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I think of you at every gathering, and if you remember me, show it in your determination to make the Woman's Press Club of Greater New York an honor to the metropolis of the New World and to American womanhood. J.C. CROLY. Hill Farm, Hersham, Walton-on-Thames, England. Letter to Sorosis May, 1899.
It was eminently fitting that one who had been stirred in former years by the absence of social recognition in journalism as within woman's province, on the part of the men of the press, and moved to take a prominent part in the formation of Sorosis, should organize a club of women writers women journalists especially which should be known everywhere as distinctly a Woman's Press Club.
Here I've been hunting a job until I wore out two pair of these Sorosis things and not a bush shakes. Can't even sign a contract for a Friday night amateur contest. By gum, I'd take a job barking for a snake race. I had an offer to go into vaudeville. What do you know about that?
I believe that her usefulness to clubs has been commensurate with the interest and gratification she had in the service. During the years of our acquaintance our intercourse was genial and concordant, and the results of our early work in Sorosis cannot equal the sweet satisfaction that came with its performance.
The second was a 'tea' given by Sorosis to the Press Club at which it reversed the order, furnishing all the speakers and allowing the men no chance, not even to respond to their own toast. The third was a 'dinner, the brightest and best of the whole at which the ladies and gentlemen each paid their own way and shared equally the honors and responsibilities."
Croly formulated in 1890 her well-matured plan for a general federation of women's clubs, and with the cordial assistance of the "Mother Club, Sorosis," issued the first call for representatives of women's clubs of all the States to meet. Stimulated by the success of the General Federation, Mrs.
Sorosis does not want place or power in the organization she created, but it is hers to see that the great principle it embodied is not lost sight of.
What is its value to the community and the world at large? It is, as a centre of unity. This is our Holy Grail, and this we are bound never to defame, or defile by thought, word or deed. We planted the seed not in Sorosis alone, but in the General Federation; and it is our duty to see that it is preserved in its integrity.
Had Sorosis started to do any one thing, from building an asylum for aged and indigent 'females' to supplying the natives of Timbuctoo with pocket handkerchiefs, it would have found a public already made. But its attitude was frankly ignorant and inquiring. It laid no claims to wisdom or knowledge that could be of any use to anybody.
It can be shown that a club or two of women had a titular beginning before "Sorosis," but that was the original society started by her on the theory that there were opportunities and conditions in club life, on an educational or literary basis, of which women could well avail themselves. Mrs.
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