Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1915 — WOMEN WANT A CLUBHOUSE [ARTICLE]

WOMEN WANT A CLUBHOUSE

Efforts In Tacoma Are Worth Imitation In Every Town and City In the Country. The clubwomen of Tacoma, Wash., are making a quiet but .consistent effort to have a clubhouse. Their association has already more than SI,OOO in its treasury, and is constantly adding to the fund by means of entertainments, sales, subscriptions, etc. Tacoma has a larger number of women affiliated in clubs than any other flty in the state in proportion to its population, yet it has no clubhouse. In Seattle the clubwomen have a fine structure that fills many wants as a place for lectures, concerts, regular club meetings and a central gattiering point, uniting the interests and efforts of women. Bellingham has two woman’s clubhouses, and Olympia has a woman’s clubhouse that serves many needs in the capital city. The Tacoma women feel certain that their activities and their usefulness in civic life would be increased had they a meeting place of their own. The experience of other cities has taught them that, outside the initial expense of purchase or erection of a building, the revenues from rentals make such a clubhouse self-supporting after it is once completely paid for.