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Show WOMAN'S A. C. CLUB GIVE SWELL RECEPTION The Agricultural College a Blaze of Glory and Scene of great Pleasure Saturday Evening. An Excellent Program. As a fitting end to the elo-,oof a jcat's pleasant and successful woik in the study of art and painting, the Ag-rlcultutal Ag-rlcultutal Woman's Club gave a most delightful teceptlon at the A. O. last Saturday evening. Tho spacious teadlng-room was splendidly decotated and used as a social room where a large numbct of the elite of the citj', guests of the ladles, enjojed themselves at the various var-ious table games which wete much In evidence. After a brief social time, a program consisting of papers by Mrs. G. II. Champ and Mrs. .1. F. Englc, an address by Mrs. Wltltsoe andavoiy pleasing solo "Once In the Put pie Twilight" by Miss Ray Campbell, was thoroughly appi eclated. At the close of the program, delicious dainties In the way of sandwiches, colfec, olives, strawberries, cake and froupe were served and of course enjojed to the uttermost. A special fcatute of the evening and one which was the means to considerable consider-able pleasure, was the "Art Gallery," where a collection of interesting efforts along the artistic were on exhibition. Here it was that the titles of books were lllusttated by some little Invention Inven-tion of the mind, and unlike most gallciles of this kind, the names of the books were given, together with the number of the article by which they were represented. Some of the "get-ups" "get-ups" wcie truly splendid, "Tales of the Scs," (two latge mackerel tails) coming In for a large share of comment. com-ment. THE rUOGUAM as rendered is deserving of special mention, for though of gteat length, never was a more piofoundly interesting interest-ing and Instructive ptogram tendered In the A. 0. halls. It was the design to give the assembled guests some idea of the work the club had been doing the past year, Its alms and desires, and the good that can come from the study of art and painting, and the papers and talks wete of such a dever-sllled dever-sllled character, and In each was such evidence of thorough knowledge, combined com-bined with charm of exptesslon that tho intense Interest of all was held until un-til the end. Mis. Kerr president of the club.and the one above all others who has taken a very active interest in the club's wotk, In a few well chosen words welcomed wel-comed the guests to the pleasures of the evening, outlined tho piogram and introduced JIHS. O. It. CHAMl, who lead a most interesting paper, some thirty minutes In length, in which she Indulged In eulogies of the painters whom she most admhes, and whose works and lives appeal to her. Her mention Included Giotto, the Hist painter In all ait history, and to him she gives much credit, lie was tho Inspiration lo great and noble things, and his influence In ait is felt even to the piesent time. Tho thiee great palnteis of tho Higher Ren-aissanee, Ren-aissanee, Michael Angelo, Raphael and Leonaido I)e Vinci, nalurallj enough came In for glowing praises, In which tho speaker oxpiessed the highest admiration and love. The different works of these masteis wete ably dKcussed and at as gteat length as was possible In a paper designed to cover tho gioundthat was neccssaiy in oider to give one any accmate conception con-ception ofelthei the Higher Renaissance, Renais-sance, the palnteis of tho peilodor their masteipleces. Titian was dwelt on at some length, and Mllllas, that one of all the palnteis whose paintings paint-ings of natuie appeal to high and low, learned and Ignorant, was Included In Mis. Champ's list as one of the gieat-est. gieat-est. whom It was Impossible to not admlie and love. The paper was most excellent ftom beginning to end and pieseutcd In such a dellgntful inauuci as to add to the pleasure that It must otherwise have given. Mis. Chump was followed bj Mis Raj Campbell, a pupil of Mrs D. V. Cio- all, who tendeted a vety pleasing solo, "Once In a Purple Twilight," aiiii In tutu was followed by MUH. I.EAH WIDTsOE wholalke.d of Rcmbtailt, tho famous , Dutch artist, and did It in such a delightfully de-lightfully cleannlng and altogether satNfactoiy manner that one could not help but fall in love with both speaker and subject. She devoted fotty minutes to a discussion of him as a painter, as a innrtled man, his trials and tribulations, his style and works, and though jou had never before cared who Rembrant was, what he did, nor how he did it, jou were immediately insphed to make a sjstcmatlc search of literature for anj thing and every-thing every-thing pertaining to this artist. Mrs. Wldtsoo spoke of the conditions that prevailed at the time when Rembrant Rem-brant was In his inline, and showed why it was that his works are all of a certain st j le. The Dutch were a home-loving, home-loving, quiet sort of people who loved to have their pictures taken, as It weic.and Rembrant was fond of painting paint-ing them. He painted faces and gtoups, and did a most piodlglous amount of it. He painted hlmsslf many times, but as the speaker expressed it, not because be-cause he was vain,but because he found himself a willing subject and was ever seeking after the tiuth. His stjle was distinctive; he believed ho was light, and his last pictures showed that he retained his lemarkable In-dividimllty In-dividimllty to the end. Rembrant was mauled three times, and loved a famllj-. He had no knowledge of the money and spent lavishly, with the te-sultthathe te-sultthathe died inpoveity, and was bulled at public expense. Mrs. Wldtsoc tisjd as Illustrations a number of small copies of Ills wotks, which wete eagerly eager-ly Inspected at the end of the pio-giam. pio-giam. JtilS. J. V. ENOLE occupied but a shoit time In a discussion dis-cussion of "The application of Ait to the Home," but in the few minutes devoted to the subject she presented such Information that all must necessarily neces-sarily have been led to believe that It Is possible to get much riucricAr. good ftom the study of ait. In her paper Mrs. Englc told how a careful study of art would enable the housewife house-wife to make her home more comfortable, comfort-able, more pleasing to the eje, moto habitable, a place of pleasure and a Joy forever, and If this isn't practical, then we are off. She took up the discussion of furniture, the points to be considered in its selection, and showed how very mistaken are those people who feel that the artistic is bound up in nourishes and gewgaws which servo no purpose and merely please the eye. True ait In the home considers comfort and usefulness, strength and enduiance bcfoie anything any-thing else, and It these be lacking, though the ejo be pleased, time will eventually prove that the pleasure is fleeting and founded upon a flimsy nothing. Mrs Logic's discussion wa; instructive, helpful to a inaiked degree de-gree and evidenced that tho club's work does not consist meiely of stocking stock-ing tho mind with inroimation that would enable its members to dlstln-quish dlstln-quish a Michael Angelo leprlut fiom a Wlggaid Wink landscape. The Woman's A. C. Club has been otganbert but two jears, jet It's success suc-cess has been phenomenal and tho Inleiest taken unpiecedentcd. The club's constitution limits tho member-ship member-ship to twentj-sK, hut Its leputatlon for effective, sjstcmatlc and helpful wctk Is such that tho applicants for admission aio becoming so nuineious that in all piobabllltj next season I will find the constitution changed and a laiger inembeiship. At piesent the club is composed of the following ladles: Leonoia II. ICctr, Maiy Swendson, Leah Widtsoe, Kathinka Calne, Eillc E. Menill, Hello Fleming, Adella Hint, Amelia Yodor, Maiy L. Maughaii, Kate D. Ptcston, Alley Martlneau, Floia G. Chainhctloln, Alia D. Champ, Minnie F. Campbell, M. L. lluichell Julia W. Ostlen, Mary Vuvvtcr Smith, Nellie Langtoli, Iicno M. Jensen, Anna Hetty, Maty Fisher Englc, Horteitsc Nebeker, Mlldted N. Madison, Cora D. Snow. Dining tho past j car the woik has been of "an exceptionally high oider, embiaclngaslt has u sjstcmatlc and caicful study or Egyptian Art, Peislan, Greek, Italian, French, Dutch, lhltlsh and Flemish painting, and the Umbrlan and Poiuglan schools of paintlng.tho schools of Fer-raia Fer-raia and Rologna and the Paduan and Venetian school of painting. The works and lives of Fra Hat to-lomeo, to-lomeo, Albettlnclll, Andiea Del Saito, Michel Angelo.Raphael Sanlo,Tltlan, Leonaido Do Vlucl. Canegglo, Tultotello. Hollcelll, Parugono, Dee Sat to, Veronese, Giotto, Rosa Honhcur, Van Eykes, Rubens, Mcmllng. Quentln Mavsjs, Jacques Joidaens, David Tcnlers Jr., Alfred Stevens. Rembrant, Jacob Von Rcnsdaei, Holbein Hol-bein isiaels, Tetburir have tccelved cbnsldeiablo attention and ptoved most intciestfng indeed. On Sept. 2nd, 11)0.', the club held Its (list meeting of thisjear, and at that time Mis. Kerr was elected piesldent; Mrs. Fleming, vlce-piesidcnt; Mis. Englc, seeietary; Mis. Voder, cones-ponding cones-ponding secietaiy; Mis. Swendson, tieasiner, and Mis. Menill, llbrailan. Ptof. Stutldeid head of the Art depattmenl of the A. C. was called upon for suggestions In icgatd to outline out-line for woik, and Ills suggestions were finally adopted. Dining the jeatlVan Djkc's Hlstoiy of Painting has been used as a text, and at eacli meeting an hour and a half has been devoted lo discussions that have been prepared dining the week. Tho ladles who were instrumental hi starting the club and have been active in its support feel highly gratified grati-fied at the deep Intetest that has been accomplished. They arc very giate-ful giate-ful Tor helpful suggestions and lectures ftom Pror. Studdctd, whose Interest seems to have been not less than their own. The club has Joined the Federation of Woman's club, and sent delegates to the convention at Salt Lake last fall, and as further evidence of the club's disposition and ability to become be-come prominently identified with the women's clubs of the country, Is the fact that It has been lcpresented In the Aegis, a publication by the Minerva club of New Yoik. |