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Show In an eastern college town tecentlyi the Instructor wives and seveiall other lady educatois of the town, I finding time diagging heavily, con- eluded to oig.tnle a club foi the study of current events. At their llrst meeting meet-ing they decided on who should bc-e,omo bc-e,omo mcinbeis of the club; appointed a committee on bj-laws and constitution, constitu-tion, and decided on having a ceitaln professor of history to deliver a lec-tuie lec-tuie before the club and outline some work for them. At two subsequent meetings they consumed all their tlmu conectlng the minutes of the Hist meeting and discussing each speaker us to whether or not she was In older. At their fouith meeting theprofessoi was on hand to dellvei his lectuie, but was Infoimed that the tiansactiou of some business must necessarily bo done Mist. The business busi-ness was the adoption of a portion of the constitution, election of olllceis and adoption ot minutes of foimer meetlngs. Them weic numeious dlf-feiencesof dlf-feiencesof opinion concerning parlla-mcntaiy parlla-mcntaiy questions and at last after a futile elTort on the part of sever.il of the olllcers to tlnd ltobeits' Rules or Oulei, the meeting adjoin ned as a committee of the whole to make a diligent seaieh foi the book on p.irlla-mentaiy p.irlla-mentaiy law, leaving the piofessoi alone with the family at whose house the meeting had been held. Now the Piofessorbegs to be excused fiom dellvei de-llvei lug lectuics before ladles clubs. |