Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-26

South ern California, but they had them
in the n, rth. He did not make pet Of
reporters, because lie didn't like them.
Of the two things most lacking in the
papers OF today, were their want of force
and lack OF lofty aim; the press also
takes no part in adopting reforms. The
daily papers needed reforming, he in
sisted.
The speaker then referred to the
troubles between capital and labor. and
said the way to adjust them was for
some wealthy man to subsidize a metro
politan newspaper, with experienced
reporters, who would show up the va
rious founts of iniquity. The majority
of the papers today were under the in
fuence either of the Roman church
or of the saloon, and would, he said,
be held to answer for the sins of which
they were the cause, and he added
that something was going to strike
these papers from the top" He closed
by saying that one.half Of the fault of
the papers was with the American
people.
MISS HAssE's TALK.
The round table was held in the
chapel yesterday. In the absence of
DIR. Weller the meeting was conducted
by Mr.. Grow. The principal feature
was paper on Woman's Clubs, read by
Miss Hasse of Los Angeles. The young
lady favored woman's clubs, viewing
them mainly as organizations for chari-
table or literary purposes and not for
social enjoyment.
She first traced the origin of woman's
clubs, and said that about their earliest
originator was Sappho, the Grecian
poetess, who each day gathered about
her the most intellectual and literary
ladies of the country for purposes of
general enlightenment and discussion,
and coming on down to modern times
the club idea was embraced in Margaret
Fuller's conversations.
After treating of the numerous diff
culties that first had to be overcome
before the club could receive recognition,
the speaker said: ''No sooner had the
women's club taken definite form and
proved its rights, its existence, it's help
fulness to women, and through her to
society, than it spread like wildfire over
the country" The young lady depicted
the aversion of women to it at first, and
said in these strong words; SIT took a
long time to arouse woman from her
lethargy, but once her eyes are opened
she walks down her path as resistless as
fate."
A great many women, the speaker
said, object to joining any organization
because of that word "club, and added
that an organization without this odi-
GUS word was an alluring bait. "The
charity bait catches many OF our ear
nest sisters who must be doing some
thing to relieve the worlds distress, and
the temperance societies and the Young
Woman's Independent association are
composed largely of conservative women
who have not the smallest suspicion
that they belong to club. The aston
isbing growth of women's clubs proves
that the spirit of CO operation is in the
air."
All women's clubs in America, the
speaker said, originate from two clubs
formed in New England twenty years
ago, the New England Woman's club
and the Sorosis.
She next discussed the literary clubs,
and after speaking in praise of their in
duence, pointed out the too common
mistake made in the historical course
and said that history should be studied
by its various epochs, and that close at
tention was to be given to the char
acters and influences of each division.
She suggested Adams's Hist. Lit. and
Freeman's Shorter Course as possible
helps in the study.
DIR. M'INTYRE's LECTURE.
The crowd at DIR. McIntyre's lecture
filed the large hall, and the benches
from the chapel were pressed into SER
vice..
The talk last night was unusually in
teresting, from the fact that in it were
combined two distinct lectures, the first
part being very generally humorous,
while the latter was almost sermon,
and one of the finest climaxes he has
yet delivered was made in his graphic
description of the Chicago fire.
Buttoned Up People was his subject
last evening and it differed greatly from
his others. In his picture of the utter
helplessness of the bachelor the audi
ence was convulsed. and in the pathetic
pictures the audience was moved to
tears. And in the Chicago Fire scene
his words were wonderful.