In those clubs, he declared, their own wives and daughters were listening to addresses by the worst enemies of the Manufacturers' Association, the labor leaders.

By which he meant that the club women were inviting trade-union men and women to present the worker's side of industrial subjects.

"Soon," exclaimed Mr.Kirby, "we shall have to fight the women as well as the unions." The richest and most aristocratic woman's club in the country is the Colony Club of New York.

The Colony Club was organized by a number of women from the exclusive circles of New York society, after the manner of men's clubs.

The women built a magnificent clubhouse on Madison Avenue, furnished it with every luxury, including a wonderful roof-garden.