Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-05-12
CENTURY CLUB.

The closing concert by the Beethoven
String Quartetts was given last Satur.
day Rftoinoon with selections from
Haydn. beethoven and Brahms, the
members OF the quartette, were assisted
IN the closing numbers by Mr.. Ii. W.
Meyer, viola, and Mr.. l.. Volmer. vic.
loncello The club and the public are
much indshted to the music committee
OF the clab for arranging this series of
delightful concerts.
The largest and most important
gathering of women ever held in this
conutrt will he at Denver, Col, from
June 2ist to 2Sth, inclusive, on the
occasion of the fourth biennial of the
General Federation Of Women's Clubs.
The meeting has been advanced month
beyond its usual date, In order that the
hostess city may be in her most at
tractive garb, and present ner many at
fractions at their roint of perfection -
the middle of June. Although Denver
is 1000 miles from the A tlantic sea-
board, the cordially Of its hpspitable
CLUB women ia proving strong enough
to draw many visitors even this tormid.
allie distance, and the coming biennial
is expected to eclipse any yet held in
interest and attendance. Not less than
LOCO delegates are expected to be
present and even greater number of
visitors, among whom will be many
women OF national reputation in differ
nnt lines of public work Every sub
ject ON tue programme will he tfaated
10y specialists, and will be OF intense
interest to all women whether home
makers or wage esrners.
Aside from the attractions OF the
meetings the women nf Denver have
arranged most generous and typical
Western hospitality. Receptions. garden
parties and fetes will fill the hours
spared for sncial functnus. aud free
excursion into the mountains will be
given TO all the delegates by the Bien-
NAL Local Board. THE meetings will
be held IN tho Broadway Theatre, which
| will be freshly decorated each morning
with the famous wild flowers OF the
RocKias.
The matter Of rates is not yet de-
| finitely settled, but delegates will at
least he able TO secura one and one-
third fare, With 30-days' stupover, or
possibly even greater reduction. A
rate OF one fare will be made to all
points in the State after the biennial,
thus Bifordiug fine opportunity to TX.
plore the scenery of the Rocky Noun.
tains.
The general subjects to he considered
will he Homo. Phases of Economic
Work in Clubs and Village Improve
ment lamentations. =" The Library
Movement in tine United States, 1.-The
Industrial Problem as II a fleets Women
and Children, " Art and Utility"
THE Folk Songs of America, &r.
! Conferences on club methods will be
held at which practical phases Of ques-
lions affecting large and small clubs
will be considered a the Press meet
ing, over which Mrs. Henrutin will
| preside, such themes as How to So
cure the Co operation Of the Press with
Altruistic Movements will be taken
up. some OF tho best women jour
/ nalists in the country will he the
speakers. Mrs Cornelius Stevenson,
president of the noted Civic Club of
Philadelphia, which mas been so notent
a factor in the municipal life of that
city, will have charge Of the meetings
of civic clubs. AT the Industrial meet
ing Glare de Graffenried and Mrs. A.
7. Stevens, two OF the most noted labor
statisticians OF the country, will sneak,
/ No "t'i uluS AHulS "
president of the Boston Union for In
dustrial Progress.
Child study will be prominent part
of the exercises. Theirs will bu exhibits
from the kindsrgartens, and from the
kitchengardens and School Of Domestic
Science. a children's meeting will be
held on Sunday afternoon, when Jane
Addams of Hull House fame will tell
tho children about hsr friends, the
little italian children of Chicago.
The Denver Woman's Press Club will
have an exhibit including all the works
of the women writer's OF Colorado.
This club will extend courtesies to
it's visiting sisters of the pen. The
Colorado Equal Suffrage Association
will give reception to the delegates at
which addresses will be made by
Colorado women on this "psculiar in
stitutiOn" nf the State, Mt which ques-
tions mRy be asked by the visitors
The exercises will be varied by vocal
and instrumental music. On Sunday
June Goth, Il principal pulpits of Don
yer will be filed by Ruch preachers as
Celia Parker Woolley and Caroline
Bartlett Crane, and such speakers aa
Jane AduamH, Mrs. Cornelius Steven
son and Mrs Mary Soloman, president
Of the National Council Of Jewish
| Women.