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Show NEW irrespective of creed or station, find congenial occupation and satisfactory entertainment, and indeed enjoy a feast of reason and a flow of soul Some change was made in the officers at the annual meeting, October 31, 1892. The badge representation of the club is to be a gold bangle the sie of a five dollar gold piece, with the letters U. W. P. C. raised upon it. The motto is not yet decided upon, but will be at the next meeting, December 30th. The Club gave an entertainment to a select number of friends in Liberty park during the summer, at which time gentle men were invited, and a speech from the popular editor and woman suffrage advocate, C. V. Penrose, Esq , was very much appreciated and enjoyed. A number of humorous articles were read, which added to the pleasure of the picnic. These were poems by members of the Club, Mesdames Dickinson, Fox and Richards. It is expected that the U. W. P Club will shortly become connected with the International Federation of Press Assoout-do- ciations. Gladys YEARS, members 1 he club is limited to forty and no honorary members are permitted Miss Lottie Webber was the first president, and Miss Grace Young, now the first presiding officer, succeeded her. The objects are Art and Literature Two or three topics are presented each meeting, and once a month a lecture is given by some artist or professor. In this way the members are making rapid advancement. The Womans Club of Salt Lake City is a new organization which has grown out of Mr. Edmund Russells lectures here on art, decoration, etc. It meets every Tuesday morning at eleven a. m , at Miss Wells studio. Besides these there are many other clubs of young women and girls working together for mutual benefit and help as well as socially. The old Spanish proverb that three working together are equal to six is no doubt true; certainly more can be accomplished by a dozen together than each one working separately at hap- hazard. VVoodmansee, Recording Secretary. Other Clubs. TTMONG the oldestof the woman's CM& dubs, and perhaps the most ably conducted one, is the iauics' Literary Club, of Salt Lake City. It was formerly entitled the Blue Tea, and has been in existence some where near twenty years. The membership is limited, and the ladies connected with it are nearly all women of superior This society has become conability. nected with the federated clubs. The Nineteenth Century Club of Provo is of a similar character, though much more recently organized. The Reapers Club, recently organized, is for young mothers whose school days have passed and who have a desire to keep up with the times and to make some intellectual advancement. This Club meets at the Woman's Ex p07ient parlor fortnightly, on Mondays, at eleven a m. The number of members is limited to thirty, and there are five honorary members. A paper on some special topic is prepared for each meetand is commented upon, and ing half an hour given to current events The members preside alternately, and the secretary is chosen in the same way, though the treasurers office is for one year. The Cleofan is a newly organized club of young women. It meets every Tuesday at 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. at Miss Kate Wells studio. The president and secretary are changed every three months, and all are active 31 1893. A Closing Word. HAVE learned in this day News much about the of Woman, in the Relief Society, in the Y. L. M. I Associations, in the Primaries, in the Suffrage and Worlds Fair organizations, and have read a little about her in her Club life and School interests. There yet remains a goodly portion of our community, whose names and faces will not appear in print, whose hearts are as full of desires to advance the great cause of light and progress, whose hands are as busily employed, and whose whole time and thought are as much devoted to the general welfare as are those about whom we have been reading and thinking in these other spheres. 1 hese quiet, unknown women God bless the noble band1 are the housekeepers and homemakers, the wives and mothers, the women whose names are rarely spoken outside their own doors, but whose reputation within that sacred precinct is as deeply prized and as keenly cherished as is that of the highest and noblest lady in this broad Shall we not call together country. this large and varied multitude, and with love in our hearts and sweet sympathy in our words give them greeting and comfort in this our glorious holiday season? Dear sisters, are you not pleased that these other vsliant souls who stand m the front of this battle being waged with weapons of peace for Woman and her privileges are you not glad that they have been invited to tell vou and me all about the good work they are doing alul wanting to do in the future Is it not glorious that the interests of Woman and the Home are made in this our very finest News of equal importance with all that pertains to men and their especial lines of work Is not this a grand close to a grand year of progress when this representative paper of this peculiar people goes out to all the world with its record of men and women, its evidences of the work which has been done to advance man, to improve woman and to develope them both all m their proper place and sphere I feel like waving my handkerchief and shouting huzza, or rather let me say, I feel like asking you to join with me in a hymn of praise to God and His servants that this stride forward has been made by us all. It has been the design of the News to have a full representation of every organization and every interest of woman, and if this is not full v and faithfully done it is not the fault of the paper, but it is due to the failure or lack of those who have been invited to contribute to this department. And now, let us turn to the busy band who have no time to go out to any sort of meetings, except the Sabbath Sacrament service, and whose hands are too full to permit them to take part in any of the worthy public plans for womans Dear sisters girls, I development. would call you if we were face to face, for are we not still young in heart and in spite ofall you have to do, in feeling spite of the big family and bigger house, the duties that crowd and cluster round you and I must find some time, a few moments, out of every day, to devote to our spiritual and intellectual progress. I hear all you would say, but I know that with faith, prayer and a little firm determination on your part it can be accomplished. To read a novel while you are rocking the baby is not in any sense of the word an intellectual progress. You must do better than that. Neither is it very elevating to read only the daily papers with their record of scandal and woe. Instead of that, take up some solid yet, to you, interesting work, and make up your mind that you will read a little of it every day. If you like history, take up Prescotts Conquest of Mexico; it is more interesting than a novel, and then compare it with the truths related in the Book of Mormon, if you like poetry, take up good old Shakespeare, and you can read him as you do the Bible, in short divisions, for he is so full of thought that it requires a deal of time to grasp all the beauties; or read Longfellow or Mrs. Browning If you like novels, and must have them, read Ben Hur, or some of Walter Scotts or Miss Mulocks for they will leave no bad . |