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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