, 1890-05-18
IN SOCIETY.
The Week Marked BY a Brilliant Lit
eraTy Session.

hN W - ~
erary session.
On Monday evening the Queen Anne
club held his annual meeting with Mrs,
Appelat Fort Russell. The club filled an
ambulance which their hostess sent for
them and there was a merry ride to the
garrison. Arriving at Mrs. Appers
pretty little home they found it in festive
attire. Tables were laid in the dining
and reception rooms and sat 6 o'clock a
delicious supper was served. After sup
per the guests assembled in the drawing
room and we're entertained with a literary
programme. Miss Grace Heblrd read a
report oil club work for the past six
months. Ms +. Mason Smith gave
sketches and sc0nes in the eternal city
Rome. The most enjoyable and amusing
papers of the evening were Our Scrap
Book" by Mrs. G. W. Whipple and "a
Dissertation by Mrs. J.. A. Breckons.
Queen Anne Is never so pleased as when
she can indule in a little chatting and
Mn. Whipple's Scrap Book" contained
clever hits at the idioyncracies of the
different members.
One scrap told of the birth of a grand
daughter born tn the club, baby Kath-
crime, (the daughter of Mrs. Geo. W.
Baxter who came down with the snow
fakes,
The darling little thing,
And is Just as sweet and dainty
AS the blossoms OF the spring"
The book contained some epitaphs good
for future use. Tbs scrapbook closed
with some touching farewell words to the
club.
Mrs. Breckons in her paper gave an &C.
count of the Three hundredth annual
meeting OF the club dedicated to the
memory OF Queen Anne. Time, the
year of our Lord 1900; place, the great
teeming, o~verpopulous, smelter burden
ed city Of Cheyenne, queen Of the West,
capital of tho iron clad state Of the
United Republic unlimited.
Standing IN a magnificent square stu
ated on the very Mob Hill of Interior
Heights glimmered through the ambient
atmosphere the white marble columns OF
a Greek temple.
The massive bronze doors stood open
while either side was guarded BY tremen-
uDuH uOkb WIN pONNliui Jaws auu
eyes that glared with fearful
savagey. Beneath the feet of
these dreadful animals, carved 10 the
pure white marble were strange charac
ters which had been deciphered by anti
quarians to read as follows. Cast by the
Keeie Home Brick Company, from clay
found near the fair grounds and moulded
by the Denver Trip Hammer Process,
year 1900"
About 3 p. III. on the afternoon we
write, there came floating over the tops
of the great cottonwood trees, winding
around the spires Of a hundred churches
and skimmering across the smoke from n
thousand smelters aud wooden mills, beau
uful gondola with cob-webby sails, a
dainty air ship moved by the simplest Of
late appliances-'The Keely Motor"
The gondola drifted downward like n
feather, in front of the beautiful build
ing. The inmates were two lovely women
who, after making fast their ship, trippel
lightly up the stairs and through the
door. -Four gondolas coon stood before
the temple, and ten women had entered.
The meeting was held in the business
room of the temple of Learning.
The walls were covered with ancient
tapestry, the most precious and elaborate
piece, now almost in shreds, was
worked by q member of Queen
Anne, resting in her narrow grave
nearly 800 years, Down in one corner was
read in faint embroidery the name of
Alice. She is known IN the archives as
one of the originals, aud daughter OF the
patron saint first president, and proud
mother of the immortals. Eliza Mason
In the vestibule stands her statue, not
tall, but commanding. The beautiful
marble features seem to speak as she
holds in one extended hand a Greek
calender and claps in the other a quill
pei and a volumn of society notes.
The secretary, rising, reads a report and
gives some interesting facts in regard to
the ancient club. She said: Their men
tai characteristic, their love OF fun and
ability to sYmpathize prove them to have
been not different from US of the present
age. That they possessed v~ivacity and
gayety look for proof at the
statue of the dancing girl, in the
outer court of the temple. She was the
musical one OF our original ten, graceful,
airy, facinating, full of animation. That
the heaven born blessing OF motherhood
was appreciated, see the beautiful statue
Of the young mother and her three little
daughters, mother of the Graechi almost
in imitation. And yon marble figure OF
priestess, with young and old. rich and
poor, kneeling around aud overwhelming
her with their blessings, represents to us
the religious sentiments OF the day. That
the social problem was at that reUotc time
beginning TO be discussed. we know from
that very grave, very gloomy, very gray
statute clasping close to her bosom a
volume called An Experiment in Mar,
rage" The meeting closed and the
charming women gathered up their soft
white robes and leaving the temple settled
themselves in their fairy like gondola-
and waiting kisses aud last words hoited
upward. light as swans down and sailed
away through the blue ether like clouds
upon a summer sky
During the evening MIR. Sellick played
charmingly, rendering solos on the piano.
At the close of the programme characters
were acted under the managemet of Miss
lockwood, her dramatic corps being Mrs.
Ogle, DR.. Apple, Lieut.. Kerr and Mrs.
Whipple. The guests of the evening
were Madames Mizner, Poullion, Ruben,
Ingersol, Ogle. Glover, Breckons, Whip.
pie, Mast and Smith, the Misses Lock.
wood. Hebar1. Smith. Drs Rlfter and
Robinson, Lieut. Kerr and Mr.. Sellick.