Show Ijiulie Literary Club Friday afternoon at the Ladies Literary Lit-erary club the first topic Current I Events was given by Mrs Witcher She spoke of the uncertain picket for financial leglsation in Congress and of the effort that Is being made to reach a compromise She quoted the Hawaiian minister as authority for he statement that Hawaiians do not want an English cable and five a brief account of their late uprising An interesting scientific experiment at Bridgeport Conn was noted where 4000 eyes were examined with the result re-sult that 65 per cent needed glasses This experiment showed that the period pe-riod during which glasses were most needed was between the ages of 20 and I 30 years Mention was made of a new bridge about to be built across the East river in New York of an exposition to be held at Atlanta Ga from September Septem-ber to December of the present year and of the > fleet which earAumiral MeakJo will soon he in command of This fleet comprises six or seven of our best battleship and is t largest gathered together under our flag since the rebellion Mrs Royle followed Mrs Witcher with an article on Pheldias in which great stress was laid on the characteristic character-istic ideality Ins works As Homer i was called the poet of the gods Phei iliac was called their artist He was born in the golden age of Pericles At the time of the greatest glory of Athens Ath-ens he conceived and executed the magnificent works which have made his name immortal He began his education ed-ucation in the regular technical school and afterwards studied in the Athenian Athen-ian art school In submitting to the exacting discipline of these two insti tutltons he was taught to obsy others and thus to make his own hand and imagination to obey him He was the companion and friend of statesmen and poets His three statues of Athene wero particularly mentioned Mrs Ranke reading a description of thane Parthenos His statue of Zeus perhaps per-haps his greatest work executed for the temple at Olympus was described I by Miss Shearman Mrs Royle closed her topic by telling how PheidJis vas thrown into prison where ht nit d en a charge of blasphtmy for picturing himself and his friend and patron Perlclcs as heroes fighting the gcds on the shield of Athene The next paper The Sculpture of the Parthenon was presented by Miss Wallace She described the architecture architec-ture and mythology which culminated in the tvonderful Parthenon t dedicated to Athens the invulnerable goddess of war The use of the building was explained ex-plained as more of a treasure than a religious house The different architectural architec-tural parts were pointed out from a large colored drawing of a portion of the building The history of the edifice was briefly told from its origin to its destruction by the Venetians The legends le-gends of some of the sculptures were mentioned notably that of Athene and Poseidom disputing for the guardianship I guardian-ship of Athens Miss Crawford described de-scribed the prize Miss Wallaces topic was here interrupted I inter-rupted by the annual discussion of the club on the work of the ensuing year It was decided to limit the membership member-ship to 100 members to conttnuei with J < j < > t the section work miscellany current events and current literature The History of Civilization as a continuous continu-ous study for the club was added Mrs Lyman Mrs Sells Mrs Woodward and Mrs Gilchrist were made honorary members |