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Show TRUTH. 14 wo- this earnest and eloquent Mrs. C. J. Trescott, recording secre- to hear man . corretary; Mrs. Minnie H. James, StevenE. J. Mrs. sponding secretary; Ellis R. Shipp, hisThe womens clubs of Salt Lake son, treasurer;C. Dr. The Woman's club met in the city Mrs. Mary S. Mrs. Thomas, torian; , are interesting themselves in the pub-- L. Morris and Mrs. C. J. Trescott, were and county building Tuesday afternoon. lie questions of the hour; how they elected programme committee, with The topic for the day, "Acquired can best serve the good of the com- Mrs. Thomas in the chair. Mrs. Carrie Provinces, Poland, the C ossacks, FinThomas was elected delegate to the land, was assigned to Mrs. Jessup munity, .ciyic reforms and many other S. at Provo. her absence, and was ably handled by themes along these lines. To what State Federation Miss Jessup. better work .could their united efforts be directed . than to look to the wholeLay me down beneaf de wlllers in de some cleanliness of our cities, streets, grass, The Shakespeare section of the allies and. vacant lots? There is much Whah de branch ll go as it pass, Ladies Literary club met Wednesday room for beautifying spots that are An wen Is low, had now most unattractive. One place morning. The Parliamentary club Curkin hyeah it as it go I right in the heart of the town, al- Singin Sleep, my honey, tek yo res at a special meeting on Thursday. rent events section met on Friday ready belonging to the city might be las. made a pleasant resting place, while afternoon. ' me nigh to whah hit meks a little waiting for those cars sp long in com- Ijay DOOl, ing. We all know that ugly boarded-u- p An de watah stans so quiet lak an cool, place just west of; the old city hall, Whah de little birds in spring The College club met with Miss , right where a cool breathing p'ace Ust to come an drink an sing. would be a joy and delightful to great An de chillen waded on dey way to school. Goddard at 443 East First South street on Thursday afternoon. numbers during the heated summer shoulders me Fettle dey wen Let draps my months; and a restful place at atl times load in the 'year; ; Such a spot right in the enough to hyeah de noises in de center of town should not be tolerated Nigh road; An enthusiastic meeting of the Demotown like Salt Lake. in a live,' Fu I tink de las long res cratic Womans club was held WednesGwine to soothe my sperrit bes True, it Is expected that it will be sold in the hear future, but it has presented Ef Is layin mong de tings Is alius day afternoon at the residence of knowed. condition to passers-b- y its boarded-u- p' Sheriff and Mrs. Naylor. The session Paul Lawrence Dunbar. for some years, and may be many more Regarding the foregoing, Vicks was adressed by James C. Leary, City will pass 'before a permanent change is not WOUANS CLUBS. a-la- - - gb-ahe- ad can beiriade there. If the "village improvement idea would take hold in Salt Lake as it has among the womens clubs of Chicago, and many other Eastern towns of; various sizes and locations, great reformations would come that are, .sadly needed. - ' The Reviewers club met Monday afternoon at .the home of Mrs. C. E. Bennett. In compliance with the request of the General Federation that individual clubs, devote time an 1 thought to the vexed question of colored representatives, in order that they may intelligently Instruct their, delegates,, to the biennial to be held in Los Angeles, next April. The Reviewers accordingly arranged their ' programme to this end. Mrs. Bennett gave a very interesting paper on the life and work of Booker Washington, with many telling epigrams from the sayings of this great educator, one of which was The blacks should be judged by the best of their race, as other races are." The speaker told much of the Tuskagee training school and its success, and- also of the work of Mrs. Washington, and Mrs.. Bruce, widow of Bruce, who are both associate teachers and coworkers in this labor among the!r benighted people. Mrs. Wightman gave a vivid, forceful review of Hannibal Thomass book, "The American Negro," a pessimistic view of the whole race, viewing them as a mass of degenerates, with a few exceptions, Hannibal Thomas, himself of mixed negro blood, is most scathing in h!s bitterness as to the incapacity and inefficiency of his race. Mrs. wightman, who has lived in the South, was the better able to deal with this side of the question, and while she wished to view the suject in a fair, dispassionate way, was not able to take thq optimistic view of the former speaker. Mrs. Richards led the discussion, "Why should not the colored women's clubs be admitted to the General Federation? The ladies of the club discussed the question with much ardor over the teacups, and decision was taken by vote that the Reviewers club of. the stand f dr the colored women to the General Federation, believing with Booker Washington, that the blacks are not yet ready for equality. The Reviewers indorsed Mrs. Nelden as its candidate for president of the State federation. Mrs. F. A. Vincent was elected delegate of the club, to the State federation meeting at Provo.. - - non-admittan- cer what Family Magazine says: It be called a cheerful thought, but is embodies what most of us feel in our inmost hearts. We like the noises The writer. Paul in the road. Lawrence Dunbar, is a colored man, Attorney Stephens and Mathoniah Thomas. A resolution was passed in 1902 for pledging the club to work on the women of the' nomination H. Cohens resigMrs. J. ticket. county and received was as nation president young and gifted, and has ' held the acepted. of assistant regretfully position responsible librarian in the Congressional library at Washington, D. C. While he voices many of his thoughts in the dialect of A course of lectures of great educahis people, he has rendered many more in the choicest English. Not alone in tional value are to be given at the verse has he shown delicate thought Ladies Literary clubhouse every two and fancy, but he has written both weeks, on Saturday night, by the stories and books of fiction. Economic league, conducted by the Like Booker Washington, the eduof Chicago. The cator, Henry Tanner, the gifted artist, University association on Trusts, by was first given subject and the late Frederick Douglas, he of Hulbert Prof. Fuller Chicago, and his is for there shows how much hope followed an discussion the lecture. open race. on New will be the subject Tonight Zealand. At the national convention of the P. E. O.s, in session last week in Des SUCCEEDED CARVEL. Moines, la., a charter was granted to chapter A, Salt Lake C ity. This fraReaders who hope to find in Mr. ternal oarganization was Inaugurated Winston Churchills The Crisis (the in 1869, at Wesleyan university, Mount Pleasant, la., with but seven members. Macmillan company),a historical novel The sisterhood stands, to quote one of the accepted type will be sadly disappointed. Such stories are, as a rule, of the leading speakers of the convention, for friendship, fidelity and thrilling narratives of adveture, with a sisterly love. There is no more potent few familiar names and a date or two factor in the work than the Woman's thrown in to give them color. The club. Its social mechanism is u tilized best have one memorable episode for a background and a brilliant web of ficto develop charter and uplift the stand- tion woven into this dark woof. The ard of social intellectual and moral ex- quicker the tale is told, the better. cellence. There is need of the helpful The House of the Wolf may be justly influence considered a masterpiece of its kind. enlightening, broadening which association gives. Above all is club work, because it stands so much higher is our sisterhood, comprehending as it does, not only growth in knowledge and mental culture, but also individual growth in the charity that envieth not, thinketh no evil." Iowa leads in the number of chapters of the order. Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado are well represented by State organizations, while there are chapters in many cities quite remote from that section. Mrs. John Reed is the delegate from the Salt Lake chapter. mie-h- t . The National Household Economic which held its ninth anassociation, ' nual convention in Buffalo October 15th, 16th and 17th, had a most interesting programme. The speakers were men and women of world-wid- e reputation in the domain of home management, Domestic science and manual training. Among them were Prof. Atwater of the Agricultural department, Melvil The Reapers club held a business Dewey of Albany, Prof. Hughes of meeting on Monday afternoon at the Toronto, Mrs. Tyng of New York, of Denver, Colo., office of 'the1 Womans Exponent. The Mrs. Platt-Decker following officers were elected for the ensuing yeor : Mrs. Mary W. Wilcox, Mrs. Mary L. Morris, Miss Julia Druce, of general committee to L.take c harge chairMrs. Morris, Mary the club; man of the meetings for three months; Mrs. Henrotin and Mrs. Green of Chicago. Mrs. Lynda Hall Larned is the president of this organization and she is being urged strongly by Colorado women to come West. Should she ac-ce- ed to these requests, Salt Lake women will undoubtedly be permitted Mr. Churchills methods are wide! opposed to this accepted standard. He takes admirable care of his history and leaves his fiction to look after itself. His story opens in St. Louis some years before the Civil war, and the clash of the opposing principle and of the opposing interests whi h led up to that great event are minutelv and conscientiously described. Th digressions of such a narrative an necessarily Infinite. Political debates of magnitude, and in their day .. Importance fill up many pages. Political events are the only ones admitti--1 into the tale. When the characters converse, they talk solely upon p ollti-cthemes. The social aspects of iif.; are ignored. Even a girl's first bail is made subservient to the one great end, and becomes a vehicle for political agitation. It is not possible to tell a good story on these lines. A novelist has no business to go halting and skipping along a length of years; now chronicling every day, now leaping in breakneck fashion over many hundreds of days, and expecting his readers to jump after him like kangaroos. The difficulty of welding together history and romance lies mainly in the fact that they wont keep step. History either lags or rushes. Romance, when she is alternately pushed forward and held back so that she shall not fall out of line, is apt to lose her elasticity of gait. Mr. Churchill's characters are as carefully drawn as characters can be that have so little chance to develop. His heroine, Virginia Carvel, is the nicest kind of a girl. We are more than willing to accept her stately and radiant beauty in consideration of the fact that she is so simple and sensible and good. That she has two lovers. Stephen B rice, an Abolitionist, and Clarence Colfax, a Confederate officer, need hardly be told. Heroines of war stories always have a Northern and Southern lover, and always marry the former. It is understood and inevitable. In this case there is a third suitor, but he is the villian of the tale. His name is Eliphalet Hopper; his birthplace is Massachusetts; he rises to affluence on the wreck of Col. Carvels fortunes; plots to obtain the fair Virginias hand, and is foiled and kicked out of the room with that delightful promptness which is one of the compensations of novel reading. His ignominious exit and the triumph of the splendid young Brice should work up very well when the book comes back to be dramatized. The figure of Abraham Lincoln is sketched delicately and with mush sympathy, though in rather a plaintive vein. If the great President had his troubles, he had his pleasures, too, and enjoyed them healthily. To refer tohim as crowned with thorns and carrying a cross is in questionable taste. Moreover, if the tiiumph of a just cause does not bring gladness to the heart of a man, what shall make him glad? Agnes Heppier inSaturday evening Post al OFFERS CHOICE OF trains daily-- 3 Three Distinct Scenic Routes. 3-fa- st THROUGH AND PULLMAN PALACE AND ORDINARY SLEEPING CARS TO Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, without change, free reclining chair cars. A personally conducted excursions. PERFECT DINING CAR SERVICE. For rates, folders, etc., inquire of nearest Ticket Agent specifying the Rio Grand Route, or write GEO. W. HEINTZ, Aaat. General Passenger Agent, Salt Lake Cltj |