Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-07-08

by members Of the club. Each
member at roll call answered with
quotation from the playunder study
The work was improved on as fas,
members were able to test meth.
DDS of study. Some excellent ar
ticles were submitted which sur.
prised even the members Of the
club. Sometimes they were fav-
ored by lectures or papers outside
the membership, notably two in
teresting papers by Miss Bergey,
and during the year two lectures
of exceeding merit and value by
Rev. Swickard. A year ago last
January it was decided to take up
a regular course of study as auxil-
larry to a Boston club. Mrs. r.
F. Conner was asked to attend to
the necessary correspondence, a
work which she has faithfully and
very satisfactorily attended to even
to the present time.
Again on the first day of the first
month of the third year of the sec
ond term of the ruler Grover, of
the exalted house of Cleveland,
occurred another election of off
GERS in the Shakespeare club.
Again consulting their past expert
ences the club decided to cling to
the mystic letter "M" and chose
Mary of the younger branch of the
house of Conner, a famous family
of French extraction. Her do
minion over the club has been ex-
tended to this day. The steady,
easnest, persistent work of the
club, has accomplished much and
the help of their eastern correspon-
dent, has been much appreciated
as she has often sent words of en-
couragement and praise. Early in
March it was decided to celebrate
the birthday anniversary of Shake
speare and the present gathering is
the result.
"All these weeks, months and
years the club has faithfully re.
membered that Friday afternoon
is to be devoted to their work.
They have paid strict attention to
the outlined details and feel that
it has all been helpful and delight
full"
AT the last celebration of the an
niversary of Shakespeare Mrs. H.
Daley spoke of the work accom-
plished by the club during the
past two years. 1t was in response
to the toast, "Our Club" in which
she said:
"Our roll has heightened, and
truly the two years have brought
us in our work an infinite variety!
Some of our experiences were
mercifully yelled as they came.
Little we rocked that moonlit
night in April, go, what rocks hid
under the waves of time before us
rolling! To be sure we had
scanned a chart on which our way
was traced and discussed again
and again the words, "metrical
test" But they were written hard
by the headlands and gloomy isles,
marked "Shakespeare Mind, and
Shakespeare Art" In otr guile
less ignorance we embarked on the
course '97-7 without a fear. We
had not gone far when we were
sick, very sick. But like Dewey
we knew no such word as ssfail."
Friday after Friday we attacked
the Notifications; one by one they
were taken. l confess we suffered
in the engagement, but in May we
proudly said, we have met the en-
envy and they are ours. Unlike
Spain we knew when we had suf-
fered enough and we declined with
thanks the continued guidance of
our former pilot.
"With a courage all its own the
club confded its future to a pro-
gram committee, they were to
cling to Shakespeare, they were to
devote more attention to current
event. They we're to mingle, dis
creetly, history and travel in for
eign lands. Modern governments
were to be considered, and litera-
ture, art and music, each, were to
be pre-eminent.
"With these suggestions they as
sailed their task in the torrid days of
July. The first of chill October
had summoned the vapor from the
bosom of our river ere the program
was complete. Reading its printed
page, each member of the commit
tee essayed to comfort herself with
the sentence pronounced on one OF
old, She hath done what she
could
"The years work embodied the
plays of Anthony and Cleopatra,
Timon of Athens, Othello and
Henry VIII, with a synopsis of
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