Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-19

Large Meeting of Interested Women
An Important Matter Not Clear
Many Eager to Join the Society
Worcester Assembly and Who Was
There-Public School Art League
Other Items.
Salisbury Hall was practically filled
Friday morning with women interested
in the proposed extension of the wo-
mans department of the Society of An
tlqulty. F. l.. Hutchins, president of
the society," presided, and after welcom-
ing those present, went on to speak of
the worcester Society of Antiquity it's
museum, and the hospitality which the
society has in the past extended to the
public. In connection with its present
work, he referred to the prospect of a
historical treat, March /, in the descrip-
tlon OF the U. 8. senate fifty years ago,
by Rev. Oliver Dyer who was the Of
hclal reporter, and who made special
study of Webster, Calhoun Benton,
Clay and Honest" John Davis, dear to
worcester memories; to the desirability
or some appropriate observance of Pa
triots day under the direction of the
committee on military history; to the
exhibition of Worcester pictures under
direction Of the photogra phic commit
tee, ana TO proposed loan exhibition
some time during the year. Then. com
ing TO the object of the meeting, he
sketched the benefits to be derived by
poth the society and the ladies' through
cooperation. The plan, he said was to
ask those interested to give their names
to be brought before the society at the
March meeting, after approval by the
committee upon the woman's depart
nent, and to come up for election to
iull membership in the society. with all
It's rights and privileges, at the April
meeting. In answer to question. Mr.
1utcnlns said it was not designed to
estapllsh separate department, not an
auAuliary, but that women were to be
accepted into full membership with the
same rights and privileges as the men
Mr.. Hutchins introduced as the first
speaker Mrs. c. c. Baldwin, chairman
OF the woman's department of the So
clety or Antiquity, who read an ex-
ceIient paper on women's clubs and the
pasIiote societies, the home and eco
nomlc life of our ancestors, comnared
with mat of today the need of preserv-
ing the memorials of the past, the value
OF the Society Of Antiquity's museum
ana library; the honor of helping along.
the society's work and the desirability
OF forming new woman's club in Wor-
! cester.
Many times in the past two years I
have been asked to take up the forming
of another woman's club. said Mrs
Baldwin, and of late it has been urged
more upon me. To my mind, there are
enough such in Worcester, and l feel
that there is even more honor and more
profit and certainly more pleasure in
belonging to such society as this,
where the woman's department offers
every advantage of a woman's club.
and where in addition we can meet and
work with our brothers. land fathers and
husbands. The ideal club is that in
which both men and women work to-
gether to the immense advantage of
both.
A letter was read from Mrs. z. /.
Comins, commencing the movement for
extension. Mrs. j. H. Robinson next
spoke. She, asked if they were not talk
ing of union without realizing what
the word meant. She regarded it as a
| separation rather than a union to put
the women in department by them
selves If she Joined she would like to
do it as a person, not as a member. For
her part she was very tired of hearing
about woman, spelled with a capital
wv" The organization of the Society
of Antiquity was different from that of
the Daughters of the Revolution, for in
stance, whose very name limited 1t to
women members. Some of the work
planned for the woman's department of
the Society Of Antiquity would legiti-
mately come under the scope of the old
er organization, and would better be
done by it. She, too, believed thorough
ly in the womans club movement, all
though she was prepared to have it give
way, after it had accomplished all the
good it could, to the ideal club which
should include both men and women.
Mrs. ]. f. Tuttle spoke agreeing with
Mrs. Baldwin and Miss Frances C.
Morse spoke in commentator Of some
of Mrs. Robinsons views. Hon Ste
phen Salisbury also spoke, commencing
the movement and speaking of the adj
vantages that would come from joint
effort Of the ladies with the members
of the society.
No action was taken by the assem-
bly,, but at the close of the meeting over
so persons signed card pledges signify
ing their desire to join the society. The
names thus received follow:
Mrs t. K. Earle, Mrs. Horace Ken
dali, Mrs. A. c. Munroe, Mrs. George S.
Maynard, Mabel Lancaster Camilla G
Whitcomb, Mrs. Harriet Chaffln Howe.
Agnes Clary, Mrs. Emma S. Clark, Jo-
sephine c. Cutter, Mary E. Lowell, Isa-
bel G. Prentice, Mrs. M. p Higgins,
Miss Josephine G. Aldrich, Mrs William
7. Wardwell, Emma D. Harris, Mrs.
L. L. Conant Mrs. Daniel Kent, Miss
Mary L. Nichols, Miss Corinne L. Mich
OILS, Elizabeth r. Brownell, Mrs John S.
Baldwin, Mrs. Frank f. Simpson, Mrs
Charles H. Pierce, Mrs. Arthur Knight
Mrs Rufus B, Dodge, Jr., Mrs. c. c.
Orndorff, Mrs. w. r. Gould, Mrs Sum
ner A. Kinsley, Nancy Earle Smith,
Frances c. Morse, Mrs. Charles Fl. Da-
Wis Mrs. ]. B. Stone, Mrs Albert H.
Waite, Harriette M. Forbes of Westhoro
Mrs. Charles H. Devoe, Miss H. A.
Smith, H. M. Fowler, Mrs. ]. Chauncey
Lyford, Mrs. D. D. Morgan Annie L.
Goes, Mrs. Waldo Lincoln, Mrs Thomas
G. Kent, Dr. Mary V. OCallaghan,
George A. Bacon, Mrs. William f.
Whipple, Miss A. E. Anthony, S. l.. Law
| renee, Mary D. Chamberlain, Mrs John
H. Goes Mrs. Olive G. Davidson Fran
ces Hogg, Mrs. Margaret vickery, Mrs
7. G. Bates, Mrs. T. S. Johnson, N.
Elizabeth Stone, Emma S. Taylor, Caro-
line Earle, Mrs. H. X. Merrifield, Mrs
Thomas r. Sterne, Harriet B. Curtis,
Mrs Frank c. Huidekoper, Mrs. H. A,
Willard, Mrs. o. w. Norcross, Mrs. D.
H. Eames, Mrs. Edwin Brown
Mr.. Conant's normal Bible class. at
Piedmont Church, will hold it's last
meeting Friday and probably the ex-
aminations will be taken by members
the following Tuesday.
Mrs. Frank H. Mason has sent out in
vitations for progressive whist party
Tuesday afternoon