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Show r II Dews of ifoeltfomans Clubs H :5F r-j-i HE Icadins event in club circles jffi i- I the coming week will he tho a I open inpctinc of tlm Colleco ?; ' J. cltib with Miss Lena Hague, at .; the residence of Mrs. M". II. fm : Walker, 610 East South Templo, Satur. jjs i dny afternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock. Tho Ju "f meeting will be in the form of :i musical tea. Tho hostesses will be inembcrH Of '' the club who huvo not entertained tho 3, i club during the year. All nro invludod Xi in the foll.ow.iiu: committees: Arr.-uigo-mcnts 5fiss Alice E. Uowo; reception .Miss Helen Boxrud. Mra. A. J. Gor- VA 1 ham, MiB.s TCoso Cnfisidy, Miss Lona j;V UnRMO, M5sh Mary Robinson, Mrs. J; ;; Byrnes, -Miss Alice E. Howe; refresh- 2tf mcnt Miss Gr;we B:iiley, Mrs. George m ' E. Merrill. Mrs. 13. F. Ott. Mrs. M. A. i Daufilierty; music Mrs. G. V. Luwry, !i Miss .Minnie Cassidy und Misa Kiuhcr- J ino Forrester; dinine room Miss Dan- 'Hj iels, Miss Honors, Miss Ann Eutoti, flEWi Mrs. f. J Albauch. Mies Lois ITart-man. ITart-man. Miss Mary Paull. Mrs. A. V. Tay- W&f lor. Miss Dora liopuo. Miss Mills, Miss Sm Tilly HusselbiTjr, Miss Mildred Powers, K ( Miss Helen Banflcld. Miss Ilallio Pettj- fm 'I hone and Mis.: Cora Clark. The follow H ft inr musical programme will bo carried ffiB S out: Piano solo. Miss "Mills; vocal solo. SB $ Mm. A. S. Peters; violin solo, Mrs. G. V. Lawry: vocal solo, Miss Helen Box-rud; Box-rud; piano solo, Miss Eleanor Merrill; SoWK' vocal solo, Mrs. A. S. Peters; orcan SPR solo, Mrs, M. H. "Walker. J Two hundred invitations have been Eg) issued to the club members and their Sgj ; friends, :J f. rs SucPnr(l ou Suffrage. X The Madison Democrat of Madison, 3Jg '3 Wis., contains the account of a speoch t made by Mr. E. E. Shcpard ot this 33 A city in tho interest of suffrage for ' 4" women, which will be submitted to a I tijfl S vote in Wiscousin the coming fall. One 'wfi paragraph snys: '-The speaker also spent conaidcrablo time in to.f.ng j& 1 tnc Ellcco-s of e(lU!l1 suffrage in Utah. 3f i Sl1' tn!lt wo,ncn there do not dc- ' 'm privo men of many public ofncds; in '-ffi fact, voi'3' few women hold eloctive po- 'S I sitions. There have been but. two wo- if iiicu in the state legislature and one Kijg bcnator. But whore thoy do enjoy ad- liijm vantage is in the power to aid in the f iclcction and the election of pood men fl i for public servants." i-;'J I History of Federation. A history of the Federation of Worn-i Worn-i en's clubs will prove especially inter-f inter-f 1 entintr in view of the biennial mooting ' s of the federation in San Francisco in -.' J June and the visit of many of tho dolts. " 1 sates to Salt Lake ou their 'way to the f coast. j.; hi March, 1S6S, the Press club of .-Jf Z Now York was offcrine to Charles '( Dickens a compliinentury dinner. ".Icnnie .luue," at that time a well .1 known author and newspaper writer, .., requested a ticket. A cnurlishly word- :5 ') ei refusal to admit her, because she ', 'i was a woman as well as to admit other Am y women of some literhr ability brought idiil ;. into existence tlie first woman's club, i ' the Sorosis. Wm ' . Alice Gary was its first, president, Mm ; Phcbo Parv, Kate Field of tho Tribune WW s. and "Jennie Junu" of the World were fy 'f anione the first members. Ej.' . Many were the arguments against W.'V the advisability of women belonging to n. i clubs, most of them based on tho neg-n$ neg-n$ r. lected children and disorderly homo, so '3'; ? that the couflict. of opinion among tho 7 jf public no wore upun tho nerves of its 'r. lirst president that she resigned at the W i oml of the week. f It. was to celebrate the twenty-first 'fjrf. '' nnniversarv of its founding that a call was made by Sorosis in a convention i of clubs throughout the United States, Jk to be held in 2srew York, March 3, 1889. W J v Sixty one out of a possible seventy-five fffj V dabs sent delegates and a year lator M k ) h rntilication convention for the cousti-W. cousti-W. h p tution of the General Federation of 'i I i Women's clubs was held in New York, llr I and the first group of national officers $ : i were' elected: -Mrs. Charlotte Emerson K - J Brown. Mrs. Muy Wright Sowall, "Jen-W "Jen-W ;r uic June." Miss May B, Templo and Jm Mrs. Phobo A. Hearst. 2H ) The membership is mado up of worn-W worn-W J, oil's clubs, state federations, territorial W ( federations and kindred organizations. K"o organization is admitted 'hich re jB' (" quires anv sectarian or political teat dB of nierabership or is a secret society, w , e OJono of its member may be nffiliated mj .l with any organization which tolerates WF ! anv violation of national or state laws. Yi X 'I'hu first biennial convention was . held in 1302, Chicago, Philadelphia, .a N Louisvillo. Denver. Milwaukeo, Los An-"Mil. An-"Mil. , coles. St. Louis. St. Paul, Boston and Cincinnati having in turn served afa tmW' i hostesses. Besidos the work dono ai-Vfc- rectly through state committees the JVM ; federatiou has its national departments ft'w 'r, of art, civio.s, civil service Toforni, con- ' servation, cducutiou, household ocono- 1 raics. industrial and social conditions; lcciHlation, literature, library oxtousion, i music and nublic health. . Pr U has a bureau of information which U ff, hctweou two biennials sent out 22,000 .; letters, more than (5000 packages, bookB and mutorlal. ('lube apply to tho bu-Li bu-Li , nm for study outlines and are provid-)JM provid-)JM ' ed from a collection for 4000 outlines flfVi 4 on different subjects sent to the bureau : through tho generosity of tho individ-i individ-i ual clubs, and club women, editors and Dublishers. f! Most interesting and vitally alive i a Pieces of work are carried to comple- v.f, i tioo by the state federation, and a ro-r ro-r .A . port will be given before thoir dele-r dele-r . ;. gates reach here in June. -v. Tho chairman of the citizens' com- Jp 'iL mittco. -when welcoming tho delegates Jm Hi 1010 at Cincinnati, aid- "when M wo invited you to hold your meeting at II B Cincinnati wo men kne.w as much about M 'H a biennial as wo did about Hajlev'fl M W J?mot and cnrcil Ices." And probably 1 ;B- "e women in general knew but little III W luoro- Ycl- of ,n larc organizations lul S "5 influence can be and is most po-lUl po-lUl 9 lentIv felt. There aro fifty state fodo-flUl fodo-flUl B P1'10"8' l000 clubs, -170,000 active mem- III B iors- 500,000 afilliatod members, women IJipV o' ueraouality, wit, skill and wealth 11 M W.' are "nit'ed from diverse social en-W en-W ffl wl' ",rt)DDcnts, creeds, uuthusinam and (l fl pre-iulicea in tho general body of dofi- J B ?-to aims "wonder the pure food AMi9 jy Passed after the prosaure tney Vh mk i ,fc is t,lc nity i diversity (the dfffl ictlonition motto), the remarkable team ' ' m- P1' tnnt moat rcdouudfl to the credit fWk, thoir impetuous womanhood. iSlB' Biennial Noto3. A; Tho womon's clubs of Ogdon havtf rwM; "fined among school children an mtor-IK mtor-IK yting league known as Loague or 'Wm ood Citizenship. Tho only require-gSm, require-gSm, jnont is to make Ogden a clean and .Wm beautiful oity and to take an ncttvo ;K 5art in an annual municipal clean-up V tlav on Arbor day. Tho members agree SjB. fiot to throw down any paper, fruit or Jfimj fubbish. not to inn'uro property and tp ;jSm fPBorve nil the city ordinanccB. A mMtW ieuo button has been prepared for If VI treeChildr0n in th COlra W MHr T t, Tno Ladies Literary club of Ogdon MV t V ta offered two prizes, one o $o and f ne of $2,50, for tho two best, essays ; K ? students and tho sub-high school on f K i?e aubjoct. "Why Ogden Iseodn n f ' . ""nicii.al Glenn ing Day." . . K 12 wnd 13 ,,avc been apP,nle Mrs. Ira D. Travis, New President of tbo College Olub. Which Will Have an Open Meeting Saturday. bv the mayor as a municipal cleaning days, and the mayor, cit3' councilmen and board of education have given tbo league their hearty indorsement. Tho circular to tho citizens of tho town ends with these pertinent remarks: First Dirty yards cause flies, sickness, sick-ness, death. Second Old tin cans hold water; water breeds mosquitoes. Third Rotten garbage makes bad air. bad air makes weak bodies, weak-bodies weak-bodies make big doctor bills. The league has received the enthusiastic enthu-siastic co-operation of tho newspapers. Why not start one in Salt Lnko City? The Marion hotel of Ogden will be tho hcadauarters for the entertainment of the delegates to the biennial passing through Oedcn. The Weber club is to furnish a booklet book-let illustrating the attractions of Ogdon. Og-don. ProgTammo for Year. Tlie Utah state society. Dauchters of the Revolution has arranged Its programme pro-gramme for the comlnpr year of the society, so-ciety, which onons In April. Tho annual an-nual mcctlnpr and the election of officers was held In March. The programme for 1012-10J3 follows: April. 1912 AMERICAN COLONISTS. "French In Canada" Elizabeth S. Cartwrlsht "EnRllBh In Now lOnsland" Isabel M. W. Sears "Dutch In New York" Elizabeth R. Wrlcht "Spanish In morlda". .Phoebe- Y. Beattle May. 1912 RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN AMDRICA. "Colonlal Period" Clarissa B. Williams "Revolutionary Period" ..Lucy W. Smith "Rebellion Period" Zlna Y. Card "The Present Day" ....Myra Y. Rosslter Juno, 1IU2 COMMEMORATING FLAG DAY. Entertainment of Matilda Evans chapter. Greeting Stato Rejrcnt ResponsfT Chapter Rejrcnt "The American Flat:" (Drako) Clarissa Y. Spencor "The Star Spangled Banner." with Its history Carol Y. Cannon September, 1012 "The Evolution of the American Navy" Alice M. Home "Old Ironsldos" (HolmeH). and other appropriate pooms.. Maria Y. DoiiRall October. 1.012 Historical relics, accompnnlod with photOKraphs and mementoes..... , ...Abble Wells Mimical nelectlons. .Mrs. Junius F. Wells Novembor. 1912 "The Story In Brief of the Five New England Colonies" Elizabeth Tl. Pratt "Pilgrim Fathers" . . . .. .C'Rthclrne Wells "PIlKrlm Mothers" Ella W. Hyde January, 1913 "The Lincoln Memorial" , Julia A. F. Lund "Abraham Lincoln" (Lowell) , Dlnna F. Rich February. 1913 Meeting and nrorrammo under tho direction di-rection of the Junior auxiliary. March, 1913 Election of officers. The n-' officers of the aocletr aw: Regent. Catherine Wells; first vice regent, re-gent, Emllv C. Wlllcy: second vice regent. re-gent. Sarah F. Smith: recording socro-tary. socro-tary. Abblo Wells; assistant recording secretary. Elizabeth R. Wright; corresponding corre-sponding secretary. Julia P. M. Farns-worth; Farns-worth; treasurer, Julia F. Lund; registrar. regis-trar. Elizabeth R. Prutt; historian. Elizabeth Eliza-beth R Cnrtwrlght: chaplain. Emmellno 73, WcIIh; press committee, Myra Y. Ros-altcr; Ros-altcr; hocIo! committee. Zlna Y. Card. Emily Y. Olawson. Clarissa S. Wllllains: director of Junior nuxlllary. Alloe M. Home: assistants. Clarissa Y. Snencor. Lucy W. Smith, Clarissa S, Williams; nrotrratnme commlttoo. Emily C. Wllley. Ella W. Hydo. Abblo Wells. Announcements, Tho poets' soction of the Ladioa' Literary club will meet Monday aftor-uoon aftor-uoon with Mrs. Oscar Cox. 22 Wall street, Capitol Hill. The second act of "llernani" will be read. The Seekers ' club will havo a forestry for-estry programme Tuesday afternoon, in a inoeting with Mrs. Lovell, 104 N street. Information about troos wall bo the thomo of tho after-noon. after-noon. M. B. C. McCulIow & a paper ou "Xat.ve Trees ot Utah." Music will also be a feature- Tho P B O. sisterhood will jneot Raturdav' afternoou with Miss Lylo S. Winunor. (301 East Third South street. Tho p?ogrammo will be furnished by Miss Etta Powers. m Tho Wasatch Literary club will j mnnt TueBdnv afternoon with Mrs. George F Wanless. 1130 Roosevelt wanij Mrs Wanleas will be assisted by Miss Wanless. Papers wl I be .nveii bv Mg. Earl Dunsheo and Mrs. E. nnuxhurst. Tho Bav View Rcadincr club will be home. 1111 Second avenue. 'ni, -irt qpction of tbo Ladies Litor-ar? Litor-ar? cU U" 'nc"t Wednesday morning 1 at 10:30 o'clock at the club house. The1 "Lombard School' will be taken up.! Mrs. E. O. Leo will give a paper on "Luini" and "Solario." Tho current events and current literature liter-ature section, of tho Ladies Literary club will meet Friday afternoon at tho club houso. Mrs. Arthur Parsons will nive a review of "Tho Glory of the Conquered," by Susan Keating Glas-. pell. Tho ladies of Lynda chapter No. l,i Order of tho Eastern Star, will enter-1 tain at cards in tho ladies' dining room at the Commercial club Monday after noon from 2 until fi o'clock. K Tho tourists' section of the Ladies' Literary club will meet Tuesday morning morn-ing at the club house. "Versailles" will be discussed by Mrs. L. C. Miller and "Fontainoblcait" by Mrs. Joseph Eodgera. The Cleofan club will meet Wednea-dav Wednea-dav afternoon with MrB. Seldon I. Clawson. 170 B street. "Alfred Stevens Stev-ens and Other Artists" will be discussed dis-cussed by Mrs. II. L. A. Culmor. Tho Missionary society of the First Methodist church will meet Tuesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. P. A. Dix. 1111 Second avenue. The lesson les-son from tho "Conservation of Na tional Idoals" will 'o led by Mrs. Em-erick Em-erick and soveral othors will give readings. read-ings. The civic section of the stato fedc ration of women 's clubs will meet Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Y. W C. A. rooms in the Continental bank building. A representative from the Association of City Clubs and also from the decoration committee of the entertainment committee for biennial visitors, are asked to bo in attendance. It is the purpose to start a concerted movement in a "C'itv Boautiful" campaign cam-paign for Salt Lake. The Ladies Missionary meeting of the First Presbyterian church will bo entertained bv Mrs. Black and Mrs. Howe on Tuesday at 2:.'?0 p. in. at the homo of Mrs. l?owe, 123 U street. , r. Tho Y. W. C. A. board of directors, will moot Friday morning at 10.30 at tho rooms in the Continental bank building. Tho Salt Lake Civic club will meet. Monday nfternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Unity hall. Miss Amy Eaton will give an address on "Eugenics." All interested inter-ested aro inyited to attend. Tho mat-tor mat-tor of ouirenies will soou be brought up in Utah for legislation. Olub Notes. The Froobol society enjoyed a rare treat Tuesday afternoon and everting in tho entertainment of Miss Ella Chase, at her historic home, Ohaso Eark, near Centorvillo. When the mom-ers mom-ers of tho society arrived about 5:110 o'clock they were shown over the house and grounds. The house is a veritable storehouse of historic relics and tho grounds arc boginninc to abound in spring flowers. Miss Mary Fox, nresi dent of tho society, told of kindergartens kinder-gartens sho had visited in a recent trip to California, iu a delightful talk. Dinner was served at 7 o'clock from a long table, lighted by candles in old fashioned caudclubra A bowl of rod roses formed a center pioce and bunches of violets wore ut each plate. Covers wore .laid for thirty-two guests, members mem-bers of the society. The hostesses bo-sides bo-sides Miss Chase were Mrs. J. M. Snow, Mrs. L. 0. Young, Miss Mvrtlo Wallace, Miss Boulnh Woolcy, "Miss Swan and Miss Glenn Thompson. They were assisted in serving tho dinner by four nieces of Miss Chase, who wore Dutch caps and aprons, Tho music section of tho Ladies' Literary Lit-erary club carried out n delightful programme pro-gramme Wednesday afternoon at the club house. The selections, with the oxcoption of one Grieg nurabor, wero from Wngnor. Tho programme was in charge of Mrs. Walter G. Tuttle. Thosoj who took part were Miss Emma Brown, I Mrs. Frank Browning, Miss Minnetto Baor, Mrs. A. S. Potors. Miss Helen , Hartley, Miss Marian Mathews and Miss Virginia Canthor. w t Tho regular monthly meeting of the Central W. C. T. U. Friday nfternoon at tho homo of Mrs. Ada Sellwood, 47 East First South, wns a mothers' meeting meet-ing in charge of Mrs. E. E. Mork. Mrs. Mork rend an article on "The Wnv to Bring Up Children." Miss Harriet Lnnoy sang a polo and Mrs. Anna L. Young gnvo a talk on the work of the juvenile court, which she declared to be eduratuyuO, with tho purposo ofi I training children that come within its jurisdiction into higher ideals. The next meeting of tho imion will bo with Mrs. W. F. Core, .1033 Second avenue. The theme will be " Anti-Narcotics. ' 9 Delegates to the biennial meeting of the jjcnernl federation of women's clubs were elected by the Ladies' Literary Lit-erary club in a meeting Friday afternoon. after-noon. The dclcrntes are Mrs. E. B. ritehlow. Mrs. S. O. S. Nclden and Mr. W. 11. Binf.. The alternates. Mrs. Ucori'p F. Stiehl, Mrs. A. B. Gibson and Mrs. George W. K. Dorsey. An election committee to have charge of the election of officers for the club May 10 wa rlctod as follows: Mrs. W. J. Barrctte. Mrs. W. M. Drew and Mrs. Arthur Parsons. An exceptionally entertaining programme was carried out. Mrs. John F. Cowan presented the topic of "Old Ago and Dependent Pensions." in an understanding wny. Mrs. E. B. Palmer cleverly handled the "Recent Movement for the Wholesome Drama.-' vellmt nMisic fur nished by Mips Jeannctty Williamson, pianist: LI lys Bomania Hyde violinist; and Miss Stella Ancrcll. vocalist. w The missionary sociclv of the Central Cen-tral Christian church was entertained Thursday afternoon bv Mrs. A. T. Mc-Oannc. Mc-Oannc. 120 U street, 'assisted bv Mrs. K. U. Dorman. "India" was the topic top-ic for discussion and was intorcsf.indy handled bv Mrs. C. D. Perkins. Mrs. Philip Schnnert and Mts. Charles Zimmerman. Zim-merman. Music was furnished by Mrs. E. G. Waldron. Mrs. Byron Groo Grave a paper ou "The Restored Bourbons" in a meeting meet-ing of the historv section of the Ladies' La-dies' Literary club Thursday morn-mg. morn-mg. . The Browninir section was entertained yesterday by Mrs. S. O. S. Neldcn on P street, Luncheon was served at 1 o 'flock, followed bv (he reading of "The Ring and the Book." "Modern Dutch Artists" were discussed dis-cussed by Miss Emcliue Wells, in the regular weekly meeting of the Cleofau club. Wednesday afternoou. with Mrs. Eugene T. Hills. An interesting programme was pre sontod at the celebration of the annual an-nual presidents' day of the Woman's club with Mrs. W. 1L Jones, Tuesday afternoon. The goneral topic for discussion dis-cussion was "A More Liberal Uso of Our Public Property. ' ' Addresses wero made by Prof. A. C. Nelson, Mrs. A. J. Gorham, MrB. Antoinetto B. Kinney, Kin-ney, tho Bov. P. A. Simpkin and City Commissioner George D. Keyaor. Music Mu-sic was furnished by Miss Helen Rhodes, Miss Frances 'Hahn. Miss Lucille Lu-cille Iiolman and Miss Susanno Stead-man. Stead-man. Light refreshments wero served. Tho Francos E. Willard W. C. T. U. held an open meeting Thursday night i at the Liberty Park Methodist church. The church was prettily decorated in potted plants and cut "flowers. The! principnl address of tho evening was delivered by Judge. Alexander McMaa- tor, of the" juvenile court. Others on the programme wore MLss Ethel Gill and Miss Georginna Robertson. Music was furnished by the Sunday school orchestra of the Liberty Pari: church. Light refreshments were served at the close of the programme. The Woman's Republican club held a MiccCRsfiil card party Thursday afternoon af-ternoon at the home of Mrs. F". C. Loofbourow. Tin- prococds were devoted de-voted to tl"c; building fund aud the contingent fund. The Spirit of Liberty chapter, Daughters of tho American devolution, held its regular monthly meeting on Thursday afternoon with Mrs. F. L. Dodge, "on Third avenue. Tho pro- era mine was in charge of Mrs. S. S. Mapgood and consisted of readings bj' Mrs. Anna Adums aud music by Miss Helen Hartley, violinist, accompanied by Miss Elizabeth Allen, cellist. The daughters of the members of the Gerinania club have organized the Ger-mouia Ger-mouia Junior society. The purpose of the club is to give practice in the speaking of German. One of the rules is that ull conversation must bo in German. The officers of tho club arc: President, Miss Ada Blank; vice president. presi-dent. Miss Elsie Aure.s; secretary and treasurer. Miss Paulino Staab. The next meeting will be at the homo of Miss Lillio ISIiason, 224 Iowa avenue. The Utah Woman's Press club held its monthly meeting at the Bishops buildinir Wednesday evening. A number num-ber of invited guests were present. Mrs. Marcuerite Blake read tho minutes min-utes of the previous meeting. Miss Amy B. Eaton gave an interesting paper pa-per on "Eugenics," the term applying to the scientific mating and improvement improve-ment of the human race. Tho lad' also quoted from Ibsen on the immportance of defects, sayinc the sins of tho father fa-ther shall be visited on the children. Miss Afton Young read a clovor paper on the "Women of Tomorrow," citing that, a life of useful activity can carry a woman out of the struggle for exisi-once, exisi-once, also that what woman needs is independence; that she should be paid in proportion to her labor as a man. Lo Grando Buchman gave a piano splo, boautiful in technique and expression. Miss Cecil Burns sang an Indian, hil-labv hil-labv with much rare sweotnoss, nccom-paniod nccom-paniod by Sammy Williams. |