The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-03-22

the shoulder to the wrist, where they are gath
cred to MORE cuff, edged with some istted o
! jeweled passmentrie trimming.
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English walking hats. with the EFIms turned
up at the sides, are fashioned in straw and trim
med with MORE ribbon. They are considered
| quite the thing to wear with tailor made suits
! Psrasols promise to be more rufied than ever
Blonde girls will rejoice that turquoise blu'
| is a fad.
| zez
Nasturtiums flower generously in gratitude
for careful planting. sand, sunshine and plenty
of water and little care, and no flowers are
| brighter for garden or for the house.
/ There are dainty yellow flowers, brilliant
I orange, soft browns, with bronze lights and
darkest brownish-red, all as soft as velvet. The
leaves are odd and graceful and pale or dark
according as the flowers need.
Nasturtium seeds can be planted as late as
the middle Of May for Summer blooming, and
few seeds planted in June will insure longer
stay of the kindly flowers
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Single hyacinths prettier and have a more
delicate fragrance than the double ones, aud are
surely the hyacinths most to be loved.
Daffodils and nareissus will grow happily
near brook or pond.
OF course it was deplorabIe Just to give an
idea of our ignorance Anne knew nothing
whatever about Hawaii, Clara confessed to the
densest ignorance concerning the bond issue,
and Bertha made wild guesses as to what powers
were united in the Triple Alliance.
When it was advised that we and 10 other
girls, likewise ignorant as to news of the day,
should unite III club to make an earnest effort
to ameiiorate said deplorsble condition, we, OBJ
Jecting to work, complained that a club was too
bothersome to start. Ones enthusiasm was all
used up In framing the constitution and de-
Gliding on the working details Without a
definite plan, no work of any value could be
done in the short time we could give.
So when we were offered model constitution.
prepared for just such Tazy-bones, and bound so
as to closely resemble a Drummond sermon,
there was no decent excuse left for us-we had
to join together. We addressed the Secretary
of large section of the alphabet-namely, the
General Secretary of the P. O. c. T. A., Box
348, Washington. d. c., and procured our little
books. We worked over them for one evening,
changing the model constitution to suit our
peculiarities abridging it mostly, for we were
not going to be so terribly parliamentary. The
only parliamentary rule we knew was that
motion to adjourn is always in order and never
debasable, and had we espoused the cause of
mai ri Ii,,o a
nothing but adjourn and again adjourn, which
would not have tended toward the intellectual
development for which we aspired.
We elected officers-a President, Anne: a
Vice-President, who has no official usefulness
whatever as the President never STAYS home
from a meeting, and combined Secretary and
Treasurer, who does the most work We dis
cussed our name for a long and earnest time.
finally deciding upon the commonplace, "Fort-
nightly Current Topic Club," though we had
leaDings toward "The Pansies," Sweet SIX
teens" Dafodils," or some such sentimental
title.
Also this first evening we decided not to have
any men. We were wise, if we do say it our
selves, as should not, for men would talk all
the time and we would not have any chance
for discussion.
In order to live up to our name we met
two weeks after. We attended to some busi
ness distinctions concerning dues and
the admission of two more girls We voted
unanimously. We always vote unanimously.
We had taken mp four of the committees sug-
gested in the model, with Politics Foreign
News Sociology. and Literature and Arts for
their respective fields Every member served
on some committee, and each committee was in
charge of a chairman. The club numbered II
Republicans aud one Democrat, but she came
first with her political report and explained
the tariff and Hawaiian questions in way
that tenderly spared Cieveiand's most vuIner-
able points. She used up all our time with her
statements and our grumblings. We were pos
sessed with mad desire to get home, tell what
she said at the breakfast table. and find ont
why it was not true. Pretty Anne our Presi-
dent, had to announce that the time was almost
up aud the other reports must be postponed.
We took unanimous affirmative vote that re-
ports must be confined to bare statement of
facts and that reports must be limited to Is
minutes for each department, with Fl We minutes
after for questioning or discussion.
Our next meeting was more as it should have
been. The Political Committee talked about |
the tariff, coming the seigniorage, the bond
issue, and Hawaii, and answered our questions
very clearly. The Foreign News brought un !
resignation, the Triple Alliance. war |
POSSIBILITIES, and Brazil, Clara bringing pictures |
OF the harbor at Rio Janeiro. The Sociological |
girls took up the different schemes for relief Of
the unemployed and explained them. We had |
discussions over the value for this pur-
pose of soup-houses, wood-yards park and road |
and so on. The Literature and !
Arts girls talked about Constance Fennimore
Woolson, Henry Irving (who had just been
playing here and had talked with one of the
srls), and Mrs. Humphrey Wards new book,
with little account Of Berliozs music and
Tehaikowski. Next week promises to be in
-eresting with the English parties, Frances
movements, the pension question. anarchists,
e The Heavenly Twins" the French Academy,
,he Tillman liquor system-alI up for discus
lion.
We girls, as individuals, still show strong
tendencies toward discussing slipper heels and
methods for copying $50 hats with So worth of
but as club we discuss High
Politics" only. We are trying hard to get into
he swing of events; to be able to watch and