Excerpt from The Woman's Club: A Practical Guide and Hand-Book

A warm lover of the Woman's Club as I am, I feel that I can do my sisters - widely scattered over our broad land - no greater service than to give them the "Open Sesame" to the most useful, as well as the most delightful, of modern "Institutions." To that end I have prepared this volume, aiming to present, not only an interesting account of the variety of ways in which the Club Idea has developed in our hands, but a practical guide in organizing and running a club successfully, with a working Constitution, and many hints and suggestions out of several years' experience.

If to old club members my suggestions seem unnecessarily minute, will they kindly remember that the book is not primarily for educated club-women, but for the vast army of women outside the charmed walls, and how clamoring to be let in. It is to these that I would "lend a hand."

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