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Show Official Organ of the Utah Federation of Womens Clubs, $1.00 VOL. IFIEJIR, BTJDBIiISECBJIO TEAB. EVEBY WEEK. SALT LAKE CITY, tfOVEMBEK 13, 1897 II. Colorado Club Women and the Biennial. The club season in Colorado opened October i. There was a quiver of excitement in the air, not wholly due to climate. This disturbance of the atmosphere was due to the intense enthusiasm attending all club women at that time; and every one is eagerly anticipating and preparing to share in the entertaining ot the General Federation of Womens Clubs which will visit Denver next June. Hospitality is particulary happy in Denver. Her citizens delight to open their hearts and homes from Occident to Orient. Neither the one hundred thousand visitors of the Grand Conclave of Knights, the swarm of the N. E. A. Association, the masses of the Christian Endeavorers, nor the Festival of Mountain and Plain have ever dismayed us. Surely we shall not quail before the august body of the General Federation, it they come in all their The Woman's might and glory. Journal will pardon a little boasting if we say that Denver is one of the most powerful club centres in the country. The nucleus of this power lies in the Womans Club, rapidly Her approaching 1000 members. mighty tributaries are her seven ded club, art partments, each a and literature, science and philosophy, reform, home, education, philan-throphand music. Outside of this there are twenty or more clubs of different character in this beautiful in city of 150,000 souls; seventy-fiv- e fair-size- y, the State, nearly all federated with State or General Federation; many with both. All of these earnest women workers are ready to assist in making this. Biennial the greatest event in the hisAdded to tory of womans work. this, the club women of the State have such profound confidence in their leaders and managers, that they feel its success assured. Like children we are looking far ahead, can hardly wait for the good things, and are eager to bring to our hearthstone, to paitake of our hospitality, the wise women of the East. The suffrage star, shining bright in Colorado, will be their guide Westward-ho- . Of the personnel of the Biennial social board, the president, Mrs. James B. Grant, is a leader who has been chosen with wisdom. She has the sweet graciousness and dignity of a daughter of a hundred earls. Mrs. Eli M. Ashley, chairman of State correspondence, Mrs. Frank Trumbull, treasurer of General Federation, Mrs. Mahlon D. Thatcher, president of the State Federation, are names which club women will universally recognize as a guaranty of success. In Mrs. Sarah L. Platt, our beloved president of the Womans Club, we have a tower of strength. She has a national reputation as a presiding officer, and is a ready, tactful, impromptu speaker on all subjects. It is marvelous to watch her genius in managing her small army of women. If our Eastern sisters desire to see a club of women, in which there has never been any friction to disturb its far-seein- g NO. 47. serenity, they must visit the Biennial and verify this statement. Each chairman of the local board committees is a woman of experience and social prominence, having good judgment and executive ability. The Womans Club Musical Department has already a chorus of fifty young girls in training to entertain our Biennial guests next June. Everything that can.be done for the comfort of body and mind in a social or literary way will be the pride and pleasure of the Colorado women. Since suffrage has become an assured success in Colorado, there are few Women think superfluous women. and work. If any practical work of n reform is projected, the t These are is chosen to execute it. the women who dare; who are broadclub-woma- ened and strengthened by suffrage. These are chosen to fill important positions, political, educational and philanthropic. All these things come to us, because the Western woman had pluck enough to insist upon her just and royal right. We trust that the new century will still be new when the will strong cord of womans freedom stretch from West to East, and thence around the world; a cord which will draw all hearts together in loving sympathy and helpfulness. We not only offer pleasant anticipan and those tions to the watching the issues of suffrage in Colorado, but we shall , be privileged through the promise of low railroad rates by prominent officials, to attract tourist. Woman's the scenic-lovin- g Journal. . . club-wome- . Grand Special Sale in Oar jVIillinery Department. . THIS IS YOUR C'HHNCE, . Supply Yourselves flow, N g W YORK CHSH STORE. |