SOCIETY OF WOMEN JOURNALISTS

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 397, 5 January 1909, Page 3

SOCIETY OF WOMEN JOURNALISTS

The party by the Society of Women Journalists on November 2, after their annual meeting," was a brilliant and a friendly little function (says an' English paper). Tho suite of rooms at the Gaioty Restaurant lend themselves admirably to such a reception, and Mrs. Humphrey Ward is a distinguished hostess'. In appearance Mrs Ward is tall and stately, with a very kind yet impressively clever face. She is always richly and becbmingly dressed, in herself a direct contradiction o£ Father Vaughan's recent strictures on tho modern intellectual woman Ope of tho busiest women of her day, sho has, ' crowded her life with interest- Her Jiterary output alone would bo sufficient for most women, when, in addition to this, it is mentioned' that she is chairman of, several oommittoes in connection with philanthropic enterprise, and that sho is tho originator and moving spirit of the "Schools for Play" for tho slum children' of London, some idea of her working life may be got. Many of "her friends and j most ardent'admirers she hacl not found time to include the AntiBuffrage League m her list of activities Mrs J. R Greeflj the new president- of the society, is another most womanly woman, Da.inty and fragile in appearance, jWith beautiful white hair, tho clinging grey dress, which'had the new sleeveless braided coatee, sho v wore was eminently becoming to Her i The widow of a great historian, herself an authority on Celtic legend and the everpresent Irish Question, witty in,speech and ready in repartee, one is not surprised to hear that Airs Green's houso in Gros.venor Road is the rendezvous of some of tho best intellectual and political society of the day. Tho wonien journalists are to be congratulated on their succession of presidents, it is a Jist of one distinguished name after another. ■ ' Mrs. Baillie Reynolds, who • was m''the Tooms for some time, is a pleasant and cheerful lady, very like one of her own heroines, giving you the same impression of quiet reserved force Miss Dolf Wyllarde, who camo early and stayed lato, is extremely unlike the somewhat advanced ladies who occupy the stage in hor sucoessful novels Petite and graceful, quiet in manner and speech, it is difficult to believe ,, that, she is an intrepid horsewoman, and that recently in California she penetrated into some remarkably rough country almost entirely unattended. Mrs. Charles Perrin, whose novel, "Idolatrj," is appearing m the "Times Weekly" supplement, is -tall and elegant, a notable figure wherever sho goes. Her tho thanks of the society to the retiring president, charmed all her listeners. Mrs Harold Gorst looked beautiful, as sho always does, and Miss Mary Openshaw, whose first novel, "The Loser Jays," is going into its 1 second edition, was* receiving the congratulation's of her hiends. - v • • i >-u >■