National Affairs: Club Life

In Washington, D. C, is the Congressional Club, composed of women of the Congressional set. Wives of Congressmen have always been ipso facto eligible for membership, have even been urged to join when they showed lack of initiative. But last week, Mrs. Albert H. Vestal, wife of the Indiana Representative, offered an amendment to the club's constitution which, if passed at a general meeting on Feb. 6, will make it possible for the club's members to thwart the election of women whose right to belong has hitherto been unquestioned. The amendment provides that the...

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