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


THE TRAVELLERS CLUB.
The Travellers Club of Hot Springs
originated in the early part of October,
1895, when a few heroic, ambitious Ia
dies met and discussed the advisable
ity of organizing a club. The follow
ing week q few more were invited to
join them, when they perfected the or
ganization by electing officers, starting
forth with " members. AS the
club thus formed consisted, with
but n exception, of young mothers,
every moment of whose time seemed
more than occupied, it was decided to
christen the new club the sThe Su-
preme Effort Club" and provide for
its members a little pleasant recrea-
ton from the multitudinous cares and
duties of their busy home life. 1t was
accordingly decided to take an obser-
Walton tour through Italy under the
personal guidance of three of our me M
bers, having had the advantage Of a
trip abroad. Here Horace and Virgil
revealed to US beauties before unim-
agined, while the towns encompassed
by ruined trenches, the crumbling edi-
fees, whose towers yet remain, eluci-
dated the civil wars and bloody CON
flicts of Italy. We unearthed the bur-
led treasures of Pompeii and spent
one of the most pleasant and profitable
years of u lives. Ere the close of
the year our club had increased to ten
members, which at that time was the
limit. At the close of this year it was
decided to enlarge upon the work so
favorably begun by increasing our
membership and following a regular
program, making a thorough study of
the history, art, science and literature
of the countries through which we
Travelled. In this we we're kindly and
ably assisted by the Travellers Club of
Sioux City, Iowa. who furnished us the
program used by them in their tour
through France. It was at the begin
ming of the year '96 that we took the
name of Travellers club, by which we
have been since known, selecting as
our colors white and green and for our
flower the national flower of the coun-
try which we are studying.
Believing that social and intellectual
development should go hand in hand,
we have aimed not to sacrifice one for
the other, hence each year has found
some social feature connected with our
study work.
Our last years work may truly be
said, I think, to have been our most
satisfactory one, as better work was
done by each individual member and
more in a social way than ever before.
The study of Holland proving excep-
tionally interesting, our members re-
quired but little urging to do faithful
work.
Approaching the crying need of a Ii
brary in Hot Springs, the club, guided
by its motto that "Nothing is difficult
to the brave and faithful" started a
movement in that direction which met
with such encouragement from our
best citizens, as we'll as the philan-
thropic people interested in Hot
Springs, that a Library association was
accordingly formed, and today we have
in u city a pleasant library room,
modestly furnished and containing
about five hundred volumes of choicest
literature.
Our work for the next year, though
not yet arranged, will be a more COM
plete study of the art and literature of
Italy than taken the first year, together
with a complete tour of England. This
is the first year in which we have not
felt we should find ourselves exceed
ingly lame without the crutch of as
sistance SC kindly afforded us by the
club of Sioux City, and we will arrange
our W program, pursuing the same
plan as previous years.
The Travellers club united with the
Black Hills Federation of Women's
clubs in june, '97, and appreciate i'm
m%easurably the pleasures and benefits
derived from this association. Each
meeting has been largely attended by
representatives of the club.
The club now numbers fifteen mem
bers. The officers elected for the en-
suing year are: President, Mrs. F. T.
Evans; vice president, Mrs. e. r. Juck.
EFT; secretary, Mrs. w. ". Stewart, and
treasurer, Mrs. G. G. Smith.
Mrs. q. r. j.
CURRENT EVENTS CLUE OF RAPID CITY
The Current Events Club of Rapid
City "a organized about five years ago
by Miss Evelyn Reeves who wa spend
ing some time in our city with her
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