The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-19
SELF-DEPENDENT WOMEN.
They Meet and Hear Instructive
Addresses on Many
Subjects.
Prominent Ladies' Of this City and
Oakland Attend the Gath
ering.

The members of the Laurel Hall Club
held an open meeting in Beethoven Hail.
Hotel Savoy, Wednesday afternoon, and
more than 800 of the most prominent ladies
of this city and Oakland responded to the
invitation to attend.
The officers of the club present were: :
Collins, vice-president Mrs. w. r. Par
nell, chairman of the invitation commit
tee; Mrs. G. w. Haight, chairman of the
reception committee; Mrs. J. T. Hill, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. Irwin Moulton,
recording secretary, and Mrs. Stephen Rob-
erts, treasurer.
Among those in the audience were:
Mrs. j. G. Conrad, Mrs ]. Brant, Mrs Charles
Freeman, Mrs. ]. Dewing and Miss Anna Ayers
of the reception committee. Miss Carrie
Gould, Mrs. DR.. Morfew, Mrs. DR.. Fiske, Mrs.
ton r. Hale, Mrs. Eugene Lee, Mrs. and Miss
Lardley, Nine. Prolet, Mrs. George D. Clarke
Mrs. J: X. Firth, Mrs. Casassa, Miss Moore
smith, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs Bliven
Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. Mill, Mrs. DR.. Warner,
Mrs. P Psql I Brio1, , Mrs Charles B Stone
Mrs. Jackson (nee Rhoda), Mrs. W. B. Shaw,
Mrs. w. H. Rhoda, Mrs. Thomas Flint OF San
Jose, Mrs. F. Hewlett Mrs Norris, Mrs. Voor
-
Club, Mrs. W. B. Harrington, Mrs. Sarah l.
Hamlin, Mrs. Nellie Holbrook Blinn, Mrs. Lii
liam P. Ferguson, Mrs. Horace Davis, Mrs. S. B.
Davidson, Mrs. H. j. Sadlier, Mrs. Ada Van
Pelt, Mrs. Nellie Blessing Eyster, Mrs. J. II.
Baldwin, Mrs. ]. H. Borland, Mrs. ]. Neus-
Fiske, Miss Fiske, Mrs. Dewing, Miss Dewing,
Miss Q'Brien, Mrs. J. w. H.. Campbell, Mrs.
George Perkins, Mrs. W. P. Shaw, Mrs. Earle
Brown, Miss Bessie Rhoda and Mrs. Sessions.
Mrs Lowenberg, the president, in OPEN
ing the meeting said:
Women by constantly essaying and endeavor-
ing to speak when on their feet acquire con-
centration of thought and facility of express
sion which cannot be otherwise attained.
Exercise DEVELOPS the muscles, and the mind
reqHires exercise as well as the body. The
Safic law, which has prevailed in France since
the fifth century, prohibits women from as
eending the throne for 200 years and more.
The women OF France were the most brilliant,
the most fascinating and the most ambitious
in the world, and Notwithstanding the Salic
law virtually ruled the kingdom-for better or
for worse l shall not say.
She then alluded to the brilliant intellec-
tual women of France, and concluded by
saying:
Literary clubs are an essential factor in the
recovery of the lost art of conversation These
clubs, like the banyan tree, should take root
and spread in all directions so that the art and
charms OF conversation may be cultivated and
developed, pouring out the treasures of soul
and music, and be the magnetic attraction of
the home around which all attractions should
cluster.
The following programme was then rem
dered: Piano solo, "Hafte des Chas-
seurs," Mrs. M. Isadore Knox; "The Ideal
ism of Emerson" an interesting and we'll
prepared paper by Mrs. Benjamin Peart;
vocal solo, "Aubade." by Nine. Emilia
Tojetti Mrs. George W. Haight read
monologue which elected applause. "a
Plea for the Time-Honored Ideal of Wo-
manhood" by Mrs. Louis Weinmann, was
clear expression of the ideas entertained
by the majority of the club. A Scotch
song by Mrs. Lois And and "Reminis-
cences of Miles Standish," by Mrs. Charles
f. Johnson concluded the programme.