopped fine. Boil mixture 20 minutes. Add 2 well-beaten eggs, Y2 cup milk, 1 cup corn meal. Bake about 45 minutes. Serve with cream sauce. Add 1 pinch of soda to sauce, also tomato catsup and shrimps.
Sadie R. Cox.
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Thieves of Leisure
FOR every man who hoards his precious leisure, there are a thousand who would filch it from him, enriching themselves not, but making him poor indeed.
Last evening, my day's work over and our evening meal finished, I sat down to my desk to write a little ebul- lition that had long craved expression. I felt fine, my thoughts fell into or- derly array, I was in the mood. Then there came a shuffling of feet outside and a knocking on the door. My heart sank; I looked up at my wife in de- spairing irritation ; alas, it was not to be! I opened the door and in breezed my friend. Bill Jones. Heroically I crushed my rebellious spirit and greet- ed him with all the effusive hospital- ity that a dutiful husband showers on his mother-in-law.
As I board the street car in the morning, bound for the daily grind in the galleys, I look for an unoccupied seat where I can indulge for fifteen minutes in that rare phenomenon of thinking. But it is in vain ; a fellow townsman greets me, and for fear of not seeming friendly I sit down by him and philosophize on the weather.
One night there is a conference at the office, another I have promised to be present at the organization of a new club, again I must help my son with his geography lesson or sit pen in hand biting my finger nails while a female neighbor who has "run over" for a few minutes, discourses for half an hour on the best means of altering the pink crepe that she wore last sum- mer.
And so the margin of my life is ever encroached upon, until I can under- stand and forgive Schopenhauer for saying that "A man's sociability stands very nearly in inverse ratio to his in- tellectual value." I try to be tolerant of these thieves of leisure. Their trouble is that they are not sufficient unto themselves. Oppressed by bore- dom, they seek to kill time, not having learned as Henry Thoreau did, that "you cannot kill time without injuring eternity." I was one of those thieves myself until I discovered that the only lasting satisfaction in this world comes through the pleasures of the mind. I know that Nirvana is to be found, not in the society of men or angels, not by prayer and fasting, but in the peace- ful calm of secluded meditation.
Fred DeArmond.
El Paso, Texas.
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1929
The Doctors' and Nurses' Outfitting Company
Incorporated
announce the opening of their new store
1214 SUTTER STREET
where more spacious premises permit us to show you San Francisco Dresses and Uni- forms more comfortably than heretofore.
You will find here dresses, sport frocks, and uniforms to suit any purse. They are made in our own factory with white employees.
We appreciate your kindly interest and support.
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Many Countries oj the World Help Make Club's "League
Shop" Attractive By Elsie G. Johnston Prichard
HOLLAND sends exquisite glassware, lamps, vases, scent- bottles, glasses, to make the tables of the League Shop in the City Club more attractive, besides pottery and many articles in pewter.
Italy offers china of curious and unusual design, and colorful shopping bags, besides other things, such as rock-crystal trays, beautifully cut.
Jamaica contributes quaint shop- ping bags, round baskets for sewing, and waste-paper baskets woven of reeds and grasses.
Even the Philippines are not be- hind-hand. They send trays, and glass covers made of shell. Leather bags from Morocco are on our counters, alongside painted trays frorri France. France also sends us adorable things for smart vanity cases, besides lovely prints to decorate our walls.
Book-ends and boxes come from England, besides hunting prints, and the china in Wedgewood design from the Copeland factory.
Java offers sarongs and batiks, be- sides other odd things, and Germany adds pottery to the list of articles.
And last, but by no means least, our own country contributes articles with- out number, in endless variety. In especial are the many designs in lamps, which lend so much charm to our homes.
Then there are hand-woven blan- kets, handbags of intriguing pattern, and the fashionable bracelets of wood- en beads. For your summer table are odd little boxes of cocktail napkins, and luncheon cloths. You may even find dainty confections and nuts to tempt you.
So — no matter what you are look- ing for — come in to our League Shop, and we can surely please the most exacting and fastidious taste, y / /
Gijt by Miss Coleman Miss Persis Coleman has presented to the Women's City Club a window seat to be placed under the Echo Win- dow on the Fourth Floor in the main corridor, opposite a similar seat under the Franc Hammon Memorial Win- dow. The distinctive pieces of fur- niture make a charming balance for the corridor. / / /
Yellow Taxi Service The Yellow Taxi Service is now the official taxi service of the Women's City Club and a call box is placed in the Club lobby for the convenience of members.
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BUSINESS and PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY of CLUB MEMBERS
Bridge
MRS. FITZHUGH
Eminent Bridge Authority
CONTRACT and AUCTION taught scientifically
Studio: i8oi GOUGH STREET Telephone OR dway a866
Employment Agency
Mrs. LUCIA RAYMOND STEEDEL
Specializing in personal selection of office iLOrkers
708 CROCKER BUILDING
620 Market Street
DO uffias 4121
Rest Home
GEORGINA F. McLENNAN
The Little Rest Home — -a private house featuring comiort, good food and special diets. Near the Ocean and Golden Gate Park. Reasonable rates.
1279-44th Avenue Telephone MO ntrose 1645
School
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SrJtooI of Calculating
Comptorieter: Day and Evenins CI
Individual IiuCructioii
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1929
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The Silent Tree
By Marjorie Faris
Young Cousin of Miss Henrietta Moffat, Mrs. Alfred McLaugh- lin and Mrs. Arthur Sharp of the Women's City Club
Oh! tree with arms upheld to God And roots entwined beneath the sod. The tree which homes the birds and
bees And lifts its head o'er other trees They say you cannot speak.
Why then do brooks confide in you?
And rays of sun your leaves sift through?
And the stars whisper their soft good- night
When the warm sun is out of sight?
And yet they say you cannot speak.
At times your boughs nod toward the
earth As if to speak in words of worth And tell of sights that you have seen. And whisper what the small birds
mean; But they say you cannot speak.
The little child who plays below Your limbs, Tm sure that he would
know The message that you could tell Of places where the fireflies dwell; Still they say you cannot speak.
I'm sure that you could speak some
day If only men would say you may. And tell us things that we don't know Of days gone by and years that grow; I'm sure that you can speak.
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Tennis
There has been a request that the City Club organize a tennis group. Members who are interested in tennis may leave their names, addresses and telephone numbers at the Information Desk in the lobby or write to the Executive Secretary. / / /
Do You Know? —
That "night kits" are provided to City Club members?
Acting upon a suggestion recently left by a member in our Suggestion Box at the Information Desk in the main corridor, a night kit has been assembled and may be secured at the check room on the fourth floor. Mem- bers who desire to stay at the Club, but are not prepared, will find it a convenience to secure a suit of paja- mas, tooth brush and other accessories for a small charge.
That the Sunday Evening Concerts
will be resumed on September 22 ?
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Responsibility of Hostess -ship
A NUMBER of social affairs are being planned for the month • of July in the Women's City Club. The visiting conductors, in San Francisco from Europe and elsewhere for the summer series of Symphony Concerts, will be entertained as they arrive. Since their time is given over to rehearsals with the orchestra and the City Club Hospitality Committee must conform with their convenience with regard to dates, it is readily seen that the affairs cannot be scheduled many days in advance. Therefore it is impossible to give dates in this issue of the City Club Magazine. Mem- bers, therefore, are asked to watch the bulletin board in the main corridor and in the elevators.
These affairs are arranged by the Hospitality Committee, but all mem- bers of the City Club are welcome to attend. In fact, they are urged to con- sider that they have a certain respon- sibility of hostess-ship and their at- tendance taken as co-operation in that degree. It is complimentary to out-of- town visitors to have good attendance at the affairs arranged in their honor. / / *•
Fresh Fruit Altures With the fruit season now at its peak, the City Club cafeteria is mak- ing a specialty of fresh fruit pies, pud- dings and jellies
California fruits in season are prob- ably the most alluring thing in the food line and the steward is making the most of that fact by using them in profusion.
The mid-summer has also brought a number of new salads blooming in all of their delicious, crisp color on the cafeteria tables. Cold meats and aspic are there, too, to tempt the jaded appetite.
The chef has prepared a special cafeteria luncheon for fifty cents that promises to be extremely popular for summer. It consists of
Poached Eggs Florentine
Buttered Beets
Rolls and Butter
Choice of
Pie, Pudding or Ice Cream
Tea, Coffee, Milk
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Sponsorship of New\JIembers Candidates for membership in the Women's Cit>' Club must be spon- sored by two members who undertake to assume full responsibility for their candidate. Since the sponsors are ex- pected to take this responsibility, it is suggested that they do not underwrite applications without due consideration.
WoMEM^ City Club
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Published^J^ionthly by the Women's City Club, /^6^ Post Street, San Francisco
Education ^ubibek
Wgust ' 1929
Subscription $1.00 a year ' 15 cents a copy
Volume III ' No. 7
Centuries of refinements In furniture design^ are evidenced Iru the home furnishings displayed Inj the W. & J . Sloane stores. A visit will afford many Ideas forthe economical adornments ofyout^home.
Oriental and Domestic Rugs
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JUNIOR UNIT R. O. T. C.
Member of the Association of Military Colleges & Schools of the United States
"The West Point of the West"
"CLASS M" rating of War Department ; fully accredited ; preparatory to college, West Point and Annapolis. Separate lower school for young boys. Junior College will be offered for session 1929-30. Summer sessions. Located on bay and ocean. Land and w.iter sports all year. Christian influences. Send for catalog.
COL. THOS. A. DAVIS, President
Box C M, Pacific Beach Station San Diego, California
NOTICE: Col. Davis will be at Hotel Whit- comb Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, August 12-13-14, to meet interested parents.
PACIFIC COAST MILITARY ACADEMY
A private boarding school for boys between
S and 14 years of age.
Summer Session starts June 16.
Fall Term starts September 10.
For information write
MAJOR ROYAL W. PARK
Box611-W Menlo Park, Calif.
PALO ALTO MILITARY ACADEMY
A School for Young Boys
Noted for thoroughness ; and for the
sportsmanship, manliness, and
manners of its pupils.
COL. RICHARD P. KELLY, Sup't Box 805-B, Palo Alto, Calif.
S'Year High School Course admita to college. Credits valid in high acbool.
Orammar Courae,
accredited, savet half time.
DREW
SCHOOL
Private Leasona, any hour. Night, Day. Both lexei. Annapolia, Weat Point, College Board tutoring. Secretarial' Academic two-year courK, entitles to High School Diploma. Civil Service Coaching — all linea.
S901 California St.
Phone WE»t 7o«9
'Ghe DAMON SCHOOL
( Successor to the Potter School )
ji Day School for Boys
\ ACCREDITED 1
Primary, Grammar and High School Departments . . . featur- ing small classes and individual instruction. Prepares for all Eastern and Western colleges.
I. R. DAMON, A. M. (Harvard)
Headmaster 1901 Jackson St. Tel. OR dway 8632
BOYS' and GIRLS' SCHOOLS
The Airy Mountain School
ANNETTE HASKELL FLAGG, Directed
Boarding
and Day
Pupils
3 to I a years
FALL
term opens Sept. 3rd
420 Molino Avenue
Mill Valley
Peninsula School
0/ Creative Education
An elementary day school for boys and girls where learning is interpreted as an active process. Music, art, shop, dancing are given a place in the regular curricu- lum. The needs of the individual child are studied.
A limited number of boarding pupils will
be cared for by the faculty in
their own homes.
Josephine W. Duveneck, Director
MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA
'^he '^ohin School
AN ACCREDITED DAY SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Pre-Primary through Junior High Grades
136 Eighteenth Avenue
San Francisco . . Calif.
Fall Term begins
Tuesday, September S, 1929
Telephones:
EX'ergreen 8434 EVergreen 1112
WILLIAMS INSTITUTE
Junior College Course leading to Junior
Standing in College of Letters and
Sciences at University of
California.
High School — Accredited
to col leges and
universities.
Individual attention and small group
teaching. High standards. Athletics and
other student activities.
Arlington Avenue, Berkeley AShberry 1994
<She PRESIDIO Open-Air School
Marion E. Turner, Principal
Elementary education for girls and boys from kindergarten to high school
Healthful Thorough Progressive Hot Lunches Served
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The ALICE B. CANFIELD SCHOOL
[ESTABLISHED 1925]
FIFTH YEAR OPENS September 9, 1929
Educational Aim: To see the whole child ; to practice the newer meanings of disci- pline; to help parents perceive the changing education.
The Method: Special guidance procedures.
Morning: Nine to twelve o'clock, for little children three to eight years of age. Nursery school and primary grades.
Afternoon: One to six o'clock on school days, and nine to twelve o'clock on Satur- days. For older children.
Music: Fundamental training for piano.
Manual Arts — French.
Mrs. Alice B. Canfield, Director
2653 Steiner Street, between Pacific Avenue and Broadway, San Francisco
Telephone Fillmore 7625
CASTILLEJA SCHOOL for Girls
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA
HOME AND DAY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. Prepares for Stanford, University of California, Mills, and Eastern Colleges; particular attention given to College Entrance Board Examinations. Grammar, Primary, and Pre-primary Departments.
Ten buildings; Residence for seventy-five boarding pupils; Two cottages for younger girls ; Recitation Hall, 24 rooms ; New Gymnasium and Audi- torium ; Chapel with Pipe Organ ; Household Arts Bungalow ; Teachers' Dormitory ; special building for Art and Music studios and practice rooms ; Dramatic Workshop.
Beautiful gardens. Open-air swimming pool. Six-acre wooded tract m Santa Cruz Mountains, on La Honda Creek, for picnics and week-end camping.
OPENING OF FALL TERM SEPTEMBER 16, 1929
For illustrated book of information address the Principal, MARY I. LOCKEY, A. B.
The Sarah Dix Hamlin School
Sixty-sixth year
Boarding and Day School for Girls of all ages.
Pre-primary school giving special instruction
in French. College preparatory.
Fall Term Opens September loth
A booklet of information will be furnished upon request.
Mrs. Edw^ard B. Stan wood, B. L.
Principal
ai20 Broadway Phone WE st aaii
Miss MARKER'S SCHOOL
PALO ALTO CALIFORNIA
Upper School — College Preparatory and Special Courses in Music, Art, and Secretarial Training.
Lower School — Individual Instruction. A separate residence building for girls from S to 14 years.
Open Air Swimming Pool Outdoor life all the year round
Catalog upon request
The
Merriman Schcx)l
IV ell-halanced Program for Girls
fV/io fVish to Accomplish "fVort/i-
iL-hile Things"
Accredited University
Preparatory Courses
Kindergarten and
Elementary Departments
Delightful Residence Hall
School Year Opens Tuesday, August 27th
MiRA C. Merriman, Ida Body Principals
597 Eldorado Avenue Oakland, California
T?ie 'Margaret Bentley School
[Accredited]
LUCY L. SOULE, Principal
High School, Internaediate and
Primary Grades
Home department limited
2722 Benvcnue Avenue, Berkeley, Calif.
Telephone Thornwall 3820
'^OUTDOOR school'^ for Young Children
Mrs. Stanley Rypins, Director
Nursery School . . . Kindergarten
First Grade
1900 JACKSON STREET
San Francisco, California OR dway 2473
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for Children
Sun-Baths, Rest, Diet, Hygiene,
Corrective Exercises, Group
Psychology
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Children thrive imder regular routine, combined with normal home atmosphere.
Admission only on recommendation of personal physician. No tuberculosis, contagious, or mental cases taken. Ac- commodations for thirty children.
Dr. David Lacey Hibbs Mrs. David Lacey Hibbs
Los Gatos, California
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CALIFORNIA SCHOOL o/ FINE ARTS
Affiliated with the University of California
CHESTNUT AND JONES STS. SAN FRANCISCO
Professional and Teachers' Courses of Study. Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Mural Decoration, Land- scape Painting, Etching, Pen and Ink Rendering, etc.
Interesting and practical courses in Design and Color Technique, Com- mercial Art and Costume Design.
Saturday classes for Children and Adults
LEE F. RANDOLPH, Director
PROSPECTUS UPON" APPLICATION
Telephone: GR aystone 2500
School Year Opens August Nineteenth
Day and Tv^igKt Schools
Phone KE amy 6544
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THE CEDARS
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A School in a natural environment of
distinctive beauty " where children
develop latent talents.
Address
THE CEDARS
Ross, Marin County, CaWfomia
SCHOOL OF GARDENING
THe CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF GARDENING FOR WOMEN
offers a two-years' course in practical gardening
to women who wish to take up gardening as a
profession or to equip themselves for making and
working their home gardens. Communicate with
MISS JUDITH WALROND-SKINNER
R. F. D. Route I, Box 173
Hayward, Calif.
SECRETARIAL SCHOOLS
IheA-to-Zed School
HIGH SCHOOL & Junior college
FALL Term Opens August 19th
Classes limited to twelve students Individual Instruction No competitive athletics No social activities
'Tie A*»-Zcd Hl^h School Is accredited to California .Stanford. Brown. Cornell Nor thwesiem, Michigan. Dartmouth and other Universities and Colleges."
3037 TELEGRAPH AVE.
CORNER of WEBSTER ST.
BERKELEY
CALIFORNIA..
California Secretarial School
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Banjimin F. Pricat frtmdtiU
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InJiyUhuU Inttr»€ti»n
for Individual
RUSS BUILDING - - SAN FRANCHSCO
MacALEER SCHOOL For Private Secretaries
Each student receives individual instruction.
A booklet of information will be
furnished upon request.
Mary Genevieve MacAleer, Principal
68 Post Street Telephone DAvenport 6473
CAUrORNIA SCHQDL1
Arts ""Crafts
STATE ACCREDITtD
Art as a Vocation ... as a preparation for life work in the commercial art professions, the fine arts, and art teaching ... complete three- and four-year courses.
Art as an Avocation ... as a
pleasurable diversion . . . spe- cial part-time work in draw- ing, painting, design, and the crafts (pottery, loom weav- ing, basketry, batik, and tied- and-dyed).
Fall Term Opens August 5th
Evening and Saturday Classes August 7 and 10
Write F. H. MEYER, Director, for circular
Broadway at College Avenue Oakland
Registration NOW!
Opening August i6
LuciEN Labaudt
Private ichool off Costume Design
S2S l»ow«»ll Ntreet
COACHING SCHOOL
MISS OWEN'S
School for Private Instruction
Day and Evening
Prepares for University, West Point,
Annapolis, Flying Cadets and
Commissioned Officers' Examinations
112 LYON STREET HE mlock 9214
LANGUAGE SCHOOLS
LE DOUX SCHOOL OF FRENCH
AXXOUN'CES THE OPENING OF THEIR NEW STUDIOS AT
545 Sutter Street
Formerly at 133 Geary Street GArfieid 3962
SCHOOL OF
FRENCH and SPANISH
PROFESSOR A. TOURNIER
133 Geary St., San Francisco. KE amy 4879
and 2415 Fulton St., Berkeley. AShberry 4210
Private Lessons — Special Classes (Conversation)
$3 a Month. Coaching: High School and
College — Courses by Correspondence
Students received at any time
Enrollment now open Standard Methods — No "bluff"
Xo misrepresentation
NURSING SCHOOL
MOUNT ZION HOSPITAL ^SKS^^ng"^
IN CALIFORNIA
OfTers to High School graduates or equiva- lent 28 months' course in an accredited School of Nursing. New nurses' home. Indi- vidual bedrooms, large living room, laborato- ries and recreation rooms. Located in the heart of the city. Non-sectarian. University of California scholarship. Classes admitted Feb., June and Oct. illustrated booklet on request. Address Superintendent of Nurses,
Mount Zion Hospital, 2200 Post Street, San Francisco, California.
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB CALENDAR
AUGUST I-AUGUST 31, 1929
CURRENT EVENTS
Temporarily discontinued. Members ane requested to watch bulletin board for announce- ment of date talks will be resumed. TALKS ON APPRECIATION OF ART
Will be resumed on Monday, August 5. Card room. 12 Noon. Mrs. Charles E.Curry, Leader. LEAGUE BRIDGE
Every Tuesday, 2 o'clock in Board Room. Every Tuesday, 7:30 o'clock in the Assembly Room. THURSDAY EVENING PROGRAMS
Every Thursday evening, 8 o'clock. Auditorium. Mrs. A. P. Black, Chairman. SUNDAY EVENING CONCERTS
Discontinued until September 22. Thereafter second Sunday evening of each month at 8:30 o'clock. Mrs. Horatio F. Stoll, Chairman of Music Committee.
Thursday, August 1 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker : Mr. Philip W.Buck, Prof. Political
Science, Mills College Subject : Present Day Politics in Great Britain Wednesday, August 7 — Book Review Dinner National De- fenders'Room 6:00 P.M.
Thursday, August 8 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Dr. Lovell Langstroth Subject: The White Man's Diet and the VC'hite Man's Diseases
Thursday, August 15 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Mr. Cavendish Moxon, Consulting
Psychologist Subject: The New Psychology of the Will Inertia and the Way Out Friday, August 16 — Discussion of Articles in Current Magazines Board Room 2:00 P. M.
Mrs. Alden Ames, Chairman
Thursday, August 22 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Edna Baxter Lawson Subject: Drama in the Orient (in Costume) (Miss Lawson has traveled extensively in the Orient) Monday, August 26 — Social Meeting of Members interested in American Room 7:30 P.M. Choral Section (Preliminary to first meet- ing of the class on Monday evening, Sep- tember 2.) Mrs. Jessie Wilson Taylor, Director
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women's city CI.UB magazine for AUGUST . I929
Women's City Club Magazine
Published Monthly at 465 Post Street
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Entered as second-class matter April 14, 1928, at the Post 0£Bce at San Francisco, California, under the act of March 3, 1879.
SAN FRANCISCO
Vol. Ill
AUGUST - 1929
No. 7
SONTENTS
Club Calendar 6
Frontispiece 8
Local Self-Government in Education .... 9 By Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur
A Reg'lar Guy 10
By Josephine W. Duveneck
The Opening Door 11
By Emilie Parrott Williams
Education by Travel 12
By Perle M. Janney
San Francisco and the Fine Arts 13
By .Spencer Macky
San Francisco Scenes 14
Old Chinatown of San Francisco 15
By Mrs. Richard M. I.yman
The Adventure 16
By Beatrice Judd Ryan
At the Court of St. James 16
Editorial 17
Two Gracious Lives 17
By Nellie Olmsted Lincoln
Bevond the City Limits 18
By Edith Walker Maddux
What is Progressive Education? 20
By Marion E. Turner Advertisers' Exhibit and Fashion Show ... 22
New Books in City Club Library 23
Three Poems 24
By .Marie de Laveaga Welch
Landing at Lima 19
Bv Beatrice Stoddard
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President Miss Marion W. Leale
First Vice-President Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper
Second Vice-President Mrs. Paul Shoup
Third Vice-President Miss Mabel Pierce
Recording Secretary Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr.
Corresponding Secretary.. Mrs. W. F. Booth, Jr.
Treasurer Mrs. S. G. Chap.man
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WOMEN^S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE
VOLUME III
SAN FRANCISCO '' AUGUST »' I929
NUMBER 7
Local Self- Government In Education
Bv Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur
President Stanford University
Secretary of the Interior, President Hoover's Cabinet
The National Education Association at its recent convention in Atlanta adopted a resolution in favor of the establishment of a Department of Education, to be headed by a secretary of education with a seat in the cabinet. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur in the following article states his views in the widely discussed controversy of state versus federal control of education.
I
HAVE often wished that I might have had the pleas- ure of sitting in at the discussions when the basic principles underlying the organization of the United States of America were being thought out loud by men like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. It seems to me that the wisest and shrewdest thing that was done was to encourage universal public education as the basis upon which citizenship should rest. The schoolhouse and the church have been the earliest community enterprises throughout the history of our gradual conquest of a great continent. They came just as soon as sustenance and de- fense had been mastered. In themselves, they were most significant because they brought local self-government and self-control into play.
"There has been a unique distribution of the taxing power so that the majority of the expenditures for taxation have been raised and spent in the local districts and only a modest percentage outside of those for war and its after effects has come from the central government in Washing- ton. This, together with the organization of the State governments, has permitted of a wide range of develop- ment in the public schools. Fortunately, too, there were no national universities and the State universities followed a prolonged period of privately operated and later pri- vately endowed institutions of higher learning. When the State universities appeared they were under the constant stimulation of private and independent institutions of equal rank. This kept the hand of centralized government largely off of the school teacher and the school room. Of course, there have been marked inadequacies in districts without a proper sense of self-government, without natural organizing power, and without financial strength. Some of those who have looked over our educational systein have noticed only these dark spots and have thought that a national mechanism should be devised that would be nation-wide in scope and would bring these weaker or dark spots at least up to the average level of the country. Cor- rection of abuses is a poor method of developing proper administration. It seems to me that there is a distinct menace in the centralization in the national government of any large educational scheme with extensive financial re- sources available. Abnormal power to mould and stand-
ardize and crystallize education, which would go with the dollars, would be more damaging to local government, local aspiration and self-respect, and to State government and State self-respect, than any assistance that might come from the funds.
"We can not rise higher than our source. That source in government with us is local. The family and the local community must be the places where citizenship is built and where the fiber of the nation is strengthened and its forces recruited. Too much help from afar is harmful to the initiative and self-reliance requisite for character in a community.
"The place of the national government is not that of supplying funds in large amounts for carrying on the administrative functions of education in the communities, but to develop methods, ideals and procedures, and to pre- sent them, to be taken on their merits. The national gov- ernment, too, can give widespread information on proced- ures, can report on what is actually going on in different parts of the country and in the world, and can unify to some extent the objects of those in the field of education insofar as unification is desirable. There is a distinct place for this sort of thing in the administrative side of the national government, but it should not be recognized as an administrative position with large funds at its disposal. A Department of Education similar to the other depart- ments of the government is not required. An adequate position for education within a department and with suffi- cient financial support for its research, survey and other work is all that is needed.
"Great gains are possible in our whole educational scheme through national leadership provided in this way. Education is preparation for the future and there must be constant change to keep in step with the advances made. Our conceptions regarding the mental make-up of children are shifting and the requirements of life are changing with a civilization which is being revamped by the prac- tical applications of science and invention. The object of those of us who seek the greatest possible advantages for all from education can, it seeins to me, be accomplished without disturbing the initiative and responsibility of local and State units of government."
WOMEN S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for AUGUST
1929
'A Regular Guy''
By Josephine W. Duveneck
ROGER is nine. He has delicate pink cheeks and light blue eyes with long lashes curving up at the " ends. He cries when he has to go to school and so great is his distress over the ordeal that he sometimes vomits just as he should be leaving the house in the morn- ing. Then he is allowed to stay at home that day.
His mother, as a last resort, takes him with her to visit a progressive school. Although she does not approve of "letting children do as they please," yet she has heard that the children at this particular school prefer school-time to vacation. She is tired of screwing Roger's courage up five days in the week and struggling with him through night- mares almost every night. Life would certainly be much easier if Roger could enjoy school ! It might be almost as important as having him able to do fifteen problems in five and a half minutes.
He clings tightly to his mother's skirts during this visit, but his eyes grow very big and round and the pink in his cheeks deepens. He is persuaded to work in clay, but soon abandons it because it is "too dirty." He is distressed over a smooch of clay on his blue sweater. But he likes the teachers. "They smile at you instead of crabbin'."
With many misgivings, the mother makes arrangements for Roger to go to the new school. The first morning he shadows his teacher. Lunch is an ordeal and recess a noisy horror. Music is peculiar ; even the boys sing and take part in folk dancing. He has always liked music and longed to move with his whole body in rhythmic motion, but he has always heard that dancing is for girls and that boys don't do it. Here it seems to be different. They can play foot- ball too, because he saw them at recess. So they aren't sissies either. A funny kind of school ! The shop and art rooms are too messy; he doesn't care to work there!
One day his group piles into automobiles and goes twelve miles into the country to "The Ranch." A new calf has just arrived ; the teacher tells them how it came to be born. Surely this is a good thing to know ! His mother doesn't answer questions as well as his teacher. He can see now that he came into the world just the way the calf did. It is important for a boy to know these things. It has been bothering him for a long time. The boys at the other school talked about it in whispers in the bicycle room, but they certainly had things twisted. That is a great weight off his mind.
Gradually Roger gets more self-confidence and does not stick to his teacher more than half the time. He likes to go round to other group rooms and sometimes if the teacher is alone, and happens to look up and say, "Hello, Roger," he goes in to chat.
Then one day he is suddenly fired with the desire to make as much noise as he possibly can. He surprises him- self and everybody else by the commotion he manages to stir up in the upper hall. It is a glorious feeling; he didn't know he could make so much noise! Nobody pays any attention to him. That is disappointing, so he tries other
methods. He finds he is pretty good at picking quarrels; that he can punch the biggest boy in the group ; that he can pinch ; he even learns to swear. At first it is a very gentle little "damn," whispered under his breath, but after a little practice it develops into a lusty oath, uttered with great frequency on the slightest provocation. As one of his schoolmates observes, "Gee whiz! You've turned into a tough egg!"
At this juncture his father becomes alarmed and sends the mother to school to inquire if this is "progressive edu- cation." If so, the progress is too rapid.
The director meets the mother in the office, sympathizes with her in regard to the rowdiness and profane language, but she then suggests that the mother come with her to see what Roger is doing at that moment. They find him in the shop, sawing away at a board with all his might and singing lustily. He sees her. "Hello, Mother," he says in a casual tone, but does not stop working. She turns away with tears in her eyes.
"Well, I don't know what to think! He used to rush to me whenever I appeared. But he's so happy all the time. He sleeps and eats and has gained four pounds since he started coming here. But he never was rude or profane before."
"Wait awhile," advises the director. "He's very new at freedom. This phase won't last."
Three months later several children appear with round red marks on their foreheads. Several teachers also. On inquiry we learn it is the badge of the "anti-swearing society."
"Who started the society?"
"Oh, Roger did. He says we kids in our group swear too much. It's bad for the little kids. If anybody swears we have the right to paddle them."
"And the red mark?"
"Yes, that's mercurochrome. We got it from Mrs. Leland's first-aid box. It's a nice color, and shows who's in the society. All the boys in our group have joined, even Peter. It's a keen idea." (Peter being the source of most of the oaths.)
Roger can be seen at school any day wearing overalls. He works in shop and in clay and is turning out to be a promising craftsman. He is one of the leaders among the younger children, as he showed by his handling of the swearing problem in his group. His suggestions are usually adopted by the other children. His manners at home are reported as "coming back." When he takes the Stanford Achievement Test at the end of the year he shows two years' growth in all school subjects.
Martin sums it all up when he says: "Gee, you're a funny one ! First you were a scared baby all the time, then you used to fight like heck all the time. But now you seem to be a reg'lar guy. How'd you do it?"
// may have been near Portland town.
Or yet off Mazatlan, Or where the flooded Rhine rolls down
That I became a man.
Awakening
By John Brayton
Perhaps when desert midday came.
Or depth of Orient niffht. Or when the Southern Cross took flame
I found that inward sight.
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But when or where I made the turn I know this and can prove.
Long years go by before lue learn To live deprived of love.
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The Opening Door
By Emilie Parrott Williams
{Mrs. William fVilberforce JVilUarns)
President of the Sacred Heart Alumnae of California
IN the autumn of 1930 the San Francisco College for Women on Lone Mountain will be opened.
The new college will be under the direction of the Religious of the Sa- cred Heart, a society founded shortly after the French Revolution by the famous Madeleine Sophie Barat.
Both Stanford University and the University of California have given assurance of their co-operation in the new project and eminent members of the faculties of both institutions have accepted membership on the College's advisory board. The college has re- ceived the endorsement of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
The San Francisco College for Women will offer complete courses in all departments leading to the bache- lor's degree. Its standard of studies will be of the highest and, although maintained under the direction of a
Catholic Order, its doors will be open to all with sufficient credentials.
The curriculum will include reli- gion, philosophy, languages, history, mathematics, education, science and the fine arts. There will be well- equipped laboratories for the physical and biological sciences.
Already the College boasts a re- markable library of 35,000 volumes, valued at $200,000, the gift of Right Reverend Monsignor Joseph M. Gleason. The books, in many lan- guages, are especially rich in history.
Within a few months the building of the San Francisco College for Women will be begun. Situated on the crest of historic Lone Mountain, it will occupy a position at once com- manding and beneficent. The famous cross, which for years has served as a guide to pilots, will be raised two hun- dred feet, and beside it will stand a figure of St. Francis of Assisi.
Campanile, University of California
[Courtesy San Francisco Chamber of Commerce]
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University Women Use City Club
By Mrs. Herbert W. Whitworth
President American Association of
University fVomen, San Francisco
Bay Branch
THE American Association of University Women, San Fran- cisco Bay Branch, has its head- quarters in the building of the Wom- en's City Club of San Francisco and there is an interlocking membership which has made for happy relations between the two organizations.
The biggest piece of work ahead of the San Francisco Bay Branch of the Association is the completion of its quota of the million-dollar fellowship drive, of which the California obligation is $40,000. This amount, naturally, is partly the obligation of Southern California. The national drive was launched in San Francisco last No- vember with the visit here of Miss Emma Gunther, field secretary. In April a further impetus was given the drive by the visit of Dr. Ellen Gle- ditsch, University of Oslo, Norway, president of the International Federa- tion of University Women. The local branch now has $2,545.50 of its quota. Mrs. H. N. Clift, of San Francisco, is chairman of the Fellowship Drive for San Francisco Branch.
The Baby Hygiene Committee, Miss Edith Fullerton. chairman, maintains a health center and in the last year has added two clinics to its equipment.
The most far-reaching of the work charted by the Association is its Ma- ternal Health Clinic and another phase of educational work which con- forms to the national program is that of parental education.
The International Relations Com- mittee, of which Miss Emilie Block of Mills College is chairman, recently made a survey of the presence in Cali- fornia of certain nationalities and races, dealing especially with indus- trial and educational aspects.
When Dr. Gleditsch was here in April, having come to the United States to attend the national conven- tion of University Women in New Orleans, she was a guest at the Women's City Club and expressed herself in glowing terms as delighted with the spirit animating the club. She dwelt especially upon the volunteer service phase of the club's activities and said that it was a constant envoy of international good will, for visitors from all nations could not but be im- pressed with the spirit of helpfulness manifested.
women's city club magazine for AUGUST . 1929
Education by Travel
H
OME-KEEPING youths have ever homely wits" — thus wrote Shakespeare more than three hundred years ago, and today travel is regarded as a com- pleting touch to an education. The love of travel comes from a longing for that broader education, which only personal study of races, civilizations and religions can bestow. Stoddard, who spent the greater part of his life in traveling, said, "To know one's country is the first duty of every man — to know all countries is to have at- tained the highest state of intellectual development." One can receive the full joy and benefit of art, history and literature only by visiting the ancient shrines of art, the homes and sepul- chres of heroes and the arenas of hero- ic deeds.
In traveling one comes face to face with historical facts. We see the place where Burns was born, the house in which Shakespeare lived, the Colise- um, where gladiators and wild beasts fought for their lives. We behold Egypt- where Cleopatra lured kings to death, and Bethlehem, the birth- place of our Saviour. And we do not see them from the same viewpoint as we did when we studied our history. Then we saw them through the eyes of the author, but now we behold them with our own — now we think of them as existing in reality and not merely as places which existed only in story-books. Perhaps the idea we had heretofore entertained regarding these historical facts was wholly wrong. If this has been the case, then nothing can so easily correct this false idea as seeing the places in question, for travel makes us come into contact with his- tory first-hand and to feel the reality of it.
By Perle M. Janney
In reading a book, how much more interesting it is if we have visited the places mentioned in the story and are familiar with the scenes. For exam- ple, let us take Hawthorne's "Marble Faun." One can scarcely imagine the beautiful scene of this story unless he has previously visited Italy. In travel- ing through the various countries a hundred different works of art, poet- ry, history and fiction are called to mind and there is an immediate desire to read the books associated with the surrounding scenes. If we are in Flor- ence, we instinctively wish to read George Eliot's "Romola," or Grim's "Life of Michael Angelo." If in Rome, the amount of historical, poet- ical and classic literature suggested by the scene is too great to be enumer- ated. Seeing Scott's delightful home at Abbottsford awakens a desire to read the "Lady of the Lake" and other works by this same writer. And so he who looks aright while traveling through dififerent countries will easily learn to appreciate the world's best literature, and on returning home he may say, as did Monte Cristo, when emerging from his dungeon, "The world is mine."
Travel is also of great value in the development of art. For, since it puts one in position to study the different peoples and their modes of living, the mind of the art student becomes in- spired to execute some new work of art. What could be of more aid to an artist than a visit to Greece, the home of true art, or to the galleries of Ant- werp, Paris, Berlin or Rome? It is said of an artist of some note, now living in Italy, that he never knew he possessed any talent for art, whatever, until, while traveling through France, he visited the Louvre, in Paris, and
while there he was so impressed by one of the paintings that he at once went about to express his own latent talent, and in the past few years he has met with no little success in Rome. And so, again, we say, "To travel is to live — to remain in one place continu- ally is to stagnate and die."
Travel is essential to education, not only along artistic lines, but also from a business viewpoint, which is of course the practical and therefore, some would say, the more important. What could be more broadening than coming in contact with new and dif- ferent peoples of the world and ac- quainting oneself with their ways and customs ?
It is possible, of course, to travel ex- tensively and still be no further devel- oped thereby. We may be like the stick in the story which Sidney Smith relates. "That stick," said he, as he showed a friend a very valuable walk- ing cane, "has been around the world." "Still," said the friend, ex- amining it closely, "it is only a stick after all." And so may we be, al- though we have treveled around the world, we may still be "sticks after all," for the benefit of travel comes not from the distance traversed nor from the "scenes reflected upon the retina," but from the intellectual mo- tives thus awakened and the amount of thought and reading which result. Just as a man is nourished, not by the amount of food which he consumes, but by that which he assimilates and makes his own. So when Italy, Egypt, Greece, India and other lands have become permanent and intelligible possessions of our minds, then and only then have we received the full benefits of travel, which are growth, expan- sion and broader experience.
Distinguished Author Coining in October to the
Women's City Club
The Women's City Club is proud to announce a lecture to be given October 21 by Abbe Dimnet, the dis- tinguished French scholar and author whose "Art of Thinking" has been a record-making "best-seller" not only in this country but also in England. L'Abbe Dimnet will speak on the sub- ject of an "ideal view of a perfect edu- cation," and brings to such a discus-
sion an intimate knowledge of meth- ods and trends in at least three coun- tries: his native land, France; his neighbor, England ; and his favorite friend, the United States. A master of the English language, he has also made himself the greatest living au- thority on the Bronte family, and his books are equally masterly whether in French or in English. With a charm-
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ing personality, a genial humor and and intellectual grasp unsurpassed by any modern lecturer, he will present a very significant discussion of a sub- ject peculiarly timely in view of the turgid stirring of the depths and shal- lows of so-called "Adult Education." The tickets for the lecture will go on sale within the next few weeks and will be available to the public.
women's city club magazine for AUGUST . 1929
San Francisco and the Fine Arts
THE cultural history of North- ern California could not be written without giving very considerable recognition to the work of the San Francisco Art Association, whose activities date back to the be- ginnings of the civic consciousness of the city whose name it bears.
The Art Association was founded originally and continues as a self gov- erning, non-profit making organiza- tion devoted exclusively to the promo- tion of the fine arts. Its charter was granted on a non-political and non- partisan basis ; its membership is en- tirely democratic and open to all those who believe that the love and promo- tion of art have a very important and intimate place in every community, and who would therefore be identified with those who are doing what they can in a systematic and sympathetic way for its development.
The work of the Art Association has been almost altogether self sustain- ing and without any endowment or State aid, except for the munificent bequest of the late Edward Searles, whereby the Art Association owns — free of any debt or encumbrance — the beautiful grounds and recently con- structed buildings on Russian Hill. The running expenses have always been met by membership dues and tuition fees from students of its school. Many thousands of citizens during the history of the Association have, there- fore, contributed in their "day and generation" to the cultural develop- ment of their community by means of their contributions.
The San Francisco Art Association, during the fifty-seven years of its ex- istence, has been the center of many social functions and will no doubt con- tinue so to be, yet the principal activ- ities have always been and will con- tinue to be of an educational nature. Although the Association has always placed great emphasis on the value of art lectures and public exhibitions in displaying annually the works of Western artists, and in maintaining exhibition galleries, such as the Wal- ter collection, and until recently the maintenance* of the galleries of the Palace of Fine Arts, yet however questionable the permanent value of these may be, there has been no hesi- tation in believing that the enduring principal work of the Art Association is expressed in the long sustained suc- cess of its art school — the California School of Fine Arts.
By Spencer Macky President, California School of Fine Arts
It is a well known fact that a keener appreciation of art comes to everyone through the more intimate knowledge which can only come through actual personal effort in working in some chosen medium, such as drawing, painting, or modeling. The experience of the thousands of students who have come in contact with the influence and the atmosphere of this school is never wasted, even if only a few finally suc- ceed in reaching the pinnacles of suc- cess as professional artists. Such a con- tact we believe is truly educational in the best and deepest sense, broadening the horizon and greatly increasing the capacity to understand the underlying rhythms of life, which accompany its external significance.
Thus the influence of the work of this school extends far beyond, reach- ing in turn the lives of the many who in later years come in contact with our students as they enter into life.
The work of the school, however, is strictly governed by professional necessity. It is not a school of ama- teurs, except in the truest sense, that the chiefest requirement for entrance is a deep sincerity and love of art and an ability to profit from the advan- tages offered.
The physical advantages of our new buildings, near the Latin quarter on
Russian Hill, should be known by everyone interested in art; the studios cloistered around an inspiring patio, with its beautiful tower overlooking the waterfront, are probably by far the best in every way in America to- day.
Much of the continued success of the school is due to the unincumbered freedom given to the faculty, who are chosen, not only for their ability to impart knowledge and inspiration, but because of their professional achieve- ment. Thus a spirit of liberty and progress is reflected in the unusually original and spontaneous work of the students, which is recognized every- where as being second to none among the art schools of the country.
The courses of study are well bal- anced, so that a student specializing in one branch of art is encouraged to be- come reasonably familiar with other media, for it is fully recognized that all the arts are interdependent.
Thus a student of painting becomes familiar with sculpture and design, etching, etcetera, if he so desires. Whether the student intends to be- come a teacher of art in the schools or to become a professional artist, we be- lieve the school offers those funda- mentals in art education that cannot be excelled anvwhere in the world.
Colonnade of California School of Fine Arts, Chestnut and Jones Streets,
San Francisco.
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San Francisco — Union Square, the Heart of "Downtown'
S(2n Francisco's China- town has ever had a fascination for visitors and tourists . . . and residents of the city delight in its color and flavor.
Just around the corner from the building at the left is the Women's City Club, 465 Post Street.
THE ORIENT TRANSPLANTED
[Courtesy San Francisco ("hamber of Commerce]
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Old Chinatovv^n of San Francisco
By Mrs. Richard M. Lyman
I REMEMBER the old Chinatown of old San Francisco — that seductive section of smells and smooth sinfulness. Colorful and picturesque it was to the outsider, to the tourist, who considered a visit to San Francisco quite definitely incomplete without a visit to the old Chinese quarter, but they never reached the inside of the bowl, indeed they scarcely touched the rim of it, but nevertheless went home to rave of the beauty of the wares which the quaint foreigners had to sell.
They did not see the row upon row of barred windows, behind which sat row upon row of painted women — slave girls they were called — and scarcely more than girls were most of them.
Hair elaborately dressed, and adorned with glittering jewels and ornaments of priceless jade, costumes, wonder- fully and colorfully embroidered.
They were not at all bashful about proclaiming their wares, these unfortunate girls, and if they ever were happy, their bliss was that of ignorance.
The living quarters of the average inhabitant were un- speakably squalid, more like a rabbit warren than a human habitation.
The earthquake and fire of old San Francisco, however, did much to remedy that situation, so that "the ill wind that blew" did some good after all.
The homes of the merchants and the prosperous ones had, to be sure, a gay exterior, painted balconies hung with lanterns and paper flowers, but there were "painted sepulchers," for almost invariably the same sordid condi- tions were discovered behind the painted balconies.
If one were "in the know" or had a "pull," one would enlist the offices of a special Chinatown guide, and if his palm had been well oiled, one could go down into deep, dark and unspeakable basements and opium dens. The ordinary visitor or tourist never reached these underground horrors.
Bunk upon bunk contained its unconscious victim. The smoke of opium hung heavy in the air, and a passing glimpse was all that one could endure.
Outside on the dark sidewalk of the alley-way, might sometimes be seen a shadowy figure, lying or reclining on a bit of shabby matting, the wasted, pathetic figure of an old Chinaman, a bowl of rice and one of water by his side — turned out to die! One way of getting rid of an undesirable in-law!
This custom was not countenanced, or even allowed, by municipal law, but sometimes in an unfrequented place, they "got by."
Old Chinatown, be it understood, had its charms, and they were many. The theatres, where the noise, not the music, of the orchestra was deafening — and with which the highly pitched voices of the actors waged a fierce competition.
The plays lasted for days — for weeks — and seemed only to end as an endurance test between actors and audience.
The actors were all men, taking, very cleverly, the female parts. This is now changed, as are many of the old Chinese customs with the coming of the "New Republic," and Chinese women act their own parts, and very success- fully.
Came a day, once in a while, if one were lucky, when, browsing around the narrow streets of this interesting little village, a faint tom-tom-tom was heard in the dis- tance, and soon, winding down Dupont Street, now called Grant Avenue, would come the old fashioned Chinese
funeral, unique and picturesque, which funerals are not supposed to be.
The "Cortege" was headed by a huge yellow dragon, guided and manipulated by the men inside, who carried it on their shoulders, its tail reaching half way down the block, twisting and wriggling in a most realistic manner.
This was followed by, probably all, of the "sea-going" hacks that remained of San Francisco's former glory of conveyance.
Fluttering in the gay breeze, were quantities of sheets of red paper, on which were printed various inscriptions, as an impressive warning to the evil spirits that they must "keep off."
There were many and various noises made by curious wind instruments and drums, of all sizes and ages, added to the general din and clatter. Then more express wagons filled with the "hoi polloi," acquaintances, doubtless of the dear departed, and incidentally helping to fill out the length of the procession.
At the tail end was to be seen an express wagon filled with eatables, roast pork predominating, rice and all the viands beloved of their ancestors, dishes to hold the food and chop sticks with which to eat them. These were placed carefully and confidingly on top of the newly made grave, to sustain him in the place to which he was going. We are forced to confess, however, that these "eats" were destined, later on, to fill an empty interior of some "wandering, weary Willy" and the dishes often found a place in the cupboard of an inveterate but indiscriminating collector of odd things.
The bewildering beauty of the shops must not be over- looked. Such treasures as could be picked up bv a little patience and searching! Not the worthless copies of mod- ern ceramics one sees today, then, the beauty of old blue Nanking, and Royal Canton. The flower decorated bowls of the Chia-Ching period, or the sturdy strength of a Tao- Kuang. A dainty rice bowl of Chi'ien Lung showing the Lowestoft influence. The "coolieware" was and is today beautiful in shape and crude in decoration, and the lining of turquoise blue.
The writer once unearthed, (and unearthed is right) a complete dinner service of very old blue Nanking, com- monly called blue Canton. High up on the top shelves of a butcher shop it was, covered with the dust of ages and "keeping company" with dessicated eggs, dried sharks' fins and dried birds' nests.
Rows of glistening brown roasted pigs proclaimed them- selves to sight and smell. What a wonderful time Charles Lamb would have had in one of these old-time butcher shops!
Some of this old china was in the cellar, in barrels un- touched for years, just as it had come oft the ship.
Fortuitously, the shop keeper did not realize the value or the beauty on his dusty shelves, for that is where one found the treasures, high up and out of reach and almost out of sight !
The complete set cost fifty dollars. Those were the good old days !
The old Chinaman who then waited upon you is no more, with his "no savvy" to your "how muchee ?" or "no catchee " to your inquiry for a certain article. It is "Young America"' now, but it all helped to make the old place more attractive than the new.
Interesting old quarters they were, bringing to us a contact with the Orient, so far from us and vet so near.
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The Adventure
By Beatrice Judd Ryan
The following article is an endeavor to answer further letters of in- quiry and comment recently received by the writer from readers who seem to feel her approach to art has been helpful to their understanding.
THE arrogant minded in ART as in LIFE cannot pierce her inner meaning. One must be humble in spirit to receive the message.
"No intellectual striving will bring us to the heart of things. We can only lay ourselves open to the influence of the world and the living intuition will be born in its own due time." — Bergson.
An art discrimination is not gained in a day or a year ; nor is it born of the intellect alone. Reading books on art and listening to lectures on the sub- ject can only awaken the desire in the individual to begin the adventure, and an adventure it surely is, of finding out for one's self what is good, bad and indifferent in art. This authority can only be acquired by the unpreju- diced thoughtful contemplation of art works, and as the knowledge grows, one may discover that intuition pre-
cedes analyzation. One recognizes this to be better than that before con- sciously reasoning why.
I submit: That the mainspring of art is life. That form, color, pattern, rhythm are the physical structure, — the artist's language, — his craft.
That if the approach to life is per- sonal ; if he has something to say about life, — that is his own, and he says it in a way particularly his, — we say he is creative.
That if the creative thing he says about life is important enough, and if it carries with it the conviction of vitality, which partakes of life's es- sence, we name it "Great Art."
When we waste our time quarrel- ing about craft only, we can be very sure there is little of consequence in- volved.
The untutored or unthinking laj^- man is apt to judge of art as good or bad, beautiful or ugly through some
familiar trademark, which he has been taught and generally badly taught, to recognize as beauty. He accepts the shallow, vulgar semblance of life as good and true, while work that bears its vital significance, he judges as bad, because his pet trademark — imita- tion or whatnot — is missing.
In spite of the fact that in modern times, John Ruskin has been dis- counted as a writer on art, we have found passages that have helped clear the road.
All those who are visiting the Sculpture at the Legion, will find in his Mornings in Florence, Chapter I, Section 14, 15 and 16, an illuminating discussion on what is good and bad in Sculpture. Kindly note that in the time of Ruskin, a vulgar, MODERN trick was the imitation of flesh and silk in marble.
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE
Published Monthly at San Francisco
465 Post Street
Telephone KE amy 8400
MAGAZINE COMMITTEE
Mrs. Harry Staats Moore, Chairman
Mrs. George Osborne Wilson
Mrs. Frederick Faulkner
Mrs. Frederick W. Kroll
MARIE HICKS DAVIDSON, Managing Editor
Ruth Callahan, Advertising Manager
VOLUME m
AUGUST * 1929
NUMBER 7
EBITOMIAIL
THE purchasing power of the American family is held in the hands of the woman. That is the conclusion of advertising experts, and a glance at the current magazines leads one to agree.
In fact, it is the so-called "woman's magazine" which appears to pick off the plums of the advertising field.
Automobiles, for instance. If there is one item of his daily convenience which, one would think, the man of the house would insist upon choosing it is the family car. But no. Mother and the girls have definite ideas upon that sub- ject; and that's that.
Food and furnishings, household staples, such as linens and china, are, naturally, bought by the housewife. About the only thing the male selects, generally speaking, is his own attire.
Advertisers, then, are entitled to no undue credit for the shrewdness or business acumen they evince in favoring publications known to be read chiefly by women, because it is so very apparent that the purchasing power of the home is vested in women.
Cosmetics, beauty salons, hairdressing places, restaurants, hosiery, shoes, the family doctor or dentist, places of amuse- ment, gowns, yardage, furs, summer and winter resorts . . . the average man is interested in these only as they affect his womenkind. Schools, railroad and steamship transporta- tion, even, are, in the last analysis, selected to please the wife or mother or daughter.
There are seven thousand members of the Women's City Club of San Francisco. Estimating each as a nucleus of three (a conservative estimate of the number of persons in an average household), the Women's City Club Mag- azine is read by more than twenty-one thousand. The purchasing leverage inhering in this group is incalculable.
Advertisers in the Women's City Club Magazine are aware of the purchasing power of its readers and it is to that aggregate that they address themselves when they take space in the magazine. They know of the large audience; afforded them, and count upon results.
Therefore it is incumbent upon each member of the Women's City Club to take advantage of that advertis- ing to the greatest possible degree. It is but one of the several responsibilities that accompany the advantages and pleasure of fellowship. The Magazine Committee asks that the responsibility be carried a step farther, that the purchaser say to the advertiser that she read his ad in the magazine. That proves to him that he is realizing on his investment, and the fame of the Women's City Club M.agazine as an advertising medium is broadened.
Two Gracious Lives
By Nellie Olmsted Lincoln (Mrs. J. O. Lincoln)
TWO lives, with a tragic suddenness, have within the last month been taken from our midst. An automobile accident caused the death of Mrs. Henry J. Crocker and Mrs. Louis F. Monteagle, members of the Hospitality Committee of the Women's City Club.
For all the years of their life among us these two have stood as the embodiment of all that is fine in American womanhood. Each in her own way has filled with gra- ciousness and honor the role of wife,- mother, friend and citizen.
No work of advancement found them lacking in interest or enthusiasm. Home, church, club and city ideals were ever as the natural breath of their life and ever found from them generous support.
Mrs. Crocker's serene smile and Mrs. Monteagle's gra- cious enthusiasm can never be forgotten by the thousands who have come under their influence.
We of the City Club feel this tragedy as a deep personal loss. The constant and generous interest of these two women in the National League and the City Club, their encouragement in times of perplexity, their faith in the success of what was a great venture, have endeared them to us all.
The World War found them both sending, with their blessing, their sons and daughters to their country's aid. Mrs. Crocker served on the Board and as treasurer of the National League, and we all remember the great loss she had when, in the midst of war service, her beautiful daughter laid down her life. Mrs. Crocker's fortitude in this great sorrow will long stay in our thought of her. Her private benefactions were numerous and generous. Many a child and tired woman has had a restful vacation at St. Dorothy's Rest through her kind thoughtfulness.
Her gift of a large wing for the Stanford Convalescent Home will continue to bring health and joy to many a child for years to come.
St. Luke's Hospital, built by Mrs. Monteagle and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, with its beautiful buildings and beds for hundreds of patients, stands as a monument to her. To it she gave, also, untold hours of personal service. Grace Cathedral, a project which she furthered with her whole heart, was not only the recipient of a great gift from her, but, through her influence, other magnificent sums were given to it. At St. Dorothy's Rest there stands on a hill- top a charming vacation house for business women. This is the second house which Mrs. Monteagle built at St. Dorothy's, the first one having been destroyed by fire. Hundreds of girls have enjoyed the hospitality of these houses.
Her great interest in the new opera house, which will add so much to the beauty and enjoyment of her beloved city, showed the broadness of her interests.
No one can tell the countless deeds of loving helpfulness to individuals of both these beloved women. Their untir- ing efforts to bring joy, their varied interests making for them friends in every walk of life.
As we mourn them we must also remember them as joyous. For joy filled a great part in their lives. Because, as they gave freely of themselves, joy flowed back to them from many loving hearts.
And so is closed the last chapter of the story of two gra- cious lives, by which the world was made finer and stronger, and, as we jay the wreath of love upon the altar of memory, the proof of our affection is that we carry on to fulfillment the visions which they held.
For they were gallant, valiant spirits.
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Beyond the City Limits
By Edith Walker Maddux
League of Nations
THE recent Council meeting, in Madrid this time, formally ap- proved the Root plan whereby the United States may at last enter the World Court acceptably, but this is of course only a first step. The As- sembly of the League must act, the World Court members, and, appar- ently, the United States Senate.
Japan
and more about iiiov'uig pictures
From the April number of Pacific Affairs, published by the Institute of Pacific Relations:
"Japanese newspapers are full of what they term a new- stage in the 'Westernization' of Japan. The crim- inal element in Japan is, according to news reports, copying the West in its new methodolog}-. Police are greatly worried over the change in tactics of the lawless element with which they have to deal. These marked changes in violence are supposed to be echoes from the criminal procedure of Chi- cago and other western metropolitan centers, and the 'cultural medium' of the movies is recognized as having been one of the most potent elements in stimulating the observed changes."
Italy
Almost coincidentally with the an- nouncement of the elevation of Signor Guiriati to the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies and the tem- porary accession (?) of Signor Mus- solini to the vacated position of Min- ister of Public Works (the Duce now heading eight departments of state and holding nine out of the fourteen portfolios in the cabinet), came new standing orders as follows: "The Chamber may not discuss or vote on matters not on the agenda except on the express proposal of the Head of the Government and with the ap- proval of the Chamber itself" ; "The Chamber will in future have no voice in the appointment of its various com- missions and committees"; "The rules for the appointment of the time avail- able in the debates between the Gov- ernment and opposition speakers have been abolished as it is presumed that in future all speakers will be in favor." All these results and many more ac- crue from the fact that the new Chamber is 100 per cent Fascist. One voice, however, may be raised in Italy in criticism of the Duce, and the Pope has twice recently in signed articles ex-
pressed surprise amounting to censure that Mussolini has not only misrepre- sented the political position of the Papal State but has also been guilty of heresy in religious comments. The Duce has not yet "answered back."
Official Honors
It is reported that the Filipino leaders with the exception of the Dem- ocrata Party are well pleased with their new Governor General, Dwight Davis, former Secretary of War. His avowed open mind is encouraging and his former official importance is flat- tering to the islanders.
Porto Ricans are also repxirted as being generally flattered at having a Roosevelt sent to them, where the problems, however, are admittedly stupendous.
As for Charles G. Dawes, the new Ambassador to the Court of St. James, the British people and press seem en- thusiastic in their cordiality. They appreciate his record and his ability ; they approve his pipe ; they even toler- ate his democratic trousers at Court.
It is now stated that Ramsay Mac- Donald will postpone his visit to Pres- ident Hoover until next year.
China
The headlines presage serious con- flict between Russia and China over and in Manchuria.
France
The past month has been an emo- tional period of controversy in the Chamber of Deputies over the war supplies debt due the United States on August first. At this writing (July 15) it is still unsettled.
Mexico
More good news. Negotiations be- tween Church and State have been successfully completed, as the Outlook and Independent expresses it "not by repealing the religious laws, but by stretching their meaning: . . . first, the Government will register no priest who has not been endorsed by a su- perior officer of the Church. Secondly, although religious instruction is pro- hibited in schools, it will not be pro- hibited within church confines, i. e., it is prohibited in private schools but not in certain private classes. Finally, all residents of the country, including priests, will have the right of petition, and may apply to appropriate author- ities for the passage, repeal, or amend- ment of any law."
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Galerie Beaux Arts
Exhibition at Women's
City Club
By Beatrice Judd Ryan
THROUGH the courtesy of the Women's City Club, the Gal- erie Beaux Arts held an exhibit of members' work in the City Club Auditorium, June 28 to July 12, and in spite of the summer season, more than 1 ,200 attended in two weeks. On the opening day, the City Club held a reception in the Auditorium for the visiting delegates to the Conference of Social Workers.
As a whole, the exhibit seemed to please and surprise the public. Visitors constantly exclaimed over the fact that they understood the paintings — that after all, we were not so queer as they had been led to expect. In an organ- ization like the Galerie Beaux Arts, where the aim and intention is to rep- resent the outstanding art of the com- munity, the work of the membership should be, as it is, comprehensive in viewpoint.
"Hillside" by Gottardo Piazzoniwas easily the most popular canvas in the exhibit ; while Ray Boynton's "Valley Farm" met with ardent appreciation from a few. The Labaudt picture, which is to be shown at the Salon d' Automne in Paris caused much favor- able comment and some raising of eye- brows. We consider it the best canvas this artist has shown. "Marine Hos- pital" by John Tufts was much ad- mired. It is one of the outstanding canvases of this season and on close association grows in beauty.
The Beaux Arts is a non-profit co- operative association, established in 1924 to promote through exhibition and sale the progressive art of Cali- fornia. Its aim also is to bring the artist and public into a closer associa- tion ; in a word, to be an art center for San Francisco. When the new gal- leries at 166 Geary Street are opened in September, we hope those new friends who found us at the City Club will continue with us.
Distinguished Guests
Mrs. Maude Wetmore and Mrs. Coffiin Van Rensselaer of New York, both founders of the National League for Women's Service, the parent or- ganization of the Women's City Club, were guests of honor at a luncheon given July 26 at the Women's City Club. Miss Marion L«ale presided. Miss Wetmore apostrophized the V^ol- unteer Service of the City Club as an institution found in no other wom- en's club of her knowledge.
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Landing at Lima
By Beatrice Snow Stoddard (Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard)
Extract from her diary, written while Dr. and Mrs. Stoddard were traveling last Autumn in South America
FOR ten enchanting lazy days we had been steaming down the west coast of South America. Our first stop was Callao, Peru, the harbor for Lima, eight miles inland, the capital city of that Republic.
The City of Lima derives its name from the Indian name "Rimac," which means "one who speaks." The river Rimac, "the one who speaks," is most aptly called, for it courses down from the Peruvian Andes, and so speaks that this desert coast is transformed into a fertile garden.
But instead of going directly the eight miles from the harbor, Callao, to this al- luring new-old historic city of Lima, we first journeyed up the green Rimac Val- ley in the Peru- vian Andes on the highest standard - gauge railway in the world.
This journey was of particu- lar interest to rhe because the genius behind the construction of this remark- able railway was one Henry Meiggs, the
namesake of Meiggs' Wharf, so well known in San Francisco. Oddly enough, though not an engineer him- self, he inspired real engineers to build this railroad, a most marvelous engi- neering achievement over yawning gullies and rugged gorges, around points where the steepness of the mountain sides would not even permit the use of a rack rail. So the train mounts by means of a series of fifteen "zigzags." We are carried in a single day to an ascent which opens out sce- nic vistas of such majestic beauty, such forlorn grandeur and such unfamiliar human surroundings that the tale is worth the telling.
Thus it was that on the morning of October seventeenth we arose at half- past five o'clock to be ready for our mountain ride and our final landing at Lima. It was a merry occasion, and
exciting too. Since our ship came to anchor in the open roadstead, the land- ing was by launch. Callao lay in the distance shrouded by a misty curtain of fog, pricked through by Lima's dis- tant church towers.
Soon the motor launches came alongside. Two "stage villains," dark- skinned, black-mustached, with rag- ged coats and slouch hats, manned each boat. One of these fleteros stead- ied the launch with a long steel-tipped boat-hook which gripped the ropes at- tached to the hanging gangway. The
Bishop's Palace at Lima, Peru. Balconies are of carved cedar
other fletero ran the motor. Cush- ioned seats of red and white canvas and the wooden Hoor were protected by pale blue and green oilcloth.
A pleasing sight greeted our eyes from the deck : the gliding brown boats, brown, swarthy men, gay dashes of blue and green glancing in and out. A snow-white yacht flying the yellow flag rocked lazily, awaiting the return of the port doctor. A quiet little launch stood by with the red and white welcome of the Peruvian flag fluttering from her stern. Presently, a dapper and plump gentleman, in blue suit, grey hat and gloves, accompanied by three officers, stepped nimbly down the swinging ladder and was ofi' in the white launch. "Chug-chug," thumped the motor. The little yellow flag flut- tered frantically in the fresh breeze, and away went ^7 Senor Doctor.
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Now we crowded forward, bags in hand, coats and furs buttoned up to our chins, each for his individual ad- venture down the very steep, slippery hanging stairs, the alighting on the shifting two-by-three-foot platform, the jerky jump on to the gay oilcloth floor of the bouncing launch, while the "Pirate" faithfully held us hooked to the mooring rope.
Boat-load after boat-load sped away across the glistening slaty waters, past a grey United States destroyer, pur- chased from "Uncle Sam" by the Pe- ruvian navy, past the familiar red and black Jap- anese "Tenyo Maru," past freight and lum- ber schooners, a veritable forest of masts wrapped in flap- ping sails, past cargoes being lowered in small quantities into the tossing light- ers, cargoes which land with a thud and a crash. Woe to that crate of crockery !
Cutters filled with white-cap- ped sailors from the warships sped by. Close at hand, three or four sculls, six univer- sity men in each, out for their morning exercise, rowed rapidly, in perfect rhythm.
The inner harbor of Callao is backed by a small stone breakwater, in two semi-circles, each end capped with a lighthouse tower, which form a gateway. Our launches sped past these towers up to immense broad stone steps which reach from the pavement into the sea. Beyond a pretty plaza of lawns dotted with wide benches of pink marble, the train waited to take us up the valley of the foaming Rimac. Although it was early in the morn- ing, men. women and children pulled back shabby, torn lace curtains, print or canvas porch-coverings and thrust out head and shoulders to look at los extranjeros. ^ onder a large old wom- {Continurd on page 26)
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What Is Progressive Education?
WHAT is Progressive Educa- tion ? There are many an- swers ; as many, probably, as there are people engaged in the process of studying and educating children. Yet the direction is plain. An unmis- takable trend characterizes them all. Differences lie in personality detours from the recently opened highway of educational science, not in the direc- tion of travel.
There lies on my desk a large vol- ume edited by Clark University. The title reads "Psychologies of 1929." The preface says that there will be another similar symposium published in 1930. Because there are so many schools of thought, each of which is in some way affecting educational prac- tice in our schools, it has become neces- sary to term them "psychologies" in- stead of classifying them in an easy, understandable and applicable psychol- ogy in the singular.
Behaviorism, Mr. Watson says, is the key to all development. Through his confidence in the mechanistic cer- tainty of cause and effect he guaran- tees to create anything he will out of a given piece of human raw material.
But, says Mr. Kohler, "gestalt" opens up the prospect of arousing and perfecting more and more complicated forms of experience, not through or- ganic functioning alone, but through consciousness as well.
While the "psychologies," purposive and structural, are deliberating their points, we continue to have children and to try our best at educating them. The fact remains that whatever the philosophical or actual cause, the child does flourish and grow under certain controllable conditions, w-hile he fal- ters and declines under others. Under conditions favorable to normal matur- ing he is ever bringing fresh surprises to us adults; undreamed of gifts of his genius and his spirit.
Without being technical in our sum- marizing, may we venture to gathei up a few of the premises which favor the leading out of the powers of chil- dren.
First, the opportunity for self-activ- ity. There is a time when every child clamors to try the stairs alone. This symptom of awakening self-function- ing and ambition may develop into initiative, self-confidence and self-dis- covery or may sink back into helpless- ness, insecurity and boredom, depend- ing upon what happens to him at the time. There is an adult gratification in ministering to a baby and a tanta- lizing patience required in waiting for
By Marion E. Turner
his awkward efforts to become effec- tive. But the enlightened adult will cherish the signs of growth and master his impulse to act for, and with a silent rejoicing watch the uncoordin- ated efforts of the child gradually find- ing their way into forms and comple- tions. It would be revealing could we actually measure the amount of re- tardation that occurs in the develop- ment of children through the inter- ference in their normal activities by well meaning but fearful and ignorant nurse girls. If nurse girls, as a group, could be helped to understand one thing, namely that the efficient child is the child who learns to act for him- self, many of our gifted children would be much farther along in the process of self-understanding.
Second, progressive education asks for a social environment. We do not mean social in its artificial sense where groups assemble for the sake of being together. We mean, rather, a chance to work out oneself in a normal social milieu where one's undertakings de- pend in part upon the quality of his relationship with those about him, particularly with his own generation where his own points of view and de- sires are measured in their relation to the points of view and desires of other children; where comradeship and mu- tual effort supplant the self-centered "don't look on my paper" spirit of an egotistic learning.
Third, progressive education sees to it that a rich variety of elementary ex- periences are provided. These are the substance of the child's thought; ex- periences real in sense and feeling, such experience as lets one enter into the thoughts and feelings of the fisherman on the wharf ; the stevedore at the dock; the fruit picker in July; the typesetter at the city press. There must be experiences that will enable him to find himself in relation to groups, in play, in story telling, in de- bate ; to test his strength at skills in games, crafts and organizing; to dis- cover and reveal the world in himself through drawing, song and dance. There is a tragic waste of human powers left untapped when a brilliant Aoung woman can graduate from a great university, with honors, and suddenly waken to find there is not a thing in the world she likes to do, not a thing she knows she can do, not a contribution she can make in this world where "there is always room at the top." There are many such young people. Education has certainly slept through its great opportunity.
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Fourth, difficulties. There must be difficulties for the child to encounter. This point, perhaps, more than any other, is popularly misunderstood in relation to modern education. "They make everything so easy nowadays for children that they won't do anything that requires any effort." The above tendency is a miscarriage of progress. The child with the truly progressive education is divinely curious and in- vestigative. He undertakes all things. He is constantly testing his powers. We repudiate the principle of laissez- faire as a false interpretation of the facts of life. It is an impotent reach toward self fulfillment and must give in at the end to maladaptation and despair. Interest and effort educates. Interest and indulgence mortifies.
Fifth, and last, there must be adult guidance. How, and how much, is the question. But guidance, yes. Be- cause first, it alone can safeguard the child from the blights of emotional and physical ills which arise from un- ripe and thwarted attempts at unin- tegrated adjustments; secondly, be- cause, somehow, it must regulate the environment to guarantee challenging difficulties which will be commensu- rate with the child's present grappling powers.
In spite of himself every adult cre- ates an atmosphere, whether it be one of nourishment or one of destruction. But the adult who would truly edu- cate aims at all times to be conscious of his own motives, that he may not unwittingly trammel or impinge upon the invisible stirrings of the human spirit, but shall know the sensitive signs of the growing life and shall let it be "like a tree planted by the streams of water that shall bring forth its fruit in its season."
Shasta
Like a powerful buffalo in repose you lie.
Formidable guardian of the Northern gate.
Thy summit gleams as glistening snow, and
Waters of a river wash thy base.
Who raised thy head above the Coun- ties?
Who deft thy fiery heart of stonef
Who heard the agonizing moan as you lay dying there alonef
Edna Leilani Bryan.
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Women^s City Club Affairs
Discussion of Articles in Current Magazines
Among the new sections formed early in the year is one which has for its object the discussion of interesting and informing articles in the leading current magazines. This group is un- der the leadership of Mrs. Alden Ames, who has had several years' ex- perience in another group of a like nature. The meetings are held in the Board Room on the third Friday of each month at two o'clock. They are quite informal and members attending are invited to give impressions of ar- ticles of value and importance which they have been reading in the maga- zines of the month. In this way many fine papers are brought to notice, which in these busy days might easily escape the attention of the individual reader. All members who enjoy an hour of pleasant and profitable conver- sation are invited to join this group. If found expedient, the meetings may be held more frequently, possibly once a fortnight.
Registration Committee Report
At the National Conference of So- cial Workers a group of forty-five members of the Women's City Club began their work in the Civic Audi- torium June 25 at 1 o'clock and con- tinued until Wednesday noon, July 3, a total of six and one-half actual working days. During that time they gave 841 hours of service, several Volunteers remaining on duty from 8 a. m. till 6:30 p. m. with only one hour relief. Any number of the others would have been glad to have done likewise but their places were already filled by those anxiously waiting to do their share. This is typical of the atti- tude that dominated the entire person- nel, aside from the splendid work in the way of efficiency and accuracy. The spirit in which it was done will make the City Club always a most de- sirable factor in any work that may arise. Mrs. Albert Stephens was chair- man of the filers and Miss E. Koppitz had charge of the typists.
»( Signed) Elsa Garrett To Talk on Africa Captain B. Aillet will give an illus- trated talk on "North Africa and the Mediterranean Country" at 8 o'clock Thursday evening, August 29, in the City Club Auditorium, under the aus- pices of the Club's Thursday evening program committee.
The Choral Section
The Choral Section of the Club which was established at the beginning of the year under the competent lead- ership of Mrs. Jessie Wilson Taylor, and which held weekly rehearsals up to the middle of May, has been taking a summer vacation. It is now planning to resume its activities for the fall sea- son, and as Friday evening proved an inconvenient time for a number of the members, the rehearsals will be held on Monday, which may be a more satisfactory arrangement.
Mrs. Taylor wishes to hold a pre- liminary meeting of her singers on Monday evening, August 26, at 7 :30 in the American Room. This will be in the nature of a social gathering and the musical work of the section will begin on the first Monday evening in September, September 2, at the same hour.
All members of the Club, who are musically inclined are invited to join this section and voices for all parts are desired. There is only an occasional small expense connected with it as Mrs. Taylor is making this training her volunteer service to the Club, and the section has already a good musical library. The members who have been rehearsing through the past months have been most enthusiastic over the training and vocal technique which they have gained and they are looking forward to singing for the Club on musical occasions. Mrs. Taylor has had many years experience as a musi- cian and teacher, has had a thorough musical education and she in an alum- na of the Conservatory of Music at Fontainebleau, France. Members of the Club desiring to join the Choral Section may leave their names at the desk on the main floor.
Waiting
By John Burroughs
Serene, I fold my hands and wait. Nor care for luind, or tide, or sea;
I rave no more 'gainst time or fate. For lo! my oivn shall come to me,
I stay my haste, I make delays.
For what avails this eager pace? I stand amid the eternal ways.
And what is mine shall know my face.
Asleep, awake, by night or day.
The friends I seek are seeking me ;
No wind can drive my bark astray. Nor change the tide of destiny.
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Appreciations
The Conference of Social Workers, held in San Francisco June 26 to July 3, brought many interesting visitors to the Women's City Club, many of whom were guests in the club.
The City Club's contribution to the conference was assistance of an unusual kind, and many expressions of appreciation of its efficiency have been received. A volunteer service corps of thirty-five women under the chair- manship of Miss Elsa Garrett regis- tered and catalogued the delegates as they arrived from the four points of the compass.
Helen G. Fisk, a delegate from Los Angeles, expresses her appreciation of the City Club's hospitality in the fol- lowing manner :
"I want to tell you again, and the others responsible, how very much I appreciated all the courtesy and friend- liness of the City Club. You certainly do manage to keep a home-like atmos- phere in the Club plus a degree of service and comfort most of us never know in our homes. Staying with you certainly added very greatly to my em- joyment of the conference and I shall look forward to coming again when- ever I can."
"I have never known a finer piece of Volunteer Service — anything more I might add would only be 'guilding the lily'." — Anita Eldridge, secretary- treasurer, San Francisco Committee, National Conference of Social ^Vork.
From Howard R. Knight, General Secretary of the National Conference of Social Work: "We appreciate the very fine service which you and your helpers did in the Registration at the Conference. So far as we can find out it is the most accurate registration we have had for many years."
From Eleanor Stockton, Chairman Registration Committee, National Conference Social Workers: "May I express to you once more the gratitude which the San Francisco Committee feels toward the members of the Women's City Club who gave such splendid service to the Registration Booth?"
Plai/ Contest
The Women's City Club Play Con- test is not yet adjudged. Manuscripts are still being read by the Club com- mittee consisting of Mrs. E. E. Brow- nell, Mrs. Frederick H. Meyer, Mrs. James T. ^Vatkins, Mrs. John Fletcher and Mrs. Charles A. Christin.
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'OU should know of a find I have made latel\- . . . perhaps you do know ... a small decorating shop in Palo Alto on that Spanish street there ... I think it is Ramo- na. You can't miss the place, as there are two large terra cotta jars in front with bay trees and ivy growing in the archway. They have some really lovely things both old and new and a large sample line of the most beautiful chintzes, hand-blocked linens I have seen in a long time. I am going there very soon to see about having my room done over. Oh ! I forgot to tell you the name of the place ... it is the
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HEN I was hav- ing a manicure in the Beauty Salon, I o\erheard a woman buying a coupon book for six shampoos and finger waves for bobbed hair — and for only ten and a half. I found I could get six paper curls for seven and a half by using one of these coupon books. And you can have six marvelous Lus Tar or hot oil shampoos for only seven and a half.
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If you are a fastidious shopper who likes to linger over her selection of cos- metics, you will appreciate this store. Chic Sun Tans, daintj' talcs, lotions, creams, and perfumes, the finest of every kind, are sure to be seen at
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A divert is ens' Exhibit and Fashion Show
September 16 is the date set for an event unique in the annals of the San Francisco Women's City Club. On that date there will be held in the City Club Auditorium an Advertisers' Ex- hibition.
Every qualified advertiser in the City Club Magazine will exhibit an example or examples of his wares. On the same day there will be a Fash- ion Show in the Club dining room, the Downtown Association co-operating with the City Club in arranging the show and the program which will ac- company it.
Mrs. Josephine Bartlett is chair- man of the City Club Committee pre- paring the Advertisers' Exhibit and will be assisted by a group of other members. Save the date because the day is to be an entertaining and in- structive one.
Book Review Dinner
Members planning to attend the Book Review Dinners which have be- come a regular event the first Wed- nesday of each month at the Club, will be interested in the announcement that Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard is changing her usual method of review- ing one outstanding novel to compare and comment upon three late books. Wednesday evening, August 7, Mrs. Stoddard will review' "Class Re- union," translated from the German, by Franz Werfel, "Interlude," also from the German, by Frank Chiess, and Martin Armstrong's "All in a Day."
Reservations for members and their guests are being made at the Informa- tion Desk. Beginning at six o'clock, the meeting will be over at eight to leave the evening free.
At the September Book Review Dinner Mrs. Stoddard will review two books by Mary Webb — "Precious Bane" and "Seven for a Secret," com- menting on the Englishwoman's life and her contribution to modern Eng- lish literature.
How Alany Times
How many times do I love thee, dear? Tell me how many thoughts there be
In the atmosphere Of a new-falVn year, Whose white and sable hours appear
The latest flake of Eternity ; So many times do I love thee, dear. Thomas Lovell Beddoes.
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New Books in the City Club' s Library
The following new books have been added to the City Club Library:
Fiction Rome Haul — Walter D. Edmonds. Interlude — Frank Thiess. Molinoff — Maurice Bedel. A Dish for the Gods — Cyril Hume. Adios — Lanier Bartlett and Virginia
Bartlett. The Flagrant Years — Samuel Hop- kins Adams. Class Reunion — Franz Werfel. Young Mrs. Greeley — Booth Tark-
ington. Rain Before Seven — Jessie Douglas
Fox. The Boroughmonger — R. H. Mott-
ram. That Capri Air — Edwin Cerio. The Golden Altar — Joan Sutherland. Cloud by Day — Pauline Stiles. Liv — Kathleen Coyle. Six Mrs. Greenes (2nd copy) — Lorna
Rea. Dark Hester (2nd copy) — Anne
Douglas Sedgwick. Dodsworth (2nd copy) — Sinclair
Lewis. One of Those Ways — Mrs. Belloc
Lowndes.
Non Fiction
The Letters of Katherine Mansfield —
J. Middleton Murry. The Last Home of Mystery — E.
Alexander Powell. Holidaj' — Philip Barry. The Sacred Flame — W. Somerset
Maugham. Stranger Than Fiction — Lewis
Browne. Herman Melville — Lewis Mumford. A Preface to Morals — Walter Lipp-
mann. You Can't Print That — George
Seldes.
Mystery The House on Tollard Ridge — John
Rhodes. The Black Camel — Earl Derr Biggers. Murder by the Clock — Rufus King. The Stoke Silver Case — Lynn Brock.
Aliscellancous (Gifts)
Side Tracks from the Main Line — Paul Shoup.
Whither Mankind — Charles Beard.
Troupers of the Gold Coast — Con- stance Rourke.
Salt Water Taffy— Corey Ford.
All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich ]\L Remarque.
Storm House — Kathleen Norris.
The True Heart — Sylvia Warner.
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Threej> Poems
By Marie de Laveaga Welch
Cynic
She will not be serious
With young-hearted Lovers, tremulous
And unguarded. She has no fears
That bitterer Than her old tears
Would be to her Their new weeping;
She has such gay Fine words for keeping
Their tears away. Love left her heart
To comfort it Only her tart
And icy wit. So lovers' grief
Forever after Will but receive
Her light laughter.
Of One Who Knows Well
Since her hands
Are so unfit For giving pain
Or soothing it; Since her cool mouth
Is not lined With any living,
Why do we find Such assurance
In her eyes? Has vision only
Made her wise With wisdom
That is nothing less Than a perfect
Quietness f Hoiu does she lighten
Suffering — Seeing, and knoiving.
And not comforting?
The Confidante
Growth and growth's agony
She does not know. Nor bitterness of root.
Nor bloom's fine glow. This is her heart —
A sun-wise stretch of wall Against a garden;
Stone where no vines crawl And no moss clings.
But where the wind breaks so That the garden's shadows tremble
Not at all.
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Who Hai^e Not Let Themsel<^es Go Stale
THE editor of the Women's City Club Magazine wishes it were possible to reproduce verbatim the glowing tribute paid to California and San Fran- cisco particularly by Anna Steese Richardson, director of the good citizenship bureau of the Woman's Home Com- panion, on her recent visit here as an observer of the Con- ference of Social Workers, held in San Francisco the week of June 26. Climate, cleanliness, the family life of the community, the delightful environs (meaning Palo Alto, Marin, Oakland and Berkeley and the peninsula gen- erally), the courtesy of hotel attendants and public servi- tors— to all these Mrs. Richardson paid her devoirs.
Then, at the end of her article, which appeared in one of the daily papers, she says:
"Last week I watched thirty-five members of your Women's City Club quietly, efficiently registering 3,000 or more delegates to the Social Workers' Con- ference at the Auditorium. Veterans of war service who have not let themselves go stale. San Francisco took them as a matter of course. I marveled.
"San Francisco is not perfect. Living conditions in dif- ferent communities are comparative. . . . But having crossed Market Street four times without a fatality I kiss my finger tips to the city of golden housetops and drifting fogs, and call it blessed. A place in which to live." ■f 1 i
Course on International Barriers
The tickets for the Course on International Barriers are ready and are now on sale at the Information Desk. Members are urged to lose no time in securing their tickets for the supply is going fast.
For Five Dollars a member has the opportunity of at- tending herself and of entertaining nine guests. To do this, she may purchase a non-transferable member's ticket for herself for one dollar, which admits her to the entire course of nine lectures, also she has the privilege of buying a non-member transferable ticket for four dollars which may be used by her guests.
The subject of the International Relations of our nation and of all other nations grows daily more engrossing to all of us. Why is Peace so difficult of attainment ? What are the barriers to Peace?
It is with this important question in mind that the Course on International Barriers has been planned. By having due notice and ample time a member may enjoy a privilege of her membership, namely: that for a nominal fee she is entitled to hear these eminent speakers, each one of whom is an authority on his subject.
The course will begin on the evening of September eleven with Dr. Frank Russell of the University of Cali- fornia as speaker. Dr. Russell's theme will be "Cultural Barriers." Thereafter the sessions will be held on the second Wednesday evening of each month. At the October session Dr. Allan Blaisdell, director of the International House at the University of California, will speak on "Rac- ial Barriers." In November Dr. David P. Barrows of the University of California will sjjeak on "Barriers of Latin America" ; in December Dr. Kenneth Saunders of the Pacific School of Religion, on "Barriers of Race" ; in January Dr. Ira Cross of the University of California on "Economic Barriers;" in February, Dr. George Stratton of the University of California on "Psychological Bar- riers"; in March, Dr. Hermon Swartz, president of the Pacific School of Religion, on "Philosophical Barriers" ; in April, Dr. R. H. Lowie on "Biological Barriers."
This course is under the direct charge of Mrs. Henry Francis Grady of the East Bay region and Miss Emma Noonan of San Francisco.
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an with piercing black eyes, a long, heavy grey plait of hair hanging down her back over a faded green velvet dress; over here a sweet-faced mother with red-gold hair whose red-headed boy of ten disappeared a moment, and quickly returned with his white and black kitten. The woman called dis- tinctly "Good-bye" as the boy waved his hand and the kitten's paw.
The train moved out of Callao, leaving the dilapidated shops, the shabby square wooden and adobe houses with their soiled pink, blue or ijrey walls and their little iron balco- nies and gratings. Every balcony was hlled with drying clothes, rubbish, and the entire family, but, always, also, with pots of gay blossoming plants, and the feathery fingers of green ferns and palms. We soon came to the open country. Long, irregular lines of high and low adobe brick fences marked off the fields. Rain scarcely ever falls here. Bricks made of mud mixed with lime are so pre- served by the fog and the dry air that these fences are often one hundred years old. Perched on these mud- fences, perched on the trees, perched on the edges of the ditches, on the tops of houses, any place, every place, that would serve as a good vantage point, were hundreds of great, hook- beaked, black buzzards! It is a viola- tion of law to kill one of these scaven- gers. However, the sight of the hid- eous creatures always filled me with shudders.
The fields within these fences, spread out over the dusty countryside in varying shades of green, in patches of beans, lettuce and alfalfa. Roads, gashed with ruts, were outlined with small mud-bricks. Men were tilling their lands with rude plows made from a long bent tree-trunk to which a piece of metal was fastened. Slowly, slowly the oxen teams plodded across the dry earth, dragging the tree-plow in the wide furrows. In the near dis- tance, narrow green lines of foliage slashed across the face of each brown hill. These were the trees growing on the edges of the wide, deep canals that are cut along the sides of the hills to carry the glacial water, swift and icy as it rushes down to fill the many smaller streams. Thus the Rimac Riv- er speaks to the sun-baked dry land.
Each cane or adobe hut, roofed with thatch or bamboo, was sheltered from the burning sun by the wide leaves of banana groves or bright green grape vines. In each tiny garden rosy olean- ders, purple bougainvillea blossomed by the side of scarlet geraniums. Frc-
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quently two or three black and white chickens ruffled their feathers in the dust, and always, a scrubby little dog lay dozing on the doorstep. Here and there a pretty surprise appeared — a peach tree in full pink bloom. Cattle rested knee-deep in a few lush patches near the water, while everywhere browsed the inevitable wee brown- grey burro.
Suddenly, plantations of young green sugar cane and sea-island cotton streamed past our windows. Shrines and Inca ruins stood patiently, at odd distances, with their pathetic greet- ings. Here, a shrine is a large wooden cross, set up in a pile of stones. A strip of embroidered cloth is fastened the entire length of the cross. This banner flutters here in all weathers until destroyed by the elements or the birds. The women then embroider an- other. The roadside shrine is never without its handiwork of devotion and decoration. Some shrines painted in glowing white and blue gleamed like lonely sentinels on the solitary hori- zon, broken only by the desolate crum- bling ruins of the towers and hill-fort- resses of the Incas.
The train climbed to Chosica. We had come in less than an hour from an elevation of twelve feet to an altitude of twenty-eight hundred. The sta- tion's spacious dining hall, roofed and walled in glass, floored in mosaics of glistening white and black marble, decorated .with hanging baskets of va- riegated "wandering Jew" and flow- ers swaying in the breeze, arranged with tables of spotless linen, silver,
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and red and green wine goblets, wel- comed us into its festive, cool and pleasing atmosphere. Everyone stepped inside to get a taste of Peruvian wine. Chosica is Lima's resort when the weather hecomes too hot at home.
From here our train begins to climb its steep ascent very rapidly. In half an hour the altitude is doubled and the vivid green of peach orchards and orange groves greets us. The first of the real Andean villages is reached — San Bartolome — a single street of mud buildings, but called "Lima's Fruit Garden." Here we have our first glimpse of the Cliolos, the Indian na- tives of the Andes. Here, also, was revealed a startling custom. We noted that the accommodating and thrifty grocer, in his dark little mud store, not only sells meat, onions and the "staff of life," but keeps, in full view, on a handy shelf, a large wooden cof- fin. With the aid of my Spanish, I discovered that this coffin is rented out for funerals, and is duly returned to the canny grocer after it has served as a container to the grave-side. Our grocer makes a neat and tidy income from such rentals. And yet, regard- less of the coffin and this sinister cus- tom, close by it was a Chola, Indian- featured and ruddy, very colorful in her super-abundance of gay-hued skirts, sitting placidly nursing her mite of a babe, dressed in too many rags like herself, the whole — mother and child — wrapped around with a dirty shawl. Thus life dwells near death.
The way up to Surco, the next sta- tion, six thousand feet higher, was vivid with quantities of yellow Scotch broom, feathery pepper-trees, laden with full bunches of red berries, slen- der algeroba trees, rocky hills and swift glacial streams. Hundreds of tall cactus plants looked like slim, bald-headed, brown monkeys perched up on the rocks blinking at the speed- ing train. The mountains are so steep and the valley so narrow that here are the first "zigzags" and switch-backs. Amid much laughter and bustling about we arose, en masse, and turned over our seats. For now the powerful engine pulls the train, and at the next section pushes it.
We had scarcely stopped at Surco, the "Flower Garden of Lima," before dirty children, fat CItolas, squaws and girls bulging in their many gaudy col- ored skirts, soiled mannish white felt or Panama hats on their pig-tailed heads, swarmed aboard. In the arms of these "Heirs of the Incas" were mammoth bouquets of red, white and pink carnations, or fragrant purple English violets, or glorious Easter lil- ies. One could scarcely believe one's
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eyes! Whence came these exquisite flowers? Did they drop from Heaven into this dry, stony land, hemmed in by these high barren mountains, sheer to the sky on every side ? What sweet garden spots are hidden behind these bare pink, painted mud walls? No- where in flower-laden California, nor in an English garden, in an English April, have I seen more lovely nor more fragrant carnations, lilies and violets. Each bouquet was armful size and cost only twenty-five cents !
Once again we pick our way pre- cariously along the ledge carved into the high, steep cliffs. Another "zig- zag" ! Another tumult of turning over seats! The cool rarefied air is full of white sunlight. We look down upon the little "Flower Garden of Lima," down on the rushing spray of the Rimac, a mere white ribbon hundreds of feet below, down on the glistening rails. Ahead, like a huge black spider, the steel legs of the long bridge span the great ravine.
But the most fascinating sight of all was the network of stone-walled, tiny toy-like Inca gardens and terraces. An Inca terrace is a small patch of ground, on an almost unscalable mountain steep, that has been cleared and lev- eled, walled in with smooth round stones and used for the growing of maize. Hundreds and thousands of these terraces, like tiny green stair- steps, mount up the steep mountain sides to the very summits. Sometimes a terrace seemed a rippling green lake as the wind caught the tall grass and sent it billowing in waves. We gazed entranced at these relics of a civiliza- tion a thousand years old, and saw its descendants still following the slow, sleepy oxen plodding over the terrace- fields dragging the home-made plow.
All too soon, we reached Matua- cana, our destination. The two thou- sand souls of this town earn their daily bread by working as section hands on this mountain railway and by small farming. True to Spanish tradition, here is a plaza, tiny, with a fountain. Narrow, modern cement pavement bounds it on all four sides. The streets of small rounded cobblestones are lined with rickety stands of fruits and vegetables and dark, dilapidated stores. All the doorways were crowded with wares.
Curiosity possessed me, and, strangely enough, I was richly re- warded. I entered one of these dark doorways and within found a girls' school in session. A dozen old desks were cut and nicked, ink-smeared and dirty. Twenty girls, from six to twelve years of age, crowded around. It heartened me to see that each girl wore the school uniform — a tan cotton
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middy-blouse and dark blue cotton skirt. Many had short hair, but more had two long, tightly-braided black pig-tails wound around their heads and kept in place by two scarlet combs. On two very ancient blackboards, propped up on easels, in excellent Spencerian writing were six spelling words and a problem in arithmetic.
The place buzzed with such excite- ment that a plump little teacher, neat and smiling, came forward. I told her, in Spanish, whither I had come. On a sudden she darted towards the side wall and began turning over some large illuminated maps. They were finely made on cloth, and sharply col- ored in brilliant reds and yellows. We found the map of the United States. "California" and "San Francisco." Then turned to the map of South America, and I pointed out the route, and the cities through which we were traveling. It was great pleasure to talk to this neat little maestra. As I left these children in wide brown-eyed wonderment, a chorus arose, "Adios Senora'' "Adios Senora."
Out on the cobbled street again ! A woman, in appearance old and worn, in tattered mother-hubbard gown and a man's old, weather-beaten straw hat, stood in charge of her fruit stand. Under the table, a bundle, wrapped tightly in a soiled red blanket, moved. A tiny, thin baby's face peeped out. This baby-bundle was lying on the hard ground, among the piles of onions and potatoes. I inquired how many children she had. Six! This is the way she keeps her youngest! Across the Plaza, in the church, which re- sembled California's Mission San Juan Bautista, I stood in wonderment be- fore the life-sized statue of a horse carved in wood.
The bell of our engine roused me from my conjectures about this horse. In a moment we were "all aboard" and speeding down hill at a terrific clip. Our nostrils were stinging with the acrid odor of friction. Dust poured in, in gusts. Down the grade we dashed past the tiny green Inca ter- races, the swift streams, mud fences, yellow broom, pink pepper-trees, saf- fron star-flowers, grapevine-covered adobe houses in shady banana groves, breeze-blown sugar cane, pale green corn fields, perky buzzards, brown burros, scrawny dogs, on through the shabby sheds and railway yards to Lima, the city of our quest. With a scramble for hand-bags, we rushed for the gates marked Salida.
The clock was striking five. The evening fog hung low. White street cars clanged along narrow streets. Large white busses and saucy Fords passed each other by the width of a
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FaliActii^itles
Season tickets for the course on In- ternational Barriers are now on sale at the Information Desk. The number of members tickets is limited to five hundred and will be sold in the order of application. The price is $1.00. Two hundred tickets only will be sold to non-members at a price of $4.00 each. This course will offer an op- portunity to hear recognized author- ities on vital subjects. As the capacity of the Auditorium is limited, members who are planning to attend the lectures are advised to procure their tickets at once.
Special Facials
So successful were the "Special Facials" last month in the Beauty Salon of the Women's City Club that there has been a general request that they be continued throughout August. The Beauty Salon Committee has made this concession during the sum- mer lull.
The new permanent wave machine has been greatly appreciated by City Club members going on their vaca- tions, the results being such that they have freedom from curl worries while away.
The new hair cutting expert has be- come very popular with bobbed mem- bers of the City Club, and his chair has a steady stream of customers who aver they receive compliments upon their "cuts."
The Beauty Salon has been about the coolest place in San Francisco and the most restful during the warm wave. Conversely, it is comfortably cozy in cool weather because of the modern and adequate heating facil- ities. It has become a rendezvous for friends meeting after their swim or their gym. ^ ^ ^
Parking In Front of Club - House Prohibited
There is a passenger loading zone in front of the entrance to the City Club. No car may stop more than three minutes. The members of the club have been greatly inconvenienced by disregard of parking regulations.
In order to keep the approach to the club clear the club has asked the co- operation of the Traffic Bureau in strictly enforcing the rule against park- ing more than the allotted time. Any car which is left in the passenger load- ing zone space more than three minutes will be reported to the Traffic Bureau. The co-operation of members in re- porting to the Executive Office cars which are parking more than three minutes will be helpful in keeping the loading zone clear.
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Out -of- Town Members
and Guests
It is the policy of the club to re- serve a number of bedrooms for tran- sient use by both out-of-town mem- bers, and guests who reside fifty miles or more from San Francisco. There are times, however, when the demand for the transient rooms is so great that for a few days at a time there are no vacancies. Members who desire to se- cure accommodations for themselves or guests are requested to make reser- vations in advance. The rates for rooms are: By the day — $2.50 with- out bath and $3.00 with bath, or $15.00 and $18.00 per week respec- tively.
Members may extend to guests priv- ileges of the club for two weeks, the fee for the guest card being 50 cents. Guest cards may be renewed for an additional two weeks upon the pay- ment of 50 cents.
A new ruling has been made where- by members may have issued to their guests who live 50 miles or more from San Francisco "Summer Guest Cards" entitling them to the privileges of the club until September 15 or any portion of that time, upon the payment of $5.00.
Flowers
The Flower and Decoration Com- mittee will be grateful to members who will contribute cut flowers, greens or plants in any quantity to help beau- tify the clubhouse. If members who have flowers but cannot arrange to have them delivered to the club will so advise the Executive Office, an effort will be made to have them called for.
EUi^ator Serif ice
The clubhouse contains three eleva- tors. The first elevator to the right as one approaches from the main en- trance, is the only one of the three which goes above the fourth floor.
In order to facilitate the service and divide the traffic as much as possible, members who are going to the second, third or fourth floors are asked to use the middle and third elevators as much as possible.
It is very natural for everyone to stop at the first elevator but better service all around will be had if the middle and third elevators are used more frequently.
French Classes
French classes will be resumed late in August or early in September. Members who are interested in com- mencing or continuing their French may communicate with Mme. Olivier at the Club or at Evergreen 1358, or register at the Information Desk on the Main Floor.
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Sunday Ei^ening Concert
The first Sunday Evening Concert of the season will take place Septem- ber 22 under the chairmanship of Mrs. Horatio Stoll. Mrs. Stoll and her daughter, Miss Jean Stoll, are passing the summer in the south and the program for September 22 will not be announced until return. The Music Committee this year comprises the following:
Mrs. Horatio F. Stoll, chairman
Mrs. M. E. Blanchard
Mrs. Paul C. Butte
Mrs. Frank Howard Allen
Mrs. Lillian Birmingham
Mrs. Alan Cline
Mrs. Charles Christin
Mrs. Marie Hicks Davidson
Miss Ruth Viola Davis
Mrs. Percy Goode
Mrs. Frederick Grannis
Mrs. Charles H. Holbrook, Jr.
Mrs. Alfred Hurtgen
Mrs. Henry C. Marcus
Mrs. Carlo Morbio
Mrs. Francis M. Shaw
Mrs. Richard tum Suden
Mrs. J. V. Rounsefell
Mrs. Shirley Walker
Mrs. F. B. Wilson
Mrs. Sidney Van Wyck, Jr.
Mrs. Leonard A. Woolams
Guest Cards
A member may secure a guest card for any woman residing more than fifty miles from San Francisco. The guest card entitles the holder to all privileges of the City Club for a peri- od not to exceed two weeks. The priv- ilege of renewal for two weeks, upon payment of fifty cents by the member, may be granted by the Executive Office.
Summer Guest Cards
Until September 15, summer guest cards, good for all or any part of that period, may be issued to members' friends residing more than fifty miles from San Francisco. The fee for such guest card, whether for all or a part of the period, is five dollars, and may be paid either by the member or the guest.
When a summer guest card is is- sued, the regular guest card fee paid for any part of that period may be applied to the five-dollar fee.
Bridge Party
Miss Emogene Hutchinson, chair- man of the Bridge Committee, is ar- ranging a Bridge Party for October.
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Vacation Library Rates
The Sage Circulating Library, lo- cated in the Main Corridor, offers spe- cial vacation rates to out-of-town readers.
Regular subscribers may have books sent to them by paying the postage.
Readers who take books by the day, by paying a deposit of fifty cents, may have books sent to them at a cost of twenty-five cents a week, plus postage.
Itatian Classes
Classes in Italian, or private in- struction, will be given during Fall and Winter by Mme. Steffani. Infor- mation may be obtained at the Desk on the Main Floor, or students may reg- ister there.
The fee for either the French or Italian Classes is $6.50 for 15 lessons. Special rates for conversational classes.
The Economy Shop
The Economy Shop, located on the Mezzanine Floor (entrance through the Shop) solicits donations and con- signments of good used clothing. The demand for used clothing is greater than the supply. Wearing apparel of all kinds, except shoes and hats, is ac- ceptable. All clothing must be cleaned before it is accepted and must have the dry cleaner's tag attached and must be in good style.
Thursday Evening Programs
Every Thursday evening through- out the year (except when Thursday falls on a holiday) excellent and varied programs are offered without charge. Mrs. A. P. Black, Chairman of the Thursday Evening Programs, who has arranged the programs for a number of years, has been remarkably successful in securing outstanding speakers and artists. The programs for the next few weeks are : August 1 — Mr. Philip W. Buck
Subject: Present Day Politics in
Great Britain August 8 — To be announced later. August 15 — Mr. Cavendish Moxon,
Consulting Phychologist
Subject: The New Psychology of
the Will; Inertia and the Way
Out August 22 — Edna Baxter Lawson
Subject: Drama in the Orient
(In costume)
Taxi Service
Arrangements have been made with the Yellow and Checker Cab Com- pany whereby taxis may be called by City Club attendants for use of mem- bers. A direct telephone has been in- stalled on the west wall, just inside the entrance to the clubhouse. A call will bring a taxi within from two to five minutes.
WoMEws City Club
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Published^JMonthly by the Women's City Club, ^6^ Post Street, San Francisco
Fashion Dumber
iptcmber ' 1929
Subscription $1.00 a year * 15 cents a copy
Volume III * No. 8
STANDARD SCHOOL BROADCAST
and the
STANDARD SYMPHONY HOUR
presenting ^he SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Alfred Hertz, Ckmductor
"Ghe LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Artur Rodzinski, Conductor
THE Standard Oil Company takes pleasure in making two important announcements to the Women's City Club.
I. The Standard School Broadcast, so successfully inaugurated last year, is to be resumed on September 5 in a more comprehensive form. Instead of one musical lecture for the school children and music lovers of the Pacific Coast, there will be two — the first from 1 1 :00 to 11 :20 a. m., an elementary course, the second from 11:25 to 11:45 a. m., an advanced course. The lectures will again be prepared by Arthur S. Garbett of the National Broadcasting Company.
II. Beginning Thurs-
day, October 17, the famous San Francisco Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, supplanting the Standard Sjmphony Orchestra now playing.
The School Broadcast
11:00 to 11:45 Thursday mornings
The Symphony Hour
7:30 to 8:30 Thursday evenings
will be broadcast exclusively for the Standard Symphony Hour. These two great musical organizations will perform on alternate Thursday evenings during the year, from 7 :30 to 8 :30 o'clock. They are among the great orchestras of the country, consisting of from ninety to one hundred instruments. Their playing of specially prepared programs will prove a revelation in musical power and beauty.
Women in the home and in groups will find the School Broadcast of great bene- fit. The School Broadcast makes it pos- sible for the mother in the home to hear the same lecture the child is receiving in the school, and together the family may listen with greater apprecia- tion to the Standard Symphony Hour in the evening, the programs of which are linked to the morning lectures.
Broadcast over the Pacific Coast Tsfetu/orl^^ of the National Broadcasting Company
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB CALENDAR
SEPTEMBER I-SEPTEMBER 30, 1929
CHORAL SECTION
Every Monday evening at 7:30, Room 208, beginning September 16. Mrs. Jessie Wilson Taylor, Chairman and Director.
APPRECIATION OF ART
Every Tuesday at 12 noon, Card Room. Mrs. Charles E. Curry, Leader.
LEAGUE BRIDGE
Every Tuesday, 2 o'clock, in the Board Room; 7:30 o'clock in Assembly Room.
THURSDAY EVENING PROGRAMS
Every Thursday evening, 8 o'clock, Auditorium. Mrs. A. P. Black, Chairman.
DISCUSSION OF ARTICLES IN CURRENT MAGAZINES
Third Friday of each month. Board Room. Mrs. Alden Ames, Chairman.
SUNDAY EVENING CONCERTS
Second Sunday of each month. Auditorium, 8:20 o'clock. Mrs. Horatio F. Stoll, Chairman. (The first concert will be held on September 22 and thereafter on the second Sunday.)
National De-
September -1 — Book Review Dinner fenders' Room 6:00 P.M.
"Precious Bane," by Mary Webb Given by Mrs. T. A. Stoddard
5 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Mr. T. A. Richard, Speaker Subject: A Trip to Cyprus
11 — First Lecture on International Barriers Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Dr. Frank Russell Subject: Cultural Barriers
12 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Captain B. Aillet "Northern Africa and the Medi- terranean Countries," Illustrated.
16 — Advertisers' Exhibition Auditorium
17 — Advertisers' Exhibition Auditorium
Fashion Show Third Floor
19 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Mrs. Jessie Ward Haywood Subject: An Evening of Poetry Outdoor Section Board Room 2:30 and 7:30
20 — Discussion of Articles in Current Magazines . . . .Board Room 2:00 P.M.
22 — First Sunday Evening Concert Auditorium 8:20 P.M.
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1929
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Entered as second-class matter April 14, 1928, at the Post Office at San Francisco, California, under the act of March 3, 1879.
SAN FRANCISCO
Vol. Ill
SEPTEMBER
1929
No. 8
QONTENTS
Club Calendar 2
Frontispiece 8
Autumn Defines Its Mode 9
These Feminized Fashions 10
By Mary Coghlan
"Chic" Amenable to Beauty 11
By Eleanor Burns
The Scenic Side of Grand Opera 12
By Giovanni Grandi
City of the Kings 14
By Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard
Periodic Health Examinations 15
Fall and Winter Events at City Club . . 16-17
Beyond the City Limits 18
By Mrs. Parker Maddux
British Consul's Tribute 19
By Gerald Campbell
Morning in a Hotel Lobby 21
By Muriel Edwards
I Have Been Reading 24
Bv Eleanor Preston Watkins
OFFICERS OF THE WOMEN'S CITY CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO
President Miss Marion W. Leale
First Vice-President Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper
Second Vice-President Mrs. Paul Shoup
Third Vice-President Miss Mabel Pierce
Recording Secretary Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr.
Corresponding Secretary Mrs. W. F. Booth, Jr.
Treasurer Mrs. S. G. Chapman
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Women's City Club of San Francisco
Mrs. A. P. Black Miss Marion Leale
Mrs. William F. Booth, Jr. Mrs. Parker S. Maddux
Mrs. Le Roy Briggs Miss Henrietta Moffat
Dr. Adelaide Brown Mrs. Harry Staats Moore
Miss Marion Burr Miss Emma Noonan
Mrs. Louis J. Carl Mrs. Howard G. Park
Mrs. S. G. Chapman Miss Esther Phillips
Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr. Miss Mabel Pierce
Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper Mrs. Edward Rainey
Miss Marion Fitzhugh Mrs. Paul Shoup
Mrs. Frederick Funston Mrs. H. A. Stephenson
Mrs. W. B. Hamilton Mrs. T. A. Stoddard
Mrs. Lewis P. Hobart Miss Elisa May Willard
Mrs. Marcus S. Koshland Mrs. James T. Wood, Ir.
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THE
WomtvC& Citj> Club iWaga^ine ^cJ)ool Birectorp
BOYS' SCHOOLS
SAN DIEGO
Army and Navy
Academy
JUNIOR UNIT R. O. T. C.
Member of the Association of Military Colleges & Schools of the United States
"The West Point of the West"
"CLASS M" rating of War Department; fully accredited; preparatory to college, West Point and Annapolis. Separate lower school for young boys. Junior College will be offered for session of 1929-30. Summer sessions. Located on bay and ocean. Land and water sports all year. Christian influences. Send for catalog.
CX3L. THOS. A. DAVIS, President
Box C M. Pacific Beach Station San Diego, California
PACIFIC COAST MILITARY ACADEMY
A private boarding school for boys between
S and 14 years of age.
Summer Session starts June 16.
Fall Terra starts September 10.
For information write
MAJOR ROYAL W. PARK
Box 611-W Menlo Park, Calif.
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The DAMON SCHOOL
( Successor to the Potter School )
A Day School for Boys
{ ACCREDltED 1
Fall Term Opens September 4
Primary, Grammar and High School Departments . . . featur- ing small classes and individual instruction. Prepares for all Eastern and Western colleges.
I. R. DAMON, A. M. (Harvard)
Headmaster 1901 Jackson St. Tel. OR dway 8632
\\iACH month in this Directory you will find an excellent list of schools where your children will be happy and receive careful in- struction. For your conven- ience, catalogs for the schools represented here will be found at the Information Desk, Main Lobby, Women's City Club.
BOYS' and GIRLS' SCHOOLS
TTie ALICE B. CANFIELD SCHOOL
Established 1925 in San Francisco
FIFTH YEAR OPENS September i6, 1929 For little children from three to eight years of age
NURSERY SCHOOL . . . PREPRTMARY . . . PRIMARY GRADES
All-day Session: nine o'clock to half past four o'clock.
Half-day Session: nine o'clock to half past one o'clock, including lunch.
Small Session (Nursery School): nine o'clock to eleven forty-five.
Supervised Play: for older children after three o'clock.
Music . . . Manual Arts . . . French.
Mrs. Alice B. Canfield, Director
2653 Steiner Street, between Pacific Avenue and Broadway, San Francisco
Telephone Fillmore 7625
SPECIAL SCHOOL
Ktcdy for Play
A SCHOOL FOR NERVOUS AND RETARDED CHILDREN
THE CEDARS
CORA C. MYERS. Head
A School in a natural environment of
distinctive beauty " where children
develop latent talents.
Address
THE CEDARS
Ross, Marin County, California BOYS' and GIRLS' SCHOOLS
The Airy Mountain School
ANNETTE HASKELL FLAGG. Director
Boarding
and Day
Pupils
3 to I a years
FALL
term opens
Sept. 3rd
420 Molino Avenue
Mill Valley
DREW
SCHOOL
a'Year High School Course admits to college. Credits valid in high school.
Grammar Courae,,
accredited, saves half time.
Private Lessons, any hour. Night, Day. Both sexes. Annapolis, West Point, College Board tutoring. Secretarial^ Academic two-year course, entitles to High School Diploma. Civil Service Coaching — all lines.
2901 California St.
Phone WEst 7069
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BOYS' and GIRLS' SCHOOLS
Peninsula School
of Creative Education
An elementary day school for boys and girls where learning is interpreted as an active process. Music, art, shop, dancing are given a place in the regular curricu- lum. The needs of the individual child are studied.
A limited number of boarding pupils will
be cared for by the faculty in
their own homes.
Josephine W. Duveneck, Director
MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA
^he PRESIDIO
OpewAir School
Marion E. Turner, Principal
Elementary education for girls and boys from kindergarten to high school Healthful Thorough Progressi've
HOT LUNCHES SERVED
Phones 3839.
SK yline 9318 WASHINGTON
FI llmore 3773 STREET
^he ^obin School
AN ACCREDITED DAY SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Pre-Primary through Junior High Grades
136 Eighteenth Avenue
San Francisco . . Calif.
Fall Term begins
Tuesday, September 3, 1929
Telephones:
EVergreen 8434 EVergreen 1112
SECRETARIAL SCHOOLS
California Secretarial School
iNnmucnoN Day A^a> Bvining
Benjamin P. Pctctt fraidtnt
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Itu&yidiuU
Instruction
for Indi'viduaL
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RUSS BUILDING • • SAN FRANaSCO
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MacALEER SCHOOL For Private Secretaries
Each student receives individual instruction.
A booklet of information will be
furnished upon request.
Mary Genevieve MacAleer, Principal
68 Post Street Telephone DAvenport 6473
SCHOOL OF GARDENING
. The CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF » GARDENING FOR WOMEN
ofTers a two-years' course in practical gardening to women who wish to take up gardening as a profession or to equip themselves for making and working their home gardens. Communicate with
MISS JUDITH WALROND-SKINNER
R. F. D. Route I, Box 173
Hayward, Calif.
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ANNOUNCES
ITS FALL, TCKM
Open Air School and Sunshine Farm for Children
Following closely the curriculum of the Bay region schools. Enabling children to build up sturdy bodies, yet return to their own school at any time, and still be in the right class where they belong.
Nine acres in eastern foothills, authoritatively pronounced "the most equable tem- perate climate in the world." Buildings in units adapted to outdoor living the year round. Nurse in attendance in boys' and girls' dormitories. Screened sleeping quarters. Electrically heated dressing rooms.
Children thrive under regular routine, combined with normal home atmosphere. Admission only on recommendation of personal physician. No tuberculosis, conta- gious, or mental cases taken. Accommodations for thirty children.
Every scientific advantage for body-building ; Sun-baths, Rest, Diet, Hygiene, Corrective Exercises, Group Psychology. Write for Particulars.
DR. DAVID LACEY HIBBS MRS. DAVID LACEY HIBBS
Los Gatos, California
BUILDING HEALTH ALONG WITH SCHOOL-WORK
GIRLS' SCHOOLS
Miss MARKER'S SCHOOL
PALO ALTO CALIFORNLA
Upper School — College Preparatory and Special Courses in Music, Art, and Secretarial Training.
Lower School — Individual Instruction. A separate residence building for girls from 5 to 14 years.
Open Air Swimming Pool Outdoor life all the year round
Catalog upon request
The Sarah Dix Hamlin School
Si.xty-sixth year Boarding and Day School for Girls of all ages. Pre-primary school giving spe- cial instruction in French. College preparatory.
Fall Term Opens September lo
A booklet of information will be fur- nished upon request.
Mrs. Edward B. Stan-woodjB.L.
Principal 2120 Broadway Phone WE st 2211
HE choice of a school or camp for your child demands much careful thought, for. of course, each offers a different environment and influence. The purpose of this Directory is to helpyou to find the one school or camp where your boy or girl will be happiest — and we ask only that you mention the Wom- en's City Club Magazine when writing these schools
TJie 'bAargaret Bentley School
[Accredited]
LUCY L. SOULE, Principal
High School, Intermediate and
Primary Grades
Home department limited
2722 Benvenue Avenue, Berkeley, Calif.
Telephone Thornwall 3820
LANGUAGE SCHOOLS
LE DOUX SCHOOL OF FRENCH
ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF THEIR NEW STUDIOS AT
545 Sutter Street
Formerly at 133 Geary Street GArf^eld 3962
SCHOOL OF
FRENCH and SPANISH
PROFESSOR A. TOURNIER
133 Geary St., San Francisco. KE arny 4879 and 2415 Fulton St., Berkeley. AShberry 4210
Private Lessons — Special Classes (Conversation)
$3 a Month. Coaching: High School and
College — Courses by Correspondence
Students received at any time
Enrollment now open
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE
VOLUME III
SAN FRANCISCO ' SEPTEMBER ^ I929
NUMBER 8
Autumn Defines Its Mode;
Cool Weather Brings a Definite
Rhythm In Wearing Apparel
STYLE is indefinable. Most women, however, and not a few men, know it unmistakably when they see it. They get it by a mysterious sixth sense. It is on a par with that ineffable something which Sir James Barrie said every woman knows and is called charm, and like charm it has neither dimension nor density.
It is imponderable, yet in the passing show weighs more than many substantial things. In the Pomander Walk where fashions are made and unmade it is the crowned guest.
Style is what constitutes smartness. It is what defines chic. It is that which whispers to a woman that a garment, new as it may appear, though it hang on the racks of the swankiest shop in town, is a left-over of the season just waning.
It is the prescience which prophesies what is to be worn next week, next month, tomorrow.
Although impalpable, it is to the smart woman as real as the most tangible object in her scheme of things. It is the difference between perfection of grooming and the casual manner of dressing which is so general and so un- necessary.
Some women achieve style on slender means ; others can- not compass it with the spending of unlimited money. The happy mean is the greatest amount of style with the least expenditure of money, not for the sake of the mone- tary consideration but for the implied economy of line and rhythm.
What are the cardinal differences between the styles of the coming season and the one just ending? To the casual observer the shop windows show the usual array of fall clothes, with furs and velvets and other wintry fabrics leading as in other autum.ns. One who has not fol- lowed the nuances of fashion through the months prob- ably would not discover much difference between a window on Grant Avenue last September and the same window this September. Unless the windows were labeled such a person possibly would mistake one for the other.
But not the expert or the adept.
The waist line is definitely higher. The blouse un- doubtedly is snugger. Skirts, notably in the evening gowns, are longer and more complicated as to line. In fact, the line is apt to twist into a bunchv effect here or there,
presaging a trend toward the puffs and bows of the Victorian era.
Even an "empire" gown or two has timidly pressed its demure silhouette into the picture of the Fashions of 1929- 30. But hips will be as inconspicuous as ever, which is, as they can be made. There is no use in trying to "adapt" the dresses of last year, for the waist line cannot be arbitrarily lifted as one presses a button for the elevator to go up. The new lines and silhouettes must be designedly cut that way and built to fit. For we are not going back to anything. We are going forward to 1930 and the cou- turiers are building the mode to fit the necessities of this period, which is one of more elegance and leisure than we have had since the war.
Gloves for the evening is one of the startling novelties of the mode. Fourteen and twenty inches are the length for day wear and about two inches above the wrist is good for evening wear. All gloves are wrinkled at wrist, and a wide, handsome bracelet is much better style than the "service stripes" which have rattled on our arms for many seasons.
Evening gowns of crepes in solid colors and the supple printed lame (metallic) cloths are to be much worn, with the printed chiffons and crepes almost out of the picture. Shoulder capes and berthas and the long, undulating scarfs and ends and ribbands give the evening mode a feel- ing of swaying motion. Scarfs are to be worn in every con- ceivable way, even tied to the arm, as in the days of the angel sleeve.
Artificial jewelry is on the wane. Earrings are not so generally seen in Paris evenings as of yore.
Evening slippers are very simple. No more complicated straps or combinations of material. A satin or crepe slipper dyed to match the gown is the favorite.
There seems to be no especial color for the fall, but the dull reds, bordering on the hennas, appear to lead in street suits. Coats are fur trimmed as much as ever, with brown and beige furs taking the lead. VeKtt wraps are seen at the opera and theater, the short, cocktail jacket length being popular at the moment. Satin evening coats, much shirred and puffed, have been seen.
In fact, it would seem that the truly smart woman has as much latitude as ex-er to express her individuality, keep- ing within those uncharted areas known as the realms of chic.
women's city club magazine for SEPTEMBER
1929
These Feminized Fashions
By Mary Coghlan Member PF omen's City Club
Ar first faint whisperings, mere breaths of prophecy, then the ■autumn Paris Openings sounded a note of reassurance — the American buyers returned, verifying and bringing with them the actual proofs that a new era has dawned in feminine fashions, an era in which femininity shall be feminized through an elegance of mode both subtle and full of imagination.
Our San Francisco shops are dis- playing a bewildering array of these feminized fashions for the delectation of our women of fashion. This return to femininity, to this mode which speaks in rhythmic lines, grace and symmetry, has been received with open arms and its acceptance has been in- stantaneous.
There is an opinion held by a great number of women and by most men, that changes in fashion are mere whims or caprices and simply an effort to satisfy woman's insatiable desire for variety. To those who trace fashions to their source it is an accepted fact that the feminine fashions, of every country and at all periods of time, have been faithful reflectors of the events of their time. That woman, through her mode of dress, has recorded the ethical and social atmosphere of her own age. So as we view the revolu- tionary change transpiring in our own feminine fashions in the light of this information and if we consider the change in the character of the world at large with the advent of war and austerity and the return to peace and prosperity, we shall see how consistent these changes are. And in this "in- dividualistic age" which is marking another cycle in world history, what more consistent note could Dame Fashion strike than her individualistic mode, dominating as it does every phase of the new feminized fashions. Women of fashion the world over have been quick to sense that it is in- dividuality which is inspiring and ani- mating this new mode and in their ac- ceptance place the stamp of their own personality upon that which they adopt. And it is only when personal- ity vitalizes a mode that smartness and distinction can be achieved.
With the appearance of every new mode there is an inevitable multitude of details to be noted and intelligence must be brought to bear upon the problem of our selection if we wish not to be lost. The wise woman looks for the danger points in the mode,
realizing that these new fashions con- tain many chic details but which are not always chic on every individual. That sort of intuition which tells a woman how to dress to "type" and that knowledge that the acme of good taste is smartness properly adjusted to its suitable occasion, should be devel- oped by every woman. It is probable that through the hectic fashions which have passed since the close of the war, women have been schooling them- selves and building up a philosophy of style so that they are now quite pre- pared to enjoy these feminized fash- ions.
In summing up the new mode, now that it has been presented in detail by our numerous smart shops, we find that certain characteristics are out- standing. Of first importance is the princess silhouette ; also the silhouette combining the princess with the lengthened silhouette, expressed through long flowing draperies at side or back. The slightly longer skirt af- fecting even sport skirts as well as the dressy costume. The introduction of circular flares in sport coats and tail- ored suits. The more lavishly inter- preted ensemble, incorporating in its makeup many of the outstanding fea- tures of the mode — the asymmetrical pleats, necklines of the greatest diver- sity, snug fitting hip yokes. Another characteristic of fundamental influ- ence is the raising of the waistline.
As to materials. Velvets in the most colorful patterns of endless va- riety, are first in importance for eve- ning gatherings. Also, lace, both ecru and cream, alone or combined with chiffon is also very smart. Taffeta and tulle are offered for the debutante or the younger matron. Colorful printed silks will hold precedence over the plain silk frock for daytime wear, with a wide variety of heavy silks, fine woolens and kashas also suggested. Tweeds are of first importance for sport wear, especially for the strictly out-of-doors costume.
Our next concern is our choice of color, that most important ingredient of this new mode; colors, rich and vibrant, multicolored and monochrome com- binations. In deciding this diflicult matter we should remember that the new bright dark blue combined with beige, white or flesh color are smart for town wear; also that the deep raspberry red in monotone or com- bined with navy blue or that brown, alone or combined with pale cham-
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pagne or with yellow are also ex- tremely good. For more formal wear the very lovely new velvets, so color- ful in their endless variety of vivid combinations, \\\\\ of themselves gov- ern the color scheme. All white is suggested and will be very popular for sport wear but can be combined through the introduction of clever ac- cessories with black, the new dark bright blue, red, yellow and also brown. Canarj^-yellow is equally pop- ular and there is also that new shade of vivid red with a yellow cast which is high in favor. Then there is a long range of the pastel shades to choose from but for the real out-of-doors cos- tume and golf wear, beige continues in the lead with red and almond-green running close seconds.
We also understand that Paris has made certain suggestions pertaining to our appearance on different occasions. So if one is ambitious in the matter of chic one should not appear at luncheon at the smart restaurants in the sport suit in which golf was enjoyed during the morning no matter how "femin- ized" this sport outfit might be. Neither can the mid-day luncheon costume have a suggestion of the for- mality now necessary for the afternoon dancing or tea frock. And there should be an elegance about the gown for formal evening wear which places it apart from the dinner gown for ap- pearance at public restaurants which should be of simple decolletage.
This autumn the millinery story is a tale that cannot be told briefly, for Paris is sponsoring and insisting upon the complete hat wardrobe. There is to be no casualness about the selection of these hats but definite carefully di- rected selection. The felt or cloth hat of utter simplicity for the sports cos- tume. Then with the morning or luncheon costume a felt but of more complicated design can be used. Then there is to be the hat for the formal occasion and these must be entirely different in character. Simplicity must be affected by an elaboration so subtle that the difference is only suggested.
And finally there is the question of accessories and in today's mode an all important one. So perfect should the well dressed woman's accessories be, her bag, her gloves, her shoes and her stockings in their quality, their cut and their color harmony that the frock may almost be regarded as a mere background for their polished chic.
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1929
''C'y^/V Becomes Amenable toCanons of Beauty
By Eleanor Burns
NATURAL and personal qual- ities are coming back into fa- shion.
For some time chic was a distinctly hard quality and prettiness was taboo.
From now on it will be possible to be both pretty and chic. The new hats are showing greater individuality and charm than for many seasons back. For those who can wear them, the severe, off-the-forehead models are still very smart. In fact those extremely fortun- ate people who possess lovely, regular, features should take advantage of the vogue for unusual effects. But for women not so blessed, the severe lines are anathema, they should wear the new brims which give a soft, flattering line over the eyes. The first considera- tion in choosing a hat in either one of these types is the crown. It should form a perfect oval with the face so that the line from the point of the chin to the crown of the head is perfect. It should fit like a cap or a wig, with no wrin- kling or fullness to mar the line. When the crown is perfect the brim is easily adjusted to the requirements of the wearer.
Small, simple felts will still be smartest for sports wear. They are be- ing shown in a variety of very bright colors as well as in the established neutral shades. Their trimmings are simple and their brims rather wide and flaring. They are never so severe in line as those smart for afternoon and street wear.
For formal afternoon wear, wide brimmed felts with the weight of the hat in the back are very new. Black with ornaments of jade, coral, tur- quoise or crystal is very effective and will be much worn since the vogue for contrast is constantly growing.
The soft draped turban continues to grow in popularity. It ranges from the little cloth beret in the most informal manner to the very formal models made in velvet, satin or supple fur with jeweled ornaments. Fur as a hat material will be much more popular this season than it was last year. It is used for crowns where the wide brims are made of felt or velvet, and is com- bined with these two materials in the close fitting toques. Avery smart touch for the tweed ensemble is one of these little turbans made in some very bright color with a scarf to match. Some of these sets are made in materials striped in contrasting colors.
No wardrobe can afford to be with- out a tweed ensemble this season, they are coming in such lovely colors and such clever designs that they are ex-
New Fall Style
A daytime frock of black satin and white crepe Bemberg presented at the Fall Fashion Promenade of the Garment Retailers of America at the Hotel Astor, New York. The costume was designed by one of the leading couturiers represented at the showing.
tremely beautiful as well as very prac- tical. The coat to such a costume, while
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it is really a part of a suit, can be used as a top coat for silk or woolen dresses. The most popular lengths for these are three-quarters and seven-eighths. Some are made shorter but if one expects to use it as a separate coat it is better to have it fairly long. They are trimmed with long- or short-haired furs or with self material with equal smartness, for in coats as well as in hats the wearer can find many types from which to choose the one most suited to herself. The cloth coats for afternoon and formal wear are longer than those for street and country wear. They are very cleverly cut to give subtle fulness about the bottom in some cases, though the straight coat with broken lines in the back still continues to be smart. This type of coat should be long enough to cover dresses which reach from four to five inches below the knee. Some un- evenness is shown in the afternoon coat, it may be a bit shorter in the front to disclose the dress. Black is the smartest color in coats as well as in hats. Fur of the short-haired type is much used in the scarf collar which is cut like cloth. Large collars of fox and other long-haired furs are very smart and very flattering.
Fur coats are cut on exactly the same lines as cloth ones. The bulkiness of former years has given way to slim supple lines. They display the same in- tricacy of cut as those made in fabrics, and they are made in almost all furs with equal success.
For the woman who can not have a great variety of clothes the smartest combination for this season is a black coat and hat which can be worn with dresses in such colors as coral, greens in the brighter shades, blues and reds. It is best in all cases to have the hat match the coat rather than the dress. The jewels should match the dress.
Gay scarfs, worn about the head, are popular for sports or motoring; they may be knotted, in bandanna fashion, or swathed into a little hat, with the aid of a ring of bright-col- ored composition, which holds the ends in place.
Among new accessories, just ar- rived from Paris, is an evening bag of pale pink faille, stitched with silver, with pastel cellophane flowers, mount- ed on a frame of enameled flowers, with blue stone centers.
A new fabric, destined for a big success during the fall season, is rayon panne velvet ; it is now being shown in evening gowns in the same exquis- itely-toned colors that have been used for transparent velvet.
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1929
The Scenic Side of Grand Opera
By Giovanni Grandi
This article was read at the Century Club on a day given to Grand Opera. Giovanni Grandi was for two years the scenic artist for the San Francisco Opera Association. He is considered one of the great scenic artists of the day, and came here from La Scala in Milan, where he is one of the staff of that Opera House. — Editor's Note.
GRAND opera is a combination of four different arts. When you look at grand opera you have a chance to be present at a group- ing of four different kinds of art work- ing in unison. You have the poetical side (the meaning of the drama that is represented), the musical side, and you have the picturesque and, fourthly, the histrionic side. These four appar- ently different arts must go hand in hand. As the music must express the right emotion of the poetry, so the scenic part must be in harmony also.
The first important specific part of the scenic art in grand opera is the expression of the thing which you wish to represent. In every musical or poetical composition there are emo- tiotial situations to be expressed ; also in the picturesque part. For example, the room in which a crime is to take place cannot be the same room, or have the same appearance, as the one where- in a love scene is to be enacted. The colors, the coordination of lines, the rhythm of the spaces must be changed. The staging of a big mass of people has to have the possibility of space to contain them. Sometimes you must give more space than is required ma- terially, to contain these people. Some- times j'ou have to give an appearance of open country well filled with people. This illusion is produced by various artifices.
The possibilities of a stage are quite limited, and the artist is always obliged to call to his aid different tricks. These vulgarly called tricks are the constructive peculiarities of the different styles of art.
There are three forms of art : real- istic, expressionistic and impressionis- tic. I think in these three words you can more or less express the corner points of the triangle. There does not exist, I think, an absolutely realistic, expressionistic nor impressionistic form of art.
Realistic form of art is considered one that represents things as they are in real life. In general it is considered a kind of illusionistic art. Impression- istic art is understood, in a few words, to be a form that tries to suggest the exterior atmosphere of things, while expressionistic art endeavors with com- binations of color and design to un- cover to the observer the interior
meaning of the appearance of things.
In scenery painting we have had more or less all the possible expressions of art existing. It is difficult to speak of scenery painting as an isolated thing because there is too great a con- nection between the scenery, properly called, and the living personages on the stage. The artist on the stage is ahvays a part of the scenery. Some- times scenery may be quite good in itself, but no good at all as a back- ground for a group of artists or one artist. On the contrary, a very good background for the play of artists may look quite uninteresting when the stage is empty.
Scenic painting is a very old art and many important things have been done from the earliest times to the most modern. It would be a long work to make a serious study of this art. The interest taken by the cultivated public in the theatre has been the means of calling many talented people to theatrical work in the last twenty years. Many of these people, unhap- pily, have tried to destroy what was called the traditions of scenic art. There is a quite natural reason for this, because in the last half of the past century scenic art has fallen into the hands, not of artists, but of job makers. What is now called tradition was only a corruption of the old art. In proof of this I can say that some of the most experienced artists who work for the theatre and some of the most celebrated ones have studied and used much of the work of the old masters of the stage, like the Italian Bibiena, Piranesi, Gonzago and others.
Grand opera, or a performance of grand opera, is the expression of a work of art not always contemporane- ous. It has usually been composed and written with means and ideals very different from those of our time. The tragedy of the scenic artist is the con- flict between himself and the person- ality of the composer of the work. There are two ways of meeting this difficulty : sacrifice the composer or sacrifice himself. The curious thing is to watch for the point where a com- promise can be found between the two different mentalities.
I think that the scenic artist can only express himself completely when he is called to perform the work of his
contemporaries. In certain cases he is sometimes obliged to make an eclec- tical kind of work, in composing a thing which he does not sincerely be- lieve. Otherwise, he can do what is sometimes done in our time — ignore the composer absolutely and make something by or for himself which sel- dom can have any coordination with the work represented. An example is the performance of Shakespeare in modern dress given in our time in England.
One of the most important factors of modern scenic painting is the light- ing. The most remarkable improve- ments in scenic art are due to the ad- vancement in lighting. But in spite of all the modern achievements in light- ing, when we study grand opera scenically we find the possibilities are still quite limited. In fact, I would say that the improvements have not changed very deeply the character of the scenery for grand opera.
Many experiments have been done in constructing parts of scenery abso- lutely in relief to match better the volume and the movements of the per- sonages on the stage. But strong tech- nical reasons have proved these experi- ments quite useless or of little use on large stages. One of the main reasons is the lighting apparatus. What is possible on a very small stage is abso- lutely impractical, and I daresay al- most impossible, on a large stage. Con- structed scenery asks for very strong projectors to show their relief. The proportion between the width of a large stage and the lighting power is still to he found.
So the artist for operatic scenery does not have very much more at his disposal than had the artists of two hundred years ago!! The scenic artist of two hundred years ago had to his aid a greater skill and a greater expe- rience and practice than has the aver- age scenic artist of today, and this for reasons of social and school organiza- tion.
Scenic artists of today can be divided into two different groups. There are very able craftsmen who, unhappily, have little artistic knowledge. There are scores of good artists who have tried to work for the theatre but have been a great deal handicapped by their lack of actual experience. In olden
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times, scenic artists were sometimes the finest architects and painters of the epoch. In our time very much has been done to elevate the artistic value of theatrical performances from the standpoint of painting. Great artists have given all of their talents, love and soul to this cause.
The qualities required of an artist who does scenery painting are of great importance. Knowledge of styles of architecture is very essential. Few painters, even good painters, have enough architectural knowledge. The habits of specialization created by modern life have produced this situa- tion. In the golden century of art, most of the artists could paint a fresco or a portrait; build a cathedral; and model a statue. Their deep knowledge of the laws of architecture showed it- self in the marvelous rhythmical com- position of their painting. Pictorial feeling and artistry were evident in the display of architectural construc- tion. When you look at a church or a palace built by a painter, you see that he understood the relation between the building and the surrounding atmos- phere of the landscape. Also, when you look at his painting you feel, underneath the surface of color and through the rhythm of the lines the overpowering knowledge of the eter- nal rhythm of architecture.
Scenery is neither a painting nor an architectural composition — it is some- thing between the two. A painting has only one surface. Whatever its size and from whatever angle you observe it, the appearance is always the same. The relation between the different parts is fixed and unchangeable. A building, on the contrary, has volume, and changes its appearances from dif- ferent points of view. Scenery should be called a painting on different sur- faces. There is always a changing point of view, depending upon the position of the audience in the theatre.
One of the difficulties of scenery painting is to keep the different parts, in a certain harmonic relation between themselves, as seen from any distance or angle in the audience. Very often I have seen quite interesting modern or ultra-modern scenery, which would
have been very good as a painting, ap- pear quite absurd as scenery, because the abstraction of the pictorial concep- tion was in direct contrast to the real- istic scene enacted. I have seen charm- ing scenery by a French artist made purposely childish and naive, where the table was drawn with an inten- tionally mistaken perspective as a child would do it. The tragedy was that from the audience the table looked like a real table but with one leg on the floor and the other three in the air. This unreal and incomprehensible composition disturbed the atmosphere of the acting very much.
This is a kind of polemical talk apropos at this moment when there is great trouble between the would-be lover and those really interested in scenery painting. There is a kind of disrespect for realistic things, and a kind of hobby for the unreal. I think this is quite an amateurish point of view. The different forms of drama must be expressed by scenery painting of quite different character. There are dramas and operas that are realis- tic and some that are abstract. The scenery must necessarily correspond to the character of the drama unless you want to thrill the public with some- thing absurd. I have seen a {>erform- ance of Pagliacci by Leoncavallo given with a kind of cubistic scenery and costumes. The effect was undoubtedly extraordinary and thrilling, but it had all the appearance of a masquerade ; and the contrast between the realistic play of the actors and the conventional character of the scenery was extremely fantastic. In contrast, I have seen staging and scenery for operas like "Pelleas and Melisande" done very carefully in a quite realistic manner with fiill knowledge of the style of the supposed epoch. All of this marvelous would-be historical and stylistic com- position resulted only in destroying the beauty of such a work where the charm consists mainly in the dreamy, fairy-like character of the play.
One of the greatest difficulties in staging a theatrical performance is to harmonize the directing personnel of a production. There are three people necessary: a stage director, a musical
director and a painter, each one hav- ing often entirely different ideas on the subject. It is human for each un- consciously to want his own work to dominate that of the others. The tendency in general is to try to over- power instead of to understand one another. It is very amusing sometimes to see who is the best man.
Very often I have had the vision of composing the scenery for an old opera in a quite different way from that gen- erally accepted. Usually I have been obliged to sacrifice my view because the rehearsal of a new kind of play for the artists and the chorus seemed to be an impossible task or too expensive. Only when this difficulty is overcome, will we be able to have a really new, interesting and artistic kind of setting.
The importance of theatrical art is not yet fully understood by the govern- ing people. The theatre of today should have the task which the church possessed in the past century. The cultural power of the theatre is greater than many cultural manifesta- tions; but in order to achieve the greatest result {the spiritual pleasure which the theatre can give to the people) it is necessary to inspire the public with the faith of the greatness of the performance. The final pur- pose of dramatic expression is to awaken a sincere emotion in the aud- ience. If all the elements of the theatrical performance are not of the same standard, the emotion is killed at its birth. If you listen to beautiful singing or acting with an inadequate background, the atmosphere for the emotion is lost. You may be led to for- get what is being sung or acted. You do not believe in the truth of your emotion.
It is difficult to explain how a work of art should be achieved. Different artists can express the same thing in an entirely different manner in an equally worthy way. This is the charm of art. The important thing is to elevate to the importance of art what has been considered until now a craft. Only when the public will demand the best in scenery painting will the best be accomplished.
What matter if I stand alone?
I wait with joy the coming years; My heart shall reap where it has sown.
And garner up its fruit of tears.
The waters knoiu their own and draw The brook that springs in yonder height.
So flows the good with equal law. Unto the soul of pure delight.
— John Burroughs.
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CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for SEPTEMBER • I929
** City of the Kings^^
By Beatrice Snow Stoddard (Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard)
Extract from her diary, written while Dr. and Mrs. Stoddard were traveling last Autumn in South America
THE Age of Romance has not ceased ;it never ceases; it does not, if we think of it, so much as very sens- ibly decline." We mused upon these words of Car- Ijde's, that shrewd observer of human activities, as we set forth into Lima, that cit\^ half modern, half dream of old days, whose history is a mixture of the heroic, the marvel- ous, the mysterious ; whose life captures the imagination because it blends the very old with the very new in actions, manners, ideas, and language. It became for us a City of Contrasts between the Romance of the dreamy Spanish mahana days, and the Romance of the speed and conven- ience of the present century.
Lima, Ciudad de los Reyes,Q\x.y of the Kings, was found- ed by Francisco Pizarro, in 1535, in honor of his King, Charles V, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. As it grew to be the principal city of all Spanish America, the name, Ciudad de los Reyes, soon gave place to Lima, a Spanish euphonizing of the rough Indian word Rimac, the river which glides a glistening thread in winter, and rages a foaming torrent in summer.
The wily Conquistador, Pizarro, true to his Spanish tra- ditions, centralized his city in the Plaza de Armas. This old- est plaza is the chief link between the luxurious grandeur of the Vice-Regal days and the energetic swift-moving prosperous present of a democratic Republic. On its east side, Pizarro, himself, laid the cornerstone of the Cathedral in honor of his God and his Church, on the north, placed the sumptuous Palace of the Viceroys, the emblem of his King. On the south and the west, series of rounded arches over the pavement, Portales, support the ancient blackened cedar Moorish balconies, where still pass today, the mer- chants, and still dwell the citizens.
We stroll along the time worn rose and grey tiled walks, which intersected the velvet green laws skirting the trunks of age-old cocoa palms, w^hose feathery branches drooped high above us in the hot sun, and came to a stop beside the bubbling fountain in the center of this ancient plaza. The twin towers and broad facade, with its original sturdy brass-studded wooden doors and carvings, faced us above the wide weather beaten stone steps of Pizarro's Cathedral. Begun in 1535, it stood for a hundred years before it was consecrated. Another century rolled by and an earthquake laid it in ruins. Then, in ten short years, it was rebuilt with its undemolished parts, on the same cornerstone. We to- day, enter past the same magnificent doors to be enthralled by the wide double aisles, ten chapels, the great solid silver high-altar, the immense choir-loft and intricately carved mahogany and cedar pulpit, a real Murillo — "La Ver- onica"— and even by Pizarro himself, for in a modern ornate chapel, with wrought iron and gold gateway, his prone skeleton and entrails are displayed, well preserved in hermetically sealed glass cases.
In this pious city, religious processions are mandatory and frequent. As luck would have it, the procession of "Our Lady of the Miracles" was the chief celebration dur- ing our sojourn. Three centuries ago, "Our Lady of the Miracles" was implored by the people to intercede and stop a terrific earthquake. Her image is said to have raised its hands toward Heaven and the earth was quiet. Very early on this morning in October, we noticed that every man, woman, and child, young and old, rich and poor, was wearing, over his street clothes a long purple cotton robe, girdled with a white cotton cord, all alike and so well made that they were evidently provided by the Church. Each
person purchased a tall white wax candle, striped with purple bands, from one of the numerous negro candle- vendors, who had set up impromptu stands and kept up a continuous crying of their wares. Our footsteps hastily followed into the thick of the procession as it slowly wended its way down the narrow cobblestoned and crowded one-way street and up another, while the stocky little "traffic cop," in olive-drab, with scarlet collar and cuffs and brass buttons galore, standing on his tiny platform, kept a stolid "poker face" as he whistled and diverted the automobiles, buses, two-wheeled donkey carts and tipping push-wagons into the opposite Calle. In the midst of this moving mass of humanity, a shrine, adorned with great gold and silver candlesticks, and huge silver rose-filled cornucopias, and containing, shielded behind gold fringed purple satin curtains, an image of "Our Lady of the Miracles," was carried on the shoulders of four aco- lytes, wearing, over red cassocks, delicate linen surplices edged with real lace. The crowd of the faithful was mot- ley. Many a thrifty old woman had secured a telling spot on the pavement where she set up her brazier of burning charcoal, with stew-kettle of sausages in steaming tomato sauce, and, squatting on the ground, with her basket of buns at her elbow, was doing a thriving "hot-dog" business.
From the procession, led by soldiers with glistening bay- onets and spanking brass band, we moved away to heed the twin calls of Romance and Modernism. Entrancing echoes of Beauty, Love, and Intrigue charmed our senses as we passed through the old gateway of the Palace of La Perri- choli, peeped into the long dining-hall, with its exquisite carved appointments, followed on into the gardens, fruit and flower laden, down to the bottom of the brick pathway, where still stands, weather beaten and hoary, her old foun- tain, where the waters of the Rimac played, where the lusty and tricky old Viceroy — the most elegant of them all — Don Manuel de A?nat y Julient, courted this gorgeous actress, whom we met in "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," and w^on her against all the duelingyoung aristocrats. But here again the sprightly Today stepped in and awakened us from our dreams — the Palace of the Perricholi is now a barracks for a Division of the Police !
So we followed Pizarro from his ancient Plaza de Ar- mas, on through the resplendent days of the pomp and mag- nificence of the Colonial era, and finally came out upon the broad new avenue, Paseo Colon, where the modern Lime- nos now centralize their city. Descendants of aristocrats, intelligent, gracious, pleasure-loving, and hospitable, the people of Lima enjoy spacious modern shops, many broad new Avenidas, numerous fine monuments and stately new banks and commercial houses. In La Plaza de Toros, or bull ring, famous fighting-bulls and Toreros still carry on the old Spanish national sport, but the jockey club's fine race course, and country club and golf, the polo grounds and tennis courts, the aviation field, and "Vermouth," a South American custom of having the first performance of the movies from six to eight just before nine o'clock din- ner are potent factors in the recreational life of the modern Peruvian.
This City of Romance, to our great delight, in spite of the modern wave that is sweeping over it still retains those rare charms that have made Lima, for three hundred years the center of Spanish architecture, Spanish culture, Span- ish magnificence and Spanish authority in all Spanish Am- erica— truly the "City of the Kings."
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1929
Periodic Health Examinations
Under the Auspices of the Women's City Club
THE third health examination for members of the Women's City Club will be held October 1 to 12, inclusive, under the auspices of the same committee which sponsored the two previous examinations and by the same corps of physicians. So satisfactory and eminently successful have the two other examinations proven that the board of directors of the Women's City Club voted to have a third event of the same nature.
Members of the Women's City Club of San Francisco are hereby afforded opportunity at a nominal cost to ascer- tain the status of their health. The two preceding exam- inations checked up on the health of all who made applica- tion by means of the blanks appearing in the Women's City Club Magazine. A similar blank is herewith attached and all who wish to avail themselves of the opportunity of examination may fill in the blank and send it to Miss Emma Noonan, Secretary Health Examinations, Women's City Club, 465 Post Street, San Francisco.
Dr. Adelaide Brown is chairman of the City Club Health Examination Committee.
Applicants in the previous examination ranged from thirty to seventy years of age. Many remarked on the
satisfaction of the gyn;ccological examination at the hands of women physicians, and numerous comments were made on the exhaustive details of the medical service, and above all the fact that a careful resume, the next day, after a study of all findings, was given each applicant and a fore- looking policy as to better health outlined for her. Each person was given a book on exercise and health published by the Women's Foundation for Positive Health.
Examinations will be made daily between the hours of 4 and 6 o'clock and 7 to 9:30 o'clock.
The staff conducting these examinations has been care- fully selected and the Committee on the Health Examina- tions assures City Club members that they will be in able hands and their condition of health thoroughly considered.
Conservation of health, based on periodic health exam- inations, is the slogan of the new positive health movement.
Examinations will be made in the rooms of the Women's City Club.
Members wishing to avail themselves of this opportunity will sign the attached blank and return it with check, and by return mail .will receive an appointment and instruc- tions. Appointments will be made in order of application.
Examining Staff
The staff for the health examinations includes:
General Examinations
Ina M. Richter, M. D.— a. B. Bryn Mawr ; M. D. Johns Hopkins; Interne in Medicine, Johns Hopkins; Staff Member of Children's Hospital in Medicine ; In- structor in Medicine, University of California Medical School.
Ethel Owen, M. D. — A. B. Stanford; M. D. Stanford; Interne Lane-Stanford Hospital ; Medical work Red Cross in France; Medical Director Arequipa Sanita- rium ; In charge of Health of Nurses, Stanford Hospital ; Medical Examiner, Stanford University Campus.
Gynaecological Examinations
Alice Maxwell, M. D. — A. B. University of California ; M. D. University of California; Interne University of California Hospital; Resident in Gynfecology; Asso- ciate Professor Gynaecology, University of California ; Gynaecologist to the University of California Hospital ; Surgeon to Children's Hospital.
Alma Pennington, M. D. — A. B. University of Cali- fornia; M. D. University of California; Medical In- terne University of California Hospital ; Surgical Serv-
ice at New England Hospital, Boston ; Surgical Service Woman's Hospital, New York ; Medical Service at Vassar College; Staff Member Surgical Service Chil- dren's Hospital.
Laboratory Work
Aghavni a. Shaghoian, M. D. — A. B. University of California; M. D. University of California; Interne University of California Medical Department ; Resi- dent Children's Hospital ; Physician to Y. W. C. A. ; Physician to House of Friendship.
Hilda Davis, M. D. — Graduate of University of Liver- pool, 1923; Interne at the Children's Hospital, San Francisco, 1924-25; Assistant Resident in Medicine at University of California Hospital.
A graduate nurse will be on hand to assist the several physicians.
Members desiring further information before deciding may address: Dr. Adelaide Brown, Chairman Committee on Health Examinations, Women's City Club, 465 Post Street, San Francisco, in writing or by telephone, Gray- stone 0728, between 2 and 4 o'clock dailv (except Satur- day).
Mail this
Application
to Women's
City Club,
465 Post
Street,
San Francisco
HEALTH EXAMINATION BLANK
I enclose herewith check for $10.00 to cover the expense of the Health Examina- tion. Further information as to tests, hour of appointment, may be sent to the fol- lowing address:
Name
Address
Telephone Number
I prefer an afternoon D evening D appointment.
Checks to be made payable to the Women's City Club, San Francisco, and ad- dressed to Miss Emma Noonan, Secretary Health Examinations, Women's City Club, 465 Post Street.
Committee on Health Examinations: Mrs. S. G. Chapman, Mrs. Parker S. Mad- dux, Miss Emma Noonan, Ina M. Richter, M. D.. Mrs. A. P. Bl.ick, Adelaide Brown, M. D., Chairman.
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women's city club magazine for SEPTEMBER
1929
Fall and Winter Events at City Club
DURING the past summer months, while the world has been enjoying sun-tan and good vacation days, the Committee on Programs and Entertainments has been busy preparing an intellectual and emotional feast for the Club mem- bers for the approaching fall and win- ter season. On the opposite page is a complete chart of events in the Wom- en's City Club as slated until next March.
Regular Ei^ents
Current Events — Mrs. Parker Maddux.
Choral Section — Mrs. Jessie Wil- son Taylor.
Talks on Appreciation of Art — Mrs. C. E. Curry.
French Classes — Mme. Olivier.
Italian Classes — Mme. Stefiani.
League Bridge — Miss Emogene Hutchinson.
Book Review — Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard.
Thursday Evening Programs — Mrs. A. P. Black.
Current Magazine Section — Mrs. Alden Ames.
Outdoors Section — Mrs. G. Earle Kelly.
Sunday Evening Concerts — Mrs. Horatio F. Stoll.
Club Special Hospitality Teas — Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper.
Coming Ei^ents
September International Barriers — Miss Emma Noonan and Mrs. Henry Grady
Dean Russell of the University of California will be the first speaker in this course of lectures on the ever- pressing subject of Peace. The course begins on the evening of Wednesday, the eleventh of September, and con- tinues for eight consecutive months on the evening of every second Wednes- day. Speakers will be members of the faculties of the Universities of Stan- ford and California.
October Abbe Dim net
This able and gracious author of "The Art of Thinking" will speak on "The Ideal View of a Perfect Educa- tion."
Monthly Pro grain Teas
A series of monthly teas with enter- tainment of drama, travel or adven- ture will be given on the afternoon of the first Thursday of each month for a period of six months. Two of these programs will be given by such gifted
readers as Mrs. Laurel Conwell Bias, and the charming world-traveler, just returned from Albania, Myrtle Hague Robinson.
Vocational Talks
The Vocational Guidance Bureau will offer a series of four talks on "Sane Living." These will be held on the evenings of the first and third Thursdays of October and November.
League Bridge —
Miss Emogetie Hutchinson
In accordance with the usual cor- diality of the League Bridge hostesses, a bridge luncheon will be given in ad- dition to the customary Bridge Hal- lowe'en Party.
Literature Lectures — Mrs. Edward Rainey
A series of eight Tuesday morning lectures, beginning with the first Tuesday in October, will be held in the Auditorium. Speakers who are thoroughly conversant with their top- ics will be heard. This course con- cerns a discussion of literature as a factor in civics, in education, in inter- national understanding, in philosophy, in drama, in photographic drama and literature as illustrated in the short story and in the long novel. If suffi- cient interest is manifested, later, a course in short story writing will be offered.
Fire-lighting in the Lounge — All Club members
The summer holidays are drawing to a close. The copper glow of au- tumn sun slants across the western gateway of our cit\\ A bit of winter chill is in the air. It is Fire-lighting Time — time for our Club-family to gather around our hearth and renew our loyalties, share our enthusiasms, and appreciate our good fortune.
Membership Dinner
The official opening of the winter program is to consist this year of a membership dinner. The board of directors, the committee chairmen, all of us who work and play in our cher- ished Club are planning to be present. This dinner is for members only. Membership cards must be shown.
November Helen Howe
A fascinating American monolo- guist comes to us with the highest en- dorsements of the critical London au- diences of the past season.
Ambassador Houghton
A banquet in honor of Ambassador
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Houghton, who will be the guest- speaker, will be given in the Club in November. This will be Ambassador Houghton's only public appearance in San Francisco.
December Christmas Festival
Our own Club members will pre- sent this Christmas activity.
Chester Rowell
A course of four lectures on Mon- day mornings will be given by Chester Rowell on the engrossing subjects that he has been especially studying this summer concerning the Institute of Pacific Relations and its significance.
January William L. Fin ley
The American Nature Association sends experienced naturalists and pho- tographers to the wildest parts of America to collect natural history ma- terial. William L. Finley, under the extension department of this associa- tion, will lecture and present unique motion pictures on this most thrilling and spectacular outdoor story of the birds and animals among the peaks and pinnacles of the Rocky Mountain continental divide. Every father and son will want to see this marvelous picture.
February Anna Bird Stewart
Miss Stewart is a brilliant and versatile grand-niece of James Whit- comb Riley. She has his rare gift of writing and reading poetry for chil- dren and grown-ups, with her own blessing of unusual charm. Miss Stewart will give three programs.
March Lady Adams
Lady Adams is the wife of Emeritus Professor Sir John Adams, lately a member of the Summer Session faculty of the University of California. A dinner will be given for Lady Adams at which she will speak on some such delightful subject as "Sir James Bar- rie, the Puck of Stageland," or "The Art of Table Conversation."
Doctor Powell's Lectures — Mrs. fV. B. Hamilton
The Lenten lectures by the Rever- end Doctor Powell have been so deep- ly appreciated that it is hoped that he may be able to find time to meet with us again this year. Further notice of this and other lectures by Doctor Powell will be posted later.
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women's city club magazine for SEPTEMBER
1929
Beyond the City Limits
VERY important and spectacu- lar have been the events of the month ending August 15, 1929. In addition to such mechanical marvels as the Zeppelin round-trip over the At- lantic and start around the world, and the record-breaking airplane endur- ance flights, there have been enacted scenes of such stupendous import con- cerning the peace of the world that one gasps with possible hopes.
In Washington
On July 24, came the formal procla- mation by President Hoover of the ratification of 'the Kellogg-Briand pact, all of the original signatories, in- cluding Japan, having deposited their official acceptance of the terms of the treaty. This celebration was all the more exciting because it came in the midst of the Sino-Russian crisis pre- cipitated by the severing of the diplo- matic relations of Russia and China. China had seized the Eastern Man- churian railroad, Russia had asserted this to be a breaking of the treaty of 1924 and even war seemed imminent. Secretary Stimson sent notes quoting the Kellogg-Briand pact, thereby set- ting a successful precedent, though in point of fact the United States, Bri- tain, France and Japan all seem to have warned China, and Mr. Stim- son himself is reported to have said "As long as the important countries which control public opinion are mob- ilizing against war, 1 do not care about the methods they are using or about which moved first."
However, as yet the Russian-Chi- nese danger is not completely passed nor is the question settled as to "who is the aggressor." Hazardous, too, would have been the result in either country of the hitherto favored pre- ventive of a referendum to the people (to avert war), with Moscow's work- men parading for carnage and China's masses inflamed by the renewed threat of a Communist menace. It is inter- esting to note that Wu Chao-Chu, Chinese Minister at Washington, in an interview July 20, had stated with reference to the Kellogg-Briand peace treaty : "The National Government's adherence is in good faith. In rela- tions with the Soviet, as witli all oth- ers, China is abiding in the spirit pledged to preserve world peace."
Both the United States and Great Britain have proclaimed a policy of actual reduction of armament in the postponement of cruiser building. Definite statements have been made by
By Edith Walker Maddux
both Ramsay MacDonald and Presi- dent Hoover, and opposition in Eng- land takes the form of the fear that such a postponement will critically in- crease unemployment. In this country also some opposition has developed among ardent defense advocates, espe- cially as Mr. Hoover has also declared unequivocally for reduction in the ex- penditures for the Army and Navy.
More Objections
Many nations, indeed most of the leading nations of the world, are filing protests against the new proposed United States tariff bill, which, how- ever, awaits the special Senate session for final provisions.
In Paris,
after stormy debates and bitter com- plaints, the French Chamber of Depu- ties ratified the $4,025,000,000 debt settlement with the United States, thus ending a three-years' policy of re- jection. This issue, to restore the credit of France in the eves of the
world, was perhaps the last great pub- lic service of M. Poincare, who now retires, very ill, to private life, leaving the premiership temporarily in the hands of M. Briand. The French debt ratification was heralded as clear- ing the ground for the formal adoption of the Young plan, which, however, was held up during a season of stormy debate at The Hague. British asser- tions of unfair treatment seem at this writing to have won a compromise after eloquent and vituperative argu- ments presented by Philip Snowden.
In Rome
Two hundred thousand people wit- nessed the entrance of the Pope into St. Peter's Square, the formal ending of the "voluntary Papal imprison- ment" of fifty-nine years.
In South America
Chile and Peru have ratified the Tacna-Arica settlement, and Bolivia and Paraguay have agreed on a peace- ful settlement of their boundary dis- pute.
Dr. Russell Will Speak on September 1 1
Dean Frank M. Russell, who will
speak at the City Club Auditorium
the evening of September 11 on
"Cultural Barriers"
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DR. FRANK M. RUSSELL, of the University of Califor- nia,whose lecture on the eve- ning of September 1 1 at the Women's City Club will open the course of eight lectures on International Barriers which the City Club has arranged for the coming season, will speak on "Cul- tural Barriers." The lecture will be open to both men and women.
Tickets are selling to members for one dollar for the course. This ticket is non-transferable. Non-members may purchase tickets for the course at four dollars and may be transferred.
Dr. Russell took his Ph.D. degree at the University of California in 1925. He was a member of the faculty of the University of Nevada in 1916- 1917 and of Stanford University in 1919-1921. He was with the Carnegie Institute in 1924 to 1926 and has been dean of the undergraduate body at the University of California since 1928.
Dr. Russell's thesis, as well as those of the seven lecturers who will succeed him in the series, is prepared especially by the lecturer for this course.
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women's city club magazine for SEPTEMBER
1929
WOMEN'S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE
Published Monthly at San Francisco
465 Post Street
Telephone KE amy 8400
MAGAZINE COMMITTEE
Mrs. Harry Staats Moore, Chairman
Mrs. George Osborne Wilson
Mrs. Frederick Faulkner
Mrs. Frederick W. Kroll
MARIE HICKS DAVIDSON, Managing Editor
SEPTEMBER
1929
NUMBER 8
W
EOITOMIAL
HAT do you know about that?" To members of the Women's City Club that question will shortly be more than a colloquialism.
We have become accustomed to intelligence tests and similar questionnaires. Mr. Edison and Mr. Ford have made then familiar to the public and to many they are educational as well as diverting.
The Women's City Club in an early issue of the maga- zine will institute a questionnaire desi<?ned to be a liaison between the Club and the membership. It will analyze the composition of the seven thousand women constituting the personnel of the Club, and ultimately establish their relation to the Club in usefulness, service and interest.
The idea of a questionnaire is not new, but the manner of carrying out the plan is both novel and efficient. It is to be done via the tea table. Many a round table, history has proven, has been a tea table. A Membership Co-opera- tion Committee, \vith Mrs. M. C. Sloss as chairman, has been appointed. This committee will arrange monthly membership teas, at which members will be invited to state what service they would like to contribute to the City Club and the amount of time they can give. A section of the membership will be asked each time, the selection to be made alphabetically or in some such manner.
Since its foundation the several administrations of the Women's City Club have realized that there is a consid- erable and varied talent latent in the membership of seven thousand women. It would be true of any aggregation, but seems to be especially applicable to members of the Women's City Club, since they represent business and professional women as well as those of leisure.
How to ascertain what each member has to offer the City Club has been a real problem to those who have been cognizant of the wealth of usefulness lying fallow. Now has been devised the plan by which it is expected every hidden talent will be brought to light.
To the City Club will accrue service otherwise not utilized, since it has been unknown. On the other hand, the member will have the consciousness of usefulness to her organization, and will experience that satisfaction which is a by product of the Dignity of Service.
The Membership Co-operation Committee plans that the teas will be small and intimate enough each time to permit of the hostesses learning the tastes, tendencies, will- ingness and possibilities of each member in her relation to the City Club. At the same time the member will be .apprised, perhaps, of many uses and possibilities of the City 'Club in relation to its members.
"What do you know about that?" will resolve itst'lf into "What do you wish to do?"
British Consul Pays Tribute to Women's City Club
By Gerald Campbell, British Consul-General, San Francisco
A S PRESIDENT of the British Benevolent Society XA of California, Inc., I am only too glad to have an jL ^-opportunity of testifying to the happy co-operation which we have at all times with the National League for Woman's Service in San Francisco. As a matter of fact I am not sure whether "Co-operation" is the right word to use because that implies that both parties do their little or great bit to help some cause along. In our case the National League does most of the work and we sit up and purr with satisfaction. I suppose it is in some way due to the fact that the British Benevolent Office forms part of the Consulate- General, and people regard a Consulate as a place where they come to pay Consular fees when they want to get out of their country, or where they telephone to avoid paying legal fees when they want to get out of jail. Consequently, while those in search of work often apply to us, those in search of workers are apt to keep clear.
No such base tradition is attached to the National League for Woman's Service and so, whenever we get a capable person wanting some post, we send her to the Vocational Information Bureau, because we know that by this means she has a much better chance of making contact with some- one in search of the very service which she can render. If co-operation means passing the buck (and it often does) then we co-operate in every possible way with the National League and, by so doing, we are able to enjoy a reflected happiness in knowing that our compatriots are taken care of in a sympathetic and practical manner.
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Two Gala Days at~^ City Club
The Advertisers' Exhibit to be staged in the City Club Auditorium September 16 and 17 and the Fashion Show on September 17 (the second day of the exhibit) promise to be outstanding events in the autumn activities of the City Club. The exhibition will consist of wares of adver- tisers in the City Club Magazine who are on contract of three months or more. Save these dates and make them gala days at the Club.
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EVE N INC.. 7/1. M^ Harbor
By Sherman McFedries, Jr.
Day is done — the silent hush of evening settles over the harbor
ShipSj piers, and piles, are silhouetted in somber gray
and mauve against the sunset sky. A lone seagull screams his piercing cry from a rotting wooden hull.
Day is done — with silent feet evening creeps in on the harbor, like a breath from the open sea
Solitude — broken only by the lapping of the tide against
the sides of ivaiting ships. Tin plates rattling in a tanker's galley, call the hands to the evening meal.
Day is done — the icestern sky fades from pale amber into
a deep'ning rosy blush
Feeble lights glimmer from open portholes of ships, patiently riding at anchor or docked at the wharf.
Rose blending into magenta, then to dark'ning blue — ■
evening merges into night.
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W OMEN
CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for SEPTEMBER
I 929
Mrs. Josephine Bartlett, chairman of the committee in charge of the Adver- tisers' Exhibit to be held in the City Club Auditorium September 16 and 17
Fashion Sho^ at Women s City Club
Jointly sponsored by the Down Town Association and the San Fran- cisco Allied Apparel Manufacturers, an exposition of locally-made feminine attire will be held Tuesday, Septem- ber 17, at the Women's City Club, with the latest designs in all kinds of outer wear in evidence. As goods suited to any time of day are to be exhibited, the ev'ent is aptly titled "Around the Clock Fashion Show."
Its object is to convince the women of San Francisco that garments made in San Francisco are not surpassed in quality or style nor are they greater in price than merchandise of similar character produced elsewhere, and every manufacturer in the city will contribute samples of his output. Chil- dren's clothes will also be shown. Liv- ing models will demonstrate what the garb looks like while worn. It is con- fidently predicted that this exhibition will definitely prove that San Francis- co retains its long established fame as the fashion center of the West.
This will be the second fashion show staged in pursuance of the Down Town Association's campaign to in- crease the volume of payrolls in San Francisco.
There will be two periods of the show — from 1 1 :30 until 1 :30 o'clock in the main dining room and from 3:30 until 4:30 in the City Club audi- torium.
Outdoors Section. . .Firsts Aleetlng
IT is hoped that the members have noticed the constant monthly hints about the approaching organiza- tion of a very enjoyable Outdoors Section. Excellent! The movement has arrived.
^Ve all know that a knowledge of the living, growing things of nature really belongs in everybody's life. Just as we study music, art and literature in order to understand man-made masterpieces, so we must study to understand Nature's masterpieces. Every trip into the country, every walk into the garden, becomes ours in ' cality if we know something intimate about its giant trees, its gay flowers and its feathered songsters. In fact the safest cure for loneliness is to know plants and birds as companions. Mrs. G. E. Kelly, a trained botanist, natu- ralist, and garden-planner will hold her first meetings of the Outdoors Sec- tion on the afternoon and evening of Thursday, September 19, three o'clock in the Board Room, for the purposes of organization and presentation of plans for the year.
The work of the Section will con- sist of field trips and lectures at the Club. It is desired to begin the series of field trips immediately, so as to en- joy the very pleasant weather in the next two months. Members who can- not come in the afternoon will find Mrs. Kelly ready for them at an eve- ning meeting on the same date. This promises to be one of the most enter- taining and satisfying activities of the coming season. All City Club mem- bers are welcome.
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Adi^ertlsers' Exhibit
An Advertisers' Exhibit will be staged in the City Club Auditorium September 16 and 17 by advertisers in the City Club M.^gazine who are on contracts of three months or more.
The exhibit promises to be extreme- ly interesting and the Magazine's ad- vertisers are evincing a lively interest in evolving new and unique ways of showing their goods. A committee of City Club members, headed by Mrs. Josephine Bartlett, is superintending the exhibit, which will be arranged and presented in original and arrest- ing manner. Tea will be served in the City Club Auditorium and there will be music to accompany the parade of the mannikins who will model for the Fashion Show on the second day of the exhibit.
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Swimming Parties
There will be a children's party in the Swimming Pool on Saturday, Sep- tember 28 at 1 1 o'clock in the morn- ing. There will be races and games, and prizes will be given the winners of events.
There will be a Hallowe'en Party in the Swimming Pool on Saturday morning, October 26, at 1 1 o'clock. t f -t
Swimming Meet
On Friday evening, September 6, at 8 o'clock, there will be a Swimming Meet for the Women's City Club Team and Y. W. C. A. Girls in the Y. W. C. A. Pool, 620 Sutter Street. There will be no admission charge. ■f -f -f
Bridge Parties
The Chairman of the Bridge Sec- tion announces a bridge luncheon on Tuesday, October 8, at 1 o'clock. Tickets $5.00 per table.
There will also be an evening bridge party Tuesday, October 29, at 8 o'clock. Tickets $3.00 per table.
These bridge parties will afford members an opportunity to entertain their guests. Tickets for both parties Avill be on sale September 1 at the Information Desk in the Main Arcade.
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Tuesday Bridge
Attention of the members is called to the fact that a bridge group meets every Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock and every Tuesday evening at 7 :30. There is no charge for tables. Mem- bers may bring guests.
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Golf Tournament
It has been decided to confine the official golf activities of the Club to the holding of a Women's City Club Championship Tournament. The Club is therefore arranging to provide for a City Club Golf Tournament to be played in San Francisco or vicinity, a tournament open to all members.
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Choral Section to Meet^
The Choral Section —
Mrs. Jessie Wilson Taylor,
chairman and director ; Mrs. Katherine Carey, vice-chair- man ; Mrs. Louis J. Carl, accompanist; Miss Grace O.Yocum, secretary; Mrs. Zoe Muller, librarian. The first meeting will be held on September 16 (Monday evening) at 7 :30 o'clock, and regular meetings will be held each succeeding Monday evening, in Room 208.
women's city club magazine for SEPTEMBER
1929
Morning In a Hotel Lobbj
By Muriel Edwards
"Grill to the left."
Hurry, Hurry.
A car ordered for nine.
~« old man
t'ushing feet
In thirty dollar shoes;
There is no magic
In thirty dollar shoes.
A Jew jostling ;
Looking boldly
Into a face.
To step aside;
To stand uncovered.
Unconscious salute.
Mothers of the world.
Hurry, Hurry.
The Morning Paper.
"The Lost Child Found."
"Damned sick of the headlines;
Don't read the trash.
Wish to God
They'd print some news."
Letters in the chute. "That's done," In one face. The look of a lie In another.
Girls behind counters. Forefending grimness In stern hard lines.
Hurry, Hurry.
The car leaves at nine.
The tiny florist shop.
Crowds . . . more crowds.
Everybody pausing.
Is it the stir in the heart
For a daffodil?
Is it the fragrance
Of daphne?
Is it the passion of color
That can live
In the dawn?
The everlasting passion
Of the Infinite,
Recalling
The futile, fleeting instant
Of the night?
In the lane Of the lobby. Obstructing the way. Is the thing They pause for. Beauty . . . But that hour Complete.
On rough boards; Long as a body; A space For a face. There is not one. Who does not wonder What waxen face Will be the heart Of that bouquet. And make someone Weep.
Painted girls
Stoop to smell
The violets.
Young men
Stand in curious awe.
Strained eyes
Softened.
Old men
Touch the ferns
That trail
Through shaking fingers.
Each
To pause.
And have his vagrant thought.
In this instant.
The evil, the good.
The sad, the joyous.
The lonely, the ennuied —
All — are one.
A space
For a face.
Beauty to cover
The straightened lines
Where Death has laid
His hand.
A pal I.
In a hotel lobby.
Hurry, Hurry.
The car leaves at nine.
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1929
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'Abbe Dlmnet to Lecture at Women's City Club
A witty, kindly and very wise con- tinental gentleman, with a hint of Voltaire in him, is the Abbe Ernest Dimnet who is to speak at the Wom- en's City Clu-b on the evening of Oc- tober 21.
Ernest Dimnet is a Frenchman — but he writes in English with a style so clear and humorous that it tickles the palate of the mind.
He is particularly well qualified to act as an exporter of intelligence. Be- sides possessing an incisive mind, he has the distinction, perhaps unique since John Gower, of having written books in Latin, French and English, while his long acquaintance with the United States enables him to address American readers in their own idiom.
He exhibits the French lucidity and orderliness of mind, an extraordinary range of pertinent illustration, and psychological insight without any sur- plus baggage of technical terms.
It is rare that he who teaches should also charm. But this last is precisely what the Abbe Dimnet contrives to do. The Abbe is amiable, he is witty, he is immensely good company — but he can be pitiless in matters of intel- lectual integrity.
His best-known book. The Art of Thinking, was first written in Eng- lish. He is 62, an abbe and a canon, and lives in the shadow of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Cardinal Newman's Apologia, which he won as a prize for playing handball in his schooldays, has influenced him more than any other book. He lectured at Harvard several years ago. He likes Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler and dislikes the Freudian case system. The Bronte Sisters is his best known earlier work.
The twelve books which have estab- lished his international renown were written in French, in English and in Latin. His last book published here was a biography of The Bronte Sis- ters. In the Art of Thinking he gives the distilled essence of a rich and stim- ulating life.
L'Abbe Dimnet will speak at the Women's City Club on the subject of an "ideal view of a perfect education," and brings to such a discussion an in- timate knowledge of methods and trends in at least three countries: his native land, France ; his neighbor, England ; and his favorite friend, the United States. With a charming per- sonality, a genial humor and an in- tellectual grasp unsurpassed by any modern lecturer, he will present a very significant discussion of "Adult Edu- cation." Tickets are now on sale and are available to the public.
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Yet, 0 Stricken Heart, Remember
Yet, O stricken heart, remember, O remember , How of human days he lived the better part. April came to bloom and never dim December Breathed its killing chills upon the head or heart.
Doomed to know not Winter, only Spring, a being Trod the flowery April blithely for a while. Took his fill of music, joy of thought and seeing. Came and stayed and went, nor ever ceased to smile.
Came and stayed and went, and now when all is finished. You alone have crossed the melancholy stream. Yours the pang, but his, O his, the undiminished, Undecaying gladness, undeparted dream.
All that life contains of torture, toil and treason. Shame, dishonor, death, to him zvere but a name. Here, a boy, he dwelt through all the singing season. And ere the day of sorrow, — departed as he came.
— Robert Louis Stevenson.
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By Eleanor Preston Watkins
S
ERMONS in stones, books in the running brooks" of the High Sierra !
Pines, firs, junipers, tamaracks tell the folk-tales of the ages, if one has ears to hear. Mountains and canjon streams whisper the story of Creation, if one has a quiet heart.
Two books bear comparison with these old story-tellers. They can hold attention to the black-and-white page, when eyes are fain to wander to iir- branches against the sky.
"Journey's End"; by R. C. Sheriff
(Brentano's). "Further Poems"; by Emily Dick- inson (Little, Brown and Com- pany).
You must not miss "Journey's End"! A war-play in three acts, it may be read in an hour or two. Writ- ten by a young insurance adjuster for village amateurs who were staging a rowing-club benefit, it was unani- mously refused by provincial Thes- pians and London managers, who could see no drama in a candle-lit dug- out with no scenery except a glimpse of trench and parapet against the sky, with no costumes but khaki uniforms, with no love-interest but love of friend and country. Finally staged in Lon- don for a single Sunday night's per- formance by some actors out of work, it was seen and liked by a "passing dilettante," who supplied the few hun- dred pounds necessary for a theater to go on with the play. And then, — an- other London stage had to be leased for two years, that the first company might go on undisturbed in presenting the play to capacity houses.
The second troupe opened in New York in March ; the third will arrive in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, early in September, to travel slowly across Canada to the Pacific ; the fourth com- pany will open in Chicago at the same time.
"Indeed, I think," said Alexander Woolcott, "there will be no time, in your day or mine, when, somewhere in the English-speaking world, there will not be an audience sitting silent at a performance of 'Journey's End.' I think that not in our time will the sun ever set on the play that the little insurance adjuster wrote for the Kingston Rowing Club. I think that not in our time, by song or gesture or word or deed, has any Englishman so eloquently spoken the cause of her tribe before the peoples of the world. I think that no braided mission, no
silk-hatted plenipotentiary sent out by England since the war began, has so fairly represented her, — so fairly told us the best that she has and is."
To those of us who saw the war- cloud rise and spread over our world ; who scanned the daily lists with held breath, watching for some young name ; who woke in the dawn to the unbelievable joy of Peace, — this play is a pulsing heart-beat. And it is a living plea that never again for our sons may there be the need of an Ar- mistice Day.
"Further Poems"; by Emily Dick- inson.
Withheld from publication by her sister, Lavinia ; edited by her niece, Martha Dickin- son Bianchi.
"When the little, unexplored pack- age gave up these poems of Emily Dickinson, which her sister Lavinia had seen fit never to publish, it w^as for one breathless instant as if the bright apparition of Emily had re- turned to the old house, with the bees and birds still busy beneath her win- dow, to salute us with her wings."
It was an unforgettable event to ac- quire the "Collected Poems" of Emily Dickinson. Somewhere in the nineties, there was another memorable event, the gift of three slim gray volumes, the first unheralded edition of her poems, afterwards sadly lost in the San Francisco fire.
I think one must grow up in the companionship of Emily Dickinson, to speak her language readily, as a child learns a foreign language more readily than an adult does. Her words are so few, and say so much ! Writing only for her own joy of expression, never for publication, there was no thought nor care for reader or context, titles or foot-notes. Like Browning, there are elisions to supply. And so, those early volumes were hailed by no excited re- viewers. But "Emily was a universal creature, her mind was always tuned for a dash to any pole, her raids on truth dictated by her own premoni- tions,— a Fellow of the Royal Infin- ity," perhaps, like her own "Pine Tree." English critics have called her our greatest American poet. To those who have acquired the conjugations and declensions of her tongue and spirit, no other can say so much in so little. Her verse cuts to the quick of life.
I think that Emily Dickinson, like the Holy Communion, should be ap-
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1929
preached with preparation. Who rushes in, may find nothing. Before reading these "Further Poems," with their metaphysics and their intimate allusions to her life and love, her own story should be read, and the limpid- clear verse of her "Collected Poems." Emily is too rare a treasure to miss, for lack of pains.
She has been given a wide range of labels by her reviewers, from the "Modern Sappho" to a "Hermit Thrush," from a "New England Nun" to "an epigrammatic Walt Whitman." To one who knew Emily in life, she was a denizen of awe-areas of the supernatural she recognized about her. In her poem,
"It's easy to invent a life, God does it every day. Creation but the gambol Of His authority," — she is merely, for the moment, in the green-room, behind the scenes of Cre- ation, and, taking her Maker on equal terms, relating it from that point of view.
Yet to one who knew Emily "plain"—
"Light laughs the breeze In her castle above them," — and, escaping their verbal nets, light laughs Emily at all efforts to enmesh her.
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By Jane E. Robbins, M. D.
Late of American Women's Hospital, Macedonia
THE classical ruins in Greece tempt many a comfortable American to ignore bad roads, poor hotels and the miseries of the cold in winter, and the heat in sum- mer.
The Americans who stay on in Greece belong to a few categories — business people, oil, tobacco, engineer- ing, teachers, archaeologists, Near East Relief workers with orphans and in hospitals, and those in the diplo- matic service.
It was the returned American Greeks of the American Legion, led by a well-educated dentist, who called a few of us together on the Fourth to sing "America."
Those modern Americans who care for history, and old water jars, find traveling in Greece very rewarding. A kind Greek archaeologist invited two of us (women doctors on duty with the American Women's Hospi- tals in Macedonia) to watch them lift the last slabs from some ancient tombs which they were opening. The soil had been undisturbed since before the battle of Masathurs, and they found the clay colored water bottles, and a piece of shining gold, that was to pay the man's ferryage into the next world. There are still many temples which give a real reason for journeys both by sea and land to some beautiful island or mountain top.
But to marfv^ Americans who have been in Greece during the last seven years, the most rewarding experience has come from sharing the life of the refugees, who are a part of "The Greatest Trek in History." Miss Ju- lie Helen Heyneman writes: "The heroic tale of the way the Medical Women's National Association of America sprang to the aid of the wretched refugees, when the Smyrna holocaust horrified the world, thrills us with pride at the reckless courage with which they stood their ground, and faced a situation which staggers the imagination."
Over twenty hospitals were organ- ized, and executed miracles in saving lives and restoring courage. The story is thrillingly told by Esther Lovejoy in "Certain Samaritans."
The Greeks in Asia were an old people of good stock. Both those who came fleeing from an enemy and those who came as populations exchanged by the League of Nations brought lit- tle with them but their good inheri- tance and determination to live.
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Under the Republic they have al- ready become an important element in government, and they have been largely responsible for restoring to power the prime minister Venizelos, in whom they have profound confi- dence. Women have little part in affairs of state, but the men sit in the coffee houses and discuss politics eter- nally. As they are very witty, it be- comes their favorite indoor sport.
The desire to make the best bar- gains possible slows up the construc- tion of roads, and the contracts for the draining of swamps, but much is to be hoped from the new American loan. And the extra employment is sure to be a great boon to the whole country.
The Armenian Christians were swept into Greece along with the Greek Christians, and have even, in some cases, acquired farm lands from which the Turkish Moslems were re- moved. Two characteristics of the Armenian have been highly appreci- ated by the American Relief Workers — their eagerness for schooling and their ability to make the most of a little help without coming back for more. Like all thoughtful people, they are deeply appreciative of what has been done for them. One able young secretary said to me, "We Armenian women will be eternally grateful to Greece, for from the day we set foot on these shores we have never known fear."
The particular part of Macedonia where I lived had been under the Turks until recent times. Our special Chalcidicean peninsula had been largely occupied by monasteries of the Greek Church. Two hundred of these monasteries were scattered over a roadless plain, and when the monks were removed the buildings were tem- porarily occupied by the homeless ref- ugees.
Now there are fifty villages made up of houses with two rooms for the family and one for the animals. These are arranged along streets and around one open square.
The priests came as refugees, and are often an important part of the po- litical life of the village. The teacher in one case has taught three genera- tions of his fellow townsmen.
The schoolhouses are sometimes in monasteries or in old Turkish build- ings. More often they are in the new frame houses. A stovepipe generally sticks crazily out of the window, but in winter everyone keeps on his coat and longs to go out into the sun. In the extremely cold days the schools often did not open. In the minds of the refugees, education comes next to food and life, and though it is at pres- ent deplorably inadequate, it is better
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every year. The teachers' colleges now require their young graduates to give a certain period of service in these ref- ugee villages.
The children have learned to speak and sing and read in Greek and to play the Greek games. One lovely histor- ical dance, much used by the soldiers, also commemorates the Greek women who threw themselves over a cliff into the sea, rather than yield to an enemy.
As quickly as possible the refugees make plans for real school buildings, and many of them are hoping that their former fellow townsmen who are in America now may catch the spirit of American generosity and send for these pioneer villages a bit of much- needed help.
The populations exchanged by the League of Nations, with the hope of preventing further outbreaks of trou- ble, are naturally getting on to their feet more quickly than those who fled from an enemy. They came more qui- etly, often bringing livestock with them, and they did not endure a tenth of the starvation, disease and the un- utterable mental suffering of the refu- gees who came after the Smyrna dis- aster. Their Oriental philosophy and the resignation which has come down to them through the ages have been powerful elements in aiding them all to hold on to life. Americans from the less resigned West often find the an- swers of the refugees quite unexpect- able.
A fine-looking refugee mother had come to borrow a tiny sum of money, so that she could prepare clothing for the possible betrothal of a radiantly beautiful fourteen-year-old daughter. "Ask her," I said to my young inter- preter, "if she knew this man's family at home in his own village. Are they people that her husband, if he were living, would choose as friends? Tell her she must not betroth that girl to anyone but a good man. What does she say?" "She says," answered the interpreter, "that it is as God wills."
Resignation and kindness become the chief virtues of an oppressed peo- ple, just as outspokenness becomes the privileged characteristic of a free peo- ple. Our practical way of trying to prevent sickness and difficulties before they arrived was a constant surprise to them. When Miss Heyneman visited Macedonia and saw how the virulent malaria overshadowed the whole beau- tiful country, her instant reaction was that someone should send thousands of bales of mosquito netting to protect the population at night from the ma- laria-bearing mosquito.
The American gifts and the work of the American personnel seem noth- ing short of miraculous to the Greeks,
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both native and refugee. Once, at a tea in Athens, I met a Greek colonel, and when I told him that we were still continuing our medical work, he said solemnly, "Madam, I thank you in the name of Greece."
California has been an outstanding state in sending both money and won- derful personnel. One quiet teacher who went from this state was in charge of a girls' orphanage in Ana- tolia at the time of the catastrophe. She has a particularly vivid memory of her emotions as she stood, pistol in hand, and held off the soldiers who had come over the wall into her com- pound.
The teachers and doctors and engi- neers are creating ties of friendship that will endure. Everywhere in Greece, America and the Americans are much loved. A skillful Armenian- American physician told me of the hospitality an American woman had extended to him when he was a young student in the Middle West. This woman probably had very little idea as to what a good thing she was doing. But there are, we know, many such women helping along these foreign students.
It has been a great privilege to Americans to be of help to Greece while she has been so nearly over- whelmed by these millions of helpless refugees.
[Editor's Note — Dr. Robbins was a guest in the Women's City Club during the National Conference for Social Work, June 26 to July 3, 1929. She appreciated very much the courtesy extended to her. This article is an offering for the Maga- zine "which you may like to use" (to quote from her note).] / / /
Appreciation
Columbus, Ohio, August 1, 1929. My dear Miss Leale :
May I express through you the great appreciation of the National Conference of Social Work for the fine co-operation and efficient service rendered by the members of the Wom- en's City Club under the direction of Mrs. Booth and Miss Garrett at our recent meeting in San Francisco.
I told some of them but did not have the opportunity of expressing personally to all of them my personal appreciation of their good work.
Frankly, it was the best and most correct registration that we have had in my experience with the Conference. Would that we could have the services of the same group every year. My deep appreciation to you all.
With kindest regards, I am Cordially yours,
Howard R. Knight.
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OUR present mode of living with its "days" and "weeks," requiring tokens great and small, forces most of us to shop wisely if we would make our budgets cover such luxuries— for truly, such expendi- tures come under that heading, though we must remember each occasion.
During the week beginning Sep- tember 16, the League Shop, which you all know is owned and operated by the Club, will conduct a special sale, offering a wide selection at from ten to twenty-five per cent off. And the shop usually sells for less at all times. This event will provide mem- bers and their friends an opportunity to purchase bridge, birthday, w-edding and Christmas gifts at a considerable saving. When one can do that and still help her club, buying takes on an added joy.
Exquisite Swedish glassware in cool inviting green ; rich violet tints and glowing amber offer a choice in at- tractive table service. There are can- dlesticks and vases; large cake and salad servers, as well as individual plates. Color is the keynote today. Soft lustrous pewter, which combines so nicely with the colored glass, is very smart in the present vogue of sim- plicity in home decoration.
This tiny shop in the lobby is the mecca for those who want the un- usual, for bits of the world are gathered there crowding each other upon the shelves like the nations who have contributed their wares. The Swedish glass and pewter, as well as Italian pottery are fifteen per cent less than regular.
And as one must have a supply of card tables ready for instant use, the red or green and black duco finished tables now selling for $8.75 would suit the most particular.
Other articles at the same reduction are gay covered boxes, cocktail and luncheon napkins of paper.
Men are difficult to shop for, as they care for so few things. Instead of personal gifts, why not choose something in leather or bronze craft, while they are selling for one-fourth off? Portfolios, boxes and desk sets are in leather; while the silver trimmed bronze craft offers boxes for cigarettes or matches; ash trays and flower bowls to complete the table ap- pointments.
For those who prize India prints, there is just one that is sufficiently large to be used as a bed covering or wall drape. It is lovely too, and car- ries a fifteen per cent discount. Java- nese Batiks will be included at this saving.
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1929
Sign Boards of Caution
By E. E. Albertson
SINCE the production and distribution of statistics and other stock market data have assumed the proportions of a major industry, I feel that more emphasis should be laid upon the reading and interpretation of such in- formation.
Statistics, if accurate and intelligently compiled, present a solid foundation for the bond buyer because as a rule his return is fixed and he is primarily concerned with the cer- tainty of the permanence of that return. The stock buyer, however, is a part owner in the corporation and is even more concerned with the moving forces behind the figures than with the figures themselves. For instance, a corpora- tion may produce a bad earnings' statement one year, but with good management may recover from an unfavorable situation and make an excellent showing for years to come. For the stockholder, then, management and certain other intangibles such as good will, may be more important than the size of the company or the current equity represented by the stock.
An oil company, for instance, may not have many valu- able properties today, but if it has capable management and ample capital it may soon acquire holdings of great value. Richfield was a mere stripling among the oil giants five or six years ago. Its oil reserves are still slender for a com- pany of its size, but its manufacturing and distributing facilities have been greatly expanded.
At the time of its formation last fall. Pacific Western's most valuable properties were at Inglewood and Ventura, but it since has acquired acreage at Kettleman and Elwood conceivably worth more than all its original holdings.
The same thing is true of the industrials. Caterpillar was an infant unborn six years ago. Today its machines are a familiar sight in nearly every country on the globe.
I have no war with statisticians nor with statistics. I mean merely that in purchasing stocks it is the part of prudence to look behind the figures and ascertain the mov- ing force. It is not sufficient that the company have a good record. Managements and conditions change.
The Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. had a good record prior to 1921. And the same was true of American Sugar, but in that year both companies experienced terrible re- verses.
There is a fallacy too in the oft-repeated assertion that there is little danger of loss if one purchases only good stocks. That depends on how much the buyer paid. True, if held long enough a good stock may return to its former level — but what if through adversity the holder is forced to sell ?
These thoughts are intended merely as sign boards of caution to those who may not be wholly familiar with the ways of the market place. However, if men and women will use the same amount of common sense and reason in buying stocks and bonds as they usually do in buying a new home or in shopping, then they may find it a pleasur- able as well as a profitable adventure.
Probably the percentage of loss among women specu- lators is no greater than among the sterner sex. In fact, a perusal of the stockholders lists of the American Tele- phone & Telegraph Company, the Pacific Gas & Electric or the Pennsylvania Railroad, leads one to believe that the percentage may be less, for in all three of these great com- panies the number of women shareholders is greater than is that of the men.
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Health Notes
By Dr. Adelaide Brown
An eighteen-day diet labelled "Maj'o Brothers" has, by the use of this name caught the popular eye. Laity and pro- fession alike connect the Mayo Clinic of Rochester, Minnesota, with this name. The high-grade work of this clinic is falsely identified with the words "Mayo Brothers Diet." It seems impossible to any intelligent physician that the Mayo Clinic could allow this use of their name, and further, that they could be responsible for a diet which might reduce its victims to even a fatal point among weak hearts. The following answer was sent by the Mayo Clinic to a letter by Miss Tom- linson and myself in the name of the club asking the origin of this diet.
"We beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of recent date regarding our diets. So many inquiries of this kind have reached us from misinform- ed individuals that we feel it obliga- tory to deny very emphatically that we have recommended any diets under the name of 'Mayo Clinic Diets.'
"We also wish to express the opin- ion that no one should be placed on a therapeutic diet unless he is under the supervision of a physician.
"When you receive inquiries re- garding this diet, will you kindly in- form the questioners that we disclaim all responsibilit\' for any ill effects which may result from such promis- cuous methods of weight reduction."
Any intelligent reader of Mary Schwartz Rose's book "Feeding the Family" can calculate the calories in the eighteen-day diet, and will realize that no engine fed on from four hun- dred to seven hundred and fifty cal- ories a day can do a day's work. The normal active woman requires 2200 calories a day. Starvation will reduce anybody, but the blow may be fatal. Reduction with health may be accom- plished with medical supervision of the process, but the "come-back" from the eighteen-day diet will be as rapid as the "take-off."
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Two Important October Events
Two events of much interest to Women's City Club members are scheduled for October.
They are the Fireside Meeting, the evening of October 7, when the fire will be lighted in the fireplace in the lounge for the first time since the be- ginning of the summer, and the Mem- bership Dinner, to be held the evening of October 1 1, when reports of officers will be given and the board of direc- tors and members will have opportun- ity of meeting.
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Behind the Scenes
By Mary Katherine Zook
Whispers and giggles and hurrying
feet. Continual efforts to be discreet. Last minute primping and prinking of
hair. And looking for mirrors that never
are there; Peeping 'round corners, through cracks
in the door . . . How many people — Oh here come lots
more — Hundreds and hundreds . . . You gasp
when you know That all your relations are in the front
row. Girls upon ladders more or less stable Gingerly perching, just to be able To open the shutters and speak a few
lines Through the top-story windows. Be- low, frantic signs For more hands in helping someone to
install The fragile bay-window which
threatens to fall; And then on the table, in dainty array. The muffin-man's muffins, spread out
on a tray. Are such a temptation all during Act
One, Since the muffin-man tells you that
you can have none. At the crack in the door where it
doesn't fit quite. Nervously peeping, just for a sight Of what's going on, you follow the
talk. Then step through the door to Poman- der Walk.
''Vogues" Wanted
The City Club Library would like copies of the August 3 number of Vogue, containing illustrations and description of Mr. Templeton Crocker's apartment on Russian Hill.
WoMEws^ City Club Magatine^
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)ctober / 1929
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Volume III f No. 9
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB CALENDAR
OCTOBER I — OCTOBER 31. 1929
APPRECIATION OF ART— Every Monday at 12 noon, Card Room. Mrs. Charles E. Curry,
Leader. CHORAL SECTION— Every Monday evening at 7:30, Room 208. Mrs. Jessie Wilson Taylor,
Director. FRENCH CLASSES
Beginners' class, 2 P. M. ; intermediate class, 1 P. M., Mondays. Conversational class, 11 A. M. Fridays. Mme. Rose Olivier, Instructor. Other classes formed upon request. LEAGUE BRIDGE
Every Tuesday, 2 P. M., in the Board Room; 7:30 P. M., in Assembly Room. Miss Emogene Hutchinson, Chairman. CURRENT EVENTS— Every Wednesday at 11 A. M. Mrs. Parker S. Maddux, Leader. THURSDAY EVENING PROGRAMS
Every Thursday evening at 8 P. M., Auditorium. Mrs. A. P. Black, Chairman. DISCUSSION OF ARTICLES IN CURRENT MAGAZINES
Third Friday of each month, at 3 P. M., Board Room. Mrs. Alden Ames, Chairman. SUNDAY EVENING CONCERTS
Second Sunday of each month, at 8:20 P. M. Mrs. Horatio F. Stoll, Chairman. PERIODIC HEALTH EXAMINATIONS October 1 to 12, inclusive.
October 1 — Lecture on Literature 11:00 A.M.
Speaker: Professor R. G. Gettell
Subject: "Literature as a Factor in Civics"
2 — Book Review Dinner National De-
Speaker: Mrs. T. A. Stoddard fenders' Room 6:00 P.M.
Subject: "Field of Honour," by Donn Byrne
3 — First Program Tea Dining Room 2:30P.M.
Chairman: Mrs. J. P. Rettenmayer Artist: Miss Dorothea Johnston
Program: Oriental and American Indian Folksongs Thursday Evening Program, auspices of The Vocational
Guidance Bureau Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Dr. V. H. Podstata
Subject: "Home-making as a Sound Investment"
A — Outdoor Section Card Room 10:00 A.M.
Speaker: Mrs. G. E. Kellj-. Subject: "Structure of Flowers and Plants"
7 — Annual Fire-lighting Lounge 9:00 P.M.
Chairman: Miss Harriet L. Adams Program: Songs and music by Choral and Music Com- mittees; Fireside story
8 — Lecture on Literature 11:00 A.M.
Speaker: Mrs. O. M. Bennett
Subject: "Literature as a Factor in Drama"
Bridge Luncheon (tables, $5.00) Auditorium 1:00 P.M.
9 — Comparative Program of Piano Music American Room 11:00 A.M.
Speaker: Miss A. M. Wellendorff. Subject: Mozart — Chopin
Lecture on "International Barriers" Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Dr. Allan Blaisdell, Director International House, Berkeley. Subject: 'Racial Barriers"
10 — Thursday Evening Program Assembly Room 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Col. Wilbur S. Tupper
Subject: Illustrated lecture on "Australia"
11 — Membership Dinner and Meeting Dining Room 6:30 P.M.
($1.25 per plate)
15 — Lecture on Literature 11:00 A.M.
Speaker: Professor Alexander Kaun Subject: "Literature as a Factor in International Un- derstanding"
17 — Vacation Tea American Room 3:30 P.M.
Chairman: Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper, assisted by
Hospitality Committee Speakers: Mrs. Philip King Brown, Mrs. Nathan Mo- ran, Miss Vivian Warren. Subject: "Vacation Experiences" Thursday Evening Program, auspices of The Vocational
Guidance Bureau Auditorium 8:00P.M.
Speaker: Dr. Adelaide Brown
Subject: "Assets and Liabilities of a Profession"
21 — Lecture on Literature Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
Speaker: Dr. F. P. Woellner
Subject: "Literature as a Factor in Education"
Lecture Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Abbe Ernest Dimnet
Subject: "An Ideal View of a Perfect Education"
23 — Comparative Program of Piano Music American Room 11:00 A.M.
Speaker: Miss A. M. Wellendorff. Subject: Bach — Debussy
2-1 — Thursday Evening Program Assembly Room 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Mr. Newton H. Bell Subject: "Recent Wanderings in Europe" 26 — Children's Hallowe'en Party (fancy costume) .... Sicimming Pool 11:00 A.M.
29— Hallowe'en Bridge Party (tables, $3.00) Auditorium 8:00P.M.
31 — First Lecture on "The Theatre Today and Tomorrow" . Auditorium 11 :00 A. M.
Speaker: Samuel J. Hume Subject: "Movies, Past, Present, and Future"
Thursday Evening Program -Juditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Mrs. James F. Strachan Subject: Impersonations and Readings
women's city club magazine for OCTOBER
1929
Bridge Luncheon
Mrs. F. C. Porter is chairman of the committee in charge of the bridge luncheon to be given in the City Club Auditorium Tuesday, October 8. Mrs. Porter is being assisted by Mrs. Russell Werner, Mrs." G. Chester Brown, Mrs. Edward Rainey, Mrs. C. D. Clark, Mrs. Samuel Levey and Mrs. Frank J. Hennessy. These card parties which are becoming more and more popular with the members, af- ford them an opportunity to entertain their friends in most happy surround- ings. Luncheon will be served at one o'clock and followed by bridge. There will be two door prizes. Reservations for tables, which are $5.00, may be made at the Information Desk on the Main Floor or through committee.
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Fall Term begins
Tuesday, September 3, 1929
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MOUNT ZION HOSPITAL ^SSS^ing''
Oflers to High School graduates or equiva- lent 28 months' course in an accredited School of Nursing. New nurses' home. Indi- vidual bedrooms, large living room, laborato- ries and recreation rooms. Located in the heart of the city. Non-sectarian. University of California scholarship. Classes admitted September 1st and January 1st. Illustrated booklet on request. Address Superintendent of Nurses,
Mount Zion Hospital, 2200 Post Street, San Francisco, California.
MacALEER SCHOOL For Private Secretaries
Each student receives individual instruction.
A booklet of information will be
furnished upon request.
Mary Genevieve MacAleer, Principal
68 Post Street Telephone DAvenport 6473
The CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF GARDENING FOR WOMEN
offers a two-years' course in practical gardening to women who wish to take up gardening as a profession or to equip themselves for making and working their home gardens. Communicate with
MISS JUDITH WALROND-SKINNER
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Following closely the curriculum of the Bay region schools. Enabling children to build up sturdy bodies, yet return to their own school at any time, and still be in the right class where they belong.
Nine acres in eastern foothills, authoritatively pronounced "the most equable tem- perate climate in the world." Buildings in units adapted to outdoor living the year round. Nurse in attendance in boys' and girls' dormitories. Screened sleeping quarters. Electrically heated dressing rooms.
Children thrive under regular routine, combined with normal home atmosphere. Admission only on recommendation of personal physician. No tuberculosis, conta- gious, or mental cases taken. Accommodations for thirty children.
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BARCLAY SCHOOL of CALCULATING
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Day and Evening Classes Individual Instruction
Telephone DOuglas 1749
Balboa Building 593 Market Street, Cor. 2nd Street
The Sarah Dix Hamlin School
Sixty-sixth year Boarding and Day School for Girls of all ages. Pre-primary school giving spe- cial instruction in French. College preparatory.
Fall Term Opens September lo
A booklet of information will be fur- nished upon request.
Mrs. Ed\vard B. Stanwood,B.L.
PrtMctpal 2120 Broadway Phone WE st 2211
The DAMON SCHOOL
( Successor to the Potter School )
y^ Day School for Boys
I ACCREDltED 1
Fall Term Opens September 4
Primary, Grammar and High School Departments . . . featur- ing small classes and individual instruction. Prepares for all Eastern and Western colleges.
I. R. DAMON, A. M. (Harvard)
Headmaster 1901 Jackson St. Tel. OR dway 8632
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Sj^ Tx /-> /-> X Grammar Course^ K^ ri IJ K_f Li accredited, saves half time.
Private Lessons, any hour. Night, Day. Both sexes. Annapolis, West Point, College Board tutoring. Secretarial- Academic two-year course, entitles to High School Diploma. Civil Service Coaching — all lines.
2901 California St. Phone WE«t 7069
PACIFIC COAST MILITARY ACADEMY |l
A private boarding school for boys between
5 and 14 years of age.
Summer Session starts June 16.
Fall Term starts September 10.
For information write
MAJOR ROYAL W. PARK
Box 6n-W Menlo Park, Calif.
LE DOUX SCHOOL OF FRENCH
Rapid Conversational Method 545 Sutter Street
Formerly at 133 Geary Street GArfield 3962
SCHOOL OF
FRENCH and SPANISH
PROFESSOR A. TOURNIER
133 Geary St., San Francisco. KE amy 4879 and 2415 Fulton St., Berkeley. AShberry 4210
Private Lessons — Special Classes (Conversation)
$3 a Month. Coaching: High School and
College — Courses by Correspondence
Students received at any time
Enrollment now open
Standard Methods — No "bluff"
No misrepresentation
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1929
Women's City Club M agazin e
Published Monthly at 465 Post Street
Telephone KEarny 8400
Entered as lecond-cUss matter April 14, 1928, at the Post 0£Bce at San Francisco, California, under the act of March 3, 1879.
SAN FRANCISCO
Vol. Ill
October, 1929
No. 9
SONTENTS
Club Calendar 2
Frontispiece 6
Amplified Statement of October Events . . . 7-8
Copra Cutting at Amouli 10-11
By Dorr Bothwell
Native Boys of Nyasaland 12-13
By Inglis Fletcher
Trysting Places 14
Address for Mailing Questionnaire 15
Editorial Questionnaire 16
The President's Message 17
By Marion VV. Leale
Editorial 17
Fashion Show and Advertisers' Exhibit . . 18-19
Beyond the City Limits 20
By Edith Walker Maddux
Why Do Americans Visit Europe? 21
By May Christie
Insuring City Life With Home Life 22
By Carol G. Wilson
England's Port o' Spain 23
By Beatrice Snow Stoddard
A Wedding at Cyprus 31-32
By T. Arthur Rickard
jj^ Brown
The Smart New Costume Color
OFFICERS OF THE WOMEN'S CITY CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO
President Miss Marion W. Leale
First Vice-President Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper
Second Vice-President Mrs. Paul Shoup
Third Vice-President Miss Mabel Pierce
Recording Secretary Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr.
Corresponding Secretary Mrs. W. F. Booth, Jr.
Treasurer Mrs. S. G. Chapman
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Women's City Club of San Francisco
Mrs. A. P. Black Miss Marion Leale
Mrs. William F. Booth, Jr. Mrs. Parker S. Maddux
Mrs. Le Roy Briggs Miss Henrietta Moffat
Dr. Adelaide Brown Mrs. Harry Staats Moore
Miss Marion Burr Miss Emma Noonan
Mrs. Louis J. Carl Mrs. Howard G. Park
Mrs. S. G. Chapman Miss Esther Phillips
Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr. Miss Mabel Pierce
Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper Mrs. Edward Rainey
Miss Marion Fitzhugh Mrs. Paul Shoup
Mrs. Frederick Funston Mrs. H. A. Stephenson
Mrs. W. B. Hamilton Mrs. T. A. Stoddard
Mrs. Lewis P. Hobart Miss Elisa May Willard
Mrs. Marcus S. Koshland Mrs. James T. Wood, Jr.
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[From Drawing by Dorr Bothwelll
Copra Cutting at Amouli
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October To Be Month of Dynamic
Activity at Women's City Club
of San Francisco
ABBE DIMNET WILL LECTURE OCTOBER 21
IN ANNOUNCING Abbe Dimnet as the attraction for October 21, the Women's City Club is following its policy of offering, as far as possible, speakers of superlative merit.
Not to have read Abbe Dimnet's best known book, "The Art of Thinking," is to have missed the enjoyment of great potential benefits. This profound but thoroughly com- panionable volume is like its author, full of the distilled essence of a rich and stimulating life.
L'Abbe Dimnet will speak at the Women's City Club on the subject "An Ideal View of a Perfect Education," and brings to such a discussion an intimate knowledge of methods and trends in at least three countries: his native land, France; his neighbor, England; and his favorite friend, the United States. With a charming personality, a genial humor and an intellectual grasp unsurpassed by any modern lecturer, he will present a very significant discus- sion of "Adult Education." Tickets are now on sale and are available to the public.
OCTOBER'S PROGRAM TEA
Members who enjoy the friendliness and cheer of after- noon tea, with a guest or two, will be glad to learn that the first of the Program Teas will be held in the Dining Room of the Women's City Club on the afternoon of Thursday, October 3, from 2:30 to 5:00 o'clock.
Miss Dorothea Johnston will give a program of Orien- tal and American Indian songs preceding the tea. Miss Johnston has won enthusiastic phiudits wherever she has appeared, not only because of her lovely voice, which is admirably trained, but also because of her fascinating per- sonality. Her program is made up of Oriental and Amer- ican Indian folk-songs, sung in the native costume.
The tickets are one dollar per person for each tea. It is suggested, since these Thursday program teas are to be especially tasty and the entertainment unusually enjoyable, that the membership make them occasions for the entertain- ment of guests. Mrs. J. P. Rettenmayer, ably assisted by Mrs. Rae Ashley, is gracious chairman of the entire group of six teas which will take place each first Thursday, with a delightful program, up to and including January.
ANNUAL FIRE-LIGHTING
One of the highlights on the Ocfober calendar is the an- nual Lighting-of-the-Fire in the Lounge on the evening of Monday, October 7, at 8 :30 o'clock. It is the time when our Club-Family gathers around our hearth, and we re- new our Loyalties, share our Enthusiasms, and appreciate our Good Fortune.
There will be two or three musical numbers, contributed by the music committee under the charge of Mrs. Horatio F. StoU ; a community sing, led by the Choral Society, un- der the direction of Mrs. Jessie Wilson Taylor; a fireside story told by one who will be a great surprise; and cider, nuts, apples and popcorn, in plentiful quantities will be served as refreshments. This event is verv significant, as its celebration is one of the symbols of the good will and fel- lowship in the life of the Women's City Club.
Miss Harriet L. Adams is the chairman, assisted by the following committee: Mrs. W. B. Hamilton. Dr. Alary P. Campbell, Mrs. Charles Crocker, Miss Ruth Gedney, Miss Mary Jamieson and Mrs. Mary Walter. Let us all remember this evening and attend.
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DR. ALLAN BLAISDELL, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, WILL SPEAK
The subject of the October lecture in the series on "In- ternational Barriers," will be "Racial Barriers." This lec- ture will be given on the evening of the second Wednesday, October 9, in the Auditorium, by Dr. Allan Blaisdell of the University of California. Dr. Blaisdell is the director of the International House on the Berkeley campus. He is an authority on the movement among American university students, towards international understanding. Before com- ing to Berkeley, Dr. Blaisdell was assistant to the director of the International House, New York City. The work of the House at the University of California, it is expected, will assume the characteristics of the New York institution in integrating the life of the representatives of the many races and nationalities studying at the University. Mr. Blaisdell was a graduate of Pomona College, in 1919. The year following he spent in Japan teaching English in the Japanese Government schools. In 1920 he returned to the United States, and studied at the Union Theological Seminary and Columbia Universitv. Dr. Blaisdell thus
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Dr. Allan Blatsdell, who will speak at the Wome?i's City Club Wednesday evening, October 9, on "Racial Barriers"
brings to his discussion on "Racial Barriers," an intimate knowledge of his subject.
Tickets are selling to members for one dollar for the course. This ticket is non-transferable. Non-members may purchase tickets for the course at four dollars, this may be transferred to friends. ^ y y
MEMBERSHIP DINNER The Fall and Winter season of the Women's City Club is to be opened by a Membership Dinner. The Board of Directors, the Committee Chairmen, all of us who work and play in the City Club are planning to be present. This occasion, like the Fire-lighting, is to be one of those im- portant times when our club family meets together to talk over our affairs. Those of us who have not felt themselves an integral part of the club life are especially urged to come and learn what the Board of Directors is doing and planning. The dinner will be held in the Dining Room on the evening of Friday, October 11, at six-thirty o'clock, and will be in the nature of a friendly gathering of the Club members who are interested in its progress and wel- fare. Membership cards and a dollar and a quarter are all you need.
VACATION TEA
Because a tale of unique adventure always captivates everyone, members and friends are eagerly anticipating the Vacation Tea which will be held in the American Room on Thursday afternoon, October 17, at 3 :30 o'clock. Three members who have recently returned from their travels this summer will informally recount their vacation experi- ences. These entertaining speakers are Mrs. Philip King Brown, Mrs. Nathan Moran, and Miss Vivian Warren. The Vacation Tea is in the charge of the Hospitality Com- mittee with Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper as chairman. Tickets, 35 cents.
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WEDNESDAY "ELEVEN O'CLOCKS"
Members who are lovers of music will be glad to know than an arrangement has been made with Miss Adeline Maude Wellendorff, whereby this gifted musician will give a series of four comparative programs of piano music at the Women's City Club. These programs will be conducted in accordance with Miss Wellendorff's usual method of. a lecture, with musical illustrations, upon the similarities and dissimilarities in the works of certain classical and modern composers. The order of the programs, in the main, will be :
I Mozart — Chopin
II Bach — Debussy III Beethoven — Medtuer IV Brahms — Bartok The course is open to members and their friends. It will begin on Wednesday morning, at eleven o'clock, October 9, in the American Room and will continue throughout October and November on the second and fourth Wednes- day mornings, on the dates : October 9 and 23 ; November 6 and 20. Tickets for the series are five dollars and are on sale at the Women's City Club.
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AMBASSADOR ALANSON B. HOUGHTON
The Women's City Club is happy to announce that Am- bassador Alanson B.Houghton will speak in the Club Audi- torium on the evening of Friday, November 22 instead of November 21, as formerly scheduled, on the subject "War and Peace." This will be Mr. Houghton's exclusive appear- ance in San Francisco. All seats in the Auditorium will be reserved. Tickets are one dollar for members and one dol- lar and fifty cents for non-members, and are on sale to members and to the public at the Women's City Club.
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OUTDOOR SECTION A REALITY
The Outdoor Section was enthusiastically organized on Thursday afternoon, September 19. The plan is to have six lectures, with plant and flower demonstrations and illus- trations, in the Club, on six consecutive Friday mornings from ten to twelve-thirty, beginning with Friday, October 4, in the Card Room. Mrs. G. E. Kelly, a trained botanist, naturalist, and garden planner, will conduct the classes. A group oi twenty persons signed up for the course. If this group grows larger than twenty, the fee will be four dollars for the six lectures, if not, the fee will be five dol- lars for the six. Come and enjoy this entertaining and very profitable activity. A section for the study of birds and bird life for the children, between the ages of nine and twelve, will be organized if sufficient interest is shown. Members may sign for these courses at the Information Desk, y / f
THE THEATER
Interest in the theater never wanes. With this in mind, the Women's City Club is offering a course of four lectures on this captivating subject by four experts. The course will be conducted in our Auditorium on four consecutive Thurs- day mornings at eleven o'clock, beginning on October 31. The topics and speakers will be as follows:
October 31 — Movies, Past, Present and Future — Samuel J. Hume.
November 7 — The Little Theater — Alice B. Brainerd.
November 14 — The Theater in Europe and England — Everett Glass.
November 21 — To be announced later.
Mr. Hume returned a year ago from an extended trip in Europe where he was in close contact with the best mov- ing picture centers. He has lately organized the Cinema Society of California, with headquarters in Berkeley. Mr. Hume is especially qualified to speak on the subject of mov- ing pictures and the great part they have played in the de- velopment of our present day civilization, not only in the United States, but in the whole world. He brings to this lecture an intimate knowledge and great enthusiasm.
Miss Alice Brainerd is Executive Director of the Play- house in Berkeley. She has but lately returned from an ex- haustive study of the Little Theater both in Europe and
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the United States, and comprehends with sympathetic wis- dom the opportunities and failures involved in the intelli- gent understanding of this alluring subject. Added to this Miss Brainerd's personality possesses that rare quality which makes one never tire of her witticisms and forthright comments.
Mr. Everett Glass, the producing Director of the Play- house in Berkeley, comes to us fresh from a summer tour of Stageland in England and Europe. His observations and conclusions will be both pertinent and entertaining.
It is hoped that the fourth speaker may be one from the Drama Department of Stanford University, thereby round- ing out this timely presentation of an ever-new theme.
Season tickets, $2.00 ; single tickets, 75 cents. This series of lectures is open to members and their friends. ■f -f -f
A COURSE ON LITERATURE
A course of eight lectures on Literature by well known educators and authorities will begin on Tuesday morning, October 1. The first speaker will be Professor Raymond G. Gettell of the University of California. His subject, "Literature as a Factor in Civics" will be ably handled, as he brings a wide background of experience in scientific research.
The second lecture, "Literature as a Factor in Drama," will be given by Mrs. Oscar Mailard Bennett of the Uni- versity of California, Extension Division. Mrs. Bennett has made Drama and its interpretation her life work. Her audiences are always enthusiastic over her presentation of her subject.
"Literature as a Factor in International Understanding" could be in no better hands than those of Professor Kaun, who was so well received last spring, when he gave a course on Russia for the. Club. Professor Kaun has a keen mind and a sensitive and understanding approach to all questions of Internationalism.
The fourth lecture by Dr. Frederick P. Woellner, Asso- ciate Professor of Civic Education, University of Califor- nia at Los Angeles, "Literature as a Factor in Education" will be given on Monday morning, October 21. Dr. Woell- ner, without doubt, the most popular man on the lecture platform in Southern California, was unable to give any other time to the Club and it was deemed advisable to change the day for this one talk from Tuesday morning to Monday morning in order to secure him. There is no educator in California who has the forward look and the modern viewpoint more clearly defined.
Dr. Sydney K. Smith, Neuropsychiatrist, University of California, and Psychiatrist, Alameda County Juvenile
Court, who will speak on "Literature as a Factor in Psy- chology," is a man of knowledge and experience. The psy- chological trend of modern literature is a well known fact and Dr. Smith will be able to throw some highlights on the subject that will be of great value.
The Photo Drama, holding as it does such a large place in the life of today, will be discussed by Dr. Willard Smith of Mills College. He is well known to audiences in the Bay Region and is always well received.
The lectures on "The Short Story" and "The Long Novel" will be the climax of the series. The former will be delivered by Dr. Edith R. Merrielees of Stanford Uni- versity and the latter by Professor Benjamin H. Lehman of the University of California. Dr. Merrielees has just re- turned from Bread Loaf, Middlebury, Vermont, where she gave a course on the Short Story in the famous Summer School of that place. She is an accepted authority through- out this country on her subject. Professor Lehman will give the final lecture and will announce, at that time, his course in Literature that will take place in the Spring. No more popular courses are given at the Club than Professor Leh- man's talks on Contemporary Literature. This course of lectures has been arranged by Mrs. Edward Rainey, as special chairman. The program is as follows:
Literature as a Factor in :
October 1 — Civics, Prof. Gettell, University of Cali- fornia.
October 8 — Drama, Mrs. Bennett, University of Cali- fornia, Extension Division.
October 15 — International Understanding, Prof. Kaun, University of California.
October 21 — Education, Dr. Woellner, Universitj' of California, Southern Branch.
October 29 — Psychology, Dr. S. K. Smith, University of California.
November 5 — Photo Drama, Dr. Willard Smith, Mills College.
November 12 — The Short Story, Dr. Edith R. Merrie- lees, Stanford University.
November 19 — The Long Novel, Prof. Lehman, Uni- versity of California.
With the exception of Dr. Woellner 's lecture on Mon- day, October 21, the course will be held on Tuesday morn- ings at eleven o'clock in the Auditorium and will be open to the public. Tickets may be purchased at the information desk on the Main Floor; season tickets S4.00 or single tickets 75 cents.
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Release from Little Things
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knoivs it not, knows no release From little things:
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of ivings.
How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate
For dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate
Unless we dare
The soul's dominion f Each time we make a choice, zee pay
JVith courage to behold resistless day,
A nd count it fair,
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1929
Copra Cutting at Amouli
By Dorr Bothwell, Tau Manu'a, American Samoa
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O MANY of my friends have said in their letters (when commenting on my situation as adopted daughter in a Samoan chieftain's family), 'How nice it must be to live with people that are comfortably lazy," that I am beginning to think that the idea of the Samoans being lazy is generally believed. How far that belief is from the truth, perhaps these few pages from my diary will show.
"This evening (Sunday) after kai-kai, when we were all sitting around with our feet stretched and our backs resting against the posts of the house, Sotoa sat up and with the inevitable 'yut' (which precedes and concludes every speech a Samoan makes), began to give orders for the trip to Amouli. Sotoa, his son Aviata, and his nephew Ifo would go over in the va'aalo (large outrigger canoe) IVIonday morning and estimate the amount of shells to be cut. We women were to walk over before the sun got hot. IVIonday night, five men were to row over the whale boat, while the rest of the men, nine in all, would walk over before dawn Tuesday morning.
"We got up before dawn Monday and had breakfast, which was unusual, as we generally eat about ten-thirty when the umu (oven) is out. We were each given two square biscuits, a sort of hardtack and the only bread they have (it's quite a luxury, as it costs a dollar a tin), and a cup of coffee. I asked why wt were eating so early and they explained that we wouldn't eat again until three o'clock in the afternoon.
"Amouli is about five miles from our (Tau) village by land, and about three and a half by boat. We walked down the white sand of the main street, then the path narrowed as we walked through a well-kept cocoanut plan- tation at the edge of the village. That path changed to one of coral and lava stones. The stones are about a foot across as a rule, and were put there generations ago. The texture of the coral varies from warty ones which look like the backs of giant toads, especially when they have moss on them, to those looking like fine petrified sponges. The lava rock is very black and porous, and is worn smooth by countless bare feet. This rock trail was only on the level and near the seashore. It stopped as soon as we started to climb and we were soon slipping in black, greasy mud and clutching at ferns and creepers in our efforts to climb from one rocky point to another. Leaving the ocean, the silence became intense, as for weeks now the noise of the breakers has been like the roar of cannon. Also there were very few cocoanut palms along the trail, and the wind in the huge hardwood trees made only leafy noises instead of the harsh soutjd, like rain on a tin roof, which a cocoanut grove makes. There was only the occasional chirp of a bird, rustling noises made by large black lizards and alert rats to break the stillness. The farther we penetrated into the bush, losing the sea breeze, the stronger the impression of walking through a giant conservatory became. That warm, moist, sweet fern smell.
"Pretty soon we came to the sea again, and for a mile or so we slipped and struggled through deep, shifting sea gravel. It looks like a mixture of small white bones, little round sponges, lava pebbles and broken shells. The Samo- ans use it to put around their houses in wide circles, as it rings when anyone walks on it; besides, it drains the moisture away and takes the sand ofi the feet when ap- proaching the house. A purple morning-glory trails over the gravel and the vines trip you up if you haven't stum-
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bled already over the shifting stones. It was a relief to start climbing over the last point and sight the white sands of Amouli.
"Amouli has only about eight or nine huts, the people just staying there in order to be near their plantations. We went to one of the largest houses and found Sotoa already waiting for us. We were offered some ripe bana- nas, which were certainly most welcome. Then we rested and sang songs while waiting for the tide to lower so that we could take a bath. There are no streams of running water on this whole island, everyone depending on the springs of fresh water found on the seashore and which are available at low tide. After our bath we took a nap through the hot part of the day while waiting for the boys to report on the plantation. They came down about three and we had a grand meal of palusami (taro leaves folded about cocoanut milk and baked), taro, roasted green bana- nas, roast chicken and fish, which we all did justice to. After lunch we spent the rest of the day exploring another plantation of Sotoa's and gathering dry palm leaves to use for torches, as the women were going fishing that night.
"Just at sundown, Fauato and the other men came in the long boat from Tau. The surf was terrible and they had an exciting time getting through the reef. They looked like Javanese rather than Samoans, as each man had a dry lava-lava twisted around his head, the w^ay a Javanese twists a sarong around his. It is dark by seven, so when a lamp was lit we all sat around on mats, each with a post at his back, and had evening prayer. The only church on this island is that of the London Missionary Society, so prayer consisted of a hymn, beautifully sung in two or three parts, a selection read from the Tusi Paia (the Bible translated into Samoan) and a long prayer, given in this instance by Sotoa. Then the woven baskets holding the food were again brought out, young banana leaves spread like green napkins on the food-tray mats and piled high with taros, bananas and chicken. When we were through the women went to fish.
"I never offer to go fishing with them. I much prefer to stay on shore and watch. Extreme low tide is the time chosen, when the reef is all exposed. With their flaring torches held high in one hand, they move slowly along from one hole or well in the reef to the next, spearing or catching the fish marooned by the departed tide. From the shore, though, the effect is of a wet, black city boulevard- stretching away behind the palm trees, upon which the lights of slow-moving vehicles are reflected. I think it thrills me because it gives the illusion of land stretching away, away, instead of the changeable ocean.
"Up before dawn. As soon as a Samoan household awakes, they all sit up and pull their sheets around their shoulders and very softly sing a hymn and then recite the Lord's Prayer in unison. We had breakfast again. This time it consisted of bananas about ten or twelve inches long, which had been roasted in their skins. When peeled, they are a brilliant yellow, and we ate them dipped in cocoanut milk. Suddenly there were cries of 'Uma! uma.' (finished) so we grabbed our knives and took to the trail leading to the bush.
"I haven't said much about the Samoan knives. Every time I look at them I am thankful that the Samoan is a peace-loving individual ! They are as long as a sabre, as a rule, and vary greatly as to the handle. Most of them have long, home-made handles wrapped with senet, a sort
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of string made of the fibres from the inside of cocoanut husks, and which is braided by the chiefs whenever they meet at council. With the backs of these murderous-look- ing tools they can split a cocoanut in half with one short, sharp blow. They even fell trees with them. They have shorter knives too, the ones we carried being about twelve inches long. It's quite a sight to watch a line of Samoans going to the bush, each armed with his long knife.
"Well, we started up over a perfectly terrific trail. Thank goodness for my experiences in the Sierras! The ground seems to go in steps. We climbed for about a hundred yards straight up, when the trail flattened out for a ways and then became perpendicular, also so narrow that the vines and creepers seemed to hang onto us to keep us from taking an upward step. Finally we got to the top and came out at a clearing where about eight men were cutting copra for dear life, having walked over from Tau before dawn. It was now about nine o'clock in the morn- ing and beginning to get hot. The other men were back in the plantation husking the cocoanuts, splitting them in half and bringing them down to the cutters, each man carrying two baskets on a pole across his shoulders. The cutters worked very rapidly, cleaning a shell with about ten movements, the object being to cut the cocoanut meat in strips wide enough to keep it from breaking but not too wide as to be hard to dry. The women were kept busy weaving or braiding baskets for the copra from green palm leaves which when hacked off by the younger boys fell down with swishing crashes. As fast as the shells were cleaned they were taken to a heap to be burned for charcoal.
"I sat down and one of the men threw me a few shells and I tried my best to imitate them, but whereas they took ten seconds, I took ten minutes. They use the back of the knife and a peculiar twisting movement which snaps the meat out of the shell. I stayed with my few shells until my hands were blistered and I was wringing wet with perspiration, when I decided it was time to stop and eat
o'o. When a cocoanut starts to sprout, the water inside changes into a sort of pufifball of the consistency of whipped gelatin, which is sweetish when small and is called in Samoan o'o. What ones we didn't eat were gath- ered up by the children to be fed to the pigs!
"Soon we went down to the clearing on the next level, the men carrying down the copra they had cut. Each basketful weighs from thirty to forty-five pounds and each man carried two baskets on a pole over his bare shoul- ders, climbing down a perfectly perpendicular trail, over sharp, mossy stones, in his bare feet! The men worked steadily through the hottest part of the day, the sweat pouring off them continually. Finally we got down to the last clearing and level and counted the baskets and found that they had filled thirty pairs of baskets, which at an average of thirty-five pounds is 1050 pounds of fresh cut copra. All this they carried to the village about two miles away, each man making two trips, and how they ever got down the last part of the trail carrying heavy baskets slung on a five-foot pole is a mystery to me.
"When it was all down, they all took a swim and then ate for the first time since their early breakfast, and it was now about three-thirty. After they had eaten, without resting they started to load the long boat. This was a very wet process, as the surf was rough so that the boat had to be held on the reef while the men waded out, carrying the copra once again ! However, the boat was soon loaded and with ten men rowing they got under way, Sotoa and the two boys following in the va'aalo. We waited until they were lost to view around the point, then we picked up our belongings and took the trail for home. Arriving just before sundown, we found that the men had already bathed and were dressed in their best lava-lavas, their hair oiled and hibiscus flowers behind their ears. They were sitting around smoking and laughing as if they had been doing nothing all day long.
"Who says the Samoan is lazy? Not I, for one."
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(Miss Dorr Bothwell is a graduate of the California School of Fine Arts. She is a member of the San Francisco Society of Women Artists.
Her work has shown great originality, and with her energy and perseverance we have every reason to expect the unusual from her.
She lives in the home of Chief Sotoa, in Tau-Manu'a, Ameri- can Samoa, as a member of his family.
He has a wife and a son and daughter.
Miss Bothwell wears the native clothes and eats native food. Her idea is to break away from the conventionalities of our civilization, which she felt hindered her expression of abstract art, and see what she could create unhampered. She writes of herself thus:
"This is a grand place in which to figure w'hat one wants to do and how to go about it, then if one could enter a room with a San Francisco temperature, more might be accomplished. Lately the days from eleven to three o'clock have been about eighty-five in the shade and the paint dries as fast as one puts it on. But that really isn't a fly in the butter, just a little gnat, and doesn't count.
"You know, this trip is a big joke on me. I had an idea that a certain amount of restraint in regards to painting, was directly due to surroundings and contacts! But alas, 1 have found out otherwise. 1 had a great deal of invisible baggage with me when I landed here, and it is still impeding my progress. I brought over a large gladstone of self-fastening restrictions; this gladstone, which I inherited from my Scotch father, has a very weak clasp, and when I try to kick it out of the way of expression, it opens and spills little niggling 'restrainers' all over the place. You see I firmly believe that abstract art is capable of a greater aesthetic content than any other form. I also believe that no true abstract paintings of the type I have in mind have been painted to date, paintings which leave the 'self, the material self of the painter, out and seeks to put down the spiritual essence of nature, which natural forms point to but do not embodv. It must of necessity be three dimensional, and
the rhythm is its fourth dimension. That, in clumsy language, is my ideal.
"It's raining today, a thin, windy rain from a smoky grey sky. All my doors and windows are closed against the wind, so that the atmosphere of my room is like one in San Francisco with the steam heat on. Only I am simply clad in a blouse and a lava-lava. My feet have a complete Samoan sandal, I can walk on thorns without them piercing the callous on my sole. But I have only the slightest tan. Staying indoors the way I must of necessity, if I wish to paint, keeps me my original shade. There is no place to swim here, the reef comes right up to the beach, and what look like big brown rocks are in reality masses of coral which are as sharp as needles. It is only in the early morn- ing and at sunset that I get out, for a short walk or to work in my garden.
"There is one thing that I have discovered since coming here to Samoa, all seeming to the contrary, it is oneself, and no other person, place or thing which makes existence complicated or simple. When I came here to Samoa, all I needed to do was to paint, eat, sleep and paint again. Was I satisfied? No! So I began, or reverted to my habits of complication. One reason was that I felt that I should look to the future and try to assure my supply of money. At the present time it wasn't necessary, but obeying the habits of civilization I began to plan. Soon I made connections with the Bishop Museum, and from their sug- gestion that I write a report on Samoan tapa cloth, has grown the complication of a book which they want sometime this year! More time away from painting. Then I thought a garden would be nice, so I fixed one, more complications. I bought Toaga a stove and began to bake bread. I have helped her start a store, etc., etc. My time now is as cut up as if I were living down in the Monkey Block once more! Who is to blame? Me, Myself & Co.! In the midst of it all I have a sudden vision of it all, like those you mention, and when I come down to earth I trj* to shake these hindrances otf, as fruitless as trving to shake off a feather from stickv fingers. ONE C.\N LIVE THE SIMPLE LIFE ANYWHERE IF ONE IS A GENIUS! BUT ONE HAS TO BE A GENIUS TO LIVE A SIMPLE LIFE!
"Tofa, soef ua ! As the preachers say at the close of a sermon, which means, Good-bye, live.")
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1929
Native ''Boys'' of Nj^asaland
By Inglis Fletcher
THE perfect servant has at last been found — in the heart of Africa. Not only the perfect servant in the singular number but in the plural as well. Fancy a native boy (all natives are "boys" when 12 or 60) who can do everything from unpack your clothes — wash, iron, dry clean — cook, serve — sew, embroider and drive your motor car ! And doing it all silently and deftly with perfect good humor. What is the answer to this?
The British woman in the Tropics.
There is a saying that Africa is a man's country. There is no doubt there is a good deal of truth in this statement. Fascinating, mysterious, adventurous and thrilling as the dark country is, it is cruel underneath — and is extremely hard on women. Health, disposition and sometimes her morale sufFer. Someone found out that the latter is the worst thing that can befall the white man or white woman in the remote parts of the Tropics. So the Britisher, with his customary thoroughness, has set about overcoming that drawback by proper living. He begins with sports and his club. Whenever there are two or three English there is a club, of sorts, tennis court and a bit of a golf course.
And when he brings his wife or his sister or his mother out to the wilds of Africa, she comes with dozens of boxes and bags and crates — not of clothes but of household goods — and sets up her Lares and Penates in the heart of the jungle.
She brings linen and her silver tea service, her china and her oriental rugs. Sometimes it takes 300 native porters to transport her belongings to the outstation — where her menfolk are stationed to uphold the law and administer justice to thousands of raw natives.
Foolish? Not at all. Wise with the wisdom of Eve and the serpent combined. The home and the family being the basis of our civilization, the Colonial English woman begins with the home. By living exactly as she would live in the British Isles, she sets a standard for herself and her menfolk — the stray bachelor, planters and residents within two or three hundred miles about — and also a standard by which the native judges the white man — his superior way of living.
Having brought in her belongings, her next step is to train servants to work. For no white man or woman ever lifts his or her hand to manual labor in a black country.
She takes a raw native — "raw" meaning one who has never been to a mission school or worked for a European — and sets about teaching him how to work after the white man's fashion, which is so very different from his own. Wages being next to nothing, she can have quantities of "boys," as they are called. That is simple, but in order to have "quality" she must labor and slave and struggle; but eventually the perfect servant is the result.
Take Puti, for instance, as an example of the perfect servant, although I came across dozens of perfect servants in Nyasaland, Tanganyika, in British Central Africa. He is a Yao, a tribe of Mohammedan natives that are in the
Puti' — Yoo
interior and east central districts of Nyasaland. A genera- tion ago his ancestors were captured, bought and sold by the Arabs. They were constantly at war with neighboring tribes, especially the Angoni. They had to fight with skill and cunning to maintain their tribal integrity so as not to be absorbed by the stronger tribes.
The first time I saw Puti, which was when I was the guest of the P. C. (which means Provincial Commission- er), Puti was the bedroom boy, and with one helper it was his duty to look after the rooms, and particularly after my welfare, as I was a guest and traveling without a personal boy (every man and woman in this country travels with a personal servant or two to look after their wants).
I had been traveling months and my clothes were in a shocking state. I asked my host about a dry cleaner. He stared at me ; I repeated the ques- tion and he broke into a laugh — no such things as a dry-cleaning estab- lishment in Nyasaland. I was aghast. What could I do? "Call Puti," was the answer.
Puti was called, also the dhoby (laundry boy). They took the frocks and coats and evening dresses and looked them over, talking to each other in Chinyanja (the native tongue), pointing to spots and pleats. Then they reported to my host. "They say they can clean everything," he told me cheerfully, and dismissed the incident as closed. I was not so sanguine. I had a good many qualms about my clothes, but I need have had no fears. One day later my bed was covered with the cleaned frocks, look- ing exactly as well as if they had come from the best dry cleaners in this country. I was amazed and de- lighted. Later I found out that what- ever one could not do himself was turned over to a "boy," who always did it — somehow.
Sir Harry Johnston introduced the servant system of India into the Province when he was the first Governor of Nyasaland — that is, each boy has a defi- nite thing to do. First, there is a head boy who oversees all the others; then the cook, his helper, the pantry boy, the dishwasher, bedroom boys, dining-room boys, and the dhoby, or laundry boy. The garetta boys pull a little cart like a rickshaw that is used all over the Province for trav- eling where automobiles cannot go. There are personal boys for the Bwana (the master), the Donna (the mis- tress), and the children have a "boy" as nurse.
One house where I stayed, five or six of the boys had been with the family from nineteen to twenty years. They were perfectly trained, went about their work methodically and quietly. The routine was never interrupted — all went like clockwork. The day went something like this:
At 6:30, a tiny tap on the door and Puti and Jacob entered the room, said "Moni" (the Mangaya greeting), and at once began rolling back the mosquito net from my bed. This was a ceremony of importance. One boy on each side gathered up a corner of the net and began pleat- ing it into folds and lifting it away from the sides of the
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bed where it had been carefully tucked in the night before (to keep out the deadly mosquitos that bring fever with their bites). Then they lifted it over the top, laid it care- fully at one end of the high painted frame over the bed. That being finished, Puti stopped long enough to hang up any clothes left on the chair the night before, and put my bedroom slippers in exactly the proper place and angle so that I could thrust my feet into them when I got up, laid my wrapper, neatly folded, across the foot of the bed, and then departed silently, his bare feet making no sound on the cement floor of the bedroom. He returned shortly with morning tea on a brass tray, bread and butter and that most delightful of tropical fruits, papai, and my shoes freshly whitened.
Out he goes, to return after I have finished my tea, to take the tray. The next thing on his schedule was to pre- pare the bath. A bath in the Tropics is not the simple thing we make it — turning on a tap. Far from it. Water is brought in in five-gallon kerosene tins on the heads of the native boys. A big tin tub is carried from bathroom to bathroom (almost every bedroom has a little room off it, called a bathroom, but the tub is movable) and the water carried in. Hot water is heated in five-gallon tins on the top of a small stove or over a fire in the compound, on a sheet of corrugated iron set on stones. When you consider that sometimes six or seven baths are "laid" each morning before breakfast, it seems little short of a miracle how the water is heated, the tubs filled, all at the proper time. But it is managed by the boys after some effective method they have been taught by the Donna.
After the bath, breakfast is served on the kondi (ve- randa), and while you eat, overlooking the garden and the lovely hills, with the Union Jack flying on the flag- staff in front of you, you wonder if you are really thou- sands and thousands of miles away from the so-called cities of civilization. On the side table are bacon and eggs in silver dishes over a spirit lamp to keep them hot ; dishes of fruits of all kinds; slices of cold guinea fowl, beef or cold ham. The table boys, in spotless white robes, stand behind your chairs intent on the business of serving you noise- lessly and swiftly. Are you really in the heart of Africa?
During breakfast the bedroom boy and the dhoby have taken your soiled clothes to be laundered, made up the bed and straightened the room.
At eleven tea is served, luncheon at one, afternoon tea at four, sundowners (or drinks) from six to eight, dinner any time after nine. Again perfect service — the table boys, in fresh white robes and caps, put on orange Zanzibar jackets over the white robes, giving an exotic touch. Your dinner clothes are laid out on the bed, your stockings turned properly, slippers out, hot water ready, and a fire started in your fireplace if the night is chilly, as it often is in high plains in the tropical winter.
At night the mosquito net is put in place before dark, carefully tucked in under the mattress so no wandering mischief-maker can get near you in the night.
This is all routine work. Beside this, Puti mended my clothes and stockings, sewed on buttons and even lowered the hem of a skirt, mended a shoe that had the heel torn off, kept my white helmet pipeclayed, shampooed my hair perfectly, having melted castile soap for the shampoo, in a truly professional way.
When we went for a day's journey in the motor, he went along to change a tire, if necessary. At a picnic luncheon by the roadside, the boy unpacked the luncheon, arranged rugs and pillows comfortably, made a fire for tea, set out and served the food. All done so cheerfully, so swiftly and so easily that it was a revelation to one from a
comparatively servantless land. Other boys in the house- hold were equally efficient. Now, things like that don't just happen. Back of that is the woman who labors to train boys, used only to the ways of the tribes and native villages, to work in the manner of the white and serve him as well as he is served at home. In bachelor establish- ments the boys work as well, the head boy being responsible for the work of all the boys.
"Boy!" shouted in stentorian tones by the "Bwana," brings a number of them on the run to await their master's bidding and attend to his wants.
These boys are very faithful, after the manner of the negro in the old South in this country. They are devoted to their "Bwana" and their "Donna" and exceedingly good as nurses with children. There have been many moving instances of extraordinary devotion to duty even against their own people. In the Nyasaland Rebellion, one "boy," now the personal servant of Lady Bowring, wife of the Governor of Nyasaland, saved the life of his "Donna" by getting her away from a native mob. While the Dis- trict Resident, whose house she was visiting, was attacked and killed, this boy took the white woman out a side door into the bush through little known trails until she came to the house of a planter. Here she gave the alarm, the King's African Rifles were sent from Zomba and the rebellion crushed almost before it began — all through this faithful native boy.
They are also very resourceful. One government official told me how his boys saved his life when he was taken with fever when out on ulendo, miles and miles from the nearest white man. When he was delirious with a tem- perature reaching 105, his boys put him into a machella (a hammock carried by eight boys) and wrapped him in blan- kets. His head boy took a bottle of whisky and a kettle of boiling water for tea. He kept giving the "Bwana" hot tea and whisky alternately through the night, pausing only long enough to heat the water by a hastily built fire. They carried him on the run, up hills and down valleys, through forests, for more than two hundred miles to the Residency, where there was a white man and help. This is only one of many instances I heard of the faithfulness and devotion of native boys to their white masters. One planter had been away for several years during the war. When he came back, some of his old boNS walked a hundred miles just to say "Moni" (a form of greeting) to him, and then re- turned to their villages.
In their turn, the "Bwanas" treat them well. They are stern, but just; they keep them up to their work. The native has no respect for a white man or woman that he can "put something over on."
He expects the European to be a superior being, and if he is not, he has as much contempt for him as our darkies have for what they term "poor white trash."
The boys are very imitative and quick to learn. The secret of their success lies in the fact that they are care- fully trained by the European women. They have nothing to do but their work, no distractions, no outside interests, and they much prefer the prestige of working for the European to life in their own villages, once they have tried it. Ever}' year they must have a vacation and go back to their villages and visit their wife or ivives. The head boy sees to it that someone takes the place of the boy who is away so that the affairs of the household run smoothly.
Every once in so often the "Bwana," especially in a bachelor establishment, goes out and curses all the boys in expletives that are really adjectives, in order to keep them to their tasks in case the boys get slack. But it is all good- humored and no one minds in the least.
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This is not the case in some other colonies where the psychology of the native is neither understood nor studied, and ill will between the European and the native prevails.
Training the boys isn't always easy and many strange and disconcerting things happen. One woman told me of her first dinner when she entertained some high govern- ment official. Her boys had been drinking native beer without her knowing, and appeared with the first course of soup, five of them, each bearing a soup plate. They walked round and round and round the table, holding the plates out in front of them, their eyes fixed and glassy looking, but they didn't stop and put them on the table.
She was frantic. She turned to the man next to her. "What is the matter " she whispered. "Why don't they put the dishes down?" "They're drunk," he said. "Let me deal with them" — and he did. Everyone saw what was wrong, the high official laughed and the embarrassed little bride was saved from tears.
So the Britisher, when he lives in remote spots of the world, establishes an English home, introduces English ways of living, makes himself thoroughly comfortable and enjoys life in an alien land, amid alien people ; and the British woman, in a land called a man's country, turns the raw native mto a perfect servant, and carries on.
Trysting Places
By Dean Southern Jennings
"The Knight rode forth to the trysting place — there to meet Lady Elaine."
The trysting place.
Many an ardent swain of 1929 has boarded a street car — to meet the choice of his heart — at San Francisco's trysting places. The old flower stand under the Ferry tower . . . "under the clock" in a downtown hotel . . . by the ladies' room in a big department store.
Let's go there today . . . make a tryst at the trysting places.
Four o'clock "under the clock." Here are two girls of the "younger set."
Says one: "Madge dear, I've lost eight pounds." Says the other: "That's fine, Jane, you'd never notice it." Madge looks pained.
Two men are sitting on a lounge, middle-aged business men. They talk of stocks and bonds. Dollars and cents. A pretty girl strolls by. She's "ultra." Bare legs. Sun- tanned.
"Lordy," mumbles one man to the other, "what are these young squibs coming to ? In a hotel, too."
Five minutes later. Dashing through the lobby comes a pretty girl. Short skirts. Smoking a cigarette in an ivory holder. Not a day over seventeen. "Oh, dad, sorry I'm late," she pants to one of the business men.
There's a young man doing a crossword puzzle. Around him sit a dozen women. He scratches his head non- chalantly— like the cigarette ads. "You see," he explains, slicking down his hair with one hand, "I can do my crossword puzzle and look at the pretty girls at the same time."
Page Mr. Ripley!
fat woman behind. He looks out over thick glasses, like a mariner with a periscope. He planks the woman in a chair and hastens into the ladies' room.
He stumbles out in a hurry. Looking like a deaf mute after an argument with a traffic cop.
Six o'clock at the Ferry Building.
Tumbling through the gates from the boat comes a group of Japanese schoolbojs. Slant-eyes carrying baseball bats and gloves. Ever see a bunch of young Americans carrying canes, wearing spats and carnations? You'd get a similar impression.
Pacing impatiently up and down is a smartly-dressed woman. Furs and a Pekinese. Looks like a Russian countess. Aristocracy in every line. Four women, maybe waitresses, rush up to her.
"Gee," they cry, "you're looking great. May. Where'd ya get the pooch ?"
"Yea, I'm feelin' good," the "Countess" replies. "Won the dog in a dance contest."
Noon-time in a department store.
A high-collared man with a pince-nez waits in one chair. In another parks a stunning young woman. You ignore the man and wait to see what the girl's boyfriend looks like.
Soon a little old lady comes in — and walks out with the stunning young woman. Her mother. The pince-nez gentleman walks out too — with a pretty girl. You're be- wildered.
Four girls, all wearing fraternity pins. They smoke and jabber. Four more come in — greet them. Four plus four makes eight. All smoking and jabbering. You get nervous and leave.
An odd figure rushes by the clock, dragging a dowdy, San Francisco's trysting places.
With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night Thcit somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord J if that were enough?
— Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Members' Co'Operation Committee
Women's City Club of San Francisco
465 Post Street
San Francisco, California
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE
Published Monthly at San Francisco
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MAGAZINE COMMITTEE
Mrs. Harry Staats Moore, Chairman
Mrs. George Osborne Wilson
Mrs. Frederick Faulkner
Mrs. Frederick W. Kroll
MARIE HICKS DAVIDSON, Managing Editor
Volume III
October
1929
Number 9 I
EBITOMIAIL ~ QUESTIO'NT^AIME
This is a very searching age. We begin our inquiries by finding out the I. Q. of our children — I. Q., which some people think properly stands for Impertinent Questions. We find the conduct of our youth questionable, and even in middle life and thereafter we are confronted on all sides with tests in books, magazines and games, at home, at teas, at dinner parties, to determine our personalities or our knowledge, or, alas, our lack of either or both.
So the City Club feels it is in line with popular senti- ment and procedure when it asks you to answer the follow- ing questions. Do help us by answering them promptly
1. What are vour interests?
and by sending us the blanks at once so that we may know you and the potential strength of our membership. We want to know, too, the desires and tastes of our club fam- ily (there are about 7,000 members of that family) so that we may become more useful and more important to you, and you in turn more helpful, loj^al and more con- stantly content with us.
When this information is in the hands of the committee, group meetings will be held in order that we may get together for really helpful fellowship.
a - - -
b.
c — - - -
2. Do morning, afternoon or evening activities best suit your convenience?
3. Are you able and willing to give volunteer service of any kind?
4. What ability of yours could be helpful to the Club if known? Explain fully
5. What constructive criticism of the Club can you offer? Departments or policies? ...
6. What other suggestions have you?
7. Do you know of any abuses of Club privileges?
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1929
The President's Message
By Marion W. Leale
"Y;
'OU'RE busy with the Women's City Club this winter, I know." That is what many of us are hearing. I now address each member, urging her to join this service list and share with us the inner joy of "being busy."
All summer, committees have been hard at work laying the foundation for the winter superstructure of activity in the clubhouse. The slogan of this administration is mem- bership responsibility, and with this in mind the member- ship co-operation committee is reaching each individual member to learn of her and to interest her in this National League for Woman's Service, for which she is definitely responsible.
October first marks the return to the clubhouse of many of our vacationists, and so we gather on Monday evening, October seventh, around our beautiful hearth- side (the gift of our devoted charter member, Mrs. Gug- genhime), and re-dedicate ourselves to the spirit of service — glad to have gone away to gather fresh strength in the
out-of-doors, glad to return "home" to exchange experi- ences and to join in the community efforts to which life in a city obligates us.
The following Friday evening, October eleventh, the first membership dinner of the year will be held. No one will report on the past, but the secrets of future plans will be disclosed — plans which depend for their success on you personally.
I sincerely hope that those who do not come often to the clubhouse, as well as those who do, will make plans to be with us, for upheld by familiar faces, I ask also for the inspiration of speaking to a new audience on an old sub- ject dressed in its 1929 fall costume.
At the hearthside we reminisce — remembering old friends, profiting by their experience and inspired by their accomplishments. At the dinner we move into the future, with resolute spirit and with the confidence which comes from our understanding of one another and our desire to serve each other.
EBITOMIAL
SUMMER over and vacations laid away in happy memories, everybody turns to the fall and winter with renewed enthusiasm. What is ahead? Both work and play challenge our zeal and stored-up energy.
Opportunity and possibility loom large for members of the Women's City Club. They touch shoulders with Club responsibility, and the three make a happy triumvirate, for each means activity, and activity means health and joyous- ness and anticipation. The college youth facing the fall semester thrills to know that the curriculum is tempered with football and social diversions. So City Club members must feel as they scan the schedule of events planned for their entertainment and edification. They realize that the Club is not entirely an institution of externals, but one subjectively related to spiritual needs, offering release from routine and escape into the wide realms of the arts and sciences. And because of the preparation of these aspects of their abundant living they perceive that the in- dividual has been considered separately and severally as well as the membership en masse. Then, conversely, the member senses a feeling of responsibility to the Club. What may she do by way of reciprocity. For none may forever receive and not give.
The member who frequents the Club several times a
week finds herself unconsciously noting how attractively the flowers are arranged, how immaculately the rugs are brushed, how glistening is the china on the tables. For is it not her Club, and has she not a great pride in its ad- ministration. She would take the same satisfaction in the same things in her own home. Thus her individuality somehow imparts a bit of its essence to the Club. It goes out in other ways as well. In any participation in Club activity, attendance at a lecture for example, she becomes an integral part of the organization, and gives of herself to that which she lends her interest. Membership, then, is an interlocking of work and play, a dovetailing of respon- sibility on the part of the member and upon the organ- ization.
The Club this "semester" offers a program of many facets. Correspondingly, does the membership offer fare as varied ? That is what the "Co-operation Committee" will ascertain if each member will fill out the questionnaire and return it to the City Club. Mrs. IVI C. Sloss is chair- man of the committee and the members are Mrs. Emma Tosanelli Hayes, Miss Edith Slack, Mrs. H. C. Schonig. Miss Laura Gleeson, Mrs. J. J. Gottlob, Mrs. H. K. Shaw, Mrs. G. A. Applegarth, Miss Katherine Donohoe and Mabel Pierce.
Courage
By E. B. IV. in The New Yorker
I looked a mountain in the face.
And never faltered; I put a river in its place.
Courage unaltered ; I flew the pathways of the sky, Mildly amused that I might die; I thumbed my nose when clouds went by.
And then they took me, bold and glib,
To see a baby in a crib —
They led me fonvard, brave and grinning,
To see a person just beginning. I plainly sau' how true it teas, Hoiv extra small and neiv it was.
And there it breathed, and there it lay :
And that was when my knees gave tcay.
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1929
Advertisers' exhibit, held September 16 and 17 in the A iiditoriurn of the Women's City Club, attracted throngs.
Lone Dog
I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone;
I'm a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own;
I'm a bad dog, a mad dog, teasing silly sheep;
I love to sit and bay the moon, to keep fat souls from sleep.
I'll never be a lap dog, licking dirty
feet, A sleek dog, a meek dog, cringing for
my meat. Not for me the fireside, the well-filled
plate. But shut door, and sharp stone, and
cuff and kick and hate.
Not for me the other dogs, running by my side.
Some have run a short while, but none of them would bide.
O mine is still the lone trail, the hard trail, the best.
Wide wind, and wild stars, and hun- ger of the quest!
By Irene Rutherford McLeod
^old a t ^e a
'Y'OU should
"*" know of a
find I have made
lately . . . perhaps
you do know ... a
small decorating
shop in Palo Alto
on that Spanish
street there ... I
think it is Ramo-
na. You can't miss the place, as there
are two large terra cotta jars in front
with bay trees and ivy growing in the
archway. They have some really lovely
things both old and new and a large
sample line of the most beautiful
chintzes, hand-blocked linens I have
seen in a long time. I am going there
very soon to see about having my room
done over. Oh ! I forgot to tell you the
name of the place ... it is the
HOME AND GARDEN SHOP 534 Ramona Street Palo Alto
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"£) REAMS of Youth and Charm! What have you done to make your skin so lovely?"
Then it's really true — that Amor gives one the soft and glowing com- plexion of youth. Scented with the wild peach of Switzerland, what could be more appropriate?
It was first endorsed by specialists abroad, but what intrigued me wa^ the instant endorsement given Amor Skin by American women. The week second of October you'll be hearing more about it. I bought mine where I get all my toiletries — around the corner at
H. L. LADD, Chemist, Inc. St. Francis Hotel Powell Street
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Fashion Show Tells Story oj Helping City by Co-operation
The Advertisers' Exhibit and P^ashion Show September 16 and 17 at the Women's City
Club were largely attended and proved to be events of artistic merit as well as of
economic value to advertisers in the Women's City Club Magazine. The following
comment appeared the day after the Fashion Show:
CO-OPERATION and community spirit tell their ronage necessary to encourage the industry was falling off. own story in the results already obtained by the San Francisco merchants were buying in Eastern centers Business Development Department of the Down goods which could have been bought here. It was found Town Association in promoting the sale of San Francisco that certain San Francisco manufactures were being ship- products to San Francisco buyers. The fashion show of ped East, tagged there with Eastern labels, then purchased San Francisco manufactured women's apparel held Tues- there by San Francisco merchants and sold here as Eastern day at the Women's City Club was an interesting page in goods.
the narrative. But illuminating as it was, it was still only The first move was to organize the garment industry as
one of the pages in the story. others had been organized. The next was to show the mer-
„, , , f 1 r> • r-v 1 chants the advantage of buying and promoting San Fran-
Though the present program of the Business Develop- ^.^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^j^^^^ ^^^ ^ j^ ^j^^ ^^j^^ ^^
rnent Department is but a few months old it has paid large ^^^ ,^^^^j ^^^^^ .^^ . ^^ ^^ 20 per cent in three
dividends in increased sales of ban Jb rancisco goods. 1 he ,
consequence has been steadier work in the industries af- "^""q^^^^ industries show similar results from the Business
fected, larger riumbers employed, increased payrolls, more 0,^,1^ Department's work. The department has en-
money to spend with the merchants, more money to save. i- ^ j • .• 1 • ri aaa
.., r 1 . • • • • f u • J listed organizations numbering 1)1, UUU persons to promote
All of this means an invigorating tonic tor business and ^u-ja ^ 1 u-- uu jd.
: , ,1.1 • • the idea. As yet only a beginning has been made. But
industry and a happier and more prosperous community in ukuj..U4.u^c r • i
.■' ^^ y ^ 1 enough has been done to show that ban r rancisco work- genera . jj^g jjg jj community has it within its power to keep the in- The fashion show may be taken as presenting a case in dustries that are here and to make it worth while for others point, although the garment industry is only one of many to come.
which the Business Development Department has touched Business health, industrial and commercial expansion in its work. Investigation some time ago showed that the and general welfare depend largely on belief in San Fran- garment industry in this city was languishing. San Fran- cisco and in whole-hearted co-operation to make that be- cisco was in danger of losing the position it had held as a lief a concrete and growing fact, center of manufacture of women's clothing. The local pat- — Editorial in San Francifsco Chronicle.
'Members of the WOMEN^S CITY CLUB!
You owe it to yourself and your family to look at the homes we have built in Baywood — every one a new home among new homes. No matter where you think you might like to live, or what your ideas
regarding a home may be
See BAYWOOD.'
We have every type of home, from modest bungalows to stately Eng- lish mansions and what the Spanish-Californians of another day
called "Casas Grandes."
Baywood is San Francisco's most beautiful suburban subdivision,
situated on the famous old Parrott Estate, in the heart of San Mateo.
It is 28 minutes from the City by train — 35 by motor, far enough for
country comforts, near enough for convenience.
BAYWOOD PARK COMPANY
Tract Office: Third Avenue and State Highway, San Mateo
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CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for OCTOBER
1929
Beyond the City Limits
Palestine
THE rioting between the Jews and the Moslems, quite apart from the tragedy of the massa- cres, involves some very grave inter- national questions. The whole man- date system is on trial, and more spe- cifically the future of the control of Great Britain, not only over the Jew- ish colonists and the Arabs in the Holy Land, but also over divers other lands, e. g., the Sudan, India, Irak. Some reviews even see in the tragedies of the last few weeks the beginning of the great religious war which has been presaged for years. At this writing (September 9) there are of course charges and counter-charges both concerning the causes of the out- breaks and the failure of protection ; but one great beneficial result has come in a wave of Jewish national consciousness and a closer racial sym- pathy throughout the world.
The Hague
Quite another and very different impulse toward unity came as a result of Philip Snowden's victory at The Hague when he demanded as Chan- cellor of the Exchequer that Britain have a fairer share of the reparations payments than had been granted her by the Young report. All the people of the British Isles, no matter of what party affiliation, have rallied in enthu- siastic praise of Snowden, and it marks the first great victory of the Labor government.
In South America
Peru and Ecuador are settling a long-standing boundary dispute. The report is apparently verified that Bo- livia will not quietly submit to the closing of the Tacna-Arica contro- versy so amicably disposed of at last by Peru and Chile.
Japan
The following announcement is quoted from "Pacific Affairs," the official publication of the Institute of Pacific Relations :
The Kyoto Conference
October 28, 1929, has been set as the opening date for the third bien- nial conference of the Institute of Pa- cific Relations at Kyoto, Japan.
The Pacific Council, International Research Committee and Program Committee will hold a series of pre- liminary meetings at Nara, from Oc- tober 23 to 27.
The sessions at Kyoto are scheduled
By Edith Walker Maddux
to continue for tAvelve days, coming to a close on November 9. Agenda It is evident that the major issues for round table discussion at the Ky- oto Conference next October are to be the following:
1. Problems of Food and Popula- tion and Land Utilization.
2. Questions concerning China's revision of treaties, her financial reconstruction, and the prob- lems of the Three Eastern Provinces (Manchuria).
3. Questions arising out of the eco- nomic development now going on in the Pacific, including tar- iffs, foreign investments, indus- trialization and its social conse- quences.
4. Diplomatic Relations in the Pa- cific, including a consideration of League of Nations activities in the Pacific, existing treaties, war prevention policies, the per- fection of the machinery for peaceable settlement of disputes, disarmament and security in the
Pacific, immigration exclusion
and the Latin-American policy
of the United States.
It is not possible to forecast at this
time what particular aspects of these
major issues will be considered at the
Kyoto round tables. These, as well as
other issues which may later arise,
will be determined by the Program
Committee at Kyoto.
Cultural Contacts
It has been suggested that the im- portant question of Cultural Con- tacts in the Pacific should be handled by publications of an historical and interpretative character, by several formal lectures, and by first-hand study in Kyoto itself.
Communications
It is proposed that the Interna- tional Research Committee, meeting in Kyoto, consider the subject of Com- munications in the Pacific in order that adequate preparation may be made for discussion of this topic at the 1931 Conference.
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women's city club magazine for OCTOBER
1929
Why Do Americans Visit Europe?
WHY do Americans come to Europe? By the hundred thousand they have crowded on the great At- lantic h'ners, meekly paying the miost amazing prices for accommodation sometimes not much bigger than a coffin — watch them frantically "do- ing" England, Scotland, Ireland, and "the Continong."
While here — oh, most amazing in- stance— I, fresh from the Old World, have discovered worlds as beautiful as anything we have in Europe; scenery so dashing in its Alpine splendour that I want to yodel ; silver birches droop- ing over lakes that well might glim- mer in the Scottish Highlands, pines and spicy balsam odors everywhere . . .
Well . . . well . . .
At 9:30 at night, with handsome Cupid at the wheel, the new six-cylin- der sports roadster conveyed us through Fifth Avenue's astounding traffic, out via Central Park, along the Hudson, and
"Hey, bo! D'ya wanna ticket?" yelled a policeman who had chased us on his motor-bike. "Quit steppin' on the gas like you was balmy, or I 'send you up'."
Now, being "given a ticket," I knew, was equivalent to a summons — and three tickets make j'ou lose your driving license for a 3'ear !
And so we hearkened to the warn- ing. We slowed down past houses where, on the doorsteps, on this breath- less summer evening, men and women sat and fanned themselves, and child- ren ate ice cream and babies slumbered with a wilted air.
Warning — and Invitation
The heat! The still, the saturating, sweltering heat of New York City on a summer night. Kimberley in the hot season . . . Zululand . . . why, these are Arctic zones compared to the com- plete wreckage that this town, on a hot evening, can do to feminine camouflage, complexion, coiffure, temper, and toi- lette!
We hit a highway of broad, glacial- smooth macadam. In all the world I've never seen such glorious roads as here in these United States. By the smart device of one-halfpenny tax on every petrol gallon, the perfect road, the
By May Christie, M. A. An Englishwinnan in New York
From "The American Women's Club Magazine" {London) April Number
practically skidless road, has been evolved — at no matter what expense. At sixty miles an hour, then, we careened towards the celebrated Ari- rondacks, leaping across the Hudson River at Bear Mountain, whirling through Tarrytown, until, upon an enormous lighted board, I read this curiously disturbing sign :
GO SLOW, AND ENJOY OUR CITy! GO FAST, AND VISIT OUR JAIl!
"Ha! Didn't I tell you so," I rap out cattily, being nervous of this break- neck pace, and indicating, not quite tactfully, that though the inside of a cell may be no novelty for the gentle- man at the wheel, I personally intend to lay my head that night upon a de- cent feather pillow.
But just as easily I might hold my breath, for am I not addressing the wind, and an ex-aviator to whom such wayside warnings are not merely an impertinence, but just "a dare" ?
We come to anchor finally in a sum- mer hotel of indescribable gaiety and zip. There are shoals of stout, bald- headed gentlemen in white duck trous- ers, with their noses buried in swizzles and long slabs of ice. Youths in most dazzling checks and plus fours that out-plus and non-plus anything of the sort we have in England.
"Attaboy ! Shake a leg !" shouts a gay chorus on the summer porch as to the strains of "Moonlight! Kiss Her for Me !" a creature gives a stage perform- ance.
The coloured help — black Topsys — dart around to wait upon the guests. A comic paddle-steamer comes to an- chor underneath the wide verandah. Crickets are humming in the tall green grass. It's all friendly and amusing and expensive — yes. (Five pounds a night for room and bath.)
The open road once more. We're heading for Indian Lake — Blue Mountain Lake — home of the cele- brated Iroquois. Pine, balsam, water- falls, ravines, and on the trees big notices :
SLOW UP!
HOT DOGS!
drinks!
SMOKES !
don't speed!
SEE INDIAN LAKE ALIVE ! !
You wonder, idly, what kind of mongrel may a Hot Dog be; and are not surprised to find he's a kind of
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hybrid sausage covered with French mustard and housed between two scraps of bread. The Red Indians must adore him, for around this Land of Sky-blue Water Hot Dog signs are everywhere !
The "paint-brush" flower blooms in the lush green grass, and clover fills the air with perfume. Around the lakes are hemlock-trees and locust- trees, so sweetly scented ; spruce and balsam, beech and pine.
Blue jays perch arrogantly, wings a flash of azure. There are ferns of every shape and size, and slender sil- ver birches.
"Spring in the Austrian Tyrol," the picture is identical.
And SO — Good-bye
Saranac Inn — so famous — is crammed full of millionaires and smart toilettes, and jazz and poker parties. Lake Placid looks as beauti- ful as Switzerland.
We cross Lake Champlain, which is like the Firth of Forth. We reach the New England States, where the roads are sandy, winding, and honey- suckle and wild roses fill the air with sweet perfume. There are old-fash- ioned farms a-plent\-, and quaint- roofed bridges everywhere.
We hit the Roosevelt Highway, and the signs outside the villages speed the passing motorist.
GOING ? WELL, GOOD-BYE ! GOOD luck!
THANK YOU ! COME AG.AIN!
And so to Boston, where someone long ago spilt the English tea into the harbour, and we thereby lost the U. S. A.! Then Newport, where America's "Four Hundred" rule the fashionable summer's day I
Back to New York at last — the long tour ended.
So beautiful it was that
"Why — oh, why do Americans ever go abroad ?"
W O M E X
CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for OCTOBER
1929
Insuring City Life with Home Life
B\ Carol G. Wilson
THE problem of providing liv- ing quarters for young girls is one of vital interest to any com- munity. Especially in a cosmopolitan city such as San Francisco is it im- portant that \oung women starting in business life should be given a home environment during leisure hours.
A group of City Club members is actively engaged in promoting a proj- ect that should add materially to the future well-being of the cit}''s younger workers. Miss Johanna Volkmann, president of the Young Women's Christian Association, which has as- sumed this particular responsibility, is a long-standing member of the City Club, as are also the following mem- bers of her board of directors: Miss Helen Bridge, Mrs. Arthur G. Brown, Mrs. Ford Chambers, Mrs. Horace Bradford Clifton, Mrs. Col- bert Coldwell, Miss Georgia Cutler, Mrs. Samuel P. Eastman, Mrs. Thomas Edwards, Jr., Mrs. H. H. Hall, Mrs. Henry Marcus. Mrs. Er- nest J. Mott, Mrs. M. S. O'Connor, Miss Eva Pearsall, Miss F. W. Ris- tine. Miss Else Schilling, Mrs. W. J. Shotwell, Mrs. George B. Somers, Mrs. Henry D. Soule, Mrs. H. A. Stephenson, Mrs. Effingham B. Sut- ton, and Mrs. Daniel Volkmann.
Out on O'Farrell Street — 1259, to be exact — stands an old home suggest- ive of the early days of San Francisco hospitality, but, like other things that
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are well used, it is worn and dilapi- dated. Here one hundred and eight young girls have found a protected and family home life under the moth- erly eye of Miss Elizabeth Shaver, for thirteen jears its resident secretary, and the friendly interest of the board of the Christian Association. The crowded living conditions and dark inside bedrooms are ofifset by the cheerfulness of the big living rooms downstairs — and, of course, it means something to a girl with a $65-a- month wage to find a room and two meals a day (three on holidays and Sundays) for $6 to $8 a week.
But now this building, the generous gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crock- er forty years ago, has been con- demned by the city authorities as a health and fire menace. The Associa- tion is forced either to rebuild or close its doors to these most eager and de- serving 30ung girls. The Community Chest Building Council and the En- dorsement Council of the Chamber of Commerce have seen the urgency of this need and have endorsed a cam- paign for $410,000 to be conducted during the weeks of September 30 to October 12.
The cause is one which has a direct appeal to forward-looking citizens, for it means contentment and in- creased efficiency for those who serve in shop and office. The major part of the funds to be raised will be needed
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to replace the present boarding resi- dence with a modern, sanitary and fireproof building.
It is logical that members of an organization such as the City Club, built as it is upon the service ideal, should concern themselves with such life-giving endeavors. The enthusi- asm of the leaders will undoubtedly find sympathetic response.
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CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for OCTOBER
1929
England's Port o' Spain
By Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard
Extract from her diary, written while Dr. and Mrs. Stoddard were traveling last autumn in South America
(Copyright, 1929, by Beatrice Snow Stoddard)
At Port 0 Spain!
Ho! Bold Buccaneers of the Spanish Main,
What found ye there?
At Port 0 Spain!
THE rollicking lilt of this question hummed itself over and over to me, early on a breeze-fanned sun- shiny morning in November, as vee came to anchor in the Gulf of Paria ofiE Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad.
The island of Trinidad, "the brightest jewel of the Caribbean," exceedingly rich in soil, caressed by the trade- w^inds and never visited by hurricanes, lies nestled close to the northeast shoulder of South America. Columbus dis- covered this "land of the humming-bird" on his third voyage in 1496. Because of its three mountain peaks, he christened it Trinidad, meaning Trinity. The island was continuously fought over and colonized by the Spanish, English, Dutch, and French until a British admiral seized it in the name of England, whose ownership was made legal in 1802 by the Treaty of Amiens.
The Port of Spain, an open roadstead harbor, is safe and sheltered, but so shallow that one has to go ashore, the mile to the jetty, by launch. As we, presently, boarded the comfortable tender, S.S. "St. Patrick," a clamorous and motley throng hailed us from its deck and from the water. Before we could catch our breath, numbers of Hindu and negro vendors, their arms, from wrists to elbows, hung with countless strings of colored beads and native seed necklaces, circled about and pressed in upon us amazed and amused travelers. Opened at our feet were boxes crammed with East Indian native bracelets, brooches, and finger-rings of silver and gold filigree. Flourished before our faces were walking sticks of black shark's bone and native woods — nutmeg with mahogany handles — canes carved with grotesque birds' heads, painted in gaudy reds, greens and yellows, with long black beaks and staring white and black eyes — the sort of cane to stick in one's garden to peek from behind a rosebush. At startling mo- ments, riding stocks of rubber, adorned with like weird bird headpieces, were snapped perilously near our ears. Dried green eels, stuffed sea-cows, whistling frogs, hollow porcupines, turtles and spiders, decorated gourds, carved cocoanut heads, and the ubiquitous postcards and views were thrust under our noses. In a conspicuous corner, a buxom ebony laundress, decked out in white starched skirts, to advertise her handiwork, bestowed on all and sundry her wide, ingratiating smile, as she fingered her typewritten letter of recommendation and gathered up orders for laundry which she would "nicely wash, starch and iron and return all in one day, thank you!" Nearby, a thrifty tailor, with his samples, took orders for women's and men's tussore silk suits, made to measure, with one fitting after luncheon, and delivered that night, a finished article, all for twenty-six dollars. Both tailor and laun- dress did a thriving trade.
Hastening across the wincing water came shallow skifis laden with parrots in brilliant plumage of blue, red, yellow and green, perched on the cage-tops or on the gunwales, side by side with wee brown monkeys. The black boat- man, in ragged shirt and tattered jeans, stood in his bounc- ing boat, held up his parrot or monkey and. with eloquent
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Interesting Guests
In September the City Club had as house guest for several days Christine A. Essenberg, founder of the Amer- ican School at Damascus.
Miss Essenberg commented enthusiastically upon the at- tractiveness of the City Club and expressed deep admira- tion of the Volunteer Service, one of the unique features of the organization — probably its most distinctive attribute. Another interesting guest is Miss Marion Hartwell, who supervised the painting of the murals in the Mural Room of the City Club.
brown eyes, in excellent nicely accented English, urged the foreign visitor to buy. Suddenly, from the water, several youthful divers, in breech-clouts and grins, shouted, "Throw a penny. Mister!" as the S.S. "St. Patrick" chugged shoreward.
A tropical shower rewarded our foresight about um- brellas, as we stepped into the splendid automobile waiting to take us out through San Jose, the ancient Spanish cap- ital of Trinidad, and "over the Saddle" — a ten-mile ride in radiant sunshine, cool breezes and refreshing dampness, through luxuriant vegetation, plantations of cocoa, coffee and sugar, and gorgeous tropical scenery, also through "Coolie-town," where the East Indians dwell and fashion their wares and raise the parrots and monkeys. This excellently paved wide mountain road was notable for its smoothness, and rightly so, for on this island is the famous "Pitch Lake," the world's greatest natural asphalt supply.
We loitered by several native schoolhouses, low, clean buildings, open on all sides but sheltered by shutters against sun and rain. The rows of black-faced children in white uniforms were very attractive. The rich red silken tassels of the elegant Prince's plume flowered at the doorsteps of the tiny Hindu huts perched upon stilts, where the plantation worker cooks on his charcoal brazier, lights his house with a pitch torch, or, if he is rich, with a candle or coal oil lamp, and is sheltered by hedges of scarlet and apricot hibiscus. All were Nature's setting for the slender and stout Indian women, who, adorned with innumerable silver and gold armlets and anklets, walked straight as arrows, each balancing her bundle on her head, and for the numberless, sleek, slim, black naked bodies of the children who ran to wave and call a smiling, gleaming- toothed welcome.
The handsome negro chauffeur, in noteworthy correct English, suggested a walk through the luxuriant Botan- ical Gardens. The Orchid House, our particular quest, was explained, also in charming English, by a barefooted, fine-featured East Indian, who lingered with affectionate pride at each beauty. The Governor's stately residence stands back amid foliage and fountains adjoining the Botanical Gardens. His massive iron gates were duly guarded by black soldiers in white uniforms and pith helmets. We did not seek to enter, but rode along the broad boulevards that line the Queen's Park Savannah, a grassy meadow that serves as a cricket or football field. The pleasing aspect of comfort and cleanliness, the com- modious bungalows, set in spacious lawns behind garden walls, massed with purple bougainvillea ; grey half-open shutters, all peaceful and cool in the hot noonday sun, were truly characteristic of British homes in the tropics. The iron gates of Queen's Royal College suddenly opened and out rushed a hundred or so boys, white, black, and yellow, from young manhood to lads of six, all dressed in English schoolboy fashion of blue serge shorts, sox, and tiny peaked caps — a fine, sturdy group. The whole lot sped away on bicycles. An invigorating sight — these splen- did youngsters of the upper class!
The hedge-sheltered verandahs of the Queen's Park Hotel rippled with gayety as we sat at lunchoen and wetted our whistles with delicious iced lime-juice "Plant- er's Punch" before the frantic rush for Frederic Street. Frederic Street buzzes with the activity of a main business thoroughfare. Along its crowded, clean, narrow way clang the open tram cars; Englishmen in pith helmets ride bicycles; barefooted negroes balance on their heads any- thing from a closed umbrella to a huge basket of corn ; Hindu peddlers swarm, and a never-ending stream of automobiles and donkey-carts ebbs and flows. By law, the
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1929
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Community Health Notes
By Adelaide Brown, M. D.
Undulant fever — a new term to you, fellow-members — has stepped into the group of preventable diseases.
Up to 1924, no human case had been reported in the U. S. A. Since then about 300 cases have been es- tablished by bacterial and serological examinations. The cause brucella ab- ortus has been active in dairy herds for a long time, causing great eco- nomic loss.
Alice Evans in 1918 in the U. S. Department of Agriculture identified this organism as being closely related to brucella meliteusis, the cause of Malta fever in human beings.
What are our dairies doing about it?
One answer is to pasteurize milk; the other is to rid the herds of the disease. Clean up the herds, has been the effort of the Certified Milk Dairies since 1926, of the Los Angeles, Ala- meda and San Francisco County Me- dical Milk Commissions.
These herds are free of brucella abortus, hence of any risk of undu- lant fever.
In addition, the workers in these dairies are free of any conditions phy- sically which could menace milk.
You know the cows are free of tu- berculosis, the milk has a low bac- terial count, is chilled and bottled on the ranch and comes to you on ice. The scientific work is done by the University of California in the Bay region and the guarantee is by the Milk Commission of the County Me- dical Societies, a volunteer service for the health of the community.
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Periodic Health Examinations
Reviewing one's health makes, by corrections in diet, exercise, relaxa- tion and mental health, for more com- fortable and happier living.
Aside from organic defects which may be discovered and corrected, or life planned accordingly, this is a service of prevention of "wear and tear."
The friction of living with organic or functional disabilities which are not understood is obviated by the knowledge of one's own health.
The Periodic Health Examina- tions, October 1 to 12, inclusive, offer every member of the City Club the opportunity to have this review. These examinations are in line with the old adage, "An ounce of preven- tion is worth a pound of cure."
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With the beginning of fall activi- ties, when it is difficult to crowd all of one's engagements in a day, many members are finding it a decided con- venience to have their hair permanent- ly waved in the Beauty Salon. The Salon has a Duart Permanent Wave machine of the latest model and a skillful and experienced operator. For $10.00 one can have a permanent wave, a finger wave and a shampoo, and be saved expense and time. There is the additional satisfaction of always having one's hair looking its best.
Women s City Club Cafeteria Offers
Many Choices of Seasonable Foods
While cafeterias are no longer a new institution, many people have not learned how to select dishes with a view of getting satisfactory value for the minimum price.
The menu in the Club cafeteria is carefully thought out, with the inten- tion of providing dishes which make up a well-balanced meal, the cost of which may be adjusted to anyone's budget. For instance, in a typical menu in the cafeteria, note the varied combinations which may be selected to make a well-rounded luncheon at prices of 40, 50, 65 and 75 cents.
Forty-cent Luncheon Macaroni and cheese French roll and butter Orange sherbet Coffee
Fifty-cent Luncheon Poached eggs with fresh tomatoes Corn bread and butter Apple pie Tea
Sixty-five-cent Luncheon Vegetable soup
Curried chicken wings and rice Roll and butter Fresh peaches Coffee
Seventy-five-cent Luncheon Sliced tomatoes and green peppers Lamb stew, fresh vegetables Bread and butter Ice cream, chocolate sauce Coffee
Many other combinations to suit individual tastes may be made from the same typical daily luncheon menu :
Salads
Hearts of lettuce or Romaine 15
Fresh crab salad 30
Sliced tomatoes with green pep- pers 20
Pineapple and cottage cheese 20
Stuffed eggs Ravigote.... 20
Soups
Consomme with rice 12
Fresh vegetable 15
Entrees
Broiled English sole 25
Baked macaroni and cheese 20
Lamb stew with fresh vegetables.. .30
Poached eggs, fresh tomatoes .25
Curried chicken wings, with rice.. .25 Brisket corned beef and cabbage.. .35
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Fresh spinach
Fresh cauliflower au gratin.
Fresh string beans
Fresh carrots Vichy
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Vocational Information
Much interest is being taken in the series of talks which the Committee of the Vocational Bureau has arranged for the evenings of October 3 and 17, November 7 and 14 at the Women's City Club.
The general theme "Sane Living" offers a splendid subject for discussion which will follow all talks. The schedule now stands as follows :
October 3 at 8 p. m.— Dr. V. H. Podstata, "Home Making a Sound Investment."
October 17 at 8 p. m. — Dr. Ade- laide Brown, "Assets and Liabilities of a Profession."
November 7 at 8 p. m. — Mr. L. B. Travers, "Employment Adjustment."
November 14 at 8 p. m. — Dr. V. H. Podstata, "The Dangers of High Pressure Living."
The meetings are open to Club members and the general public.
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Luncheon^ Party
Mrs. M. C. Thompson was hostess at a charming luncheon in the Na- tional Defenders' Room Friday, Sep- tember 20. Her guests were Mrs. C. G. Krogness, Mrs. Ben Kuhl, Mrs. Isabelle Lee, Miss Birgethe Hoe, Mrs. Bodaris, Mrs. C. J. Hooper, Mrs. J. Metzger, Mrs. H. W. Roth, Mrs. Preston Bloxham, Mrs. R. L. Craig, Mrs. Knutson, Mrs. N. Gra- vem, Mrs. C. Walker, Mrs. E. C. Peck, Mrs. Boedker, Mrs. J. T. Aim, Mrs. Ahl, Mrs. George Hicks, Mrs. J. L. Lawson, Mrs. C. H. Malm, and Mrs. J. Horton Beeman.
Entertains at^ City Club
Mrs. Hilary Crawford was hostess at a bridge luncheon in the Mural Room Friday, September 20. Her guests were Mrs. George Gale, Mrs. Thomas Minto, Mrs. Frank Baker, Mrs. Guttee, Mrs. Clarence Bell, Mrs. Sidney Van Wyck, Mrs. Wm. Manning, Mrs. Thomas D. Parker, Mrs. R. K. Madsen, Jr., Mrs. Joe Clark, Mrs. Clarence Postel, Mrs. Ralph Flock, Mrs. Robert Duke, Mrs. Edward Bergner, Mrs. C. V. Clark, Mrs. Leffler, Mrs. J. L Sheri- dan, Mrs. Seeley, Mrs. C. W. Clark and Mrs. Harold Kitchen.
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A "Nite Kit" may be procured at the Information Desk on the Main Floor. The kit contains a nightgown, tooth brush, tooth paste, cold cream and cleansing tissue. These may be rented for $1.00.
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Sundai/ Evening Concerts
The first Sunday Evening Concert of the winter was given September 22 under the chairmanship of Mrs. Hora- tio Stoll, who is head of the Music Committee for this year. Others on the committee are Mrs. M. E. Blan- chard, vice-chairman; Mrs. Paul C. Butte, Mrs. Lillian Birmingham, Miss Ruth Viola Davis, Mrs. Wilbur Hiller, Mrs. Frederick Grannis, Mrs. Charles Holbrook, Jr., Mrs. Alfred Hurtgen, Mrs. Henry Marcus, Mrs. Carlo Morbio, Mrs. C. M. Reynolds, Mrs. Francis M. Shaw, Mrs. J. V. Rounsefell, Mrs. Jessie Wilson Tay- lor, Mrs. Sidney Van Wyck, Mrs. Shirley Walker, Mrs. F. B. Wilson and Mrs. Leonard A. Woolams.
The following program was pre- sented :
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Stella Howell Samson
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(c) Hai Luli Coqtiard
Ellen Page Pressley Mrs. Horatio F. Stoll at the Piano
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(c) March Miniature Viennoise Fritz Kreisler
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I
Creat'ii>e Evolution
By Mrs. A. P. Black
Among the books of recent publication is a work edited and arranged by Mrs. Frances Mason under the title "Creative Evolution."
It is more than one book. It is a whole library, bound in one volume, of the observations and results of learned research into the secrets of nature's scheme of growth, change and progress in the mineral, plant and animal king- doms. Twenty-four of the most eminent scientific authori- ties in Great Britain and the United States, each in his particular line of research have contributed chapters to form this remarkable book. No one man could have writ- ten it alone, for its scope is too broad to be compassed by any one student, but each scientist writing of his special field of observation, has given in plain and fascinating manner, the best of his knowledge and conclusions. The whole list of these great men cannot be mentioned in a short article but an idea of the comprehensiveness of the book may be gained by naming a few of the writers and their subjects. Francis A. Bather of London, presents "The Record of the Rocks." "The Story Told by Fossil Plants" is contributed by Edward W. Berry of Johns Hopkins University. Edward B. Poullon of Oxford, England, gives the Chapter on "Butterflies and Moths." Sir Arthur Ever- ett Shipley of Cambridge University writes on the evi- dence of "Bees" and William M. Wheeler of Harvard University on "The Evolution of Ants." David M. Wat- son of London presents a chapter on "Birds" and William K. Gregory of Columbia University writes on "The Line- age of Man."
Each phase of the subject is presented in a scholarly way but simply and clearly enough to be interesting and at- tractive to the ordinary reader.
She, being thoroughly convinced of Evolution as the divine scheme of creation and progress has in a way carried out her wish to place the subject with all its evidences of truth and logical conclusions as proved in the whole field of nature, before men and women who may not have sur- veyed the matter thoroughly or who may not have had the opportunity of knowing the scientific facts and conclusions.
Mrs. Mason has autographed and presented a copy of the book to the City Club and it has been placed in the library at the disposal of the members.
Hallo we en Card Party
Elaborate plans are being worked out for the Hallowe'en card party to be held on Tuesday evening, October 29 at 8 o'clock. Mrs. J. P. Rettenmayer is chairman and with the assistance of Mrs. C. E. French, Mrs. R. A. Hudson and Mrs. A. E. Lowe, details are being formulated to make this a typical All Saint's Party. This will be the last large party until February at which members may entertain guests and the committee urges the co-operation of all in making this party and the bridge luncheon of October 8 successful. Table $3.00. Reservations may be made at the Information Desk on the Main Floor or through members of the Committee. Both the bridge luncheon and the Hallowe'en Party Committees are being assisted by the League Bridge Committee of which Miss Emogene C. Hutchinson is chairman, the other members of the co^mmittee being Mrs. W. B. Cope, Mrs. A. L. Case, Mrs. A. F. Lawton, Miss Nellie Gillespie, Dr. Louise B. Deal and Miss Alba Phelps.
Swimming Pool
A Hallowe'en party in the swimming pool will be given Saturday, October 26, at 1 1 o'clock in the morning. It will be a costume party and a prize will be given for the most original costume. Children of members may bring guests.
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{Continued from page 24) shopkeeper must pull down his iron shutters and padlock them to the pavement sharply at four o'clock. On this signal day the Hindu and the English merchant set out every ware and every sign to attract our eyes, spoke purr- ing words in every language he knew to attract our ears, bowed and nodded, rushed and carried, skyrocketed his prices, almost bej'ond his daring. The North American, charmed with the magic of gleaming black eyes, slender brown fingers, gentle persuasive voices in courteous Eng- lish, the array of odd wares, from the graceful gold filigree nose-rings of the Hindu maidens, or the French perfumes, up or down as you wish, to the immense snakes in var- nished skins, goes away, proud of his purchase, hoping he has not been cheated; the Hindu, and the Englishman, knowing he has charged too much, remains at home proud of his sale !
We finished this throbbing day with a search for some tasty alligator pears. It was eleven at night as we broke into the darkness and quietude of the public market. By the lights of the taxi we saw ragged women with babes cuddled in their arms, old grandmothers squatting among stacked sacks, old grandfathers, their heads resting on overturned baskets, all ebony black and all asleep. On the edges of the pavements, stalwart young men and women laughed softly and chatted as they piled up the little colored hills of fruits and vegetables. The red coals of tiny charcoal stoves glowed in the blackness, as a bite of hot food bubbled and steamed. A bit of candle flickered and sputtered, grasped in black, bony fingers, as the old woman searched to supply pears to our liking. A score of black faces, with male and female voices, peered in from the dimly lighted shadows, offering sugar-cane and cocoa- nuts, but we only filled our baskets with four or five dozen large alligator pears at fifty cents a dozen. Alack! What confusion our advent created in the restful round of sleep- ing vendors waiting for their sales at dawn !
Our ship was to sail at twelve. As we, laboriously, trailed up the gang-plank, the East Indian policemen, in London "Bobbie" uniforms, lost their several dignities — they actually bent double with laughter ! There were we — hands and pockets bulging with packages, arms laden with baskets brimming over with fruit, fingers cherishing the precious red blossoms of the banana tree, and our thumbs dangling cages of birds, great blue parrots or wee parrakeets, and climbing over our shoulders and squatting on our best Panama hats were inquisitive brown monkeys. English pith helmets were set jauntily on several male American heads. With a "No! No! No!" to the persistent peddler with his endless supply of gaudy necklaces and dehydrated animals, and with a good U. S. A. slang "Beat it!" to the youth who, unflaggingly, followed us from one end of the S.S. "St. Patrick" to the other and implored us to buy his man-sized shellacked alligator, or a hurried kiss — for luck! — to the newly made Trinidad friend, laden and happy, in laughter and merriment, we waved a con- tented midnight farewell to picturesque, Spanish, French, English Port of Spain.
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And hunger too, yet on some distant day, fVhen I have grown forgetful through fruition.
And shall be prone to say Such nodding platitudes as age tnust state
With fond finality, — then let there be Some bit of inner youth that unregenerate
Still bides and mocks at me.
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1929
AWedding at Cyprus
By T. Arthur Rickard
[The following incident is an excerpt from the speech made by Mr. Rickard, president California English Speaking Union, be- fore San Francisco English Speaking Union September 12 at the Women's City Club.]
The purpose of my visit to Cyprus was to see the copper mines that are being exploited by my friends, Harvey Mudd and Philip Wiseman, of Los Angeles. They have found large deposits of cupriferous pyrite on the site of Roman workings that had been abandoned for seventeen centuries. The re-discovery was made by my host, Mr. Gunther, who, in the course of reading the classics, had been impressed by the former reputation of Cyprus as a source of copper, and in his search for the ancient mines had been attracted by the slag dumps in this part of the island. He drilled the hill-slopes with remarkable success, disclosing the existence of two large ore bodies rich enough in copper and sulphur to become the basis for highly profitable operations.
While at Scontiotissa, I happened to be present at a wedding on a Sunday afternoon in the chapel of the old monastery. The groom was a miner, a sturdy fellow ; the bride was not uncomely, but squat in figure. She wore a white silk gown trimmed with beads, and a veil. The groom had discarded his distinctive costume, and was dressed a la mode de Chicago. Several women, however, wore the Greek head-dress, the mandyli; and a further picturesque touch was given by the priests in their faded brocade vestments, which caused one almost to overlook their untidy hair and untrimmed gray beards. A table covered with a white cloth, on which lay a large Bible, served as an altar. Two little girls, lampadds, one on each side, held a tall lighted candle. We, of the congregation, were given tapers, the light of which provided illumina- tion for the darkened chapel. An acolyte and a psaltist, both in plain clothes, assisted the two priests. The aco- lyte intoned the responses and the psaltist read parts of the liturgy when the priests seemed to tire, as was natural, for the service was tediously long. This assistant also collected the fee, placed in a plate at the close of the service by the three supporters of the groom. Each priest successively intoned the liturgy, somewhat sketchily, I thought, because the text, being in Old Greek and an inheritance from Byzantine days, was hardly intelligible to those present. The first part of the service was the betrothal, marked by the placing of rings, one for each principal, and then an interchange of the rings. Next came the crowning, or stephananosis. One of the priests placed wreaths of imitation orange blossom upon the heads of the bride and groom, and while doing so he called their names, meantime moving the wreaths with his crossed arms from one head to the other. White ribbons stretched from each wreath, to be grasped by the respective grooms- men and bridesmaids. This crowning being finished, with more intoning, the priest took a plate on which were a piece of bread and a glass of wine ; he blessed the sacra- mental food and presented it first to the groom. The bread was dipped in the wine and inserted within his mouth ; then the priest offered him the wine to drink. The bride received similar ministration. Both principals took three bites of bread and three sips of wine in memory of Cana of Galilee. Then came more reading and intoning, the second priest interjecting an Arnin when he pleased. Each priest held a lighted taper, and the reader held his so close to the pages of his holy book as to endanger them. Next the two priests drew the bridal party in procession
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1929
When Your Children Talk
r€€T EALL
Do you understand them?
Yes . . . the great god Football is here again. And with it comes more enthusiasm and enjoyment for the game than ever before. Your children will live from one football game to the next. Your husband won't be far be- hind in his enthusiasm. But when they talk football, do you yourself under- stand them? Can you carry on a foot- ball conversation with your family at the dinner table ?
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around the altar, this being a survival of the Greek dance ; and as they marched around the table each person kissed the center of the cover of the Bible — a most unhygienic performance. During the procession several friends slapped the groomsmen on the back smilingly. At the same time grains of wheat and linseed were thrown at the bridal party, to betoken fertility. As a sign of peace, olive leaves were pinned by a priest to each of the wreaths worn by the principals. The respective mothers came forward, kissed the Bible and also the hands of the two priests; then each kissed the forehead of her child, who, in turn, kissed the mother's hand. A lone father repeated the per- formance. At last, the liturgy being ended, the two priests began a long chant, murmured plaintively and in falsetto tones. This became extremely tiresome, because it was neither intelligible nor musical. When the chant was finished the priests went behind the screen and returned with black shovel hats, kalyniafyhe, on their gray locks, whereupon a procession was formed, the priests leading the bridal party outdoors, where three musicians were awaiting them. To the accompaniment of more plaint- ively simple music the procession marched down the hill to the village, where a feast awaited them at the house of the groom. They had earned it !
The ceremony lacked gaiety; it also lacked dignity, for small boys pushed their way to the improvised altar, chil- dren were crying most of the time, and the groomsmen yawned unblushingly. Everybody stood throughout the forty minutes required for the performance, which pre- sumably was necessary but not edifying. The best part of it was under the blue sky of a summer evening, when the bridal procession, some in Greek costume, descended the hill in the steps of the musicians and disappeared amid the tender foliage of spring, leaving in their wake the tintilla- tion of a melody that awakened thoughts of olden days, such as those of Theocritus in Sicily.
How Young Are You?
YOUTH is not a time of life — it is a state of mind. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagina- tion, a vigor of the emotions. It is a freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite of adventure over love of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals.
Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart the love of wonder, the amazement at the stars and the starlike things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing, childlike appetite for "what next?", and the joy and the game of life. You are as young as your faith, and as old as your doubt ; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
In the central place of your heart there is a wireless station. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, grandeur, courage and power from the earth, from the men, and from the infinite, so long are you young.
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APPRECIATION OF ART— Every Monday at 12 noon, Card Room. Mrs. Charles E. Curry, Leader.
CHORAL SECTION— Every Monday evening at 7:30, Room 208. Mrs. Jessie Wilson Taylor, Director.
FRENCH CLASSES
Beginners' class, 2 P. M. ; beginners' class, 8 P. M., Mondays. Conversational class, 11 A. M., Fridays. Mme. Rose Olivier, Instructor. Other classes formed upon request.
LEAGUE BRIDGE
Every Tuesday, 2 P. M., in the Board Room; 7:30 P. M., in Assembly Room. Miss Emogene Hutchinson, Chairman.
CURRENT EVENTS— Every Wednesday at 11 A. M., Auditorium. Mrs. Parker S. Maddux, Leader.
THURSDAY EVENING PROGRAMS
Every Thursday evening at 8 P. M., Auditorium. Mrs. A. P. Black, Chairman.
DISCUSSION OF ARTICLES IN CURRENT MAGAZINES
Third Friday of each month, at 2 P. M., Board Room. Mrs. Alden Ames, Chairman.
SUNDAY EVENING CONCERTS
Second Sunday of each month, at 8 :20 P. M. Mrs. Horatio F. Stoll, Chairman.
OUTDOOR SECTION
Every Friday morning at 10 o'clock. Card Room. Mrs. G. E. Kelley, Instructor.
November 5 — Lecture on Literature Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
Speaker: Dr. Willard Smith
Subject: "Literature as a Factor in Photo-Drama"
6 — Comparative Program of Piano Music American Room 11:00 A.M.
Speaker: Miss A. M. Wellendorff Subject: Beethoven — Medtuer
Book Review Dinner National De-
Speaker: Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard fenders' Room 6:00 P.M.
Subject: "Atmosphere of Love," by Maurois
7 — The Theatre, Today and Tomorrow Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
Speaker: Miss Alice Brainerd Subject: "The Little Theatre"
Thursday Program Tea Main Dining
Chairman: Mrs. J. P. Rettenmayer Room 3:00P.M.
Artist: Katherine Northrup
Program: One-act play, dramatic characterizations, poems by Browning, in costume Thursday Evening Program, auspices of The Voca- tional Guidance Bureau Room 222 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Mr. L. B. Travers
Subject: "A Safe Margin in Eraployroent"
10 — Sunday Evening Concerts Auditorium 8 :20 P. M.
Hostess: Laura Kelsey Allen
12 — Lecture on Literature Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
Speaker: Dr. Edith R. Merrielees Subject: "The Short Story"
13 — Lecture on "International Barriers" Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Saunders, University of Cali- fornia Subject: "Barriers and Bridges"
14 — The Theatre, Today and Tomorrow Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
Speaker: Harold Helvenston Subject: "Modern Stage Decoration" Thursday Evening Program, auspices of The Voca- tional Guidance Bureau Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Dr. V. H. Podstata
Subject: "The Dangers of High Pressure Living"
18 — Helen Howe Program Auditorium 2:30 P.M.
Monologuist: Miss Helen Howe
19 — Lecture on Literature Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
Speaker: Professor Benjamin H. Lehman Subject: "The Long Novel"
20 — Comparative Program of Piano Music American Room 11:00 A.M.
Speaker: Miss A. M. Wellendorff Subject: Brahms — Bartok
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Speaker: Mr. Newton H. Bell
Subject: "Recent Wanderings in Europe"
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LICE was getting very tired of the Everjday World. Everybody was dieting or boot- legging, or being psyched, or trying companionate marriage. Dull as dirt — and no croquet to speak of.
"Oh, for my precious Wonder- land," sighed Alice, "and the March Hare, and the Great Open Spaces!"
She sat dv)wn, and shut her eyes, and wished hard. Suddenly the ground rumbled and shook — "Lordy," cried Alice — "an earthquake!" and she jumped up and opened her eyes.
The earth had vanished! Nothing left but a nar- row sandspit on which she stood ! All around her was blue sea. "What fun!" Ah'ce danced up and down and clappedher hands. "What's fun?" — up through the waves at her feet popped a sleek black head, shoulders, body, till it stood all the way up on its queer little tail.
"Who are you?" Alice asked. "I'm the Seal." "What seal?"
"The One and Only," swaggering. "Nonsense — nobody's the One and Only," Alice retorted.
"Softly, girlie, softly! Just you fold your little feet and follow me — I'll illustrate — "
"Where'd we go ? ", Alice queried — a great uncle on her step-grand- mother's side had always told her that places where you went were important. "Down there," he pointed to the water.
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"No — you're a seal," Alice jabbed. He appeared not to notice — "And how about a hat — at Esther Roths- child's—ducky hats — folks that know, all go — "
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Continued from page 3)
Alice turned her shoulder — "I wisl you'd go!"
"Right-O — time's up — come on— follow me — that's the baby !" — h flipped and dived.
Alice stared — "One frock! On coat — fur! One hat!" She stepped little nearer to the water's edge "Well — he probably's all right whei he's at home — " She ducked her hea and followed.
{To be continued next month)
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1929
Women's City Club Magazine
Published Monthly at 465 Post Street
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Entered as second-class matter April 14, 1928, at the Post Office at San Francisco, California, under the act of Miarch 3, 1879.
SAN FRANCISCO
Vol. Ill
November, 1929
No. 10
SONTENTS
Club Calendar Inside Front Cover
Frontispiece 6
What November Holds 7
Were You There? 8
By Marion Leale
Employees' Christmas Fund 8
A San Francisco Woman at Geneva 9
By Alice Wilson
Mika Mikoun Shows Work 10
Book Review 11
Dr. Kenneth Saunders 12
Opportunity 12
Something New and True 13
Theater Today and Tomorrow 13
Thanksgiving Recipes 14
City Club Announcements IS
Questionnaire 16
Editorial 17
Fire Lighting in Retrospect 17
Bankers' Wives Entertained 19
Basic Value in Stock Buying 22
The Family Travels 23
OFFICERS OF THE WOMEN'S CITY CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO
President Miss Marion W. Leale
First Vice-President Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper
Second Vice-President Mrs. Paul Shoup
Third Vice-President Miss Mabel Pierce
Recording Secretary Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr.
Corresponding Secretary Mrs. W. F. Booth, Jr.
Treasurer Mrs. S. G. Chapman
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Women's City Club of San Francisco
Mrs. A. P. Black Miss Marion Leale
Mrs. William F. Booth, Jr. Mrs. Parker S. Maddux
Mrs. Le RoyBriggs Miss Henrietta Moffat
Dr. Adelaide Brown Mrs. Harry Staats Moore
Miss Marion Burr Miss Emma Noonan
Mrs. Louis J. Carl Mrs. Howard G. Park
Mrs. S. G. Chapman Miss Esther Phillips
Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr. Miss Mabel Pierce
Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper Mrs. Edward Rainey
Miss Marion Fitzhugh Mrs. Paul Shoup
Mrs. Frederick Funston Mrs. H. A. Stephenson
Mrs. W. B. Hamilton Mrs. T. A. Stoddard
Mrs. Lewis P. Hobart Miss Elisa May Willard
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OVEMBER is the month for painted ^ teapes .... As fruits and teaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. A^oi^ember is its sunset sky ."
— Henry D. Thoreau Excii rsion s — /lulu mnal Tints
WCMCN'/ CITT CLLC MAGAZINE
What November Holds for Women^s Citv Club Members and Friends
Season Begins Auspiciously and Promises Much
SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERTS . Do you remember that little stanza of Carrie Jacobs Bond's about a "Quiet Hour in a Quiet Spot?" "I'd like to find a little spot Where one could play and sing, And folks would listen to the tune And never say a thing." This delight in a serene hour when one, undisturbed, may give vent to the melody in one's heart, whether it be a sad or glad melody is very precious to all of us. Such a "Quiet Spot" with sweet melody awaits the members and friends of the Women's City Club on the second Sunday evening of each month in the comfortable lounge, frank with hospitality. We refer to the Sunday Evening Con- certs. Have you realized that the best talent and a marvel- ous spirit of giving of that talent for others' delight goes into the preparation of these monthly concerts ? Let us appreciate this so freely given, and so distinguished offer- ing of the Club. Is not this program for November 10 one to which "folks would listen to the tune?"
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A group of French and English Songs
Mrs. T. A. Rickard
II
A group of Chopin Seta Stewart
III
Sonata for violin and piano Faure
One Movement Violin — Laura Kelsey Allan
Piano — Mrs. H. Scott Dennett
I Laura Kelsey Allan is Chairman of this Sunday Evening Concert. WEDNESDAY MORNING MUSIC
It is apt and meet that we women who nowadays have so many claims upon our time should be able to find under our Club roof an especially enjoyable individual interest, an island of repose, perhaps. Such a spot of retreat from this variegated world is provided in the American Room on every other Wednesday morning at eleven o'clock. Miss Adeline Maude Wellendorf, the gifted musician, is giving a series of four comparative programs of piano music at this time. These programs are conducted in accordance with Miss Wellendorf's usual method of a lecture, with musical illustrations, upon the similarities and dissimilar-
ities in the works of certain classical and modern composers.
The order of program is:
November 6 Beethovex — Medtuer
November 20 Brahms — Bartok
The course is open to members and their friends. Tickets
— $1.25 — are on sale at the Women's City Club.
SUPPERS INSTEAD OF DINNERS
The Hospitality Committee of the Women's City Club has arranged to have suppers following the lectures and other events at the Club instead of dinners preceding them, as has been the custom. Several reasons have entered into the reasons for making the change, the most imperative one being the matter of time. The speaker has little leisure for meeting his fellow diners and it is difficult to have the dinner hour early enough to preclude this lack of leisure.
The supper party affords opportunity for a gracious hospitality to guests and admits of speaker and members of his audience meeting after the discourse, instead of before, and this, in turn, permits of freer discussion than the more or less formal meeting at dinner.
The Hospitality Committee has arranged for a series of buffet suppers to follow lectures. The charge is seventy- five cents per plate and reservations must be made so that the catering may be arrranged for.
BRITISH DELEGATES
A certain matter of importance is herewith set forth : On the evening of the day before Thanksgiving, that is No- vember 27, the Women's City Club is to entertain jointly with the American Association of University Women in honor of the returning British delegates from Kioto, the place of meeting of the Institute of Pacific Relations. Until the cables are received, the names of the prospective guests cannot be published. Please watch the bulletin board for further information.
GALSWORTHY'S "EXILED"
Form the good habit of coming to the Program Tea each first Thursday afternoon in the month. On December 5 the members are to hear Laurel Conwell Bias give a first read- ing of Galsworthy's latest play, "Exiled." It was necessary to send to England for this play, as it is not yet published in America. Those who hear it read in December in the Women's City Club should count themselves very for- tunate.
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S. K. Ratcliffe, who will speak at Women's City Club December 12
MRS. M. C. SLOSS WILL SPEAK
Members who are lovers of beautiful verse are invited to gather around our fireside in the Lounge on Wednesday evening, December 4, at eight o'clock, to listen to Mrs. M. C. Sloss spveak on "Poetry in the Life of Today." Mrs. Sloss was a charter member on the Board of Directors of the National League for Women's Service, also the Chairman of National Defenders' Club No. 5. An Anthology of Vic- torian verse, "Certain Poets of Importance," has lately been published by Mrs. Sloss. The members of the Wom- en's City Club particularly appreciate this opportunity to hear Mrs. Sloss.
S. K. RATCLIFFE
Red letter days come in the life of everyone. So also they come in the life of a club. December 12 is to be a red letter day in the calendar of the Women's City Club. S. K. Rat- cliffe, the London journalist and publicist, will be the honored guest of this Club and will speak on the subject, "The Ramsay MacDonald Government."
Mr. Ratclift'e is now better known upon the American platform than any English lecturer on current affairs. He has been coming annually to the United States for fifteen years, addressing a great variety of audiences, especially in the universities and colleges. He has appeared before the Institute of Arts and Sciences of Columbia University every winter since 1914. During the season 1928-1929 Mr. Ratcliffe addressed the League for Political Educa- tion, Town Hall, New York, on four occasions, and each time that he spoke there was not only a capacity audience, but so many people that some were obliged to remain stand- ing at the rear of the auditorium, even though stage seats were used.
The holder of editorial positions in England and in In- dia, he has had unusual opportunities of knowing the men of the hour and of following the course of public move- ments and events. Since his last American visit he has been on the editorial staff of the New Statesmatij now the most influential of the London weekly reviews. He is a con- stant contributor to the Observer, the foremost of English Sunday papers, and one of the radio speakers on events of the day for the British Broadcasting Corporation, London. After a series of six radio talks last fall on "America To- day," in the Adult Education Series, so many appreciations from listeners all over Great Britain were received that Mr. Ratcliffe's name was listed on the top level of broad- cast speakers.
It is rare that such a scholar of history and current events possesses this gift of brilliant oratory.
Were You There?
By Marion W. Leale
THOSE of us who attended the Fire-Lighting and the Membership Dinner were sorry for those who, for one reason or another, found themselves unable to do so. The Fire-Lighting ceremony was delightfully symbolic of the ideal we cherish — it pierced to the very heart of our organization — it satisfied those who crave human companionship as well as those who, seemingly sur- feited with social intercourse, are (albeit unconsciously) starved for certain contacts which would broaden their social vision, — it first levelled and then uplifted, — this evening at our own hearthside.
A few days later came the Membership Dinner, when we were introduced to the secrets of the family life — the duties to be fulfilled this winter, the programs to be sup- ported, the obligations imposed upon us as units in a group which has a definite purpose for being.
These two occasions should give us food for thought, as we practice the "art of thinking" in the process of in- trospection. The Members Cooperation Committee asks you and me to set forth our interests and our hopes for this club of ours so that we may mingle together in the enjoy- ment of the privileges of membership. We have something others covet. Let us enjoy it to the full as the winter months fold us into this beautiful club house to serve one another.
Employees' Christinas Fund
THE 1928 Fund for Employees was far more repre- sentative of the membership than any previous one, and could the donors have known personally the joy brought by the appreciation of service rendered, their own Christmas cheer would have been enhanced. As the pledge for 1929 is being mailed, the 1928 committee desires to re- mind each member what this fund does. First, it stabilizes the staff and prevents the expensive turnover so prevalent in organizations today. Secondly, it binds staff and member- ship together. Thirdly, it gives the opportunity of thank- ing personally those who throughout the year have waived aside all "tips." Fourthly, it launches us all into the New Year with a desire to please one another.
The committee of distribution sits conscientiously with the Executive Secretary considering four main points: (1) amount to be distributed, (2) type of service, (3) length of service, (4) responsibility involved; and the distribution is fair and impartial.
The Community Chest Idea has taught us to give cen- trally, forfeiting the inner glow of personal gratification. It has taught us the fairness of remembering all instead of a few. It has taught us the value of united contribution, however small the individual portion. Let us practice this in our own clubhouse.
Remember what you would have spent in tips ; remember the kindliness of the staff and the spirit of their service which is making this club famous, and then accordingly fill out the red card mailed to you this month. Give into the hands of the committee now to be appointed a fund worthy of the cause for which it is asked — the appreciation of ser- vice faithfully rendered by the staff of an organization whose name personifies its ideal.
Mrs. S. G. Chapman
Miss Marion Whitfield Leale
Miss Mabel L. Pierce
Committee.
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San Francisco Woman Writes of Geneva Impressions
By Alice Wilson
Teacher of Spanish in the Girls' High School of San Francisco and Director of
the World League of International Education Association, Mrs. Wilson
attended the conference of the International Educational
Association in Geneva in August.
plus grand tort qu'on ait fait a la paix, c'est d'avoir voulu la baser, sur la vertu." ("The great- est wrong that has been done to peace, is that they tried to base it on virtue.") Thus writes de Traz in his book "L'esprit de Geneve" published this summer.
Of all things I saw and heard, it is perhaps that plain sentence which left the greatest impression on me, because it is the key to so many thorny problems that confront any- one who is engaged in work along international lines. It is one of the fundamental truths, although so obvious, that are continually overlooked.
It proves that every scheme for better international un- derstanding must be based on human nature as it is, and not as idealists would love it to be.
That is why the leaders in the movement towards a United States of Europe do not overlook any of the phases of human nature : they have made an appeal to the intellect by showing how the European thought has traveled from Greece to Italy; from Italy to Spain, France and England ; from them to Germany and back to France. This has created a literary, artistic, and philosophic wealth that is the common inheritance of all the peoples of Europe. They are advocating the economic necessity of a European union ; how it is necessary for them to unite if they want to live. As Gaston Riou, one of the leaders in the movement, writes in his book "Europe, Ma Patrie" the question resolves itself to this: "either unite or die." Rather than emphasizing the differences between the different nations, leaders of Euro- pean destinies are, in looking back, searching for points of comparison, of former cooperation, in order to make use of them in the building up of a new Europe. And that is why there is a promise in the whole scheme. There is an appeal to the interests, the instinct of self-preservation, the intel- lect, and even the emotions of the people. The idea is gradually gaining ground among the masses, a large part of whom inclines towards a union of European states: any union to get rid of the nightmare of a possible war which would spell extinction for the white civilization in Europe.
This movement, launched by Count Coudenhove Ka- lergi, and of which faint echoes reach us now and then through the press of this country, has grown slowly and steadily. The leaders, some of whom I met, are men of the greatest intellect, alert, realizing the utmost importance for the European governments of coming to a satisfactory understanding.
It is interesting to notice how, while Europe is trying to minimize the frontiers, regional groups are being de- veloped everywhere. There is a revival of the cultural lite of those regions in times past, regardless of present day frontiers. Some are looking back as far as the Roman period, long before the intense nationalization of the Euro- pean countries had begun. They are for instance, the Rho- daniens from Geneva to Marseilles, looking back to the time when the Rhone was one of the arteries of the Roman Empire ; and looking forward toward a waterway con- necting the Mediterranean to the North Sea (Rhone- Rhine). They had their third regional congress at Geneva, this last July. From all along the Rhone from the Swiss
mountains to the Mediterranean Sea they flocked to Gene- va dressed in their regional costumes ; and with the lake as a background and the park as a setting, they danced and sang their local dances and songs. The picturesque Valai- sienne of the Swiss provinces and the move severe Savoy- arde; the light and always graceful French from Lyons, Avignon; the beautiful Arlesienne; and the Gardians of the Camargue — all children of the mighty river, the Rhone,
There is a revival of the Flemish culture. It is purely literary in French Flanders ; political in Belgian Flanders ; and national in Holland. Those three groups of three dif- ferent countries, with two frontiers separating them, join together to preserve their common inheritance, the Neder- landsch culture. Any attempt by the government to stop these movements only serves to strengthen their purpose, and the wiser statesmen prefer to adopt an attitude of "laisser faire" the only way of preventing it from becoming a poli- tical issue as happened with Flanders in Belgium, Catalo- na in Spain, Ireland in Great Britain, and many other in- stances.
But the point on which everyone agrees, is that the reme- dy— if there is any and many believe there is — lies in the education of the younger generation, which puts the respon- sibility on the teacher! That is why the meeting of the World Federation of Education Associations in Geneva and the meeting of the New School at Elsinore are of such tremendous importance. There lies a great deal of promise in the idea. The fact that so many prominent educators were there, shows that a new element is slowly but steadily entering that closest of institutions, the educational world. Slowly, but steadily, painfully for the pioneers who have the greatest difficulties to overcome — an overcrowded cur- riculum, overburdened teachers, the versatility of youth fluttering from one interest to another, not capable of un- derstanding the seriousness of life's problems ; prejudice and professional indifference. All that has to be overcome, and on looking back one is inclined to marvel at the tremendous amount of work already accomplished. To come back to the meeting at Geneva, Sir Gilbert Murray, President of the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, ad- dressed the assembly in the opening meeting, and there hap- pened an incident which showed the deep admiration of all those assembled there for Dr. Gilbert Alurray. He could not be heard, the acoustics were bad ; the galleries were noisy with the hammering, talking and running around, because the exposition was in its final stage of arrangement ; and the loud speaker only made squeaking, gurgling, growl- ing noises; and Dr. Murray's voice is not strong. Then spontaneously people grouped around him close to the plat- form, sat on the edges of it and listened to a man whose exquisite thoughts were couched in the most perfect Eng- lish. He warned the teachers against over-development of self-expression in the student, to the detriment of the ade- quate training of his mind. "There is more good training for the mind in the memorizing word for word, page by page, of the old Bible as the Scotchmen used to do, or of any good book of Shakespeare or other authors, than in
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all the new methods of self-education among the students." He did not attack the principle, but the exaggerated appli- cation of it in the modern system of education.
Dr. Zimmern, Vice-Director of the Institute of Inter- national Education, made an interesting statement when he said that his experience among university students from all parts of the world — and that experience is very vast — had shown him that whereas the European students, re- gardless of language, creed or country, had a common ground on which to discuss problems and carry on an ar- gument, there was absolutely no way of making American and European students meet on common ground and dis- cuss any kind of problem. It is not difficult to understand, when one is fairly well acquainted with the fundamental difference of education of both branches of the white race, . the old and the new.
Dr. Mandarriaga, who advocated a systematic change in the teaching of history, was clever and sarcastic, when he mentioned how history changes traveling from Spain to England; how the saintly Mary Tudor whom the Span- iards worship, becomes bloodthirsty Mary, and how blood- thirsty Elizabeth on arriving in England becomes "The Virgin Queen." He advises against basing one's historical studies on contemporary memoirs and reports because, of course, every one of them is nationally biased.
Dr. Monroe, Dean of Education of the Columbia Uni- versity, sounds a note of warning against over-administra- tion which is encroaching steadily on the actual work of teaching and educating. He warns against training too many white-collared men and women to the detriment of agricultural and other manual work. He also told us how Japan met that problem by limiting the number of such students ; and how the will of one man in Turkey changed, overnight, the whole phase of Turkish life.
The man I most like to think of when I try to recollect those I met at Geneva is Bakule, a Czech village school- master, who upon being asked to train fifteen crippled
children in a hospital, after a short time, creates with them the most exquisite choir, making them at the same time self-supporting. But alas, Bakule did not conform to the regular curriculum and is forced to resign. As he walks out of the hospital, fifteen crippled children walk out with him. He refuses any support until he has shown the citizens of Prague that his children are self-supporting. He collects the ragamuffins and the derelicts of the city of Prague and now he has a choir of forty singers. They have come to the East of the United States and they have gone to Denmark, Germany and this summer to France. Said Mr. Faucher, President of the Secondary School Teachers As- sociation in France, when he introduced Bakule to me, and asked me to act as interpreter (Bakule only speaks Czech and a little German) "his tour through France was a triumph and was organized entirely by teachers and stu- dents. When he leads," said Mr. Faucher, "there is a radi- ance emanating from him which inspires his singers and which is felt by the whole audience." He is a quiet, un- ostentatious figure, passing unnoticed, but those who had the good fortune to talk with him felt that here was a superior being and they were confirmed in their belief that in this over-materialized world, it is still the spirit that moves it.
[Editor's Note: Mrs. Alice Wilson is a teacher in the Girls' High School, San Francisco, and is director of the World League of International Education Associations, of which Dr. Ray Lynaan Wilbur, President of Stanford University, Chairman of Institute of Pacific Relations, and Secretary of the Interior in President Hoover's Cabinet, is honorary president. Mrs. Wilson speaks five languages, teaches Spanish and directs from the San Francisco office (financed chiefly by Paige Monteagle) the grow- ing groups of the World League of International Education Associations all over the world, fifty-eight at this time. They have a monthly bulletin publishing letters from boys and girls of the League, interchanged from the United States, France, Switzerland, England and other countries. Headquarters are 521 Phelan Building, San Francisco.]
MiKA MiKOUN, Sculpture-CeramUte
Exhibitor from the Salon d' Automne, Salon des Tuileries and the Independante,
to San Francisco
conies
Mme. Mikoun, whose exhibition followed the exhibition of members' Avork at the Galerie Beaux Arts, was a pupil and friend of Bourdelle. As a child this most interesting artist was initiated into the technique of ceramic art by her father and through that circumstance it has become her me- dium, but she always maintains the viewpoint towards her work of a sculptor who happens to be expressing herself in this medium.
Llorens Artigas, in writing of her, says: "Her creative needs as a cera- mist, added to her quality as a sculp- tress, animate her entire work with a new impulsion productive of ever varied modes of beauty."
Beginning on November the second The San Francisco Association of Women Artists will hold an exhibition at the Beaux Arts in galleries I and II.
During November and December the New Music Society will hold a series of three evening concerts in the Beaux Arts Gallerv.
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I Have Been Reading . . .
In trains and boats, in way-stations wailing J or the next stage! By Eleanor Preston Watklns
Leonardo the Florentine; by Ra- chel Annan Taylor; Harper and Brothers; $6.00.
All Quiet on the Western Front ; by Erich Maria Remarque; Little, Brown and Company ; $2.50,
Hello Towns; by Shenvood Ander- son; Horace Liveright; $3.00.
Cease Firing; by Winifred H al- bert; illustrated by Jeanne de La- nux; Macmillan Company, New- York; $1.50.
Tomahawk Rights; by Hal G. Ev- erts; Little, Brown and Company; $2.00.
The Black Camel; by Earl Derr Biggers; Bobbs ; $2.00.
The last first. "Tomahawk Rights" and "The Black Camel" are good companions for vacation days and sea voyages. Mr. Everts follows his hero, Rodney Buckner, into the forest pri- meval of Kentucky, when it was still the happy hunting ground of the Shawnee Indians. He knows his his- tory, and tells a good tale, though his style is a bit reminiscent of the digni- fied Nineties. "The Black Camel" is a rattling good detective story to read on deck en route to Honolulu. The Chinese, Charlie Chan, is one of the very few detectives in fiction who are able to detect anything before one has detected it, pages and pages ago, for oneself! Mr. Biggers has made this quaint person come alive. Charlie Chan becomes a personal friend of the reader's, and he adds much to the gai- ety of the nations, as well as to inter- national friendship. There is a nice background of local color for the Honolulu traveler.
"Hello Towns," by Sherwood An- derson, is a departure from the usual. Perhaps it is unique. On his wander- ings in the mountain lands of Ten- nessee and Virginia, Mr. Anderson came upon a little farm in the Alle- ghenies which he fell in love with and bought, hopeful of that quiet so de- sired of writers. But alas! when he retired to his sylvan solitude, the Muse would not be wooed! It was too quiet. Then he betook himself to the small Virginia town, some twenty miles away, bought the two weekly newspapers. Republican and Demo- crat, and edits them both ! As a side line, he sends local color stories and small essays to New York magazines. This book is a resume of small town editorials, local sketches, moonshine stories, and very lovely descriptions of
Appalachian scenery. It is a quite marvelous hodge-podge of humor, pa- thos, and delightful English. I have wondered a bit about the citizens of that small town, just what they think of Sherwood Anderson's editorials? He is still the outsider, observing — though a very friendly outsider; he is not yet on the inside of places and minds, as David Grayson was. But there is charm in the book; and the thought of Sherwood Anderson as an editor in a small Virginia mountain town is a riot!
Erich Maria Remarque, who wrote "All Quiet on the Western Front," went into the army as a lad of eigh- teen from a Rhineland school. The patriotic schoolmaster, Kantorek, "gave them long lectures until the whole of the class went under his shepherding to the District Com- mandant and volunteered." Remar- que says of them : "It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men. They are so much more energetic and uncompromising than the big fel- lows!"
Four of these nineteen-year-old classmates were together on the West- ern Front, veterans after six months! It is a poignant book of the war and its aftermath ; a book to be avoided if one is afraid of pain. But the stark brutality of its truth will tear another veil of glamor from the face of War. Fifteen years have gone, with onh little books about the war, written from the outside, while the men who fought the war were smitten silent. Now the common soldier speaks. He describes "three things: the war, the fate of a generation, and true com- radeship. And these were the same in all countries." "All Quiet on the Western Front" was published in Germany in January, and it has sold 750,000 copies in that country, 215,- 000 in America, 219,000 in France, and 195,000 in England. With "Jour- ney's End," it will help to counteract the flag-waving and martial music when our younger generation thrills to the glory of another war.
"Leonardo the Florentine!" The title opens the door to another time, another world. Rachel Armand Tay- lor is a poet with several volumes of verse to her credit. Her "keen and poetic imagination" embroiders the style of her book, and one wearies somewhat of adjectives, colorful
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though the} be. But ihe has given a lifetime to the study of the Renais- sance; and her "Aspects of the Re- naissance" won wide recognition. In "Leonardo the Florentine," she re- constructs the Renaissance in the height of its glory, the courts of the Medici in Florence, of Lodovici in Milan, and of Rome and Amboise of his later years "she paints a picture so full of color and movement that one would be hard put to it to name its superior in the long list of ecstatic writings upon the city of the Arno." I quote from her London reviews.
And now, another boat, another train.
"Cease Firing"; by Winifred H al- bert; illustrated by Jeanne de Lan- ux; Macmillan Company, New York; $1.50.
This little volume, which has just appeared in the San Francisco shops, is unique in its conception, and unique in its special interest for those who served in the National League, and who learned through war service to work for peace. It is a book for chil- dren, and a find for internationally- minded mothers; "thrilling stories about boys and girls in far-away coun- tries whose lives have been influenced by notable events in the history of the League of Nations."
Lucy Fitch Perkins, author of the Twin Books, says of it: "I admire very much the simple directness with which the beneficent operations of the League of Nations are brought within the comprehension of children in these stories." They are wide in their scope — the Greco-Bulgarian dispute. Austria, Bolivia, Paraguay, the sign- ing of the Peace Pact.
The League of Nations Association has sponsored this little book. Ray- mond Fosdick says: "Many story- books have been published which dram- atize the lessons of geography, ethnol- ogy, and history, but this is the first book, as far as I know, that attempts this technique in the field of interna- tional relations."
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Dr. Kenneth Saunders and Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet and philosopher, discuss "things as they are" by the light of the embers
Dr. Kenneth Saunders Will Speak at Citv Club
"Barriers and Bridges" will be the subject of the November lecture in the series on "International Barriers." This title seems almost a paradox, but in his able and scholarly discussion, Dr. Kenneth Saunders may show that barriers can be bridges after all. Ac- cording to the schedule, Dr. David P. Barrows was listed to speak this month. But on account of the un- avoidable absence of Dr. Saunders in December, an amicable exchange of dates of appearance has been affected and Dr. Barrows will be the speaker in December, on the subject he com- prehends with such sympathetic under- standing— "Barriers of the Latin Americas."
Dr. Kenneth Saunders is Professor of History of Religion in the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. Dr. Saunders not only holds one by his dominating and magnetic personality and great sincerity but also by his thorough-going scholarship and inti- mate understanding of the Orient as well as the Occident ; for he was born of English parents in South Africa, educated in Cambridge, England, served in India as Literary Secretary and Director of Studies in the Y. M. C. A. and is the author of seven scholarly and authentic books on Buddhism.
It is still possible for members to purchase a course ticket for the series
of nine lectures for one dollar. This ticket is not transferable. Non-mem- bers may purchase tickets for the course at four dollars, which may be transferred. The interest in this group of lectures is growing apace. Won't you be one of the enthusiasts ?
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Outstanding in interest to the women of America, and especially to those in California so close to other civilizations, is the study of Interna- tional Relations. In view of this, the Women's City Club of San Francisco is conducting an interesting experi- ment, that of offering the opportunity of hearing a series of lectures on "In* ternational Barriers." There is scarcely a woman's organization that does not include in its activities at least one lecture on this subject during each j'ear.
The hope is that all other inter- ested organizations in San Francisco and the Bay region will cooperate in making this a civic contribution rather than a single club activity. The de- sire is to spread out a map by which one may travel towards a logical and informed opinion in regard to world affairs.
Mrs. Henry Francis Grady of Berkeley is general chairman of the course and is assisted by Miss Emma Noonan of San Francisco.
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Opportunity
Really, those of us who are not at- tending the Tuesday morning series of lectures on Literature are missing one of the most worth while offerings of the Club, Of course, it is difficult to seize all one's opportunities, but a word to the wise is sufficient. Since part of the opportunity has already slipped by, let us grasp the remainder while there is yet time. The last three talks of the series are on three telling subjects: Photo-Drama, The Short Story and The Long Novel, We al- ways enjoy the pros and cons of the movie question. Dr. Willard Smith, of Mills College, is well known as an able speaker on that point. No one can set before us the place and value of the Short Story better than Dr. Edith R. Merrielees of Stanford University, who has just returned from Bread Loaf, Vermont, where she conducted a course on the Short Story in the famous summer school of that place. She is an accepted authority through- out this country on her subject. Pro- fessor Lehman, of the University of California, is so well known and liked by the members of this Club that we shall all make plans to hear him in his talk on "The Long Novel." This course of lectures has been arranged by Mrs. Edward Rainey, as Special Chairman. The remaining lectures on the program are:
November 5 — Photo-Drama — Dr. Willard Smith, Mills College,
November 12 — The Short Story — Dr. Edith R. Merrielees, Stan- ford University.
November 19 — The Long Novel — Prof. Lehman, University of California.
The time is eleven o'clock on Tues- day mornings in the Auditorium. Tickets on sale at information desk; season tickets for last three lectures — $1.50; single tickets — 75 cents. For members and friends, ■f -t -t
Visitor from Mexico
Mrs. Douglas A. G. Collie-Mac- Neill is spending a few weeks in San Francisco from Mexico and is a guest at the Women's City Club. She will be joined soon by Mr. Collie-Mac- Neill, British Consul to the West Coast of Mexico, who is at present on a fishing trip in Oregon. Their daughter, Mrs. Richard Addison Han- an, and Mr. Hanan, who lived in the East following their marriage two years ago, are now making their home in San Francisco.
Mrs. Hanan is the former Miss Dorothy Frances Collie-MacNeill, She formerly attended Sacred Heart Convent in Menlo Park and Miss Harker's School in Palo Alto,
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CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for NOVEMBftR
1929
Something New—Something True
Helen Howe to Give Divertissement Novctnber 18
Helen Howe, Monologuist, What kind of entertainment do you like? A pleasant episode, soon forgotten, or a fresh experience that adds to the joy of living? To be entertained is one thing, to remember an entertainment is another. A monologuist with charm and personality we enjoy — and forget. But the monologuist with talent we enjoy — and remember. Miss Helen Howe belongs to this type of per- former. She has made an unparalleled record as a reciter of monologues of her own authorship. Reared in a liter- ary and artistic atmosphere, a member of the Junior League, Miss Howe has profited from a background of culture and opportunity and special studies with the leading masters of dramatic art in Paris, London, and New York.
This altogether delightful young artist will give an afternoon of orig- inal monologues on Monday, Novem- ber 18, in the City Club Auditorium.
All seats are reserved. Tickets, for members and friends, are $1.00 and 75 cents.
She has the gift of characterization, of vocal differentiation, and of facial ex- pression that is free from exaggeration. Quick to see the whims and foibles of women ; blessed with a keen sense of humor, she can tell a pathetic tale, or bring home to her hearers the pathos of a situation without disturbing sen- timentalism. Her acquaintance with foreign languages and her charm of personality, her taste and poise, tem- pered with spontaneity, contribute a rare versatility to her entertainments. She is more than a coming artist. She has arrived. The titles of Miss Howe's monologues include :
J French Class.
A Cape Cod Cottage.
Exhibition Day in the Fifth Grade.
Visited on the Children.
Tea in London.
Bon Voyage.
Helen Howe
The Theatre . . . Today and Tomorrow
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WHAT sort of a play will at- tract Mr. and Mrs. Public? Are the movies the most potent influence in modern civiliza- tion?
Is the reign of the Little Theatre waxing or waning?
Will any well wrought play be ac- ceptable on a college campus?
Replies will be given to these perti- nent queries by Miss Alice Brainerd and Mr. Harold Helvenston. Mr. Samuel Hume discussed the subject October 31, opening the series in his brilliant, witty style.
If you are of a mind to hear these answers, we are very glad to tell you that they will be part of two Novem- ber talks to be given in the City Club Auditorium on Thursday mornings at eleven o'clock.
The dates are :
November 7 — The Little Theatre — Alice B. Brainerd.
N ovember \A — Modern Stage Dec- oration— Harold Helvenston.
Mr. Hume is actively engaged in showing famous art films in Berkeley. He has lately organized the Cinema Society of California and is especially qualified to speak on the subject of moving pictures and the great part that they have played in the develop- ment of our present day civilization. He brought to this lecture not only
this intimate knowledge but great en- thusiasm, and showed at this time the first dramatic moving picture ever made, entitled "The Great Train Robbery," done in 1904.
As Executive Director of The Playhouse in Berkeley, Miss Alice Brainerd is presenting a series of both gay and serious plaj's. In September, her production of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" was a signal and charm- ing event. Miss Brainerd has but lately returned from an extended study of the Little Theatre in Europe and the United States. She possesses a sympathetic and wise comprehension of the possibilities and limitations of this medium of expression, and sets forth her findings with convincing charm.
Mr. Harold Helvenston is Acting Director of Dramatics at Stanford University. Through his ability as a scenic and costume designer he has gained substantial recognition in all of the national theatre publications. We, of San Francisco, remember his excel- lent work as designer of costumes and scenery for the Temple Players' pro- duction of "The Dybbuk," under the direction of Nahum Zemach, founder of the Moscow Habimah Players. He also designed the costumes for the 1929 Bohemian Grove Play. Now, he is preparing a production of "The Ivory Door," a play deemed one of
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the most charming of the 1928 theat- rical season.
Mrs. A. P. Black is Special Chair- man in charge of this series of lec- tures. Season tickets, $1.50; single tickets, 75 cents. The series is open to members and their friends.
Suppers After Lectures
Seldom can a clubhouse extend hos- pitality amid such pleasant surround- ings as did our Club on the occasion of the Buffet Supper enjoyed after the lecture by Abbe Dimnet. Speakers and lecturers have often expressed the wish to be excused from entertainment be- fore appearing on the platform and to this natural desire we are now able to respond, substituting the informal aftermath which our guests can' read- ily enjoy. The American Room has proved such a happy setting that it has been decided to eliminate the sj-)ecial dinners originally planned and now substitute suppers at which the speaker of the evening will be the guest of honor. The charge will be seventy-five cents and reservations must be made beforehand. It is hoped the member- ship will join the Hospitality Com- mittee at such times and thus enjoy the rare opportunity of meeting personally the guest of honor. Members may in- vite guests.
women's city club magazine for NOVEMBER • 1929
Scene in City Club Auditorium where three hundred visiting women of the Bankers' Convention were tendered a luncheon
Thanksgiving Conies This Month!
THANKSGIVING greetings! Combining business and social activities with woman's most important position in life — that of homemaking — is the tremendous task set before us in our everyday living. If we are to really enjoy our homes and especially our holidays with our loved ones then our work must be planned to its most minute detail. We must buy and prepare our food to eliminate unnecessary labor and left- overs are a real problem to the inex- perienced.
Menus are no longer set affairs, but in the maidless home four courses are sufficient for even the holiday meal. An appetizer, main or roast course, salad and dessert are the rule, though soup may be added if desired.
Turkey is the accepted meat course for Thanksgiving, however, one may serve chicken, roast goose or duck or a stuffed leg of pork, and some prefer baked ham. Any of these meats com- bine nicely with oysters as the appe- tizer. The small Olympias in cocktail
By Christina S. Madison {Mrs. Randolph Madison)
sauce, or larger ones on the half shell are easily prepared. One may pur- chase the sauce with the ojsters, or in bottles from the grocer or make it at home. Candied sweets or mashed white potatoes for one vegetable and hot canned asparagus tips with melted butter for the other blend nicely with any of these meats. Cranberries must be served and one may make jelly of them or a frappe to accompany the meat. Serving the salad after the roast course is preferable, and one composed of fruit is best for a heavy meal. Avo- cados, grapefruit and pineapple, sliced on lettuce leaves and served with French dressing is delicious, or endive with cheese dressing might please you more. Molded in gelatine the previous day would save last minute prepara- tions. Pie, either pumpkin or mince belongs to this dinner, but some pre- fer plum pudding. Crackers, cheese and coffee, with a bowl of fruit, nuts and raisins will offer a choice of desserts.
Your shopping list should include the foods in the following suggested
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menu, or substitutes of meat and vegetables :
Ripe Olives Celery
Bouillon, Hot or Cold
Roast Turkey Plain Stuffing
Mashed White Potatoes
Hot Asparagus
Fruit Salad
Pumpkin Pie Cheese Wafers
Coffee Salted Nuts Fruit Raisins
To simplify the meal preparation, do as much of the work the previous day as possible. You may bake the pies at that time if j^ou plan on home- made pastry, but it is best to have the tins lined with plain pastry and keep it in the refrigerator overnight — then fill with either mincemeat or pumpkin just before baking. Recipes for some of these dishes will be given — as many as space permits, but making mince- meat at home is a needless task today when such a wide variety may be had in bulk or canned. The pumpkin fill- ing may be put together and kept in the ice box if j^ou like.
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Houghton Lecture Cancelted
As the Women's City Club Mag- azine was going to press the board of directors of the City Club received a telegram announcing the cancelling of the engagement of Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton to speak at the Club November 22, at what was to be his only lecture in San Francisco. The telegram stated that a letter was fol- lowing, which, of course, had not ar- rived as the magazine goes on the press.
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CITY CLUB MAGAZINE PLAY CONTEST The play contest of the Women's City Club Magazine is still unde- cided. A committee within the City Club has finished the preliminary read- ing of the manuscripts, and they are now in the hands of the professional committee, which includes Sam Hume of the University of California, Gor- don Davis of Stanford University, and Henry Duffy of the Duffy Theaters.
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FRENCH CLASSES OPENED
French classes under Mme. Rose Olivier have begun for the fall and winter. A beginners' class meets at two o'clock Monday afternoons, an intermediate class at one o'clock of the same day, and the conversational class assembles at 11 o'clock Friday mornings. Additional classes for both day and evening will be formed upon request.
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BIG GAME DINNER
Following the Big Game at Stan- ford on Saturday, November 23, a special dinner will be served in the main dining room until 9:30 o'clock, $1.25 per plate. There will be music during dinner. Reservations are now being taken on the third floor.
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SETTLEMENT WORKERS REQUESTED
A request from the Telegraph Hill Settlement has been received asking for volunteers available for afternoon library service. Will any of our mem- bers who are able to respond please communicate with Miss Osborn, fourth floor of the Women's City Club?
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PUBLIC PATRONAGE
INVITED
It is not necessary to be a member of the Women's City Club to take ad- vantage of the bargains in the League Shop, where a stunning array of im- ported things are now on display.
Golf Tournament
If the entry warrants, a Champion- ship Golf Tournament will be held at Crystal Springs Golf Club, Novem- ber 19-22.
The qualifying round will be played, starting at 9 o'clock Tuesday, November 19. Match play, flights of 8, will follow November 20, 21 and 22.
Special events will be held on Thursday and Friday.
There will be prizes for the low gross, low net, the winners in each flight and in the special events.
If the entry docs not warrant the playing of the first flight at scratch, the tournament will be played as the "Annual Golf Tournament of the Women's City Club."
All entrants not having an official handicap will be arbitrarily handi- capped. If you have no ofl'icial handi- cap in some club or association, please bring as many cards as possible, not more than five, showing lowest scores actually made on some course or courses. These cards must show the women's par of the course or the yard- age of each hole, and should be at- tested by the partner in the match.
In the event that the entry list is less than 16 it is understood that the tournament will not be held.
The Women's City Club is present- ing a shield on which the name of the winner will be engraved. This shield will be kept in the City Club, and the names of the winners added from year to year.
Committee in charge for the Wom- en's City Club:
Mrs. W. E. Colby, chairman
Mrs. Louis Lengfeld, treasurer
Miss Alice Knowles
Mrs. J. C. Costello
Mrs. William Johnstone
Mrs. J. L. Mesple
Miss Harriet Adams Send entries, accompanied by check to Mrs. Louis Lengfeld, 145 Camino Real, San Mateo, not later than Fri- day, November 15.
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WORES LENDS PAINTINGS
Theodore AVores, distinguished San Francisco artist, has lent the Women's City Club two paintings which are hung in the National Defenders' Club Room. "Blossom Time in Saratoga" is for sale, the price being $1,500.
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TAILOR PRAISES MAGAZINE
Joseph Posncr. ladies' tailor, has re- moved to 498 Geary Street, where the larger quarters are adapted to the vol- ume of business which he states, he owes in degree to advertising in the Women's City Club Magazine.
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Monteagle Memorial Doorway
To be known as the "Lydia Paige Monteagle Doorway of Remem- brance," the south portal of the new Grace Cathedral will face on Califor- nia Street at a point adjacent to the chapel that is now under construction. It will afford entrance to Grace Cathedral by way of the south transept and because of the gradient of the site it is expected to be the most generally used doorway. The portal will be forty-two feet high and about forty feet in width. Indiana limestone will be used to face the arch and parapet and the doors themselves will be of heavy carved oak. The design is by Lewis P. Hobart, cathedral architect.
LUNCHEON HOSTESS
Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper was hostess Tuesday at a luncheon at the Women's City Club in compliment to Mrs. Thomas Drayton Parker, who, with her husband. Commander Parker, U. S. N., left recently for the southern part of the state to spend the winter.
Mrs. Parker is known in the mu- sical world as Madame Rose Florence. She and Commander Parker will go first to the Arizona desert, which at this time of the year is beautiful in its colorings, and when the cold weather really sets in, they will return to southern California resorts for the season.
PROCURE RESERVATIONS Experience on the evening of Abbe Dimnet's lecture. October 21, has taught us to emphasize for our mem- bers the importance of procuring early reservations for all lectures — course or single— sponsored by the club this winter.
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Volume III November ' 1929 Number 10
EDITOMIAL
FACILITY of transportation is rapidly making na- tional isolation a thing of the past. Mountains nor oceans, citadels nor buttressed frontiers can longer render inaccessibility to any region.
But there still remain "International Barriers." Invisible and intangible, they have stalked the centuries until wise men and women whose understanding was made more sympathetic by the war suddenly realized that discussion caused those barriers to shrink and in many instances to disappear, "like fairy gifts fading away."
That very facility of transportation which gives to this twentieth century airways instead of caravans has made it possible for the Anglo-American fight for peace to be waged with method without madness.
Conventions and conferences, a British Prime Minister facing an American Congress, college professors exchanging chairs and prelates occupying each others' pulpits are but a part of the amazing change which is coming over the con- sciousness of civilization. National misunderstanding were well nigh impossible. Internationalism becomes an ideal, a "target to shoot at" but not with bullets. Ordnance is displaced by coordination and ammunition by amity.
Mrs. Frank T. Woods, wife of the Bishop of Winches- ter, was entertained in the last month at the Women's City Club, her visit in San Francisco being almost coincident with that of Ramsay MacDonald in Washington. She spoke of many of the things which impressed her in Cali- fornia. One of these was the system of good roads for which the state is famous. "A stranger feels that they have been built upon solid foundation, like the roads built by the Romans in Gaul. The foundation sound, the structure partakes of the same quality," she said. From this premise she stated that the foundation of her country and this is the home, with woman as the stabilizing influence. "This City Club, of which I had heard in England — for its vol- unteer service makes it unique among clubs of the world — is 'home' to members who live here and a cherished privi- lege to all enrolled on its roster," she said.
"It is said that parallels cannot meet, but certainly they may arrive at the same field, and to the women of Great Britain and America is given the responsibility of realizing that thought." This was by way of comment when she was told of the series of talks on "International Barriers" now being given at the Women's City Club.
And so, "get understanding" becomes the watchword, in- ternationally, nationally, within the community, in our
deavor to analyze the membership. This is by way of un- derstanding what richness of material is latent in the seven thousand entities which comprise its personnel. How splen- did it would be for the Volunteer Service Committee to know that at its disposal were largess waiting to be called upon. After all it resolves itself into the shibboleth, "better understanding."
Therefore the questionnaire. Please fill it out and send it to the committee as suggested on another page.
The Annual Fire Lighting In Retrospect
I
N THE NEW NOVEL "Homeplace" Bess discovers that a homeplace "wraps a person around." So dis- covered every member as she entered the "Home- place" of the Women's City Club — the Lounge — for the annual Lighting-of-the-Fire on the first Monday evening in October.
A tawny glow from rows of orange-tinted candles, blended with masses of Autumn leaves and sunset-shaded chrysanthemums filled the place with mellow light. As cozy arm-chairs and davenports were quickly occupied by friendly groups, who packed themselves in as closely as possible. Miss Harriet L. Adams, the Chairman of the evening, assisted by her committee of Mrs. W. B. Hamil- ton, Dr. Mary P. Campbell, Mrs. Charles Crocker, Miss Ruth Gedney, Miss Mary Jamieson and Mrs. Mary Wal- ter welcomed the Club-Family.
Meanwhile the Choral Group, under the leadership of Mrs. Jessie Wilson Taylor, with Miss Krauss at the piano, sang into the hearts of all, memories of the days when women began learning the art of living together and working together, and formed the "National League for Woman's Service" — such songs as "Liza Jane," "Smile, Smile, Smile," and "I Love You, California."
Greetings over, the songsters then took up the harmoni- ous strains of "Thanks Be To God." With this sweet toned blessing, the celebration of good will was in full swing. Here followed a short ballad concert of Home Songs prepared by Mrs. Horatio F. Stoll, assisted by Mrs. Byron MacDonald, with Miss Harriet Garner at the piano. The songs were "Just a Song at Twilight," "Sweet Little Mother O' Mine," "Going Home," "Good Morn- ing, Brother Sunshine" and the love song known as "The Wind Song."
All during the evening one, a charter member, had sat snug in her in her big arm-chair, twisting two or three long, white, paper tapers, her face and eyes nothing but one happy smile. The Chairman called her name, and in- troduced her as the fireside story-teller — Doctor Adelaide Brown. Amid handclapping, vigorous and long, Dr. Brown took her place on the hearth, her sweet smiling face with its silver halo of soft curling hair, touched with light from each great candle in the huge twin candle-sticks taller than herself.
Dr. Brown's theme was "The Art of Living Together." She reminded us of what we moderns are doing to the walls of the old-fashioned home. Group handling becomes for moderns a very real necessity. We are born in hospitals, attend large schools, have our "coming-out balls" in hotels, are married in churches, are sick in hospitals, and are buried from morticians' rooms. So Clubs take their legiti- mate place in these larger units of living together. To re- duce the "wear and tear" of living together. Dr. Brown passed on to the members five watch-words that she had found valuable — Keep Alive the Spirit of Organization, that kindles a sense of apreciation of the other fellow's viewpoint — Idealize one another, look for and find high
individual affairs.
Within the City Club there is now being pursued an en- ideals in others — Play the game of life by the Golden
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Rule, a fifty-fifty basis — Hold fast to a sense of humour — and find an island of silence in each day's program.
Then with a merry twinkle in her bright eyes, Dr. Brown tipped the flame of the great candle with her slim white taper and lighted the fire. The President, Miss Marion Leale, encouraged the starting flames, as sev- eral members helped with bellows and poker. Presently, Miss Leale smilingly turned with "The first crackle! I al- ways love to hear it."
As the crackles increased and spark flew to spark and flame leapt to flame, the crimson glow of the fire spread warrfi radiance into the room. Every- body joined in the impromptu com- munity singing from "Carry Me Back to or Virginny," "The Sweetest Story Ever Told," on through to the choruses of modern popular ballads. Refreshments of popcorn, sugary doughnuts and golden cider in slender glasses on blue plates were passed by the cordial and busy committee. Words of thanks and appreciation were expressed on behalf of all pres- ent to Mrs. Charles Crocker for her generous gift of twenty-five dollars for this occasion and to a group of permanent guests in the Club for the supply of a cord of wood.
This memorable and merry evening was drawing to a close, yet all were loath to break the friendly charm. Chairs were drawn closer for chatting here and chatting there, candles flick- ered out and at last, when midnight pealed, as the Guardians of our Loy- alties, our Enthusiasms and our Club Home-Place, the glowing embers were left on the hearth.
Japanese Singer Feted
Madame Miura, Japanese soprano, was tendered a tea at the Women's City Club October 25. Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper and Mrs. William B. Hamilton assisted Miss Leale, the president. The tea was arranged in a few hours on receipt of the news of the singer's short stay in San Francisco.
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The Women's City Club Maga- zine announces the following asso- ciate editors, each of whom will be responsible for the department under her direction, either as writer or editor:
Home Economics, Mrs. R. W.
Madison. Fine Arts, Mrs. Beatrice Judd
Ryan. Fashion, Miss Mary Coghlan. Education, Mrs. Edward W. Cur- rier. Health, Dr. Adelaide Brown. Literature, Mrs. James T. Wat- kins. Internationalism, Mrs. Parker S.
Maddux. Travel, Mrs. Inglis Fletcher. Music and Drama, Mrs. Carlo Sutro Morbio and Marie Hicks Davidson. Finance, Agnes Alwyn. There will be a Garden Page and a Community Service Page, editors to be announced. y / /
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' I 'he occasional ■*■ gift? It isn't a problem for me any longer. Whether it is a "going away" oc- casion, birthday, or the usual holi- day giving, I find an appropriate suggestion at Ladd's. Their powder and perfumes are a delight, and for the man's gift there are leather cases in the handsome Cross English goods. My dear it's a joy to shop there, and they will deliver }'our packages at the club. You'll find it easy to select a gift that bears the right note of in- dividuality and is just personal enough for any occasion at . . .
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ERE I was about to forget Ted's birthday. It suddenly dawned upon me as I waspassing the League Shop in the Women's City Club. What a predicament I should have been in if I hadn't noted those good-looking ash trays and re- called that he needed a really nice one for his desk.
That attended to and a prayer of thanksgiving that I hadn't let the day go by without a gift in honor of the occasion, I decided that I might as w'ell buy my bridge prizes there. Well, since you are coming to my next bridge party, I won't divulge what I bought, but I will say this — that the choice is wide and I probably shall acquire a reputation for originality that you never suspected lurked in my breast.
It was a life-saver to me that day, was
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Bankers Wives' Banqueted
Mrs. Parker S. Maddux was chair- man in charge of the luncheon ten- dered at the Women's City Club to wives and daughters of the bankers who met in the Bankers' Convention in San Francisco early in October,
More than three hundred visiting women from all parts of the United States were served at the luncheon held in the Women's City Club Audi- torium October 1. The tables were decorated with autumn flowers and each guest received a corsage of roses, violets and cyclamen.
The hostesses who assisted Mrs. Maddux were :
Misses
Marion Leale
Edith Slack
EiisaWillard
Emma Noonan Mesdames
William Warren
A. P. Black
W. B. Hamilton
R. Maury Sims
Walter Wilcox
George Van Smith
Eugene Plunkett
J. C. Bovey
R. C. Gingg
Mabel Pierce Laura McKinstry Dr. Adelaide Brown
Howard Park C. M. Cooper Alexander Lilley Milton Esberg W.F. Booth, Jr. Lewis Hobart Edward Rainey Frank Deering Timothy Hopkins
F. Gloucester Willis A.F.Morrison
H. C. Simpson T. E. Johnston George J. Kern H. Gleason Paul Shoup Leroy Briggs T.A.Stoddard Louis Carl
Edward Clark, Jr. Frederick Funston Harry Staats Moore M. C. Sloss P. S.Maddux George A. Kennedy James Lochead
Sane L lining
If the truth were told each one of us would acknowledge that sane living is really her chosen goal. Yet how beset with hindrances is the way. The Vocational Bureau, in its usual kindly spirit, is lending a helping hand to the solving of this problem. On Thurs- day evening, November 7, Mr. L. B. Travers, Director of Adult and Con- tinuation Education in Oakland Pub- lic Schools and an authority on the subject of employment from the psychological angle, will speak on "Employment Adjustment." Again on Thursday evening, November 14, Dr. V, H. Podstata, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Cali- fornia, a man who has the gift of ex- plaining great truths in kindly, simple language, will discuss "The Dangers of High Pressure Living."
These meetings are given free to Club members and to the general public.
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Mrs. Henry L. Jives, Mrs. G. S. Jroodland and Mrs. Edwin D. Woodruff,
in charge of addressing and u/rapping City Club magazines
for each month's mailing.
Volunteer Service Unique Among Clubs
By IVIrs. W. F. Booth, Jr. Strange as it may seem there are her assistants, Mrs. Edwin D. Wood- still among us those who have little ruff, and Mrs. G. S. Woodland, or no knowledge of volunteer service and the important part it plays in the j life of the club.
Wrap Women s Alagazlne
By Eva Dresser Alves {Mrs. H. L. Alves)
AVERY faithful group of vol- unteers gather in the Assembly Room each Monday afternoon unless it is a legal holiday. The work done by these members requires great accuracy and involves much detail. They address wrappers for about sev- enty-five hundred magazines each month and segregate these according to post office regulations. One day a month is devoted to wrapping the mag- azines for mailing.
The afternoon workers are assisted by a group of members w^ho are busi- ness women and who meet on the sec- ond Monday evening of each month from seven to nine o'clock to address wrappers.
The successful organization of these groups is largely due to the untiring efforts of the former chairman, Mrs. A. B. Stephens.
There are on an average of twenty workers each week who give about two hundred and fifty hours of vol- unteer service per month.
Many of the City Club members enjoy this particular kind of work.
We realize that such is the case by the questions asked. For example, the other day when a member was asked for cafeteria service she answered, "But I couldn't be in the cafeteria every day at lunch time." We could hardly resist replying, "Oh, three days will do." For the unenlightened we hasten to add that two hours a week in any department is all that is ever required.
In order, therefore, that members may become better acquainted with the activities of Volunteer Service, the Volunteer Service Committee will in- troduce each month, through the mag- azine, the chairmen of the various de- partments, asking each to give some information concerning the work in her particular branch of Volunteer Service.
Our magazine, sent out the first week of each month, is addressed and wrapped by Volunteer Service. The responsibility of this service rests upon Mrs. Henry L. Alves, chairman, and
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MUSIC AND DRAMA
San Francisco is particularly for- tunate having opera, symphony, cham- ber music and concert managements which provide abundance of the best music and the lowest price compatible with excellence.
Two opera organizations are sup- ported by the community, the San Francisco Opera Company and the Pacific Opera Company, one having its annual season in the fall and the other in the spring.
The San Francisco Symphony Or- chestra throughout the year gives three distinct series of symphony concerts, the so-called "regular" concerts of the alternate Friday afternoons, the "pops" of the Sundays after the Fri- days, and the municipal concerts in the great Exposition Auditorium.
There is a San Francisco Chamber Music Society which supports the Abas String Quartet concerts, and there are four leading concert bureaus which bring to the city the leading artists of the world. There is a Young People's Symphony organization which gives symphony concerts for children.
There are two leading music organ- izations which provide outlet for local music expression of amateurs, the San Francisco Musical Society and the Pa- cific Musical Society, each numbering thousands in its membership. For years there has been a Little Theater, largely supported by private contribu- tion. This year a Community Theater is about to be launched, hundreds of men and women banding together to support the project.
quoted' FAR AFIELD
The Art Digest of New York, one of the most widely circulated digests on art published in this country, re- prints in its October number the en- tire article by Beatrice Judd Ryan in the September issue of the Women's City Club Magazine. Thus the fame of the City Club and its maga- zine go far afield. In another publica- tion, the Stanford Illustrated, an article by Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur on "Educational Administration" was quoted from the Women's City Club Magazine.
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Basic Value in Stock Buying
By Agnes N, Alwyn
IT is the tendency to buy en masse, when specific stocks are moving up in price, that inflates them far beyond true values. The law of supply and demand works overtime in the stock market, with increasing prices fol- lowing demand. Most speculation is done without thought of basic value.
Speculation reflects the mental attitude of the buyer. If one buys a Liberty bond with the idea of making a quick turn and snatching a profit, the buyer is speculating, even though the media is one of the strongest securities in the world. If one buys the same Liberty bond because it is safe and returns a yield compatible with one's investment position and needs . . . then the buyer is investing.
The economic needs of each investor vary so greatly that it is difficult to suggest plans and recommendations which, while following the rules of scientific investment proced- ure, would meet the requirements of each investor per- sonally.
A number of factors must be considered when outlining an investment program. Objective probably deserves first place, (a) Is one investing for safety and income? (b) Is the purpose to employ surplus funds profitably to increase principal and build an estate? These are the two major plans; each one requires a different method of handling.
Investors may be classified into three groups. For all practical purposes the two major plans are suitable for the first and third group, with modifications of both plans for the second, or intermediary group.
Men and women actively engaged in business and receiv- ing sufficient income to maintain a desired standard of living constitute the first group. While they are earning a surplus is the time to build principal through intelligent investment.
In the second group are the women and men who are no longer engaged in business or professions, but who have accumulated funds during their active careers and want to invest in such a way as will return an income that will permit them to continue to live in their accustomed man- ner. This group of investors require dependable incomes with reasonable safety. They should also have the possi- bility of further capital increase from price appreciation of the securities selected.
The utmost caution and care should be exercised when planning for the third group. In the parlance of the invest- ment world this is the "widows and orphans" classification. A suitable investment plan will exact first safety, with as much income return as is consistent with safety. The securities chosen for this group should be steady and de- pendable, and require the least amount of personal atten- tion.
The members of the third group have led sheltered lives, as a rule, and are not usually prepared to assume financial responsibilities.
Nor are they generally able to add to their income through their own eliorts. To them a loss of capital is a serious matter. Peace of mind, freedom from financial problems and a sense of security are of utmost importance to investors in this group.
Theories and academic discussions regarding the prin- ciples of investment are interesting to the investment spe- cialist, but investors as a rule are not apt to be concerned with the technicalities. They want to know if their money is safely invested, and earning all it can without undue risk. The loss of income may be a temporary condition, {Continued on page 24)
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STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT,
CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT
OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912,
Of Women's City Club Magazine, published monthly at San
Francisco, California, for October 1, 1929.
State of California, City and County of San Francisco — ss.
Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Marie Hicks Davidson, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that she is the Business Manager and Editor of the Women's City Club Magazine and that the following is, to the best of her knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, man- agement (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the afore- said publication for the date shown in the above caption, re- quired by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 411, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit:
1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, man- aging editor, and business managers are:
Publisher, The National League for Woman's Service of Cali- fornia, 465 Post Street, San Francisco, California.
Editor, Mrs. Marie Hicks Davidson, 465 Post Street, San Fran- cisco, California.
Managing Editor, Mrs. Marie Hicks Davidson, 465 Post Street, San Francisco, California.
Business Manager, Mrs. Marie Hicks Davidson, 465 Post Street, San Francisco, California.
2. That the owner is: The National League for Woman's Service of California, which is a non profit corporation. Address 465 Post Street, San Francisco, California.
President, Miss Marion Whitfield Leale, San Francisco, Cali- fornia. Secretary, Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr., San Mateo, California.
3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are:
None.
MARIE HICKS DAVIDSON, Managing Editor Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of October, 1929.
(Seal) M. V. COLLINS,
Notary Public in and for the City and County of San Francisco.
(My commission expires April 14, 1933.)
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The ''Family'' Arranges a Trip
By Frank J. Mannix
JOHN may stare his astonishment. He may have planned an orgy of golf at a seaside resort or a hunting trip in the mountains. But eventually, whatever his ideas, he will be found ascending a gang-plank on the day selected by his better half. Later friends will receive enthusiastic postcards from Zamboanga, and before he returns the chances are 100 to 1 he will have persuaded himself that the idea of the trip germinated in his fertile imagination.
Nor is this an exaggerated picture. It is duplicated every day everywhere. The records of the steamship and railroad companies afford many examples. In San Fran- cisco, the Panama Mail Steamship Company has seen the power of feminine selection demonstrated times without number. This steamship company offers a particularly fine example on account of the appeal its line has for women in addition to the attraction it holds for mere man.
The Eastern destination of the company is New York. But, unlike its competitors, it recognizes the romance to be found en route and sprinkles the course of its vessels with liberal stopovers. They go into Mexico, Guatemala, Sal- vador, Nicaragua, and, passing through the Panama Canal, call in to Cartagena in Colombia at the northernmost tip of South America. Then they turn north for Havana and finally New York. The Route of Romance, they call it. Therein lies one of its great attractions for the woman traveler.
Women, the officials admit, were the first to respond to the romantic phases of the New York trip. The thought of seeing Mazatlan, San Salvador and the other colorful cities of the Spanish Americas seemed to stimulate the feminine imagination. Possibly the men were drawn by the glamor of old pirate days that still lingers over the Spanish Main, but women were outspoken in explaining the reason for their vote.
A composite quotation from scores of women travelers would be something like this:
"One travels to see that which can't be seen at home. True, some travel because of necessity. Even then, isn't it better to enjoy the trip than to plunge blindly at the desti- nation? Where can one get the thrill that comes from centuries-old cathedrals in a land that moves as unhur- riedly as it did three hundred years ago? Where can you find the color of Spanish settings but in Spanish countries? Where can one so quickly and so easily bring to life again, even if only in the imagination, long-dead heroes that helped build the greatness of Cartagena when gold was flowing over her docks from the mines of Peru to enrich the Philips of Spain."
Don't let it be said the feminine mind is impulsive. When a decision to travel is reached, much thought has gone into it. The reasons have been weighed pro and con. And then, as the steamship executives so aptly recognized when they planned the Route of Romance, all other things being equal — the accommodations, the cuisine, the million and one little things of steamship travel that mean so much to women, and men too — romance will win every time. The full ships at every sailing are ample evidence of the correctness of the theory.
Possibly one of the reasons woman's influence in the travel field has developed so amazingly is the modern rela- tionship of husband and wife pointed out recently by a current writer. Today, according to this authority, mar- riage is a real partnership. The members cooperate fully and work in complete harmony. Each presides over certain {Continued on page 25)
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It is the subtle fashioning, the union of fashion with good taste, that endears Dan Palter shoes to the hearts of vi/omen . . . Smart as the latest whisper from Paris, yet so fine, so refined . . . Popular Miss Benfley, member of the Junior League, has selected this ex- clusive Palter model in nautical blue. Its trimming is dark blue suede overlaid with silvered blue kid. The same model comes also in brown. $22.50. Shoes by Dan Palter are exclusive with Streicher's.
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{Continued from page 22) but the loss of principal can disturb the financial balance of the investor and his or her family. Funds should be diversified among types of securities and over various fields of industry. The sum to be invested in each secur- ity depends entirely upon the total amount of capital employed in the in- vestment plan.
A definite ratio of bonds, preferred stocks and common stocks should be decided upon, but the ratio again de- pends upon the investor's personal ob- jective and group classification.
Marketability, the readiness with which securities may be sold, is impor- tant. The proportion of high market- ability on each investor's list of secur- ities is determined by individual re- quirements. For instance, a business man who may need cash quickly at any time for a business purpose is justified in owning a greater proportion of highly marketable securities than an investor whose first requirement is in- come.
Each investor should have some highly marketable securities, so that cash may be realized at once in the case of emergency, but the investor who wants and needs income should not sacrifice income to marketabilitj'. There are varying degrees of market- ability, high, low and medium. As a
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There are three general qualifica- tions to look for when purchasing se- curities. These are safety, yield and marketability. One may have safety and yield, with less marketability. Or safety and marketability, with less yield. Or yield and marketability, with less safety. But one may not have all three qualities in equal pro- portions in any one security. Liberty
bonds serve to illustrate this point quite clearly. A Liberty bond has the maximum of safety, the highest mar- ketability, and returns a comparatively low yield.
The four cardinal points on the in- vestment compass are safety of princi- pal, a consistent income return, proper diversification and satisfactory mar- ketability. Whether one is investing a thousand dollars or a hundred thou- sand dollars, the application of sound investment principles is equally im- portant.
The smaller sum will increase with careful management, and to its owner it is as vitally important and precious as the larger amount is to its possessor. The persons who are inexperienced in matters of investment should consult with someone competent to advise them, rather than proceed on their own initiative and judgment.
Money represents economic security . . . power. Its possession makes pos- sible an infinite number of kindnesses in life, and protects against a host of fears and ills. Those who have worked to save a surplus know well the energy and effort required to garner it. Those wlio inherit sufficient for their needs can scarcely realize how difficult wealth is to regain . . . once lost.
Therefore, because of what money represents . . . take care of it !
A. VYCessage to V/omen . . .
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{Continued from page 23) phases of the marital pact and by tacit agreement the other accepts the conclusions of the one whose duty it is to function in a particular realm. It may be that the subject of travel has been delegated to the wifely sphere along with numerous other matters upon which the smooth conduct of the household depends.
Possibly here, too, rests the reason for the numerous honeymooners who sail and wander hand in hand in the Lands of Long Ago. Certainly, at so important a time, man defers to his new partner and her wishes are the ones that govern. Hardly a steamer of the Route of Romance line leaves that does not include as passengers at least one couple newly embarked on the seas of matrimony. Here, plainly, is a case of feminine selection. Perhaps it is the beginning of another case of woman's travel influence to extend over a lifetime of journeying.
The travel companies know one thing definitely, how- ever. There is such a thing as women's influence. It is that intangible thing that keeps their investments working.
Statistics are funny things. You can juggle them and jumble them. But left to themselves they quickly arrange their own regrouping and have their say anyhow. They are making a rather startling statement now. In spite of the appeal steamship and travel agencies direct at the male element of the population, surveys and analyses today show that fully ninety per cent of national travel urge originates with women. The hand that used to rock the cradle now skims the folder racks. Also signs on the dotted line and decides whether the New York trip shall be made by land or sea.
The development is exceedingly interesting. And it long ago passed from the theory stage into a recognized condition. Once, back in pre-historic times, John J. Hus- band came home and in a moment of expansiveness, while he twirled the curls at the end of his handle-bar mustache, announced that the family would make a trip. The when and where of it he alone knew. The family was supposed to flutter its gratitude and await with bated breath the unfolding of details. Presently the entourage departed, and possibly all enjoyed the excursion.
Mrs. Sightseer gets an idea from an advertisement she sees in a magazine. During the day she steals a few sec- onds from her household duties or her social activities to pen a few lines asking for further information. In a few days she is immersed to her eyebrows in folders. Possibly she tells a friend or two of the new horizon that has been opened to her, and from them she may gather additional data. One evening John comes home beaming with antici- pation. The vacation schedule has been made out at the oflice and the month of June has fallen to him.
"How nice!" she exclaims. "June is the loveliest of all months in Zamboanga. I have been reading all about it. We can leave here the last day of May on the steamer Thisandthat and be there for two whole weeks. John, will you stop in at Brickbats on your way to the office in the morning and have them send out two of those steamer trunks they have been advertising? I've bought you a cork helmet and the cutest pair of riding breeches." ■f -f -f
City Club Magazine Has Trade Account for Sale
A leading hotel in Santa Barbara recently advertised in the City Club Magazine upon the agreement that pay- ment for the ad would be taken in trade. Therefore, the Magazine has a bill of $135 which the hotel will pay by accommodating guests at $11 or $12 per day for board and room. This does not include incidentals. The agreement expires in January.
hrough Lands of Long Ago
to
HAVANA
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tF the beaten track . . . over seas once
scoured by roving pirate bands . . . into
quaint, sleepy, tropic cities cherishing still
theirdreams of medieval grandeur,theSpirit
of Adventure goes with you on the
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Refreshingly different, the CRUISE-Tour sets new standards of travel value.
You dixz a guest. . . to be diverted and enter- tained . . . not a mere name on the passenger list to be hurried through to your destination.
Your comfort is the motif for outside staterooms . . . beds instead of berths . . . splendid steady ships and famous cuisine. Nothing has been over- looked that might contribute to your enjoyment . . . even to swimming pools and orchestras that add their witchery to the magic of tropic nights.
The Havana season this year is opening bril- liantly. Never has there been such an early influx of eager,hdppy sun-seekers. Balconies reminiscent of old Spain &xz splashed with the colorof Seville and Madrid. Beach and drive and sparkling cafe are thronged with the wealth and beauty of Europe and America. The spirit of carefree carnival is everywhere ... an electric note in gorgeous tropic surroundings.
Those who knoware going on the PanamaMail. They want to see Mexico en route, revel in the fascinations of Guatemala, Salvador, and Nicar- agua, spend a couple of days in the Canal Zone and then sail leisurely on to Colombia in South America and finally Havana. Only the Panama Mail provides this glorious route to Havana and New York... the famous Route of Romance. And at no extra cost.
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Coda
By Dorothy Parker in New York World
There's little in taking or giving j
There's little in water or wine; This living, this living, this living
Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle and sparse is
The gain of the one at the top. For art is a form of catharsis.
And love is a permanent flop. And work is the province of cattle.
And rest's for the clam in a shell. So Fm thinking of throwing the battle —
Would you kindly direct me to hell? 1 1 i
Beauty Refound
By Flora J. Arnstein
Beauty stands knee-deep in the grass today. Over her shoulders vagrant showers play. And to the rhythm of her swaying grace. Birds in enchantment set their winged pace. Flowers in rosy emulation vie. Clouds grow articulate, crickets ply Their crisp discordances; a chastened breeze Tempers its turbulent whisperings to the trees; Dedicate bees engage in some fair rite. Scattering a trail of incense in their flight, — A thousand tributaries homage bring — Beauty is more than Beauty in the Spring.
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Celibate
Each in his cell of fragile bone and flesh. Lives out his hour, a lonely celibate. Each in his tragic solitude of mind. Peers out upon the world, as through a grate . . . He walks alone in laughter, or despair. Nor knows the face of love in his dark cell. He roams the heights and depths, uncomforted. For none may share the spirit's inner hell.
No cry can pierce monastic walls of mind. No hands can reach, and heal hi?n, but his own. In robe and cowl, he paces down his span. And when night comes, lies down to sleep alone!
Eleanor Allen [in Westward]
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In Wisconsin Hills
An Indian woman calmly sits upon The ground contentedly; above her,
from A limb, hangs her papoose low-cradled
by
The wind. If she were white, how she
would fret To have a baby-carriage, rubber-tired!
— Frederick Herbert Adler in The Harp.
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(Continued from page 14) Soup is unnecessary, but for those who wish it, one may buy canned con- somme or bouillon and serve it with- out adding water — then it is more like the home prepared liquid.
At least two bunches of celery should be on hand. It must be thor- oughly washed, scraped if necessary, and the hearts reserved for table serv- ice— the outer leaves being ground or chopped for the stuffing. Place the hearts in clean cloth bags or wrap in dish towels and keep in a cool place or refrigerator.
For a plain dry stuffing have ready two quarts of ground crumbs and these may be put through the food chopper several days before using. If one has a reliable refrigerator, or best of all, an electrically operated box, the stuffing may be made and the fowl filled the previous day, otherwise simply make the dressing and keep in a covered bowl until an hour or so before roasting the turkey.
Most of you will have your butcher clean and draw the fowl, but they rarely remove all the fuzz, so singe it carefully, pick over, then wash and dry thoroughly. Be sure to remove the lungs, or red spongy substance close to the breast bone. A covered roaster is desirable as it is self basting. The length of time to cook is de- pendent upon the size, but two and one-half hours is sufficient for a ten- pound turkey. Add boiling water to come to edge of rack in bottom of pan and either brown before covering or the last fifteen minutes — as you wish. A very satisfactory way is to pour this boiling water over the entire fowl, then rub well with a cube of butter, sprinkle with salt and pepper and sear until nicely browned— then cover and let cook for at least two hours and a quarter, then test by inserting a fork into the hip — if not done a liquid will exude.
Large stalks or the choice tips of asparagus heated in the can in boiling water, then opened, drained and served with melted butter are de- licious— yet easy for the homemaker. Mashed white potatoes are also, and unless one has a large oven, it is im- possible to roast a turkey and bake the sweets at the same time. / / / MRS. SLOSS A DIRECTOR The City Club is to be congratu- lated upon the acceptance by Mrs. Ira Sloss of membership in the board of directors. Mrs. Sloss is not a stranger to City Club directors. For eight months she has been member of the finance cominittee and in the "old days" at Zii Kearny Street she was a director of the National League for Woman's Service.
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. New Lib ran]/ Books
The following new books have been placed in the City Club Library:
Fiction
Blair's Attic — Lincoln, Joseph C. and Free- man The Young May Moon — Ostenso, Martha
Vivandiere — Gaye, Phoebe Fenwick Wolf Solent — Powys, John Cowper The Laughing Queen — Barrington, E. They Stooped to Folly — Glasgow, Ellen
Roper's Roiv — Deeping, Warwick
A Wild Bird— Diver, Maud
Visitors to Hugo — Rosman, Alice Grant
Hunky — Williamson, Thames
The Boy Prophet — Fleg, Edmond
Precious Bane — Webb, Mary
The Dark Journey — Green, Julian
Whiteoaks of Jalna — Roche, Mazo de la
Hans Frost — Walpole, Hugh
Penrod Jashber — Tarkington, Booth
Sivann's Way — Proust, Marcel
Betiveen the Lines — McKenna, Stephen
Field of Honor — Byrne, Donn
Soldiers of Misfortune — Wren, Percival Christopher
/ Thought of Daisy — Wilson, Edmund
The Uncertain Trumpet — Hutchinson, A. S. M.
The Wave — Scott, Evelyn
A Fareivell to Arms — Hemingway, Ernest
The Lily and the Sivord — Pryde, Anthony and Weekes, R. K.
Black Roses — Young, Francis Brett
Five and Ten — Hurst, Fannie
Cora — Suckow, Ruth
Atmosphere of Love — Maurois, Andre
Sketch of a Sinner — Swinnerton, Frank
The Man Who Pretended — Maxwell, W.B.
NoN- Fiction
Journey's End — Sherriff, R. C.
Street Scene — French, Samuel
Normandy — Huddleston, Sisley
Louis XIV — In Love and In War — Hud- dleston, Sislev
Come With Me Through Italy — Schoon- maker, Frank
John Jacob Astor — Smith, Arthur D. How- den
The Brownings — Loth, David
Beethoven the Creator — Rolland, Romain
Under Five Sultans — Patrick, Mary Mills
The Aftermath— ChuTchiU, Winston S.
The Incredible Marquis — Gorman, Her- bert S.
A Short History of California — Hunt, Rock- well D. and Sanchez, Nellie Van de Grift
Mrs. Eddy — Dakin, Edwin Franden
Procession of Lovers — Morris Lloyd
Creative Understanding — Keyserling, Count Hermann
The Recovery of Truth — Keyserling, Count Hermann
Cyrano — Rogers, Cameron
Life's Ebb and Floiv — Warwick, Countess Frances
Ko-lv To-cv — Der Ling, Princess
Mission Tales in the Days of the Dons — Forbes, Mrs. A. S. C.
Mystery
The Patient in Room 18— Eberhart, M. G.
The Fifth Latchkey — Lincoln, Natalie Sumner
The Glenlitten Murder — Oppenheim, E.
Phillips Hide in the Dark — Hart, Frances Noyes Partners in Crime — Christie, Agatha
The Box Hill Murder— ¥\ttcher, J. S.
The Perfect Murder Case — Bush, Christo- pher Cease Firing — Hulbert, Winifred
For the Discriminating.
{ JUR garden pottery is of such excellent qual-
^^ ity that you will want to own it for its
beauty of form and color as well as for its
practical uses.
Gladding, McBean 5? Co.
445 NINTH STREET San Francisco
Kiew Milk ■Satisfaction
Thousands of San Franciscans are now enjoying Golden State Milk — produced and distributed by the makers of famous Golden State Butter — delivered to their homes daily.
Golden State Milk is a scientific tri- umph, the milk of 4-point superiority. Ask for booklet which tells the engross- ing story of this NEW milk,
GOLDEN STATE MILK PRODUCTS CO.
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DA venport 8600
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I am interested in Golden State Milk — the milk of 4-point superiority. Please send me your booklet telling me of this new advance in dairy science.
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Delivered daily with your milk, eggs, butter and cream —
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You Can Always Depend on every
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for it is fine of texture fine of flavor
and
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Of course — for your Thanksgiving Din- ner— you will want one of our famous Hostess Fruit Cakes. Ask your grocer about them.
Woolen Blankets. . .
thoroughly cleaned without shrinking .
by
the SPECIAL THOMAS PROCESS.
Dainty comforters and bed- spreads of the most delicate colors also cleaned to your entire satisfaction.
To secure estimates for the reconditioning of Winter bed- ding, draperies and, of course, the family's wearables . . .
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The F. THOMAS
PARISIAN DYEING AND CLEANING WORKS
27 Tenth Street, San Francisco
Cfjrigtmasi ^uggEsitions;
By Mrs. Randolph Madison
HOW frequently we spoil the most gladsome holiday of all by our "last minute" shopping habit, which finds us tired and cross Christmas morning, unable to enjoy its festivities. Foolish isn't it when one stops to think how easily it could be avoided if we would but take ad- vantage of the many avenues open to us ? Our very own League Shop is one of them. There are gifts at prices to suit everyone and the shop specializes in merchandise of merit, beauty and most important of all, adaptability to the home of taste.
Personal greeting cards head the list. Orders should be placed at once, for the choice becomes limited as the day draws near and time must be al- lowed for engraving. Friends to be honored with small gifts may be re- membered with more intimate cards alone, or a dainty handkerchief tucked within its folds. There are some ex- quisite offerings of lace, chiffon and linen of the most feminine type or sports style if preferred.
Attractive cigarette stands or bridge tables are especially nice for those who entertain frequently. Cigarette boxes are to be had in wood, leather and other finishes, while the ash trays are of glass or china. The Borghese lamps are lovely too. Reproductions of Ital- ian antiques, the bases are a composi- tion in various hues, while the parch- ment shades harmonize with most color schemes. They are unusual and would make charming gifts to the home. Breakfast trays are necessities in the household of today, for most guests prefer to be served in their own rooms, and those to be found in the shop would be especially desirable for a shut-in friend. For fifteen dollars each, one may have large metal trays of antique finish for general service. Each has a center motif of colorful blossoms with backgrounds of cream or green.
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Many Littles
make a BIG!
It is the MANY LITTLES of
Bekins service to you, that have made Bekins the largest Van and Storage Company in the world.
For instance:
— all Bekins vans are kept clean,
painted and attractive
— the pads used in moving fur- niture are cleaned and sterilized at frequent intervals
— all Bekins employes are bonded for your protection and wear uniforms for easy identification
— each employe is thoroughly trained and competent to handle his job
— Bekins equipment is modern
— in packing your furniture for shipment, shredded paper pads are used exclusively, as they eliminate the danger of press- marked furniture
— Bekins provides cold storage vaults for your furs, as this is the best method of storing them
— and so on and on and on. Whether your job be moving, shipping, packing, storing, moth- proofing or rug-cleaning, once you have tried Bekins service, we are sure you will join the ranks of steady Bekins cus- tomers.
MArket352J
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SAN FRANCISCO
OAKLAND— BERKELEY
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Announcing...
The opening of a branch of The Majestic Market, for 25 years in Park- Presidio District in the
Metropolitan Union Market
2077 Union St. \^ E st 0900 f
Both noted for consistently good <^ualit7,
service and moderate prices — Skillful
preparation of choice cuts of meat.
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1929
Over the Teacups!
Often, over the teacups, talk drifts to home problems — and the solving thereof. Club women by the score agree on one meth- od of satisfying wants — whether it be a new maid ... a home . . . furniture, etc. And that is the Examiner Want Ad way — quick and resultful. When buying problems arise you will profit by consulting
San Francisco Sxaminer
WANT ADS
Prints more Want Ads tlian all other San Francisco newspapers combined
Cfjrisitmag!...
Is Coming/
True California remembrances are the redwood boxes and eucalyptus sachets. Space will not permit listing all the wares to be found in the League Shop, but a visit will help to solve your Christmas shopping problems.
LEAGUE SHOP
Foyer of Womeji's City Club
Table Linen, Napkins, Glass and Dish Towels, Aprons, etc., furnished to Cafes, Hotels, and Clubs.
Coats and Gowns furnished for all classes of professional services.
GALLAND
Mercantile Laundry
Company
Eighth and Folsom Streets SAN FRANCISCO
Telephone MA rket 0868
New pieces of early American pew- ter are arriving daily and a tea set, hot water pitcher or perhaps a Guernsey jug, individually or as a com- plete service of this soft lustrous ware are treasures most of us covet. An old fashioned pewter lamp, modernized with electricity would add the ultra touch to any room. The shop offers to replate, repair or polish your pew- ter, silver or brass at reasonable prices.
Canadian blankets or throws ; hand- woven woolen costumes ; wall hang- ings or bags are excellent; while hand- woven linen luncheon sets or bags would answer your requirements for more practical relatives or friends. The Morocco bags of leather are lovely as are the bracelets and neck- laces of wood. The shop carries a full color line in these novelties. An un- usual set of green and beige cylinder design would please the most fastidi- ous you may be sure.
Gifts of paper appeal to those who watch the postage costs — which is wise, for many times it exceeds the gift itself. Attractive portfolios of French paper are in good taste and can be purchased from one to five dollars. There is a wide selection in size and color. A small gift could be made by tying paper book marks together with a bit of gay ribbon. Perhaps a dozen of them — one for each month of the year — would please you for they would be a constant reminder of the donor's thoughtfulness.
Italian pottery is well liked and adds the necessary note of color to sombre rooms. Flower pots and plates are very reasonable. Plaques are lovely and those in the shop are flaw- less and offer a happy choice for lovers of the beautiful. One can not ever possess too many flower containers and the cool green or glistening amber Holland glass vases would enhance the loveliness of our California blossoms — perfect as they are. These would also make good bridge prizes.
Unf ramed etchings or French prints are less expensive than when mounted. For those who like to fashion their own Christmas tokens, these may be used as box tops, or as motifs on tele- phone stands or in many other ways. The prints may be had as low as sev- enty-five cents, and if one has an old frame that can be touched up or re- painted a lovely gift may be prepared for a small sum.
Not even the kitchen has been over- looked by the shop's buyer — for gay shelf paper with borders to match, luncheon and cocktail napkins have just arrived. Beautiful wrappings for your holiday packages, tissues and crepe papers are varied and they do impress the donor's individuality when
care is given to their selection.
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1929
Big Game Dinner
Following the big game at Stanford on November 23, the main dining room will serve a special football din- ner until 9:30 o'clock. There will be music during the dinner. Reservations are now being taken on the third floor. $1.25 per plate.
The Thanksgiving luncheon and dinner in the cafeteria will be served on Tuesday, November 26, and will be $1.00 per plate.
Members and their families who are planning to have their dinner in the Club on Thanksgiving Day will be interested to know that where the dinner is served in a private dining room they may have the turkey brought to the table and do their own carving if they so desire. Dinner will be served from 12 noon to 8 o'clock and will be $2.00 per cover.
Thanksgiving Menu
Canape a la Dumas
Celery en Branche Jumbo Olives
Cream of Tomato, Chant illy
Lobster en Croustade, Newburg
Orange Sherbet
Roast Native Turkey au Jus
Chestnut Dressing Old Fashion Cranberry Sauce Candied Sweet Potatoes or Mousseiline Potatoes New String Beans Saute, en Butter Salad Oriental Special Thanksgiving Ice Cream and Layer Cake Hot Mince Pie
Plum Pudding Pumpkin Pie
Nuts and Raisins Demi Tasse Simple menus appropriate for chil- dren will be served on the third floor during the holiday season at twenty- five cents per plate.
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ICE SKATING The organization of a Women's City Club group interested in ice skat- ing is being considered. Anyone in- terested is requested to notify the In- formation Desk.
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I 929
A Prayer Hymn
Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to be A saint by doing lovely things, or walking late with Thee, Or dreaming in the dawn-light, or storming Heaven's gates. Make me a saint by getting meals andwashing up the plates.
Although I must have Martha's hands, I have a Mary
mind. And when I black the boots and shoes. Thy sandals. Lord,
I find, I think of how they trod the earth, what time I scrub the
floor. Accept this meditation. Lord, I have not time for more.
Warm all the kitchen with Thy love, and light it with Thy
peace. Forgive me all my worrying and make all grumbling cease. Thou didst love to give men food, in rooms or by the sea. Accept this service to all I do, I do it unto Thee.
(Written by a domestic servant of London, Eng.,aged 19.)
The Two Houses
I built a house of sticks and mud. And God built one of flesh and blood. How queer that was, how strange that is. That my poor house should shelter His.
I did not then, but now I know The house I built here could not grow; While God's house, frail at first and small, Would grow beyond my roof and wall.
And yet my house of sticks and clay Is standing sturdy still today ; While God's house in a narrow pit Is rotting where men buried it.
'Tis so, and strange, and yet I feel My house here standing's not so real As are the vanished ashes of The house built by the God of love.
N. D. Anderson [in Westward]
Man Does Not Ask for Much
Behold this darkling world; it is a cave
Of bitter circumstance and swift decay. Wherein the blind soul, stumbling to the grave.
Knows nothing but the peril of the way. Man does not ask for much, being content
With scanty joy in plentitude of grief: A mouth to kiss, money to pay his rent.
One small coincidence to speed belief In a Divine Redeemer, sweetly kind.
Who if He maketh man diseased and wild. Corruptible afid ignorant and blind.
Yet loveth He His poor afflicted child. Then is man happy going to his doom: Then will he lie down singing in his tomb.
■ — Stanley J. Kunitz in The Nation.
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To be in step with the modern age one has only to call DAven- port 9250 for one of our Cellar Builders.
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB
MAGAZI N E
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THE WOMEN'S CITY CLUB, 465 POST STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
Cfjrigtmasf 1929
Volume III
Subscription $1 .00 a year 1 5 cents a copy
No. 11
WOMEN'S CITY CLUB CALENDAR
DECEMBER l-DECEMBER 31. 1929
APPRECIATION OF ART— Every Monday at 12 noon, Card Room. Mrs. Charles E. Curry.
CHORAL SECTION— Every Monday evening at 7:30, Room 208. Mrs. Jessie Wilson Taylor.
FRENCH CLASSES
Beginners' class, 2 P. M. ; beginners' class, 8 P. M., Mondays. Conversational class, 11
A. M., Fridays. Mme. Rose Olivier, Instnirrnr Othrr r1n'^-'-<! farmed upon request.
LEAGUE BRIDGE
Every Tuesday, 2. P. M., in the Board Koom; 7:ju P. M., in Assembly Room.
CURRENT EVENTS— Every Wednesday at 11 A. M., Auditorium. Mrs. Parker S. Maddux, Leader.
THURSDAY EVENING PROGRAMS
Every Thursday evening at 8 P. M., Auditorium. Mrs. A. P. Black, Chairman
SUNDAY EVENING CONCERTS
Second Sunday of each month, in Auditorium. Mrs. Horatio F. Stoll, Chairman.
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4 — Book Review Dinner lonal Defenders'
Speaker: Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard Room 6:00 P. M.
Subject: "Harriet Hume," by Rebecca The Love of the Foolish Angel," by Beauclerk Ultima Thule," by Henry Richardson Talk by Mrs. M. C. Sloss . . / ' M.
Subject: "Poetry in the Life of 5 — Tl 1^ irn Tea ... Main Uinmg
. J. P. Rettenm: Room 3:00 P.M.
Arust: ivii>. Laurel Conwell ! worthy's "Exiled"
Tf,..,,.!,.. t.,.„.,;„^ Program "^ « a,t p m
i San Francisco is Doing in Character
Entcrtaiiii ilumbia Park Boys Club 6 — Contract Bn n by Thomas L. Staples . . . ird Floor 7:45 P.M.
8 — Sunday Evening Concert _. . ' Utorium 8:20 P.M.
Hostesses: Mrs. Birmingham and Mrs. Wilscn 9 — Lecture by Chester Rowell 'ttorium 11:00 A.M.
Subject: China in Ferraeiu 11 — Lecture on "International Barriers" Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Prof. Ira B. Cross, University of Calif ornia
Subject: Economic Barriers 12 — Lecture by S. K. Ratcliffe, former Associate Editor
and American Representative of the Manchester
Guardian Auditorium 8:15 P.M.
Subject: "The Ramsay MacDonald Governm^nr" 13 — Contract Bridge Lesson by Thomas L. Stapt Auditorium 7:45 P.M.
16 — Lecture by Chester Rowell fnditorium 11:00 A.M.
Subject: "The Balkans of Asia" 19— Christmas Luncheon and Dinner in Cafeteiia . . . 11:30-1:30; 5:30-7 K)0
20 — Lesson in Contract Bridge by Thomas L. Staples . . Room 222 7:45 P.M.
21— Christmas Program . Lounge 8:00 P.M.
25 — House Guests' Christmas Breakfn . Main Dining
Room 10:00 A.M.
Christmas Dinner . Main Dining
Room 5 :30 to 8 :00 P. M.
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LE DOUX SCHOOL OF FRENCH
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Formerly at 133 Geary Street GArfield3962
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2' Year High School Course admits to College. Credits valid in high school.
Grammar Course,
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Prtttcipal 2120 Broadway Phone WEst 2211
The DAMON SCHOOL
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A Day School Jor Boys
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Primary, Grammar and High School Departments . . . featur- ing small classes and individual instruction. Prepares for all Eastern and Western colleges.
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Pre-Primary through Junior High Grades
136 Eighteenth Avenue San Francisco . . Calif.
Telephones: EVergreen 8434 EVergreen 1112
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Principal
Elementary education for girls
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(Hot Lunches Served]
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The Secretarial School
Madge Morrison Winona M. Pierce
Women's City Club Building
465 Post Street, San Francisco
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Mount Zion Hospital, 2200 Post Street, San Francisco, California.
MacALEER SCHOOL For Private Secretaries
Each student receives individual instruction.
A booklet of information will be
furnished upon request.
Mary Genevieve MacAleer, Principal
68 Post Street Telephone DAvenport 6473
The CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF GARDENING FOR WOMEN
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profession or to equip thenuelves for making and
working their home gardens. Communicate with
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Tou Should Know.. .
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Annuities provide maxi- mum income
.Massacliusftts Mutual
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INSURANCE
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333 Pine St.
GA rfield 2626
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A few E.xclusive «
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Mrs. LUCIA RAYMOND STEIDEL
Spec'tal'tzing in personal selection of office ivorkers
708 CROCKER BUILDING
620 Market Street
DO ufflas 4121
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291 Geary St.
Phone S Utter 1588
Hours 9-12
Afternoon by appointment
Mrs. M. E. Stewart
M. E. Stewart & Son
Insurance Alt lines
24 California St. Phone SUtter 3077
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Pacific Coast and Orient Office: Phelan Building
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Maxine Beauty Shop
.111 Lines Beauty Culture
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Gowns - Dresses
Pajamas
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The STUDIO
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Lunch - Tea - Dinner
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Pittsburg Water Heater Company
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{Continued) Chapter 2
LICE found herself in a green transparent world. Shadowy forms floated by. The Seal was just ahead making about eighteen knots she thought. He turned and grinned over his shoulder — "How you
commg :
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how else
"Swimmingly, idiot could I ?" she snorted.
"Good crack, good crack — methinks the child has brains," — he slowed down. "Shall we stop a bit and gather posies by the wayside?"
"Did you bring me down here to pick flowers?" — her tone was wither- ing.
"Partly, Little One, only partly — but it's rather nice to start with a nose- gay, isn't it? There's Joseph's — he flourished toward an opening in some rocks — "he has 'em — potted and plucked — and the most enticing holi- day baskets — come on — "
"How do I know y o u'r e s a fe ?" A I i c e spoke crossly — she was apt to be cross when uncertain.
"S a fe ! My dear, I'm the safest seal under water — dead or alive! Why, I've got a Life Insurance Trust in the Wells Fargo Bank — I'm positively bomb proof!"
"Oh," said Alice, impressed in spite of herself. Then, after a moment — "Can girls have them?"
"Quite so — quite so — positively non-sexarian. I'll fix it — leave it to me! But first. Baby — you must have a pearl or two."
"A pearl?" — she stared. "By all means — a Shreve, Treat Eacret pearl — home grown, fresh picked, absolutely notorious — hurry along."
Alice stopped and trod water. She thought of her great uncle on her step- grandmother's side — how would he feel — her breath mounted in bubbles — "And a little of the newest, most intriguing perfume — Ladd's of course " — she heard the Seal saying — "straight from Paris — each drop a liquid love lyric — " he kissed the tip of his right flipper.
Alice stiffened — this was no way for a seal to talk — "I'm hungry," she said sharply.
"Of course you're hungry, sweet one — we'll hit The Studio — darling {Continued on page 26)
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Footwear for Fasliioiiables
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Bell Studios
450 GEARY STREET
Ball Room Dancing — Stage Dancing
Snappy Popular Steps
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MILLINERY JJ
251 Geary St., Opposite Union Square
Saratoga Inn
Saratoga, Calif.
Erickson & Svvoiison
Graduate Swedish Masseuses
Telephone SUtter 0423
391 Sutter St.
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CHEMIST Around the Corner At Powell Street
Oa\ Tree Inn
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Reservations for Thanksgiving Dinner
women's city club magazine for DECEMBER • I929
Women's City Club Magazine
Published Monthly at 465 Post Street
Telephone KE ARMY 8400
Entered as second-class matter April 14, 1928, at the Post Office at San Francisco, California, under the act of March 3, 1879.
SAN FRANCISCO
Vol. Ill
DECEMBER, 1929
No. 11
SONTENTS
Club Calendar Inside Front Cover
Frontispiece ... 6
l^ecember Club Activities 7
The League Shop 9
"The Giver" 10
By Vincent Mahoney
Editorial 11
Christmas Covetousness 11
By Reverend W. W. Jennings
The President's Message 11
By Marion W. Leale
Travel 12
By Inglis Fletcher
League Shop Volunteers 13
The Investor Has His Day 15
By George Sohnis
City Club Home Economics 19
By Christina S. Madison
City Club Beauty Salon 20
Book Reviews 21
By Eleanor Watkins
Health Notes 23
By Dr. .Adelaide Brow 11
Vocational Guidance 26
By Margaret Mary Morgan
Financial 27
By Agnes Alwyn
Club Notes 31
OFFICERS OF THE WOMEN'S CITY CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO
President MiSS Marion W. Leale
First Vice-President Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper
Second Fice-President Mrs. Paul Shoup
Third Fice-President Miss Mabel Pierce
Recording Secretary ..Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr.
Corresponding Secretary Mrs. W. F. Booth, Jr.
Treasurer Mrs. S. G. Chapman
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Women's City Club of San Francisco
Mrs. A. P. Black Miss
Mrs. William F. Booth, Jr. Mrs.
Mrs. Le Roy Briggs Miss
Dr. Adelaide Brown Mrs.
Miss Marion Burr Miss
Mrs. Louis J. Carl Mrs.
Mrs. S. G. Chapman Miss
Mrs. Edward H.Clark, Jr. Miss
Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper Mrs.
Miss Marion Fitzhugh Mrs.
Mrs. Frederick Funston Mrs.
Mrs. W. B. Hamilton Mrs.
Mrs. Lewis P. Hobart Mrs.
Mrs. Marcus S. Koshland Miss
Marion Leale Parker S. Maddux Henrietta Moffat Harry Staats Moore Emma Noonan Howard G. Park Esther Phillips Mabel Pierce Edward Rainey Paul Shoup Ira W. Sloss H. A. Stephenson T. A. Stoddard Elisa May Willard
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Cfje innkeeper ^peafes!
In heaven are souls neither wise nor great Who are there because they did not wait For a sign in the sky of princes and kings But opened their inns to Lowly Things.
Sheltered and snug was I that night, That late, bleak hour that Joseph came
With Mary spent and he afifright And begged a bed in mercy's name.
The meat was baked and the bread was white And I supped with friends and drank sweet wine,
Nor gave much heed to the couple's plight
As they lay them down with the sleeping kine.
I did not know — How could I know? — That my stable held the Hope of Man.
How could I know He'd enter so? I was not told the Godhead's plan.
And so on me is laid the shame
Of the humble birth of the Gentle One.
On me, not Him, must rest the blame
Of the way the world received God's Son.
But they say the Babe has brothers who may Be journeying past, and so evermore
{For I must not fail again that way) To wayfarers all I open my door.
Marie Hicks Davidson.
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WCMCN'/ CITY CLLB MAGAZINE
Christmas Comes to the Women's City Club
in Midst of Many Interesting Events
Planned by Committees
By Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard
Chester Kowell Lectures
CHRISTMAS month is always such a busy time that unless we mark our calendars well ahead it is difficult to dovetail all the month's engagements. So this is by way of a reminder that a very important and exceedingly worthwhile group of four lectures is to be given by Chester Rowell concerning the entertaining and instructive matter that he is bringing home to us from Kyoto, the meeting place of the Institute of Pacific Rela- tions. The lectures will be :
December 2 — "A Shock- Absorber in the Pacific." December 9 — "China in Ferment." December 16 — "The Balkans of Asia." January 6 — "Where East and West Meet." It is to be noted that the time for these lectures is at 1 1 :00 o'clock on the first three Monday mornings in December ; the fourth morning talk will be on the first Monday in January. Mrs. William Palmer Lucas is the Special Chairman for this series. The course tickets for the four lectures, $2.00. Single admission, 75 cents.
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' 'Exited' ' — John Gats worthy
The next Thursday Program Tea takes place on the afternoon of December 5, in the Auditorium of this Club. Mrs. Laurel Conwell Bias will read John Galsworthy's new play "Exiled." Mrs. Bias sent to England for the play especially for this occasion as it has not yet been pub- lished nor produced in the United States. It was played for the first time in London this past June.
The Women's City Club is very fortunate in having the opportunity to hear Laurel Conwell Bias read this play, not only on account of the fact that it is Galsworthy's very latest, but especially because Mrs. Bias is such a gifted interpreter of drama and f>ossesses the sympathy, imagina- tion and dramatic insight to portray the situation and char- acters in this comedy in a way that is truly satisfying.
Mrs. J. P. Rettenmayer is Special Chairman for this tea.
It is desired that tables be reserved. Tickets are 75 cents. i i 1
The Ramsay MacDonatd Government
The committee on Programs and Entertainments wishes to draw the attention of the membership to the fact of their good fortune in being able to hear this season the
brilliant English lecturer, S. K. Ratcliffe, former Asso- ciate Editor of the Manchester Guardian and the repre- sentative of that paper in the United States. The com- mittee learned that Mr. Ratclif?e had been sent on a special commission for the Manchester Guardian to do some writing in the Canadian Northwest, and seized upon the rare opportunity for San Francisco to hear at this par- ticular time the English journalist and publicist who can best speak to Americans upon English topics.
Mr, Ratcliffe's subject will be "The Ramsay Mac- Donald Government." He will speak in the auditor- ium of the Women's City Club of San Francisco on Wed- nesday evening, December twelfth. George Bernard Shaw writes of S. K. Ratcliffe:
"S. K. Ratcliffe is a very accomplished lecturer, and a very remarkable man, even by the standards of America, where every man is introduced as remarkable. He is a student of public movements ; and he keeps in front of them all without ever letting himself be caught in a groove. He knows more about most of them than they do about them- selves. He has been on the track of every leader of today from the telltale time when only a few obscure followers expected anything from them. He remembers everything that they have forgotten. He knows everybody worth knowing; and not one of them can tell you anything about him, or where and how they met him. Though they know he is a journalist they give him inside information as a matter of course, just as they give it to Colonel House; and they can't tell why. As a public speaker he is heard easily by everyone in the audience : and the art with which he effects this is perfectly concealed.
"You may take it from me conHdentially that S. K. Ratcliffe is a first rate proposition as a lecturer."
Miss Mabel Pierce is Special Chairman in charge of this lecture. The Buffet Supper served in the American room at the time of the lecture by L'Abbe Dimnet proved such an occasion of marked enjoyment and pleasure that a similar supper will be held in honor of Mr. Ratcliffe. Tickets are on sale at the information desk. All seats are reserved. Tickets $1.50 and $1.00. Buffet supper 75 cents. Members accompanied by their friends are cordially in- vited and are urged to make reservations early as the tickets are in great demand.
WOMEN S CITY
CLUB
MAGAZINE
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DECEMBER
1929
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Dr. Ira B.
Cross, who will speak at Women's City Club,
ff^ednesday Evening, December 11
Economic Barriers
"Economic Barriers!" Everyone recognizes these words — for everyone is confronted with obstacles that upset the nice balance that should obtain between one's income and one's expenditures, the production of one's wealth and its distribution. One step farther and one comes to Economic Barriers in a larger sense. Dr. Ira B. Cross, professor of economics at the University of California, will speak on this subject, the fifth lecture in the series of lectures on "International Barriers," in the Women's City Club Auditorium on Wednesday evening, December 11.
Dr. David P. Barrows was scheduled, in the November number of the magazine, as the speaker for this month of December, but owing to the fact that it is necessary for Dr. Barrows to be in Riverside at the meeting of the Institute of International Relations, Dr. Ira B. Cross will speak in his stead.
Ira B. Cross, Ph. D., is professor of economics on the Flood Foundation. He is a widely known authority in banking and labor fields, having been called in frequently by Coast banks and labor unions as adviser on questions of policy and technique. In addition to taking degrees at Wisconsin and Stanford, Dr. Cross has had practical expe- rience in the industrial world. His academic experience has been further supplemented by work in connection with the California Industrial Accident Commission, the United States Commission on Industrial Relations, and various wartime boards and commissions.
Members and their friends have been finding that this course of lectures grows more interesting each month. There are still available a few course tickets. Single ad- mission 75 cents. There are five more lectures in this course. *• r r
Employees Christmas Fund
For City Club employees who so courteously serve mem- bers of the Women's City Club throughout the year, the men and women whose services and consideration have made the Club a happy place in which to live permanently or to visit occasionally, an Employees' Christmas Fund is being assembled. Tipping is not permitted in the City Club, nor gratuities of any kind. The only way, therefore, by which members may express appreciation of the services of employees is at Christmas, when each employee is re- membered. Checks may be sent by mail, addressed simply to "Employees' Christmas Fund."
Sunday Evening Concert
The second Sunday evening of each month is proving to be a time of great pleasure for the Women's City Club members and their friends.
The hostesses for Sunday evening, December 8, are Mrs. Lillian Birmingham and Mrs. Frank Wilson.
Aiif Fliigeln des Gesonges Mendelssohn-Liszt
The White Peacock Griffes
Dance Rictuelle du Feu De Falla
Robert Turner An Old French Crtro/.. (Arranged by Samuel Liddle)
"O Fir Tree Dark, O Fir Tree Dear"
Early Swedish Carol
"Gesu, Bambino" Pietro You
Marion Dozier At the piano, Alice Dean
Amarilli Caccini
Am Meer Schubert
"Dream so Fair" (from the Opera "Herodiade")
Massenet
Fredric Bittke At the piano, Mrs. Horatio F. Stoll
Nocturne — G Major Chopin
Prelude C Sharp Minor Chopin
Etude — "Butterfly" Chopin
Etude — "Black Key" Chopin
Robert Turner "O Leave Your Sheep"... .{Arr. by Cecil Hazlehurst)
"A Christmas Cradle Song" Alexine Prokoff
"Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht"... Franz Gruber
Marion Dozier
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Poetry in the Life of Today
This is the subject upon which Mrs. M. C. Sloss will speak in the Lounge on Wednesday evening, December 4, at 8 :00 o'clock. Members who are lovers of beautiful verse are invited to gather around our fireside on that evening to honor and enjoy a talk by one of our members who was among the first to be on the board of directors of the National League for Woman's Service and also has lately published an anthology of Victorian verse, "Certain Poets of Importance." * f -t
S. K.
Ratcliffe, zvho will speak at Worn en's City Club, December 12
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League Shop
December being the month when the minds of all are directed towards shops and shopping it seems fitting that the Volunteer Service Commit- tee should take this time to introduce to the club members, Mrs. W. P, Phillips, Chairman of the League Shop, Mrs. E. A. Wilcox, Assistant Chairman, and Mrs. Robert H. Don- aldson, who is in charge of the Econ- omy Shop. Left to right: Mrs. Phil- lips, Mrs. Donaldson, Mrs. Wilcox.
THE League Shop, in the lobby of the Women's City Club, is open to the patronage of the public. That is, one needs not be a member of the Women's City Club to avail oneself of the privilege of looking over the wares and buying there the lovely things which have been selected by the manager. The present stock was chosen especially for the Christmas trade and with that end in view, many of the articles are ranged on display, classified according to age and sex of the ultimate recipient.
There are many small and inexpensive gifts as well as the rarer things. There are articles appealing to almost any discriminating taste, and things which were chosen with a view to their being sent by post, as linens in a colorful variety of weaves and nationalities. Luncheon sets of Swedish homespun, French homespun, Blindcraft weaving, hand-blocked cloths, scarfs, bridge, breakfast and luncheon sets, and hand-woven blankets of softest fleece in many colors, single or double, fill a corner of the Shop with gladness and light.
Slumber robes woven by hand in Canada and lined with silk by the City Club sewing committee in combinations of pastel colors of¥er a choice of handsome gifts. Pillow tops in Swedish craft and luncheon sets patterned by a "rust process" occupy another shelf.
Tinsel wrapping papers and boxes for Christmas pack- ages, ribbons and tassels, cords and colored tissues give a holiday air to the place. And the Chritmas cards are so alluringly beautiful that it were useless to try to describe them. They are sold at all prices and by the dozen, hun- dred or singly.
There are gifts for tw^enty cents, such as book marks of individual design, or there are gifts for twenty dollars and more. Here are a few of the things shown :
Hand-wrought copper and iron candlesticks, lamps, flower stands, table sets of bowl and candlesticks to match, metal work from Sweden.
For men: Desk sets of French onyx with the best pro- curable pens in handsome penholders.
Pewter, Early American design: A William and ALiry pitcher of lovely line and a Guernsey jug, covered vege- table dishes, lamps and vases.
Lamps: Bridge lamps of strong make and good design, wrought iron, pewter and other metals, with parchment and paper shades, at all prices. Floor and table lamps from five to fifty dollars.
Carved brackets for French, Colonial or Early Amer- ican rooms. Wall brackets copied from Old Italian and Early American rooms.
Morocco leather: Picture frames, writing tablets, port- folios, purses and cigarette cases.
Coin purses in a large assortment.
Cigar boxes in California redwood with a dog head etched on the cover. Priced from one dollar upwards.
Hand-painted ash trays from fifty and seventy-five cents to onyx and copper etched and silver traced.
Tiny crystal animals for table decoration. Hand-blown glass of all kinds.
Pocket combs in attractive cases.
Gift stationery in portfolio boxes with old prints on the covers and paper in any color. One to four dollars.
Book ends.
Hand-decorated Aztec flask sets for serving hot coffee at bridge tables. Two to five dollars.
Tapestries, petit point, basket weaves and other designs from Sweden, especially chair coverings.
Handkerchiefs, hand-blocked, hemstitched, a bewilder- ing variety, 35 cents to $2.50.
Wooden costume jewelry and beads, all colors.
Italian plaques and bowls for table decoration. Old Italian glass.
Rosewood cabinet, $50. Old French curio shelf, brass- bound. Louis XIV^ cabinet.
Amber and crystal necklaces.
Card tables.
Hanging book-rack of rosewood, brass-bound. $16.50.
Tapestry purses and bags, woven to match modish tweed scarfs.
Pigskin boxes in red and other colors.
Vanity cases.
For children: Breakfast trays, $3.50 to $4.75; book ends, stationery and books.
French pottery, vases, bowls and lamps. Pumpkin jugs in a modernistic design.
ALike-up boxes. \'enetian glass perfume bottles in am- ber, amethyst, green and blue. Jars and vases of glass resembling the lovely lalique. Holland glass.
Baskets and hat boxes of basket weave, hand-painted.
Waste-paper baskets.
Coffee tables with wrought iron base and tile tops. ALade to order if wished.
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DECEMBER
1929
Cfje hitler
By Vincent Mahoney
Not what we gl^e but what we share — The gift without the glider is bare.
Who glides hlmseifwlth his aims feeds three — Himself, his hungering neighbor — and Me.
STIRRED by the sudden permeation of an emotion which was akin to fear, yet which also seemed to set moving in his breast the mysterious chemistry of ex- altation, Jazpeh lifted his head from his knees and cast his startled gaze into the clear Galilean night.
Since dusk he had sat, his withered limb stretched be- fore him, his back resting against a twisted olive trunk, across whose roots his shepherd's stafif lay in readiness. The night air was sharp, and he had huddled deep into the robe of camel hair before drowsiness crept hand in hand with warmth to hide among its folds and gently draw his head down to his knees.
Now, though his mongrel sheep dog lay quietly at his side and the sheep could be dimly seen in reclining groups or sleepily stirring about in search of the sparse grass of the hillside, the boy, fully awake, was more aware than ever of the need for vigilance.
Then they came, their leader sharply silhouetted against the clear midnight horizon as the swaying motion of his camel brought first his long pointed cap, then himself, over the brow of the hill. With the appearance of two more similarly garbed shadows came to the boy a new rush of the almost insupportable emotion which had first swept sleep from his eyes. As the tiny caravan made its way across the divide and downward on the slope which led to Bethlehem, the boy quickly grasped his stalif, wrapped himself more closely in the rough robe and pre- pared to follow. He knew, without knowing anything, that the tremulous awakening and the strange excitement which had followed could not be allayed except by follow- ing the three who had passed. More, he knew that his sheep would sleep in peace until his return.
Though he was left far behind on the way to Bethlehem, the swaying camels drawing steadily away from the small figure which hobbled painfully down the slope as the staff was made to serve for the useless limb doubled behind him, the boy knew, as he stumbled breathleslsy through the narrow crooked streets of Bethlehem, that his desti- nation was the small, rough structure lying apart from the last of the houses scattered about the far edge of the village.
Inside the wretched stable, those who had quit the outside chill were grateful for the pervasive warmth which prevailed, despite the cracks in the rude wooden walls,
through which whistled the wind of dawn. Although there was no fire, the glow seemed to come from the rough manger near the wall, on whose piled straw lay a tangle of bed-clothing. Out of its folds, barely discernible, peeped the wrinkled red face of a new-born infant.
All turned to stare as the heavy outer door creaked protestingly as it fell open before a gust of cold wind and admitted the lame shepherd boy. Many bent angry glances upon the rag-hung intruder, then turned pleased self- conscious glances back toward their own silk and linen splendor. A harsh voice rasped in the silence as the elder of the Magi, their leader, exclaimed:
"By what right, then, dost thou bring thyself here, wretched boy?"
In the faces of all who stood around him were first shown approbation, then, as the lad stood silent, the em- barrassment of kind men, for a moment self-drunk, who awake to shame.
All then drew aside, as the boy silently hobbled toward the pile of straw where lay, awake now and smiling, the Fulfilment of the Word. As he drew nearer, the infant's small dark eyes were alight with interest and with what seemed to the boy an incredible gentleness and under- standing.
Standing beside the mound of gifts which the wise men had brought from the East, the lame boy glanced nerv- ously at his rude and dirty garments, then down at his empty hands. As he stood, abashed and alone, with the scornful gaze of the wise men turned full upon him, his calloused forefinger was caught in the soft warm grasp of a tiny hand. Hot tears of joy welled in his eyes and coursed down his soiled cheeks. And he made his gift:
"This withered limb, O Lord of gentleness and love for the meanest of creatures, I bring to thee. I bring thee joy in mine, maimed and humblest of lives. I bring thee love ; I bring thee thanks that to me, meanest of God's creatures, hath been vouchsafed more than is made known to most men. I bring thee peace, ever henceforth to reside in me."
The odor of wool and soil from the lame boy mingled with the rich scent of frankincense and myrrh as he gently disengaged his finger from the clasp of the infant and turned to go up the hillside to his flock.
Christmas in California
By Flora J. Arnstein
Here is no flainiyig farewell to the year,
Like the Atlantic's sultry parting flare. Only the unillumined rnaples sere
Release their drab deflowerings to the air. The eucalyptus plume their constant leaf.
In bronzed permanence the pine trees stand The palms perpetuate their radiate sheaf —
There is no death in this regenerate land '
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1929
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Volume III December ' 1929 Number 11
^nb on eartf) peace, goob toill totoarb men
EVERY Christmas brings its own joy and the one at hand, humanly, takes place of first importance in our plans. Over the consciousness of mankind this Christmas steals the conviction that the salutation of the first Christmas morning, "Peace on earth, good will to men," was the most significant pronouncement ever made.
It appears this year to have literal meaning and definite application. The evening before Thanksgiving there as- sembled at the City Club a large representation of the Club's membership to hear the comments of British dele- gates returning by waj' of America to their homes from the Institute of Pacific Relations held in Kyoto last month. They brought tidings of a conference held in Japan by men and women with their thoughts trained upon one shining focus, world peace. A letter from James Watkins, one of the secretaries of the conference, to his mother, Mrs. James T. Watkins, book review editor of the Women's City Club Magazine, gives an idea of the way Youth is regarding this comparatively recent and extraordinarily vital campaign for world peace. It con- cludes: "It was amazing to watch the delegations dis- cussing opposing points of view in such a friendly manner. We are living in a great time."
A university professor, one who has sat at the feet of the great pacifist, David Starr Jordan, writes a book, "The Politics of the Peace," reviewed in another column. The Hying banners and waving flags and huzzas are no longer martial. That is the commentary upon the whole new psychology of the internationalist movement. The profes- sors and the youths and the women and the workers are turning the tables upon the glory that was war.
And so, with Peace settling over the earth, we turn our thoughts inward, to the more immediate affairs of com- munity and hearth, home and club.
Christmas comes to the City Club this year trailing holly and mistletoe. The year has been filled with activity that now reflects a mellow glow as the holidays approach. Like all progressive entities constituting what is gener- ically known as "civilization," the City Club has contrib- uted definitely to world peace by sponsoring, whenever possible, lectures on international amity and by discrediting Blood and Iron policies wherever they raised their heads.
Christmas Covetousness
By W. W. Je.vnincs Rector of St. Luke's Church, San Francisco
ICOV^ET for every child the happy, joyous Christmas- time that was mine as a child, made s<j by my parents. But I also covet for those who have "put away childish things," having grown to man's and woman's estate, the Christmas joy that may still be theirs.
There is joy for such, to be found in the reason that gave Christmastime its being, the birth of Christ.
For that is what Christmas commemorates — the birth of one who ushered in a new order of men and women, men and women who caught Christ's spirit and began to diffuse it throughout the world.
The changed conditions of today as compared with those which existed before Christ came, which make the world so much more worth while living in, have come about through the spirit which Christ's coming created. For while we live in a period of scientific wonders, which contribute much towards making us comfortable physically and give us many privileges and pleasures, we also live in a period in which there is an increasing company of people who have more kind and helpful and loving feelings for a larger number of their fellow men and women.
And so I covet for all mankind a share in the new spirit which Christmastime brought, not only for one day in the year but for all the year through, until at length (to para- phrase the prophet Isaiah) the earth shall be full of the brotherly spirit of Christ as the waters cover the sea. 1 1 i
The President's Message
TIME was when to say "Merry Christmas" on De- cember first was a joke. Today no one even smiles as the shops display Christmas slogans and decora- tions weeks before the day itself. It is not amiss thus early then for me in the name of the board of directors to extend holiday greetings.
Conceived commercially or not, this development of forwarded dates has brought about at least one altruistic virtue, a very definite Christmas spirit for the whole month of December. The hollow "Merry Christmas" of a war- swept world of a few years ago has gi\en way to a genuine greeting of "peace on earth, good will toward men."
On the second Wednesday of each month, in our own clubhouse, we have been listening this winter to the course on International Barriers, and we have been told in no uncertain terms by our guest speakers what our responsi- bility as a Christian people now is. Today we are facing frankly the obstacles which block the way toward world understanding. In itself this is a step in the right direc- tion, but only a step. We must keep marching.
This organization of ours has proved that what we claim to do is not "all talk." We as a group are marching on to the tune of Service toward the goal of mutual understand- ing and helpfulness. We are heralded afar as the band of workers who practice what we preach. We carry the standard of the King of Kings.
We recognize no difference in creed, no barriers of f>oli- tics or religion. Let us carry the \'ule-log to our neighbor's d(K)r with a "Merry Christmas" greeting.
I hope we will gather together joyously on December 21st at our ain fireside in the lounge of our beautiful club- house and greet each other with the age-old salutation.
Some of us have sorrows, some of us have burdens, some of us have worries. Let us be tender one to another and rejoice in our membership in the common cause of service.
It is my rare privilege this year as president to say "Merry Christmas to all."
AL^RiON \V. Le.ale.
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D E C E AI B E R
1929
Trai^eL
By Inglis Fletcher
TRAVEL is a state of mind. It is only when one begins think- ing in terms of world events — of world peoples and customs that the desire for travel arises.
One person longs to see Paris. An- other has ambitions for a London sea- son. Italy attracts a third for one reason or another. The seed is then planted, the next step is to collect those delectable booklets with colorful covers issued by the steamship and rail- road companies to stimulate the imag- ination. "After all, why should I stay at home — why shouldn't I see the world?" you say to yourself. When you arrive at that stage you are lost. You walk into your bank one morning and discuss ways and means — express checks or letter of credit — you will see for j'ourself what the world is like. And why not? You have seen Amer- ica. What about Japan or China? India sounds frightfully thrilling — The European capitals — New clothes in Paris are so inexpensive if you know where to shop — Then there are those countries of romance and adventure — Arabia — Africa — Egj^pt and the Great Desert. And after that the world is your playground.
THE SPHINX
The dead rule Egypt.
The dead who are more vital than the living. Before the Sphinx at mid- night in the pale luminous brightness of the harvest moon, the dead press close and share your thoughts. You see through living eyes the eternal question that holds that giant figure in mystery.
What solitude is there. What still- ness. Pressed into the hot sands the dark bulk of it rests magnificently in its remoteness. Solid blocks in mathe- matical precision extend across the sky — the three pyramids rise in straight line upon straight line. But the
mass of the Sphinx like Life, is uneven, braced eternally against the yielding sands of the desert, rising like a mighty dream that has no beginning and no end.
An eternity of living has passed be- fore that immovable figure. Old de- sires, old passions of war and lust and conquest. Old passions of possession and of love. The unending lusts of kings and rulers. The long procession of slaves from far of¥ Ethiopia. The captured daughter of a Persian king, lovely in her youth and grace, held a slave by an Egyptian Pharaoh until the day when love conquered him and she sat beside him on his throne- — a queen. The silent Sphinx saw that — and saw also myriads of black warriors, fight- ing struggling slaves in chains, calling to their strange gods for mercy — chariots and horses riding them down, crushing the conquered into the dust — dyeing the yellow desert sand with their blood.
All pass as pageantry before the colossal remoteness of the great stone image — half beast, half woman.
What matter the trivial living of a puny people in the great march of the ages?
On the hills around them, tall fig- ures move silently. Moonlight glints on bayonet and dagger. Camels kneel waiting to go on with the caravan deeper and deeper into the mystery of the Great Desert. Palm trees bend over the banks and frame the Nile.
Napoleon stood here on the desert sands and tried to read the riddle — and Caesar and Antony, before him, came and went away and came again and still the secret of the Sphinx re- mains untold. All of these mighty warriors have gone, and only the legend of their work remains. But this great shadow lives and waits — for what ? To give dreams and mys- tery to life ? Or to make us know that the passing of the years is but a dream and that Life is eternal? Or does life and its drama contain only inscrutable remoteness and mystery? Or is that barrier that separates the living from the dead the gateway to true living? A thousand half-formed thoughts rush blindly through the mind. The steady flow of living age upon age passes before the colossal bulk of stone. Untouched, unmoved in silence so profound that it belongs to unearthly things, the Sphinx gazes across the vast expanse of desert sands. Only the dead of ancient years are there beside its massive bulk.
How ancient and how wise
PFith all the mystery of Life
An open book
To those sightless eyes.
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Ron da, Spain
By Adela Carillo Gantner
Adela Carillo Gantner writes vividly of an ancient city — once the stronghold of the Moors. Mrs. Gantner is a member of the Women's City Club.
TWO weeks ago we were cross- ing to Oakland. Today we are on foreign soil. It is hard to realize that the Atlantic could be so pacific ! The splendid Italian steam- ship Roma, bearing us across the waters, like a gigantic white swan — homing.
The searchlights of Tarifa sweep- ing out to meet us — and then, the dawn ! Burnt orange skies melting into the horizon of ultramarine, with the warm kiss of Africa in the air. Majestic Gibraltar, stark and impreg- nable !
Small boats rowed by barefooted, sweating, shouting men, making their way to the steamer's side, eager to ex- change their sun-kissed cherries and mellow figs for foreign money.
Luggage ashore, the claiming of grips, the piling and unpiling of them. New voices and eager eyes. Willing hands and strong backs. Pesetas, duros and dolares to become acquainted with. Dollars and cents to be for- gotten.
After some hours in Gibraltar, with olive trees and adelfas oozing from its granite sides, we hired a mo- tor, and were soon on our way. Old women, donkeys, naked babies, hungry dogs, civil guards, with a cherry tucked in their capbands, strolled along the cobbled streets as we made our way toward La Linea. The fron- tier passed, we turned the leaves of Progress backward.
There is so much of Spain in Cali- fornia and so much of California in Spain. The same wild flowers grew by the roadsides, godetia, goldenrod, wild roses and alfalfa. Large black butterflies with turquoise spots on their wings hovered lazily over the pink buckwheat.
Over good dirt roads shaded by syc- amores, we wound our way, past lim- itless fields of golden grain. The har- vest was in full swing. Men were cutting the grain with sickles, others were plowing furrows around the hay-stacks, driving before them mag- nificent cream-colored oxen, whose spread of horns was as beautiful as the outstretched wings o. a vulture. Blindfolded horses tramping endless miles in the sun, treading the grain that is laid across their path on the little circular mesas used as threshing floors.
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Words cannot describe the interest of the fine country farm-houses. Sim- ple in line, but made radiant with the play of light and shadow upon tiles and whitewashed walls My eyes ached with the beauty of color and dancing sunlight and the grace of the weather-vanes.
Many of the smaller buildings would put our suburban effects to shame. Tiny places with a wide door- way, and an intriguing chimney. BIuo morning-glories twining to the eaves.
Rustic pergolas with grapevines heavy with their ripening burden, and a riot of flowering creepers against side hills, painted with age-old olive trees.
We followed the course of a pea- green river, along whose banks olean- ders bloomed in exotic shades of rose, as showy as our rhododendrons in the park. We passed huts built of straw, with pink geraniums growing through the openings; cataracts of boulders, rivers of rocks, and the gaunt Sierras bleaching in the sun !
And this little place, Ronda, a town of arresting interest, an ancient strong- hold of the Moors, superbly perched on a precipice which the black men thought impregnable. Old mosques of original parts still existing, with beau- tiful Arabic inscriptions embroidered into the stones. Roofs and angles, arches :hat intoxicate. Tiles of age and color to drive an artist to distrac- tion. Entradas, doorways, marble stairs, patios floored with colored tiles, places for the horses, and all under one roof, crowded into narrow orien- tal streets. Grilles that rise out of the shadow of time, lace made of iron. From Goth to Moor, with its myste- rious and indescribable beauty, pathos and grandeur.
Tonight I am drunk with impres- sions. One thing crowds upon an- other. I have climbed to the rooftops of old mosques, their minarets hung with Christian bells. Roman foun- tains, with the water of the Sierras gurgling from their throats. Churches, convents, tiny burros, almost hidden beneath their burdens, threading their way along the cobbled streets. Angel faces and faces with eyes of the lost tribes. How jou would have loved it! Egypt could not have been more in- cisive.
My senses reel ; I do not know whether it is the sea lapping the sides of the beautiful Roma, or the satura- tion point of sights, sounds and smells.
1 am sleepy . . . Good-night.
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"For I have lived too deeply, roamed too far To he content •uit/i lesser things of life For I have heard the camel bells at daiin And ivatched the fishing eagle's flight .Ind camped iiith caravans at night."
''The League Shop Volunteers'
By Sadie B. Phillips
Upon entering the arcade of the Women's City Club, one's first intro- duction to the Volunteer Service is met with in the League Shop. Here, throughout the year there are dail\ four volunteers on duty, two in the morning from 10 to 1, and two in the afternoon from 1 to 5, and it has been largely due to their untiring ef- forts and ability as saleswomen that the shop has contributed its share of revenue to the Club.
Many of the volunteers have served in the shop almost from its inception, and the pleasure that they have de- rived from seeing the shop grow to its present splendid status, and from working amidst the many fascinating and varied articles from all corners of the globe, has been ample reward for their faithfulness.
Now that the holiday season is here, the shop is remaining open each eve- ning till 8 :30 to accommodate the many business women among its mem- bership, although one need not be a member to avail oneself of the privilege of shopping at the Club.
We are always glad to welcome
more volunteers to service in the shop, and particularly with the Christmas rush upon us, many substitutes can be placed, so any members who desire to help may register now at the shop. We can use any small gift boxes that the members may discard, and will be grateful to have them brought in to us.
Mrs. Robert H. Donaldson, chair- man of the Economy Shop, an adjunct of the League Shop, states that if members would bring in more used dresses and coats, furs and hats, she could sell them, as there has been a brisk demand for such articles.
Mrs. E. A. Wilcox is assistant chairman of the League Shop.
When resting from our efforts, what is more acceptable than a cup of tea served in the lounge by fellow Club members. Mrs. J. P. Retten- mayer is chairman of this group of \olunteers.
Tea is served every afternoon at fifteen cents per cup. This includes a slice of cake and a cooky, both home- made.
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Welcome to a Friend
Word has come that Dr. H. H. Powell will again give a series of his illuminating talks at the Women's City Club for members and their friends. The first of these talks will be on the second Monday morning in January at 11:00 o'clock. The general title that Dr. Powell has selected for these morning discussions is "Why Intelligent People Still Believe in God." This course will cover a discussion of the fundamental reasons for Theistic belief, especially in relation to the current conflict between Relig- ion and Science, and in connection with the changing notions and standards of modern life.
The Very Rev. Herbert H. Powell is dean of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, and has also been, for the past four years, lecturer in Semitic languages in Stanford University, and formerly held the same position in the University of California.
This course will continue for several weeks, and is free to members and their friends. As formerly, Mrs. W. B. Hamilton is special chairman for Dr. Powell's talks. / / r
On Foot in Albania with a Donkey
V^agabonding is the profession of Myrtle Hague Robin- son, a lecturer who has won a national reputation for her walking tours into the far corners of the world. Her latest venture through Albania with a donkey shows that her venturesome spirit is still undaunted. Mrs. Robinson will entertain those of us who are making a habit of coming to the Thursday program teas. Her hour for telling about her tramping and the strange customs and manners she encountered will be on the second Thursday afternoon in January. This lecturer's wide knowledge of literature combined with personality and a sense of humor give these unique travel talks their peculiar charm.
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CIVIC AUDITORIUM
San Francisco Symphony
Alfred Hertz, Conductor With Famous Guest Artists Tuesday Eve. January 14
DUSOLINA GIANNINI, Soprano
Tuesday Ex'e. February 18
SERGE PROKOFIEFF, Pianist
Saturday Eve. March 29
GIOVANNI MARTINELLI, Tenor
Tuesday Eve. April 15
YEHUDI MENUHIN, Violinist Season Tickets $4.00, $2.00, $1.00
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NOMINATING COMMITTEE
The annual election of the Women's City Club will take place January 13 (the second Monday in January, the constitution specifies). In accordance with provision of the constitution which says that five members of a nom- inating committee, three from the board of directors and two from the membership at large, shall name candidates whose names shall be posted on the bulletin board for five weeks before election, the following nominating committee was named November 18 by the directors at their regular meeting: Mrs. W. F. Booth, Jr., Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr., Miss Mabel Pierce, Miss Emogene Hutchinson and Miss Jean Mcintosh. The names of candidates will be published in the January number of the City Club Magazine.
CHRISTMAS CAROLS
Saturday evening, December 21, there will be a Christ- mas gathering in the lounge of the Women's City Club, where a big fire will be burning in the fireplace and Edith Colburn Noyes will give a reading of "The Christmas Carol." Edith Colburn Noyes is founder of the nationally renowned "Noyes School of Expression" and one of the most charming readers before the public. The evening's entertainment will conclude with singing of Christmas carols bv the audience.
CHRISTMAS BREAKFAST
City Club house guests are planning a special Christmas breakfast on Christmas morning at 10 o'clock. Other Club members are invited to join them. Reservations may now be made on the third floor. Price 75 cents per cover.
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The Investor is Having His Day
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By George Sohms
HIS is a propitious time for those who have money to invest in securities. Bonds, preferred stocks and common stocks are all selling at attractive prices. Not all stocks are bargains, nor are all bonds, but in both bonds and stocks the investor has plenty of choice.
Unfortunately, there is no universal rule by which an investor may measure the value of a security. The ap- praisal of a bond requires an entirely different process from the appraisal of a stock. Safety, assurance that the money invested will not be lost, is the first requisite. Since a bond is a loan, safety is determined largely by the value of the properties on which the loan is made.
Stock, on the other hand, represents a partnership in the company. The safety depends upon the management. Management can be very accurately measured by earnings over a term of years — so earnings are the prime factor in stock appraisal, with property values secondary.
To invest soundly requires careful planning. The num- ber of investors who invest according to a defined plan is all too small. The average investor considers each bond or stock as it is presented, judges as to its merits and buys from the standpoint of the security rather than from the standpoint of his or her own investment requirements. This usually results in a list that is badly out of balance. Then if the investor does have an audit made and does formulate a plan, it usually takes months or even a year or more to dispose of undesirable securities and replace them with others that are more appropriate. This is due to the fact that both bonds and stocks are so seldom at the same time available at attractive prices.
The new investor often finds the same difficulty in securing just the securities that measure up to require- ments. In this respect buying securities is much like other shopping. Just when one needs a gown the windows are more apt than not to show hats or coats, or suits that are far more attractive than gowns displayed. It is rarely that all lines offer bargains at the same time. The same is true in investments — and this is one of those rare occasions when there are attractive issues in all lines.
There is, however, this difference between securities and other commodities: The investor may at any time dispose of securities owned, and replace them with others, and usually to advantage.
Now is a good opportunity to either start a list of securities or to make adjustments in a list now held.
Most investment lists, to be in proper balance, require both bonds and stocks. Both should be bought on an in- vestment appraisal of value. Then the market may go up or it may go down, but in the long run this value will be reflected in market price. To investors who buy values and own their securities outright, market fluctuations mean little.
So long as their securities move with the market they are satisfied. It is only when a security goes down in a rising market or up in a falling market that they become concerned. For a security to fall in a rising market usually denotes some unseen weakness. On the other hand, a security rising violently in a falling market is apt to mean manipulation that will carry it beyond its real value. In either case it is usually the part of wisdom to sell and take no chances. Then replace the security sold with one that is available at its real value.
Those who follow the practice of buying values, follow- ing a carefully formulated plan and owning their securities outright, sleep well at night and have a feeling of quiet satisfaction regardless of market debacles.
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THIS fascinating craft is still fresh and youthful although its age is known to be between eight hundred and one thousand years. This gives a dash of humor to the title of "Pioneer" that is sometimes ap- plied to me in relation to my work in it. This title has another significance, however, that relates particularly to the craft in America.
The old windows were made with
transparent bits of colored glass in flat, decorative designs made forceful and eloquent by the clever use of the supporting bands or leads between them. These designs were further ac- cented by paint lines on the glass, fired in charcoal kilns, and so made practically indestructible.
You can find by looking closely through opera glasses at the splendid old windows in Chartres, or Bourges, or Le Mans, the deft brush strokes of the painter who lived and worked some eight hundred years ago.
This painting on glass should never be confused with painting on canvas, or any other opaque surface. It was alwa\'s dark brown or black, and served to suggest, mostly in lines, faces and hands and drapery, always in de- sign and never in the full toned, pic- torial fashion that we associate with painting on canvas.
The artist of the thirteenth century knew little about realistic painting as we know it today. His figures were more like symbols than like portraits or photographs. The camera, with its blessings and disservices, was for- tunately unknown to him.
This playful bit of Oliver Herford's verse, made up of nonsense and wis- dom, may be enlightening right here. As an illustration he has a long-legged bird, holding a gun under one wing, and the verse runs:
The Adjutant, I may explain, Is a gigantic sort of crane. A realist liould dance ivith rage, To see him pictured on this page Holding a gun.
But that is inhere the art comes in, The artist does not care a pin Ahcays to folloic nature's groove. It is art's mission to improve On nature, just as I have done.
But if you do not like the gun And realistic art prefer Then go to a photographer.
This quaintly suggests the symbol as opposed to the literal likeness, and the students of the splendid old glass may well rejoice that the old crafts- men could not go to a photographer.
Some cynical observers have said that those stately masterpieces — them- selves a part of the architectural fabric of mighty structures — would never have had their simple eloquence of de- sign if Michael Angelo and Raphael had arrived on the scene a little earlier.
The point to interest us is that the
old artists in glass, through whatever combination of circumstances, used their medium to such purpose, express- ing their ideals and emotions in terms of design and color, that their work has never been equalled in the cen- turies since they lived and worked.
Forty or fifty years ago, an Amer- ican artist who was then known as a successful decorator and a superb col- orist, was greatly impressed with the
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windows in the Cathedral of Chartres, France. He realized, throujjh careful study, that those old windows had a mysterious quality of low vibration in color through the action of varying at- mospheres and chemical change.
Little bits of corrosion on the weather side of the glass and a thin scum or patina served to make it par- tially opaque. He reasoned, and cor- rectly, that as the American light is
much more intense than the light of France, a similar opacity might pleas- antly reduce glare and also obtain a quality of color and light similar to those lovely windows for our own churches. With the help of a well- known glass maker in Philadelphia, Mr. La Farge produced a glass at first only partially opaque, with streaks of pure color running through it, which he called opalescent glass. His early works in that glass are to be found in Trinity Church, Boston (the window over the entrance) and in the left transept window in the Ames Memo- rial Church in North Boston, Mass- achusetts. Both windows show a cer- tain relationship with the jewelled windows of France.
His later work, well represented by several windows in Trinity Church, Boston, took on the quality of paint- ings on canvas. In other words. La Farge the glass man was overwhelmed by La Farge the painter, and in this way began what is known as the American school of stained glass.
Windows of this type are to be found everywhere and often reveal great cleverness in the delineation of realistic effects that belong rightly to the painter's craft, and not to the craft of stained glass.
Now you can understand why the term "Pioneer" is used for one who has reverted to the transparent glass, the simple design, and the symbolical terms of the masters who nobly served the world of art.
It is an interesting coincidence, if it is a coincidence, that modern art in painting is beginning to follow a tend- ency toward design closely related to the expressive methods of the old masters in glass. Wouldn't it be one of life's ironies if the painter were to be marked as an imitator of the glass man, when so recently the glass man has done his best to imitate the painter ?
When you look at transparent stained glass windows, old or new, your first impression may be more nearly related to jewels or flowers in sunlight than to the world of pictorial art with which you are more familiar. Their first appeal should be emotional rather than intellectual, and it may be that you will recall those first impres- sions like strains of music long after
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1929
Beyond the City Limits
f X THILE noble and sincere sen- \\/ timents emphasizing interna-
T Y tional friendship have been vinging their way round the world, he internal affairs of most nations lave seemed to rage in acrimonious liflficulties. The extra session of Con- gress, of which so much was hoped, las produced one family quarrel after nother in the United States Senate vhere charges and countercharges lave embroiled the tariff discussions. >ersonalities have colored the hearings nd investigations have probed every- hing from prohibition to propaganda.
In Great Britain even the nobility if purpose and accomplishment of the 'rime Minister's visit to President loover has not obliterated charges hat imp>ortant domestic affairs such s housing, slum-clearance, unemploy- nent and everlasting coal needed more mmediate attention. In France has ome the overthrow of Briand, ob- iously a reflex of Philip Snowden's ictory at the Hague, and the forma- ion of an apparently unpopular min- stry by Andre Tardieu, with a •rophecy of more changes. In Ru- nania Queen Marie has had a birth- lay in exile, that is to say she has de-
By Edith Wai>ker Maddux
parted from the capital, evidently by invitation, after a controversy in which she was accused of aiming at dictator- ial power ; and the Peasant Party has scored a decisive victory. In Germany incipient but quickly quelled political disruptions followed the calamity of the death of Dr. Stresemann ; while in Vienna Johann Schober has become the strong rudder of a still wildly tossing Austrian ship of state. In China there is more famine ; more news censorship ; more civil war, more confusion among ambitious marshals, more serious fighting in Hupeh prov- ince; more Manchurian uncertainty. Even in Italy there are continued mur- murings of differences of opinion be- tween the Pope and the Duce on mat- ters of education.
Yet withal, there has been a con- certed pa^an of peace in public utter- ance and official conference, and the following quotations serve to show in what terms some of the leaders of the world are talking and writing.
Lord Robert Cecil in the (London) Daily Telegraph, as quoted by The Lii'iriff Age, "Ten Years of the League of Nations," says:
"In 1921 began, under Dr. Nan-
sen's guidance, the task which soon be- came a Herculean one, of providing food, medical attention, and ultimate- ly work and homes, for hundreds and thousands of Russian and Armenian refugees. His dramatic apf>eal to the Assembly in 1922 to come to the aid of the panic-stricken fugitives from Asia Minor, when news of the burn- ing of Smyrna came to Geneva, will not soon be forgotten in the annals of the League.
"It is now possible to look back upon a great work of mercy almost com- pleted, for of 1,500,000 refugees in Greece all but a few are now settled in towns or on the land and furnished with productive employment. It was, then, a League to which a vast number of human beings already owed their safety, if not their very lives, that in the four years from 1922 to 1926 faced, one after another, the political crises likely to lead to war, which, under the terms of its Covenant, were referred to it for peaceful settlement. There is hardly a single international frontier between the Baltic Sea and the Near East concerning which the Council was not called upon to medi- ate, or arbitrate, or conciliate."
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We wish also to call your attention to the Fiz'e Summer European Tours plan- ned for the coming season. These differ in length of itinerary and price so as to m.eet the varied requirements of those \\ ho enroll.
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1929
Women's City Club Home Economics
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HOMEMAKING — that is in its true sense, began in that tiny stable in far off Bethle- hem— for it was our first real home and in commemorating His day we must fill it with happiness and love for others.
To do so, we who have homes and that responsibility must plan for the festivities and food buying and prep- aration are paramount, though we must not overlook our decorations and table appointments. Colored linens and pewter, red candles and a center- piece of fruit make an attractive din- ner table. Most of the leading shops are showing completely set tables for the various types of service : the dainty lace and Venetian glass; the yellow tones of linen and china; the rich reds and the pure white cloths. It is best to look about and choose one which will be possible for you with your present furnishings — as the type of room and furniture must be considered if one is to have a perfect background.
It is best first of all to decide upon the dinner hour, as some wish just two meals and others prefer three, of per- haps a ten o'clock breakfast, dinner at four and a light supper at eight. I shall give several menus, simple and elaborate but the latter necessitates a maid. For those who do their own work, it is advisable to plan even the dinner on Christmas Eve to include some of the foods for the holiday — cooking enough for two meals.
For the maidless home a smoked ham boiled or baked, or perhaps a canned ham browned in the oven be- fore serving; with sweet potatoes, boiled, peeled, cut in halves and browned in butter, reserving enough for the next day ; cream of asparagus soup — made of canned soup, hot milk and the liquid drained from a large can of choice asparagus which is to be the holiday green vegetable ; hot bis- cuits; cole slaw and a fruit gelatine dessert with coffee. Now in preparing this dinner make enough biscuit dough for the next day — either for breakfast or the late supper as they keep nicely in a good refrigerator. The ham will furnish the meat for the supper also, either sliced cold ; minced and made into dainty sandwiches or broiled for the Club variety.
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1929
Beauty Salon Holiday Specials
THE Beauty Salon of the Women's City Club is a busy place these days, with members getting prettied up for the holidays. The manager now has four operatives besides the expert hair cutter, and they as well as their director are expecting to be occupied right up to Christmas Eve.
The permanent wave machine is constantly being used, and henna packs and facials keep the young women on the qui vive. Facials are now given from two and one-half dollars up.
The Parker Herbex treatments for scalp and hair have proven very popular and beneficial. Scalp massage is given by experts who from much experience are adept in pre- venting falling hair and accelerating growth of "bobs" which have suddenly decided to be long.
Manicures are fifty cents, finger waves a dollar and a quarter and marcels one dollar. The permanent wave, which takes about three hours to acquire and lasts indefi- nitely, is done for ten dollars.
The salon also specializes in dyeing hair, using Inecto and Notox or any other coloring which the patron may wish.
The Beauty Salon is very attractive in furnishings and fittings as well as up-to-date in equipment, and the young women in their colorful smocks give the place the air of a garden. The Salon is placed on the same floor as the swimming pool so that members who swim may have right at hand the accessories for fixing the hair and face. 1 i 1
Women s City Club Swimming Pool
Learn to swim before the summer holidays. Perfect your stroke if you are in the mediocre class. Take diving lessons for the fun you will get from them.
Special rates for private lessons will be offered for the month of January only, the course to be finished by Feb- ruary 15. There will be no change in price for class lessons.
Rates are as follows: Members, ten half-hour lessons for $5 ; guests, ten half-hour lessons for $7.50.
Free instruction in life-saving will be given to those interested, Wednesday evenings at 5 :30. At the end of the course tests will be given to those wishing to receive the Red Cross life-saving certificate and emblem.
Come and bring jour friends.
A Christmas party for the children will be given Satur- day, December 14. There will be a Christmas tree, races and games. Prizes will be given to the winners of the various events.
Children of members and their friends may leave their names at the swimming office if they are planning . to attend. / / /
SEWING HELP NEEDED Volunteers to assist in sewing for the needs of the City Club are wanted by Mrs. Bruce Lloyd, chairman of the Sewing Committee. Curtains, scarfs and other things for the bedrooms are now engaging the attention of the com- mittee, which meets every Monday on the second floor. Anybody handy with the needle is wanted to join the circle.
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1929
Books from The Stanford Press Reviewed by Eleanor Preston Watkins
Greece Today; the Aftermath of the Refugee Im- pact; by Eliot Grinnell Mears (formerly American Resident Trade Commissioner in Greece ; Professor of Geography and International Trade, Stanford Univer- sity) ; Stanford University Press and Oxford University Press; $5.00.
The Politics of Peace; by Charles E. Martin (Dean of the Faculty of Social Science, University of Wash- ington ; Visiting Professor of International Relations, University of Hawaii) ; Stanford University Press and Oxford University Press ; $4.00.
RECENTLY published by the Stanford Press, these two books, attractive in format and scholarly in content, are builders of our new world. In so brief a review there is not space nor time to do justice to such important studies of present-day problems, represent- ing, as they do, a wide experience and long research. The most the reviewer can do is to be a sign-post pointing the reader along the road to the prospect-holes where he must dig his own ore.
More students of today are familiar with ancient than with modern Greece — "the heir of classic Hellas and virile Byzantium." In a study of modern Greece, there is the delight of meeting a childhood's friend grown-up — for those whose very young fingers painfully traced the maps of ancient Greece, to whom Thracia sounds more familiar than Thrace, Thessalonica than Salonika, Peloponnesus than Morea.
Modern Greece dates from the close of the Balkan Wars (1912-13) when the country was enlarged by the accession of Macedonia, part of Thrace, Crete, and the Aegean Islands off the Asiatic coast. Especially since the World War has Greece become a new country. "A dimin- utive nation, she has absorbed a million and a half Asiatic Greeks, an outside population equal to one-half her own ; and she has profited thereby." Unparalleled conditions have been produced by this tremendous trek of one and a half million destitute refugees from Turkey, fleeing from sure reprisal after defeat, and from the ghastly fire in Smyrna. They increased the problems of employment and of eking out a mere existence. One-half of the refugees were city-bred, while Greece already had too many city- dwellers, and too few agriculturists. Eighty-five per cent were women and children, and Greece needed men to re- place her emigrants and her dead soldiers.
But the generous bread with which she fed them is coming back to her from new fields of grain and olive- trees. The agriculturists have been domiciled in small farms in Thrace and Macedonia, and the city refugees in the suburbs of Athens, which hum with industry as fac- tories have sprung up to profit by the flood of cheap labor. The Oriental rug industry has been transplanted bodily to Greece ; and the refugees have brought with them their skill in pottery, copper, and the spinning of wool and silk and cotton. The tempo of daily living has been augmented, and Macedonia is for the first time a land of homes.
In the author's mind, "the justification for this partic- ular book lies in the overwhelming changes in Greece since the World War, and the pre-eminent need for stressing the economic problems — the great overshadowing issues in Greece today." With its valuable chronologj' and bibliog- raphy, and its statistical records, it is a rich reference-book for the student of history and geography and economics ; and the first chapter is, for the tourist, a colorful introduc- tion to the land of modern Greece, whose guide-books are no later than 1912.
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Its appeal should be particularly strong to American curiosit)', because America stands more and more in the position of elder brother to Greece. Since 1922, Greece has turned chiefly to the United States for assistance and guidance. The American loan of more than twelve mil- lions, and the shifting of trade from Europe to the United States, have built up a feeling of dependence upon Amer- ica. The Refugee Settlement Commission, Near East Re- lief, and American Red Cross, have taught the Greeks to look upon us as comrades and friends. And most of all, the returned emigrant, with his argot and his newspapers from the States, is the transforming influence in Greece of today.
Eliot Alears is peculiarly fitted to be an interpreter, and adviser, and "a calm prophet" for modern Greece. He prepared the first draft of his book in 1919, while serving as the first American Trade Commissioner to Greece. Later, sent from Athens to Constantinople, he was able to study at first hand the participation of racial Greeks in Turkish affairs, and the characteristics of the Ottoman Greeks who were to emigrate en masse during and after the Asia Minor expedition. Between 1922 and 1929, he wrote and published a book on Turkey, and rewrote "Greece Today" in California, whose hills and coast and climate are so like the shores of Greece, "where grew the arts of war and peace."
The Politics of Peace; by Charles E. Martin; $4.00
(also, Study Outline for The Politics of Peace; by
William C. Johnstone, Jr., Department of Political
Science, Stanford University; 25 cents).
History has been a war-story. Peace has been an inter- val for recuperation, for reducing the burdens of war- taxation, and gathering strength for the next conflict. Sel- dom have the doors of the Temple of Janus been shut.
Now rises a new star over our horizon — the outlawry of war. The world sees its distant light as doubtfully, as skeptically, as it saw the Star of Bethlehem. But some eager eyes are fixed on it with faith, wMth a hope that leaps in the breast.
It is significant that we begin to have a literature of peace. Graham Stuart, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, has edited, to date, seven "Stanford books in world politics," which bear upon peace and inter- nationalism: The Law and Procedure of International Tribunals, by Jackson H. Ralston; The Washington Con- ference and After, by Yamato Ichihashi ; The Public In- ternational Conference, by Norman L. Hill; The Politics of Peace, by Charles E. A^Iartin ; The Government of Hawaii, by Robert Littler ; International Arbitration from Athens to Locarno, by Jackson. H. Ralston; and Greece Today, by Eliot G. Mears.
Martin's book is dedicated to "Herbert Hoover, Civic and Social Engineer, Pathfinder in the Politics of Peace." Charles Martin speaks the thing that he believes with no uncertain sound. There is no "if" nor "perhaps" in his scholarship nor in his convictions. And in his book there sounds a vigorous delight in leading his student generation into the path where his feet are set. For they will be the leaders and the makers of the future. What a chance! Who would not like to be here to see it ?
There is a bit of personal interest connected with this book. When my son recently sailed for Japan, to teach English and to study internationalism there for a year or two, a Stanford friend chose "The Politics of Peace" as a bon voyage gift. He has written from Nagoya that he will use it as a text-book in a class in internationalism which he will lead among the English-speaking Japanese students. So the seed that Charles Martin planted is already gerntii- nating in a far land.
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Four hundred and one selected merchants are listed in an attractive manner to tell the stranger in the city (or the resident) how to get the best and the most for her expenditure.
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{Continued from page 19) equipment for baking waffles or hot cakes on the table. Baker pears or a melon, with sausage or filets of finnan haddock broiled in butter and served with hominy ; coffee and hot chocolate could be easily prepared.
Serve what you know the family will enjoy. If they prefer turkey to all else, then have the same dinner which pleased them so well on Thanks- giving. But if tame or wild ducks, or perhaps a roast goose is decided upon you would undoubtedly change the menu entirely. Instead of cocktails of fish or fruit, serve an antipasto or canapes, followed by either clams on the half shell or mock turtle soup. For an elaborate repast include mushrooms in ramekins or sweetbreads in patty shells. These courses with the roast meat, potatoes, sweet or white and a green vegetable ; and a salad of molded fruit in red apple cups; mince pie, plum pudding or ice cream for dessert. The following menus offer a choice of elaborate or simple combinations:
Anchovy or Caviar Canapes
Ripf Olives Celery Curls
Mock Turtle Soup
Mushrooms in Ramekins
Roast Turkey, Oyster Dressing
Potatoes Buttered Asparagus
Gravy Cranberry Sauce
Hearts Lettuce, French Dressing
Plum Pudding Coffee
Mints Salted Nuts
For a lighter meal I would suggest:
Fruit Cup
Svjeetbreads in Patty Shells
Roast Turkey, Chestnut Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes Peas
Endive Salad Cheese Dressing
Mince Pie Coffee
Fruit, Nuts, Raisins
Fish Cocktails are well liked and
either oysters, shrimps or crabs or the
combination may be served in the same
sauce with this dinner :
Fish Cocktail Salted Wafers
Celery Hearts Ripe Olives
Roast Goose, Potato Stuffing
Candied Sweet Potatoes
Hot Asparagus on Toast
Apple Sauce Gravy
Molded Fruit Salad
Ice Cream, Fruit Cake, Coffee
Nuts Candies
Perhaps tame ducks would offer a
pleasing change:
Red Apple Fruit Cocktail Chow Chow Radishes
Celery Salted Nuts
Clear Bouillon Wafers
Roast Tame Ducks, Orange Stuffing
Wild Rice
Candied Sweet Potatoes Peas
Artichoke Hearts
Ice Box Cake Plum Pudding
Coffee Fruit
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Regardless of your choice of the holiday dinner, the ham of the pre- vious evening could be used in the sug- gested methods for supper; the left- over green vegetables with the addi- tion of sliced tomatoes made into a combination salad and a bit of fruit cake served for dessert. If you have a bit of plum pudding left over, reheat it in a little lemon sauce, placing the container in a pan of hot water. It is very good that way too. Always make enough hard sauce to serve for several meals as a spoonful on the pudding, or hot Dutch apple cake makes a filling dessert for the leftover dinner on Thursday.
Perhaps you may wish to utilize the leftovers in a different way or need a few recipes — if so these have been tested :
To candy sweet potatoes: Boil six medium sized potatoes until almost tender. Peel and cut in half, t'hen ar- range in a buttered baking dish. Next make a syrup by boiling one cup of brown sugar with one-fourth cup of water and one-half cup of butter — or use the prepared maple syrup if pre- ferred, adding the butter only. When the water, sugar and butter mixture has boiled five minutes pour over the potatoes, cover the dish and bake in a slow oven for about two hours. The
long, slow baking is the secret of good candied potatoes.
To make cranberry jelly: Pick over and wash berries, put in a saucepan and cover with boiling water, allow- ing one cup for each four cups of ber- ries. Let boil for twenty minutes, then rub through a sieve, add two cups of granulated sugar and cook until mixture will "sheet" from side of spoon, or about five minutes. This may be poured into sterilized glasses and sealed with paraffine — making enough for the winter at one time.
For a cranberry frappe: Cook on€ quart of washed and picked over ber- ries in two cups of water for eight minutes, then strain ; then add two cups of granulated sugar and bring to boiling point. Set aside to cool, then add the juice of two lemons and freeze to a mush, using equal parts of rock salt and chopped ice, or place in your freezing trays if using an electric re- frigerator.
To make a dry stuffing: Cook one- half cup of minced onions in butter or fat until a golden brown, then add two cups of minced celery and two quarts of dry bread crumbs. Season with salt, pepper and Worcestershire sauce to suit taste. Then add one beaten egg and bits of fat from the fowl.
Filling for pumpkin pie : Mix in the
following order: one and one-half cup of steamed and strained pumpkin, three-fourths cup of brown sugar, two tablespoons of molasses, one teaspfXin each of cinnamon and nutmeg, one- half teaspoon of salt, one-half to three- fourths teaspoon of ginger, two beaten eggs and either one and one-half cups of milk and one-half cup of cream or two cups of top milk. Pour into an un- cooked pastry lined tin and bake as you would any custard pie — that is, in a hot oven for five minutes, then reduce the heat and bake slowly until set. To test, insert a silver knife in the center and if done the knife will be clean.
Utilizing leftovers so that each dish presents a pleasing appearance and is tasty yet economical, taxes the home- maker's imagination. With the holiday dinner on Thursday a large turkey with a few additions may be stretched over to include Sunday evening's tea. A baked or boiled ham on Wednesday is desirable, but one may buy the cooked meat if preferred.
Be sure to save the choice pieces for slicing, both light and dark. These, with thin slices of broiled cooked ham, a few lettuce leaves and sliced toma- toes will make marvelous clubhouse sandwiches for Sunday night. Next cut part of what is left into thin strips and the bits must be run through the food chopper.
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One of the important departments of the Women's City Club, and one of the most deep-rooted pieces of social service being conducted in San Fran- cisco, is that of the Vocational Guid- ance Bureau, of which Miss I. L. Macrae has been executive secretary for a number of years. In these years Miss Macrae has accumulated infor- mation of the opportunities and facts of the San Francisco situation as it concerns vocation that makes her de- partment an asset not only to the City Club's service to the community, but valuable as a segment of the commun- ity itself.
At a recent committee of the Voca- tional Guidance Bureau of the City Club, the members discussed ways and means of better dissemination among Club members of the work and pur- pose of the Bureau.
It was agreed that each member of the committee each month send through the City Club Magazine a message of the Bureau's activities.
The work of the Vocational Guid- ance Bureau is not expected to be a cure-all, but the office is, as one visitor said, "a place where one can think aloud."
The usefulness of the Bureau is in- calculable, and its value appears to be better appreciated outside of the Club than among members. I know that many bring their problems to the Bureau and are assisted with advice, authentic information and conscious- ness of a friend in need. The Voca- tional Bureau is not an Employment Bureau. Its work is more deep-seated than that, and accrues infinitely great- er spiritual values.
Alice In Wonderland
{Continued from page 4) little lunches and dinners — sunny courtyard — or glowing fireside — how's that for cozy?"
"What's it lead to?" — cautiously.
"Oh — nothing — that is, just a boat ride, or theatre, or a bench in the park — any pleasant thing — "
"I'd prefer the theatre if you've no objection" — Alice spoke curtly — "at least that's definite."
"Right-O — Duffy Players — always a star — wholesome too — what's that they say — 'your family, my family' ?"
"Stop talking" — Alice glared — "and change your tie — I won't go out with that one — it's too loud."
"S'all I got," flippishly.
"Then, I'll have to buy you an- other," grimly.
"Darling!"
"I'm not! But I won't be com- promised by a tie."
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"Will you please stop- swishing your tail and get started" — Alice said cold- ly— "I'm tired of treading water. Be- sides it's draughty — "
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San Francisco to New York and Return in Two Minutes
By Agnes N. Ai.wyn
A SPEEDY journey! But made daily, via the tele- graph, by orders sent from San Francisco brokers . to the New York Stock Exchange. In a normal stock market an order may be given in San Francisco, wired to New York and confirmed back to San Francisco within two minutes.
The procedure is interesting, so let us, in imagination at least, write out our order to buy 100 shares of United States Steel common stock at the present market price. We hand this order to our broker, who gives it to his order clerk, who records its time of acceptance by stamping it with a time-clock device. The order is at once trans- mitted to New York over the broker's wire.
Received in the New York office, the order is turned over to a clerk who transmits it to the Stock Exchange floor over a private telephone. The floor telephone is situ- ated in a booth that has been allotted to our brokerage house. A telephone clerk in this booth receives our order for 100 shares of U. S. Steel common and writes it on an order slip. He must now get this order on the floor of the Exchange for execution.
The floor member, the man who represents our broker- age house on the floor of the New York Exchange, is not at the booth, so the 'phone clerk presses a button which causes a number to appear on the enunciator board. The number is one which has been assigned to the floor member, and its appearance calls him to his 'phone booth. Here he receives our order to buy 100 Steel common at the market, which means that he must buy at as low a price as is pos- sible at that time.
Among the various posts on the Exchange floor is one that has been assigned to the Steel stocks. This post is the market then for U. S. Steel. At the post the floor member hears Steel common being offered at $160. He also hears a broker bidding $159.75 for it. He thus knows that U. S. Steel common is bid $159.75 and is offered at $160. He has authority to buy it at the market, so he says to the broker ofifering to sell at $160, "Take it."
When he says "Take it" the transaction is made. No written agreement of any kind is exchanged by the con- tracting brokers. All contracts on the floor of the ex- change are made in this informal and apparently unbusi- nesslike way. There has never been made any attempt to escape such a contract.
Our floor member sends a memo, to his 'phone clerk that he has bought 100 shares of U. S. Steel common at $160 from a certain other broker. The clerk promptly 'phones the report to the office, it is telegraphed to the San Francisco office, received here by an order clerk, who informs our broker that our stock is bought, and at what price. The purchase is confirmed to us by the broker, and our order has thus been filled within two minutes.
The contract which our floor member closed when he said "Take it" obliges him to receive 100 shares of U. S. Steel before 2:15 P. M. on the next full business day fol- lowing. In the meantime the San Francisco office mails to us a confirmation, stating that they have bought for our account and risk 100 shares of U. S. Steel common at $160.
If we are buying the stock outright, we must, on the day following our purchase, pay the full amount, plus the broker's commission. If so directed, the San Francisco office will direct the home office to have the certificate transferred to our name. If we decide to sell the stock, the broker will pay to us the proceeds of the sale, less his bro- kerage commission and less the Federal and State taxes.
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The wanderlust — that primitive urge to seek out strange lands, that cultural call to mix with foreign peoples, that insistent lure of old world mystery, that fascinating tug of the sea — has it got you?
If it has, drop in with it to the lobby of the Hotel St. Francis and let Miss Alice Can deal with it. She has a way with wanderlusts and knows how to satisfy them. Don't overlook the fact that sailings for next spring and summer are being heavily booked now because of the Passion Play at Oberam- mergau. Have a choice of staterooms rather than take what is left.
If you haven't planned a trip — well — see her anyway. She will breeze you around the world in a few minutes, right there at her desk. You will enjoy it and so will she and you will take away some in- teresting and valuable ideas. All deck plans and sailing dates are in the office for your inspection. , rickets tire sold at regular rates.
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Standing at the Steel post when our stock was bought, a reporter, employed by the New York Quotation Company, which operates the ticker service, makes a memorandum of the sale, reporting 100 X (X being the Exchange symbol for U. S. Steel) sold at $160. This memo goes to the ticker operators, who flash it to the various tickers located all over the United States.
By the procedure outlined, all round lots, meaning or- ders in hundred-share units, are bought and sold. "Odd lots," or orders for less than one hundred shares, have a somewhat different routine. For instance, a 25-share order would proceed as did the 100-share until it reached the telephone clerk on the floor of the Exchange. He would write it out, but instead of calling his floor member he would write the name of an "odd lot" fimi on the order and give it to a tube attendant. The order would go through a pneumatic tube to the Steel post, and there be handed to the representative of the odd lot firm to which it was addressed.
The odd lot firms have no dealings with the public, but must stand ready to buy or sell to other brokers any num- ber of shares, up to a hundred, of any stock, at a price varying from one-eighth to one-quarter of a point from the next open market transaction, or on bid and offer. The odd lot broker waits for the next 100-share transac- tion. If it is at $160, he reports to our brokers that he has sold them 25 shares of Steel at $16038.
Were it not for the odd lot broker, the small buyer would not be able to trade on the New "^'ork Exchange, because the minimum trading unit is one hundred shares.
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William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor at its Forty-ninth Convention in Toronto, stated :
"The mind of the entire world is occupied thinking about world peace. Never in the history of the nations was greater impetus given to it. We abhor war. We have better notions about how disputes may be settled and we hope war may never occur again. We are reminded of the peaceful relations between the United States and Can- ada. We have lived as a family, and we will continue to live in that rela- tionship. There is no force for con- tinuing that relationship more potent than the hosts of labor. . . .
"Just now the great Premier of Great Britain is visiting the United States, calling upon the distinguished President of the United States. He comes on a holy mission. We wish him God-speed on this great pilgrimage. I know I voice the sentiments of the mil- lions in and out of our movement that the great Premier of Great Britain may succeed in his laudable purpose. We want the men and women of the British Empire to know that our move- ment can be counted with them in the effort to establish the instrumentalities of peace. We want more value on life and less on material things. We want the great intangibles of human life to supersede the dollar mark."
Ramsay MacDonald talked over the radio to millions in America, Canada and Great Britain as follows:
"When I reached Washington I called on a man whom I found work- ing with his coat off.
"I said, 'Hello, what are you do- ing?' He said 'I am blazing a trail for peace.' And I said 'I have come to help.' And he said 'My name is Her- bert Hoover — who are you ?'
" 'Oh,' I said, 'My name is Mac- Donald.' Then both of us said 'Have you any objections to my using my axe along side of yours — not to enrich our respective woodpiles, but that together we may cut the trail a bit broader, so that more people and more nations, be- cause of our working side by side, shall find it easier to pursue the path we are opening up' ?"
And President Hoover gave a wait- ing world such words as these in his American Legion speech on Armistice Day:
"But there is something high abovc- and infinitely more powerful than the work of all ambassadors and ministers, something far more powerful than treaties and the machinery of arbitra- tion and conciliation and judicial de- cision, something more mighty than armies and navies in defense."
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The outline of the table of contents suggests the breadth of the discussion, the logic of its reasoning. Part I is a survey of Constitutionalism, in the United States, Great Britain, and France, with an inquiry into the prospects of sound politics of peace in the three countries. Part II, "New Forces Within and Without Constitutionalism," explains itself by its sub-titles: The Modern Individualist, Individual Self-development, Individualism and Educa- tion, American Individualism, Collectivism, Nationalism, Americanization, Bolshevism, Nationalization in Mexico, The New Turkey, Fascism, Imperialism, British Impe- rialism, American Imperialism in the Philippine Islands, Imperialism in Latin America, Imperialism in the Far East and the Pacific, The Mandate System, Militarism, The Case Against War, Militarism and Diplomacy, Can War be Outlawed ? The Pact for the Renunciation of War. Isn't it a broad program, and stimulating, and daring? Some of the topics are like bugle-calls.
Part III, "The Trend Today," is a discussion of The New Functions of the State, the Government and Agri- culture, the Government and Labor, the New Polite Power, the New Politics and the School, the New Politics and Charity, the New Internationalisni.
Martin says, "This book has one clear aim. It en- deavors to describe and appraise political institutions and practices in the light of their value to the new world order which is steadily assuming shape and vitality. — We look into the past only in so far as it seems to contain useful lessons for the men and women who today are striving to bring into being the Great Society which was Woodrow Wilson's dream. — The world's greatest need is peace. And Peace is its greatest pr- blem. On every hand we hear rumblings of war. And from those who know best we hear predictions that when the 'next war' comes it will bring devices and disasters that will make the Great War of 1914-18 seem like the pleasant play of innocent children. — While chemists, metallurgists, and strategists are blindly co-operating to this murderous end, what can civilized people be doing to defeat it? Well, there are several things which they must accomplish, and not the least among these is educating the intelligent classes in the ways and means of modern politics. — Only a government is in a position to suggest attacking another country. — It is one of the greatest misfortunes of our civilization that our ablest men and women devote themselves seldom to poli- tics, but regularly to business, to finance, to engineering, to scientific research, to the arts. Contrast the rank and file of our office-holders with the rank and file of men in charge of other affairs; the inferiority of the former is little short of appalling. — Let us state, in language un- equivocal, the stern necessity of winning all of our people back to an active interest in government.
"This is why I maintain that perhaps the most urgent of all educational tasks in America is to teach the politics of the new world order — the politics of peace and progress. ■ — It is the task of making clear, first of all, how the various world powers are governed, what their outstanding policies have been, and how these must be altered in order to serve the new and nobler ends of the Great Society.
"The politics of peace which will arise out of the new interdependence of the world's peoples, its arts, and its sci- ences will be, like all other human institutions, an in- genious compromise between the habits of the past and the aspirations of today. It will be a compromise between the apathy and ignorance of the masses, on the one hand, and the genius and foresight of leaders, on the other. Hence we can best discern its pattern and its trend by studying with care those contributing factors which are visible and clear, namely, the important political theories and prac-
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tices which have assumed form in the minds of great think- ers, and under known conditions of time and place. Knowledge of these is the beginning of contemporary political wisdom. It is also the springboard of the prophet. "Occasionally a man or woman rises superior to the con- ditions of his day and generation, and soars like an eagle to great heights of achievement. Mankind follows slowly, but the pace for it has been set and good has been accom- plished. Such men and women have made civilization. Mankind is not to be blamed too severely if it does not reach the mark. It would be barren if no mark had been set. And it would be culpable if the aim had been low." 1 1 -f
FLOWERS AND GREENERY WANTED
The Flower Committee is much in need of new names of people who will supply flowers and greens, either regu- larly or occasionally. The committee will be glad to ar- range to call for flowers. Telephone Mrs. Robert Cross, WAlnut 1208, or leave word at the Club.
ECONOMY SHOP
"How many members of the Women's City Club know of the Economy Shop on the mezzanine gallery of the League Shop? There we have gowns and coats to suit all tastes," says Mrs. Robert H. Donaldson, chairman of the particular branch of Volunteer Service. "They are do- nated or sold on consignment, the only requirement being that garments be freshly cleaned. The prices are most moderate — from ten to twenty-five dollars. The Shop needs many more of these garments. Go through your wardrobes so we may be prepared for the holiday trade. Shop Volunteers are always ready to receive and to show garments in the Economy Shop." ill
HORSE SHOW FOR BABIES' AID
The Babies' Aid, which last month opened its new cot- tages at 741 and 745 Thirtieth Avenue, is to be the bene- ficiary of a Horse Show to be given December 5, 6 and 7 by the San Francisco Horse Show Association at the St. Francis Riding Academy.
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Fourth Pair Symphony Concerts
December 20 — Friday Afternoon at 3:00 December 22 — Sunday Afternoon at 2:45
City Club Radio Talks
THE Women's City Club of New York is sponsoring a series of Friday talks over WEAF at five o'clock in the afternoon. They are known as "The March of Events" and are given the personal attention of the president of the New York City Club, Mrs. H. Edward Dreier, who opened the series last month with a talk on "The Modern Woman and Her City." Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt followed the next week with the topic, "Women in Politics," and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson the next.
Walter Lippmann's recent book, A Preface to Morals, has suggested the title for his radio speech on December 6. Mr. Lippmann is editor of the tiew York World and a frequent contributor to current magazines.
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PERIODIC HEALTH EXAMINATIONS
The Board of Directors and our staff of doctors were pleased with the appreciation shown by the membership of our third semi-annual health exam- ination.
What we are standing for is peri- odic health examinations, and this time we have several repeaters.
An occasional review of health con- ditions is valuable in its relation to future health possibilities. Forewarned is forearmed.
The next examination will take place in April 1930, and hereafter the health examinations will be a semi- annual event as a club privilege.
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CHRISTMAS DINNER Christmas dinner will be served in the main dining-room of the Cit>' Club December 25 from noon until 8 o'clock in the evening. Price $2.00 per plate. Members who desire to have parties in a private dining-room are urged to make reservations as early as possible.
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CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON A special children's Christmas luncheon will be served in the City Club Cafeteria on Saturday, Decem- ber 21, at 65 cents per plate.
A Christmas luncheon and dinner will be served in the Cafeteria on Thursday, December 19. Price $1.00 per plate. Reservations may now be made for any of the Christmas func- tions above mentioned.
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SUNDAY AND HOLIDAY DINNERS IN DINING-ROOM
For the convenience of members who desire to dine early on Sundays and holidays, the service of table d'hote dinner will start at five o'clock in- stead of 5 :30 as heretofore. The din- ing-room is open until eight o'clock every day.
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LECTURES ON CONTRACT BRIDGE
Members of the Women's City Club may still avail themselves of three of the series of six lectures on Contract Bridge which Thomas L. Staples began Friday evening, Novem- ber 15 and will continue on Friday evenings at 7 :45 o'clock.
The lectures are being conducted under the sponsorship of the League Bridge Committee, Miss Emogene Hutchinson, chairman.
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SCRIP BOOKS The City Club has scrip books in all departments which are suggested as Christmas gifts.
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CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for DECEMBER • I929
New Books Added to City Club Library
FICTION
Chariot Wheels Thompson, Sylvia
The Methodist Faun Parrish, Anne
The Prodigal Girl Hill, Grace Livingston
Lone Tree Wilson, Harry Leon
The Piper's Price Comstock, Harriet T.
The Way of Ecben Cabell, James Branch
The Godfather Hartley, Nalbro
Rainbow in the Spray .Wynne, Pamela
Clouded Hills Moorhead, Elizabeth
Serenade to the Hangman Dekobra, Maurice
Cease Firing Hulbert, Winifred
Ultima Thule Richardson, Henry Handel
Memorial to George Anonymous
Trousers of Taffeta Wilson, Margaret
Borgia Gale, Zona
It's a Great War Lee, Mary
Fugitive's Return Glaspell, Susan
The Garden of Vision Beck, L. Adams
The Man Within Greene, Graham
Sincerity Erskine, John
G. B ...Morris, W. F.
Around the World Weston, George
Modesto Stern, G. B.
MYSTERY
The Aledbury Fort Murder Limnelius, George
The Body on the Floor Mavit}', Nancy Barr
The Alysterious Partner Fielding, A
The Case of the Black 22 Flynn, Brian
Detective Duff Unravels It O'Higgins, Harvey
Adventures of Blackshirt... ...Graema, Bruce
The 5A8 Mystery.... Farjeon, J. Jefferson
Triple Murder Wells, Carolyn
NON-FICTION
Procession of Lovers ...Morris, Lloyd
Then I Saw the Congo... Flandrau, Grace
Seven Iron Men Kruif, Paul de
Seeing Italy Newman, E. M.
Marie Antoinette Palache, John Garber
Loafing Through Africa Humphrey, Seth K.
Seeing Russia Newman, E. M.
The Biography of H. R. H. The Prince of Wales
Townsend, W. and L.
The Grande Turke Downey, Fairfax
Seeing Germany Newman, E. M.
Queen Elizabeth Anthony, Katherine
Tristram Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Seeing Egypt and the Holy Land... Newman, E. M.
Dynamo. O'Neill, Eugene
The Rim of Mystery..... Burnham, John D.
The King's Henchman Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Up to Now Smith, Alfred E.
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Book Rei^lew Dinner
At various intervals we plan to speak of special activities in the Club. Ever since its first meeting the Book Review- Dinner has been a marked success. The average attendance is fifty. On occasions there have been one hundred present. This makes a merry party to sit down to dinner together on the first Wednesday evening of every month at six o'clock in the Defenders' Room. Mrs. Thomas A. Stod- dard reviews a new work of fiction each month. The books to be reviewed in December are "Ultima Thule" by Richardson, "Harriet Hume" by Rebecca West," and "The Love of the Foolish Angel" by Beauclerk. The last two are new novels of fantasy and will prove unusually in- teresting for study.
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB CALENDAR
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APPRECIATION OF ART— Every Monday at 12 noon, Card Room. Mrs. Charles E. Curry. CHORAL SECTION— Every Monday evening at 7:30, Room 208. Mrs. Jessie Wilson Taylor. FRENCH CLASSES
Mondays, beginning January 13, at 2 o'clock, and from 6:30 to 8:30 o'clock.
Conversational class, Fridays, beginning January 10, at 11 o'clock. Mme. Rose Olivier,
Instructor.
LEAGUE BRIDGE
Every Tuesday, 2 P. M., in the Board Room; 7:30 P. M., in Chinese Room.
CURRENT EVENTS— Every Wednesday at 11 A. M., Auditorium. Mrs. Parker S. Maddux, Leader.
THURSDAY EVENING PROGRAMS
Every Thursday evening at 8 P. M., Auditorium. Mrs. A. P. Black, Chairman. SUNDAY EVENING CONCERTS
Second Sunday of each month, in Auditorium. Mrs. Horatio F. Stoll, Chairman.
January 2 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Dr. Ralph A. Reynolds . , ,
Subject: Observations in Russia ••- -■:.■.-.. -
3 — Lecture on Contract Bridge Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Mr. Thomas L. StapJes, Instructor ' . „ v r .. , • '•..'''/
Lecture by Chester Rowell Auditorium 11:00 A.M.
Subject: "Where East and West Meet"
7 — Tea in honor of Stratford-on-Avon Players American Room 3:30 P.M.
8 — Lecture on International Barriers Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Dr. David P. Barrows Subject: Barriers of the Latin-Americas
9 — Thursday Program Tea Auditorium 3:00 P.M.
Myrtle Hague Robinson
Subject: "Through Albania with a Donkey"
Special Chairman, Mrs. Rettenmayer
Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Mrs. Ralph A. Reynolds Subject: Viennese Life
10 — Lecture and Moving Pictures Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: William Finley
Subject: "Camera Hunting on the Continental Divide"
Lecture on Contract Bridge Chinese Room 8:00 P.M.
12 — Sunday Evening Concert Auditorium 8:20 P.M.
Hostesses: Miss Ruth Viola Davis and Mrs. Frederick Grannis
13 — Annual Election of Board of Directors Auditorium 9:00 to 6:00
Lecture by Dr. H. H. Powell Chinese Room 11:00 A.M.
Subject: "Why Intelligent People Still Believe in God" Special Chairman, Mrs. W. B. Hamilton
15 — Lecture by Thornton Wilder Auditorium 8:15 P.M.
Subject: "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"
16 — Monthly Book Review Dinner National Defenders'
Speaker; Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard Room 6:00 P. M.
Books to be reviewed: "Ultima Thule," by Henry H. Richardson; "Clouded Hills," by Elizabeth Moore- head
Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Mr. John Howell
Subject: An Evening with Rare Bibles (he will ex- hibit some rare Bibles seldom seen)
17 — Lecture on Contract Bridge Chinese Room 8:00 P.M.
20— Lecture by Dr. H. H. Powell . .Chinese Room 11:00 A.M.
Subject: "Why Intelligent People Still Believe in God"
Special Chairman, Mrs. W. B. Hamilton 23 — Thursday Evening Program Auditorium 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Mr. Harold W. MacDonald
Subject: The High Spots of a European Tour in Mo- tion Pictures
(Preliminary talk by Dr. J. Wilson Lundy, "The Pas- sion Play at Oberammergau"
24 — Lecture on Contract Bridge Chinese Room 8:00 P.M.
27 — Lecture by Dr. H. H. Powell . .Chinese Room 11:00 A.M.
Subject: "Why Intelligent People Still Believe in God" 30 — Thursday Evening Program Chinese Room 8:00 P.M.
Speaker: Mrs. Clio Lee Aydelott
Subject: Dramatic Readings with musical accompani- ment 31 — Lecture on Contract Bridge Chinese Room 8:00 P.M.
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WOMEN
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Women's City Club Magazine
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Entered as second-class matter April 14, 1928, at the Post Office at San Francisco, California, under the act of March 3, 1879.
SAN FRANCISCO
Vol. Ill
JANUARY f 1930
No. 12
(BONTENTS
Club Calendar Inside Front Cover
Frontispiece * 6
January Club Activities 7, 8, 9
Schools for Two-Year-Olds 10
By Helen M. Christiansen
Vocational Guidance 12
Interview with Thornton Wilder 12
Occident and Orient Give Each Other the "O.O." 13
By Mrs. Alfred McLaughlin
S. K. Ratcliffe at City Club 14
Report of Nominating Committee 15
Volunteer Service in Cafeteria 16
"Nuevo Circo" 17
By Mrs. Thomas .\. Stoddard
Editorial 19
The President's Message 19
Home Economics 23
Public Health 27
By Dr. Adelaide Brown
What Will You Build in 1930? 29
By Agnes Alwyn
OFFICERS OF THE WOMEN'S CITY CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO
President MiSS Marion W. Leale
First Vice-President Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper
Second Vice-President Mrs. Paul Shoup
Third Vice-President Miss Mabel Pierce
Recording Secretary Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr.
Corresponding Secretary Mrs. W. F. Booth, Jr.
Treasurer Mrs. S. G. Chapman
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Women's City Club of San Francisco
Mrs. A. P. Black Miss Marion Leale
Mrs. William F. Booth, Jr. Mrs. Parker S. Maddux
Mrs. Le Roy Briggs Miss Henrietta Moffat
Dr. Adelaide Brown Mrs. Harry Staats Moore
Miss Marion Burr Miss Emma Noonan
Mrs. Louis J. Carl Mrs. Howard G. Park
Mrs. S. G. Chapman Miss Esther Phillips
Mrs. Edward H. Clark, Jr. Miss Mabel Pierce
Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper Mrs. Edward Rainey
Miss Marion Fitzhugh Mrs. Paul Shoup
Mrs. Frederick Funston Mrs. Ira W. Sloss
Mrs. W. B. Hamilton Mrs. H. A. Stephenson
Mrs. Lewis P. Hobart Mrs. T. A. Stoddard
Mrs. Marcus S. Koshland Miss Elisa May Willard
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WOMEN*/ ClXy CLUE MAGAZINE
The New Year's First Month Teems With
Attractions Which Augur Well For the
Balance of 1930 at Cltv Club
Finley, Famous Western Naturalist, to Show Remarkable Films
fVilliam L. Finley to Tell of His Experiences in Stalking Wild Life on the Continental Divide
THIS most thrilling and spectacular motion picture story of camera hunting ever made in the United States, accompanied by an account of his experiences, will be told by William L. Finley, on the evening of Fri- day, January 10, at 8:00 o'clock, in the Auditorium of the Women's City Club of San Francisco. It is to be noted that this lecture has been set upon a Friday evening in order that the fathers and the children may accompany the members.
William L. Finley, Oregonian, has a national reputa- tion as a naturalist, author, and lecturer, as well as a most successful photographer of wild animal life. Through his articles in Nature Magazine, the National Geographic, the Atlantic Monthly and other national publications, he has become known to thousands of people who have never heard him lecture or seen his remarkable motion pictures. Three large Federal wild bird reservations in Oregon stand as a record of his efforts in arousing popular interest in the conservation of our outdoor resources. These were created by special executive proclamations by President Roosevelt.
For the past twenty years Mr. and Mrs. Finley have cruised the coastline, packed and camped through all the wilder mountainous country of the West, from Alaska to Mexico. Their travels have produced some two hundred thousand feet of motion picture film and over twenty thousand still negatives, which constitute the greatest pho- tographic record of American wild animal life ever made. His Best Pictorial Story is "CAMERA HUNTING ON THE CONTI- NENTAL DIVIDE" "A Thousand Thrills'' A thousand thrills are recorded in the unparalleled scenics and exciting adventures while filming the shyest and rarest birds and mammals high among the peaks and pinnacles of the Rockies. The reel entitled "Getting Our Goat" is a chapter of photographic art and tiie most dra- matic ever produced depicting American natural history. Only skill acquired by long experience could portray so vividly the life of the Rocky Mountain goat, the most daring steeple-jack on the continent.
Getting the Goat
For eight different seasons Finley has tried to get mo- tion pictures of the Rocky Mountain goat. During the past summer he played the trick of dressing up in a white goat disguise, with imitation ears, horns, and beard, and crawling along the ledges with his motion picture camera. This strategy worked to perfection, for it enabled Finley to get up as close as he wished to these wild animals; in fact, one day an old Billy disputed his right to a certain ledge on Chapman Peak. The real Billy looked at the imitation, twiddled his tail and lowered his horns, but the buzz of the camera halted him and the telltale wind gave the danger signal of human scent.
Unrolling through five reels, or five thousand feet of celluloid ribbon, is an out-door story that inspires a greater love for the grandeur and beauty of America than for any other land. One meets the bighorn or mountain sheep framed among sheer cliffs, deer and wapiti in flower-filled meadows, ptarmigan or snow-grouse nesting in the heather, bears that ambled boldly into camp, marmots among the boulders and conies or pikas. that make hay in the summer time and store little stacks under the rock-slides. The beaver is accustomed to work only after nightfall, but the secrets of his life have been revealed through the eyes of the Finley cameras, close-up pictures at home and in the act of bringing in materials and constructing a dam.
The Pronghorn in Action
Next comes the epic of the pronghorn, the swiftest wild animal on the continent, roaming in greatly decreased numbers in the wide stretch of sand and sage from the base of the Rockies westward to the Cascade range. Never before have these fleet-footed animals been pictured in full action. The chance came when a herd of antelope raced an automobile across a dry alkaline lake-bed and the cameraman cranked as he careened along at forty-five miles an hour.
Let us remind you again he is to tell of his adventures and show his rare animal motion pictures on the evening of January 10 at Auditorium of Women's City Club. All seats are reserved. Tickets are >1.00, 75 cents and 50 cents. You will be sorrv if vou do not see these films!
WOMEN S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for JANUARY
1930
Will Speak at the City Club
Dr. David Prescott Barrows
''International Barriers"
One of the early events in the Women's City Club New Year pro- gram is the lecture by Dr. David P. Barrows in the series of eight dis- courses on "International Barriers" which the Club has sponsored in the last few months. Each of the lectures is a complete unit in itself and inde- pendent of the others, but the series, as it unfolds, proves to be interrelated though not interdependent. Dr. Bar- rows' subject will be "Barriers of the Latin Americas" and will be given Wednesday evening, January 8, at 8 o'clock, in the Club Auditorium.
Interest in the course grows by ac- cretion, the sponsors find. Each cre- ates a taste for more, with the result that the Auditorium is now filled to capacity.
Few men have had better oppor- tunity to observe economic and polit- ical conditions in the Latin Americas than Dr. Barrows, and few have a greater following among men and women who keep abreast of interna- tional relationships as they affect world amity. The interesting things he has done and the positions of honor and responsibility which he has filled are well known in California. He was president of the University of California for several years, resigning to follow his bent for observation and writing in the field of political econ- omy. He was director of education in the Philippine Islands; later was for
seven years president of the board of directors of Mills College. In 1916 he was member of the Committee for Belgian Relief, in charge of the food supply in Brussels. For his war work he has been decorated Chevalier of the Legion of Honor (French), with the Croix de Guerre, and other orders from many governments. Last year he traveled as Carnegie Foundation Visiting Professor of International Relations, going to Asia, Malayasia, Central and South America, and Africa.
It is his findings from this trip which he will bring to the City Club January 8. The lecture is open to the public at seventy-five cents for single admission.
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THORNTON WILDER A year ago we were hearing much of Thornton Wilder and his book, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey." It was a glamorous book and its young author was much in the public eye, especially when he and the very liter- ate Gene Tunney planned a walking trip through Europe. Gene married Miss Polly Lauder and went on a
Myrtle Hague Robinson
honeymoon instead of with Wilder, but the two have had many interesting experiences abroad, Polly notwith- standing.
Thornton Wilder will speak at the City Club the evening of January 15. Tickets are selling at $1.50 and $1.00 and it appears as if the evening will be what in theatrical parlance is termed a "sell-out." Mrs. William Lynch is special chairman of the event. Wilder's subject will be "His- torical and Philosophical Backgrounds of 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey'."
Since he made his first appearance on the lecture platform some months ago Mr. Wilder has earned a bril- liant reputation as a speaker and has attracted increasingly large audiences.
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Wherever he has lectured he has made a profound impression on his hearers by reason of his striking orig- inality, his keen powers of observa- tion, sharpened by much travel, and his thorough grasp of literature. His voice, moreover, is clear and distinct, his personality magnetic, while his words are a pleasing combination of wisdom, beauty, humor and entertain- ment. In his lectures, in short, he dis- plays much of the genius that has made him famous as a writer.
Few American novelists have achieved success so quickly as Thorn- ton Wilder has done. Although he is still in his early thirties, he has al- ready become known on both sides of the Atlantic as the author of "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," which has made his name familiar to millions of readers. So great was the popularity of this novel that in less than ninety days over 100,000 copies were sold.
Mr. Wilder is also the author of "The Cabala," an equally brilliant work of fiction, and has likewise pro- duced a book of tabloid dramas, en- titled "The Angel that Troubled the Waters," which has been hailed by the foremost literary critics as a work of supernal genius. In addition, he has won distinction through his play, "The Trumpet Shall Sound," which was one of the great successes in New York last season.
A native of Madison, Wis., and a graduate of Yale, where he won high honors, Mr. Wilder has traveled ex- tensively and has seen many sides of life. He spent some of his early years in China, where his father was Amer- ican Consul General, and later passed two years at the American Academy in Rome.
In recent times his literary work has won the unstinted praise of such
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eminent authorities as Arnold Ben- nett, Hugh Walpole, William Lyon Phelps, Alexander Woollcott and Heywood Broun, who have pro- nounced him to be one of the most brilliant of modern American writers. When he is not on a lecture tour Mr. Wilder lives in the sleepy village of Lawrenceville, N. Y. Asked re- cently what he thought of his over- whelming success as a writer, he re- plied: "I live in such a happy, limited community that I am not aware of it."
The theme of "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is a search for an answer to the riddle of the universe. Five persons hpving been hurled to death through the collapse of a bridge in Peru, Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, searches into the lives of these victims for a revelation of God's in- tention in thus casting them, at a par- ticular moment, into eternity. Inter- woven with the story is the fantastic and brilliant figure of La Perichole, the greatest actress of Peru in the early part of the eighteenth century.
VAGABONDING AS A PROFESSION
MRS. J. P. RETTENMAY- ER is the special chairman of the Thursday Program Tea of Janu- ary 9, at which Myrtle Hague Robin- son, "professional vagabond," will tell of her experiences while "On Foot in Albania with a Donkey." Tickets for this divertissement are seventy-five cents and tables are now being reserved, on either the first or the fourth floor.
The program begins at three o'clock and guests are asked to be early, as the speaker finds it difficult when par- ties enter during the discourse.
Myrtle Hague Robinson is a Cali- fornia lecturer who has won a na- tional reputation for her walking tours in America and the far corners of the world. On Foot in Albania and Island of
Crete with a Donkey Her latest venture through Albania with a donkey and hiking in the Island of Crete is proving of great in- terest to audiences looking for enter- tainment and study.
Here are some press clippings about Mrs. Robinson :
"Mrs. Robinson is very attractive and so very feminine in every way that it is almost impossible to picture her hiking alone through all those strange countries."
"Mrs. Robinson's lectures are so different from ordinary travel tales because she does not follow the beaten paths of the tourists but rather seeks the hidden trails which alwavs lead to
the most out-of-the-way and unusual places."
"Myrtle Hague Robinson's lecture was charged with compelling interest. There were piercing rays of humor and a rich vein of observant sympathy. Descriptions, closely knit up with an understanding of the people, and pur- veyed in a conversational manner, gave the lecturer's talk its peculiar charm."
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DR. H. H. POWELL TO LECTURE AGAIN
WHY Intelligent People Still Believe in God" is the gen- eral title of a series of lectures which Dr. H. H. Powell will give at the Women's City Club for members and friends, beginning January 13 at 11 o'clock and continuing for several weeks. The course is free to members and their friends and, as last year, Mrs. William B. Hamilton is chair- man of the series.
The Very Reverend Herbert H. Powell is Dean of the Church Divin- ity School of the Pacific and a theolo- gian known throughout the nation for his sincerity and logical sequence in which he builds up his theses. For the last four years he has been lecturer on Semitic languages at Stanford Uni- versity and formerly held the same chair at the University of California. In view of the wide discussions of "Fundamentalism" and the growing debates between Religion and Science, most of them accompanied by heat and conflicting ideas. Dr. Powell's lectures come at a timely moment. Changing standards of thought and ideals will be taken into account and it is possible that many now confused and "at a loose end" with dogma will find anchorage and correlation in the lectures, which are not sermons, nor yet secular.
SIAINED GLASS WINDOWS AND THEIR LORE
CHARLES J. CONNICK, au- thority on stained glass wm- dows, designer of the windows iri The Lady Chr.pel of the new Grace Cathe- dral, will speak at the City Club in January through the courtesy of Mrs. Lewis P. Hobart, City Club director, whose husband is architect of Grace Cathedral.
Those who read Mr. Connick's fascinating article in the December number of the City Club Maga- zine will realize that he has an indi- viduality of expression and a sen..e of humor which ought to add zest to any subject which he would address.
Connick's workshop is in Boston, where glorious mosaics of translucent color are wrought under his direc-
William L. finley to speak at City Club, January 10
tion. In the last few years he has de- signed five hundred windows for churches and other edifices and is ac- knowledged the leader in this art. < »■ <
ANNA BIRD STEWART
IT IS NOT too early to tell of a noteworthy event of February at the City Club, the engagement of Anna Bird Stewart, poet, reader and lecturer, for Tuesday evening, Febru- ary 11, Saturday afternoon. Saturday evening, February 15.
The first reading will be for stu- dents; the second a matinee for young- er children, and the last one will be of general interest to adults. Miss Stew- art's books of poems and fantasies are on sale in all bookstores and some are now on sale in the League Shop.
Miss Stewart brings to her audi- ences a fresh and interesting personal- ity and her appeal. Her subjects are varied. Here are some of the topics from which the program committee of the City Club will choose for her three appearances here :
Readings from her poems — child verse, love poems, bird voices; The Little Child I Used to Be; What Should Children Read? Poetry for Children; Troubadours of Old France; Old and New Troubadours; Undiscovered France.
A phase of her poetic gifts is shown by her lectures on France and the Troubadours. They are directly the outcome of her studies in Provencal literature. She spent some time study- ing in Paris and in the Troubadour country of central and southern France, and is now at work on a book about these picturesque poets.
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Schools for Two- Year Olds
By Helen M. Christianson
Supervisor of Nursery-Kindergartens of the Golden Gate Kindergarten Association and Part-time Instructor at the San Francisco State Teachers' College
TO the Women's City Club, whose all-pervading charm is largely an outgrowth of club members' attitude toward service, the ideas and interests of Miss Ishbel MacDonald, in her recent visit to the United States, are of special signifi- cance. One cannot but admire Miss MacDonald's serious acceptance of personal responsibility toward social welfare which led her to take time — in spite of pressing official engagements — to visit the Bethlehem Nursery School and other child welfare agencies on the lower East Side of New York City. As a member of the London County Council she is particularly interested in Nursery Schools for children of the less favored economic groups.
It was in London that the modern nursery school movement, of which we began to hear in this country in 1918,
had its beginning, largely due to the vision of the Misses Rachel and Mar- garet McMillan. "Educate every child as if he were your own," has been the ideal back of the devoted, scientific endeavor and remarkable achievements of these women in bring- ing about normal growth and develop- ment for under-privileged children of pre-school age in a very poor and crowded district of London.
Apropos of Miss MacDonald's par- ticipation in the growth of this move- ment, it may be of interest to San Franciscans to know that the first school for children of pre-kindergarten age in this city, opened in April, 1927, was largely the outcome of the inter- est of local child welfare leaders in the English nursery school with its em- phasis on meeting the needs of under- privileged children. Previous to this
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time, the Golden Gate Kindergarten Association had pioneered in this city for many years in the field of early childhood education. Theirs is a well- known story of devoted service which had its beginning exactly fifty years ago this year, under the inspirational leadership of Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper. Its later leaders resolved to make kindergarten education available for every child by establishing kinder- gartens in the public schools of San Francisco. These kindergartens were all taken over and incorporated into the public school system within the last few years.
The sequel to the story of that pioneer work for young children is be- ing written today by the same organ- ization. The new theme — so closely re- lated to the old, and at the same time so significant of modern trends — is Nursery School Education. Psychol- ogists and educators alike are in com- plete agreement that the period from birth to six years of age is the most crucial in the life of a human being. Many of the life-time habits are formed at this time, and it is the func- tion of the Nursery School to see that the habits are good ones.
Quiet Garden Spot
Come some morning to the Phoebe A. Hearst Nursery-Kindergarten, at the foot of Telegraph Hill. We al- ways describe it for prospective visitors by saying, "It's the only place in the block where there are any trees, so you can't miss it!" Even with this anticipatory remark, most people are surprised to find a quiet garden spot, with sunshine, shade, flowers, and open play space, just a few minutes' ride from the heart of the city.
"Why, it seems almost like the country!" is the comment of the vis- itor who has let herself in at the brown gate and walked through the yard where sturdy, self-enterprising two and three year olds are busily en- gaged. Big packing-boxes, large shal- low barrels, boards placed on an in- cline, wagons, kiddie kars, clay and sand are among the materials claim- ing their attention. In the sun-filled patio, a jungle gym for climbing, a carpenter's bench equipped with ham- mers, nails and saw, easels for water color painting, and large hollow-box blocks are all being used. A teacher specially trained for this work is near
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at hand noting the children's uses of materials, giving them opportunity to solve their own problems so far as pos- sible, helping a shy child to make a wholesome social adjustment, and see- ing that routine habits are well estab- lished.
Color, creating a friendly atmos- phere of warmth, is the visitor's first impression upon entering the large play room. Yellow voile curtains, gaily painted blocks, quaint old Ger- man and Swedish prints, open shelves with inviting toys, an appropriately furnished doll corner, and low tables and chairs, all combine to make a situ- ation stimulating and conducive to child development. Here the children help to set the tables with gay china and serve the nutritious mid-day meal, and soon after everyone is in his bed either in the airy bedroom or on the sheltered side of the patio.
The bathroom provides another es- sential learning situation. Each child has his own locker for clothing and set of hooks for his toilet articles. All of the equipment is placed on his level so that he may have the satisfaction of doing things for himself.
This school is in session from 8 :30 \. m. until 3:30 p. m. Immediately upon arrival the children are inspected by a trained nurse from the City Board of Health. Besides this nursing service the City Board of Health also co-operates by sending a pediatrician It the beginning of the semester, when each child, in the presence of his mother, is given a complete physical examination, and thereafter weighed weekly. Follow-up work is done through the clinics. Immunization for diphtheria and smallpox are strongly recommended and this advice is car-
ried out in the majority of cases. In addition to health records and enroll- ment cards, the teachers keep individ- ual sleep charts, records in regard to food habits in special cases where some problem is presented, records of un- desirable emotional responses, such as temper tantrums, a monthly chart showing home and school co-operation, and records of the children's reactions to play materials, music and picture- books. The latter are studied by the teachers in planning for further play situations in order to insure an en- vironment in which the individual needs and abilities of each child may be considered.
Across the city on Potrero Hill is another similar school, the Anna M. Stovall Nursery-Kindergarten. Here an experiment is being made at the suggestion of the Community Chest, with a school day extending from 7 :30 a. m. to 5 :30 p. m. to serve the needs of working mothers. With a group of twenty-four children, ten of whom are between the ages of eight- een months and two and one-half years, the teachers are carrying on a nursery school program with careful attention to the requirements of the child in a neighborhood where both fathers and mothers, because of eco- nomic pressure, are employed outside the home.
You would not have a true picture of either school without coming to one of the monthly mothers' meetings. These are held at six o'clock so that the working mothers can be present. They are served a simple, well-bal- anced dinner, demonstrating appropri- ate foods for children. Health needs, play interests and problems in child- training are discussed and frequently
one of the younger mothers acts as in- terpreter for those who do not under- stand English readily, and in turn in- terprets their eager questions to the teacher.
The older girls in the families have become so interested in the Nursery- Kindergarten that those between the ages of ten and f<mrteen have been or- ganized into an auxiliary club called the Junior Child Guides, club meet- ings having to do with play activities of young children, the making of suit- able playthings, music, stories, and the lore which a guide needs to know in caring for little brothers and sisters.
It is the hope of the Association to gradually add to the nursery schools already in existence, in order to round out more adequately the environment of the many young children in crowded portions of the city where, because of large families, economic pressure, and lack of training for child rearing, many mothers are now unable to sup- ply the needs of their children for normal growth and development. The fundamental conception back of the entire work of the nursery school is not to substitute for the home, but to act as "an extension of home-life."
This story of Nursery School Edu- cation in San Francisco is only just begun, and in the future chapters, as well as in the one just recounted, you have a share. These schools are not only the expression of interest of the Golden Gate Kindergarten Associa- tion in child welfare. They reflect through the Community Chest, which helps to support them, a whole city's interest in a wholesome character- forming en\ironment for the little children in our midst.
Scars
By Garreta Busey
There is a deep serenity in Iwinely things —
fVood dork with age and scarred ivith daily icear,
hi rough coats ivet xuith rain, in steaming muddy shoes, Or faces marked ivith old forgotten care.
They have the strong plain breath of earthiness about them.
Their feel is like the coarse black bark of trees That stand deep planted in the loam, that kneic through ages
The crackling storm or sunlit drone of bees.
Great souls there are ivho leap to flaming beauty In timeless, wind-sivept realms behind the stars.
But he may know, ivho ivalks in homely places. The intimate serenity of scars.
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Vocational Guidance is Important Part of Club
THE Vocational Guidance Bu- reau, with its offices and execu- tive secretary in Room 210 of the Women's City Club, is one of the important departments of the Club and one of the oldest. It dates back to the days of the National League for Woman's Service when that organiza- tion had its headquarters and club- rooms at 333 Kearny. It has pro- jected its work through the interven- ing years to this, the opening of 1930, when its need and service is not only more poignant than ever before in the City Club, but in the community in which the City Club occupies an im- portant and dignified place.
VOCATIONAL Guidance is just ^ what the term signifies. It guides and advises women and girls in select- ing and finding their "vocation " which is not to be confused with "em- ployment." To be sure, it does find employment for applicants at its door, but it does not claim to be an employ- ment bureau, and when it does find employment, it is an incidental thing rather than a direct campaign. For it starts out to assist the applicant only in finding her place in the industrial and economic world, and, conversely, to indicate to the applicant the vari- ous fields in which her usefulness would find outlet.
THE executive secretary. Miss I. L. Macrae, knows, from long ex- perience and sympathetic contacts made in both sides of the eternal tilt of employer and employee, what a girl or woman may expect to find in the way of employment, judging from the qualifications and training which the applicant reveals and judging from labor and economic conditions as they register themselves according to season of the year, political and eco- nomic pressure along the line locally or nationally.
Miss Macrae's knowledge is of great value, for instance, to a girl coming from afar. Such a one, bewil- dered at strange surroundings, finds a friend here who knows what the em- ployment bureaus are ofifering, what is wanted in many individual cases, and can suggest to the girl where her serv- ices are most likely to find a market. The attractive office of Vocational Guidance becomes a clearing house through which the applicant passes and a confessional at which she tells her dilemma. If she be a chronic down-and-outer. Miss Macrae soon realizes the urgency of her case and steps are taken to alleviate it. If she is a likely person with real value to the community, she soon becom s of value to her own career, for there has been an intelligent helmswoman in the steering of it through the shoals
of discouragement and misunder- standing.
THE misfits of society are helped to find themselves. They are given audience. Sometimes just that has a heartening effect and cleanses a be- wildered brain of much confusion. Discouragement is routed and shown up for the impostor that it is.
The knowledge that there is a place where one may take one's perplexities is a salutary stiffener of wobbly back- bones.
The City Club's Vocational Guid- ance Bureau has probably salvaged many lives that would otherwise have been destroyed by their own inability to wage the struggle single-handed. Certainly it has placed many on straight and remunerative paths.
A KNOWLEDGE as wide and profound as that garnered by Miss Macrae from the years of her experience would be a little terrifying to one unaccustomed to strong doses of starkness. But it has not fright- ened nor embittered her. To her, in- stead, has accrued the consciousness that the fraternity of man is a very present possibility. After all, Voca- tional Guidance is but a detailed as- pect of the ideal upon which the City Club was builded when it evolved from the National League for Wom- an's Service.
An Awfully Sweet Girl Appreciating Thornton Wilder
{Thornton Wilder, novelist, will speak at the Women's City Club January 15)
She: Have you read this Bridge of St. Louis something?
He: Yeah. Have you?
She: Yes, my dear, and I think it's simply fascinating — I mean, it's so unusual, sort of. Don't you think he's struck a new note or something?
He: Yeah, you bet.
She: I mean it's so perfectly simple — the way it's writ- ten and all — and yet there's an awful lot there. Don't you really think there is?
He: Oh, sure.
She: I mean, it simply thrilled me, it was all so differ- ent and unusual, sort of.
He: Yeah, he struck a new note.
She: That's exactly it, my dear. Only, what I didn't get was the point of the whole thing, sort of.
He: Well, it's all rather vague, I think.
She: I spose it is, isn't it? But I mean I've had the most tremendous arguments with people about it, because it really moved me. I mean I was actually thrilled to my tum-tum, because, I mean, it's really the sort of book that means something. Don't you honestly think it does?
He: Yeah, you bet.
She: Only the meaning of it would elude anybody that really didn't understand what the author was getting at. Don't you really think it would, my dear?
He: Oh, sure.
She: Because unless you actually understand what it's all about, it doesn't mean a thing, because it's all so in- volved, sort of.
He: Yeah, of course the whole point is that this old Comtessa
She: Was she the one who was in love with that Uncle Pio person ? Anyways I think that Esteban was the sweet- est thing! I mean his devotion to the other one — what's- his-name — was the most touching thing, sort of !
He: Yeah, wasn't that swell ?
She: Well, anyway, I think it's a simply marvelous book, only I don't think half the people who read it actu- ally get a thing out of it, because, I mean, I don't think you can, unless you really fathom what the author had in mind, sort of. Do you know what I mean?
— Lloyd Mayer, in Saturday Evening Post.
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Occident and Orient Give Each Other
the "o. or
I THINK that I may assume that any member of the Women's City Club who is interested enough to read this article must have had some previous information, since Mrs. Parker Maddux reported upon the 1925 conference and I reported on the one of 1927; besides, speeches have been made to City Club members by other members of the Institute of Pacific Relations.
Of course, this year it was, I think, even a more daring adventure than usual, since the Conference was held, not in the delightful tropical neutral- ity of Honolulu, but in Japan. Japan is keenly self-conscious of a position in the family of nations and is highly sensitive on account of her treatment in some instances. Japan is also a na- tion whose public affairs have never been publicly discussed, but have been managed from the top.
The main acute problem of the first Conference in 1925 was the question of the American exclusion of the Ori- ental. She was told in no uncertain terms what everybody thought of her. In the second conference it was Eng- land upon whom the searchlight of criticism was turned. The chief ac- complishment of that conference was that the English group was able to convince the Chinese of a real change in the point of view of the Govern- ment of Great Britain and that the day had come when China's sover- eignty must be respected.
AT the Kyoto Conference the sub- XA. jects of the several round tables vvere: The Effect of Industrialization on Culture, Food and Population, on Chinese Foreign Relations (prin- cipally discussion of extraterritoriality and concessions) on The Manchurian Situation and on Diplomatic Relations in the Pacific.
Considering the prominence in the newspapers at the present time of the struggle between China and Russia over the Chinese Eastern Railway you might think the discussion was about that. Since the Institute is an open forum and the only Russians present were there only in the capacity of ob- servers, it was impossible to do more than listen to a careful presentation of the Chinese point of view. Therefore, the main discussion centered around the friction between Japan and China over the South Manchurian Railway, built and controlled by Japanese capital.
By Mrs. Alfred McLaughlin
TT was very clear in the discussion ^ of Settlements and Extraterritorial- ity what the accomplishments of the Institute of Pacific Relations could be. Curiously enough, in an organiza- tion whose fundamental purpose is to have no results, everybody demands them. It was soon apparent that all foreign countries would be willing to give up their concessions and settle- ments and extraterritoriality if they could be positively assured that the Chinese courts would respect the Oc- cidental ideas of life, limb and prop- erty, chiefly property. There were the following more or less familiar essen- tials for this:
1. Trained judges, and there are plenty of eminent Chinese law- yers.
2. Codified law which is all but finished.
3. Non-interference with judicial decisions.
Publicly no Chinese could admit the uncertainty of the latter, but pri- vately it was evident that they shared the apprehension of the foreigners on this point.
THE final discussions were based on Dr. James T. Shotwell's data paper written after his visit to China. According to his well established method of presenting a specific remedy for acute cases he submitted the fol- lowing solution : "The suggestion which is made here is that China set up, as a temporary device during the period of experi- mentation,— say for at least five or ten years after the termination of extraterritoriality, — a limited num- ber of special courts in a half dozen places where foreign business is most largely carried on or where foreigners are most largely congre- gated, which courts should be pro- vided with some special machinery for applying the new legal reform and adapting it to practical needs. In addition to these courts of first instance there should be at least one court of appeal and if Chinese jus- tice is to develop on sound lines, the jurists chosen for these courts should be selected "without regard to nationality " but solely with re- gard to their merit and standing as jurists. The key to the whole pro- posal, as can readily be seen, is the use of an international tribunal of justice to coordinate the appoint- ments. The choice of China, might,
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however, very well be limited to selection from a panel of experts nominated by either the World Court or — if the United States should not be a member of the World Court — by the Court of Ar- bitration at The Hague."
' I ''HE stumbling block of this is •*■ Chinese self-consciousness ab<jut calling in any foreign group. How- ever, the conference members will be very much surprised if some modified form of the above suggestion does not come as the substitute for extraterri- toriality in China, which will in the end accomplish what she wants; recognition of her sovereignty and on the side of the foreigners, security. TN the discussion of the points of -■-friction between China and Japan in Manchuria, they again cut through to the essentials to see what thing re- moved would eliminate the causes of this friction. We discussed for three days without emotion but with real intelligence what was happening in Manchuria. It was found that basic- ally the cause of friction was that Japan, with her huge financial invest- ments in Manchuria was exercising the privilege of protecting her prop- erty with Japanese troops in spite of the fact that Manchuria is a province of China. It was very clear that a committee of appeal, resident in Man- churia, could easily settle affairs be- fore they became international in- stances. How should this committee be formed and by whom chosen ? Around this the discussion ranged for hours. China does not object to Japan's financial program in Man- churia, since she realizes that she must have foreign capital, but she does not want her sovereignty invaded. Japan will not withdraw her troops until as- sured that China is strong enough to protect the property rights of all for- eigners. Many of you will immediate- ly ask why not appeal to the League of Nations on both Manchuria and Extraterritoriality. There are four main reasons why China has not rested her case with the League of Nations:
1. America and Russia are not in in the League.
2. The League has not functioned as vigorously on the Pacific as it has in the other hemisphere.
3. China has never been happy in her relations to the League since she left Paris refusing to accept the Treatv of Versailles, and
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4. Japan is a powerful member of the Council.
THERE seemed to be two solutions, a committee for China and Japan like our own with Canada, known as the International Joint Commission. This has worked successfully settling international differences between the United States and Canada. There is, however, a huge difference between America and Canada, sitting around a table with their real desire for peace
and harmony and in mutual respect, and China and Japan with a tremen- dous mutual distrust. The second sug- gestion was that some sort of a Pacific Area Official International Group be set up to act as a shock absorber, not only between China and Japan but for all Pacific area problems. The League of Nations adherents feared this would weaken the League. No one could see the smouldering flame al- most flash into fire without being fully
aware that unless some shock absorber is provided Manchuria will be the Balkans of this region in our own im- mediate times.
I would have to write a paper of ten times the length of this if I were to tell you of the perfect hospitality of the Japanese. We came home with our souls filled with humbleness and our eyes with beauty and a sense of great gratitude that we had been priv- ileged to see this lovely island.
S. K. Ratcliffe Talks at Women's Citv Club
AN astute and penetrating analysis of the current political situation in Great Britain as reflected in the personnel and back- ground of the Ramsay MacDonald cabinet was presented by Journalist S. K. Ratcliffe in the Women's City Club auditorium on the evening of Decem- ber 12.
Viewing British politics and poli- ticians from the point of one who has devoted a lifetime to writing of them, and knowing the Labor Premier from an acquaintance extending over 35 }ears, Ratcliffe gave an illuminating resume of the causes leading up to the return of a Labor Party government and to the formation of MacDonald's second labor cabinet.
The members who comprise that body, together with the results of their administration carefully watched by Great Britain and the rest of the world, were summed up in telling phrases by the journalist.
"The success or the failure of the present MacDonald Cabinet and of the administration of the Labor Party's second regime will be judged largely by one thing — " the speaker said. "That thing is the solution of the problem of unemployment.
"The causes of the present unem- ployment lie too deep in the social structure of the nation for immediate correction. The so-called 'dole' sys- tem will have to be continued for a time as an emergency measure for the unemployment which presents the na-
By Edith Bristol
tion's greatest problem. But in the end the judgment of the nation to- ward the MacDonald government will be based upon its action and its program in industrial matters.
"In international relationships," Ratcliffe pointed out, "the administra- tion of the Labor Cabinet has already been marked by distinguished suc- cesses.
"The appearance of Foreign Secre- tary Arthur Henderson at Geneva to secure the evacuation of the occupied territory of the Rhineland ; the appear- ance at The Hague of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden to represent Great Britain as chief dele- gate in the adoption of the Young plan where he maintained a position marked by integrity and directness — and the visit of Ramsay MacDonald to the United States to confer with President Hoover upon the question of disarma- ment — these events of international import have won the admiration and the support of the British nation as a whole."
The resumption of diplomatic rela- tions with the Soviet Government of Russia, as conducted by the MacDon- ald cabinet was a highly controversial action on the part of the diplomats and Ratcliffe outlined in detail the economic and political causes which led to the step.
"No act of a Premier has ever more nearly represented the feeling of the whole nation than did the visit of MacDonald to President Hoover," said Ratcliffe. "The reception ac-
corded the Prime Minister on his re turn from Washington was an amaz ing thing."
The potential adoption of the In dian constitution by which self-gov ernment is granted to the Indians and under which the country becomes a part of the British Commonwealth on Dominion status — ranking the same as Canada and Australia — was dis- cussed in detail by the speaker. He sees in the Indian situation the great- est possibility for political dangers to the Labor administration. Just how the MacDonald cabinet will meet the complexities of the Indian situation when, in February, the report on the proposed constitution is submitted to the House of Commons, is, he said, the subject for conjecture and is fraught with grave possibilities.
Ratcliffe laid special stress upon the coming London conference of the Five Powers in regard to naval limitation. With enthusiasm tempered by the pro- verbial British conservatism, he char- acterized the remarkable career of MacDonald, rising from humble be- ginnings in the north of Scotland to the highest post in England.
He paid, also, a high tribute to the remarkable character and ability of Snowden as the outstanding figure of the second Labor Cabinet in British history — a cabinet chosen in a single day by the Premier and marked by men of practical ability, most of them men of the ranks who have risen by their own efforts alone.
Visitor Pays Respects to Volunteer Service
S. K. Ratcliffe returned to San Francisco from Southern California a few days after his City Club lecture
and made a point of calling at the Club to pay his respects and express admiration for the Volunteer Service,
a system which, he said, was new in his experience, and one which he com- mended enthusiasticallv.
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Annual Election of Directors of Women's City Club
January 13, 1930
IN accordance with Section 2, Arti- cle VII of the Constitution and By-Laws of the National League for Woman's Service, the Nominat- ing Committee nominates for election, on January 13 (second Monday of January), to the Board of Directors the following:
Mrs. A. P. Black
Mrs. Wilder J. Bowers
Mrs. Le Roy Briggs
Dr. Adelaide Brown
Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper
Mrs. Douglas Cushman
Mrs. Hans Lisser
Miss Ida Lord
Miss Emma Noonan
Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard
Mrs. Payson J. Treat
THE committee appointed at the November meeting of the Board of Directors for the purpose of nominating candidates to serve as members of the Board for the term 1930-1933 submit the following re- port:
After discussion it was voted to re- adopt a previous policy of having no alternates on the ticket. The reasons are as follows:
In order to preserve a democratic non-sectarian organization as de- manded by the nature of the Club, the committee chose certain candidates representative of such a policy.
In order to preserve group repre- sentation the committee chose mem- bers living in particular districts, or representatives of some definite inter- est among the membership. This bal- ance might be destroyed by a vote which allowed an individual choice of candidates.
Added to this was the experience of the past two years when valuable can- didates presented to the membership were of necessity not voted "in." These same candidates were not voted "down," but because of the presence of a greater number of names on the ticket than there were places to be filled some were automatically de- feated.
Of the eleven candidates for the Board, six are incumbent — Mrs. A. P. Black, Mrs. Le Roy Briggs, Dr. Ade- laide Brown, Mrs. Charles Miner Cooper, Miss Emma Noonan, Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard. These are known to the members by their past service.
Of the five new candidates:
Mrs. Wilder Bowers of San Ma- teo, a member since 1925, represents a group of the younger members of the Club. She has had not only valu- able experience in the banking world but is at present associated with one of the large business houses in San Francisco. The members will remem- ber that Mrs. Bowers' mother, Mrs. Ernest Meiere, served as a member of the Board during 1922-1925, and that Miss Hildreth Meiere (now Mrs. Richard A. Goebel), a sister, was de- signer and donor of the lovely curtain which hangs on the stage in our audi- torium.
Mrs. Douglas Cushman, a San Franciscan by birth, a member since 1925, is an active member of the Vit- toria Colonna Society, of which she was a founder. She is on the Board of the Infant Shelter and a member of the Building Committee which has just erected the new home of the Shel-
ter on Nineteenth Avenue. Sht is a member of the Italy-America Society and of the San Francisco Musical Club. During the last six years she has spent about three years in Europe.
Mrs. Hans Lisser of San Francisco, a member since 1923, is representa- tive of a younger group and has al- ways been closely in touch with the activities of the Club. Mrs. Lisser has served as a member of the Shop Committee, has served for many years as a Volunteer in the Cafeteria and for the past year has been a member of the Volunteer Service Committee.
Miss Ida J . Lord of San Francisco, a member since 1921, who represents a group of the business women of the Club, has served as a member of the Education Committee under the chairmanship of both Mrs. Parker Maddux and Mrs. Thomas A. Stod- dard. She is at present a member of the Book Review Committee and has done much to contribute to the success of this group. Miss Lord is a former president of the Business and Profes- sional Women's Club.
Mrs. Payson J. Treat of Palo Alto, a member since 1920, acted as man- ager of the canteen at the Palo Alto Defenders' Club. She is now on the Palo Alto Scout Council and is also chairman of the House Committee of the Stanford Convalescent Home. Respectfully submitted.
No.MINATING COM.MITTEE
Mrs. W.F. Booth, Jr.
Chairman Miss Mabel L. Pierce Mrs. Edward H. Clark. Jr. Miss Emogene Hutchinson Miss Jean Mcintosh
A Talk With Mr. Me... {At New Year s)
By L. D. ElCHHORN
/ said to myself : "Though I'm far from well,
I am also far from 'down-and-out' ."
A voice of Encouragement whispered : "Tell
That to yourself ALOUD, and shout
In the ear of your ugly enemy. Doubt,
That he need not try to make you believe
That your race is run and that dreams are dead.'
So I spoke to myself ALOUD, and said: "Although today I am far from ivell, I am farther still from down-and-out!" Thus a legion of devils, escaped from Hell, By my affirmation tvere put to rout. Tomorroic shall rise another sun To see completion of deeds begun.
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Miss Garrett (left) and Aliss Clay tell of the pleasure they derive from directing and helping in the Cafeteria
Dav Volunteers
in Cafeteria
By Miss Elsa Garrett
PROBABLY no branch of the Volunteer Service is as interest- ing and comprehensive as that in the Cafeteria each day from 1 1 :30 a. m. till 1 :30 p. m. For it is here one comes in direct contact with more members of the Club than in any other department and therefore in closer touch with their various ideas and ideals and with the many activities that are continually taking place.
We average from 200 to 250 guests daily, and only those who have had the privilege of serving can know how much real pleasure and experience can be gotten out of these two hours. Every day we have a group of not less than six, headed by a captain, take up their various stations behind the steam and salad tables.
Many of our newer members, who are probably not as w«ll acquainted with our Cafeteria as those of the "333 Kearny Street days," will be astonished to know that two or three of these groups have existed for over a period of six years and that one faithful vol- unteer has poured coffee and tea for almost eight.
What better proof could we have of its popularity?
Any member who wants to join us is assured of a rousing welcome in either the luncheon or the dinner group.
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By Miss Mabel A. Clay
Chairman Night Volunteers
in Cafeteria
JUST as valiant as those Knights of King Arthur's Round Table, are those friends who stand back of the steam table for one and one- half hours every week to see that you are served. The service is from 5 :30 p. m. to 7 :00 p. m.
There is always room for new re- cruits, for we need sixty people to give an assurance of full crews. Some who can not serve every week like to serve as substitutes, some like to serve only once or twice a month.
It is not hard work, for there is a lot of fun. Haven't you seen those laughing groups back of the steam table, in their bright colored uniforms, having a merry laugh. Watch out for them, they learn a lot about you by looking over your tray, and trying to help you find food that is interesting and satisfying. They get to know all of your funny little habits, your likes and desires. Haven't you had them tell you, oh! try this, it's wonderful — they know how to get the chef to fix those extra things that you like.
Many of those serving behind the table are working elsewhere during the day; of course they are tired, but a change of work is a rest. Come and try it with us.
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Have You a Little Reso lution in Your Home?
By Mrs. W. F. Booth, Jr.
January and the beginning of an- other year!
The Volunteer Service Committee asks that among your New Year reso- lutions there be one setting apart a little time to share in the carrying on of the activities of the club. The com- mittee cannot reach each member per- sonalh^ therefore we ask that if you are willing to serve, you sign the reg- ister in Miss Osborn's ofiFice, fourth floor.
There are many branches of service, but none better known than the Cafeteria. It Avas from "Canteen Days" during the war that the idea sprang which resulted in the club as we see it today, and all or nearly all of the women responsible for the growth of this ideal served as Volun- teers in the Cafeteria. The Volunteer Service Committee introduces this month Miss Elsa Garrett, Chairman of the Day Cafeteria, and Miss Mabel Clay, Chairman of the evening crews. / < < CONTRACT BRIDGE The course of six lessons in contract bridge which Mr. Thomas L. Staples, author of "The Heart of- Contract," has been giving, has been so successful that, by request, it will be repeated.
The price of the course of six lec- tures will be $5.00. The lectures will be held on Friday evenings at eight o'clock, beginning January 3. Mem- bers may bring friends.
The method of teaching which Mr. Staples uses makes the lessons of in- terest both to experienced bridge players and to those who are just be- ginning the game.
While Mr. Staples prefers that the plajers make up their own tables, in case any member desires to join an- other table, the hostess will endeavor to find a place for her.
The regular "League" bridge meets Tuesday afternoons and evenings.
This is one of the interesting activ- ities of the City Club and many mem- bers look forward with keenest antici- pation to these bridge parties. Mem- bers and their friends meet weekly, without charge, for a social evening and a "game." Miss Emogene C. Hutchinson, chairman of the Bridge Section for the New Year, is expecting many new members to the Bridge Groups.
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By Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddaru Extract from her diary, written while Dr. and Mrs. Stoddard ivere traveling in South A merica
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VERY subject acquires an ad- ventitious importance to him who considers it with appli- cation," asserts Oliver Goldsmith in his meditation on "Polite Learning." Perhaps you may agree with our mu- tual friend after I relate and describe to you my adventurous undertaking and noteworthy experience in the in- tellectual Republic of Venezuela.
To begin : It happened in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, a quaint old city in the Torrid Zone that because of its altitude of nearly three thou- sand feet basks in the sweet climate of eternal Spring. A remarkable under- taking of uncertain issue was fitting in such a spot, for in this city was born the National hero, Simon Anto- nio de la Santissima Trinidad Bolivar, the "South American George Wash- ington." Son of a wealthy and vener- able Venezuelan family, a man of ex- treme personal magnetism and organ- izing ability, his life was a series of adventures, and culminated in the grand adventure of breaking down for all time Spain's domination in South America.
Thanksgiving Day at Home
THE time was near our Thanks- giving Day ; in fact, just two days before. At six in the morning our ship came to anchor off the principal sea- port of Venezuela, La Guaira, the gateway to Caracas. We watched the sun climb up over the hills that rise sharply aloft from the water's edge in steep cliffs of dull red and olive green. The village lay before us, a pictur- esque vision of scarlet-tiled roofs, white walls, blue walls, green walls, clustering thickly on the ocean-rim and diminishing to one or two colored spots as they retreated up the moun- tain-side, yet clinging there on the cut-in slopes as though on the lookout for intruding strangers. A swaying fringe of cocoanut palms lined the beach. A weather-beaten and ancient fort glared from its hill-projection.
To reach this port, landing must be by launch. Although so early in the morning, the day was broiling hot! Green and white breakers beat high over the breakwater. A precise and gentlemanly Scottish doctor gave me a friendly and much appreciated help- ing hand as 1 waited for the great waves to bring the launch to a level with the landing stairs. Huge drops of perspiration fell from his nose, fell
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from his chin, and showed damp through his immaculate silk shirt, as his reassuring hand steadied me on to the safe side of the gunwale. Even he, my dour Scottish friend, was forced to ejaculate, "This is a hell of a place'." You may judge from this sharp inci- dent the intensity of the heat. I thanked him promptly and whole- heartedly for his physical and spiritual comfort and aid.
As the Condor Flies ALTHOUGH Caracas is only XJL seven miles distant, as the con- dor flies, yet it is twenty-three miles by a winding mountain journey on a narrow-gauge electric train, " Friniera Clase." From the shabby station our course leads along the beach, through the cocoanut groves, passes the squalid water-front huts swarming with na- ked children, skirts the neat flowery garden walls, and ascends inland through the hills. We look below us again on to the scarlet-roofed village. La Guaira, nestled among the trees, below at the cocoanut groves swaying on the blue rim of the Caribbean Sea, and, in fancy, spin a fairy-tale or weave a tropical yarn, so engaging to the imagination and full of romance is the prospect !
The train plunges through narrow rock-bound tunnels, crosses massive modern culverts, as it rounds the curves and mounts the grade. There are not twenty yards of straight track
on the entire way. Hillsides stretch out before us, barren and dry, senti- nelled by pale green long-spined cacti. Deep gullies under us are riotous with jungle greens. Like a white snake gliding in and out, one spies the new paved motor road. We delight in broad vistas of white acacia trees in blossom, yellow acacia, and the scarlet flame tree, and myriads of purple, white and pink wildflowers — and over all an azure sky. Glorious! Near the top the fresh breeze of Spring cools our heated brows. We find Caracas set in a circle of blue-green mountains, fringed with sugar plantations and coffee groves, a pleasing city of a hun- dred and forty thousand souls, with typical Spanish streets, narrow and rocky, plazas and several broad ave- nues. Donkeys jog along the streets with huge red barrels lashed to their sides as the driver sits on a black folded blanket between the barrels. The women of lower rank drape their heads and shoulders in the black man- tas. The language is Spanish, the buildings are old and worn. Every- thing is redolent of the Spanish colo- nial era, in spite of the fact that this city enjoys a modern ice plant, electric power house, telephone and other modern improvements. An hour's ride revealed La Plaza Bolivar, con- taining a splendid statue of the Lib- erator, a gloomy cathedial, the three- {Continued on page 22)
Peruvian Aztec Ruin in .hides
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O you dance?" said the seal. "I waltz," said Alice, and swam in circles to illustrate. "Charming," said the seal, twirling the ends of his moustaches — "but — mortuary. Down here none but the dead waltz. How about a cheerful little Charleston?"
"What's that?" Alice looked sulky. "Oh, you'll see — easy to pick up as a pebble — Fanny May Bell — she'll show you — great artist — teach any- body— taught a walrus yesterday."
"It sounds tiring," said Alice coldly. "I might not react."
"Piffle," said the seal, "hot bath, massage, oil rub — you'll be as good as new."
"Hot bath," sniffed Alice, "where's the heat?"
"Pittsburg heater, my dear — don't you have 'em above — wonderful things — service and efficiency — you simmer in five minutes — boil in ten — positively aquaceous!"
"Mm— "said Alice.
"Then—" the seal went on smoothly — "thorough mas- sage — Erickson and Swenson — experts, both of 'em — all the latest Swedish digs — then — an oil rub."
"Linseed ?" nervously. "Certainly not — STAR Olive oil — imported — best there is — "
"Pooh" — Alice tilted her chin, "that's for French dressing."
The seal looked a shade annoyed — "The French being a super civilized people may very possibly use it, but always — " here he flicked an imagi- nary bit of seaweed off his sleek shirt front — "but always, I venture to as- sert, previous to dressing."
"Oh, all right," said Alice im- patiently— "go on — "
"Well, if you're at all interested," the seal still looked a trifle miffed, "I'd suggest a nap. Dance, bath, massage, rub, nap) — natural progression — " "Where'd I nap?" asked Alice. "On an Airflex of course — the only life-giving, beauty-restoring mattress. Got old Ponce de Leon and his puddle skinned a mile! Positively rejuvenat-
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"Will it make me younger?" Alice alarmed.
"Oh, dear me yes."
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Volume III January ' 1930 Number 12
EDITORIAL
I
HAD no idea."
When Miss Leale addressed the Downtown As- sociation at a recent luncheon, a dozen or so men came to her at the close of the meeting and said, in effect, "Why, I had no idea that the Women's City Club did this or that, stood for this or offered that to members."
"My wife is a member, and has been since the beginning of the Club, but '1 had no idea' that your ideal was so splendid or your program so comprehensive," said one.
Which again tends to prove that nearness to an object or institution is apt to distort the perspective so that one sees but a detail instead of the object in its entirety and big- ness. The men at that luncheon literally received new light on something which had been within their ken for several years. Many realized for the first time the very cardinal principles upon which the City Club is built. It is prob- able that their wives, members though they be, do not recognize that there are many points about the San Fran- cisco City Club which set it apart from all other clubs of the world — and the world contains quite a number.
There are several specific things which make the San Francisco City Club "different," and many intangible things. In the former category are Volunteer Service and Vocational Guidance.
Volunteer Service is as big as bestowal itself, or bounty. It is not, strictly speaking, benevolence, for it enriches the donor and its largess is so graciously disseminated that there is no individual recipient. Like hospitality, its charm is warm and human, generic and reciprocal. Throughout the Club its munificence is felt — in the cafeteria, in the lounge where tea is served every afternoon, in the shop, in the library, in the very atmosphere of the place as a whole. It is not a beneficence ; it is an esprit de corps.
Vocational Guidance is as definite and as unique as Volunteer Service. One of the directors has cleverly made a pun about the two V's, saying she saw everything through "V. V.'s Eyes," the title of a popular novel of a decade ago.
Printed on the inside back cover of this number of the Magazine (and for three.months past) is a list of "What the Women's City Club of San Francisco Offers Its Mem- bers." It might not be amiss at the beginning of the New Year to con it again.
^ ^appp i^etD Pear
IN wishing each member a Happy New Year I am wondering what happiness means for each of us — how much of it is associated with this Women's City Club which has potentialities so great that many times within the past few months I have been sobered in thought by the responsibility of membership in an organization which has an ideal demanding the best of each of us. Let us run over the things which should make us happy in this new year.
First, we enjoy the privileges of one of the finest club- houses in the world, a superlative statement which never- theless defies contradiction, for not only is this clubhouse of ours architecturally correct, but it is also furnished so that the old-fashioned English term of "homely" best describes the interior from swimming pool and Beauty Salon to bedrooms. Secondly, we should be happy in the consciousness that we are members of something not for what we can get out of it, but for what we can give to it — as evidenced by the thousands of hours which the Chair- man of Volunteer Service reports each month. Thirdly, democracy and internationalism are not terms to us. they are actual facts.
Heterogeneous Membership
WE come from every group of society, every sect of religion, every political party. We entertain rep- resentatives of every nation — both men and women. Our committee members this year have represented varied groups in an effort to meet the entire membership with the news of programs which are of the highest standard, and which, while educative in themselves, bring to us sjjeakers from all parts of the earth who can authoritatively give us first hand information. Fourthly, we can point with pride to the opportunities given almost daily to us to open our doors in a spirit of hospitality to strangers from other lands and other parts who come to us to learn "Why is America and Why This California?" Here they are welcomed and made to feel at home.
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HERE they break bread with us and may meet in- formally men and women of California who discuss with them without fear of misunderstanding national and international problems so that these visitors see through Western eyes, and we in turn learn other pv)ints of view and broaden our vistas to include the world.
I could go on ad infinitum with causes for rejoicing in this membership in The National League for Woman's Service, were time to allow. These are only a few examples to prove why it is appropriate for the President of this particular organization to say "Happy New ^ ear " to all.
What Price Affiliation ?
OPPOSn E this, what are the inconveniences of group association ? What is the price we pay for these joys ? We are not unmindful of these things of course: the show- ing of cards in the elevators to keep out those who would abuse our home, the waiting when we are in a hurry while others are served first, the establishment of rules to protect the majority against the whims of the one selfish soul who is learning (albeit unconsciously) the lesson which she must six)ner or later learn if she is to be one with us — the fact that our building is not yet ours and that much of our income for the next few years must be expended for inter- est. These are the major Cvimplaints we can make. A small list indeed compared to the joys we covet.
And so we come to 1930 with joy in our hearts for the organization which we have builded. It needs no apology. It is healthy in body and mind. Its clubhouse is beautiful, its spirit is rare. V/e can truly say to one another H APP"\' NEW YEAR! Marion Whitfieij) Leale.
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WOMEN S CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for JANUARY
1930
The Charm of Old England in Rare Architectural Prints
IT is a rare treat to find a collection of old English architectural prints such as those at the Courvoisier Gallery, directly across the street from the City Club. The treat is rare, both because the prints are scarce and there- fore little seen, and also because such mellow charm is unique in the field of art.
The charm of eighteenth century England actually emanates from the old prints as one sits and drinks them in, glad of the opportunity to receive, at first hand, the impressions of this group of eminent artists who worked during the one hundred years follow- ing 1750. The medium creating these remarkable results is technically termed chromolithography, the work being done on stone in soft coloring. It is only to be regretted that this method has long since passed into dis- use as the rush of modern times has had no patience with the tedious labor involved in the preparation and print- ing of prints of this character.
As to the subject matter, the thing that immediately strikes the observer is the great difference between them and what in more modern times has come to be considered the typical man- ner of making architectural prints. Today it is all fine line work, the draughtsman, whether upon the etcher's plate or the lithographer's stone, seeming to concentrate all his effort upon the delineation with a sharp point of the more picturesque nooks and crannies of old buildings. In these older prints the buildings were seen as wholes and were accordingly rendered with broad, flat washes of color, an incidental result of which is that their work has a solidity, an ap- preciation of the mass of a building, and a quiet serenity.
Not only are these chromolitho- graphs interesting for their architec- tural significance, but also for their in- sight into the romantic life of the people, especially the aristocracy, of that period. Two of the prints in the Courvoisier collection show this to a marked degree. They are done by Nash and reproduce the cheery custom of "Bringing in the Yule Log at Penhurst Hall, Kent," and "A Mas- querade Ball in the Banqueting Hall, Hadden, Derbyshire." These two prints are full of the gaiety and spirit of the moment and much can be learned from a study of the detail in them. Here one has complete and authentic reproductions of architec- tural detail, costume designs and cus- toms of the people.
In direct contrast are the prints de- picting the serene and spacious living rooms of the old castles with the chil- dren playing about the feet of the mistress of the house.
In contrast to these affairs of a jollier nature are the prints in which the artists have depicted the formality of the large and spacious halls of the mansions of old England. Here the people are engaged in the more casual social functions of the times with more attention given to the architectural aspects of the picture.
For color harmony, Hague may be said to be outstanding. His combina- tions of light and shades are very subtle and pleasing. In many of the prints by this artist a soft mist seems to lurk in the corners of the rooms and cathedral interiors depicted, a mellowness that does not come so much from age as from the innate abil- ity of the artist himself.
All in all, this collection may be said to be one that is particularly worth while seeing. In viewing it one lives again the romantic past of old England.
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1930
What the Galleries Offer for the New Year
DURING the holiday season this year San Francisco has an outdoor gallery. Union Square is showing a Christmas tree which is of such noble proportions and so beau- tiful in its relation to the park space and buildings about it that it becomes a true work of art. Thus with art radiating from the heart of San Fran- cisco and with notable exhibits in the several galleries perhaps Santa Claus will turn art collector.
At Courvoisier's on Post Street, half a block away, the current exhibit is a collection of etchings by Califor- nia artists, and across the way, hung in the City Club auditorium, there is a showing of prints by European artists.
Albert Gos is the holiday exhibitor at the East-West gallery. Gos is a Swiss Alps painter of international reputation (several of his convases hang in the Luxembourg). Among his landscapes on exhibition is one called "Arolla," of the great conifer pines at Jermatt, which he dedicated to his close friend Eugene Ysaye. The Director of the Gallery, Mrs. Chas. Curry, is holding a holiday reception on December 26th, in honor of the artist, and Hother Wismer will play one of Ysaye's compositions, which was inspired by his visit to the Alpine country with Albert Gos.
The Brainard Lemon Silver Col- lection from Louisville, Kentucky, which usually comes in January to Vickery, Atkins & Torrey, arrived this year in time for holiday buying. Al- though the beautiful exhibition of water colors, by Stanley Wood, was held last month, several of his can- vases may be seen on request.
Unusually extensive is the annual Christmas exhibition by Beaux Arts members because of the new facility in gallery space at 166 Geary Street. The first gallery is hung with water colors and pastels ; gay bits of life and color from Telegraph Hill by Otis Oldfield ; a brilliant yellow canvas of poplars by Lucien Labaudt, quaint scenes from Europe by Lucy Pierce and Phillips Lewis, and an interesting composition "From a Houseboat," by William Gaw.
Piazzoni Again Scores
IN the assemblage of small oils we are struck immediately by "Hill- side" of Piazzoni. Perhaps no artist can handle a landscape in so small an area, with quite the feeling shown by the Dean of California painters. One of the most interesting oils in Ray Boynton's recent one-man show is the
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small scene in Carmel Valley hung again in the group show. Several of the painters have depicted San Fran- cisco Bay — Helen Forbes, Nelson Poole and Smith O'Brien. Also among the drawings in the next gallery there is a lithographic pencil sketch of Mon- terey Bay by Lucy Pierce, which shows a new vit^lity in her work. Sev- eral large red chalk heads by Stafford Duncan are beautifully designed and original in their use of this medium. Next to them on the wall are wash drawings by H. Oliver Albright, which have a decorative handling quite original with this artist.
In the Christmas exhibit the Beaux Art Gallery has included a collection of lithographs by the oustanding print makers of the east. All the strength and vitality which is best in the mod- ern tendency makes this collection of lithographs of special interest. Wanda Gag's print of an interior shows how simple objects can be glorified when handled by a true artist. Little won- der that this print has been reproduced in many of the eastern art magazines this month.
In the last gallery etchings by Cali- fornian and Eastern artists are being shown. Smith O'Brien in his latest dry point "Headlands" has struck a note which marks progress for this artist. Among the etchers from the east we find "A Palm Leaf Fan" by Hayes Miller, executed with particu- lar feeling for form. Richard Lahey, who is showing several prints, has a "Christmas Card" which shows the delicacy of this consummate drafts- man. Also among the woodblocks, two by Boynton commemorate the Christmas Child, "Nativity" and a large block of "Creation."
At the edge of Chinatown, where by the way, the Christmas spirit greets us from every window, Rudolph Schaeffer is holding an exhibition of work by his students of lacquered fur- niture, trays, glassware and textiles.
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The third Decorative Art Exhibi- tion sponsored by the San Francisco Society of Women Artists, Mrs. Enie- lie Sievert Weinberg, president, and the Women's City Club will be held at the Women's City Club in April.
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Hoover Makes History
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TWO volumes — nearly twelve hundred closely printed pages — contain the documentary history of the greatest humanitarian enter- prise the world has yet known. In these countless letters, telegrams notes, memos, reports, we read the circumstantial story of that "piratical state organized for benevolence." And these documents, however dry and scholarly they may appear, tell a breathless, vivid tale, an epic adven- ture, in which the White Knight wielding the sword of justice sweeps through a four-year battle, righting wrongs and succoring the innocent.
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FROM the pages emerges one chief figure — Herbert Hoover. The ac- complishments of the Commission which he headed seem beyond any hu- man power. Now, eleven years after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, we read more of the A. E. F. than of the C. R. B., and har-owing tales of mud and blood are on every bookshelf. But, had the generals on either side pos- sessed the genius of the leader of the C. R. B., the slaughter might have ended long before that eleventh hour. To organize and maintain a billion- dollar business operating in nearly every country in the world, would be no small task under the happiest con- ditions. To do this almost overnight, building on nothing, in a world dis- traught by war — and to do it indeed in the very heart of the conflict — is what Herbert Hoover did.
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{Continued from page 17) hundred-year-old University, the Pan- theon, burial place of all Venezuelan national heroes, a tranquil old Moor- ish patio, in the Presidential mansion, and the Avenida Paraiso, which Para- dise Avenue is lined with commodious residences, and we were surprised, at its termination, to find a huge statue of "Don Jorge Washington" — the North American Bolivar.
We were leisurely enjoying the na- tive cheriinoya and orange juice at luncheon and the orchestra, striving to please us, had struck up ear-split- ting jear-old North American jazz tunes, and had been finally persuaded to play warm, languorous South American tangoes instead, when news spread that, since this was Sunday, a bull fight was scheduled. Thus came about my participation in an exciting occurrence. The Spirit of Adventure breathed upon us! We hurried away, regardless of a sudden thunder-storm, to the bull ring in La Plaza de Torros.
Brilliant Pink Rings
ON the program I saw that the bull ring was named "Nuevo Circo." This new ring is painted a brilliant pink and boasts two high arched entrances that give into a wide stone lobby. From this, steps lead to the seats around the bull ring. The arena is made of packed wet sand, and fenced off from the spectators by a circular, solid, wooden barrier, man- high, and painted red. On the bull's side of this wall and parallel to it, at equal intervals, around the ring are eight wooden safety shelters, six feet wide and also as high as a man, be- hind which the fighters dodge when the onrushing bull comes dangerously near. Between the red fence of the fighting circle and the first row of stone seats is a twenty-five foot pass- ageway. This is necessary for safety's sake, as the bull, in its distracted on- slaught, often vaults the fence. "Be- lieve or not!" The bull did thus-
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wise on this particular occasion!! The front row of seats stands eight feet above the ground and is further guarded with a low solid stone wall. Near the front entrance of the arena are twelve seats for the press and twelve for the Municipal Council. All the boxes are faced with low walls, over which are thrown gay shawls and blue, silver, orange and black banners. Above the bo.xes, on up to the top, are the cheaper grand- stand seats. Prices range from eight dollars a single box seat to one dollar a grandstand seat. United States gold standard. Seats on the shady side of the grandstand are sixty cents more than those on the sunny side. Above the press seats, on a sheltered plat- form, is the band, and above the band, under a gold and white canopy, sit the Judges and the Governor.
Altar for Toreadors AT the exact opposite side of the ■LX. circh are the gates to the bull pens. A series of ropes and pulleys operates each door to each pen by which each bull is let out of its dark- ened stall into the dazzling blaze of sunlight in the ring. But "fell Ser- jeant Death is strict in his arrest," for close by these stalls in a tiny, white- washed room stands an altar, brightly decorated with images, candlec and flowers. Here the fighter always of- fers a last prayer before entering the ring himself.
The thunder, lightning flashes and rain have ceased. Gentle gray after- noon light touches the banks of fleecy clouds as they float down the nearby cordon of blue-gre;n mountains. The band strikes up a sprightly tune. The people send up a great shout, and the red gates of the ring swing slowly open. Three matadores and several banderilleros and capeodores rigidly march in, followed by decorated mule teams and the muleros. They all pause just within the gates. The applause is terrific. Then falls a hush of expec- tancy, as each fighter composedly walks around the ring and finally runs to his position. He majestically takes off his long, soft, yellow leather capa, then tosses it over thj wooden shelter so that the magenta satin lining catches the light. The matadores are all coated alike, in short Spanish jack- ets entirely embroidered and bejew- elle.d with gold and silver braid. But {Continued on page 31)
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I 9.^0
Women^s Club Home Economics
By Christina S. Madison
JANUARY is a difficult month for most of us. We stand upon the threshold of a new year and the days yet to be unfolded are like the pages of an unread book. They are blank now — what will we write upon them? For these pages are in our own hands — the cover is a thing of beauty — life itself — and the pages are our days.
Make of them an interesting story this year. To do so the smallest de- tails of our lives must be considered in order that every moment of the twenty-four hours will be worth while — not spent in laborious tasks or in useless regrets. And this month is apt to be filled with both — for the home is upset, we are all tired from the holiday festivities and there are many bills which must be met.
DON'T you think it would be wise to start right in to budget your time and income, so that both will make nineteen-thirty the happiest year you have ever known ? Take a few hours and check over your daily rou- tine, income and labor saving equip- ment. Are you repeating tasks when one efiFort would be sulificient? Using a broom instead of a vacuum cleaner? Cooking upon a poor stove and not one with a heat controlled oven ? Or keeping your food iii a cooler or make- shift refrigerator where it spoils quickly, while a modern box operated by electricity insures i>erfect refriger- ation and permits weekly buying of most of your dairy and meat products? If so, then you are spending many needless hours of labor; more money upon your table and even risking food spoilage.
When making out your budget this year, try to include as many labor saving appliances as your income will permit. If you can not pay cash — then allow monthly payments so they may be installed immediately. They
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soon pay for themselves — for the cleaner is more efficient than the broom — the dust is gone, not scattered over the house and your carpets and draperies and the work is accomplished in half or less the usual time. And with a heat controlled oven one does not have to watch the cooking. Whole meals may be cooked at once which allows freedom for other things and the knowledge that each baking will be perfectly done means a lot to one who takes pride in her home. An elec- tric refrigerator permits buying in large quantities which adds to the monthly savings.
WITH these three aids in home- making, there should also be included a well stocked emergency shelf. Not only in all homes, but es- pecially where business or outside in- terests limit the hours spent upon these tasks. The woman of this type may spend the evening in town several times each week, dining at the club content in knowing that the food will keep until required — several days at least. She should have plenty of milk, cream, butter and eggs; also lettuce and fruit. Then an hour will suffice for the evening meal.
A little of this or that may be com- bined, perhaps with the addition of a can from the emergency shelf. Left- over combination vegetable salad, or
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just sliced tomatoes and lettuce with a small sliced onion and a steak or roast bone covered with cold water will make a delicious soup. One cup each of canned corn, cold boiled rice, chopped cooked ham, beef and one or two sausages from breakfast may be mixed with a beaten egg, a little milk and highly seasoned to form a delicious meat loaf. One does not have to use exact recif)es and a variety of foods makes a better loaf than just meat. Small quantities of left over meats may be minced and served in gravies.
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1930
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The Bride — Oh, Harry! I phoned to tell you the bad news. The cook has just given notice. What shall I do, dear?
Harry — First, don't worry. And sec- ond, just as soon as you finish talking to me, call the Examiner, ask for an Ad-Taker and let her help you write your ad. You'll have more cooks by tomorrow night than the Palace Hotel.
The Examiner's 'phone number, by the way, is SUtter 2424 — East Bay, GLencourt 5442. You may 'phone your Want Ad. — • —
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With a limited amount of leftovers, one may add canned soup for a large family ; or glasses of chipped beef may be creamed — so may any of the canned fish, such as crab, shrimp, lobster and tuna. For a different flavor season with a teaspoon of curry powder and then serve the fish over hot rice, in- stead of toast.
FOR quick desserts where one has whipped cream on hand — there should be stale sponge or angel cake or perhaps lady fingers too. If quite dry, the dessert will require longer chilling so the cake will be moist. In the electric refrigerator, these desserts are nice frozen but will just chill thor- oughly in a short time. A layer of any of this type of cake with a thin spread of whipped cream, then one of sliced canned peaches, or well drained canned berries or freshly sliced bana- nas, another layer of cake, then a topping of whipped cream with a cherry to garnish makes a tasty, yet very attractive dish.
Leftover cake — either cocoanut or devil's food crumbled fine and mixed with a cupful of custard or tapioca cream and an equal quantity of whipped cream is different from the usual frozen sweet and two hours will be sufficient for a soft freeze. One may evolve many desserts in this way and it is best to make enough to serve two meals whenever you are having a cooked cream of any kind or a gela- tine mixture. A spoonful of fruit gel- atine in a sherbet cup with another of custard or tapioca cream, topped with whipped cream and a cherry of- fers a guest dessert. Or if you have very little, first line the glass with split halves of lady fingers; plain cus- tards topped with whipped cream with four macaroons in cone formation on the top is another combination.
FOR those who do not care for or desire such rich food, frozen fruits, either juice or part pulp are nice. Sherbets made with egg whites are best when made by this aid and it is well
to remember that in freezing sweet mixtures in electrical refrigerators, one has better results if egg whites, whipped cream or granulated gelatine is used — otherwise some liquids form ice crystals which are unpleasant.
Frozen salads for the family dinner may serve both as that course and dessert also; and for small families one can divide the mixture adding all whipped cream to half of it flavoring with vanilla ; with mayonnaise for the other half.
Grapefruit is popular now, perhaps this sherbet recipe will offer a change for some of you from the usual fruits.
To make grapefruit sherbet : Soak one-half teaspoonful of granulated gelatine in one tablespoon of cold water for five minutes. Next make a syrup by boiling three-fourths cup of sugar and one cup of boiling water together ; then add the soaked gelatine and stir until dissolved. Let cool slightly. Now add a few grains of salt, two tablespoons of lemon juice and two cups of grapefruit juice. Strain, then turn into your freezing pans and freeze about three hours.
Ice box cakes are the ideal guest desserts for they are made the day be- fore the party. This sweet is a year 'round dish, for canned strawberries are nice and can be substituted for the luscious fresh fruit.
HAVE ready a spring form mold lined with wax paper. Around the sides place halves of lady fingers closely. Cut off the lower end so they form an even row. Then in the bot- tom of the pan place more halves in the spokes of a wheel formation. Next pour in a layer of filling, add another layer of the small cakes, repeating until the pan is filled or you have used all of the filling. When ready to serve top with an inch of slightly sweetened and flavored whipped cream, with a strawberry in the center of each serving.
To make the strawberry filling:
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1930
Soak one-half envelope or one table- spoon of granulated gelatine in one- fourth cup of cold water for five min- utes ; then dissolve by standing the cup in a pan of boiling water. Strain into one cup of strawberry juice and pulp; add one tablespoon of lemon juice and one-half cup or more of sugar and stir until sugar dissolves. Then set your mixing bowl in a pan of ice water or into the refrigerator for a few minutes — though it requires con- stant watching — and stir until mix- tures commences to thicken ; then fold in one and one-half cups of pastry cream which has been stiffly whipped. When thoroughly blended it is ready to be combined with the lady fingers. This filling may be arranged in sherbet glasses alone or with a cake lining if preferred.
For a spaghetti dish: Have ready one cup of turkey cut into strips. Then blend two tablespoons of butter with three of flour and let cook until mix- ture bubbles, then add one cup of top milk or thin cream. Season with one- half teaspoon of salt, one-fourth tea- spoon of celery salt, one-eighth tea- spoon of pepper and a few drops of Worcestershire sauce. When sauce has thickened and is boiling, add the cup of turkey, and one-half cup of cooked spaghetti cut in small pieces, one-half cup of sliced mushrooms, (canned or saute fresh ones in a bit of butter) and mix well. Then turn into a well oiled baking dish — top with buttered crumbs and place in oven to lightly brown.
With ham: Make a cream sauce of two tablespoons each of butter and flour to each cup of milk and when thick, add one cup each of diced ham and turkey. Mix lightly and serve over either boiled noodles or toast points, garnishing each service with slices of hard cooked eggs.
Minced turkey may be substituted for chicken and made into a mousse
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Dissolve one-half package of lemon flavored gelatine in one cup of boiling broth (made from the bones). When cold and slightly thickened beat until the consistency of whipped cream. Then add one cup of chicken or tur- key, coarsely chopped, one cup of celery cut fine and a pimento cut fine that has been thoroughly mixed with a tablespoon of vinegar, one-half tea- spoon of salt and a little pepper. After combining with the thickened gelatine, fold into one-half cup of pastry cream that has been stiffly whipped. Turn into a mold first rinsed with cold water. Place in refrigerator until set, then turn out onto a platter garnished with water cress, sliced tomatoes and large ripe olives or stufifed pimolas.
Leftover celery may be boiled gently in bouillon and served chilled with a filling of Roquefort cheese, that has been mashed and seasoned with Wor- cestershire sauce; or cut into cubes, steamed or boiled in salted water and added to a cream sauce. Mashed potatoes may be made into small cakes, dusted with flour and browned in but- ter ; or mixed with minced onion and a tasty dressing, then made into tiny balls, rolled into chopped parsley and served on lettuce as a salad. Then again, one may heat in a double boiler, then whip with a fork, adding hot milk — so they are very like freshly cooked potatoes. Or, add a beaten egg and brown in the oven.
With plenty of milk, eggs and but-
ter, a variety of seasonings and a small quantity of ham, this year's turkey should not be a problem. Be sure to plan your meal so that the coffee is ready at the proper time, as it adds so much to one's prestige as a hostess. / < *■ FINE FOR NOT VOTING "There shall be a fine of twenty- five cents imposed on each member who fails to vote at the annual elec- tion"— Article VIII — City Club By- Laws.
1930
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1930
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Contemporary Literature Course
In line with courses given in pre- vious years, Professor Benjamin H. Lehman of the University of Califor- nia will give a course of eight lectures on Contemporary Literature, begin- ning January 21 and continuing there- after every Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. The lectures will be given in the City Club Auditorium under the auspices of the Club, with Mrs. Ed- ward Rainey, chairman of the com- mittee, in charge.
The price of a course ticket is five dollars and single lectures seventy-five cents.
Following are the titles and dates: January 21 —
Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize
Winner. January 28 —
Novels of the year: All Quiet on
the Western Front, A Farewell to
Arms, Ex- Wife, American Colony,
Dodsworth, and others. February 4 —
Biographies: Henry VIII-Up to
Now, Alice Meynell, Bryan, Mark
Hanna, Mary Baker Eddy. February 11 —
Sir James Jeans, The Universe
Around Us and other books on the
New Science. February 18 —
Robert Louis Stevenson, by request. February 25 —
Bowers' The Tragic Era, Myths
after Lincoln and others. March 4—
The Poets, Jeffers, Auslander,
Bynner, Helen Hoyt.
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Continued from page 18)
"How much younger?" apprehen- sively.
"Oh, I don't know — ladies vary so
A big under-water wave struck them — on its crest rode a long and elegant eel, wearing a monocle. He hooked his walking stick around the seal's neck — "Hello, Old Top — how's the Boy?" glancing sidewise at Alice.
"Oh, hello," said the seal, not too cordiallj' — "where'd you float from?"
"Been week-ending out of town — Saratoga Inn — sweet spot — garden, climate, birds, everything — who's the lady? " he dropp>ed his voice.
"Name's Alice," said the seal short- ly— "origin uncertain."
The eel stared through his mon- ocle. "Winsome, I should say — defin- itely winsome — mind if I come along?"
"She's fussy," warned the seal.
The eel coughed delicately. He made a graceful swoop in front of Alice — "My name is Eel — double e-1 — old Norman family — would you care for a ride?"
Alice giggled — "Where to?"
"Unimportant, quite unimjxjrtant — " he flipped a supple figure eight — "May I help you up?" — he arched his back invitingly.
Alice hesitated.
"We'll lunch at the Oak Tree Inn down the highway — planked steaks, apples in rum, batiks on the walls, color, atmosphere — "
"But I've got my old shoes on" — Alice objected weakly.
"Unimportant — unimportant — we'll stop at Frank More's — suede pumps, silver slippers, everything in footwear — come on — " and he bent his back still lower.
"But I haven't any money" — Alice looked troubled.
"Don't need any," said the seal gallantly.
"I do so," Alice snapped.
"There — there" — the eel spoke soothingly. "I'll tell you how to make some, if you like — easiest thing — sell Bookhouse — I knew a pretty goldfish once made a bucketful that way — dressed herself and seven sisters — "
"Really?" said Alice, flushing with excitement.
"Pos-i-tive-ly. Now — hop up!"
"Wait a minute," cried Alice, hold- ing on to his mane, "Do wait a min- ute!"
"What for?" said the eel.
"Could the seal come?"
The eel bit his lip — "Anything you like, my dear."
"It isn't like, so much," said Alice, "as being used to — "
{To be continued)
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1930
Public Health
By Adelaide Brown, M. D.
I. Dr. Margaret Smyth, who has been connected with the State Hos- pital at Stockton, since her graduation from Cooper Medical College (now Medical Department of Stanford University) has been appointed Med- ical Superintendent of the Hospital. Dr. Smyth has studied psychiatry in Europe and America and has been head of the women's department of the State Hospital for many years. This is a milestone in the state recognition of women. With every qualification but the unalterable barrier of six, in the candidate, California's Governor made this appointment. Congratula- tions to us as women and to Governor Young for this action.
H. Undulant fever reports for the year show 65 cases identified by tests in California and emphasize again the need of brucella abortus free herds. This subject has been granted money for research by the Certified Milk Producers' Association of America, and one centre of work is our Hooper Foundation of the Medical Depart- ment of the University of California.
HI. Educational Lectures on Eu- genics. This course is given under the auspices of the American Association of University Women, and the San Francisco Center.
Place: St. Francis Hotel.
Dates: January 17, 24, 31. Friday evenings at 8 o'clock.
Subjects:
I. Some Disregarded Aspects of Life. Dr. A. W. Meyer, Professor of Anatomy, Stanford University.
n. The Federal and State Laws and their Application. Annette Abott Adams; Dr. F. O. Butler, Medical Director, Sonoma State Home ; Dr. Margaret Smyth, Medical Superin- tendent State Hospital, Stockton.
HL The Present Status of Ma- ternal Health Clinics in California.
Dr. Adelaide Brown, Chairman Maternal Health Clinic Committee, A. A. U. W.
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Sunday Evening Concert
THE next concert of the Women's City Club will be given on Sun- day evening, January 12, 1930 at 8 :20 o'clock in the main auditorium of the club building. Miss Ruth Viola Davis and Mrs. Frederick R. Grannis will be hostesses on this eve- ning. A very interesting program is promised. Among those participating are Madame Sophie Samorukova, the distinguished Russian Prima-Donna, who will sing a group of Russian, German and English songs; Mr. Harry Moulin, a talented young violinist who will play "On Wings of Song" by Mendelssohn-Achron and "Zapateado" by Sarasate. Several others will also appear on the pro- gram. The members and their guests are cordiallv invited to attend.
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1930
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Attention of San Fran-
/"^ cisco and of guests who linger -*■ -^in her far-famed attractions is merited for a number of reasons by the William Taylor Hotel, opening January 15.
The first hotel sky-scraper in the city, the twenty-eight storied tower of the new building is outstanding above a city renowned for its fine hotels and traditional flavor of cordial hospitality.
In the recessed tower, high above the floors of the hotel itself, are suites of apartments, designed for permanent tenants, where San Franciscans for a season or a year, may find a home-like atmosphere, with hotel service, lifted far above the distant sounds of traffic, yet convenient to the center of events.
On the lower floors the public rooms — dining room, coffee shop and facilities for the accommodation of large groups — of5er exceptional ad- vantages for the traveling public, either singly or en masse.
One wing of the new building, sup- ported on gigantic steel girders, ex- tends over the Cathedral Unit in which is housed the Temple Methodist Episcopal Church, with auditorium capable of seating 1800 worshippers, and with commodious offices, halls and auditoriums for groups of lesser size and a private chapel for weddings and other occasional use.
The Woods-Drury Company, James Woods, president, and Ernest Drury, vice president and general manager, will operate the William Taylor Hotel, in conjunction with its first house, the Hotel Whitcomb.
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CITY CLUB MAGAZINE for JANUARY
1930
What Will You Build in 1930?
By Agnes N. Alwyn
PROSPERITY, we are assured by bankers and economists, should continue to bless America. The effort of each individual toward optimism, business confidence and con- structive effort will help to build a sound national morale.
The President of the United States has gathered around him the business and labor leaders of the country who have pledged themselves to give every aid and unstinted cooperation to main- tain the prosperity of our nation.
Let us as individuals each add our bit of cooperation by carrying on in our own business, whatever it may be, with courage. Also with firm con- fidence in mind that basically this country is just as sound and prosperous as it was prior to the decline in stock prices.
The stock market furnished an ex-' ample of mass psychology and hysteria which resulted very badly for many people who were speculating when they should have been safe and sane investors.
Let us take warning by the stock market and not talk ourselves or our country into a business recession or depression, or any other condition that translated into every day phraseology means "hard times." There is no reason nor excuse for such a condition to be created any more than there was sound reason for good securities to reach absurdly low price levels other than mass panic and hysteria.
Speculation Versus Investment
EVERY experience adds to the sum total of one's knowledge and wis- dom so the lesson to be learned now is the difference between speculation and investment. Permanent security and prosperity is only gained by industry, thrift, and the careful and wise in- vestment of surplus funds.
To many a surplus can only be ac- cumulated by saving, sacrificing many pet extravagances, but it is well worth doing because now and again oppor- tunities occur to buy real investment bargains, and cash enables one to take advantage of them.
We all know that sound investment means, first, safety of principal, second, an adequate return on the capital in- vested, and third, the ability to con- vert a certain proportion of one's securities into cash in an emergency. Only by careful investment planning can these results be obtained.
Each of us should have in mind an idea of what we want to accumulate. We should also measure our ability to realize our plan. If your income is such that you should in reason be able
to accumulate, say, ten thousand dol- lars in a given period of time, do s<jme earnest thinking and work out a schedule that will start the plan on its way. If your income justifies a plan to accumulate one thousand dollars in 1930 go to it and corral the thousand dollars. You and I have heard many times that the first thousand is the hardest, so the sooner one gets it to- gether the better because the worst part is then over.
At any rate make a plan, but don't make it too difficult of accomplishment because one may get discouraged if the task set is too hard. Make a financial plan that is really possible to carry through, then stick with it through thick and thin. The possession of the first thousand makes one feel quite satisfied. Then start to garner the second thousand and carry on until your plan is an accomplished reality. The possession of capital gives a sense of security and protection that is very comforting to anyone, but especially so to women and men who have de- pendents relying upon them for their needs.
Sound investment has long been recognized as one of the best ways to put dollars to work. In view of the rather limited experience of the aver- age investor in. dealing with securities there is little wonder that a feeling of uncertainty exists when attempting to choose investments. For this reason it is wiser to seek competent advice. {Continued on next page)
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At this time many excellent secur- ities— both bonds and stocks, are sell- ing on an investment basis. For the conservative investor both safety and yield can be purchased. Perhaps not again for years to come will it be pos- sible to buy securities at such favorable prices.
However, here a word of caution regarding stocks is necessary. A very careful selection is of the utmost im- portance at this time. Many stocks of doubtful merit sold at fictitious values which were never justified by the ut- most stretch of the imagination and today are not selling at any less than they are worth.
Lesson Learned from Slump
THE lesson we should learn from the stock market decline should be one of conservatism. We should care- fully weigh the factor of risk involved against the profit expected to be de- rived.
It is a truism that one cannot con- template the factor of appreciation without contemplating its necessary correlate which is depreciation.
Remember the safety of capital should always be the first considera- tion. Just as we have to be satisfied with a fair and adequate return on our labor and industry we must learn to also only expect a fair and adequate return on our invested capital.
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BOOK REVIEW DINNER \ DEFERRED
In deference to the holiday rush the Book Review Dinner of the Women's City Club for the month of January has been deferred to Thursday eve- ning, January 16. It will be held from six to eight o'clock in the Na- tional Defenders' Room, where Mrs. Thomas A. Stoddard will review "Ultima Thule" by Henry Richard- son, which book, although scheduled for the last meeting, was not touched upon because of lack of time. "Clouded Hills" by Elizabeth Moor- head also will be reviewed January 16. The book is interesting for its own sake and will be especially so to City Club members because of the fact that the author is a friend of Miss Elisa May Willard, member of the board of directors of the City Club.
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TRADE ACCOUNTS
The City Club Magazine has a number of "trade accounts" which might be of interest to members. That is, several advertisers in the Maga- zine took the space in its pages at reg- ulation rates upon condition that they would be permitted to pay in commod- ities advertised. Further particulars upon application at the office on the fourth floor.
BRIDGE LUNCHEON
Mrs. Dales Tripp was hostess at a luncheon and bridge on November twenty-ninth at the Women's City Club in compliment to Miss Blanche du Bois and Miss Eleanor Burgess, who leave soon for an extended trip in Europe. The guests asked to meet them were: Mrs. George Batte, Mrs. Fisk, Mrs. Matson, Mrs. Karl Ruiz, Mrs. Frederick Porter, Miss Sargent, Mrs. Robert Lutz, Mrs. Andrew Thompson, Mrs. Herrick, Miss Car- son, Mrs. Ralph Lachmund, Miss Bartlett, Mrs. Clifford H. Sheldon, Mrs. John Hess, Mrs. Bridges, Mrs. Eckley Cunningham, Mrs. John Bur- gess, Mrs. Francis Lucas, Miss Foulkes, Mrs. George Stephens, Mrs. Oscar Catoire, Mrs. Alexander Thi- bodeau, Mrs. Edward Clawiter, Mrs. Greenfield, Mrs. Paul von Ettner, Mrs. Hans Klussmann.
EMPLOYEES OF THE CLUB
EXPRESS APPRECIATION
OF THE CHRISTMAS
BONUS
The employes of the Women's City Club desire to express to the Board of Directors and the members of the Club their sincere appreciation of the generous bonus they received at Christmas.
They hope to show their apprecia- tion throughout the coming year, and to have their work reflect the spirit of service which pervades The National League for Woman's Service.
GUEST CARD PRIVILEGES
The summer privilege of a member taking out a guest card for three months is now offered for any time of the year. That is, a member may ex- tend a friend a guest card for any f>eriod of three months (regardless of season of the year) upon payment of five dollars, but only once in a twelve- month to the same person.
INVESTORS SERVICE Department
We are pleased to an- nounce the opening of a new department offering a complete investment service to members of The Women's City Club.
Members are welcome to ask for reports, analyses or advice relating to in- vestment securities.
This service will be given without obligation.
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Women's City Club care Agnes N. Alwyn
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(Continued frorn page 22) the breeches are of different gaily- colored satin, pink, orchid, light green, dark blue and purple, from hip to knees a glitter of gold embroidery and gems. Each wears pink stockings, and soft black leather heelless slippers, with huge pink rosettes. In order to resemble strictly the fashion of past times, a small black peruke is fastened to and shows below each man's three- cornered black velvet close-fitting hat.
Enter the Bull
A FANFARE of trumpets — the ropes are pulled — and the black and white bull comes bounding in ! Short red and white ribbons flutter from his sides. They are fastened to sharp barbed hooks that have been jabbed into him as he leaves his stall. Each fight — and six bulls constitute an average performance — is divided into three periods of several minutes each. In the first, as the bull dashes in, two capeadores spring toward tlie animal waving their magenta capes. The point is to tire out the bull by dodging. The steps and passes by which the fighters evade the rush of the bewildered and enraged animal all have their technical names and their fine points; and many of the perform- ers are both agile and graceful. In the second period, the bull is goaded to greater fury by the insertion of be- ribboned darts — banderillas — into his shoulders. This is done by two ban- derilleros and is a dangerous proced- ure. For as the bull runs toward the man, he leans far over the horns, in- serts the goads, and dodges. In the final period, the matador advances alone to slay the bull. He holds a scarlet cloth over a wooden stick and stands close to the lowered moving head of the bull, waves the cloth with his left hand and deftly dodges the thrusts of the horns. He manoeuvres thus for a few breath-taking moments, leaping lightly to one side as the ani- mal charges, a test of the finest quali- ties of the bull-fighter, until a signal on the trumpet tells him it is time to strike the bull. He must then thrust the ept'e or rapier, which he holds in his right hand, between the neck and the shoulder, and must thrust it deeply enough to reach the heart. The ex- cited crowd, by shouts, yells, shrill whistles, and hat-waving and the flut- ter of handkerchiefs, indicates its varying degrees of approval. When the bull has been properly struck, he drops very quickly, and is then killed instantly by an attendant handling a poniard, who gives the coup dc grace or mercy blow.
Muleros in dark blue suits with scarlet trimmings drive in a team of four mules, whose heads are complete-
ly covered with thick red tassels. A rope is placed around the bull's horns, his tail is cut off, or his ear, and he is dragged out. The muleros then smooth over the ruffled sand and all is ready for the next encounter. Mean- wliile, the matador archly passes be- fore the judges' stand, bows deeply, and receives his rewjards of success, and, oftentimes, massive bouquets of beautiful flowers. The band plays, the crowd goes wild, the matador ac- knowledges a nod, a wave of the hand, or a smile, and tosses his hat and the flowers into the lap of an ad- miring lady-love in a box. The pre- cious trophies, the tail of the bull, or a bit of the bull's ear, he also tosses to his fair lady, as this act betokens the highest honor a matador can bestow.
N ever-to-be-forgotten Scene
YOU may well believe that this North American woman who saw this bullfight will not soon forget it, and its exotic atmosphere of loud, gay music, the screaming, shouting, frenzied crowd.
However, bullfights are on the wane, even in South America. The use of horses is now barred by law. And since the leading matador for this performance was especially imported from Spain, and was one most famed for his skill and neat dexterity, the spectacle, while not approved, falls not completely into the distressful cat- egory, but into the Adventurous — a forbidden fruit, tasted and risked by every traveler.
The setting sun reddened the west- ern skyline as we began our swift automobile ride down the magnificent and finely constructed mountain bou- levard to our good ship. The rosy lights of La Guaira twinkled, the gleams from automobiles moving up and down the dark mountains grew dim, and we steamed out into the night as the moon rose high in the heavens and spread her lucid silver canopy from horizon to horizon and blessed us on that Sunday night as we lay resting in our deck chairs, hum- ming "America." So ended my day of startling adventure!
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Rates are as follows: Members, ten half-hour lessons for $5; guests, ten half-hour lessons for $7.50.
Free instruction in live-saving will be given to those interested. Wednes- day evenings at 5 :30. At the end of the course tests will be given to those wishing to receive the Red Cross life- saving certificate and emblem.
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1930
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CRUISE-Tour of the Panama Mai I to Havana.
Refreshingly different, the CRUISE-Tour sets new standards of travel value.
Vbu are a guest. . . to be diverted and enter- tained . . . not a mere name on the passenger list to be hurried through to your destination.
Your comfort is the motif for outside staterooms . . . beds instead of berths . . . splendid steady ships and famous cuisine. Nothing has been over- looked that might contribute to your enjoyment . . . even to swimming pools and orchestras that add their witchery to the magic of tropic nights.
The Havana season this year is opening bril- liantly. Never has there been such an early influx ofeager,happysun-seekers. Balconies reminiscent of old Spain are splashed with the colorof Seville and Madrid. Beach and drive and sparkling cafe are thronged with the wealth and beauty of Europe and America. The spirit of carefree carnival is everywhere ... an electric note in gorgeous tropic surroundings.
Those who knoware going onthePanamaMail. They want to see Mexico en route, revel in the fascinations of Guatemala, Salvador, and Nicar- agua, spend a couple of days in the Canal Zone and then sail leisurely on to Colombia in South America and finally Havana. Only the Panama Mail provides this glorious route to Havana and New York... the famous Route of Romance. And at no extra cost.
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FLOWERS AND GREENERY WANTED
The Flower Committee is much in need of new names of people who will supply flowers and greens, either regu- larly or occasionally. The committee will be glad to ar- range to call for flowers. Telephone Mrs. Robert Cross, WAlnut 1208, or leave word at the Club.
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How many members of the Women's City Club know of the Economy Shop on the mezzanine gallery of the League Shop ? There we have gowns and coats to suit all tastes. They are donated or sold on consignment, the only requirement being that garments be freshly cleaned. The prices are from ten to twenty-five dollars. The Shop needs many more of these garments. Go through your wardrobes so we may be prepared to meet the demand for used cloth- ing. Shop Volunteers are always ready to receive and to
show garments in the Economy Shop. / / /
SEWING HELP NEEDED
Volunteers to assist in sewing for the needs of the City Club are wanted by Mrs. Bruce Lloyd, chairman of the Sewing Committee. Curtains, scarfs and other things for the bedrooms are now engaging the attention of the com- mittee, which meets every Monday on the second floor. Anybody handy with the needle is wanted to join the circle.
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