Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-02

FAST Las Vegas, New Mexico,
!. SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
WRITING AT RANDOM.
Themes That sueecst Themselves
are Taken up and Discussed
q Quite Independently.

MWI
10 10 Editor Of the Optic.
y fBLo, Colorado, October 81st. '97.
Colorado state federation OF
evon ,n's clubs, which has been In SEES
sion a this city for several days dur
Hing the past week, have completed
their labors and returned to their
respective homes. The object OF the
federation is to bring the ome Of
The state into closer communication,
mutual helpfulness, and for the promo
Z Ron of higher social and moral condi-
lions. Denver was chosen as the
place to hold the fourth biennial meet.
ing IN June, 1928. Some very inter-
esling and able papers were presented,
notably those OF Mrs. e. @. Stevens, Of
Trinidad, whose subject was "Maga-
zine Literature" and Miss ClementIne
Coleman whose subject was "Fiction
in the Magazine"
Mrs. Carrie p. Douglas, of the Dem
yer national league OF Colorado women,
also read an interesting paper on .'Our
Women on Boards OF Management of
Public Institutions''and "The Idealiza
ton of Women in Poetry and Art''
was the subject ably treated by Mrs.
Gregg, Of Colorado Springs. Histori-
cal subjects received their proper share
Of attention "Women of Greek My
tAology" was the subject discussed by
Mrs. Bates of this city ; "The Reign OF
Elizabeth" by Mrs N. b. McCreery,
of Denver, was well received by the
audience, while Mrs. Hayden, of the
Colorado Springs Shakespeare club,
had many interesting things to say OF
SHADY Macbeth" Miss Hsrding's
subject was rWomen of the Victorian
Age" There were also papers read
on "Women of the Augustan Age"
and "Women as Sovereigns
The speeches made by the ladies,
and the subjects treated in the papers
read, prove conclusivelY that women
is progressing, and that they are
developing into students and thinkers,
who propose to lift their sex into a
higher and nobler plane of life. All
honor to them and success to their
undertakings The moss covered jokes
alleged and slurs about the lncompe.
tency of women to do anything except
keep house for the old man and raise q
no longer count, and the lords
of creation must awaken to the fact
that the average woman is the equal Of
her brother man in mental and moral
attributes, and 10 her power for dong
goou and uplifting humanity. Woman
has a right TO be seen and heard, and
she has a right to all that her talents
and genius can gain for her, even il
she does persist in pairing her pet corn
Prof. Beaver, of Giesson's horse
show, has been giving some fine ex-
hibitions at the Grand opera house with
his trained horses. One OF the profess
,or's specialized is transforming a
and stubborn quadruped into
! gentle and docile one. The profess
Ior has been fairly successful in his
next Wednesday morning, when
be results of the election will be
,rown, he can try his hand ON q very
,adly demoralized democratic mule, c
Who smarting under the defeat of the r
previous day, viii be proud to kick the /
professor and his theories into the !
of the Mex century, and no (,
or rewards asked, either. I
Four months ago, business in the .
line on the D. & G. in this ,
,ity was very slack, but since then IT
las bsen increasing, and Friday last
his company handled 1880 freight
,ars In the local yards. of these 1920
we're loaded cars. Such evidences OF
returning prosperity make the Bryan
bowler, who stubbornly insists
that there never has been an increase
business since the republican party
returned to power, feel that as a
prophet he is a great failure, as is the
Ioquacious Nebraskan, who q short
months since predicted that he
would be elected president OF this
The ministerial association, CON-
prised of the preachers of the various
Protestant churches in this city, held
their semi-annual banquet in the early
part OF The week. The reverend gen.
Jared sump,uously, and they
had a good time of it. They made
cougra,ulatory speeches, offered toasts
and patted each other a~pprovingly on
the back. They had a perfect right to
do this. yet the reminder the great
Nazarene gave His disciples, that ''the
poor ye have with ye always" is as
true o.day as it was 1900 years ago,
hence the thought ONE to US. that
the money spent on this ministerial
banquet, could have been put to a more
practical use if it had been expended
in purchasing food for some of the poor
aud orphans. who SO much
need it, yet lack the means to get IT.
Francis r. Brown, a prominent
mining operator, committed
suicide in his room at the Koeischner
triangle on Union avenue, on Friday
morning. The dead mar had su ffered
from an attack Ct the grippe, and this,
supposed, caused temporary aber-
ration Of mind lie vas well of in
worlds goods, and as far as known,
th "a was no motive to prompt him to
aelf-des,ruction. He was q Mason, and