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Show News and Notes of Women's Clubs DTSbBWATlSS to tli. biennial meeting meet-ing of tho Kational Federation of VVomcn'F dubB were elected at n mccllnp of tho LadicH tcrary Club. l-'rlday afternoon. The Ladles T.ltc-mry Hub is entitled three dHfratf;s on a batils of one dnlcjrHl foi fifty club members and one additional dclega-te for ach 100 members abovo flftv. The delegates selected Mrs. R. B. Critcblow, try. S. O. h. Nelden and Mrs. W. II- Rlntr. The altrnatr.3 are Mr.". Oeorsr F. ttohl. Mrs. A. B. Gibson anil Mrs. Georsc VC. 1;.. Dor Hey. u election committee, to have charge or the club election. May 10. was elei'tod as follows: Jin. "Y. J. TJarretto. Mrs. A . M. Drew and Mrs, Arthur Parsons. A proposed amendment to tho constitution, making the dues payable annually Instead In-stead of semi-annually, was lost. The programme for the afternoon was replete with good things. Mrs. John F. Howan presented an excellent paper on "Old Age and Dependent Pensions. ' Mrs. Cowan cited the plan of New Zealand for looking after Its aged poor as the Idjal on. The pensions are given In the! form of annuities and are raised through taxation. The fact that the I'nlted States government has no fund for the care of Its worthy poor who havn passed the age of self-support was deplored. Mrs. Cowan rrlticlscd and fallrized the Immense Im-mense amount spent by the government In war pensions, not that she was not In sympathy with the care of old soldiers, sol-diers, but that the pension list. Instead of being an honorary one. was now simply sim-ply governed by polities. She thought that a part, of the war pension appropriation appro-priation might well b used for th benefit bene-fit of the helpless poor. Tho present niAthods prevailing in this country of loohlns after its poor was condemned as barbaric and tho average almshouse wac characterized as little belter than a. Jail. Kven if the almshouse was attractive, as It could be made, there arc some whose pride would rebel at the Idea, of going to one, and It is the duty of the government to provide for this class of poor, who have spent their lK'cs In usefulness and are only prevented from working by old age. Mrs. E. B. Palmer rhva a charming and Instructive paper on "The Recent Movrmont for Wholesomcness In the Drama.'" The Ne theater of New York was cited as one example of an effort to uplift the standard of the drama. It had failed In a maurn, both from an artistic and rinnnclHl utaudpolnt, largely -on account of Its slse. The "little thea- Icr" huiit with the same purnoso Is still lu Its experimental stages, since It wns only opened jibout two weeks uo. It has sono to th other extreme In point of size, sine.? It seats only :00 people. The play now heln presented there. "John Gale-worthy's rlftcon," lias scored a. tremendous success1, although the critics hn.v. bfti sovcro upon It. Tho Dramatic IeHue of America, although less than two" years old, Mrs. Palmer said, has done wonders toward Improving the tone of the stage. This leajsue now hn8 a membership of 2'i.(H)0 from thirty different Flairs. The purpose of thi league Is (o crowd out vicious plays, to encourage the study of good drama and to create a permanent taste for It in the public. Membership furnishes access to bocks and magazine articles relating to tho best in drama, and bulletins are Issued upon plays which can be recommended. recom-mended. Bad plays arc passed unnoticed. The league ha been Indorsed by ihu National Na-tional .Federation of Women's clubs. Tho leading universities of the country also are contributing to Improvement in the stage by Instruction in the drama and the presentation of good plays In the? school auditoriums. Hopeful signs for the future of good drama, according lo Mrs. Palmor, were the facts that the suggestive French and so-:all)d "problem" plays were being re placed by the domestic drama that dealt with (he real problems of life. These plays are not always pleasanl. but their effect Is bcnetlclnl and wnolesomn. Among the few sermon pluys which have been n hucccfs, "Runty Pulls the Strings," "The Servant In the House" and "Tho Passing of the Third Floor Hack" were quoted as examples. The Irish Players in the Abbey theater, under tho direction of "Lady CJrogory." were strongly commended as contributing to the wholesome dramii. As to the criticism of immorality against stage folk. Mrs. Palmer said that while there were actors and actresses whosft private lives wer not tvhat thev should be, that no profession was free from that. Many noble and pure mn and women, she said, had blessed the drama, and she mentioned se.vcrul with whom she had liHd personal acquaintance. The, members of the theatrical profession possess the broadest sympathies and favor fa-vor anything which tends to elevate the stage. The prosp-cts for the wholesome-ness wholesome-ness of the drama of the future, Mrs. Palmer regards, are bright. Music wax furnished by MIsf Jeanelle Williamson, who gave, a pleasing piano number; Miss Romania Hyde. In two exquisite- violin selections, and Miss Stella Angoll. in two beautiful vocal selections. H The Women of the University of Utah will meet this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the kindergarten rooms at the university uni-versity The hontesses will bo Mrs. D. N. Straup. Mrs. Peterson. Mrs Pearson and Mi&s Scholcb. Headings will be given In- Miss Gladys Stewart and Miss J.ucllc Rogers. Miss Elmer Young will sing a solo and Miss Voung and Mlsa Edith Kingsbury will give a duct. c z The Brownlns section of tho .Ladles Literary club will meet at 1 o'clock today to-day with Mrs. S. O. S. Ncldcii, 115 P street. The American Woman's league will meet this afternoon at o'clock in the parlors of the Kenyon hotel. M A lecture was given Inst night by Dcan Ryron Cunnnlngs of tho Universltv of Utah at the Central Christian church on "Pompeii." The lecturn was Illustrated with stcreopticon slides. It was under the auspices of the Ladles Aid society of tho church. The Central W, C. T. U. mol Friday afternoon with Mrs. Ada Sellwood. 17 East First South street. It was a mother's moth-er's meeting', conducted hy Mrs. 10. L. Mark. Mrs. Mork gave a leaflet on "The Wnv to Bring Up Children." A solo was sung bv Miss Harriet Laney. "My Mother Proving For Me." Mrs. Anna L. Voting of the Juvenile court ga.vo a. talk on juvenile ju-venile court work. The work Mrs. Toung characterised as educational and snld that the court was tho friend instead in-stead of tbo enemy of tho child and strove to lead Us wards to better things. |