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PublishedtJMonthly  by  the  Women's  City  Club,  ^65  Post  Street,  San  Francisco 


February  ^  1929 


Subscription  $1.00  a  year  '  15  cents  a  copy 


Volume  III  '  No.  1 


yinnouncing  the  Second 

ecoratibe  Srts^  Cxftttiition 


to  be  held  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Women''s  City  Club  and  the  San  Francisco 
Society  of  Women  i\rtists.  "^o  Featuring 
Modern  Interior  and  Exterior  Decoration... 
Ceramics,  Textiles,  Sculpture,  Frescoes, 
Wood  and  Metal  Work. 


Fehruary  2^th  to  VYCarch  loth 


IN 


WOMEN^S   CITY  CLUB  AUDITORIUM 

465  POST  STREET  {On  the  Ground  Floor} 
SAN  FRANCISCO 


The  Setni'Annual 

SALE 

In  Progress  Through  February 
Is  the  Year's  Best  Opportunity 
For  Remarkable  Values  in 

FINE  HOME 
FURNISHINGS 

Sharp  Price  Reductions 

On  Incomparable  Stocky  of. . . 

FURNITURE  •  ORIENTAL  RUGS 
DOMESTIC  RUGS  ♦  CARPETS 
DRAPERIES       •       •       LINOLEUMS 

TV 

Freight  paid  in  the  United  States.    Charge  Accounts  Invited. 

W,&  J.  Sloane 

Sutter    Street    near   Grant    Avenue      '      San    Francisco 

NEW    YORK  LOS    ANGELES  WASHINGTON,    D.    C. 


WOMEN'S  CITY  CLUB  CALENDAR 

FEBRUARY  1— FEBRUARY  28,  1929 

DR.  H.  H.  POWELL'S  LECTURES 

Monday  mornings  at  11  o'clock,  Assembly  Room.    "Life  of  St.  Paul."   Beginning  February 
18  and  continuing  through  Lent. 

Monday  evenings  at  8  o'clock,  Assembly  Room.    "The  Bible."    Beginning  January  28. 
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 

Everv  Tuesday,  2  o'clock  and  7:30  o'clock,  Assembly  Room. 
LECTURES  BY  PROFESSOR  BENJAMIN  H.  LEHMAN 

Every  Tuesday  morning  at  11   o'clock.  Auditorium.    Season  tickets,  $5.00;  single   admis- 
sions, 75  cents. 
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.    Leonard    A.    Woolams, 
Chairman  Music  Committee. 

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. 

Day  Library  Volunteers Board  Room  11:15  A.M. 

Night  Library  Volunteers Board  Room  6:30  P.M. 

Night  Restaurant  Volunteers Board  Room  7:30  P.M. 

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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women's     city    club     magazine    for    February 


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     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 


Tailored  Detail... 


The  Plaza  Tie 

wUKlAIain  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 . . .  sunburn  calf 
with  champagne  calf 
tongue  and  under-lay. 


We  wish  to  extend 

a  special  invitation  to 

WOMEN'S  CITY  CLUB 

members  to  come  m 

and  acquaint  themselves 

with  our 

Main  Spring  Arch 

footwear. 


844  MARKET  STREET 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


OAKLAND    :    BERKELEY 
SAN  JOSE 


WALr-€VEC 


THE 


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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 
Eastern    and   Western    colleges. 

I.  R.  DAMON,  A.  M.   (Harvard) 
Headmaster 

1899  Pacific  Ave.  Telephone  West  711 


DREW 


a-Year  High  School 
Course  admits  to  college. 
Credit*  valid  in  high  school. 

_     _,   -J.    — ^    ^^^  y       Grammar  Course, 
^   {^  rl   U    L/  J-«     acaedited,  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. 

4901  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  Benvcnue  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. 

New  Term  Opens  January  28th 

A  booklet  of  information  will  be  furnished 
upon  request. 

Mrs.  Edward  B.  Stanwood,  B.  L. 

Principal 

aizo  Broad-way  Phone  WEst  aaii 

COSTUME  DESIGN 


LuciEN  Iabaudy 

Pri^'ate  iciiool 
off  Costume  Deiign 

Telephone  GARFIELD  2883 
528  Powell  Street  San  Francisco 


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  ALICE  B.  CANFIELD 
SCHOOL 

[established  1925] 

Nursery  School — ages  2  to  4  years.     Pre-primary 

with  French  and  Manual  Arts — ages  4  to  6 

years.      Elementary   Grades — ages 

6   to   8  years. 

All    day    or    morning    as    preferred.         Special 

children's   luncheon   served. 

Supervised  play. 

Afternoon  Classes  for  Older  Children.  Dramatic 

Arts — Music — Languages 

Manual   Arts 

MRS.  ALICE  B.  CANFIELD,  Director 

2653    STEINER   STREET 
Between  Pacific  Avenue  and  Broadway 

Teleohone   Fillmore   7625 


La  Atalaya 

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.  SM 


YOUNGER  CHILDREN 


PACIFIC  HEIGHTS  NURSERY 

SCHOOL  and  KINDERGARTEN 

Mrs.  Stanley  Rypins,  Directot 

Every  day  including  Saturday. 
Outdoor  rainy  day  play  space. 

1900  Jackson  Street,  at  Gough 
Telephone  WAlnut  5998 

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  lobby. 

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SECRETARIAL    SCHOOLS 


Extra  skill,  extra 
resourcefulnesr,  and 
extra  remuneration 
are  the  results  of 
that  extraordinary 
business  preparation 

MUNSONWISE 
TRAI^IING 


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MUN/CN 
$CH€€L 

rei^  PRIVATE 

SCCPETAPI^/ 

co-educatIonal 

600  Sutter  St.,  San  Francisco 

Phone  FRanklin  0)0< 

SrtiJ  for  .Ctttlog 


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California  Secretarial  School 


Instruction 
Day  and  Evening 


Benjamin  F.  Priest 
Pretidenl 


(.% 


IndtytatMl 

InslTuction 

for  Indi'vidmH 

^eetis. 


RUSS  BUILDING 


SAN  FRANCISCO 


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  647i 

DANCING  SCHOOL 

The  PETERS  WRIGHT 
SCHOOL  of  DANCING 

It  is  the  aim  of  the   Peters  Wright  School  to 
give    a    complete    appreciation    and    enjoy- 
ment of  dancing  as  an  art,  a  recreation, 
a    character-builder    or    a    means 
of    livelihood. 
269S    Sacramento    St.,    San    Francisco 
Telephone   Walnut    1665 

SCHOOL  OF  POPULAR  MUSIC 

CUCISTCNSEN 

Sckool  of   Popular  Alusic 

!M.o<lern      I  y^k   W  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       FEBRUARY 


1929 


Executive  Positions 

For  Women  .  .  . 

In  Business 

Preparation  for  the  higher  executive  posi- 
tions in  business  is  now  offered  through 
the  Harvard  "case  method"  courses  at 
Heald  College. 

University-grade  instruction  leading  to 
State  authorized  Degrees  in  Commerce 
in  two  years. 

Courses  now  available 

Secretarial  Science 
Higher  Accountancy 
Business  Administration 

Write  or  telephone  for  FREE  prospectus 
Prospect  1540  A.  L.  Lesseman,  Manager 

l^EALD 

^  COLLEGE 

Van  Ness  at  Post  +  San  Francisco 

Also  at    Oakland  ♦  Sacramento  ♦  San  Jose 


PART-TIME  NURSING  SERVICE 

available  in  the  home  when  services  of  full-time  nurse  not  required. 
All  care,  treatments  at  nominal  fee.  Competent  staff  of  registered 
nurses.  For  information  and  calls . .  .TELEPHONE  ORdway  9100 

^isiiting  i?ursie  ^sisiociation 


Naomi  Deutsch,  Director 


1636  Bush  Street,  San  Francisco 


SiBIHARIOlNIl 

ice:  ci^eam 

A  REFRESHMENT 

SUPREME 

NOW 

SERVED  AT  THE 

CLUB 

§ 

THE  SAMARKAND 
COMPANY 

San  Francisco            Oakland             Los  Angeles 

Convalescent  Care  for  Worn  en 
and  Children 

...  at  this  pleasant  home,  with   its  sun 

rooms,   large   garden,   sheltered  court,   and 

excellent  meals.    Books  and  other  diversions 

provided.    Patients  admitted  only  on 

recommendation  of  physicians. 

Tubercular  and  Mental  Cases  Not  Received 

Terms  $1.00  per  Day 

The  San  Francisco  Ladies' 
Protection  and  Relief  Society 

Miss  Ida  V.  Graham,  Suf'erintendcnt 

3400  Laguna  Street        -        Teleplione  West  6714 

Miss  Anna  \V.  Beaver  Miss  Edith  W.  Allynk 

President  Secretary 

Mrs.  George  A.  Clough 

C/i.  Conzalcsccnt  Comm. 


women's      city      club      magazine      for      FEBRUARY      ■       1929 


SALE  (7/CLOISONNE 


We  are  offering 
greatly  reduced 
prices  on 
our  entire  stock 
oj  Cloisonne  ware. 
Among  this  collection 
are  some  beautiful 
vases,  bowls,  jars  and 
unique  smokers' 
articles,  all  made 
by  hand,  and 
wonderful 
specimens  oj 
Oriental  art. 


Silk  Haorls  :  Kimonos  :  Chlnaware 
Imported  Crystal  Beads 

t^t  tempfe  of  (Hiftgo 

253    POST    STREET    :     SAN   FRANCISCO 
Between  Grant  Avenue  and  Stockton  Street 


HEALTH  ...and  the 
JOY  of  LIVING 


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 


'^aWy  good  food 


S 


Luncheon 

for     Tea 

Dinner  . . . 

DINNER     PARTIES     WELCOMED 

309  Sutter  Street      <      San  Francisco 
Telephone  DOuglas  2569 


yOUR  WARDROBE... 

JL  may  be  kept  thriftily  smart  by  changing  the 
color  of  two  or  three  garments  and 
thoroughly  cleansing  the  rest  of  them  the 
"Thomas  Way." 

Proper  care  of  both  tailored  things  and 
evening  gowns  will  often  save  the  expense  of 
buying  new. 

To  arrange  for  regular  service  .  .  . 

Telephone  HEmlock  0180 

The  F.  THOMAS 

Parisian  Dyeing  and  Cleaning  Works 
27  Tenth  Street,  San  Francisco 


women's      city      club      magazine      for      FEBRUARY      •       1929 


Milestones  •  •  • 

This  February  issue  marks  the  beginning  of  the  Magazine's 
third  year. 

The  growth  of  the  Women's  City  Club  Magazine  is  in 
your  hands.  Its  development  will  be  in  proportion  to  the 
volume  of  advertising  carried.  Will  you  please  mention  the 
Women's  City  Club  Magazine  each  time  you  consult  or 
purchase  from  the  following  advertisers? 

Alta  Mira  Hotel 19 

American  Studios  28 

The  Band   Box 29 

Beauty   Salon — Women's   City   Club 18 

Bekins   Van   &    Storage   Company 32 

Boston  Bedding  &  Upholstering  Company 30 

The   Bowl   Shop 29 

Buddy  Squirrel  Nut  Shops 31 

Byington   Electric   Company 28 

California   Fruit   Juice   Company 31 

California    Stelos    Company 30 

Wm.   Cavalier  &   Company 27 

Arthur   Dahl   24 

Mrs.   Day's   Brown   Bread 31 

Harry  Dixon  18 

Gladding,   McBean  &   Company 7 

Godissart's   Parfum   Classique    Francais,   Inc 29 

Dr.    Edith    M.    Hickey 23 

Hotel   Holly   Oaks 18 

Hourly  Service  Bureau Third  Cover 

M.  Johns   30 

H.    L.    Ladd 24 

Laneside  19 

The   League   Shop 6 

H.  Liebes  &  Company 20 

Liggett  &  Myers  Co.   (Chesterfield  Cigarettes)  .Back  Cover 

Lipton's  Tea  32 

Los  Angeles   Steamship  Company 24 

Lundy    Travel    Bureau 25 

M.  J.   B.  Coffee 32 

Marchetti   Motor    Patents,    Inc 26 

Matson   Navigation   Company 22 

Metropolitan  Union  Market 32 

W.    Robert    Miller 19 

Monterey   Sea  Food   Company 30 

Musical  West  21 

McDonnell   &   Company 26 

Dr.  Albertine  Richards  Nash 18 

North  American   Investment   Corporation  27 

The  Nutradiet  Company 31 

O'Connor,   Moffatt  &   Company 21 

Panama   Mail    Steamship   Company 23 

Persian   Art   Centre 23 

Piccadilly  Inn  6 

Rhoda-on-the-Roof   30 

Russell's  Cake  &  Pie  Shop 30 

Roos    Brothers    21 

Gennaro  Russo 31 

Samarkand    Ice   Cream 5 

The   San    Franciscan 20 

San  Francisco  Ladies'  Protection  &  Relief  Society S 

San   Francisco  Symphony  Orchestra 7 

San  Francisco  Academy  of  Physical  Culture 6 

Santa  Fe  Railway  Company 24 

W.  &  J.   Sloane 1 

Southern    Pacific   Company 27 

Superior  Blanket  &  Curtain  Cleaning  Works 30 

Tahoe  Tavern  25 

Temple  of  Nikko 6 

F.  Thomas  Parisian  Dyeing  &  Cleaning  Works 6 

Visiting  Nurse  Association 5 

Walk-Over  Shoe  Store 3 

Juliat  Wynestock  29 

Vosemite  Park  &   Curry   Company 23 

School  Directory 4-5 

La  Atalaya  Pacific  Heights  Nursery 

Margaret  Bentley  School  School 

Alice  B.  Canfield  School  Potter  School 

California  Secretarial  Peters  Wright  Dancing 

School  School 

Christensen  School  of  Sarah  Dix  Hamlin  School 

Popular  Music  Lucien  Labaudt  School  of 

Arnold  de  Neuford  Costume  Design 

Drew  School  Munson  School 

Heald  College  MacAIeer  School 

Business  and  Professional  Directory  of  Club  Members 

Inside   Back   Cover 

Miss  Mary  L.  Barclay  Mrs.  J.  C.  Packard 

Mrs.  Fitzhugh  G.  A.  Shaffer 

Anna  S.  Hunt  Mrs.  Mary  Stewart 

Florence  R.  Keene  Margaret  K.  Whittemore 


Ha^eyou  i^Lsded  the 
Garden  Pottery  Display 
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Mr.  Werrenrath 

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Pacific  Saengerbund — A  Capella 

INTERMISSION 

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Wagner 

(.IVotan — Mr.  Werrenrath) 

6.  "Feast  of  the  Holy  Grail" Wagner 

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Carl  Sai^dburo 


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.] 


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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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{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 


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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.  • 

r   /   *■ 

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 


Miss  Alice  Griffith 

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. 


women's      city      club      MA(,  AZINE      for      FEBRUARY      •       I929 

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. 

r    r    *■ 

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. 

ill 

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. 

■f   i   f 

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?" 

Ill 

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. 


women's       city       club       magazine       for       FEBRUARY 


1929 


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. 


women's      city      club      magazine      for      FEBRUARY 


1929 


WOMEN'S  CITY  CLUB 
MAGAZINE 

Published  Monthly  at  San  Francisco 

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EBITOMIAI. 

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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Sausalito. . . 

Vdlage  of  Romance 

By  Gillette  Lane 

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 

sleep. 

Lower  the  portcullis  softly,  sentries,  placed  on  the  wall; 
Let  shadows  of  quiet  and  silence  on  all  my  palace  fall; 
Softly  draw   the   curtains  .    .   .   Let   the  luorld  labor  and 

weep — 
My  soul  is  safe  environed  by  the  walls  of  my  chamber  of 

sleep. 


LANE  SIDE 

in  SAUSALITO 

Apartments  filled  with  Old  World  Charm 
and  New  World  Comfort. 

Heat  and  Hot  Water  at  all  hours. 


A  Little  Bit  of  Heaven  .  .  .just 
20  minutes  from  San  Francisco 

to  see  the  moonlight  on  the  water 

to  sleep  in  a  spool  bed 

to    be    awakened    by    the    bluebirds' 

morning  song 
to  step  out  on  an  old  hooked  rug  and 

dress  in  delicious  warmth 
to  breakfast  in  a  sunny  window 
to  walk  in  a  hillside  garden 
to  pour  tea  by  an  open  fire 


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ferry  trip  of  20  or  30  minutes — a  scenic  walk  of 
five  minutes — and,  after  the  day's  work,  relaxation 
amid  the  charming  home  atmosphere  of  the 

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SAUSALITO 

The  Suburb  of  'Resistless  Qharm 

Seldom  has  Xature  so  richly  endowed  one  spot  with  such  sciii  v 

splendor;    picturesque    homes    amon^    the    oaks,    winding    roa<i> 

encircling    the    hills,    flower-bordered    paths,    clear,    invigoratiiu 

air,  wide  sweeps  of  land  and  sea.  and  all  within  thirty 

minutes'  ride  of  San   Francisco. 

See  Sausalito  before  deciding  when  investing  in  a  home. 

W.  ROBERT  MILLER 

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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- 
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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 
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Ha^vaii/ 

{The  Grass  House  and 
the  Great  Hotet 

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. 

Come  on  the  swift,  splen- 
did Malolo,  finest  ship  on  the 
Pacific,  which  reaches  Hono- 
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Discriminating  travelers  pre- 
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Sad  On  ...to  the  West  Indies 


By  George  R.  Smith,  Of 

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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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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HAVAIVA 

.  .  .  Mid -Winter  Mecca 


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. 

A  Panama  .^lail  liner  sails  from  San 
Francisco  and  Los  Angeles  every 
two  weeks.  Every  modern  com- 
fort is  yours — all  outside  cabins 
and  beds  instead  of  berths.  Yet 
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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. 

Y  Y      f 

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, 
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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 

Conditions  are  now  ideal  for 

snow  sports  at  Lake  Tahoe . . . 

and  there  is  plenty  of  snow 

for . . . 

SLEIGHING 
TOBOGGANING 
SKIING 
BOB-SLEDDING 
SNOW-SHOEING 
ICE-SKATING 
ALASKAN  DOG 
TEAMS 


Tahoe  Tavern 

JACK  T.  MATHEWS 

Manager 


Lundy^s  European  Tours 

TOUR  A— 95  days $1675.00 

Eleven  countries — June  8  to  September  10 
Conducted  by  Dr.  J.  W.  Lundy 

TOUR  B— 74  days $1125.00 

Eight  countries — June  29  to  September  10 

TOUR  C— 52  days $650.00 

June  29  to  August  19 

TOUR  D— 66  days $855.00 

June  29  to  September  2 

Operated  in  conjunction  with   College  of 
Pacific  Summer  School  Tour 

Further  information  and  itineraries  from 

LUNDY  TRAVEL' BUREAU 

593   MARKET  STREET,  SAN  FRANCISCO 
Telephone  KEarny  4559 


COACHING 

FOR  THE  American  Red  Cross 
Beginners'  and  Swimmers'  Tests 

Every  Monday  and  Thursday. ..4  p.  m. 

in  the  CLUB  POOL 

Telephone  KEamy  8400  for  appointments 


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1929 


MEMBERS 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  STOCK  EXCHANGE 

Our  Branch  Office  in  the 
Financial  Center  Building, 
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use  and  convenience  of 
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Special  Market  Letters  on  Request 

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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. 


women's      city      club      magazine      for      FEBRUARY      •       1929 


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. 

Convenient  Train  Service 

Overnight  Pullman  service 
daily  from  San  Francisco  and 
Sacramento  to  Truckee  and 
Tahoe. 

Special  Low  Fares 
For  Dog  Derby 

^|B  San  Francisco  to  Truckee 
^*»  and  back. 


$9 


San  Francisco  to  Tahoe 
and  back. 


Southern  Pacific 


„     F.  S.  McGINNIS 
Passenger  Traffic  Manager 
San  Francisco 


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  ■« 

Information  Desk 

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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— 

^" 

Over  Three  Hundred 

An   investment    in   the 
securities  of  this  corpor- 
ation is  truly  "an  invest- 
ment   in    world    enter- 
prise." Your  funds   are 
secured    by   more    than 
300    security  issues   of 
various  amounts— which 
are     carefully     seleaed 
from    international    in- 
vestment markets.   Our 
bonds  and  stocks  have 
an  outstanding  earning 
record. 

Send  for  circular 

North  American 
INVESTMENT 
Corporation 

RUSS  BUILDING 
SAN  FRANCISCO 

^ 

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Ccyntplete  Investment  Service 

Investing 
for  Income 

If  you  are  looking  for 
securities  that  offer  a 
favorable  income  return, 
we  are  in  a  position  to 
help  you  find  them.  Fore- 
sight in  investing  your 
surplus  funds  may  serve 
to  increase  the  average 
return  on  your  invested 
capital.  We  shall  be  glad 
to  confer  with  you  per- 
sonally at  our  offices  or 
by  correspondence. 

Wm.  Cavalier  &  Co. 

Investment  Securities 

433  California  Street 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

OAKLAND  BERKELEY 

Bond  and  Brokerage 


Gentlemen :    Please    send    me   ^our 
current  investment   recommendations. 


Xame 

Address.. 


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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. 

1     i     i 

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. 


Miss  Juliat  Wynestock 

Announces  the  openmg  of  tier 
San  Francisco  Studio 
at  Md  Hotel  Whitcomb 


(2_^Jf^LASSiCAL  Dancing,  poise,  grace,  body 

development  and  technique  of  the  Russian  Ballet  will  be  taught. 

Adults  and  children  will  be  admitted  to  classes  or  private 

instruction.    Classes  will  be  conducted  for  beginners  and 

advanced  pupils.    Special  care  will  be  given  juveniles. 

The  precision  of  Miss  Wynestock's  methods  places 

a   restriction   on   the   number  of  students   to   be 

accepted     for    instruction.     Application     for 

admission  to  study  should  be  made  at  an 

early     date.      Appointments     may     be 

made  Thursdays,  Fridays  and 

Saturdays. 


Miss  Jul  I  AT  Wynestock 

The  Hotel  Whitcomb 

Market  Street  at  the  Civic  Center  San  Francisco 

Telephone  HEmlock  3200 


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Delightful  perfumes  from  the 
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Chinese  Porcelain 
Fruit  Dish 

with  Turquoise  Blue  Stand 

Five  different  kinds  of  fruit  in 
Rose,  green  and  yellow  color 

$3.50  and  up 


.■\lso   New  Arrival  of 

Turquoise  Blue  Flower  Bowls 

in  different  sizes 


THE  BOWL  SHOP 

953  GRANT  AVENUE 
Telephone  CHina  0167 


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A  GOOD  THING 
TO  KNOW 


"Runs"  and  "pulls" 
in  silk  hosiery  can  be 
repaired  neatly  and 
inexpensively  at  the 
Stelos  repair  shop. 

All  hand  work. 
World-wide  Stelos 
system  used,  resulting 
in  finest  quality  re- 
pairs. 

Use  our  service  consist- 
ently  and  watch  your 
hosiery  savings  mount. 


At    the    League    Shop, 


STEI.OS  CO. 

133   GEARY   ST.,    SAN   FRANCISCO 
469  FIFTEENTH  ST.,  OAKLAND 

Largest  repair  service  in  the  West 


=RHODA= 

ON-THE-ROOF 

INDIVIDUAL    MODELS 

IN  THE  NEW  STRAWS  AND  FELTS 

MADE   ON   THE   HEAD 

Hats   remade  in   the 

ne'w  season's  models 

233  Post  Street  DOuglas  8476 


Classified  Advertisements 

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. 

■f     i     i 

New  Section^ 

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? 


721  Sutter  Street 


FRanklin  4444 


BOSTON 

Bedding  &'  Upholster 


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. 


"'"ill'HI||||i!|||||||||ll|||||!lllll!'"" 

Nutradiet, 


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 


Daily  Shopping 

may  be  simplified  by  open' 
ing  a  credit  account  with... 


The  METROPOLITAN 
UNION  MARKET 

2077  UNION  STREET 

{Under  complete  new  management) 

We  are  equipped  to  supply  every  culinary 
need  with  the  choicest  of  fine  foods  .  .  . 

FRUIT     <     POULTRY     ^     MEAT 
VEGETABLES    ^    GROCERIES 

Lowest  prices  commensurate  with  quality. 
Monthly  accounts  are  invited.  Telephone  orders 
will  be  given  prompt  and  careful  attention. 
For  your  convenience  we  have  three  phones  .  .  . 

WEST  0900 

and  maintain  a  constant  delivery  service. 


ViLi 


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BEKINS  ROUTS 

WHITE  ELEPHANT 

Due  to  this  Storage  Company's  efforts, 
White  Elephant  "Trunk"  and  little  White 
Elephants,  "Suit  Case"  and  "Traveling 
Bag,"  have  ceased  bothering  Mrs.  Tidy 
Housekeeper.  They  are  now  locked  up  in 
the  Bekins  Depository. 

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: 

GEARY  AT  MASONIC,  SAN   FRANCISCO 
MArket  0015 

13th   AND    MISSION,    SAN    FRANCISCO 
MArket  0015 

22nd  AND   SAN   PABLO,   OAKLAND 
OAkland  907 

SHATTUCK  AT   WARD.   BERKELEY 
BErkeley  6700 


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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. 


^ST'^^^HTea  Planter 
Ceylon 


LIPTONS 


Tea  Merchant  by  appointment  to 


LARGEST     SALE    IN    THE    WORLD 


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Oakland,     Berkeley  |shippi/!ic| 

Sacramento  IPACKINel 

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Fresno,     Hollywood 

Beverly     Hills 

Los    Angeles 


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There's  a  full-bodied  richness  of 
flavor  with  M.  J.  B.  Coffee  that 
makes  it  the  favorite  drink  of  par- 
ticular people.  Whether  you  make 
your  co£Fee  strong,  mild,  or  in  be- 
tween, M.  J.  B.  always  has  the 
matchless  coffee  flavor  that  only 
this  rich  blend  can  give. 

Vacuum  sealed  in  a  new  friction 
top  key-can,  M.  J.  B.  comes  to  you 
with  all  the  natural  goodness  of 
freshly  packed  coffee. 

{M.J  .B.  Coffee  is  served  in  the  Women's  City  Club) 


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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. 

W.  &  J.  /L€ANE 

SUTTER  STREET  .Year  GRANT  AVENUE      :      SAN  FRANCISCO 


New  York 


Los  Angeles 


Washinglon,  D.  C. 


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 


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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 
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 


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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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HDSSCN 
SCHOOL 

SCCI^ETAI^II^/ 

CO-tDUCATIONAl 

600  Sutter  St.,  San  Francisco 

Phone  FRanklin  0)0t 


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California  Secretarial  School 


Instruction 
Day  and  Evening 


Benjamin  F.  Priest 
President 


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1929 


Women's  City  Club 
M  agazine 


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  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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Presenting  a  very  modern 
selection  of  new  Deauville  San- 
dals as  well  as  chic  tie  efTects  and 
oxfords  with  a  novel  woven  note. 
The  new  Sun  Burn  mode  in  hose 
adapts  itself  flatteringly  when 
worn  with  white  or  colorful  foot- 
wear. 

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combined  with  white 


HOSIERY! 

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Books 

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magazine 


New  Ideas  Jor  Your  Garden 

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Reproductions 

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Furniture 

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Metal  Grilles 

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MJB 


COFFEE 


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M.  J.  B.  Coffee  is  served  in  the  Women's  City  Club 


feasant  'Dresses 


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A  congenial  resting  spot,  of  widely  known  reputation 

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will  probably  look  as  good  as  new  when 
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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? 


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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 
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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 

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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 

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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 

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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 


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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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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 


Hiyh  Rock  Wall  Girts  Sttlusio/i 

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' 
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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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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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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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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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women's      city      club      magazine      for      MARCH 


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. 

i    i    i 

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 


Eeyomd  the  City  Limits 


By  Edith  Walker  Maddux 
(Mrs.  Parker  S.  Maddux) 


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table,  desk  or  mantle  decoration.  Size 
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China 

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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California  Spnng 

Blossom  and  Wild  Flower 

Association 

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- 
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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 
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Eleanor  Preston  Watkins 

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. 

/  /  < 

"The  Wanderer," 

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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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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"With  Malice  Toward  None," 
by  Honore  JVillsie  Morrow; 
Morrow  and  Co. ;  $2.50. 

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 
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WINTER  snow  on  the  tip  of 
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bronzed  bathers  lie  on  the  amber 
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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 
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miles  of  pineapple  fields;  through  the 
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up  and  down  the  billboard-less  high- 
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gaiety  of  social  function,  or  the 
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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. 

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Santa  Fe  Ticket  Offices 
and  Travel  Bureaux 

601  Market  Street 

and  Ferry  Station 

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Telephone  SUtter  7600 


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PARADOXICAL  HAWAII 

(Continued  from  page  22 J 

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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Magazine  Discussion  Group 
The  Magazine  Discussion  Group, 
recently  organized  under  the  leader- 
ship of  Mrs.  Alden  Ames,  is  finding 
enthusiastic  response  to  its  outlined 
program.  The  next  meeting  of  the 
group  will  be  held  March  15  at  two 
o'clock  at  the  Women's  City  Club,  the 
room  to  be  specified  on  the  bulletin 
board  in  the  lower  hall  that  day. 

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Either  the"City  of  HonoluIu"or  the  "City 
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day  and  comfortable,  splendidly  serviced 
liners  on  the  alternate  Saturdays. 

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IVEiiv  York 

The  Delightful  Way 

SPARKLING,  absorbing 
shore  visits  in  ten  vividly 
beautiful  Latin -American 
Lands  distinguish  the  cruise-tour 
of  the  Panama  Mail  to  New  York 
•  .  .  There  is  no  boredom  .... 
no  monotony  .  .  only  restful  days 
at  sea  amid  the  thousand  com- 
forts of  lu.\urious  liners,  inter- 
spersed with  never-to-be-forgot- 
ten sojourns  in  Mexico,  Guate- 
mala, Salvador,  Nicaragua,  Pan- 
ama, Colombia  and  Havana. 
Your  trip  on  the  Panama  Mail 
becomes  a  complete  vacation.  .  . 
For  twenty-eight  days  your  ship 
is  your  home  ...  on  tropic  seas 
under  the  gleaming  Southern 
Cross  ...  in  quaint  ports  in 
history's  hallowed  lands.  .  .  . 
And  yet  the  cruise-tour  costs  no 
more  than  other  routes  whereon 
speed  overshadows  all  else  .  .  . 
which  do  not  include  The  Lands 
of  Long  Ago  .  .  .  The  first  class 
fare  to  New  York — outside  cabin, 
bed,  not  berth,  and  meals  in- 
cluded is  as  low  as  $275. 
Frequent  sailings — every  two 
weeks  from  San  Francisco  and 
Los  Angeles — make  it  possible  to 
go  any  time.  Reservations  should 
be  made  early  however.  Write 
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Heard  in  the  Lounge 

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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Special  Vacation 

Cruise ! 

f  On  the  MALOLO] 

14  days  to  Hawaii  and 

return,  with  7  days  in  the 

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THIS  May  you  can  visit  Ha- 
waii, spend  a  week  in  the 
Islands  and  return  to  San  Fran- 
cisco in  a  two  weeks'  glorious 
vacation! 

This  year,  for  the  first  time, 
the  Matson  Line  makes  it  pos- 
sible for  you,  by  sailing  on  the 
de  luxe  Malolo  from  San  Fran- 
cisco, to  see  Hawaii  and  return 
in  a  two  weeks'  cruise  never  be- 
fore available  in  this  number  of 
davs. 

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. 

Luxury,  change  of  environ- 
ment, congenial  company,  and 
unforgettable  scenery  will  be 
found  in  this  remarkable  holi- 
day. And  the  tour  prices  are 
most  moderate. 


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1929 


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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. 

True,  many  persons  get  hurt  in  the-Stock  market,  but 


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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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investment  matter — 
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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. 
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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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1929 


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. 

/  ♦•  / 

Golf  Tournament 

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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Technique  of  the  Russian  Ballet 

Poise  -  Grace  -  Body  Development 


Class   instruction   or   private    lessons   for    adults   and   children — 
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restriction  on  the  number  of  students  accepted   for 
instruction.    Application  for  admission  to  study 
should  be  made  at  an  early  date.   Appoint- 
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WHY  A  GARDENER? 

( Continued  from  page  11) 

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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Thousands  of  women  in  the  United  States  are  now  protecting 
their  gardens  from  the  destructive  work  of  snails,  slugs,  sow- 
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prepared  meal  that  kills  garden  pests  quickly  and  safely. 
You  simply  broadcast  it  about  your  flower  beds  in  the  eve- 
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natural  foods  and  are  quickly  destroyed. 

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NQN 

EXPLOSIVE 


MRS.  DAY'S 
BROWN  BREAD 

Nutritious  and  non-Jaiiening  ....  and 
delicious  as  well!  Give  this  bread  a 
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WHY  A  GARDENER? 

{Continued  from  page  31) 

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. 

/  /  / 

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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Use  our  service  consist- 
ently and  watch  your 
hosiery  savings  mount. 


At    the   League   Shop, 
or  .  .  . 


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 


Classified  Advertisements 


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 


(Quality  Spreads  the 

Wings  of  Progress 


-GOES      A      LONG       W  A  Y 
TO       MAKE       FRIENDS 


In  the  great  progress  of  trans- 
portation, by  air  and  land,  the 
quality  of  rubber  plays  an  ever 
increasing  part. 

Quality  is  the  silver  chariot  that 
progress  rides  in. 

It  is  the  basis  for  public  confi- 
dence. A  reputation  for  quality 
is  a  hard-earned  asset.  It  must 
be  proved  and  re-proved  until 
people  know  its  truth.  The 
General  Tire  enjoys  that  accept- 
ance because  of  its  long  associa- 
tion with  top-quality  in  the 
public  mind. 

It  is  this,  the  feature  of  safety, 
which  above  all  others  has  been 
responsible  for  General's  out- 
standing preference  among  the 
millions  who  travel  on  rubber. 

The  Beacon  Light  of  Top- 
Quality  in  rolling  equipment 


"Th,  \,w  Umiltds  0/  rdt  A.r."  P^inlta  by  Waiter  KUlI  for  The  Crntral  Ti«  and  Rubber  Co..  A^ron,  Ohio 


becomes  the  unfailing  guide  to  landing  field  is  the  final  reminder 
safety  for  the  growing  tens  of  of  the  security  of  modern  trans- 
thousands  who  travel  by  air.  portation.  The  General  Tire  and 
This  feature  of  safety  on  the  Rubber  Company,  Akron,  Ohio. 


Howard  F.  Smith  &"  Company 

[  San  Francisco's  Leading  Tire  Store 
1547  Mission  Street  at  Van  Ness  Ave.  ^  Phone:  HE  mlock  1127 


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SAN   FRANCISCO,  CALIF. 


GEMERAL  /^l/^/'BalloOIlO 


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Xhere  >v^ill  be  only  OlS^E 

car  like  tnis  in  your 

community 


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 .  . 


This    illuslralion 

made  by  Chenry  Brolhti 

of  the  Month" 


REO  MOTOR  CAR  COMPANY 

f  r^  /;  A^«  ;  w         VAN  NESS  AVE.  at  GEARY 

oj  i,alijornicL^         san  francisco 


FLYING  CLOUD 

OF 

THE  MONTH 


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 


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resourcefulness*,  and 
extra  remuneration 
are  the  results  of 
that  extraordinary 
business  preparation 

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Phone  FRanklin  0)0< 

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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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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. 

Always  have  Burnbrite 
Kerosene  handy 


burnbrite\1 
kerosene' 


Refined  and  Marketed 
by  The  ASSOCIATED  OIL  CO. 

Refiners  of  Associated  Gasoline  .  .  .  Cycol 

Motor  Oils  and  Greases  .  .  .  Associated 

Ethvl  Gasoline 


A- 


.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) 

„ Back  Cover 

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 


assica 


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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 


:  Tear  L.^ folds 

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. 

■f   ■(   -f 

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 

10 


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 


WOMEN      S       C  I  T  V       C  I>  V 


M  A  (;  A  Z  I  N    E       for       A  P  R  1  I> 


1929 


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 


Golf  Committee 

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. 


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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. 


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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. 


W  OMEN 


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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." 

/  /  / 

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. 

1      ■»     i 

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. 

■f   -f   -f 

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. 

i     i     Y 

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. 


WOMEN      S       CITY       C  t,  U  R       M  A  (;  A  /.   I   N 


A   H  R   I    I. 


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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 
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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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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. 


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CHINATOWN 
After  Dark 

Six  Companies  Building 

Nationalists  Club 

Family  Clubs 

Telephone  Exchange 

Joss  House 

Tickets  at  Desk  in  Club  Lobby 

Tanner  IsAotor  Tours 


29  Gearv  Street 


SU  tterSlOO 


Porcelain  Vases 


in 

colorful 

Chinese 

floral 

designs 

.  .  .  suitable  for 
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home  or  garden, 
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Two  feet  in  height 
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Priced  at  $12.50 


THE  BOWL  SHOP 


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Original  creations  to  conjorm 
to  the  individual 

2211  Clay  Street,  San  Francisco 
By  appointment:  WA  Inut  7862 


1r\ixg  Pichel 

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. 

■f     1     i 

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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in  variety  and  quality  were 
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Spring  and  Summer.  We 
solicit  an  early  visit. 

D.  C.  Heger 

Shirtmakers 
444  Post  Street,  San  Francisco 


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"Runs"  and  "pulls" 
in  silk  hosiery  can  be 
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All  hand  work. 
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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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MUNICIPAL  CHORUS 

DR.  HAiNS  LESCHKE,  Director 

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On  sale  now  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Company 

Direction  Auditorium  Committee,  Board  of  Supervisors 

James  B.  McSheehy,  Chairman 

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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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a  most  attractive  assortment  of 
Italian  pottery  lamps  perfectly 
matched  with  hand  decorated 
skin  or  parchment  shades  forming 
units  of  rare  beauty. 


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Importer  of 

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Art  Goods,  Peasant  Dresses,  Em- 
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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. 

{Continued  on  page  26) 


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in  combinations  of  black  crepe 
ivith  satin  and  white  crepe  with 
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The  spirit  of  modem  vouth  de- 
mands freedom  and  comfort . . . 
while  modern  fashion  calls  for 
trim,  smart  lines  and  slendemess. 
And  so  the  Vagabond  Sash  ...  a 
brief  boneless  crepe  de  Chine  gir- 
dle that  gives  the  figure  the  proper 
support  .  .  .  along  with  slender- 
ness  ...  a  lithe  and  joyous  grace 
. . .  a  gypsy  freedom! 

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Going  to  Sea  by  Rail 


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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. 

By  means  of  Southern  Pacific's  four 
great  routes,  all  of  which  follow 
pioneer  pathways,  you  can  see  the 
heart  of  the  historic  West.  Go  one 
way,  return  another.  Stopover  any- 
where. Only  Southern  Pacific  offers 
choice  of  four  routes. 

Please  send  your  name  and  address 
to  F.  S.  McGinnis,  65  Market  Street, 
San  Francisco,  for  illustrated  travel 
booklet:  "Four  Great  Routes  to  the 

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HOW  OFTEN 

Do  You  Serine  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  ivith 
entire  confidence  in  our  service. 

Monterey  Sea  Food  Co. 


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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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to  NEW  YORK. 


SPARKLING,  absorbing 
shore  visits  in  ten  vividly 
beautiful  Latin-American 
Lands  distinguish  the  cruise-tour 
of  the  Panama  Mail  to  New  York 
.  .  .  There  is  no  boredom  .... 
no  monotony  .  .  only  restful  days 
at  sea  amicl  the  thousand  com- 
forts of  luxurious  liners,  inter- 
spersed with  never-to-be-forgot- 
ten sojourns  in  Alexico,  Guate- 
mala, Salvador,  Nicaragua,  Pan- 
ama, Colombia  and  Havana. 

Your  trip  on  the  Panama  Mail 
becomes  a  complete  vacation.  .  . 
For  twenty-eight  days  your  ship 
is  your  home  ...  on  tropic  seas 
under  the  gleaming  Southern 
Cross  ...  in  quaint  ports  in 
history's  hallowed  lands.  .  .  . 
And  yet  the  cruise-tour  costs  no 
more  than  other  routes  whereon 
speed  overshadows  all  else  .  .  . 
which  do  not  include  The  Lands 
of  Long  Ago  .  .  .  The  first  class 
fare  to  New  York — outside  cabin, 
bed,  not  berth,  and  meals  in- 
cluded is  as  low  as  $275. 

Frequent  sailings — every  two 
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Out  of  Your 

Two  Weeks'  Vacation 

Spend  Sei^en  Giorlous 

Days  in 

Ha^waii 

{The   Malolo   Makes   a   Special 

Trip  May  18  to  June  3 

for  Vacationists) 

YOU'VE  doubtless  thought 
of  going — sometime  —  but 
given  up  the  idea  as  im- 
possible— a  week  to  go,  a  week 
to  come  home — and  no  time  to 
spend  in  the  Islands. 

That  very  thing  has  been  true. 
Even  with  the  new  Malolo,  this  last 
year — you  could  only  ride  it  one  way, 
or  stay  only  two  days,  or  else  wait 
sixteen  days  till  it  returned.  And 
now  for  the  first  time  an  opportunity. 
Not  a  regular  thing — in  fact  a  very 
special  one-trip  arrangement  gives  you 
a  week  of  thrills  in  Hawaii  out  of 
two  weeks'  vacation. 

This  Special  Vacation  Cruise,  leav- 
ing San  Francisco  at  noon  May  18, 
will  bring  you  back  to  San  Francisco 
at  9  a.  m.  on  Monday,  June  3,  after 
4500  miles  of  sea  travel,  a  full  week 
in  the  Islands,  with  sightseeing  trips, 
including  the  side-trip  (also  on  the 
Malolo)  to  lovely  Hilo,  Kilauea  Vol- 
cano and  Hawaii  National  Park.  A 
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For  $353.50,  the  minimum  rate, 
you  are  given  a  first-class  stateroom 
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All  meals  and  e.xtras  paid.  In  Hono- 
lulu you  stay  at  the  famous  Ameri- 
can plan  Seaside  Hotel.  (Those  pre- 
ferring to  stop  at  the  Royal  Hawaiian 
may  do  so  at  a  rate  of  $400.75  in- 
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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 

{Continued  from  page  23) 

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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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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Conducted  by  Dr.  J.  W.  Lundy 

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Eight  countries — June  29  to  September  10 

Tour  C— 52  days $650.00 

June  29  to  August  19 

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June  29  to  September  2 

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1929 


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A  typical  Club  Luncheon  menu: 

Tomato  Surprise  Salad 
Clam  Chowder, Boston  Style  or  Consomme,  Celestine 

Grilled  Sirloin  a  la  Minute,  Maitre  d'  Hotel 

Half  Broiled  Spring  Chicken  on  Toast 

Stuffed  Omelette  with  Creamed  Crab 

Paupiette  of  Filet  Sole,  Lafayette 

Lyonnaise  Potatoes 
English  Spinach  or  Cauliflower  Polonaise 

Maple-Pecan  Brick 
or  Assortment  of  Ice  Cream  or  Sherbet 

Home-made  Apple  Pie  Fruit  Jell-O 

Almond  Cake  Date  Bread  Pudding,  Wine  Sauce 

Choice  of  Beverage 

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No  charge  for  card  tables 

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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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1929 


We  have  a  Branch 
office  inyour  home 


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telephone  next  time  you  wish  to  avail 
yourself  of  The  Examiner's  Want  Ad 
Section.  A  courteous  Ad  Taker  will 
write  your  Want  Ad  and  read  it  back 
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.  BUSINESS  and  PROFESSIONAL 
DIRECTORY  of  CLUB  MEMBERS 


Bridge 


MRS.  FITZHUGH 

Eminent  Bridge  Authority 

Auction  and  Contract  taught  sdentifically. 

Studio:      WOMAN'S  CITY  CLUB  BLDG. 

Phones:  DOuglas  1796     GRaystone  8a6o 


Camps 


MISS  M.  PHILOMENE  HAGAN 

Director  Camp  Ph-Mar-Jan-E' 
Tahoe  National  Forest,  Cal. 
A   supervised    Summer   Camp   for   Girls,   em- 
bracing all  types  of  outdoor  recreation.  Season 
June    27th    to    August     12th.      Post     Season 
August  12th  to  September  12th. 
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Publisher 


FLORENCE  R.  KEENE 

Editor  and  Publisher  of  WESTWARD,   a 

magazine  of  Western  verse,  book-chat. 

Published  quarterly. 

Twenty'five  cents  per  copy  .  One  dollar  a  year 

1501  Leaven'svorth  Street 
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School 


MISS  MARY  L.  BARCLAY 

School  of  Calculating 

Comptometer:  Day  and  Evening   Classes 

Individual  Initruction 

Telephone  DOuglas  1749 

Balboa  Bldg.  593  Market  Street 

Cor.  and  Street 


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. 

With  an  insatiable  demand  for  more 
and  more  trained  pilots,  well-equipped 
training  schools  can  expect  to  enjoy 
capacity  operations  for  some  time  to 
come.  Earnings  should  continue  to 
increase.  The  larger  manufacturers 
and  transport  operators  have  already 
established  flying  schools.  A  number 
of  manufacturing  companies  supplying 
accessories,  raw  materials,  and  parts, 
such  as  carburetors,  valves,  pistons,  in- 
struments, and  special  metals,  offer 
speculative  possibilities. 

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    / 

A  bulletin  board  for  announcements 
of  City  Club  activities  is  maintained 
on  the  fourth  floor  and  in  the  main 
arcade.  Members  are  urged  to  watch 
the  boards  for  information  pertinent 
to  the  City  Club, 

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rights  available 

New  rights  available  to 
our  preferred  stockhold- 
ers permit  them  to  buy 
an  additional  share  of 
5  /^  %  preferred  stock 
at  $90  per  share  for  each 
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SAN   FRANCISCO 


TIMES  A  YEAR 
A  DIVIDEND 

Every  three  months,  thousands  of  divi- 
dend checks  are  mailed  to  owners  of 
Pickwick  Corporation  Preferred  and 
Common  Shares.  Last  year  Pickwick 
Stockholders  received  over  $500,000  in 
regular   quarterly   cash   dividends. 

You,  too,  may  share  in 
these  liberal  disbursements 
through  investing  in  these 
seasoned  dividend  -  paying 
securities. 

Learn  more  about  the  fu- 
ture possibilities  of  this 
strong  public  utilities  hold- 
ing company.  Write  for 
detailed  information  on  this 
company  today: 

Name 

Address 

Securities  Department 

PICKWICK 

CORPORATION 

75  FIFTH  STREET 
SAN  FRANCISCO,  CALIF. 

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C  I  T  -i'       CLUB       MAGAZINE       for       APRIL 


1929 


Convalescent  Care  for  Worn  en 
and  Children 

...  at  this  pleasant  home,  with   its  sun 

rooms,  large  garden,  sheltered  court,   and 

excellent  meals.   Books  and  other  diversions 

provided.    Patients  admitted  only  on 

recommendation  of  physicians. 

Tubercular  and  Mental  Cases  Not  Received 

Terms  $1.00  per  Day 

The  San  Francisco  Ladies' 
Protection  and  Relief  Society 

Miss  Ida  V.  Graham,  Superintendent 

3400  Laguna  Street        -        Telephone  West  6714 

Miss  Anna  W.  Beaver  Miss  Edith  W.  Allyne 

President  Secretary 

Mrs.  George  A.  Clough 

Ch.  Convalescent  Comm. 


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SUPREMELY  FINE 


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SERVED  AT  THE  CLUB 

CONFECTIONERS,  RESTAURANTS 

TEA  ROOMS 

AND 

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HOME  SERVICE  AT 

NEIGHBORHOOD 

STORES 


Your  Daily  Shopping  with 
a  Single  Telephone  Call . . . 

One  ordering  will  bring  you  a 

prompt   delivery  of   carefully 

selected  foods — 

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Meat   :  Vegetables 


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Lowest    prices    commensurate    with    quality.     Monthly 

accounts  are  invited.    For  your  convenience  we 

maintain  a  constant  delivery  service. 

The  famous  E.  M,  Todd  Virginia 

Cured  Hams  and  Bacons  are  now 

sold  in  our  meat  market. 


The  METROPOLITAN 
UNION  MARKET 


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Your  Dainty  things . 

Printed  frocks,  sheer  negligees,  delicately 

colored  lingerie,  boudoir  pillows,  crisp 

curtains  and  silken  coverlets  ...  all  can 

be  cleaned  and  refreshed  the 

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To  arrange  for 
regular  service . . . 

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Why  a  Women's  Department . . .  ? 

A  San  Francisco  school  teacher  wanted  to  take  her 
first-graders  to  Golden  Gate  Park  but  could  not 
find  transportation  for  forty-five  little  ones.  A 
friend  advised  her  to  get  in  touch  with  Mrs.  Helen 
A.  Doble,  in  charge  of  the  Women's  Department  of 
Market  Street  Railway  Company.  Mrs.  Doble 
placed  the  "San  Francisco,"  the  big  white  school 
car,  at  the  teacher's  disposal  without  cost.    Experi- 

enced    and    careful    platform    men 

took  the  whole  class  on  the  desired 
outing.  Call  SU  tter  3200  or  at 
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President 


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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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Fruits  pac\cdL  without  sugar. 

Vegetables  pac\ed  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 
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THE  NUTRADIET  CO. 

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specializing  in 

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brings  to  your  constitution 
the  food  values  required  to 
maintain  sturdy  health. 

The  habit  of  drinking 
milk  daily  is  as  whole- 
some for  adults  as  for 
children  .  .  .  and  Dairy 
Delivery  Milk  with  its 
rich  cream  content  will  be 
delivered  daily  to  your 
door. 

For  regular  delivery  .  .  . 

TELEPHONE 

VA  lencia  Ten  Thousand 
BU  rlingame  2460 

Dairy  Delivery  Co. 

Successors  in   San   Francisco   to 

MILLBRAE  DAIRY 


Telephones:  DA  venport  3860-3861 

ACME 
Fruit  £sf  Produce  Co. 

wholesale;  produce 

Tea  Rooms,  Hotels  and  Restaurants 
Supplied 

407-413   FRONT   STREET 
SAX  FRANCISCO 


Ali^'A  YS...u'Ae/i  inquiring  or 
buying  Jrom  our  advertisers,  mention 
the  Women's  City  Club  Magazine. 


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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N.  D. 

Here  you  will  find 

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really    authentic 

Persian    h  a  n  d- 

b locked    prints 

h: 

made  into  street- 

jackets,  and  house- 
robes  ,  and  sport 
blouses   .   .  .   heavy 

N 

brasses  ivith  myste- 

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rious  symbolic  fret- 

ivork,    mosaic   tiles. 

and    rugs    -a-ith    a 

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pile    thicker    than 

fox-fur  .  .  .   and  a 

subtle,     exclusive 

h: 

perfume  —  Mar  Jan. 

San  Francisco 

45S  Post  Street 

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 


fi 


ECORD  SCENES  OF^i^ 
SEASONABLE  BEAUTY 
by  FINE  PHOTOGRAPHS 


GABRIEL  MOULIN 


153  KEARNY  ST. 


DO  uglas  4969 
KE  amy  4366 


WoMEMS  City  Club 


Magat 


iM£r 


Published rJMonthly  by  the  Women's  City  Club,  ^65  Post  Street,  San  Francisco 


Subscription  $1.00     >  ar  *  15  cents  a  copy 


Volume  III  '  No.  4 


W.  &  T.  SLOANE 


SUTTER  STREET 


near  GRANT  AVE. 


for  Your  Sun  Room 


. .  .whether  it  is  perched  roof-high  above  busy  streets  or  nestles 
close  to  a  quiet,  fragrant  garden,  here  is  the  comfortable,  col- 
orful furniture  that  will  make  it  a  haven  of  delightful  charm. 

Smart  and  distinctively  new  are  the  designs  of  these  lounging 
chairs,  davenports,  chaises  longues,  tables  and  other  pieces  of 
selected  stick  reed.  They  are  finished  in  several  gay  color  com- 
binations with  harmonizing  upholstery  coverings,  or  may  be 
supplied  on  short  notice  in  any  special  colors  and  coverings 
desired.  Although  decidedly  uncommon  in  quality, 
this  furniture  is  very  reasonably  priced. 


Oriental  and  Domestic  Rugs  :  Carpets  :   Draperies  :  Furniture 

Freight  paid  to  any  Shipping  Point  in  the  United  States  and  to  Honohilu. 

Charge  Accounts  I  muted. 

Stores  also  in  New  York,  Los  .Angeles  and  Washington. 


Tkere  will  he  only  ONE 

car  like  tnis  in  your 

community 


"Car  of  the  Month 
'or  MA  Y 

...  a  special  limited  edition  of 
Flying  Cloud  The  MASTER! 

The  May  "Car  of  the  Month,''  the  special 
limited  edition  of  Flying  Cloud  the  Master, 
is  now  on  display.  Created  by  an  artist  who 
knows  fashions  as  well  as  cars .  .  .  embody- 
ing those  blues  that  figure  so  prominently 
in  the  spring  mode  . . .  upholstered  in  a  fab- 
ric designed  by  Cheney  Brothers  for  this 
purpose  alone,  woven  on  special  Jacquard 
looms  and  used  on  no  other  car  .  .  .  here  is 
an  ensemble  absolutely  new  in  the  automo- 
tive world. 

The  woman  who  is  the  first  to  ask  for 
this  May  "Car  of  the  Month"  will  get  the 
individuality,  the  distinction  of  a  custom- 
bu  ilt  body  designed  for  hersel  f  alone.  Yet  the 
price  she  pays  is  only  one  hundred  dollars 
more  than  that  of  the  regular  Reo  sport 
sedan.  Flying  Cloud  the  Master! 


This    illuttralio 

made  by  Cheney  Brothers 

of  the  Month" 


REO  MOTOR  CAR  COMPANY 

C  r     1£  •  ^         VAN  NESS  AVE.  at  GEARY 

oj  i^alijornia-,        san  franqsco 


EO 

FLYING  CLOUD 

O  F 

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. 


10.00  A. 

M. 

10:45  A. 

M. 

11:15  A. 

M. 

7:30  P. 

M. 

8:30  P. 

M. 

8 :00  P. 

M. 

Junior  Swimming  Meet 

Club  Pooly  Saturday y  May  II ,  at  11:30  o  clock 


Members'  daughters  and  their  guests  are  invited 
to  take  part.    %   Entries  close  May  9. 


W  OMENS       CITY       CI.  UB       MAGAZINE 


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AN  CYCNT  / 

or  YHE  IHC/aRE .' 


The 

THEATRE  GUILD  «^  NEW  YORK 
presents  Us  distinguished  players  in- 
jouv  outstancUfm  successes  — 


The  DOCTOR'^  DIIC/HAW 

By    BERNARD    SHAW  —  WeeK  MAY  13 

The  ^ECCND   MAN^ 

By  $.N.  BE  HUMAN     ^     Week  MAY  2€ 

NED  M^CCBB'S  lAtOiTER 

By  SIDNEY   HOWARD  —  -—  >VeeK  MAY  27 

J€t1N  fCROUS€N>*^ 

By  St  JOHN   ERVfNE WeeK  JtNE   3 


ALL  FOUR  PLAYS  $io. 

Subscriptions  $10  ($2.50  for  $3  orchestra  seat)  .  .  . 
Specify  nights  of  each  week  you  desire  .  .  .  Make  checks 
payable  Treasurer,  Geary  Theater.  Seats  at  Geary  box 
office  beginning  May  1  .  .  .  nights,  50c  to  $3  ;  Wednes- 
day Matinee,  SOc  to  $2;  Saturday  Matinee,  SOc  to  $2.50. 


PEfUONAL  MANAGEMENT 
MR.  HOMEP.  F.  CUPRAN  AND 
MR.  JELBV  C    OPPENHEIMER 


GCARV 


(     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 

Ozvncd  and  operated  by  the 

WOMEN'S  CITY  CLUB 

In  the  corner  of  the  Main  Lobby 


WILLIAM  D.  McCANN 

Interiors  of  'Distinction 
404  Post  Street 


San  Francisco 


Phone  SV  tter  4444 


A  FOUNTAIN  FIGURE 

fof^  youi^  garden^ 


vHIS  is  but  one  of  a  wide  variety  of 
fountain  figures  on  display  at  our 
retail  salesroom.  You  are  cordially  mvited 
to  come  and  see  them. 

GLADDING,  McBE AN  &  CO. 

445  Ninth  Street,  San  Francisco 


THE 


Wornm'^  Citp  Club  jWasa^me  ^tf)ool  Mvttiov^ 


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 

SCHOOL 


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 

CliCISTENSEN 

School  of  Popular  JMusic 

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 


■1 

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  5  to  14  years. 

Open  Air  Swimming  Pool                Outdoor  life  all  the  year  round 
Catalog   upon  request 

CROWS  NEST  FARM  for  Children 


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 


SECRETARIAL   SCHOOLS 


W    ExTi 
f      resov 


Extra  skill,  extra 
resourcefulness-,  and 
extra  remuneration 
are  the  results  of 
that  extraordinary 
business  preparation 

MUNSONWISE 
TRAHSING 


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MUN/CN 
$CH€€L 

roc  PRIVATE 
SCCPETAPir/ 

CO-EDUCATIONAl 

400  Sutter  St.,  Sjn  Frincisco 

Phone  FRanklin  0)0< 

SenJ  for  C'tilag 


California  Secretarial  School 


Instruction 
Dat  and  Evening 

Benjamin  F.  Pricat 
Pretident 


(.% 


ludtridrntu 

Instruction 

i-or  Indrvidmm 


RUSS  BUILDING 


SAN  FRANCISCO 


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 

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. 

Write  for  catalogue 

Lee  F.  Randolph,  Director 


women's       city       club       magazine       for       MAY 


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 


It's  Smart 
to  be  thrifty.    Six  "two-and-a-half"  facials  for 
$12.50.   Save  the  price  of  a  Pair  of  Stockings. 

Women's  City  Club  Beauty  Salon 


M4INimNG 


Ai^cn 


The  Plaza  Tic 

with  Main  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. . .  sunburn  calf 
with  champagne  calf 
tongue  and  under-lay. 


HOSIERY! 

Sun  Tan,  Sun  Burn, 

Sun  Bronze,  Breezee  and 

Mystery  for  Spring. 

8I.3S    *>   S$I.H.% 
HI. 11.%    *>   !II2.50 


>VALr-€VEC 

844  MARKET  ST. 


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. 


WOMEN^S  CITY  CLUB 
MAGAZINE 


VOLUME    III 


SAN   FRANCISCO    *    MAY    *    IQ^Q 


NUMBER    4 


Where 


IsO 


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. 


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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. 


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>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. 

>  >   > 

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. 

>  >   > 

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. 

>  >  > 

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. 

>  >   > 

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. 

>  >   > 

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. 

>  >   > 

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. 


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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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CaUfornias  Music  Older  than  Nation 

By  Laura  Bride  Powers 


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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. 


Nan  Mat«o'»  l§»upei*«^loflom 

CASA    BAYM^OOD 
APARTMENTS 

In  a  setting  of  Oaks  and  Baywoods,  commanding 
a  marvelous  view  of  the  hills  and  bay.  Spacious 
three  and  four  room  apartments,  with  every  con- 
venience of  the  modern  hotel.  Fully  equipped, 
including  electric  refrigerators,  steam  heat,  hot 
water,  elevator,  roof  garden,  janitor 
and  maid  service,  garages. 

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Beautiful  Landscape  Gardens 

Steel    and    concrete,    soundproof    and    fireproof   building, 
furnished — unfurnished 

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(Please  mention  Women's  City  Club  Magazine) 


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SAN  MATEO-CALI FORNIX 

On  El  Camino  Real  and  San  Francisco 
Bay  Bridge  Higlneay 


13he  'Peninsula  s  distinctive 
'Place  to  'Dine! 

Luncheon  .  .  .  Afternoon  Bridge 
Teas  and  Suppers  .  .  .  Dinners 
.  .  and  Club  and  Banquet  Service 

Summer  service  on  special  Luncheons, 
Teas  and  Dinners  in  the  Patio  Garden 

Telephone  San  Mateo  879 


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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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W  O  iM  E  N 


CITY       CLUB       MAGAZINE       for      MAY 


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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1929 


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Beauty  Salon 

Open  to  the  Public 
No  tipping 

Permanent  Waving 
Water  Waving  and 

Marcelling 
Facial  treatments 
Scalp  treatments 
and  all  beauty  work 

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Annual  Report 

Volunteer  Service 

Committee 

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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women's      city      club      magazine      for      MAY 


1920 


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. 


Will  Tour  Europe 

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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CITY       CLUB       MAGAZINE       for      MAY 


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SUMMER   FARES   MAY  22 


Double 
the  Enjoyment 

of  your  trip  east  by  going  one  way, 
returning  another 

When  the  low  summer  fares  are 
in  effea  you  appreciate  all  the  more 
Southern  Pacific's  option,  —  go  one 
way  ,  return  another. 

You  can,  for  example,  at  no  addi- 
tional cost,  go  east  over  the  Sunset 
Route,  via  San  Francisco,  Los  An- 
geles, El  Paso,  San  Antonio,  New 
Orleans  and  return  via  the  Over- 
land Route,  Chicago  direa  across 
mid-continent  to  San  Francisco.  See 
that  part  of  America  you  want  to  see. 
Use  to  your  advantage  Southern  Pa- 
cific's four  great  routes;  Overland 
Route,  Sunset  Route,  Golden 
State  Route— LosAngeles  via  Kan- 
sas City  to  Chicago  and  the  Shasta 
Route  via  the  Pacific  Northwest. 

Excursion  Fares  East 

Note  these  examples  of  low  fares, 
in  e£Fect  from  May  22  to  Sept.  30. 


Chicago     .     . 

.      $  90.30 

Kansas  City   . 

.     75.60 

New  Orleans 

.     89.40 

New  York     .     . 

.   151.70 

Southern 
Pacific 

F.  S.  McGINNIS 

Passenger  Traffic  Manager 

San  Francisco 


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 

Mrs.  Dorothy  Rowe 

Miss  Florence  Munson 

Miss  Glenita  Tarbox 

Mrs.  H.  R.  Mann 

Miss  Bertha  McCarthy 

Miss  Margaret  Higgins 

Miss  Hazel  Borden 

Mr.  John  Foge 

Miss  Mildred  Brown 

Miss  Carlie  I.  Tomlinson 


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CITY      CLUB       M  A  G  A  7.  I  N'  E       for      MAY 


1929 


Unknown  Addresses 

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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Magazine  Discussion  Group 
The  Magazine  Discussion  Group, 
under  the  leadership  of   Mrs.  Alden 
Ames,  meets  on  the  third   Friday  of 
each  month  at  2  o'clock. 

The  articles  in  the  leading  current 
magazines  are  discussed  and  the  meet- 
ings are  proving  very  stimulating.  All 
members  interested  are  invited  to  join 
the  group. 


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women's       city       club       magazine       for      MAY 


1929 


7  days 

in  Hawaii  in 

your  2  weeks' 

vacation/ 

This  year — Hawaii  in  your  vaca- 
tion !  You  can  go  there,  spend  a  full 
week  in  the  Islands,  and  return 
home,  all  in  your  regular  two- 
weeks'  leave ! 

This  wonderful  opportunity  is  offered 
you  by  the  Malolo's  special  vacation 
cruise,  June  22  to  July  8.  It  is  arranged 
for  people  who  do  things — for  busy 
executives,  busy  women  and  others  who 
cannot  be  too  long  away.  A  romantic, 
fascinating  trip!  An  educational  oppor- 
tunity! A  sea  voyage  that  will  make 
you  feel  better  all  year! 


Ordinary  vacation  plans  seem  very 
commonplace  beside  this  wonderful 
cruise  to  Hawaii.  Fares  are  hardly 
more  than  you  would  spend  doing  the 
same  old  things  you've  always  done. 
You  can  see  everything,  do  every- 
thing for  as  little  as  $353.50  —  first 
class  accommodations  exclusively  ! 
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By  Beatrice  Snow  Stoddard 
{Mrs.  Thomas  A.  Stoddard) 

Extract  from  her  diary,  ivrttten  iv/iile  Dr. 

and  Mrs.  Stoddard  ivere   traveling,   last 

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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^kiU  away  onyour  Vacation 


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. . .  of  course  you  wouldn't ! 

Then  how  about  the  money  you  have  invested  in 
your  household  goods? 

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A  San  Francisco  school  teacher  wanted  to  take  her 
first-graders  to  Golden  Gate  Park  but  could  not 
find  transportation  for  forty-five  little  ones.  A 
friend  advised  her  to  get  in  touch  with  Mrs.  Helen 
A.  Doble,  in  charge  of  the  Women's  Department  of 
Market  Street  Railway  Company.  Mrs.  Doble 
placed  the  "San  Francisco,"  the  big  white  school 
car,  at  the  teacher's  disposal  without  cost.  Experi- 
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i^on-skid  Safety  -  - 
season  after  season 

WITH  the  DUAL- 
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many  seasons  of  slippery 
weather  with  a  new  feel- 
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poor  insurance. 


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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." 

II 

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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A  Comprehensive  Program  of 
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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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miMMS  Of  iO^AgO 

to  NEW  YORK. 


SPARKLING,  absorbing 
shore  visits  in  ten  vividly 
beautiful  Latin-American 
Lands  distinguish  the  cruise-tour 
of  the  Panama  Mail  to  New  York 
.  .  .  There  is  no  boredom  .... 
no  monotonv  .  .  only  restful  days 
at  sea  amid  the  thousand  com- 
forts of  luxurious  liners,  inter- 
spersed with  never-to-be-forgot- 
ten sojourns  in  Mexico,  Guate- 
mala, Salvador,  Nicaragua,  Pan- 
ama, Colombia  and  Havana. 

Your  trip  on  the  Panama  Alail 
becomes  a  complete  vacation.  .  . 
For  twenty-eight  days  your  ship 
is  your  home  ...  on  tropic  seas 
under  the  gleaming  Southern 
Cross  ...  in  quaint  ports  in 
history's  hallowed  lands.  .  .  . 
And  yet  the  cruise-tour  costs  no 
more  than  other  routes  whereon 
speed  overshadows  all  else  .  .  . 
which  do  not  include  The  Lands 
of  Long  Ago  .  .  .  The  first  class 
fare  to  New  York — outside  cabin, 
bed,  not  berth,  and  meals  in- 
cluded is  as  low  as  $275. 

Frequent  sailings — every  two 
weeks  from  San  Francisco  and 
Los  Angeles — make  it  possible  to 
go  any  time.  Reservations  should 
be  made  early  however.  Write 
today  for  folder. 

PANAMA  MAIL 

Si  earn  ship  Company 

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Spain,    Tangier,    Algiers,    Italy.    Riviera, 

Sweden,   Norway.   Edinburgh,  Trossachs, 

Berlin    (Paris,   London). 

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MEDITERRANEAN  CRUISE 

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$600  to  $1750 
Madeira,    (Funchal)    Grand   Canary,   Las 
Palmas,  Cadiz,  Seville,  Gibraltar,  Algiers. 
Malta,  Athens,  Constantinople,  Jerusalem, 
Bethlehem,     Alexandria,     Cairo,     Naples. 
Rome,  Monte  Carlo,  Cherbourg.  Glasgow. 
Hotels,   drives,   fees,   etc..    with    generous 
stol'ozers   included   both    cruises. 
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&r^OMPANY 

MEMBERS 
NEW  YORK  STOCK  EXCHANGE 


SAN  FRANCISCO  STOCK  EXCHANGE 

Our  Branch  Office  in  the 
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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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Our  5>^%  Cumulative 
Preferred  Stock  (1)  at 
$94  per  share  yields 
5.85%  (2)  is  exempt 
from  California  personal 
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on  the  San  Francisco 
Stock  Exchange  and  can 
be  purchased  or  sold  at 
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magaiine  of  Western  verse,  boolcchat. 

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If  one  has  a  broad  general  knowl- 
edge of  good  common  stocks  suitable 
for  investment  it  is  possible  to  select 
bargains  at  the  present  time,  to  hold 
for  long  term  investment.  If  one 
wishes  to  be  more  conservative  buying 
should  be  deferred  until  the  credit  sit- 
uation has  stabilized.  Though  one 
may  pay  a  somewhat  higher  price  for 
investment  stocks  the  assurance  that 
the  market  is  on  a  more  dependable 
credit  basis  will  be  worth  the  addi- 
tional cost. 

Just  because  a  stock  is  low  in  price 
does  not  mean  that  it  is  a  bargain. 
Nor  does  it  mean  that  a  stock  is  poor 
because  its  market  price  is  low.  Each 
security  must  be  judged  on  its  own 
merits.  Stocks,  like  other  commodities, 
get  on  the  bargain  counter  when  they 
are  out  of  fashion.  There  are  as  many 
fads  in  stocks  as  there  are  in  frocks. 
The  most  modish,  the  favorites  of  the 
moment,  command  the  highest  prices. 
When  the  public  wants  certain  stocks 
and  rushes  to  buy,  the  price  goes  up 
and  up.  As  a  result  many  stocks  sell 
at  two  and  three  times  their  actual 
value.  Intrinsic  values,  not  temporary 
market  price,  is  what  the  investors 
must  look  for,  if  buying  according  to 
sound  business  principles. 

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. 

To  select  safe  and  sound  securities 
for  the  investor  is  a  fairly  easy  task, 
provided  "investing"  is  understood  to 
mean  the  protection  of  the  principal 
of  one's  wealth  and  the  securing  of 
permanent  income.  Principal  can 
usually  be  increased  by  careful  man- 
agement without  sacrificing  either 
safety  of  principal  or  income. 

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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Lake  Tahoe 
Girls'  Camp 


LAKE  TAHOE 
CALIFORNIA 


Seventh  Season 
JUNE  29  "  AUGUST  17 

An  exclusive  summer 
camp  for  girls  in  the  High 
Sierra  of  California. 
Horseback  riding,  real 
camping  trips,  swimming, 
canoeing  and  every  worth- 
while land  and  water 
sport  under  expert  in- 
struction and  careful 
supervision. 


For   information    inquire    at    the 

Information  Desk,  Women's  City  Club 

or 

FLORENCE  P.  BOSSE 

562  Sutter  Street  San  Francisco 


Your  Girl — Your  Boy 

Can  Camp  in  the  High 
Sierra  TTxis  Summer 

Prof.  Frank  Kleeberger,  University 
of  California,  announces  two  camps 
to    be    conducted    this    summer    by 


SIERRA  CAMPS,  Inc. 


Camp 

Laughing 

Water 


Camp 

Talking 

Mountain 


for  boys 

(ages  8  to  17) 
Protessor  Frank 
Kleeberger. 
Director 
On  beautiful  Echo 
Lake    near    Tahoe. 
Healthful     sports 
and   recreation   un- 
der   expert    leader- 
ship. 

Illustrated   booklets    giving   full   informa- 
tion, sent  on   request. 


Professor  Frank  Kleeberger, 

University  of  California, 

Berkeley,  California. 

Kindly  send  booklet  regarding 
Girls'  (      )  Boys"  (      )  Camp. 

Name  . 
City... 
State . 


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Civic  Center 


CHINATOWN 
ASter  Dark 

Six  Companies  Building 

Nationalists  Club 

Family  Clubs 

Telephone  Exchange 

Joss  House 

Tickets  at  Desk  in  Club  Lobby 

Tanner  'Motor  Tours 


29  Geary  Street 


SUtterSlOO 


Galland 

Mercantile 
Laundry 
Company 

Hotel,  Club  and 
Restaurant  Flat  Work 

Table  Linen 
Furnished  to  Cafes 

Table  Cloths,  Tops,  Napkins, 

Glass  and  Dish  Towels, 

Aprons,  Etc. 

Coats  and  Gowns  furnished 

for  all  classes  of  professional 

services. 


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Streets,  San  Francisco 

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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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Natural  Foods 

Fruits  packed  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. 

Write  for  a   chemical  analysis,  also   a 
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Women's 
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May  9th 

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Sorosis 
Club  Hall 

May  9th 

8  p.  m. 

Tickets  $1.00  ...  at  door  of  halls 

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•  -         Classified  Advertisements 

EUROPEAN  TOUR— Select  party  of 
six  now  being  formed  by  Club  member, 
using  internationally  known  "Master 
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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. 

HADDON  HILL  ORCHARD  CAMP 

For  Boys  6  to   1 1 

In  the  Sierra  Foothills  near  Auburn.    Supervised 

sports,    swimming,    sun   baths,   nature  study — an 

opportunity    for    your   boy's   sturdy   growth    and 

character  development.     Fresh  vegetables, 

fruit,  milk. 

Under  the  supervision  of  a  mother  of  boys. 

$25.00  per  week — Open  all  year. 

Write 

MRS.    ALBERTA    S.    McDONALD 

Newcastle,   California 
San  Francisco  telephone  FI  Ilmore  0495 

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Formerly  served  in  the 
Club  Dining  Room. 

You  can  get  it  at  the  stores  where 
they  sell  the  Best. 


WOMEN      S       CITY       CT;UB       MAGAZINE      for      MAY 


1929 


The  MilJ(  with  More  Cream 


TRADE  MARK  REGISTERED 

On  Your 
Doorstep 

Every  Morning 

this  healthful  whole  food  that 
contributes  to  your  own  as  well 
as  the  children's  good  health. 

Delivery  is  as  regular 
downtown  as  in  the  resi- 
dential districts — and  you 
can  arrange  for  Dairy  De- 
livery Milk  service  at  the 
office  as  well  as  at  home. 

To  place  your  order  .  .  . 

TELEPHONE 

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Successors  in  San  Francisco  to 

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the  Best. 

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 

Woman  s  Crowning  Glory; 
Her  Hair 

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. 

WOMEN'S  CITY  CLUB 

Beauty  Salon 

Lower  Main  Floor 

Open  to  the  Public 

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CLEANS" 

clean  as  new  h 


HOW  OFTEN 

T)o  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  with 
entire  confidence  in  our  service. 

Monterey  Sea  Food  Co. 

1985  Mission  UNderhill  6075 


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 


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Volume  III  r  No.  5 


REO 

F  LYI  NG     CLOUD 
OF    THE    MONTH 


This  iliustratitni  sluncs  the  actual  tiphointvry  Jtibric 
made  hy  Cheat y  Brothers  on  Jactfuartl  Joatas  vxtlu^ 
aivefy    for    the   Reo     Car    of    the   Moath  jar   June, 


"••"•••-      yii.»ii>i.-....i-.j~».  .|  ^1     |ii-,nii,i|,  I  I     ,^^ „l.^'*. 


THERE  WILL  BE  FEW  DUPLICATES 


OF  THIS  CAR  IN  ANY  COMMUNITY 


One  each  month  —  a  personal,  in- 
dividual car,  extremely  limited  in 
production  —  the  Reo  Car  of  the 
Month  has  already  achieved  a  dis- 
tinct vogue.  For  June,  this  de  luxe 
edition  of  Reo  Flying  Cloud  is 
offered  in  a  smart  mulherry  en- 
semhle  .  .  .  upholstered  in  an  ex- 
clusive fahric  designed  and  made  hy 
Cheney  Brothers  —  a  fabric  obtain- 
able in  no  other  car. 

It  is  priced  at  only  a  hundred 
dollars  more  than  the  sport  sedan 
of  Reo  Flying  Cloud  The  Master.  If 
you  want  to  make  it  your  car,  be 
sure  that  some  other  woman  does 
not  act  on  a  similar  inspiration yJrsf 
—  otherwise  you  may  have  to  wait 
for  the  July  edition  . 

On  display  at 

11 00  Van  Ness  Ave.,  San  Francisco 

and  3300  Broadway,  Oakland 

Reo  Motor  Car  Company 

of  California 


M^ill  Your  Furniture 
Be  An  Heirloom  for 
Your  Children? 


X  O  save  a  few  dollars  by  slighting  quality  is  Extravagance, 
not  Economy.  You  do  not  buy  furniture  often,  so  invest  in 
quality  that  will  be  a  credit  to  your  home  and  a  witness  to 
your  judgment.  For  eighty-six  years  W.  &  J.  Sloane  have 
dealt  only  in  quality  merchandise,  continually  lowering  its 
cost  by  consolidated  buying  abroad  and  in  America,  and  by 
the  economies  of  four  great  stores. 

Sloane  Furniture . .  .of  honest  materials  fashioned  by 

prideful  craftsmen . . .  may  well  be  the  treasured 

'^antiques'*  of  future  generations. 


FURNITURE 


ORIENTAL    RUGS 


CARPETS 


DRAPERIES 


W.  &J. /L€ANE 

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Store,<-  al.io  in  Los  Angeles,  New  York  and  Washington 


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 

Charming  new  French  Potteries  .  .  .  Prints  .  .  .  English 

Pewter  .  .  .  Bags  and  Scarfs  .  .  .  Bridge  Table  Lamps  .  .  . 

an  intriguing  variety  of  useful,  beautiful 

Gifts  and  Novelties 


...THE 


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women's      city      club       magazine      for      JUNE 


1929 


Women's  City  Club 
M  agazin  e 


Published  Monthly  at 
465  Post  Street 


Telephone 
KEarny  8400 


Entered  as  lecond-class  matter  April  14,  1928,  at  the  Post  Office 
at  San  Francisco,  California,  under  the  act  of  March  3,   1879. 

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 


It's  Smart 
to  be  thrifty.   Six  "two-and-a-half"  facials  for 
$12.50.   Save  the  price  of  a  Pair  of  Stockings. 

Women's  City  Club  Beauty  Salon 


MilNIPtlNG 


The  Plaza  Tie 

with  Alain  Spring 


Arch 


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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 . . .  sunburn  calf 
with  champagne  calf 
tongue  and  under-lay. 


HOSIERY! 

Sun  Tan,  Sun  Burn, 

un  Bronze,  Breezee  and 

Mystery  for  Spring. 

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WALr-€VEC 

844  MARKET  ST. 


THE 


OTomen'g  Citp  Club  jUap^ine  ^cfjool  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 
1899  Pacific  Ave.  Telephone  West  711 


DREW 

SCHOOL 


S'Year  High  School 
Course  admits  to  college. 
Credits  valid  in  high  school. 

Grammar  Course 

accredited,  saves  half  time 


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 


Miss  MARKER'S  SCHCX)L 

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  5  to  14  years. 

Open  Air  Swimming  Pool               Outdoor  life  all  the  year  round 
Catalog  upon  request 

IXSlt^ 

Rudolph  Schaeffer  School  of  Rhy thmo-Chromatlc  Design 

Summer  Classes ...  July  8  to  August  1 1  Color    :    Textile    :    Interior  Decoration 

STUDIOS:  136  ST.  ANNE  STREET    :     SAN  FRANCISCO    :     Telephone  DAvenport  6980 


THE 


Womtn'^  Citj)  Club  iWaga^ine  ^tfjool  ^irettorp 


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Lake  Tahoe  Girls^  Camp 

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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Individual 

Instruction 

'or  IndividueU 

"Heeds. 


RUSS  BL7ILDING    -    •    SAN  FRANCISCO 


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 


W    EXTI 

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Extra  skill,  extra 
resourcefulness;  and 
extra  remuneration 
arc  the  results  of 
that  extraordinary 
business  preparation 

MUNSONWISE 
TRAI^IING 


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CO-EOUCATIONAL 

400  Sutler  Sc,  Sjr  Francbn 
Phone  FRanklin  0)0* 

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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 


women's     city     club     magazine    for    JUNE     •     1929 


'^dl^e  the  Popular 

Scenic  Limited 

for 

Excellent  Service  and  Qomfort 

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. 


WESTERN  P  AC  I  Fig 

THE  FEATHER^  RIVER  ROUTE 

Ticket  Office: 

654  MARKET  STREET 

(Across  from  the  Palace) 

Also  Ferry  Building 

SAN  FRANCISCO 
Phone  SU  tter  1651 


Kimonos 

Maoris 

Happis 


*■  Ladies'  and  Gentlemen's 
Kimonos  and 

Three-Plece  Pajama  Suits 
Made  to  Order 


TEMPLE  of  NIKKO 

253  Post  Street 


CITYofTOKIO 

347  Grant  Ave. 


SAN    FRANCISCO 


DO  YOU  LONG  fw 
VACATION  TIME? 


So  many  of  us  are  craving 
relaxation,  looking  for  play 
and  renewed  energy  —  yet  it 
is  a  well-known  fact  that  you 
can  gain  renewed  health  the 
year  round  in  our  cool  and 
refreshing  studio. 
Start  your  vacation  now — and 
make  it  last  the  entire  year. 
If  exercise  is  necessary  to 
men  of  success,  like  President 
Hoover  and  Charles  Mitch- 
ell, it  must  be  right  for  you. 
Enroll  noiv  before  increased 
fees  become  effective. 


OPEN  TO  THE  PUBLIC 

SAN  FRANCISCO  ACADEMY 
OF  PHYSICAL  CULTURE 

Lower  Main  Floor,  Women's  City  Club  Building 
Telephones:  KEarny  8400  and  KEarny  8170 


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- 


H.  LIEBES  GbCQ 

GRANT  AVE  AT  POST 


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H.LieLe.s&Co. 
presents  t^vo  ana  tliree- 
piece  suits  in  new  patterns,  new  colours 
ano  tne  season  s  smartest  styles 
ana  all  as  tney  slioula  be  .  .  . 
correctly  casual*  extreme- 
ly cnic  and  mooest- 
ly  priced 

Incluaea  in  tnis  collection  are  importea 
moaels  tnat  exemplily  tne  outstand- 
ing smartness  ot  knittea  sports 
clotnes  tnis  season 


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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Come  to  our   retail   salesroom   and   see 

this   and    other   pieces.     There    are   six 

colors  to  choose  from. 


GLADDING,  McBE AN  &  CO. 

445   NINTH   STREET 
San  Francisco 


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bAN  Francisco         .:/  fountain  remembers  Robert  Louis  Stevenson 


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 


WOMEN^S  CITY  CLUB 
MAGAZINE 


VOLUME    HI 


SAN   FRANCISCO    "    JUNE    '    IQ^Q 


NUMBER    5 


Mahe  ToiiE  Betsi 


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By  Dean  Southern  Jennings 
{Son    of  Mrs.    PFebster   Wardell  Jennings,   incinher  of  San  Francisco    IVonien's  City   Club) 


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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 


I 


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 


By  J.  Stuart  Fletcher 

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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\V  OMEN 


CITY       CLUB       MAGAZINE       for       JUNE 


1929 


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. 

i      i      -f 

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. 

i      1      i 

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. 

y    y    / 

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 


women's     city     club     m  a  c;  a  z  I  n  k     for     j  u  x  i-; 


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 

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MARIE  HICKS  DAVIDSON,  Managing  Editor 

Ruth  Callahan,  Advertising  Manager 


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. 

r    y    y 

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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W  O  M  E  X 


C  1  T  Y 


C  L  U   B       M   A  G  A  Z  I  X  E       /  or       J   U  X   E 


I   9  2  9 


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. 

Y      -t      i 

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. 


W  O  M   H  N      S       CI  T  y       C  I,  L    li       M  A  (;  A  /  I  N 


tor       J    V   X    h 


i    <J  2<j 


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. 

i     i     1 

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. 


CASA    BAYM^OOD 
APARTMENTS 

In  a  setting  of  Oaks  and  Baywoods,  commanding 
a  marvelous  view  of  the  hills  and  bay.  Spacious 
three  and  four  room  apartments,  with  every  con- 
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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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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- 
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For  the  convenience  of  members 
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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- 
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^  Club  in  the  Orients 

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- 
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privacy  heretofore  deemed  necessary, 
it  is  well  to  bathe  early.  You  soap  oH 
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bedspreads  painstakingly  made  on  Kentucky  mountain 
looms  .  .  .  each  chair  and  lounge  individually  chosen  for 
its  place  .  .  .  massive  walls  quarried  from  native  Yosemite 
granite  . . .  and  the  ensemble  styled  after  Yosemite's  sweep 
and  grandeur! 

There  could  be  no  other  Ahwahnee,  just  as  there  could 
be  no  other  Yosemite.  It's  an  overnight  trip  by  through 
sleeper  from  the  City,  or  seven  hours  by  auto,  to  this 
finest  of  all  California  vacations.  Plan  a  few  days  for  each 
new  season  in  Yosemite  this  year  ...  or  spend  a  whole 
vacation,  spiced  with  the  outdoor  diversions  you  like  best. 

Accommodations  run  the  complete  range,  from  the  col- 
orful Ahwahnee  to  housekeeping  tents  in  the  pines  and 
High  Sierra  trail  camps — from  $10  a  day  upward,  Ameri- 
can Plan,  at  The  Ahwahnee,  and  S2  upward,  European 
Plan,  at  popular  Lodge-resorts. 

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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 


STATEMENT    OF    THE    OWNERSHIP,    MANAGEMENT, 

CIRCULATION   ET   CETERA   REQUIRED   BY  THE  ACT 

OF  CONGRESS  OF  AUGUST  24,  1912. 

Of  the  Women's  City  Club  Magazine,  published  monthly  at  San  Francisco, 
California,  for  April  1,  1929. 

City  and  County  of  San  Francisco  )  g^^ 
State  of  California  J 

Before  me,  a  Notary  Public  in  and  for  the  State  and  county  aforesaid, 
personally  appeared  C.  I.  Tomlinson,  who,  having  been  duly  sworn  accord- 
ing to  law,  deposes  and  says  that  she  is  the  Business  Manager  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,  management 
et  cetera  of  the  aforesaid  publication  for  the  date  shown  in  the  above  cap- 
tion, required  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,  managing 
editor,  and  business  manager  are: 

Name  of —  Postoffice  address — 

Publisher  :  The  National  League  for  Woman's 

Service  of  California  465  Post  St.,  San  Francisco 

Editor:  Mrs.  Marie  Hicks  Davidson  465  Post  St.,  San  Francisco 

Managing  Editor:  Mrs.  Marie  Hicks  Davidson  465  Post  St.,  San  Francisco 

Business  Manager:  Miss  C.  I.  Tomlinson  465  Post  St.,  San  Francisco 

2.  That  the  owners  are:  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,  California 
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. 

C.  I.  Tomlinson 

Business  Manager 
Sworn  to  and  subscribed  before  me 
this  Sth  day  of  April,  1929. 

Minnie  V.  Collins 

Notary  Public  in  and  for 

the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco 

State  of  California 

(My  commission  expires  April  14,  1929) 


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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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women's       city       club       magazine       for       JUNE 


1929 


58  HOURS  TO  CHICAGO 


"Overland 
Limited'' 

— and  a  New  Train 

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. 

East  or  west  bound  the  run- 
ning time  is  the  same.  Closer 
connections  at  Chicago  than 
ever  before. 

The  new  "Overland  Limited" 
leaves  San  Francisco  at  9:40 
p.m.  daily;  arrives  Chicago 
9:40  a.m.  (third  day).  West- 
bound leaves  Chicago  11:50 
a.m. ;  arrives  San  Francisco  7: 50 
p.m.  Only  two  nights  from  Chi- 
cago ;  three  nights  from  New 
York. 

The  fastest  train  by  hours — 
on  any  route — between  San 
Francisco  and  Chicago  .This  fine 
train  goes  forth  truly  in  the 
"Overland"  tradition. 
*'San  Francisco  Limited" 

June  9  will  see  the  inaugu- 
ration of  another  new,  thru 
train  to  Chicago:  the"San  Fran- 
cisco Limited"  61^4  hour  flyer. 
This  splendid  train  will  run  on 
the  "Overland's"  former  sched- 
ule ;  without  extra  fare. 

Leave  San  Francisco  6  p.  m. 
daily;  arrive  Chicago  9:15  a.m. 
Westbound  leave  Chicago  8:20 
p.m.;  arrive  San  Francisco  9:10 
a.m. 

Thus,  with  the  "Gold  Coast 
Limited"  and  "Pacific  Limited," 
Southern  Pacific  offers  four 
trains  east  daily  over  the  his- 
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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."  ^  ^  ^ 

Miss  Ethel  Whitmlre  of  the 

City  Club  Chaperones 

Young  Patriots  to 

Washington 

Miss  Ethel  Whitmire,  resident  at 
the  Women's  City  Club,  member  of 
the  San  Francisco  Examiner  editorial 
staff,  left  May  27  for  Washington, 
D.  C,  and  other  shrines  of  American 
history,  accompanied  by  the  boy  and 
girl  who  won  for  this  region  the 
United  States  Flag  Contest  conducted 
in  the  last  few  months  by  the  Hearst 
Newspapers.  The  prize  offered  to 
each  winner,  a  boy  and  a  girl  from 
several  specified  divisions  of  the 
United  States,  was  a  scholarship  and 
a  trip  to  Washington  and  other  his- 
toric sites  of  America.  The  winners 
whom  Miss  Whitmire  is  chaperoning 
on  the  trip  are  Peter  Andrew  Ospital 
and  Evelyn  Frances  Durel,  the  boy 
from  St.  Mary's  High  School,  Stock- 
ton, and  the  girl  from  the  San  Fran- 
cisco Polytechnic  High  School. 

Miss  Whitmire  and  the  young 
prize  winners  will  be  gone  about  six 
weeks  and  in  that  time  will  traverse 
the  battlefields  of  the  Revolution  and 
Civil  War,  see  Arlington,  the  Poto- 
mac River,  Mount  Vernon  and  Val- 
ley Forge,  West  Point  and  Annap- 
olis. 

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women's      city      club       magazine      for      JUNE 


1929 


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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Fashion  Show  at  the  Mark  Hopkins  Hotel,  Mrs. 
Howard  Park  chose  this  modernistic  evening 
slipper  from  Streicher's,  to  complement  a  pale 
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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 


One 
Objective 

Our  Directorate  and 
Management  confine 
their  attention  to  the 
sound,  profitable,  in- 
vestment of  the  assets 
of  this  corporation. 

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INVESTMENT 
Corporation 


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SAN  FRANCISCO 


BUSINESS  and  PROFESSIONAL 
DIRECTORY  of  CLUB  MEMBERS 

Bridge 

MRS.  FITZHUGH 

Eminent  Bridge  AutHority 

CONTRACT  and  AUCTION 
taught  scientifically 

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Camps 


MISS  M.  PHILOMENE  HAGAN 

Director  Camp  Ph-Mar-Jan-E' 

Tahoe  National  Forest,  Cal. 

A   supervised    Summer   Camp   for   Girls,   em 

bracing  all  types  of  outdoor  recreation.  Season 

June    24th    to    August    10th.      Post    Season 

August  10th  to  September  15th. 

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Rest  Home 


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The  Little  Rest  Home — a  private  house  featuring 
cnnifort,  Rood  food  and  special  diets.  Near  the 
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Employment  Agency 


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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. 

i      i      i 

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. 

1     i     i 

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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excessive  mileage  quality 
of  the  DUAL-Balloon 
keep  you  from  enjoying 
its  many  economies.  Even 
if  you  drive  only  eight  or 
ten  thousand  miles  a  vear 
there  is  a  tremendous  ad- 
vantage for  you  in  buying 
the  great  reserve  of  mile- 
age built  into  the  DUAL- 
Balloon.  It  means  reserve 
strength,  extra  safety,  the 
best  guarantee  in  the 
world  against  accident  and 
tire  worry  of  every  kind. 

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Hotel,  Club  and 
Restaurant  Flat  Work 

Table  Linen 
Furnished  to  Cafes 

Table  Cloths,  Tops,  Napkins, 

Glass  and  Dish  Towels, 

Aprons,  Etc. 

Coats  and  Gowns  furnished 

for  all  classes  of  professional 

services. 


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Format  Musical  Tea 

A  formal  Musical  Tea  will  be 
given  in  the  Cit\'  Club  Auditorium  at 
3  o'clock,  Monday  afternoon,  June 
10,  under  the  joint  auspices  of  the 
Hospitality  Committee,  Mrs.  Charles 
Miner  Cooper,  chairman,  and  the 
Programs  Committee,  Mrs.  Thomas 
A.  Stoddard,  chairman.  The  enter- 
tainment will  be  given  by  Miss  Georg- 
ette Szoke,  diseuse,  who  calls  her  di- 
vertissement a  "Dramatic  Folk  Tab- 
leau." Admission  will  be  seventy-five 
cents.  Mrs.  Howard  G.  Park  is  spe- 
cial chairman  of  the  event  and  Miss 
Edith  Slack  will  be  hostess  of  the 
afternoon. 

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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Vacation 
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u  on 
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Bring  your  damaged  hose  to 

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Three  thread  runs 45c 

Four  thread  runs 5Sc 

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Fruits  :  Vegetables 
Poultry  :  Groceries 


I. c) west  prices  commensurate  with 
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vited. For  your  convenience  we 
maintain  a  constant  delivery  service. 

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WOMEN     S      CITY      CLUB       MAGAZINE      for      JUNE 


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." 


Awakening 


I  watched  a  bee  on  a  floiuer  spray 
And  saw  it  carry  the  nectar  away. 
I  said  to  myself  J  "O  silly  bee, 
A  poor  blind  fool  you  are  like  me. 
1  ou  suck  all  the  sweetness  out  of  the 

flower 
And   never    taste   anything    bitter    or 

sour. 
And  when  you  make  something  out  of 

it, 
It's  sickening  sweet  and  only  fit 
To  put  on  something  else  as  spread: 
It  will  never  be  used  for  food,  like 

bread." 

Josephine  E.  Roberts 


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Vegetables  packed  without  salt. 

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Nutradiet  comprises  a  complete  variety  of  the  choic- 
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they  sell. 

All  such  stores  in  the  Bay  region 
and  'down  the  Peninsula'  sell 
Tuttle's  Cottage  Cheese  exclu- 
sively. 

MJOHNS 

i  cleaners  of  Fine  Garments  1 


An  Expert  in  CLEANIN(; 

.  .  .enjo3'ing  a  particular 

patronage. 

721  Sutter  Street   :  FR  anklin  4444 


A  !.•  W  AYS...  when  inquiring  or 
buying  jrom  our  adirrtisers,  mention 
the  Women's  City  Club  Magazine. 


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 


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silverware,  furniture, 
paintings,  and  other 
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a  mind  free  from 
worry. 

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Whether  you  are  gone 
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more... you  will  find 
our  rates  reasonable 
...and  your  added  en- 
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your  goods  are  safe 
will  give  you  a  sense  of 
real  satisfaction. 

Phone 

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for  complete  details. 


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An  Adi'ertlser  Tells  of 
Successful  Results 

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. 

The  Editor  has  kindly  asked  me,  a 
couple  of  days  ago,  to  write  a  few 
words  about  the  result  achieved  by 
our  advertisements  which  have  ap- 
peared in  the  "Women's  City  Club 
Magazine." 

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." 

Very  truly  yours, 
HARRY  S.  HOH 


Here  It  Is  in  Chinese! 


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The  Mil\  with  More  Cream 


TRADE   MARK   REGISTERED 

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That  Kiever  Varies 
in  Richness . . . 
in  (Consistency 

Delicious  on  fruits,  cereals 
and  your  favorite  dessert 

Cream  that  whips  as  read- 
ily in  the  summertime  as 
in  colder  weather — this  is 
your  assurance  when  you 
buy  Dairy  Delivery  Cream. 

To  place  your  order  for  spe- 
cial or  regular  delivery  .  .  . 

TELEPHONE 

VA  lencia  Six  Thousand 
BUrlingame  2460 

Dairy  Delivery  Co. 

Successors  in  San  Francisco  to 

MILLBRAE  DAIRY 


The  RADIO  STORE 
that  Gives  SERVICE 


Agents  for 
Federal 
Majestic 


The  Sign 

"BY" 

of  Service 


Radiola 

KOLSTER 

Crosley 


We    make    liberal    allowance    on 

your  old  set  when   you  turn  it  in 

to  us.    We  have  some 

REAL    USED     RADIO    BARGAINSI 

Byington  Electric  Co. 

1809  Fillmore  Street,  Near  Sutter 
Telephone  West  82 

637  Irving  St.,  bet.  7th  and  8th  Avcs. 
Telephone  Sunset  2709 


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Subscription  $1.00  a  y  ■  ir  *  15  cents  a  copy 


Volume  III  '  No.  6 


Centuries  of  refinements  iri  furniture  design^  are 
evidenced  in^  the  home  furnishings  displayed  in^ 
the  W.  &  J .  Sloane  stores.  A  visit  will  afford  many 
Ideas  f 01^ the  economical  adornments  ofyout^  home. 

Oriental  and  Domestic  Rugs 

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Carpets :  Furniture  /Draperies 
Interior  Decorating 


CHARGE  ACCOUNTS  INVITED.      FREIGHT  PAID  IN  THE  U.  S.  AND  TO  HONOLULU 

W.  &  J.  /L€/1NE 

SUTTER  STREET  NEAR  GRANT  AVENUE    :    SAN  FRANCISCO 
Stores  also  in  Los  Angeles,  New  York  and  JFashington 


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 


WOMEN     S       CITY       CLUB       MAGAZINE      for      JULY 


1929 


delicately  VYCoulded . . 


^TSo  RECEIVE  long'Stemmed  flowers,  deco' 
rative  branches,  or,  standing  unten' 
anted  upon  patio  or  drawing  room  table, 
this  vase  will  excite  the  envious  admira' 
tion  of  your  friends. 

GLADDING,  McBEAN  &  CO. 

445   NINTH   STREET 
San  Francisco 


Cloisonne 

FROM  PEKING 

Genuine  Crystals 

FROM   KOBE 

Exquisite  Silk  Apparel 

FROM    YOKOHAMA 

Souvenirs . . .  Novelties 

FROM  TOKIO 


We  are  featuring  at  this  time  a  com- 
plete line  of  "Aizu"  lacquer  ware. 
"Aizu"  lacquer  is  supreme  in  this 
highest  of  Oriental  Arts.  Our  collec- 
tion includes  tea  and  coffee  sets,  bowls, 
trays,  cocktail  cups,  and  other  articles 
worthy  of  your  inspection. 

The  Temple  of  Nikko 

253  POST  STREET 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

Between   Grant  Ave.  and   Stockton   St. 


A  Vacation  in 
the  High  Sierra 


SAN  FRANCISCO 
MUNICIPAL  CAMP 

Season  June  16-September  1st 

Swimming  .  .  .  Dancing  .  .  .  Riding 
A  Real  Vacation 

Adults  $2.00  per  day  .  .  .  Rates  for  Children 

For  Information  Inquire  Room  376  City  Hall 
Telephone  UN  derhill  8500;  Local  360 


Ycmr  SPORTS  CLOTHES . 

Colored  Sweaters,  Pleated  Skirts,  Dainty 

Blouses,  Summer  Wraps  and  Hats  can 

best  keep  their  trim  appearance 

when  cleaned  the 

"F.  Thomas  Way" 


To  arrange  for 
regular  service . . . 

HEmlocltOlSO 


•^  F.THOMAS 

PARISIAN  DYEING  €/ 
CLEANING  WORKS 
ayTenth  St. ,  San  Francisco 


^ou  Are  Invited 

to    a    free    demonstration 
and  moving  pictures   on 
Weight  Reducing  and  Ex- 
ercise, each  Wednesday 

at  2:30  P.  M. 
OPEN   TO   THE   PUBLIC 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

ACADEMY  of  PHYSICAL 

CULTURE 

Lower  Main  Floor,  Women's 
City  Club  Building 

Telephones:     KE  amy   8400   and 
KE  arny  8170 


WOMEN     S 


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. 


Walk- Over 


announces 


A 

MAIN 

Spring 

Arch 


Begins  Monday,  July  l^t 

Including  the  many  smart  patterns  which  are 
regularly  priced  much  higher. 

V  VE  offer,  as  an  unusual 
feature  of  our  Semi-Annual 
Shoe  Sale,  a  selected  group 
of  our  smartly  styled  Main 
Spring  Arch  Shoes.  Their 
fine  quality,  fine  workman- 
ship, scientific  support  and 
real  comfort  are  the  decid- 
ing factors  in  Main  Spring 
Arch  footwear !  And  are  the 
reasons  why  Main  Spring 
Arch  wearers  are  constantly 
increasing  in  number! 

Reductions  Permit 
Extraordinary  Savings 


795 


to 


11 


95 


fVe  invite  you  to  come  in  and  have  the 

IValk-Over  Man  explain  the  iionder- 

ful  qualities  of  these  smart  shoes 

Walk-Over 

SHOE  STORES 
844  MARKET  ST.,  SAN  FR\NClSCO 

Oakland       Berkeley      San  Jose 


THE 


Somen's  Citp  Club  iWiaga^me  ^t^ool  Birettorp 


GIRLS'  SCHOOLS 


CASTILLEJA  SCHOOL /or  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. 

Nme  buildings ;  Residence  for  sixty  boarding  pupils ;  Recitation  Hall, 
24  rooms;  New  Gymnasium  and  Auditorium;  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  in 
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. 


■I     iwf  Is  ~^BSS 

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 
Ijuilding  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 

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  will  be  furnished 
upon  request. 

Mrs.  Edward  B.  Stan  wood,  B.  L. 

Principal 
aiao  Broadway  Phone  WE  st  azii 

BOYS'  SCHOOLS 

THE 

DAMON  SCHOOL 

(Successor  to  the  Potter  School) 

//  Dai/  School  for  Boys 
Primary,  Grammar  and  High 
School  Departments  .  .  .  featur- 
ing small  classes  and  individual 
instruction.  Prepares  for  all 
Eastern    and    Western    colleges. 

T.  R.  DAMON,  A.  M.   (Harvard) 

Headmaster 
1901  Jackson  St.  Tel.  OR  dway  8632 


DREW 

SCHOOL 


»'Ye8r  High  School 
Course  admita  to  college. 
Credit*  valid  in  high  icbool. 

Grammar  Course, 

accredited,  saves  half  time. 


Private  Leaaona.  any  hour.  Nifht,  Day.  Both  «eie». 
Annapolis,  West  Point,  College  Board  tutoring. 
Sccretarial'Academic  two-year  course,  entitles  to  High 
School  Diploma.    Civil  Service  Coaching— all  lines. 


»90i  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  write 

MAJOR  ROYAL  W.  PARK 

B0X6II-W  Menlo  Park,  Calif. 


T7ie  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 

FRENCH  SCHOOL 

LE  DOUX 
SCHOOL  OF  FRENCH 

ANNOUNCES    THE    OPENING 
OF  THEIR  NEW  STUDIOS  AT 

545  Sutter  Street 

Formerly  at   133  Geary  Street 
GA  rfield  3762 

SECRETARIAL  SCHOOLS 


California  Secretarial  School 


iNmucnoN 
Day  and  Evbning 

Bsnjunin  F.  Priest 
Praideiu 


(^ 


Indtyuiuai 

Inttruclion 

'or  Individual 

'N.etds. 


RUSS  BUILDING    ■ 


SAN  FRANCISCO 


1^ 

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 


BOYS'  and  GIRLS'  SCHOOLS 


Summer 
Session 


Boarding 

and  Day 

Pupils 

3  to  12  years 

The  Airy  Mountain  School 

ANNETTE  HASKELL  FLAGG,  Director 
Mill  Valley,  California 

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 

SCHOOL  OF  GARDENING 

TKe  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 

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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 


I 


I 


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. 


As  a 


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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. 

Y  f      Y 

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. 

Y  Y      Y 

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. 


women's       city       club       magazine      for      JULY 


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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WOMEN      S       CITY       C  [,  L;  B       M  A  C;  A  Z  I  N  E       /  (j  r       J    U   I.  V 


1929 


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. 


women's       city      club       magazine      for      JULY 


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. 
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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 
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women's       city       club       magazine       fur       JULY 


1929 


WOMEN'S  CITY  CLUB 
MAGAZINE 

Published  Monthly  at  San  Francisco 

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MAGAZINE  COMMITTEE 

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Mrs.  George  Osborne  Wilson 

Mrs.  Frederick  Faulkner 

Mrs.  Frederick  W.  Kroll 

MARIE  HICKS  DAVIDSON,  Managing  Editor 

Ruth  Callahan,  Advertising  Manager 


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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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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1929 


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." 

f   *■   / 

Appreciations 

Guests  who  stay  at  the  Women's 
City  Club  of  San  Francisco  and  or- 
ganizations and  individuals  who  have 
functions  in  the  restaurant  are  gener- 
ous in  their  praise  of  the  facilities  and 
service  of  the  Club. 

The  following  are  extracts  from  a 
few  typical  letters  of  appreciation: 

"It  is  with  real  regret  that  I  leave 
the  Women's  City  Club.  I  have 
greatly  enjoyed  my  stay  here.  The 
'atmosphere'  of  the  Club  is  delightful, 
and  the  service  very  efficient  and  wil- 
ling. From  the  office  clerks  to  the 
telephone  and  elevator  operators, 
waitresses  and  maids,  I  have  found 
everyone  unfailingly  courteous." 

"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." 

"I  want  to  tell  you  how  well 
pleased  we  were  with  the  way  you 
managed  the  banquet  for  the  Jefferson 
High  School.  ...  I  thought  that  the 
service  was  excellent  and  that  the 
food  was  very  good." 


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venience of  the  modern  hotel.  Fully  equipped, 
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A  stately  pleasure  dome  decree," — 
to  the  fabled  land 
"Where  Alph  the  sacred  river  ran 
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man 
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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 
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would  have  been  no  more  than  a  sub- 
urb of  Asia." 

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 
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monthly  bulletin  is  a  large  piece  of 
work.  There  have  been  some  very  in- 
teresting programs  during  the  past 
winter. 

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 : 

American  cases 2 

British  cases  8 

Bulgarian  cases 

Corsican  cases 

Dutch  cases 

Eurasian  cases 

Greek  cases 

Hungarian   cases   ... 

Lettish  cases  

Polish  cases 3 

Russian  cases  20 

Serbian   cases   3 

Spanish  cases 1 

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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1929 


LASSCO'S 

Second  Annual 

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Masonic  Benevolent  Funds 

Salvation  Army 

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. 

i     i     i 

Vocational  Guidance 
Lectures 

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. 

i     i     1 

Posting  Privilege 
A  space  on  the  left-hand  side  of  the 
bulletin  board  on  the  fourth  floor  is 
being  reserved  for  the  use  of  members. 
All  notices  posted  by  members  must 
be  typed  lengthwise  on  a  three-by-flve 
card.  Permission  to  post  a  notice  must 
be  obtained  from  the  Executive  Office 
and  may  remain  on  the  bulletin  board 
one  month. 

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the  far  horizon  the  Southern  Cross  flames 
forth  in  eerie  beauty...  A  wheeling  albatross, 
startled,  veers  sharply  upward  from  a  sud- 
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bold  and  dashing  Caballeros  become  stor- 
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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 
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otion  ap- 


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beyond  all  former  rec- 
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low-pressure.  It  is  the 
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economy  and  satisfac- 
tion of  uninterrupted 
mileage  season  after 
season  and  the  equally 
desirable  advantage  of 
luxurious  soft  riding. 
Only  the  DUAL-Bal- 
loon  principle  makes 
this  achievement  pos- 
sible. 


Today'a  favorable^ 
tire  price  situation 
extends  to  all  car 
owners  the  advan- 
tages of  General's 
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Hotel 

SIR  FRANCIS 
DRAKE 

Invites  You  to  Enjoy  Its  Hospitality 

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There's  "Homelike"  charm  in  the  lobby. 
And  600  exquisitely  appointed  rooms, 
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radio,  circulating  filtered  ice  water,  and 
the  "sleepiest"  beds  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

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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. 

y     <■     / 

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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wonderful  tours  to  all  points 

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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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women's       city       club       magazine      for      JULY 


1929 


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Company 

Hotel,  Club  and 
Restaurant  Flat  Work 

Table  Linen 
Furnished  to  Cafes 

Table  Cloths,  Tops,  Napkins, 

Glass  and  Dish  Towels, 

Aprons,  Etc. 

Coats  and  Gowns  furnished 

for  all  classes  of  professional 

services. 


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they  selL 

All  such  stores  in  the  Bay  region 
and  'down  the  Peninsula'  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. 

*■   f   < 

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. 

30 


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. 


W  O  i\I  ex's       city       C  I.  U  B       magazine      for      JULY 


1929 


The 
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Outfitting  Company 

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announce  the  opening  of 
their    new    store 

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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 
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of  "  Spring  house  cleaning." 

SUPERIOR 

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CLEANING  WORKS 

Telephone  HEmlock  1337 
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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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The  Little  Rest  Home — -a  private  house  featuring 
comiort,  good  food  and  special  diets.  Near  the 
Ocean  and  Golden  Gate  Park.    Reasonable  rates. 

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School 


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SrJtooI  of  Calculating 

Comptorieter:  Day  and  Evenins    CI 

Individual  IiuCructioii 

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WOMEN     S      CITY      CLUB      MAGAZINE       for      JULY 


1929 


THe  MilJj  with,  'More  Cream, 


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A  Refreshing 
Beverage 

Iced  in  warm  weather, 

milk   is   a   cooling   and 

satisfying  food-drink. 

Heated  in  cool  weather, 
it  is  delicious  on  cereals 
and  soothing  as  a  bed- 
time beverage. 

To  place  your  order  for  spe- 
cial or  regular  delivery  .  .  . 

TELEPHONE 

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^^^^wSSS^ 

You  use 
but  little 
Salt- 
Let  that 
little  be 
the  Best. 

LESLIE 

SALT 

^■^^    ^^     .«ii^ 

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. 

i     -f    i 

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  ? 

32 


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 

/  /  < 

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. 


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"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 

{  SK  line  9318 
Phones  j  pj  „^^^^  3773  3839  WASHINGTON  ST. 


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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them. 


ESTABLISHED   192S 


A.  Sunshine  Farm  and 

Open  Air  School 

for  Children 

Sun-Baths,  Rest,   Diet,   Hygiene, 

Corrective  Exercises,  Group 

Psychology 

Nine  acres  in  eastern  foothills  of  Los  Gatos,  "the  most 
equable  temperate  climate  in  the  world."  Buildings  in  units 
adapted  to  outdoor  living  all  the  year  round.  Nurse  in 
attendance  in  boys'  and  girls'  dormitories.  Screened  sleeping 
quarters.  Electrically  heated  dressing  rooms.  Ordinary 
clothing  gradually  reduced  to  that  necessary  for  continuous 
air  baths. 

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 


A  Vacation  in 
the  High  Sierra 

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SAN  FRANCISCO 

MUNICIPAL  CAMP 

auspices  playground  commission 

Season  June  16-September  1st 

Swimming  .  .  .  Dancing  .  .  .  Riding 
A  Real  Vacation 

Adults  $2.00  per  day  .  .  .  Rates  for  Children 

For  Information  Inquire  Room  376  City  Hall 
Telephone  UN  derhill  8500;   Local  360 

Womtvisi  Citp  Club  iHaga^ine  ^cfjool  Birectorp— Continued 


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 


Hats  made  to  order 


(■^1   ifUcfici  qxciO 


SALLY  McKENZIE 

Classes  in  Milliner-^ — Beginning  August  5 

Morning,  Afternoon,  Evening 
By  appointment 

Room  418.  Whitney  Building 
133  Geary  Street 


SPECIAL  SCHOOL 


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R«kJ>  /or  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,  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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Dat  and  Bvininc 


Banjimin  F.  Pricat 
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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. 


women's     city     club     magazine     for     AUGUST      .      1929 


Embodying 

GRACE    AND     BEAUTY 

^^^^^^ft    '-    ^^^^^^^ 

''  1  ""HIS  lovely  garden  vase  is  one  of  scores  to 
-*-  be  seen  at  our  retail  salesroom,  which  you 
are  cordially  invited  to  visit. 

Gladding,  McBean  6?  Co. 

445  J^inth  Street,  San  Francisco 

1 :,, 

Cloisonne 

FROM  PEKING 

Genuine  Crystals 

FROM  KOBE 

Exquisite  Silk  Apparel 

FROM   YOKOHAMA 

Souvenirs . . .  Novelties 

FROM  TOKIO 


fVe  are  featuring  at  this  time  a  com- 
plete line  of  "Aizu"  lacquer  ware. 
"Aizu"  lacquer  is  supreme  in  this 
highest  of  Oriental  Arts.  Our  collec- 
tion includes  tea  and  coffee  sets,  bowls, 
trays,  cocktail  cups,  and  other  articles 
worthy  of  your  inspection. 

The  Temple  of  Nikko 

253  POST  STREET 

SAN  FRANCISCO 
Between   Grant  Ave.  and   Stockton   St. 


The  DuART  wave  .  .  .  soft,  natural,  with 
ringlet  ends  .  .  .  can  be  had  in  the  Beauty 
Salon  of   the  Women's  City   Club. 
The  DuART  wave  will  stay  beau- 
tiful without  the  necessity  of 
finger  waves  or  combs. 
Ask  the  operators 
about  it. 

To  keep  your  permanent  wave  soft  and   lovely, 
use  Du.^RT  Permanent  Wave  Oil.   It  can  be  pur- 
chased in  the  Beauty  Salon. 


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 


MAIL  ORDERS  NOW 

Seventh  Annual  Season 
SAN  FRANCISCO 

OPERA 

COMPANY 
GAETANO  MEROLA,  General  Director 

September  12  to  September  30 

Rigoletto  .  .  Hansel  and  Gretel  .  .  Elixir  of  Love 

II  Trovatore  .  .  Barber  of  Seville  .  .  La  Boheme 

Pagliacci  and  Gianni  Schicchi  .  .  Martha  .  .  Aida 

Don  Pasquale  .  .  Faust  .  .  Manon 

with 

Mario,    Meisle,    Morgana,    Rethberg,    Atkinson, 

Ivey,  Young,  Barra,  D'Angelo,  Danise,  DeLuca, 

Ferrier,   Lauri-Volpi,    Malatesta,   Oliviero,   Picco, 

Rothier,  Sandrini,  Schipa,  Sperry 


Mail  Orders  Received  Now  at  Offices 

SAN  FRANCISCO  OPERA  COMPANY 

68  POST  STREET 

Tickets  on  Sale  August  15  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Conip.iiiy 

PRICES:  ONE  DOLLAR  TO  SIX  DOLLARS 

TAX  EXEMPT 


Advertisers' 
Exhibit 

SEPTEMBER  16 

is  the  date 

CITY  CLUB  AUDITORIUM 

15  the  place 

of  the  Exhibition  to  he 
staged  b}/  qualifying  Advertisers  in  the 

WOMEN'S  CITY  CLUB 
MAGAZINE 


women's      city      CI.UB      magazine     for      AUGUST      .       I929 


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  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 


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.  Chap.man 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS 


Women's  City  Club 

Mrs.  A.  P.  Black 
Mrs.  William  F.  Booth,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Le  Roy  Briggs 
Dr.  Adelaide  Brown 
Miss  Marion  Burr 
Mrs.  Louis  J.  Carl 
Mrs.  S.  G.  Chapman 
Mrs.  Edward  H.  Clark,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Charles  Miner  Cooper 
Miss  Marion  Fitzhugh 
Mrs.  Frederick  Funston 
Mrs.  W.  B.  Hamilton 
.Mrs.  Lewis  Hobart 
Mrs.  Marcus  S.  Koshland 


of  Sap  Francisco 

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 
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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. 


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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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women's     city     club      magazine     for     AUGUST      .      1929 


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 


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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. 


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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. 


At  the  Court  of  St.  James 


r' 

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Library  of  the  American  Women's  Club,  Grosvenor  Street,  London, 
where  Mrs.  Dawes  has  been  entertained. 


Mrs.   Charles   G.  Da^ves,  ivife  of  the 

United  States  Ambassador  to 

Great  Britain. 


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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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women's      CITV      club      magazine      for      AUGUST 


1929 


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- 
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women's    city    club    magazine    for    AUGUST    .    1929 


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. 


WOMEN^S     CITY     CLUB     MAGAZINE     for     AUGUST      .      I929 


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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^old    a  t    ^e  o 


Y< 


'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 

HOME  AND  GARDEN  SHOP 
534  Ramona  Street  Palo  Alto 


w 


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. 

THE  BEAUTY  SALON 


Women's  Citv  Club 


Lower  Main  Floor 


HAVE  you 
seen  the  new 
Gantner  sun  back 
suit  made  espe- 
ciaUy  for  the  dev- 
otees of  the  sun 
cult?  They  are 
made  of  the  finest 
elastic  rib  stitch, 
which  makesthem 
form-fitting  and  comfortable  .  .  .  they 
have  the  exclusive  Patented  Flexile 
Back  feature  that  is  hidden  under  the 
skirt  and  which  insures  greater  swim- 
ming freedom. 

Drop  them  a  line  for  a  beautiful 
rotogravure  illustration  of  the  newest 
"Gantner"  creations,  or  lietter  still,  go 
in  and  look  them  over. 

GANTNER  &  MATTERN 
Grant  Avenue  at  Geary 


«i^  ^? 


FOR  variety 
and  complete- 
ness in  toiletries 
and  cosmetics  the 
Pharmacist  in  the 
St.  Francis  Hotel 
certainly  has  "it." 
Fancy  one  shop 
carrying  all  the 
beauty  prepara- 
tions of  such  famous  specialists  as  He- 
lena Rubinstein,  Chanel,  Primrose 
House,  the  exquisite  Guerlain  per- 
fumes, and  Amor  Skin,  so  talked  of 
everywhere ! 

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 

H.  L.  LADD 

Pharmacist  St.  Francis  Hotel 


Rt 


O  D  A  -  O  X  - 
THE-RoOFis 

different  .  .  .  and 

that's  that!  Oh, 

yes  ?  Then  you 

probably  know 

this  studio  hat 

shop  on  the  roof 

with  a  patio  in  the 

sun;  there's  real 

gravel,  and  a  flag  path  from  the  green 

stairs  to  a  cozy  little  room  with  tall 

shutters. 

And  most  important  of  all  .  .  .  there 
are  hats  of  such  pleasing  style  that  you 
cannot  decide  between  a  new  felt  and 
the  dream  your  old  felt  has  become  un- 
der their  skillful  remodeling. 

If  you  want  to  really  enjoy  buying  a 
new  Fall  hat,  by  all  means  see 

RHODA-ON-THE-ROOF 

233  Post  Street        "Above  the  Sixth" 


H 


AVE  >•  0  u 
seen  those 
fascinating  braid- 
ed leather  brace- 
lets from  Austria 
that  have  just 
been  imported  by  the  League  Shop  ? 
And  the  wooden  bead  necklaces  with 
bracelets  to  match  ?  They  are  so  at- 
tractive and  utterly  distinctive — and 
just  the  touch  of  color  to  wear  with 
your  new  Fall  suit. 

THE  LEAGUE  SHOP 

Main  Lobby  Women's  City  Club 

22 


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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With  young-hearted 
Lovers,  tremulous 

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She  has  no  fears 

That  bitterer 
Than  her  old  tears 

Would  be  to  her 
Their  new  weeping; 

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Their  tears  away. 
Love  left  her  heart 

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Only  her  tart 

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For  giving  pain 

Or  soothing  it; 
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Is  not  lined 
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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. 

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Growth  and  growth's  agony 

She  does  not  know. 
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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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Don't  miss  visiting 

THE 

AHWAHT^EE 

II\  YOSEMITE 

From  one  window  see  great  Half 
Dome,  peak  of  the  Valley's  tower- 
ing panorama — -from  another  see 
Glacier  Point,  where  the  firefall 
tumbles  each  night  right  out  of  the 
stars.  .  .  . 

You're  in  The  Ahwahnee,  and 
central  to  all  Yosemite  diversions 
and  most  of  its  wonder  sights. 
Tours  of  the  Valley  floor,  tennis, 
swimming  and  riding  parties  start 
from  its  colorful  verandas  in  the 
mornings  ...  or  inviting  trail-trips 
up  into  the  mile-high  solitude  and 
sunshine  of  the  High  Sierra,  Avhere 
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{Continued  from  page  19) 

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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637  Irving  St.,  bet.  7th  and  8th  Aves. 
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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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night... The  phosphorescent  wake  trails 
astern,  a  path  of  sparkling  dancing  fire.  On 
the  far  horizon  the  Southern  Cross  flames 
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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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Bedroom  Facilities  for 

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. 


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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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evidenced  in^  the  home  furnishings  displayed  iru 
the  W,  &  J .  Sloane  stores.  A  visit  will  afi'ord  many 
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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. 

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CITY       CLUB       MAGAZINE      for      SEPTEMBER 


1929 


Women's  City  Club 
Magazine 


Published  Monthly  at 
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Telephone 
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Entered  as  second-class  matter  April  14,  1928,  at  the  Post  Office 
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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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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 


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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 


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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 


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Day  A^a>  Bvining 


Benjamin  P.  Pctctt 
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Itu&yidiuU 

Instruction 

for  Indi'viduaL 

'Heedt. 


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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LISHED   1925 

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 
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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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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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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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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 


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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. 

i     i     i 

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. 

i     i     i 

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. 

/  *■  / 

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. 

y    /    < 

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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CITY       CLUB       MAGAZINE      for      SEPTEMBER 


1929 


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find  I  have  made 

lately  .  .  .  perhaps 

you  do  know  ...  a 

-U— . _  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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H  OD  A-ON- 

THE-Rooris 

differe?it  .  .  .  and 

that's  that!  Oh, 

yes  ?  Then  you 

probably  know 

this  studio  hat 

shop  on  the  roof 

with  a  patio  in  the 

sun ;  there's  real 

gravel,  and  a  flag  path  from  the  green 

stairs  to  a  cozy  little  room  with  tall 

shutters. 

And  most  important  of  all  .  .  .  there 
are  hats  of  such  pleasing  stjde  that  you 
cannot  decide  between  a  new  felt  and 
the  dream  your  old  felt  has  become  un- 
der their  skillful  remodeling. 

If  you  want  to  really  enjoy  buying  a 
new  Fall  hat,  by  all  means  see 
RHODA-ON-THE-ROOF 


233  Post  Street 


'Above  the  Sixth" 
STUDIO 


AS 

-^  ^tea  room  — 
there's  an  idea! 
And  there  is  a  tea 
room,  too.  with 
fireplaces  and 
stunning  Mission 
chairs  and  tables, 
and  a  cosy  sun 
court. 

Thinking  on 
the  charming  col- 
or schemes  and  gracious  atmosphere 
I'd  quite  forgotten  the  food,  but  when 
you've  lunched  there  you'll  be  telling 
all  your  friends  about 

THE  STUDIO  TEA  ROOM 
540  Sutter  Street 


EVER 


did  you 
find  su  ch  en- 
chanting p  e  r  - 
fume?  Of  course 
— at  Ladd's;  but 
what  is  it?  The 
perfume  and  face 
powder  are  a  new 
Caron  odor  called 
Accacion.  But  you'll  see  all  the  finest 
beauty  preparations  there — and  Amor 
Skin,  which  they  are  showing  in  the 
lobby. 

If  you  are  a  fastidious  shopper  who 
likes  to  linger  over  her  selection  of  cos- 
metics, you  will  appreciate  this  store. 
Chic  Sun  Tans,  daint}^  talcs,  lotions, 
creams,  and  perfumes,  the  finest  of 
every  kind,  are  sure  to  be  seen  at 

H.  L.  LADD,  Chemist,  Inc. 
St.  Francis  Hotel  Powell  Street 

MAKE-UP  is  an 
art  and  there 
is  in  San  Francisco  a 
shop  which  special- 
izes in  perfect  make- 
up— and  the  cosmet- 
ics are  most  reason- 
able. They  give  one 
complete  satisfaction  in  her  appear- 
ance. I  have  seen  a  great  improvement 
in  my  skin  since  I  started  using  them. 
Madam  Yelena  gave  me  a  delightful 
make-up  with  the  correct  shades  of 
rouge  and  lip  stick  and  powder  blended 
to  suit  my  skin.  To  convince  yourself 
go  into  her  shop,  the  original  Salon  de 
Parfum — she  will,  without  obligation, 
show  you  the  true  art  of  make-up. 
There  are  no  branch  shops,  so  go  to 

The  Original 

SALON  DE  PARFUMS 

109  O'Farrell  Street 


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"AVING  a 

manicure   in 

the  Beauty  Salon, 

I    overheard    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. 

THE  BEAUTY  SALON 

Women's  City  Club         Lower  Main  Floor 

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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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y^^^d  Dimnel, 
who  will  speak 
at  the 
Cdy  Club 
on  the  evening 
oj  October  21 


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. 


Three  Lads 

Three  lads  there  were,  long  since,  long  since. 
And  two  were  yours,  and  one  was  mine ; 

And  two  of  them  were  bonny  lads. 
But  one  was  mine,  was  mine.' 

Your  eldest  lad  brought  fame  to  you. 
Your  youngest  brought  you  ease; 

My  lad,  he  brought  me  many  nights 
O'  praying  on  my  knees. 

Two  lads  there  were  who  stayed  at  home — 
But  never  shall  your  heart  go  dumb 

With  joy,  when  you  hear  a  step. 
For  thinking  "He  has  come!" 

LuciLE  Perry  Ames. 


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1929 


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You  can  get  it  where  they  serve 
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For  SALADS 


For  DESSERTS 


I  Have  Been  Reading 

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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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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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 
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America  sprang  to  the  aid  of  the 
wretched  refugees,  when  the  Smyrna 
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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 
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The  Greeks  in  Asia  were  an  old 
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who  came  as  populations  exchanged 
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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 
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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, 
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wall  drape.  It  is  lovely  too,  and  car- 
ries a  fifteen  per  cent  discount.  Java- 
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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." 

1     -t     i 

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. 


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Volume  III  f  No.  9 


CERTIFIED  MILK 

A  Safe  Raw  Milk 


These  seals  on  a  milk  bottle  mean: 


1.  That  the  milk  contained  in  the  hottle  is 
produced  under  the  supervision  of  the  San 
Francisco  and  Alameda  County  Medical 
Milk  Commissions,  and  is  endorsed  by 
them. 

2.  That  the  cows  are  healthy  and  free  from 
the  germs  that  cause  human  tuberculosis 
and  undulant  fever  as  shown  by  regular 
tests  by  the  University  of  California. 

3.  That  the  milk  is  handled  only  by  men  who 
have  passed  rigid  physical  examinations, 


and  are  known  to  be  free  from  all  infec- 
tious diseases  that  are  transmitted  by  milk, 
such  as  typhoid  fever,  diphtheria  and  scar- 
let fever. 

4.  That  the  milk  is  immediately  cooled  and  is 
kept  on  ice  until  deUvered  to  you. 

5.  That  the  milk  is  delivered  to  you  within 
thirty  hours  of  the  time  that  it  is  drawn. 

6.  That  every  known  precaution  is  taken  to 
produce  as  clean  and  wholesome  milk  as  is 
htmianly  possible. 


Ask  Your  Doctor 

San  Francisco  County  Medical  Society  Milk  Commission 


Dr.  C.  F.  Gelston,  President 
Dr.  Ina  M.  Richter,  Secretary 


Dr.  Adelaide  Brown 
Dr.  H.  H.  Darhng 


Dr.  H.  K.  Faber 
Dr.  W.  P.  Lucas 


Dr.  K.  F.  Meyer 
Dr.  R.  P.  Seitz 


Alameda  County  Medical  Society  Milk  Commission 

Dr.  T.  C.  McCleave,  President  Dr.  Alvin  Powell,  Secretary  Dr.  H.  Rixford  Hoobler 

Dr.  Ann  Martin  Dr.  Ruby  Cunningham 


DAIRIES  PRODUCING  MILK  CERTIFIED  BY 
THESE  COMMISSIONS 

Doyle  Dairy  at  Dixon  Burroughs  Bros.  Dairy  at  Knightsen 

Sleepy  Hollow  Ranch  at  Petaluma  Meadowlark  Dairy  at  Pleasanton 


From  Far 
and  Near 


The  art  and  skill  of  foreign  countries  augment  the  best 

examples  of  American  craftsmen  in  the  displays 

o{  ih.e  Sloane  Stores 

European  and  Oriental  art  is  represented  by  extensive 

collections  of  Furniture,  Rugs,  Fabrics 

and  Decoratli>e  Ot)jects 

Direct  Importation  permits  surprisingly  reasonable  prices 

FREIGHT  PAID  IN  THE   UNITED  STATES  AND  TO   HONOLULU.         CHARGE  ACCOUNTS   INVITED. 


w, 


J,  SLOANE 

SUTTER  STREET  near  GRANT  AVENUE  .  .  .  SAN  FUAXCISCO 
Stores  also  in  Los  Angeles,  Xew  York  and  Jrashington 


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. 


RADIOS 


RADIOLA 
CROSLEY 


MAJESTIC 
SPARTON 


The  Sign 


of  Service 


BYINGTON 


ELECTRIC  CORP. 


1809   FILLMORE  STREET 
5410  GEARY  STREET 
1180  MARKET  STREET 
637   IRVING  STREET 

Phone  WAlnut  6000  San  Francisco 

Service  from  8:00  A.  M.  to  10 :  00  P.  M. 


To  Maintain 

or 
Regain  Your 

Good  Health 

B  E  WA  R  E 

Overweight 

Scientific  Internal  Baths 

Massage  and  Physiotherapy 

Individualized  Diets  and 

Exercise  -  Sun  Tan  Baths 

DR.  EDITH  M.  HICKEY 

(D.C.) 

830  BUSH  STREET 

Apartment  505 

Telephone  PRospect  8020 


k 


SWEATERS 

ADOPT  THE  NEW  TUCK- 


IN  VOGUE    <.»    «» 


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And  6r^  worn  with  the  new  yoke 
skirtS/  or  trimly  tailored  suits  which 
are  so  smart  this  Fall...  In  the  rich 
Autumn  colorings  of  blue,  wine 
and  brown      .      .      .    -^J.^J   more 

MARKET    AT    STOCKTON    STREET 

AND    AT    ALL     ROOS     STORES 


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a    brilliant  array  oj   new  (zJall  Cyooiwea\ 

Willi 

LATIN    HEELS 

Fashion  originated  Latin  Heels  in  a 
gesture  of  practicability  with  style. 
They  are  of  medium  height,  gracefully 
fashioned  and  well  proportioned. 
Fashionables  are  adopting  them  for 
street  and  afternoon  wear.    ^    ^    # 

Streicher's  Costume  Bootery 

331       GEARYSTREET 


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 


"Ghe  PRESIDIO 

Ojpen-Air  School 

Marion  E.  Turner,  Principal 

Elementary  education  for  girls  and  boys 
from  kindergarten  to  high  school 
Healthful       Thorough       Progressive 

HOT    LUNCHES    SERVED 

Phones  3839 

SK  yline  9318  WASHINGTON 

FI  llmore  3773 


STREET 


*^e  ^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  3,  1929 

Telephones : 

EVergreen  8434  EVergreen  1112 


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 

R.  F.  D.  Route  I,  Box  173 

Hayward,  Calif. 


thSM. 


ESTABLISHED  1925 
ITS    KAI.L  TERM 

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,  Croup  Psychology.      Write  for  Particulars. 

DR.  DAVID  LACEY  HIBBS 
MRS.  DAVID  LACEY  HIBBS 

Los  Gatos,   California 

BUILDING   HEALTH   ALONG   WITH 
SCHOOL-WORK 


BARCLAY  SCHOOL 
of  CALCULATING 

COMPTOMETER 

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 


DREW 


S'Ycar  High  School 
Course  admits  to  college. 
Credits  valid  in  high  school. 

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 


women's        city        club        magazine       for        OCTOBER 


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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The  Plaza  Tie  ...  a 
Main  Spring  Arch 
model  .  .  presented  in 
the  new  and  lovely 
Brown  for  Fall.  Su- 
premely smart  .  .  . 
with  the  precious  com- 
fort that  only  the  Main 
Spring  Arch  can  give 
...  It  is  the  logical 
choice  of  the  Tailored 
Woman. 

Shoe  Broivn,with 
Beige  tongue. 

»11 

Walk-Over 

Shoe  Stores 

844  MARKET  STREET 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

Oakland-Berkeley- San  Jose 


[From  Drawing  by  Dorr  Bothwelll 


Copra  Cutting  at  Amouli 

{Story  on  page  10) 


WCMEN^X  CITY  CLLC 
MAGAZINE 


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 : 


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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. 
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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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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." 


I 


(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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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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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. 


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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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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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CITY        CLUB        MAGAZINE        for        OCTOBER 


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 


women's        city        club        magazine        for        OCTOBER       •       I929 

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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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. 


N  EW! 

«#C'C€NN€R,MCrFAT¥'$ 

J  EW^E  LrlS  o/A>rDALUSIA 

Because  Paris  openings 
sponsor  them  and  because 
they  liash  -w^ith  such  roman- 
tic allure  against  Autumn  s 
high  fashion  velvets  . . .  Rep- 
licas,  these,  of  Spanish 
museum  pieces ...  Serenade 
red,  Crranaaa  green,  yellow 
of  JML.aario.  The  earrings 
SI 0.00.  The  necklace  $25.00. 


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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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board  of  directors  of  Young  Women's 

Christian  Association  and  member 

Women's  City  Club 

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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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. 

■f     i     f 

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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You  Can  Always  Depend  on 

Hostess  Qake 

for  it  is 
fine  of  texture 
fine  of  flavor 

and 

SURELY  FRESH 


Phone  Barbara  Reid  Robson 

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about  her  service  to  clubs 


A.nnouncing... 

The  opening  of  a  branch 
of  The  Majestic  Market, 
for  25  years  in  Park- 
Presidio  District  in  the 

Metropolitan 
Union  Market 


2077  Union  St. 


WE  St  0900 


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Both  noted  for  consistently  good  quality, 

service  and  moderate  prices — Skillful 

preparation  of  choice  cuts  of  meat. 


The  Secretarial  School 

Madge  Morrison,  Principal 

Women's  City  Club  Building 

465  Post  Street,  San  Francisco 

DO  UGLAS  7947 


The   Fifty-Cent  Table   d'Hote 
luncheon  in  the  Cafeteria  of  the 
Women's  Cit>-  Club  offers  ap- 
petizing variety  and  balance 
of  foods. 


BlllMHy 


It  adds  a  great  deal  to  the  appearance 
of  a  meal.  As  a  salad  with  fruit  or 
vegetables.  Wholesome,  too,  and  de- 
licious. At  your  grocer,  meat  dealer 
or  delicatessen. 

You  can  get  it  where  they  serve 
the  best. 


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1929 


Let 
Bekins 

MoveYou 

To  another  part  of 
the  city 

Bekins  sanitary,  padded  motor 
vans,  and  expert  bonded  em- 
ployes will  safely  and  efficient- 
ly move  your  household  goods 
to  your  new  residence.  190  vans 
at  your  service. 


To  another  part  of 

California 

Bekins  statewide  motor  van 
service  provides  the  safest  way 
to  ship  household  goods  to  any 
part  of  California.  Household 
goods  are  loaded  at  your  pres- 
ent home  and  unloaded  only  at 
your  new  home.  No  handling 
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To  another  part  of 

the  U.  S. 

Bekins  pool  car  shipping  plan 
will  materially  reduce  your 
freight  rates  to  any  part  of 
North  America.  Bekins  affilia- 
tions in  all  principal  cities. 

To  another  part  of 

the  World 

Bekins  lift  vans  provide  the 
safest  way  to  ship  household 
goods  anywhere.  Phone  near- 
est Bekins  office  for  further 
details. 

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Thirteenth  and  Mission  Sts. 

Geary  at  Masonic 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


BEAUTY  SALON 

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 


Vegetables 

Fresh  spinach 

Fresh  cauliflower  au  gratin. 

Fresh  string  beans 

Fresh  carrots  Vichy 

Baked  Hubbard  squash 

Corn  saute  O'Brien 

.Mashed  potatoes 

Hash  browned  potatoes 


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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. 

1     i     i 

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. 


''Nlte  Kits" 

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 
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Laura  Ann  Cotton,  Cellist 

Maxine  Cox,  Pianist 

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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. 


hrough  Lands 
of  Long  Ago 


HAVANA 

\^FF  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 

CRUISE-Tour  of  the  PanamaMail  to  Havana. 

Refreshingly  different,  the  CRUISE-Tour  sets 
new  stonddrds  of  travel  value. 

You  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  bwimming  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 
ofedger,happysun-seekers.  Balconies  reminiscent 
of  old  Spain  are  splashed  with  the  colorof  Seville 
and  Madrid.  Beach  and  drive  and  sparkling 
cafe  6rz  thronged  with  the  wealth  and  beaut/ 
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. 
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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  shall  be  prone  to  say 
Such  nodding  platitudes  as  age  tnust  state 

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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 

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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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NOVEMBER  I-NOVEMBER  30,  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. ;  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 

21 — Thursday  Evening  Program Room  222  8:00  P.M. 

Speaker:  Mr.  Newton  H.  Bell 

Subject:  "Recent  Wanderings  in  Europe" 

23 — Special  Football  Dinner Main  Dining 

Room       5:30  to  9 :30  P.M. 
26 — Thanksgiving  Luncheon  and  Dinner  in  Cafeteria    .     .   Third  Floor 
27 — Dinner  in  honor  of  British  Delegates  to  Institute  of 

Pacific  Relations Third  Floor  6:30  P.M. 

28 — Thanksgiving  Dinner Third  Floor 

12:00  noon  to  8 :00  P.M. 


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round.  Nurse  in  attendance  in  boys'  and  girls'  dormitories.  Screened  sleeping  quar- 
ters.   Electrically  heated  dressing  rooms. 

Children  accepted  in  our  open  air  school  at  any  time,  where  we  follow  the  Bay  region 
curriculum  so  closely  that  they  lose  no  time  from  their  regular  classes.  A  certificated 
teacher,  and  an  assistant  are  under  county  supervision. 

Admission  only  on  recommendation  of  personal  physician.  No  tuberculosis, 
contagious,    or   mental    cases   taken.     Accommodations   for   thirty    children. 

DR.  DAVID  LACEY  HIBBS 
MRS.  DAVID  LACEY  HIBBS 

Los  Gatos,  California 


BARCLAY  SCHOOL 
of  CALCULATING 

COMPTOMETER 

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. 

A  booklet  of  information  wilt  be  fur- 
nished upon  request. 

Mrs.  Edward  B.  Stanwood,B.L. 

Principal 

2120  Broadway  Phone  WE  st  2211 


The  DAMON 
SCHOOL 

(Successor  to  the  Potter  School) 

J  Day  School  jor  Boys 

I  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 


»'Ycar  High  School 
Course  admits  to  college. 
Credita  valid  in  high  achcol. 

Grammar  Course,  i 

accredited,  saves  half  time,  i 


DREW 

SCHOOL 

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.  Phofie  WEst  706s 


PACIFIC  COAST 

MILITARY  ACADEMY 

for  boys  between  five  and  fourteen 
years  of  age. 

MAJOR  R.  W.  PARK,  Superintendent 

(Graduate  of  West  Point) 

Box  511-W  Menlo  Park,  Calif. 


LE  DOUX 
SCHOOL  OF  FRENCH 

Rapid  Conversational  Method 
545  Sutter  Street 

Formerly  at  133  Geary  Street 
GArfield3962 


The  Secretarial  School 

Madge  Morrison,  Principal 

Women's  City  Club  Building 

465  Post  Street,  San  Francisco 

DOUGLAS  7947 


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By      ETHEL      MELONE      BROWN 


Convenient  to 
THE  SHOPPING  CENTER 

WELLS  FARGO  BANK 
and  UNION  TRUST  CO. 

Market  at  Grant  Ave. 


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osepWs 

FLORIST 


Fl'jivers  for  the  debutante 
233  GRANT  AVENUE 


HUDSON  BAY 
FUR  CO.    N    t. 

272  POST  STREET 


BILLIE  TROTT 

Gozvns    -    Dresses 
Pajamas 

1123  SHREVE  BUILDING 


The 


time 


540  SUTTER  STREET 
Lunch  -  Tea  -  Diiuu  r 

Rose  C.   Ferranti — Mvrtle  Arana 


MATTRESS  CO.  -'-'''''-''''''''''''>-'-'''-''' 

The  world's  largest  retail  mattress  factory. 

Alrflex  products  are  made  IfiCV'^'"'*** 

and  sold  only  at         100  4   Street 


roscner-rriedman 

Tailors  and  Drapers 

322  Post  Street 

Pittsburg  Water 
Heater  Company 

Chas.  S.  Aronson,  Pres. 
478  Sutter  Street 


ENRY  lUUFFY 

Players 

ilcazar  Theatre       President  Theatre 


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. 

"I'd  get  my  frock  wet,"  she  stalled. 

"I'll  buy  jou  another,"  he  winked 

pleasantly, — "Billie   Trott — she's   the 

girl — such  gowns — such  pajamas,  oh, 

la  la!  You'll  fall— you'll  see!" 

"I  will  not  fall" — Alice  spoke  with 
hauteur. 

"For  the  clo — little  One — I   mean 
for  the  clo  of  course — calm  yourself!" 
"Well — you  can't  buy  me  a  frock — 
no  matter!" 

"O.  K.— O.  K. — we'll  make  it  a 
coat  then,  shall  we  ?  Solid  fur — neck 
to  trotters — Hudson  Hay  Fur  Co. — 
coats  for  queens — how's  that — I'm  no 
cheap  skate!" 

"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 — " 

{Continued  on  next  Page) 


Shreve,  Treat 
^'EACRET 

I^earl  and  Gem  Specialists 

.levcelers   and  Silversmiths 

136  GEARY  STREET 


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"Learn  to  Lead" 

FANNY  MAY  BELL 

Bell  Studios 

450  GEARY  STREET 

Ball    Room    Dancing — Stage    Dancing 

Snappy  Popular   Step> 


Esther  Rothschild 

f         COATS        71 
DRESSES  I 

GOWNS  r 

MILLINERY   JJ 

251  Cjeary  St.,  Opposite  Union  S<|uare 


Saratoga  Inn 

Saratoga^  Calif. 


Hilcksoii  iV-  Sw(M]S()ii 

Graduate  Sivedish  Masseuses 

Telephone   SUtter  0423 

391  Sutter  St. 


H.  L.  LADD 

CHEMIST 
Around  the  Corner 
At  Poweli.  Street 


Oa\  Tree  Inn 

Third  ."Avenue  and  Highway 

SAN  M.-VTEG 

Reservations  for  Thanksgiving  Dinner 


women's     city    club     magazine    for    November    •     1929 


CLUB  MEMBERS 

Tou  Should  Know... 


Miss  Florence  M. 
Calderwood 

Annuities  provide  maxi- 
mum income 
Massachusetts  Life  Ins.  Co 

600  Monadnock  Bldg. 
San  Francisco 
i    iSl  Incorporated  1S51 


Dorothy  Durham 

Dorothy  Durham  School 
for  Secretaries 

300  Russ  Bldg. 
Telephone  DOuglas  6495 


Eva  Pearsall 

INSURANCE 

All  Kinds 

333  Pine  St. 

GAriield2626 


"LAURA^QUINN" 

Christmas  Cards  , 

are 
"Different" 

"Hobby  Cards" 

Snap-shots 

Reproduced 

"Christmas-tree 

Letters" 
Hotel  Stratford,  242  Powell,  San  Francisco 


MRS.  FITZHUGH 
Eminent  Bridge  Authority 

^CONTRACT  and  AUCTION 
taught  scientifically 

Stttdio:     1770  Broadway 
Telephone  ORdway  a866 


GEORGINA  F.  McLENNAN 

The  Little   Rest   Home — a  private  house  fea- 
turing  comfort,   good    food   and   special   diets. 
Near  the  Ocean  and  Golden  Gate  Park. 
Reasonable  rates. 

1279-44th  Avenue      Telephone  MOntrose  1645 


Rae  Morrow 

OPTOMETRIST 

291   Geary  St. 
Phone  SUtter  1588 


Mrs.   M.   E.   Stewart 

M.  E.  Stewart 
&  Son 

Insurance 

All  lines 

24  California  St. 
Phone  SUtter  3077 


Frances 
Effinger'Raymond 

Manager 

The  Gregg  Publishing 
Company 

Pacific  Coast  and  Orient 
Office:    Phelan    Building 

San  Francisco 

SUtter  zne 


Josephine  C.  SEMORILE 

Maxine  Beauty  Shop 


All  Lines  Beauty  Culture 

Every  Method  of 

Permanent  Waving 

533  Jones  St. 

FRanklin  2626 


MINNIE  C.  TAYLOR 

Classes  in  Oils,  Miniatures,  China, 
and  Satsuma  Decorating 

Leather  Craft 

Orders  taken  -  Private  lessons  by  appointment 


1424  Gough  St. 


GRaystone3129 


Mrs.  LUCIA  RAYMOND  STEIDEL 

Specializing  in  personal  selection 
of  office  workers 

708  CROCKER  BUILDING 
620  Market  Street 

DO  uglas  4121 


LESLIE 


SALT 


You  use 
but  little 
Salt- 

Let  that 
little  be 
the  Best. 


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 

Standard  Methods — No  "bluff" 

No  misrepresentation 


Are  You  Overweight? 

CONSULT 
French  Bergonie  Health  System 

Europe's  most  modern  method  of  normalizing 

No  Fasting  No  Drugs 

Indorsed  by  leading  physicians 

FRENCH    BERGONIE 

HEALTH  SYSTEM 

465  Geary  Street  PRospect  0730 

Next  to  Curran  Theatre  ...  By  Appointment  i 


The   Fifty-Cent  Table  d'Hote 
luncheon  in  the  Cafeteria  of  the 
Women's  City  Club  offers  ap- 
petizing variety  and  balance 
of  foods. 


Do  Tour 

in 

The  LEAGUE  SHOP 

465  Post  Street 

NEW  ADVENTURES  OF 

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) 


women's     city     club     magazine    for    November 


1929 


Women's  City  Club 
Magazine 


Published  Monthly  at 
465  Post  Street 


Telephone 
KEARNY8400 


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 


New  Browns  to  har- 
monize with  the  Win- 
ter shades  of  Brown 
and  Green  . .  .  the  two 
important  costume 
shades.  And  presented 
with  the  Main  Spring 
Arch  ..in  smart  modes 
like  the  Plaza  Tie. 

Spanish  Brown  with 
contrasting  underlay 


11 


Walk-Over 

Shoe  Stores 

844  IVIARKET  STREET  J 
SAN  FRANCISCO 
Oakland-Berkeley-Saa  Jose 


Fireplace  in  lounge  of  Women's  City  Club  where  the  annual  Fire  Lighting  Ceremony 
drew  a  large  number  of  members  Monday  evening,  October  7. 


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?" 

I 

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. 


women's     city     club     magazine    for    November 


1929 


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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women's     city    club     magazine    for    November     •     1929 

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, 


WOMEN     S 


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. 


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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. 

(Continued  on  page  27) 


women's    city    club    magazine    for    November     •     1929 


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. 

*•   f   / 

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? 

*■  /  / 

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. 


[SEAL  HERE  WITH  POSTAGE  STAK 

Members'  Co-operation  Committee, 

Women's  City  Club  of  San  Francisco 

465  Post  Street 

San  Francisco,  California 


PLEASE  FILL  QUESTIONNAIRE 

As  many  members  answered  last  month's 
questionnaire  but  neglected  to  give  their 
names,  addresses  and  telephone  numbers,  the 
questionnaire  is  repeated  this  month.  Please 
fill  in,  even  if  you  filled  it  last  month,  that 
the  committee  may  have  correct  addresses. 


1.  What  are  your  interests? 


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  ofier?   Departments  or  policies? 

6.  What  other  suggestions  have  you? 

7.  Do  you  know  of  any  abuses  of  Club  privileges? 

8.  Name 

9.  Street  Number '. 

10.  City 

11.  State 

12.  Telephone  Number 


women's      city      club      magazine      for      NOVEMBER 


1929 


WOMEN'S  CITY  CLUB 
MAGAZINE 

Published  Monthly  at  San  Francisco 

465  Post  Street 

Telephone  KE  arny  8400 

MAGAZINE  COMMITTEE 

Mrs.  Harry  Staats  Moore,  Chairman 

Mrs.  George  Osborne  Wilson 

Mrs.  William  Kent,  Jr. 

Mrs.  Frederick  W.  Kroll 

MARIE  HICKS  DAVIDSON,  Managing  Editor 

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 


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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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women's     city    club     magazine    for    November    •     1929 


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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ASSOCIATE  EDITORS 

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  /  / 

THE  STORM 

By  Leonore  Upham 

Through  the  woods  like  an  army  of 

giants 
Leaving  its  dead  behind, 
Crashing,  tearing,  raging. 
The  storm  hurries  on — all  blind. 


RMODA  ON  THE  ROOF 

13  moda-on-the-Roof  is  different 
.  .  .  and  that's  that!  Oh,  yes? 
Then  you  probably  know  this  studio 
hat  shop  on  the  roof  with  a  patio  in  the 
sun  ;  there's  real  gravel,  and  a  flag  path 
from  the  green  stairs  to  a  cozy  little 
room  with  tall  shutters. 

And  most  important  of  all  .  .  .  there 
are  hats  of  such  pleasing  style  that  you 
cannot  decide  between  a  new  felt  and 
the  dream  your  old  felt  has  become  un- 
der this  skillful  remodeling. 

If  you  want  to  really  enjoy  buying  a 
new  Fall  hat,  by  all  means  see 

RHODA-ON-THE-ROOF 

233  Post  Street        "Above  the  Sixth" 


^old    at    ^ea 


'  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  .  .  . 

H.  L.  Ladd,  Chemist,  Inc. 

St.  Francis  Hotel  Powell  Street 

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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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Lorcti-a  Ellen  Brady 

French  Furniiure 
French  Draping  Silks 
French  Etchings 

Courses  in 

French  Conversation  and  Grammar 

French  History  and  Alemoir 

Shopping  in  Paris  and  Touring 
in  France 

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LECT YOUR    PIC- 
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[Directly  acrosi  the  street  from  the  Club 


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HIGH-    CLASS 
ALTERATIONS 


406  SUTTER 
STUDIO   423 


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K€ARNY  6164 


women's      city      club      magazine      for      NOVEMBER 


I  929 


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 


TWEED'S    THE   THING 
THIS     FALL! 

And  these  richly  furred  sports 
coats  of  beautiful  imported  and 
domestic  tweeds  are  correct  for 
every  outdoor  occasion  ..  .t  hey 
are,  of  course^  man-  tailored  in  the 
accustomed  Roos  manner.    «»    «» 


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more 


NINE-STORE-BUYING-POWER 
MARKET    AT    STOCKTON     STREET 

AND       AT       ALL      ROOS        STORES 


20 


women's     city     club     magazine     for     November 


1929 


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. 

BEAUTY  SALON 

The  Beauty  Salon  of  the  Women's 
City  Club  is  now  specializing  in  the 
Parker  Herbex  Treatments  for  the 
hair.  They  are  well-known  in  the 
East,  but  new  to  California.  Even  in 
the  short  time  the  Salon  has  been  using 
the  preparations,  the  results  have  been 
notable.  They  stop  falling  hair  and 
promote  growth,  cure  dandruff  and  in 
every  way  are  beneficial  to  the  scalp. 
Dr.  Parker  was  here  personally  and 
trained  each  operator  in  his  scalp  treat- 
ments. 


€*C€NN€R.  W€FrAT¥  tC€. 

creates  a 


Tsiew  GLOVE 


The  great  couturiere 
Chanel  finds  a  novel  way 
to  bring  elegance  to  the 
formal  glove  . . .  tiny  drops 
of  jewel-toned  crystal 
fringe  its  cuff!  As  spon- 
sored by  the  famed  glove- 
maker,  Aris  ...  in  white 
or  eggshell  kid, 


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WOMEN     S      CITY      CLUB      MAGAZINE       j  0  r      NOVEMBER 


1929 


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, 
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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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women's     city     club     magazine     for     November 


1929 


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) 


Qlliss  (Ocliili  6Jjcudcv 

SELECTS  A  DAN  PALTER  CREATION 
FROM  STREICHER'S 

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. 

STREICHER*S 

COSTOlifE  BOOTERV 
2  »  1      V  K  A  II  Y      STREET 


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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 


The  Women's  City  Club 

Beauty 
Salon... 

is  specializing  in  the 

Parker  Herbex  Treatments 

so  much  in  vogue  in  the  East. 

Coupon  books  of  six  treatments 
inclusive  of  shampoos. 

$10.00 

All  Herbex  Preparations 

$1.00  Each 


general  rule  the  higher  the  market- 
ability the  lower  the  yield.  Now  yield 
is  income,  so  why  pay  for  more  rnar- 
ketability  than  one  needs? 

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 . . . 


T^EVER  AGAIN  will  you  be  able  to  buy  a  beautiful  modern  home 
or  homesite  in  Baywood  at  present  moderate  prices  and  on  such 
favorable  terms.  G^Baywood  appeals  to  those  who  appreciate  the 
finer  things  of  life... in  a  word,  to  people  of  taste,  refinement  and 
that  nice  discrimination  that  marks  gentlefolk  everywhere. 
Qome  to  San  Mateo  and  See  Baywood  JiOW! 


BAYWOOD  PARK  COMPANY 

Tract  Office:  Third  Avenue  and  State  Highway,  SAN  MATEO 


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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 


Oi 


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 

CRUISE-TourofthePanamaMailtohlavana. 

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. 


^  First-cldss  fare,  bed  and  Famous  ^ 
<  meals  included, as  !owa;$200.  ► 
^ Write  today  for  folder ^ 


PANAMA  MAIL 

steamship  company 

2  PINE  STREET    ♦    SAN  FRANCISCO 
548  S. SPRING  STREET*  LOS  ANGELES 


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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. 

i      i      i 

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] 

f      Y      f 

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. 


Coffee  that  makes 

any  meal  better! 


M*J*B  COFFEE 

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per  annum 

compounded  semi-annually 

{if  not  withdrawn) 

More  than  19,000  cautious  sav- 
ers ...  a  large  percentage  of 
which  are  women  .  .  .  have  their 
funds  profitably  employed  with 
this  strong,  time-proven  Associa- 
tion. 

The  accounts  are  backed  by  unques- 
tionable security  .  .  .  First  Trust 
Deed  loans  on  approved  real  estate 
located  in  sixty-six  different  Cali- 
fornia cities. 

Funds  are  always  conveniently 
withdrawable  at  100  cents  on  the 
dollar. 

Call,  'phone  or  ivrite  for  Folder 
and  Financial  Statement. 


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BUILDING  &  LOAN 
ASSOCIATION 

Kesoarees   over   814,000.000 


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OAKLAND 

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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 


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You  Can  Always  Depend  on 
every 

Hostess  Qake 

for  it  is 
fine  of  texture 
fine  of  flavor 

and 

SURELY  FRESH 


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  .  .  . 

TELEPHONE 

UNderhUl  0969 


The  F.  THOMAS 

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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 

Thirteenth  and  Mission 
Geary  at  Masonic 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

OAKLAND— BERKELEY 


^^TORAgfca 


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. 


WOMEN      S       CITY       CLUB       MAGAZINE       for       NOVEMBER 


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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The  service  is  prompt  and  reasonable. 

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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. 

/   /   / 

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. 


QDlUllS 


"There   is   no   meal  you   prepare   but 

will    be    a    little    better    if   you    serve 

Tuttle's   Cottage   Cheese." 

"Von  can  act  it  U'hcre  they  serve 
the  best." 


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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  a  perfect  cellar^ 

Italian  Swiss  Colony  Tipo  Red 
and  Tipo  White,  Asti  Colony 
Burgundy,  Port,  Sherry  and 
Muscatel  Juices  of  the  Grape  .  .  . 
six  steps  to  a  perfect  cellar.  From 
these  the  moderns  prepare  non- 
intoxicating  home  beverages  that 
compare  favorably  with  the  vin- 
tages of  the  good  old  days. 

To  be  in  step  with  the  modern 
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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 

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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  ! 
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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" 
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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 

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Christmas  Dinner  .  Main  Dining 

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September  1st  and  January  1st.  Illustrated 
booklet  on  request.  Address  Superintendent 
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San  Francisco,  California. 


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For  Private  Secretaries 

Each     student    receives     individual     instruction. 

A  booklet  of  information  will  be 

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ofifers  a  two-years'  course  in  practical  gardening 

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Tou  Should  Know.. . 


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CALDERWOOD 

Annuities  provide  maxi- 
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for  Secretaries 

300  Russ  Bldg. 
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School  for  Secretaries 

466  Geary  Street  PRospect  1813 


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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OPTOMETRIST 

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 


Frances 
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Pacific  Coast  and  Orient 
Office:    Phelan    Building 

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Maxine  Beauty  Shop 

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533  Jones  St. 

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The  Little    Rest   Home — a   private  house  fea- 
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Near  the  Ocean  and  Golden  Gate  Park. 
Reasonable  rates. 

1279-44th  Avenue       Telephone  MOntrose  1645 


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and  UNION  TRUST  CO. 

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Flowers  for  the  debutante 
233  GRANT  AVENUE 


HUDSON  BAY 
FUR  CO.    «    N 

272  POST  STREET 


BILLIE  TROTT 

Gowns    -    Dresses 

Pajamas 

1123  SHREVE  BUILDING 


The  STUDIO 

540  SUTTER  STREET 

Lunch  -  Tea  -  Dinner 

Rose  C.  Ferranti — Myrtle  Arana 


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The  world's  largest  retail  mattress  factory. 
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and  sold  only  at         IDOl   Street 


Losener-rriedman 

Tailors  and  Drapers 
322  Post  Street 


Pittsburg  Water 
Heater  Company 

Chas.  S.  Aronson,  Fies. 
478  Sutter  Street 


enry  juuffy 
Players 

Alcazar  Theatre       President  Theatre 


{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) 


Shreve,  Treat 
&  EACRET 

Pearl  and  Gem  Specialists 

Jewelers   and  Silversmiths 

136  GEARY  STREET 


St.  ./MOE       ^HOP./  ^i 

Footwear  for  Fasliioiiables 


"Learn  to  Lead" 

FANNY  MAY  BELL 

Bell  Studios 

450  GEARY  STREET 

Ball   Room   Dancing — Stage   Dancing 

Snappy  Popular  Steps 


Esther  Rothschild 

f        COATS        y\ 
DRESSES  I 

GOWNS  r 

MILLINERY  JJ 

251  Geary  St.,  Opposite  Union  Square 


Saratoga  Inn 

Saratoga,  Calif. 


Erickson  &  Svvoiison 

Graduate  Swedish  Masseuses 

Telephone  SUtter  0423 

391  Sutter  St. 


H.  L.  LADD 

CHEMIST 
Around  the  Corner 
At  Powell  Street 


Oa\  Tree  Inn 

Third  Avenue  and  Highway 

SAN  MATEO 

Reservations  for  Thanksgiving  Dinner 


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Women's  City  Club 
Magazine 


Published  Monthly  at 
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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 


»^\^s^;LJ«cs^pir<^^z/'i=3vmr^i^ 


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. 

■f     i      i 

'  '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. 


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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, 
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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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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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associate  editors 
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Mrs.  Beatrice  Judd  Ryan  Mrs.  Parker  S.  Maddux 

Miss  Mary  Cochlan  Inglis  Fletcher 

Mrs.  Edward  W.  Currier  Agnes  Alwyn 

Dr.  Adelaide  Brown  Mrs.  Carlo  Morbio 

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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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 
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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. 

<    /    r 

"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. 


C'C€NNCR  M€rFAT¥tC€. 

The  New  Store  •  STOCKTON  AT  O'FAJIRELL  STREET  •  SVtterJtOO 


A  GIFT 
for  the  JVten  of  tne  Family] 


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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. 


MUIVICIPAL 
SYMPHONY 
CONCERTS 

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 

SHERMAN,  CLAY  £/  CO. 

Box  Office,  Sutter  and  Kearny  Streets 

DIRECTION  AUDITORIUM  COMMITTEE— 

James  B.  McSheehy,  Chairman;  Franck  R.  Havenner, 

Warren-  Shannon,  Thomas  F.  Boyi.e, 

In  Charge  of  Ticket  Sale 


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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I  929 


The  Investor  is  Having  His  Day 


T: 


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. 


"The  Roos  label  adds  value     ^.      ^ 
to  the  sift'' 


Imported 

useful  gifts 

For  Christmas 


These  useful  and  beautiful  gifts  have  been  gathered  here 
for  you  by  Roos  Bros'  European  buyers ..  .they  represent 
the  best  examples  of  foreign  skill  and  craftsmanship,  and 
are  particularly  desirable  as  Christmas  gifts  because  they 
combine  practical  utility  with  enduring  beauty.        «»       «» 


from 

ENGLAND 

hosiery 
sweaters 
neckwear 
pajamas 
flannel  robes 
auto  robes 
beverage  sets 
cigarette  cases 
suit  cases 
fitted  cases 
dressing  cases 

from 
IRELAND 

handkerchiefs 

poplin 
neckwear 


from 
FRANCE 

perfumes 
DeMarley 

shirts 
hosiery 
handkerchiefs 
neckwear 
gloves 

beaded  bags 
silk  robes 

from 
SCOTLAND 

neckwear 
mufRers 

from 
ITALY 

neckwear 
desk  sets 
writing  pads 


from 

GERMANY 

sweaters 

hosiery 

canes 

flasks 

beverage  sets 

reefers 

bridge  sets 

from 
AUSTRIA 

sweater  sets 
neckwear 
onyx  ash  trays 
leather 
novelties 

from 

Switzerland 

neckwear 
mufflers 


Packed  in  a  beautiful  Christmas  box, 
if  desired. 

SAN  RANCISCO  HOLLYWOOD 

OAKLAND  BERKELEY  fT^ESNO 

SAN  JOSE  PALO  ALTO 


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The  Lady  Chapel  of  Grace  Cathedral,  non.v 
Lev-is  P.   llohart.  Architect   of  the   Cathedra' 


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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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b  January  21 ,  lias  designed  the  vjindozus  of 
in  San  Francisco.  Through  the  courtesy  of 
ons    of    the    iL'indo-ivs    are    hereivith    given. 


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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the  actual  subject  matter  has  been  for- 
gotten. 

When  you  come  to  know  superb 
windows  you  will  realize  that  their 
actual  comp<isition  is  related  to  the 
work  of  poets,  symbolists  and  teachers, 
as  well  as  to  great  artists  and  crafts- 
men, for  color  and  line  in  glass,  afire 
with  light,  offer  a  medium  of  expres- 
sion for  ideals  and  emotions  second  to 
none. 


W  OMEN 


CITY         CLUB         MAGAZINE         for  DECEMBER 


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." 


PERFUMED 
Chinese  Candles 

now  taJ^ng  the  place  of 

INCENSE  BURNERS 


Besides  perfuming  the 
room  with  a  delightful 
odor  such  as  Jasmine, 
Rose  and  Sandalwood 
Compound,  the  candle 
burns  brightly  without 
smoke  and  presents  a 
romantic,  Oriental  at- 
mosphere to  the  room. 
We  are  the  exclusive 
distributors  for  this  new 
Chinese       innovation. 


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The  BOWL  SHOP 

953   GRANT  AVENUE 
SAN  FRANCISCO 


Lundy  Tours— 1930 


The  program  of  travel  for  each  one  of 
our  tours  this  coming  season  will  in- 
clude a  visit  to  Oberammergau  and  an 
opportunity  of  witnessing  a  rendition  of 
the  famous  Passion  Play. 

If  you  are  desirous  of  having  a  really 
wonderful  trip,  you  had  better  accom- 
pany Dr.  Lundy  on  his  next  Cruise  Tour, 
leaving  New  York  February  27th.  This 
is  a  delightful  combination  of  Mediter- 
ranean Cruise  and  European  Tour. 

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. 

Literature  descriptive  of  these  tours 
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W  O  M  H  N'     S         CITY         CLUB 


MAGAZINE 


for 


DECEMBER 


1929 


Women's  City  Club  Home  Economics 


IV e  Suggest: 

WOMEN'S  CITY  CLUB 

Scrip  Bcx)ks 
as  Christmas  Gifts 

neffotiable   in 

Swimming  Pook 
Beauty  Salon 

or 
League  Shop 


To  the  Members  of  the  Women's  City  Club 

Planning  TOUR 

36mag  ©inner? 

of  course  the  holiday  feast 
will  be  incomplete  without  a 
Fruit  Cake.  And  you  can't 
aflford  to  spend  hours  prepar- 
ing and  baking  one  when  just 
a  phone  call  to  your  neigh- 
borhood grocer  will  bring 
you  a  perfectly  delicious 

Hostess  Fruit  Cake 

famous  the  land  over 
for  its  fine  flavor. 

Hostess  Cake  Kitchen 

San  Francisco 


wnuiiiy 


TO  OUR  FRIENDS— known  and 
unknown — whose  faith  in  us  makes 
our    service    possible,    we    send    the 

Season's  Greeting 


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 


By  Christina  S.  Madison 
Merry  Christmas,  everybody! 

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. 

Breakfast  comes  next  and  is  rather 

an  exciting  affair  if  there  are  children 

in  the  home,  so  it  is  best  to  have  toast 

or  hot  biscuits  unless  there  is  electrical 

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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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WOMEN      S         CITY         CLUB         MAGAZINE         for         DECEMBER 


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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One  does  not  entrust  the  handling  of  a  baby  to  a 
person  lacking  in  tenderness  .  .  .  Tender  babies 
and  tender,  delicate  fabrics  need  the  tenderness 
which  will  prolong  life.  .  .  . 

Babies  are  not  in  our  sphere,  however,  we  are 
the  oldest  reliable  cleaning  and  dyeing  establish- 
ment in  San  Francisco  and  have  a  reputation  for 
the  finest  worknnanship.  .  .  . 

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molds  of  Christmas  stockings,  tur- 
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of  Saint  Nick,  or  the  attractive  ice 
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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. 

{Continued  on  page  29) 


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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: 

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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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F  K  A  M  I  N  a 
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Vocational 

Guidance 

By  Margaret  Mary  Morgan 

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." 

"Right  you  are,  girlie  —  absolutely 
flawless! — Posener  -  Friedman — that's 
where  we'll  navigate  —  beauties  for 
$2.50 — regular  $5.00  ones — colossal." 

"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. 


V/hither 
Away? 


^ 


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. 

C.  C.  DRAKE  CO. 

The    Official    Travel    Bureau   of   the 
Women's  City  Club 

Main  Lobby  -  Hotel  St.  Francis 
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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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{Continued  from  page  18) 

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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{Continued  from  page  22) 

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- 


hrough  Lands 
of  Long  Ago 


to 


HAVANA 


Oi 


FF  the  beaten  track  . .  .  over  seas  once 

scoured  by  roving  pirate  bands  .  .  .  into 

quaint,  sleepy,  tropic  cities  cherishing  still 

their  dreams  of  medieval  grandeur,theSpirit 

of  Adventure  goes  with  you  on  the 

CRUISE-Tour  of  the  PanamaMail  to  hiavana. 

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You  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  hiavana  season  this  year  is  opening  bril- 
liantly. Never  has  there  been  such  an  early  influx 
of  eager,happy  sun-seekers.  Balconies  reminiscent 
of  old  Spain  aresplashedwith  the  color  of  Seville 
and  Madrid.  Beach  and  drive  and  sparkling 
cafe  are  thronged  with  the  wealth  and  beaut/ 
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- 
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and  then  sail  leisurely  on  to  Colombia  in  South 
America  and  finally  Havana.  Only  the  Panama 
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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. 


SAN  FRANCISCO 

SYMPHONY 
ORCHESTRA 

ALFRED    HERTZ,    Conductor 


DECEMBER 
CONCERTS 

Curran  Theatre 


Third  Pair  Symphony  Concerts 

December  6 — Friday    Afternoon    at    3:00 
December  8 — Sunday  Afternoon  at  2:45 

Popular  Concert 

December  15 — Sunday  at  2:45  P.   M. 

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. 


SAFETY 

is  Paramount 


Metropolitan 

guarantee  ^mUmg-Iioau 

m       Association 


Investment  Certificates 

are  V/orry-^Proof 

Your  investment  is  always 
worth  100  cents  on  the  dollar. 

Interest  checks  mailed  semi- 
annually. 

Funds  secured  by  first  deeds  of 
trust  on  California  homes. 

Legal  for  Banks,  Title  Com- 
panies, Trustees  and  Guardians. 

Under  the  supervision  of  the 
State  Building  and  Loan  Com- 
missioner. 

Tax  exempt  in  California. 

Write  for  Booklet 

METROPOLITAN 

Guarantee  Building^Loan 

ASSOCIATION 

Qiew  Chronicle  Building) 
913;  Mission  St.  San  Francisco 


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WOMEN'      S         CITY         CLUB         M  A  G  y\  Z  I  N  £ 


for 


DECEMBER 


i<j2<J 


"Buy  on 
Investment  Appraisals' 

Agnes  N.Alwyn 

INVESTMENT  COUNSELOR 


says: 

"The  four  cardinal  points  on  the 
investment  compass  are  safety  of 
principal,  a  consistent  income  re- 
turn, proper  diversification  and 
satisfactory  marketability.  Wheth- 
erone  is  investing  a  thousand  dol- 
lars or  a  hundred  thousand  dol- 
lars, the  application  of  sound  in- 
vestment principles  is  equally 
important." 


With 


RUSSELL-CX5LVIN 
€/  COMPANY 


Mills  Bldg. 


San  Francisco 


STREET  CARS 

tal(e  you  there 

QUICKLY 
SAFELY... 

and 

At  Little  Cost 


Samuel  Kahn,  President 


Consecration 

A  picket  frozen  on  duty — 

A  mother  starved  for  her  brood — 
Socrates  drinking  the  hemlock. 

And  Jesus  on  the  rood; 
And  millions  who,  humble  and  name- 
less. 

The  straight,  hard  pathway  plod: 
Some  call  it  consecration. 

And  others  call  it  God. 
— William  Herbert  Carruth. 


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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"GUARANTY" 

6%  Pass  Book 
Accounts 

appeal  to  cautious  savers 
BECAUSE 

They  afford  a  guaranteed  income; 

.  .  with  1  00-cent-on-the-dol  I  ar 
security; 

.  .  convenient  withdrawal  privi- 
leges ; 

Any  amount  from  $1.00  up  to  $100,- 
000  will  open  the  account. 

"GUARANTY'S"  savers  now  num- 
ber nearly  20,000  .  .  the  larger 
percentage  being  women. 

dall,  'phone  or  ivritf  for  Folder  and 
Financtal  Statement. 

GUARANTY 

BUILDING  &  LOAN 
ASSOCIATION 

Resources  over  14  Millions 


70  Post  Street 
SAN  FRANCISCO 

1759  Broadway 
OAKLAND 

69  South  First  Street 
SAN  JOSE 


W  OMEN' 


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. 

y    Y    -f 

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. 


Which  Will  It  Be 

A  Boy... or 

A  Girl? 


BURNBRITr 

QIC   US  PAT  OFF 

vKEROSEHE/ 


Whichever  it  is,  when  the  little  stranger 
arrives  keep  the  nursery  nice  and  warm 
with  a  regular  inexpensive  Kerosene 
Heater  filled  (almost  to  the  top)  with 
BURNBRITE  KEROSENE. 

Babies  coo  more  and  cry  less  when  nur- 
sery chills  are  gone.  Nothing  will  heat 
more  quickly  or  so  economically  as 
BURNBRITE  KEROSENE. 

Kerosene  "impurities"  have  been  com- 
pletely removed  from  Burnbrite.  It  has  a 
clean,  sweet  odor.  It  burns  with  a  clear, 
white  flame,  and  burns  evenly — however 
low  or  high.  Burnbrite  will  not  soot  chim- 
neys or  char  wicks.  It  also  burns  longer. 
And  it  costs  no  more! 

Order  BURNBRITE  KEROSENE 

from  your  grocer  or  Associated  Service- 
man at  the  red,  green  and  cream  station 
or  garage. 


BURNBRITE 

KEROSENE 

ASSOCIATED  OIL  COMPANY 

Refiners  and  Marketers  of  Avon  Spray  Emul- 
sion, Associated  Gasoline,  Associated  ETHYL 
Gasoline  and  Cycol  Motor  Oils  and  Greases. 


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No.  12 


WOMEN'S  CITY  CLUB  CALENDAR 

JANUARY  1-FEBRUARY  I.  1930 

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. 


ii^:i  X. 


WOMEN 


CITY       CLUB       MAGAZINE       for      J   A   N    L    A  R  V 


I  9  JO 


Women's  City  Club 
Magazine 


Published  Monthly  at 
465  Post  Street 


Telephone 
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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 


Announcing... 

WALK-OVER'S 

Semi-Annual 

SHOE  SALE 


Beginning 

THURSDAY,  January  2 

at  9  a.  m. 

Including  Substantial  Reductions  on  the 

Season's  Main  Spring  Arch 

Footwear  Styles! 


Prices  Range 

5-95  ,^  $14.95 


formerly  priced 

.50  to  $18.50 


A  wide  selection  includes  the 
most  favored  materials  in  the 
smart,  fashionable  styles  of  the 
past  and  present  season.  Sub- 
stantial savings  are  presented  on 
every  pair  ...  as  well  as  on 
lounging  slippers  and  hosiery 
for  men  and  women. 


WALK-OVER 

Shoe  Stores 

844  MARKET  STREET 
Oakland  Berkeley  San  Jose 


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Nieeteee^Thirty' 


Now  she  is  spreading  her  wings  in  pride! 

Now  her  prow  keeps  pace  with  the  sun! 

She  zvill  return  when  the  year  is  done 
With  broken  mast  and  with  shattered  side. 

She  will  return  in  twelve  moons  span, 
Staggering  home  with  spent  gray  sails, 
Having  delivered  her  gleaming  bales 

In  every  clime,  unto  every  man. 

And  only  dreamers  like  you  and  me 
May  through  a  mist  of  dreatns  espy 
The  best  of  her  cargo  drifting  by. 

Lightly  tossed  on  a  timeless  sea. 

Evelyn  Wells. 


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. 
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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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CITY      CLUB      MAGAZINE      for      JANUARY 


1930 


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 


Spontaneous  Play  at  Nursery  School 

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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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I  9  S  O 


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. 


Knights  of  the 

Steam  Table 

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. 

■ft-/ 

CAFETERIA  "SPECIAL" 
In   the   cafeteria   at   luncheon   and 
dinner  every  day  a  special  plate,  in- 
cluding chicken,  choice  of  vegetables, 
and  coffee  is  served  for  65  cents. 


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Nuevo  Circo— Caracas 

By  Mrs.  Thomas  A.  Stoddaru 
Extract  from  her  diary,  written  while  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Stoddard  ivere  traveling  in  South  A merica 


E 


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 


Copyright,  1930 
by  Beatrice  Snow  Stoddard 

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) 


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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- 


ing!" 

"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. 

Discussion's  Melt  B.xrriers 

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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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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WOMEN 


M  A  (;  A  Z  I  N   E       for      JANUARY 


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 


By  Beatrice  Judd  Ryan 

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. 

i     ■(     -f 

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 

Public  Relations  of  the  Commission 
for  Relief  in  Belgium:  Documents. 
By  George  I.  Gay,  C.R.B.,  with  the 
collaboration  of  H.  H.  Fisher,  of  Stan- 
ford University.  Stanford  University: 
Stanford  University  Press.  1929.  $10.00. 

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. 

Herbert  Hoover  Silhouetted 

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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No  longer  is  c/iic  reflected  in 
plain  straight  lines.  The 
woman  who  cares  will  only 
have  her  gown  made  to  suit 
her  individuality. 

She  will  also  have  her  gown  of 
yesterday  redesigned  and  made 
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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) 

SPENCER  Corset 

We  create  a  design  especially 

for  your  health  and  figure 

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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 


We  specialize  in  the  finest  of  young  fowl: 

TURKEYS,  CHICKENS 
DUCKS,  GEESE  AND  SQUABS 

ior  all  occasions 

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Supplying  the  Club  Dining 
Room  with  Fruit  and  Produce 

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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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Delivery  as  regular  downtown  and  on 
the  Peninsula  as  in  the  residential  dis- 
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Delivery  Milk  service  at  the  office  as 
well  as  at  home. 

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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. 


((Of  the  hundreds  of 

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1930 


ELF! 


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. 


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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. 

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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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with  granulated  gelatine  or  in  this 
recipe  the  prepared  lemon  flavored 
gelatine  ofiFers  a  quick  method : 

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 


•      9      • 


A  NEW  YEAR 


Our  resolution: 

To  make  every  sale 
so  satisfactory  that 
every  customer  will 
induce  a  friend  or 
neighbor  to  trade 
with  us. 

Your  resolution: 

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this  offer. 


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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. 

This  course  is  free. 


Be  "FIT" 

Rather  than  "FAT"| 

Tune  up  the  system  while 

Toning    it    Down    without 

drugs  or  starvation. 

Cabinet  Baths,  Sane  Diets, 

Exercise,  Massage,  Internal  Baths 

Physiotherapy 

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(D.  C.) 

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Telephone  PRospect  8020 


hAli'ii  I'cyi'  i'tt'sMi-y,  iviio  sdiiij  at  a 

Sunday   Evening   Concert   recently 

at  the  M  omen's  City  Club 


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. 


U^j        ^M  M   1^^^ — of   course    you 

^M  tan  buy  Cantilever  Ox- 

^J        ^U  fords  and  strap  patterns 

^m  in    the    same    standard 

^^1         ^M  styles  that  thousands  of 

^M  our  established  clientele 

^         ^M  have   always    worn   be- 

^M  cause  they  give  perfect 

I          ^M  support    and    fiexibility. 

^M  .   .    .    We    always   show 

13        ^M  the    newest    styles    be- 

^H  cause    so    many   of   our 

gij        ^M  customers    want    Canti- 

-^-        ^1  le^^er    Flexibility    and 

^i         ^M  Cantilever  Comfort  in- 

^^        ^M  corporated    with    matc- 

\_j        ^M  rials    and    colors    that 

—  ^        ^M  harmonize    with    their 

B^        ^M  smartest  costumes. 


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1930 


CLUB  MEMBERS 

Tou  Should  Know.. . 


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CALDERWOOD 

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Life    Insurance   Company 

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for  Secretaries 

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INSURANCE 

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School  for  Secretaries 

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Specializing  in  personal  selection 
of  office  tvorkers 

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OPTOMETRIST 

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Insurance 

All  lines 

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Phone  SUtter  3077 


Frances 
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Manager 

The  Gregg  Publishing 
Company 

Pacific  Coast  and  Orient 
Office:    Phelan    Building 

San  Francisco 
SUtter  31S6 


Josephine  C.  SEMORILE 

Maxine  Beauty  Shop 


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The  Little   Rest   Home — a  private  house  fea- 
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Near  the  Ocean  and  Golden  Gate  Park. 
Reasonable  rates. 

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William  Taylor  Hotel 

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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1930 


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. 

i     i     i 

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. 

■f     i     -f 

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. 

Address 

Investors  Service  Dept. 

Women's  City  Club 
care  Agnes  N.  Alwyn 


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Investment 
Certificates 

are,  ^orYy^Vroof 


Your  investment  is  always  worth  100  cents  on  the  dollar. 
Interest  checks  mailed  semi-annually. 

Funds  secured  by  first  deeds  of  trust  on  California  homes. 
Legal  for  Banks,  Title  Companies,  Trustees  and  Guardians. 
Under  the  supervision  of  the   State  Building  and  Loan   Commis- 
sioner. 
Tax  exempt  in  California. 

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1930 


(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! 


SACR A M  E  NTO 

Leave  6:30  p.m.,  Daily  Except  Sunday 

"DeltaKing"  "DeltaQueen" 

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One  Way  ^1.80.  Round  Trip  ^3.00 

De  Luxe  Hotel  Service 

THE 

CALIFORNIA  TRANSPORTATION 

COMPANY 

Pier  No.  3     -^    Phone  Sutter  3880 


SWIMMING  POOL 

Special  rates  for  private  lessons  in 
the  City  Club  swimming  pool  are  to 
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  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. 

Come  and  bring  your  friends. 


MOVING 


or 

Shipping 

To  smother  pairt  of 
the  city? 

Bekins  sanitary,  padded  motor 
vans,    and    expert    bonded    em- 

f)Ioyes  will  safely  and  efficient- 
y  move  your  household  goods 
to  your  new  residence.  190  vans 
at  your  service. 

To  another  part  of 
California? 

Bekins  statewide  motor  van 
service  provides  the  safest  way 
to  ship  household  goods  to  any 
part  of  California.  Household 
goods  are  loaded  at  your  pres- 
ent home  and  unloaded  only  at 
your  new  home.  No  handling 
in  between.  Offices  and  de- 
positories in  principal  Califor- 
nia cities. 

To  another  part  of 
the  U.S.? 

Bekins  pool  car  shipping  plan 
will  materially  reduce  your 
freight  rates  to  any  part  of 
North  America.  Bekins  affilia- 
tions in  all  principal  cities. 

To  another  part  of 
the  World? 

Bekins  lift  vans  provide  the 
safest  way  to  ship  household 
goods  anywhere.  Phone  near- 
est Bekins  office  for  further 
details. 

MA  rket  3520 

Thirteenth  and  Mission  Sts. 

Geary  at  Masonic 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

BERKELEY 

OAKLAND 


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hrough  Lands 
of  Long  Ago 


to 


HAVANA 


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FF  the  beaten  track  . . .  over  seas  once 

scoured  by  roving  pirate  bands  .  .  .  into 

quaint,  sleepy,  tropic  cities  cherishing  still 

their  dreams  of  medieval  grandeur,theSpirit 

of  Adventure  goes  with  you  on  the 

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. 


^  First-class  fare,  bed  and  Famous  ^ 
<  meals  included, as  lowas$200.  ► 
^ Write  today  for  folder ^ 


PAIVAMA  MAII^ 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY 

2  PINE  STREET    <8>    SAN  FRANCISCO 
548  S.SPRING  STREET*  LOS  ANGELES 


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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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.  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. 


Do  you  know  that  as  a  member  of  he 

Women's  City  Club 

you  have  a  Travel  Bureau  which  will 

take  care  of  all  your  travel  plans  at  no 

charge  to  you 

Europe  Honolulu 

Alaska  South  America 

The  Orient 


All  deck  plans  and  sailing  dates  are 
in  the  office  for  your  inspection. 

Tickets  are  sold  at  regular  rates. 

C.C.DRAKE  CO. 

Main  Lobby  -  Hotel  St.  Francis 
DOuglas  1213 


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