Smyrna times., 1898-10-12
OUR TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB.
Resumed Their Meetings Last Friday After
noon at Their New and Finely
Furnished Quarters.

After a long summer vacation the
Twentieth Century Club of Smyrna
resumed their regular weekly meetings
Friday afternoon with good attend
ance present. 1t was their first meet
ing in their new club room, and natur-
ally feature of the day was the COM
pllmentary remarks concerning their
new quarters. Few had thought that
the ''Old, disOrdered carriage factory"
of the Tschudy Il Cats building on
Main street, could have been arranged
in such tasty and becoming style, and
most every member who entered gave
some expression of surprise at the i'm
provement which had been made. The
entire decorations were left i'll the
hands of the Art and Drama Commit
tee, of which Mrs. Lillian Cloak is
president and the landlords were very
kind in granting them any favor they
wanted in the improvements that were
made. The room is a large one, of
ample capacity to serve most any want
of the Twentieth Century Club. The
club colOrs, "pink, white and green,"
are the predominating shades in the
decorations, and no sooner do YOU
enter than this fact will impress YOU.
The paper is of green felt with neat
border of pink and white. The wains-
coating and the wood work about the
doors and windows are so painted as to
carry these cOlors into effect. A plat
form has been built on the north side
of the hall and in semicircle about
this are 100 chairs purchased for the
use of the club. The room has thir-
teen windows to give light from all
sides, and when used at night, there
are three chandelier (two Jets each )and
four brackets. The addition of cur
talns &c, blending with the same club
colOrs, completes the decorations, and
gives the ladies room that they can
Justly feel proud of. The room will
be heated during the winter months by
four gas radiators. These are of splen-
did design and show off to effect. 1t
was plainly seen that the club must
have piano, so the members took the
matter in hand and rented an upright
piano from Dover with the privilege of
buying 1t at the end of several months
should they want it. 1t might be well
to say that the Art and Drama Com
mlttee were very much assisted in the
furnishing of the room by some useful
donations to the club by several of the
members.
When the club was called to order
Friday afternoon, the president, Mrs.
}. Edwin Hoffecker, gave greeting to
her members which is spoken of as an
effort of an exceptional fine character.
1t was received with much applause
and commentator. Following this
Mrs. Marion COverdale gave brilliant
instrumental production on the piano.
The roll call was next made and as
each member answered to her name,
she responded with some short topic
on current events. This took up con
siderable time, but was very interest
ing. 1t was followed by vocal solo
by Miss Ethel Cooper.
There were eighteen new names pre-
sented for membership and accepted as
follows: Mrs. E. w. Purnell, Mrs.
Thomas H. Wilson, Mrs A. L. Hud-
son, Jr., Mrs. Charles A. Hill, Mrs.
Henry Boyer, Mrs. j. r. McCausland,
Mrs. L. o. Waller, Mrs. w. ID. Hud-
son, Mrs. j. Allen johnson, Mrs.
Kate Roberts. Mrs. Margaret Price
Collins, Mrs. Mary T. Estlin; Misses.
Elva Armstrong, Clara West HAZEL,
Arie Hynson, Edith Collins, Gertrude
Smith and Eba G. Wilds.
After the meeting had adjourned the
members had delightful greeting in
store by the Social Committee of
which Mrs. f. E. Postles is chairman.
1t was an occasion of much pleasure to
all those present and helped to
strengthen the fraternal bond of friend
ship between the members. The re-
freshments served, consisted of lem
onade and cake.
A Course in Nature Studies
Mr.. Welton was present ut the close
of the meeting and urged the forma-
tion of a class for Nature Study. He
said in substance: "This study is the
most enhancing of which the human
Mind is capable: the most rational
while the most poetic. 1t was impos-
slble to give an adequate idea of it in
few words because Nature viz plants,
animals the skies, the minerals, the
clouds &c.,-is so extensive, but the
lmmenslty of the topics treated is one
of its charms. To particulariZe: a
close perception why many flowers and
fruits have brilliant colors; why the
unrlpe grape is green and the ripe
grape is purple; why the ripe corn is
yellow; why the flowers of night
blooming plants are white and those
OF the day are variOusly colored-he
DelleVed to be the poetry of poetry far
above the incoming sentimentalities of
most poetry. 1t is science derived
from personal observation of things
about us, not from books. By reason
OF these lessons, the world will have a
new aspect. Much hitherto unper-
celved will be clearly seen, while the
common will be fOund irradiatad with n