The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
W0MEN'S CLUBS EVENTS
PROGRAMMES FOR THE MEETINGS
THE COMING SEASON.
A Wide Diversity in the Range of
Topics SeIected--scfence as
Well as Literature.

are numerous literary classes, taught by
women and attended by them. An idea of
their scope may be gathered in a review of
the programmes. which have been dis
tributed 10 the members and are as below:
WOMAN'S CLUB.
Oct PRESIDENTS day.
Oct ia Plea for Autobiography. -
Mrs. James T. Eaglesfield; IAN Unpopular
View" Miss Caroline Rowland; converse
ton on the second paper, Mrs John H
Holiday. leader.
Nov. 5-"Cleopatra," Mrs. john N. Carey;
"A Study in Shakespeare" Miss Lucia Ray;
conversation on the papers, Miss Gather
inc Merrill, leader
Nov. 19-"Rejected Manuscripts" Mrs
Kate M. Bowles; Expression and Repres-
sion," Mrs. Meredith Nicholson; conversa-
tion 1.-THE Queens English" Miss Mamie
/. Newcomer. leader.
Dec. 3-"What Has the Nineteenth Cen
tury Brought Us?" Mrs. j. l. Mothers
head; "Individualism in Art" paper and
conversation, Miss Elizabeth Nicholson.
Dec. T-"Maud Ballington Booth" Mrs
Alexander Jameson; THE Law of Service .
Mrs Margaret V. Marshall; conversation on
the second paper, Mrs. George w. Hunord
leader
Se@A. i-1utol I'd MY l4dQy Oh Zip SUln
"A Character Sketch" Mrs. Hanford A.
Edison; Times Wallet" Mrs Charles Mar
undale; conversation, THE Cavaliers of
Virginia." Mrs. w A. Ketchanl. leader.
Jan. 1.-The Shepherd King Miss Julia
Harrison Moore: Eminent Israelites of
Modern Times" Mrs. Pleasant Lond; con-
yersation, Hebrew Financiers, Miss Anna
Dunlop, leader.
Feb. 4-"High Ideals" Mrs. Victor K.
Hendricks; conversation on the paper, Mrs
Benjamin u Walcott, leader
Feb. 6-'Shelley's Lyrics, Miss Macy
Coughlen; Personality in Prose and Pc
etry," Miss Flora Bridges; conversation on
the second paper, Mrs. I. G. Day, leader
Story" Mrs. Ovid b. Jameson Character
Etchings," Miss Emily Fletcher: conversa-
ton on the second paper, Mrs. John l..
March 1s-"A Picturesque Pioneer" Mrs
Smiley N. Chambers; Early Days in Indi-
annapolis, Mrs Julia M. Moores; conversa-
ton on the papers, Mrs. Edward f. Hodges,
leader.
March 25-Election of officers.
April 1-Guest day. Literature of Vic
glish Country Houses" Mrs. George H.
Chapman; conversation on the second pa
per, Miss S. Frances Atkins leader
April 15-"George Sand" Mrs May
Wright Sewall; conversation on the paper,
Mrs. Alexander P. Spruance, leader.
May 6-''MigratOn of the Birds" Mrs
d. W. Marmon; Flowers in Ceremonials. I"
Miss Alice Edwards; conversation, Ma
lures Aid to Culture Miss Anna Hen
May 0"Sonya Kovalesky.'' Mrs. C. C..
Foster; THE Genius of Russia" Mrs. Scot
Butler; conversation general.
June 3-Annual reports: FLORIDA
Sketches" Mrs. Katherine L. Dorsey; "A
Volunteer" Mrs. Helen B. Holman.
KATHERINE MERRILL CLUB.
Oct. 9-President's day
Nov. 1.-THE Romantic in American His
tory" Mrs. William Cook; Telling the
Truth" Mrs. Alfred F. Potts; conversation
Miss Anna ]. Griffith; Tact" Mrs. Charles
Schurmann.
Nov. 27-Guest day, with Mrs. Louis H.
Gibson.
Dec n-"Kipling" His Stories" Mrs.
Horace Eddy; His Verses" Mrs. Daniel
Leslie; conversation, Mrs. Harriet A. Van
Buren,.
Jan. sold poetry; "Petrach." Mrs. Perry
n. CHmord; Lode da Vega" Miss Mar
garet Day; 'Camoens,' Mrs. James P.
Jan. 22-Guests day.
Feb. PA Sketch, Miss May Louise
Shipp; AN representation" Mrs John L.
GritfthS informal discussion.
Feb. 26-Social day.
March 12-Henryk Sienkiewicz; with
Fire and Sword" Miss Harriet Scott; Quo
Vadis,' Mrs. Bement Lyman; conversation
Miss Henri Colgan
March 26-Guest day.
April 9-"Great Biographies Miss Macy
Coughlen; conversation, The Ideal Biog-
raphy." Miss Daisy Dugdale
April zo-GueSt Gay; Our Library Table
ers in Literature" Miss Sarah G. Millard.
Mrs. o. II. Hasselman; wild Flowers y
Miss Selma Engerson; conversation. s'The
Study of Nature" Miss Mary Ingersoll
May 2I--Guest day
June IA Criticism of the Critics Miss
catherine Dunn, Mrs. L. RI. Dunning, Mrs
Charles w. Moores, Mary A TAYLOR. Mrs
Katherine l.. Dorsey.
FORTNIGHTLY CLUP.
Oct. 5-President's day.
Oct. decomposition of the Ends Of the
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" Mrs.
James A. Baldwin, Evolution OF Manners. !"
Mrs. Frederick A. Joss.
Oct. 26-"Culture Demanded in Modern
Life" Miss Emma Atkins; "Child Study
Miss Alice Dresser; conversation Mrs. H.
c. Newcomb.
Nov. 9-"Remnants of Savagery in Mod
ern Civilization Miss Elizabeth Dye; THE
Hand and the Tool" Mrs James f. Me-
Cullough; conversation, Mrs. Charles n.
Thompson.
Nov. Mental Science Mrs. Robert d.
townsend .Theosophy," Mrs. Wilbur
Dec. 9-"Curios of Literature" Mrs. John
y Dye; Modern Symbolism" Mrs. Henry
Kahn; 'Maeterlinck," Miss Mary Helen
Dec. 2l-An original story. poem. music.
Jan. THE Tribe of Abrahamman, !"
Mrs Albert Rabb: 'Noblesse Oblige." Mrs
William II. Dye; conversation, Peter
cooper, Miss Lucy Williams.
IAN. 1S-"George Meredith, Mr.. James p
Baker; Diana of the Crossways," Mrs
arthur V. Brown; conversation, Mrs Chas
Is. lockwood
Feb 1-"Personality" Mrs. Helen A. Ea-
ton; Growth of Philanthropy" Mrs Vir-
Sll T. lockwood; conversation, Mrs Ridge
Feb. 1.-THE Humane Idea in Municipal
Government" Mrs. Wilbur T. Hit: Cur
rent Events Mrs. Daniel Stewart Mrs II
{. Alien, Mrs. jefferson II. Claypool Mrs
Charles "A. Dryer, Mrs. Horace G. Coldweu
March l." Educational Development in
Indiana, Mrs. S. +. Gray: Juvenile Lit
eIature, Mrs. Henry Eitel; conversation
Boys IN Literature, Mrs. w. H. Hobbs
March l5-''Some Phases of Library Life =
Miss Eliza c. Browning; The Making of
Books Mrs. David Gibson; Book Review
Miss Margaret Smith
March 29-'Recent Discoveries in Photog-
r9phy Mrs. Elias Jacoby: Hobbies and
Hobby Riders, Mrs. Ernest r. Keith; con-
Nersauon, Miss Annie Gaines Dye.
April l2-"Gladstoue and the Sultan ;"
Mrs. solomon ClaypoOl; Political Status of
Europe Miss Laura Ream; conversation
Caroline A. Wynn.
April 19-Annual election of officers.
April 20" Romanticism in Modern Fic-
ton. Mrs. James W. Hess; The Demo-
cratic Idea in Art" Miss Fredonia Allen.
converse ton, Miss Alice Finch
May lo-'lll Usages OF Fiction Mrs
Charles ". Fairbanks; Thomas Hardv.''
Mrs Albert Baker; conversation, Mrs
Frank Gavin.
May Early Novels of the Nineteenth
Century Mrs. Edward H. Dean: Amer
lean Poetry, Miss Florence Malott: con-
versation, Mrs. Arba 4. Perry
June - History of MuSic' Miss SuSanna