THE CINCINNATI TIMES-STAR
December 6, 1904
SOCIETY.
scans from newspaper collection
of
Ruth
Adams-Battle
transcribed by Dorothy
Wiland

ARRANGEMENTS ARE COMPLETED.
Quarters for Women at Queen City
Club to Open With a Ball.
Social Function Will be Held Tuesday
Night at Noted Club House.
New Quarters Described
for the First Time and Wives of Members Will Be Delighted with Their
Beauty.
In its new ladies’ department,
which will be opened with becoming pomp and ceremony Tuesday night, the
Queen City club has achieved a piece of building and decoration,
together
with all sumptuous furnishings appropriate, of which every member of
the
club may feel distinctly proud. The Building committee endeavored
to combine space, comfort and beauty, and succeeded in its
intentions.
The new department is large, the decorations are uniquely beautiful,
yet
fully appropriate, and a delicious sense of homeliness pervades the
rooms.
This homelikeness was the particular desire of Mr. Frank Comstock, the
chairman of the House committee, who has given much thought and
personal
attention to the building of the new addition.
SPACIOUS COUCHES
deep chairs and lounging places
invite you to long restful stays within the soft-lit rooms. The
wide
hall which you enter from the street has all the inviting air of
splendid
home, and from it you catch your first glimpse of the new dining-hall—a
charmingly beautiful room, encircled by stained glass windows above its
panels of green and oak. Pillars of fluted oak define the way to
this room and also add to the beauty of its interior. The
daylight
filtering softly through the translucent tints of the windows is
enhanced
by the effulgence from the electric bulbs which, concealed, encircle
the
ceiling. The carpet is of green and the same floor covering
extends
throughout the rooms.
THE WALLS OF THE
HALLS
are done in burlap,
deep red in tine, the same color carried up to the ceiling of the
coffee-room,
where the broad freize(sic)carries a rich decoration of purple grapes
hanging
in clusters and outlined with swinging vines and broad leaves of their
own kind. The walls of the coffee-room beneath this freize are
paneled
in red-bronzed leather and the dark green wood of the Arts and
Crafts.
The Rookwood mantle in green tiles, with copper shield and Verde
antique
andirons is the masterpiece of the room and of the new quarters.
The motto above the fire-place reads:
GOOD FRIENDS, GOOD
CHEER, GOOD FIRE
And the sentiment is fully
carried out in the atmosphere of the room. The chairs and couches
are done in heavy mannish effects in tapestry and leather, and it is
expected
that this will speedily come to be the most popular room in the
club.
Here it is that you can go with your womenkind and your demi-tasse and
smoke and talk after you have dined. The whole club will be en
fete
for the housewarming and ball Tuesday night. The club will serve
a sumptuous supper and between three and four hundred guests are
expected.
Mr. M. E. Ingalls is president of the Queen City club and Mr.
Frank
Comstock chairman of the House committee, whose other members are Mr.
Will
Irwin, Mr. George Dana, Mr. L. A. Ault, and Mr. C. H. Burton. Mr.
Will. Irwin is chairman of the Reception committee for Tuesday night.


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