THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1 Membership in Washing. 4 tons Newest Organizations Depends on Men's Votes The new congressman's wife, gt half | past three o'clock of a wintry Ties | day afternoon, took up the little wick i or basket and hung it on the knob of the door of her apartments in YQ street | northwest, Washington, D.C, Alb through the building the ! of door opening and shutting notice, by dull thuds, that the two | dozen other congressinen's wives lve hives there were doing the same thing "Oh, manuma !" pleaded the new congressman's daughter, attired in the | very: prettibst alternoon costume with | which the cast could rosy | youth from Middle W "won't sou---won't you please--let me tie this little bit of violet ribbon to it ? "Na, my dear"; and her mother clos the door with the emphasis of un. ing fosignation "We've just got to stick it out, without risking a sin gle, solitary innovation until the con- mgional club-- Hand the Archonides "yen, of course, dear--aml ihe chghiges. bring us some relief. two hours hospitable mother and pretey daughter sat out the weary ing misery of their regular afternoon "at home" in Washington, | while, at intervals _gkirts swichod along the cor ridor, cards flicked or rusted fnintly into the modest hgskot, and the skirts swished away pyaint the calling duty couscim$iously performed, and the social, and presumptively sociible, Arachnes sat behind the door, with never gn friendship added to compen sate for the dour privilege of the wie ker basket acquaintance. But it was thw year, not last; and now there is hope, instead of blank despair. For, to vary the metaphor and yob to keep it cleggntly classic, have not a couple of Perseuses, the Congressional Club and the Archoni des, made bold to rescue these wretch ed Amlromedas from, the clutches of that awful modern Minotaur, Wash- ington society ¥ ---- No woman who has not been, new congressman's. wife or daughter, or otherwise officially ranking female relative, . can comprehend what it means to find one's plaeg in, Washing fon society, So there are a good many million women who ave in ignor ance, while in and out of Washington there are still a good many ' dozen have many a time wished they'd never been given the chance to learn by the sons and husbands of those envious millions gutside. WV For, alter everything is said and dot, the fathers, the sons and the hushands, on whom the constitution of the United States confers the bal lot," gre the ultimate arbiters of Wash- ton society. # papa is elected, you go to Wash on as the daughter of a reprosen- tative-mayhe as the daughter of that a 4 oreature of the vicarious fran. « ho senator. MH papa ish't--well, you ast stpyy home, y And now, with the Congressional Chak and the Archonides, organized to fulfil their noble offee of hemg first aid to the elected, the pew congress. man's wife and daughter, together with © his' otherwise officially ranking female elatites, beho.w themselves eligible "the proper one of the two mow big by the right which his election fo congress invests in themi--and they oan gratefully regard back home the Is of voters who, at the polls, Nirtually elected them into their club ashington society, - was early in March that Mrs, J Broek Perkins, wiie of the ve tive from the Thirty Second of New York, invited quite 4 mutmber of ladies to, meet at her on New Hampshire avonne. She gound | gave ii far wicker frien ds called » and getuglly and talked, that among Mrs, Mrs. John Sharp most experieneed | houses, they had the heartbreaking that real apartment | overpnssisd | basket jon their "at home in, and It happened, Perkins' 50 Ie the stage days } came sat down, too, guests wy Williams of the women, sotially, in Washington--who | reemed remarkably quick to appreciate {@he trend of her friend, Mrs. Perking', j remarks. Ar-| To some of the others the proposal | of Mrs. Perkins that 'they constder the advisability of organizing elub to be composed of the wives of members of congress, for the purpose of amel- jorating the notoriously painful ditions of capital something of a others it came as something that seemed to have been in the air of Washington ever since congress began its current session, Indeed, there were those mong the twenty-five © gues whose memories, ranging afar to the prehistoric era of the Spanish dificulty--Washington is ashamed nowadays to call it a war recalled that an organization of the kitel had been long ago enthusiastical- Iy projected, amd as enthusiastically | squelched, So, while they . fat would be a good thing, ed whether it could ever cessful. Mes. Perkins, who has not achieved her position in Washington society by any Very noticeable paucity of tact, refrained from commibfting upon the causes of the previous failure. Dut she did point out that the ladies they and there assembled were' the ones who, if they all agr on the necessity had it in their reality. Besides, if they to attempt nothing than the formation of would enable women in the ficial Life to another socially, the object must sure ly be so innocuous that no one could disapprove of it. All they had need of was to be unanimous. Unanimous they became, even to the election 'of Mrs. Williams as temporary chairman and of Mrs. Julius Kahn, California, temporary secretary Mrs, James 3S. Sherman, of New York, invited the members of the Nascent Club to be her guests at one of the big reception rebms of "the New Wil lard, two weeks later, the secretar meanwhile, to invite the wives of all senators and representatives to he pre sent. There were one a con sotwely, came a surprise and to convinced it they wonder- be made sue Very wert ug for power to make it ga a club higher of of as 130 women in attend- ance at the New Willard, and the Congressional Club, then definitely launched, has gone forward to or ganigtion, with officers, a constitu- tion snd by-laws--deawn ap by a committee of which Mys. Perkins was chairman--and all the other appurton- ances of a full-grown club, except a clubhouse. Mrs. Perkins has been clected presi- dent. Her fellow-oflicers ave: Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge. of Massachu- setts, first vice-president; Mrs. Wil liams, second vice-president; Mrs. Champ Clark, of Missouri, third vice: Jesislont; zs. Rosi x Dist, of % Montana, fourth vice-prefident, and it happenad that Bs erin Mrs. Kahn, fifth vice-president, hae pasced the first awful stages ; society. © And it hap happened, of course - 0 + every woman who receiv. tation was Hhewise blost, : Mrs. J. Sloat Fassett, of New York, is re cording secretary, and Miss Wood, sister of Representative Wood, of New Jersey, treasurer, 1 a woman's husband has ever Leen senator or representative, whether his wife became a © member 'or ree frained from joining until vears aftes his retirement from the post of na- tional lawmaker, she ix always eligible to membershin in the Congressional Clnb. In addition to the wives of congressmen, the constitution pro vides for the admission of the imme diate family of a congressman, and cof 100 women from among the inom on Jlinte families © of the government Lhaustion members of the cabinet, assistant gee. wa the | the organization, | should be studious | more ambitious | which | meet and to know one | Your Choos HH Fu/dora, The yearly dues of her relatives are 8 If a woman, by one | of oversights of voters which | often happen with regard to congress- fmen, isn't re-elected to Washington, Ishe still wears the glory of 'her for- ymer greatness, so far the club: is concerned, and she money, for, | as a member non-resident, her annual {dues are only #5, and she f club to come to whenever she | happen to be in Washington. | And lastly, the comfort of | timid souls dreaded complications, club bound by its constitution give au entertainment unless there is nigh to pay for it and still 1) cash in the treasury. Next fall, they're going to get | clubhouse. It was a coincidence that about time Mew, Verking invited Mrs. Wil linmes and the others to her residence, on New Hampshire avenue Mrs. Wi lams' daughter, Miss Julia F. Wil linms, asked to her home of Girard street some clode friends, pon b them Miss Bessie Lamb, of Virginik: Marian Chapman, of Uiinois and Miss | Blanche Stephens Cooper, of Texas; Miss Caroline Hub- Maine: Mids Hull, of lowa, and Miss Broadhead, of Pennslyvania Miss Williams and Miss Lamb were together in the idea of a club to be composes! of the damnghters fof members of congress, and nobody nobody shall ever, | dues of $25 | those as saves for who the is the financial solemnly never to leave Miss bard, of broaching knows to this daw jever know--whether it was Miss Wil liams or Miss Lamb who first thought the could minute Oe they thought of it was a good thing. sinply filled who sat back with their moth loves they it { Why, Washington was with the ldveliest girls, of apartment doors jers, waiting helplessly ly girls to baskets and for other drop cards in the wicker run awav acain, in the effort to keep up with the senatorial at-homes on Thursdays, and the at-homes on Tues- days, and the suprame aon Mondays, with the turning up on Wednesda a poor wirl's time in usele he might be fooming intimacies, were ters were esperate congressional court at-homes cabinet at-homes to take 3 ways when up some genuine that the daugh going to. start an onpost tion: to their mothers' club, and other which recaiyed. a when the unanimity of the daughters resulted in permanent organization, with Miss Lamb as presi dent, Miss Wilhams as first dent, Miss: Lona Tillman, Carolina, second vice pres Mabel Madden, of Hlinois, third vice president; Miss May Gregp, of fourth viee-president; Miss Chapman, recording seevetary: Miss Foster, of Vermont, corresponding soeretary Miss Stephens, treasurer, and Miss Helen Cannon, honorary pregident, Every was to pay 85 initiation fee and there was to be a dance at the Arlington, soon as they conld christen them selves, which should be an extremely swell dante indeed-with an orchestra of six pieces from the Marine band, no Joss, at 86 a man. Well, they consulted "their fathers cand all the other men they Knew, about the christening: and they had you can't imagine how many names urged upon them. Miss Williams' papa, Sahn Sharp Williams, of Miss tenn S who is 8 most learsed man, couldn't think of anything better than "The Junior Congressionals." But Miss Tillman knew a professor of Greek, over in Georgetown University, who thourht lene and deeply and fin- oe here ports nonsensical stories speedy quietus vicespresi- of South ident; Miss Texas, ane and £12 vearly dues, as If You Don't Sleep Well, It's beemmse your nerves are in a weak. irritable condition. Ferrpzone will make them strang and cortect the trouble that cpuses your insomnia. "Ldell vintola state of nervous ex it fall," writes Mrs. J. Btrowd, of Dexter. "1 wes run down, couldn' sleep. and perfoctly miserable spried Perrogone and was quickly T ean weommend Ferrozonn suffering from aver-staught a i, 3 Re -- hd a i the | Miss | Willie | | oaqual to the strdgle at! has her | does | Lr S20 the Archonides"" Mr. fo jealous, ally evolved tle, *The hastened to adopts fo learned and the Archonides was name, that he translated spot, and grumubled "Ut Archomides Aréhons,' the Hub | might well as the dnughters {" However, a {htt thing like could not worry. the Archonides--ac cent the ececqnd syllable, please and thev went tht *aliead, and had the loveliest Washington has en joyed on any mn springtune, And | next cannot, like build or buy surely going where very other ax positively lovely i which the club Williams was when he to the it on the heard he of the lawmakers, just 'olispring old Grecian mean the son 0 that on dance April evening any full, their a club to Ye can have own and learn to love their pap don't when the Archonides mother if aliord they to rent for their one house, rhe a home are they an HAS, In CONGress, sometime And perhaps, tried friends as Speaker Cannon Democratic House Leader Williams find themselves filleel with wrath over rules andstactics that neither can speak to the other and both can onl» think, "I hope you choke." while they turn the hateful back, the intimate friendships of Miss Julia Williams and Miss Helen Cannon may sufhiee to bring about again that peace between then which passeth There cannot fail to he Washington life evolution that + is going for that mang men of are looking to the capital as a permanent, {wo such old and wndding effects pred underat other upon in the social ware now wealth place 80 of prolonged, if not residence It may be that the ladies who first in the Congressional Club-and Archonidess-the means of mit'gat the evowded loneliness of the sea discerned also the possibilities of two factors which must necessarily de- termine the one dominant in for all ature time, subordination of all othe classes, howevegiwealthy and however regnant in their respective of orisin But that is something which ne char. ter member, and, least of all, Mes Perkins, president. of the Congression- al Chuly, will so mach as consent to discuss, BROW HUSBAND'S FINANCES. saw the ing son, Washington society | to the emphatic nlnces Wiie Should Know of Husband's Financial Affalrs. A wife who is ignorant of her hus- band' s hwhneial affairs occupies a dif 'ficult position, savs a writer. Shel never kitows if she is justified in any expense even 'for her home. I her husband has ndt begun his new life by placing her above the humiliation of asking for monev {or her needs she i= bound to vegr herself out in dread of mlusal . ¢ each réouestd. Each passing year infreases the discomfort of her position. and # hard times descend woon them twill (ind her un- It iv pot sordid in the least to discuss money matters before marriage. - Maney - 4% as much a necessity as Sood, gine it is needed for the purchase of that and etery bither thing 'wa nail, tol one, | and | vongressionnl circle as the | 908. sy Apes AS Comfortable the Year weather or hot, or there's a fabric of the right "feel™ and weight in Pen-Angle to make you most comfortable. Goods trade-marked with the Pepe Angle in red are sold to you with the understanding you get yous money back k if in any way defective. 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