The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-17

The Mothers club held their usual
enthusiastic meeting on Monday at the
| Manual Training school when Miss
| Marlatt led The discussion on "HygeniC
! Clothing for Children"
The Current Topics club OF Newport
r. L., met i'm the Natural History rooms
on December IL TO consider the German
| drama and it's distinguished exponents,
Goethe. Schiller and Lesslng.
The Providence Fortnightly club met
| on Tuesday afternoon at the home of
| Mrs. Charles Monroe, on Angel street.
In the absence OF Mrs. Forrest II. Run
| dell the president OF the club. Mrs. Geo.
II. Francis gracefully presided and read
"a delightful letter full of interest 10
the club. sent by Mrs. Rundell from
her home in Boston.
Following, the special topics for the
day We're taken up, and i'm connection
with English history of the period from
1900 10 1851. THE Exhibition i'm Hyde
Park" Hugh Miller" and "Sir Charles
Lyell' were the subjects under con-
sideration.
An extremely original and admirably
prepared paper on The Life ana Writ
ings of Hugh Miller" was read by Mrs.
Harry Gregory, from which we may
quote: Have you ever walked over
the sitting sand of some seashore, not
on the hard wave washed beach, but
just out of reach OF the mighty waves
where the bleak winds have kept
vegetation from growing, and the sand
ever loose sand migratory? At every
step you sink ankle deep in the uncom-
fortably yielding mass. You are ever
fearful Of coming to "A spot OF quick
sand, where an unguarded step Will
send you down into unfathomable
depths. Have you on botanical eXpcdi-
tion in a swamp jumped from one solid
"A "A watching
the dangerous bogs between? How
comfortable in either case TO find ones
self at last on solid ground and feel
that one has at last reached solid foun-
dation. SO, after jumping from tuft TO
tuft Of the boggy and sometimes Shiny
stones OF many of the modern novels or
the unsubstantial fables. falsely called
news" with which our magazines and
newspapers are filled-how satisfactory
to plant ones mental feet on such solid
foundation as the life and writings Of
Hugh Miller.'
From this point the writer gave a
very clear conception of the thought
and philosophy or Hugh Mfiier, con-
cluding with an explanation of his re-
ligious teachings and the influence they
exerted upon the people and times in
which he lived.
Mrs Gregory was followed by Mrs.
Tourtellctt of the club who read q pa
per on The Exhibition i'm Hyde Park.
England claims" begins the paper.
"and deserves the honor of the first
great gathering of the nations of the
earth in a rivalry of the arts and in
dustries." Proceeding. the paper de
scribes at length the exhibition, the
events associated with il and it's sub
sequent value To the world OF commerce
and to the pursuits OF peace.
In view OF comparison with the
Hyde Park Exhibition" Mrs. Clark II.
Johnson briefly outlined the exposition
IN Paris in '55, the centennial of 20 and
The recent Omaha exposition.
In connection with the social history
Df 1916. brief description Of the "Lud-
iites' was given by Mrs. Keicey Dow, !
when the meeting adjourned TO reas-
semble on December 27 with the secre- |
.ary, Miss Katherine Hubbard.