Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, April 01, 1905, Page 8, Image 8
8 TIIE OMAITA DAILY REE: SATURDAY". APRIL 1. 1J05. Don't Forget We have reduced the prioe on all Butte rick Paper Patterns that flold sf at 250, 80c 85c, ! 40o and 60c, to... v Boofc J Stationary Bargains SATURDAY YOU CAN BUY ZBc Novell for 5c 11.00 Copywrlght A tin Books, f.t 60 Envelopes for ow 10 sheets of not pa- Ri per for ' 1 dozen lead pencils 1 bottles of Carter's Ink Rp for ot $1.60 Copyright Books fQ for s.vhj Bicycle Playing Cards 12JC nn Lru THE RELIABLE STORE. 25c35c Neckwear tOc A handsome line of the finest 25c and 35c Ladies' Neckwear, al most unlimited variety of Btyles special Saturday, at 10c 25c Pearl Buttons 5c All sizes of fine Pearl But tons, worth 15c, 20c and 25o per dozen on sale Sat-" urday, at, dozen ' s sw J v 5c Special Sale Men's Hats Closing out the remainder of ths tin damaged hats secured from The Msrtin-Cott Hat Stock Kever before have such marnlflcent values Sn strictly high grade, undamaged, stylish men's bats been offered In Omaha. MWnCOTT HATB-Worth to J.QO 11ARTJN-COTTHATS Worth to 7er tX., Saturday L, Ba -OOTT HATS Worth to Baturdar nmnuAL tor num for... 50c NEWEST SPRING STYLES .. 3.00 3.00 IN CHAMPION- 2. 50 JHr "?Z !3. 50 to $5 EVERT HAT ABSOLUT ELY QUA RANTED. Sample Suit Cases AO solid leather oases, linen, satin or leather lined and worth up to &W.edaat! 4.98 to 3.50 Best Trunk Values to b found In the olty all styles and el2es see them before buying prices m. 2.50 to $30 Stupendous Bargains in Men's Furnishings The astonishing bargains we have offered during the past have created widespread excitement among buyers in Omaha and vicinity, but Saturday's money-saving opportunities eclipse all past events. 1,600 DOZEN HOSE FOB MEN AND LADIES In pure German lisle, plain and fancy colors, all-over lace, lace foot with Bilk crocheting and embroidered, secured at a wonderful bargain from a large, hosiery Importer, worth lOf up to 75c pair, divided Into three lot Saturday at, pair, 10c, 15c and. . . . I v2W $1 Men's Shirts, 39c 39c Silk Ties, 10c $1.00 MEN'S SHIRTS 80c Fine mad- 39c SILK TIBS 10c Just the proper rasses and ginghams, some Bilk or thing for spring wear. Come In plain pleated bosoms, separate collars and blues, blacks, browns, reds and cuffs, or collars attached, and ties to whites, are 50 Inches long and 1 Inch match your choice of 500 dozen In wide, suitable for men's or Indies' latest spring patterns regu- wear choice of 100 dozen IQf lar $1.00 value, Saturday C Saturday 1 GRIFFIN BRAND 8HU.TS In the latest spring patterns, worth up QRf to $2.00 choice Saturday Uw A Big Shoe Sale Saturday. Newer and tetter bargains in shoes from the KIRKENDALL STOCK than we have ever o.ered before. Every pair of these shoes were personally selected and picked out by Mr. Kirkendall before any goods had been sold to the insurance company. Hay 'den Bros, were the only firm In Omaha to secure the cream of the Uudamaged and Unsoiled Stock of F. P. Kirkendall & Co. Men's fine vici kid, patent colt and velours calf, Omaha custom mad shoes made In Omaha and by Omaha workmen These shoes were the best quality turned out of the Kirkendall fac tury Mid absolutely worth up to $5.00 saje price ........ i vf 98c 98c KIRKENDALL RAVEN shoe for women, an advertised 2.E0 shoe see Jfl name on top facing Ktrkendatl'e $3.3 women's vlcl kid bhich er a very 1.5Q stylish shoe ... " Klrkendall's $1.60 and $1.75 Praiie Queen dongola, all solid shoes Misses' and child's $1.60 vicl kid shoes Boys, youths' and little gents' QQr $1.60 satin calf shoes Closing out 6 or 6 lines of the celebrated $g.60 ULTRA shoes, In patents and viol kid, welts and turns, and all the ladles $3.00 and $3.60 Klrkendall's tan and black vlcl kid lace Oft IIIIU tlUVMtia .1 1 1 . - ........ . All of the 76c ohlld's 2- shoes All the 76o ladles' slippers Hrtra help engaged during this big sale of KtrkendaJl's undamaged or unsoiled shoes. " 39c Advance Furniture Notice The American public Is well acquainted with KARPEN GUARANTEED FURNITURE. Through extensive magazine advertising Karpen has become a household name and stands for all that's best In furniture style and construction. WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED FROM KARPEN BROS., of Chicago, a large purchase of their goods that were used as samples in their mammoth dis play at the furniture exposition In January. 800 SAMPLE PIECES, ALL REPRESENTA TIVE GOODS. IN LATEST STYLES AND FINISH, purchased by us at a great reduction. ON SALE MONDAY, APRIL 3. AT PRICES BELOW MANUFACTURER'S COST. NO TWO PIECES ALIKE; BUT ALL STUPENDOUS BARGAINS. What s In a name? Ask any .of the best furniture dealers. They'll tell you what's In the name Karpen. WATCH SUNDAY'S PAPERS for further particulars. ?9auriM(s fimxiivsj. DOMESTIC ROOM 1.00 BARGAINS 16 yds. Bleached Muslin $1.00 soft finished Bleached Muslin, worth 8 l-3c yd., spec ial 16 yds for 65c Table Linen 45c Old fash ioned home spun Table Da mask, all pure linen, ACp special, at yd 7rJK 25c Waistings 12c Brentford Lace Stripe Waisting, fl all 1905 patterns, at yd Ia2 15c Bastiste On 1 60c Ready-to-uso 4CP yard otl I Sheets, each 19c Quersney Cloth for ladles' lOr. waists, suits, etc., at, yard ,vto DRUG DEPT. ....... 25c . . . I IMJ SPECIALS ON GOODS TOU NEED AND WANT. Beef,' Iron and Wine.. Tlnfrv'a Malt Hood's Sarsaparllla 70c Rubber Face Brushes.. . loc Packer's Tar Soap . 15c Cream Marquise 15c Florida Water, bottle 10c PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY. Competent registered pharmacist always lm attendance. PURE DRUOS. QUICK SERVICE. LOWEST PRICES, SPECTACLES OR EYEGLASSES Property Fitted bf ear EXPERT OPTICIAN At Popular Prices. ALWAYS RELIABLE. Cutting Down Grocery Prices REDUCING OUR 1MME8E STQCK TO NEW BU1LDINO. 48-lb. sacks High Patent Minnesota, Flour ....$1.48 10 bars Swift s Pride, Beat 'Em All or White Paris Laundry Soap 25c 6 lbs. best hand picked Navy Beans for.lJo 7 lbs. best rolled Oatmeal for 16o 6 lbs. Pearl Tapioca, Sago, Barley or Karala 19c 6 lbs. choice Japan Rice IBa S-lb. palls pure fruit Jelly 15o 1-lb. Jars pure Fruit Preserves 7Vto On Time Yeust, per package 2o Sapollo Scouring Soap, per cake 6o Pearllne, per package 2o 011 or Mustard Sardines, per can 4c Bromangelon, Jelllcon, Fruit Puddine, or Jello, per package 18-os. can Condensed Cream THo Large bottle pure Tomato Catsup 7Ho Large bottle Pickles, any kind you want 7H Quart cans Ooldan Table Byrup.' Tfta 1- lb. can Humford Baking Powder,. ...... loo Xcello, Malta Vita or Egg-O-See, per paokage 7Vo CUTTINO DOWN CANNED OOOD3 PRICEa 2- lb. cans fresh packed sweet sugar Corn So 3- lb. oans fanoy Wax Beans...., 6o a-lb. cans fancy String Beans 6o 2- lb. cans fancy Lima Beans 6o 8-lb. cans fancy Gulden pumpkin 6o 3- lb. oans fanny Lye Hominy 6o 3-lb. cans solid packed Tomatoes 7Vo 2-lb. oans Early June Sifted Peas Ttto MAKE ROOM FOR WORKMEN ON 1-lb. cans fancy Alaska Salmon 9c 1-lb. cans Cove Oysters 7Hc CUTTING DOWN TEA TND COFFEE PRICTS. The best Tea Sittings from fresh Teas, ner lb.: 10o Fancy Basket Fired Japan Tea, per lb..25o Fancy English Breakfast, Oolong, Gun powder or Cylon Tea, per lb 85o Fanoy Golden Santos Coffee, per lb 14c Fancy Maracaibo blend, per lb 17Ho Fancy Porto Rico blend, per lb 20o FRESH FRUITS. We sell nothing but the finest quality fruits. Fancy large Highland Sweet Navel Or anges, sold everywhere at 40o per doxen our price, this sale 26o Fancy Colorado White Clover Honey per rack 10c The best Fard Dates, per lb 4c Large, seedless, jutoy Lemons, per dosen 10c A GINGER SNAP SPECIAL. Fresh, crisp, spicy Ginger Snaps per pound , 4c $2.50 Embroidered 98c I ShMWaht Patterns The grandest bargains ever offered In this line of goods and probably the last wh-'ch will be offered for sale this season. They come In P4 yard lengths of 40-lnch super fine India Llnon with 27-Inch em broidered fronts, also 2 yards of finest material with embroidered front collar and cuffs QNC special Saturday J Grand Display of Exquisite Costumes. One Hundred and Twenty -five Sample Suits, garments of remarkable beauty and style eha acter, sent to us for our opening display by throe of New York's best manufacturers will be ON SALE SATURDAY AT 25 PER CENT LESS THAN WHOLESALE FKCfc. By permission of the manufacturers we offer these garments the finest Hue ever shown In Omaha t this great re duction Saturday. Prices $30, $35,$37-50' $W, $, $50 up to $85, less twenty-fie per cent. These Garments will be sold for cash only. NOBBY SPRING SUITS From our own stock, regular 812.50, $16.00 and 116.50 vahies special leaders O OO Saturday, at O.UU Beautiful Silk Suits. The exclnslveness of design and elegance of our Silk Suits are the talk of the town. More suits than all the other houses combined and at prices simply unroatehable. Prices, $45.00, $40.00, $80.00, $25.00. $20.00, 10 CH $18.50, $15.00 and lat.JU Saturday's Great Picture Sale THESE BARGAINS FOB ONE DAY ONLT. BLACK AND GOLD OVALS-16xl8, with beautiful water color facsimiles of fancy heads, child studies and figure pieces grand bargains-while they 3QC last, Saturday . ALONE! A picture dear to everyone, 11x18, 45C gilt frame, green mat special, at ONE HUNDRED different styles of attractive 25C picture novelties choice, each JUST THE THING for den or cosy corner Dutch, Indian, Chinese ana jap pictures swell frames. ' DINING ROOM PICTURES we offer a line of Fruit and Game pictures, whlcn cannot be equalled In Omnha. . Panels, In brown and black ovals 3 openings and 3 differont fruit and game Q5C subjects In each special Saturday, at V';i, LANDSCAPES In colors and new style framing Ebony frames, with Mahogany veneer mats, very dainty and artistic 45C hIgHc'rADE "SHEET 'picTl'RBS' hand 'tin'ted'in' water colors copies of the World's best paintings. Just the thing to fit your 1.00 frames reduced Saturday to SHEET MUSIC SHEET MUSIC We will place on sale Saturday the following hits at 13c per copy; by mall, 14c: Jolly Me Along, Coax Me. I'm Trying so Hard to Forget You. Seminole, Girl Who Cares for Me, Abrahom, When My Golden Hair Has Turned to Silvery Gray. In Old Ireland Meet Me There, By the Dear Old Delaware. In the Sleigh With the Girl You Love. Josephine, Sntisnod, St. I-ouis Tlokle, Fighting the Flames, Field Day, Western Girl, Chicken Charlie. Arabolo, Yosan, Virginia Beau ties, Jolly BlackRiulth, Dixie Ihjodle, Innocence Waltz, Isola, Merry Maidens, Ever Thine Waltzes, Blue Grass Echoes, Dance to the Moon and Ragtime to the Moon 15c per copy, by mail 16c. Garden Tools and Hardware Specials 14 Tine Qarden Rake, this sale. Solid Steel Garden 85c this sale 1J Tine Garden Rake, worth 25c j0C worth 86c 5C Hoe, worth 15g Solid Steel Garden Spade, worth 'lflp 76c-thls sale OVfc, 3c 10 quart Galvanized Water Pall 1fn this sale VW 12 quart Galvanized Water Pall iOn this sale 1m W 15c 39c 49c 59c 14 quart Galvanized Water Pall this sale No. 1 Galvanized Wash Tub- for No. 2 Galvanized Wash Tub for No. 8 Galvanized Wash Tub for 4 quart copper bottom Coffee Pots, OCi never rust, eacn . WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR FINEST MAKES IN THE COUNTRY BEFORE PURCHASING. 8 quart copper bottom Tea Pots, OQ never rust, each jw 6 quart blue enameled Preserving 20c Kettle No. 8 granite Tea Kettle fQc for J Regular 16c Shoe Brushes Cc each Combination Ice Hatchet and Pick, worth 15c this sale 3 quart tin Tea Kettles, 10C Granite Sauce Pan Lids, each Feather Duster, worth 16c this sale 5c 5c 5c BROOMS. BROOMS. BROOMS. 3 tie Parlor Broom, worth 26c f SP this sule ICJW 4 tie Parlor Broom, worth 30c QP this sale iVW S tie Parlor Broom, worth 85c this sale , Odd length Garden Hose, per foot , 25c 3c LOAD OF REFRIGERATORS. TUB SfclE OUR BIG DISPLAY IN BASEMENT As a Saturday Special. 85 SILK SHIRT WAIST SUITS-In plain and fancy colors, sizes 32 to 4. worth up to $20.00, O CA cuoloe ..OW V 2.95 75 CRAVENETTR COATS That are worth up to $15.00 special 7 CA for Saturday I Jt CRAVBNETTH COATS The hand somest line of spring styles in the city, at $35.00. $30.00, $'0.00. $20.00. $18.50. ar.,.12;! 10.00 HANDSOME COVERT COATS 2,000 new garments to select from, at $25.00. $20.00, $is.o, $io.oo, $.5o. enn $7.50, $0 50 and J,Jt WOMEN'S SKIRTS More in stock tlmn a good many wholesale bouses. Indies', misses' and extra sizes. Prices, $25.00. $20.00. $15.00. $12.50, $ia00 $8 .05, $7.50 5.00 ejftrt T.nTF-S' SKIRTS ATOUl garments to select from special Saturday CHILDREN'S COATS About 575 gar ments, In ages from 2 to 14 years, most beautiful styles, at C (1(1 $10.00, $7.60 and A SATURDAY SPECIAL 175 child ren's coats In cheviots, serges and silks, worth up to $6.00, X 98 $5.00 Silk, Linen and Pongee 1 OQ Waists, at .J Early Shopping Inducement. ROM 8 TILL 9 A. M.-$1.00 Sateen and Vesting Waists. 49c FROM 8:30 TILL 6:80 A- M.-$1.00 Wrappers, 39c SENSATIONAL MUSLIN UNDER WEAR BARGAINS Again we offer to the bargain loving public a line of muslins unsurpassable In beauty of style, quality of material or workmanship and at prices, which, quality considered, have never been equalled ly any other Omnha house. LADIES' SKIRTS Made extra full with deep, handsome flounce and dust ruflle, garments, worth up to $2.00 choice r 20 timerem pauerua rj ft C hnndsomely trimmed with .19c 39c 39c 10c at. rnRSPT mvRRS-Made extra full or tight fitting. laces, embroideries and tucks, latest styles, made of tlneat muslin, worth twice the price we ask Saturday, 30c, 25c and GOWNS Of the newest and most fasclnaOng designs, made extra. long and full, regular $1.00 values, special at DRAWERS Handsomely trimmed with tucks, laces or embroideries, made extra full and In all sizes, special bargain, at LISLE THREAD VESTS With silk tape and lace yokes, some with short sleeves, worth 20c, at FROM 10 TILL 11 A. M. CHILDREN'S DRESSES Worth i.p to 9Sc, made of extra fine gingham, trimmed with luces and embroideries, extremely pretty styles and wonderful bargains for one hour Saturday :tJ Limit of three to each customer. FROM 11 A. M. TILL 12 M. 50c LADIES' DRAWERS Full fashioned and well made, trimmed with lace tucks and embroidery great snap Saturday, at SILK GIOVES A complete new line of latest spring shades In blues, tans, modes, grays, blacks, whites, etc., with extra double' finger tips a CH written guarantee with each pair Satirrday, at DUC 19c Crockery Prices Badly Broken Surprising bargains In beautiful Crockery and Glassware Saturday: Underglazed Blue Decoration Gold Finished Plates, Platters, Salads, Bowls, Bakers, Trays, Sauce Boats, Fickle Dishes, etc.. choice Saturday ns Ions as they last 7-plece Opal Berry Sets, A,t Saturday Art Glassware Vases, Rose Bowls, Violet Holders, etc.. Satur- Iftp day, each I vC Decorated Salt and Pepper Shakers Handled Cups with Saucers, "Lp per set Tw Lace Edge Shelf Paper, In 10 yards lengths K 6-plece Cream Sets, Saturday Q special JC Meat Slaughter MEAT TRUSTS DON'T OUR PRICES Pork I)lns, pound Pork Koust, pound Round Steak pound Shoulder Steak pound Shoulder Roast, fancy prime steers, pound Mutton Legs, pound 3-pound pall pure Lard MAKE fancy prime Steers, fancy prime steers, 5-pound poll pure Lard 10-pound pail pure Lard Armour's fancy Hams, pound Armour's fancy Bacon, pound Buck Wurst Sausage, (fancy), pound Headquarters for all kinds Salt Fish (or the Lenten season. ...8c ...7ic .... 8c ....7c ...7c ..8ic ..24c ..40c ..80c ..10c 104c 124c CLUI WOMEN OF NEW YORK Amaiing Growth of Organisations Devoted to ths Welfare of the Fair Bex. THEIR VARIED OBJECTS AND BENEFITS Things They Have Hone and 'What They Aro Doing; (or Women- Some Facts About the Lead ers In the Movement. Jin Greater New York there are now 106 women's clubs which belong to the state and the city federation, besides nearly as many more which belong to neither organi sation, and the majority of which are not Incorporated. From the Atlantio to the Pa clflo ocean, from the gulf to the Great Lakes, there Is scarcely a city without at least one woman's club. As a result there aro more than 200 clubs belonging to the general federation. Of these, at least 60 per cent were organised en strictly literary lines. The . remainder are mostly clubs for educational purposes, for the study of Shakespeare, for classical study, for civic and political study. There are also several patriotic societies, alumnae associations and working girls' associations. In the Isst four years twenty-three stats federations have been formed. Not long ago Mrs. Charlotte B. Wllbour, president of Sorosls and one of Its founders, thinking that the high tide of women's club prosperity had surely been reached, and that therefore the ebb had already set In, wrote lo a statistical friend something llko this: "I am thinking of preparing a club paper on the decline of the woman's club. What Is your opinion?" " "Well," wrote back the friend, "you may If you can, but In consideration of the fact that something like 4,000 new clubs were started In the United States last year I'm afraid you will find It hard work to prove your point." "And I relinquished my Idea In a hurry," confessed Mrs. Wllbour In telling the story, "convinced that the high water mark in feminine clubdom was yet to be gained." In view of these facts It was suggested by a mere man the other day that before long It will be absolutely necessary for prospective benedicts to make Inquiry Into the club habits of the women they admire before going so far as to pop the question. They will want to know, for Instance, whether she belongs to one or to ten clubs, what her club dues are likely to foot up, what proportion of her time she expects to give to club engagements, etc. Jio Cause for Alarm. Mrs. Llllle Devereux Blake, president of the Legislative league and honorary presi dent of the Society for Political Study, who attends more club meetings in a year thnn perhaps any other woman in the country, does not think there Is cause for alarm on this score. "There Is nothing to be gained by com paring men's clubs and women's clubs," she says "They are totally different. "The aim of a man's club Is always amusement, whereas a woman's club gen erally plans for Improvement. Then a man's club usually means a clubhouse. So far only one of the New York feder ated clubs the Professional Woman's league has a clubhouse. Why? Because women are the pauper sex. "Yes, It Is true to a certain extent that women have as good a chance these days to make money as men have, but It is also certain that women are not paid so well as men for doing the same work. A woman may do her work as well or better than a num. but she Is certain to get loss pay for it. t'ntil that state of things Is remedied women sre bound to be the pau per sex. "Women's clubs have done a lot to help women. Why, until the Legislative lougua, which was organized In 1!X, took hold of the matter a mother In this state had not the slightest right to her own child. The league has been instrumental In the pas sage of laws making father and mother joint guardians of their children, granting school suffrage to women, enabling a woman to make a will without her hus band's consent, providing that there shall be woman trustees In all Institutions where women are placed, providing seats for saleswomen, and some others. "And yet I can remember the howl that went up when Sorosls was organized, the dreadful word pictures of neglected and disrupted families which appeared In the newspapers and the cartoons illustrating them. One picture which went the rounds amid much applause represented a wagon load of wild-eyed women drawn by horses plunging madly toward a precipice and de struction. The name 'Sorosls' appeared on the wagon's side." How They Started. As many of the older generation remem ber, Charles Dickens was Innocently re sponsible for the breaking out of women's clubs In this country. It happened In this way: Mr. Dickens arrived at this port to make a visit and look the Americans over, where upon the New York Press club scurried around to give htm a banquet. Tickets, naturally, were In demand. The com mittee In charge of them was besieged Among other applicants was Mrs. Croly (Jenny June), who was met by a flat re fusal. To admit women, however gifted, to a public diner was unheard of, it never had been done and It could not and would not be done on this occasion. Women must resign themselves to forego listening to the great man's speech. Naturally, Mrs. Croly and her Intimates were highly Indignant. As Mrs. Charlotte U. Wllbour tells the story, st a St. Valen tino party given ly her soon afterward, a woman writer asked: "Why can't we have a club of our own?" "We can, and we will," replied Mrs. Croly. Alice Cury, Mrs. II. M. Field and a few kindred spirits, with the result that Sorosls was organized a few weeks later with fifteen members. Before tiie year was out there were sixty-two members, and the club was Incorporated In December, 1868, giving as a reason for its being these objects: "The promotion of agreeable and useful relations among women of literary, artistic and scientific tastes; the discussion and dissemination of principles and facts which promise to exert a salutary Influ ence on women and on society; the estab lishment of an order which shall render the female sex helpful to eaeh other and actively benevolent to the world." Quailed I'ndrr Criticism. Miss Alice Cary was the first president and served Just once; then, overwhelmed by the adverse critic Ism poured out upon her and the club, she resigned to make way for Mrs. Croly. "If we had announced an Intention to start a soup kitchen, feed sick babies or make flannel petticoats for the heathen we would have had the country behind us," said Mrs. Wllbour, "but the fact that we proposed to meet and eat in a public restaurant and conduct ourselves with the independence of men' brought down upon us the Jeers of the entire country. Even the name of the club, which is a botanical term, meaning many flowers in one, was used as a handle for reproach. " "There was a disease of that name,' one newspaper declared, 'and the women of Sorosls have caught it.' "In those days women entertained almost solely In their own homes. I think that was one reason why some of us were eager to go outside of the beaten traek, sit in rooms we hadn't trusted and eat food to whose cooking we had given no thought. "Charles Delmonico, then In his Four teenth street place, was very nice to us, offering to furniHh a good luncheon at each meeting for fl a iiead, und It was at tils place that SoroslH gave the Hint public dinner In this city to which men ami women sat down on equal linns. "Not long ufter an editor who In IiIh paper declared that 'If a woman's club held toKfthcr one year a good many people would llnd it iicccisxury to revise their opin ion of women,' was obliged to revise hm opinion, which ho did handsomely In an other editorial." Mrs. llenrotln, long associated with women's clubs, made this statement sov eral years ago: "In no place In the world can a woman come so easily to the front as in a large woman's club.' This being the case, It explains to soma extent the amazing rapidity with .which women's clubs caught the feminine fancy. A desire to come to the front is undoubt edly a strong American trait. At any rate, from the founding of Sorosls, which gathered to Itself at the outset some of the cleverest, if not the most practical, Women of the clt, the club movement was In full swing. One year later tho Brooklyn Woman's club, which now has a membership of more than 230, was organ ized, and almost simultaneously women's clubs sprang up In several of the larger cities of the country. What was called by some the John Bap tist of women's clubs was organized In 1S73 under the name of Association for tho Ad vancement of Woman. For a long time this club, for which Mrs. Wllbour was chief sponsor, held Its meetings In the old Union, Square theater, and the first club paper lta members listened to was read by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, her subject being: "How can women best associate their efforts for the amelioration of society?" Although the members of this club, with but few excep tions, were living in New York, no fewer than eighteen status were represented In Its board of officers. Miss draco Dodge In 1RK3 rung In a change and stamped the club movement with her approval by organizing what was prob ably the first working girls' club In tho world, under the name of the Thirty-eighth Street Club of Working Girls. There were six members at the start. Now the mem bership of tho working girls' clubs of New York counts up In the thousands. The Woman's Health Protective associa tion, which started up tho next year and has always been conducted along club lines, had a light for lis existence at first and was antagonized nt every step, even after Its hurt signal victory In compelling a well known property holder to remove a slaughter house from the Kast river front In the vicinity of lieckman Hill. To mention only a few of ths beat known of the clubs which about that time cropped up, there were the Society for Political Study, organized In 186; the Clio club, which now has a membership of 100, in 18X8, and tho Women's Press club, organ ized by Mrs. Croly, who gathered together forty young women writers In 1889. The club's membership now has passed the 1&0 mark. The Boom Period, Between 1SS9 and 1MI women's clubs In New York and In New York state multi plied so fast that Sorosls again stepped to tho front nnd scored another goal In her record of achievement by organizing the New York State Federation, of which Mrs. Philip Carpenter is now president. "You can have no Idea," said Mrs. Car penter the other day In answer to a ques tion, "how the womnn's club has helped to develop woman." "In what direction?" was asked. "In every direction. It has taken her out of the home rut, made her less small, developed unusual talents, rained her above gossip, helped her to lose self-consciousness, taught her self-control, kept her abreast of current events In short, helped her to be a better home maker, a better mother," and Mrs. Carpenter leaned back and looked as If there were volumes more which could be said along the mme lines. It would certainly take volumes to describe In detail the spread and Increase of clubs since the national federation was organ ized. Mrs. Dore Lyon, president of the club, In a chat regarding the expense attending club life, said frankly: The I out'. "If a woman belongs to a dozen or so clubs, naturally the outlay would be con siderable. I know many women who l -long to as many as that, and tiieio 1 .4 Mr. Blank, who I will venture to say : a mem ber of at least fifty Hubs, and Mrs. Kinlih, Who goes ahead of Mrs. Blank even. "Now, in this flub the dues are I JO, . less than they usk In Sorosls, and that sum pays for the luncheon, which l a feature of every meeting. Wo meet every other week from November to May, and, as our name Indicates, the discussions and the pa pers read at the meetings are along mod ern lines and more often than not deal with Important questions of the moment. "In clubs where no f.ct luncheon Is served dues runge from 15 to J10, but, of course, in no case does a yearly fee cover traveling expenses, tho cost of a club pin, if the club uses a pin, or other Incidentals, like a yeurly banquet, say. "The club movement has developed so fast thnt nowadays none of us feels obliged to apologize for belonging to a club." "Estimating from my own expenditures," said a woman who belongs to five clubs, and la often a guest at as many more in tho season, "most club women, and by that I mean women who return club obli gations nnd keep tip with club life, spend at least T100 n year. "A woman may belong to one small club and pay out maybe not more than (5 a year, but I am not speaking of that sort of club woman. There are many small clubs of a dozen or two dozen members, who do not pretend to exchange club courtesies or do things on a large scale clubs which do not belong to even the city federation, which was organized In 1i3 by Mrs. Belle de Hlvcra. Member of these clubs I do not class as club women. "I have a friend whose club expense last year were &t, and she belongs to but five clubs. Of courso she was not taxed that sum, but she chose to spend It, felt herself obliged to spend It, to keep up her end, us she expresses It." The late Mrs. Croly, founder of women's clubs. In 0110 of her uddrepses said: "The woman's flub w.'is not an echo; it was not the mere banding together for u social and economic purpose like the clubs of men. It has been lu every sense an awakening to the full gjory and meaning of life." rf tills be true, it is pleasant to know that In Hival.T New York there ure at least 10,110 women who have experienced this glory. New York Sun. '"nit Ads Are the Best Boosters, Business