Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-26
THE WOMEN'S CLUB
Home and Education Department
"publishes" the First Number
Of a Paper.
Editorials, Original Stories anf
Other Special Matter Prepared
By the Members.

Some one remarked at the Women's
Club, after the program Wednesday af-
ternoon, that the home and education
department was nothing If not original
and the work of the afternoon proved
1t. Who is there that can not recall
the thrilling experiences back in the
old school house, when at the Friday
afternoon Literary" the school paper
was read? Surely none of the women
at the club but remembered those old
days when under the editorship of Mrs.
Henry Stone, chairman of the depart
ment, the first number of the Argo
made its appearance. In her salutatory
Mrs. Stone gave the information that
the paper was named for the good ship
in which centuries ago Jason and his
men set out to find the golden fleece
The terms, the Instructions to contri-
'butors and the policy of the paper
were very unique. That the paper Is
magnanimous towards it's contempor-
aries is shown by the fact that the only
"hit" at the local papers concerned
their tendency to cast articles into their
capacous waste baskets. But some
of the other clubs did not fare soswell.
Mrs. w. F.. David, who read a love
story which really happened years ago
in Maryland. came first because. she
said, lit is supposed the women skip
the editorials and even the locals, TO
read the love stories first" The story
was that of a little Quaker lady. a
great aunt TO Mrs. David, and was
charmingly written. Mrs. Fred Welles
descriptive article was very short ane
very we'll written and described hill
of sand on the bank of Lake Michigan
Mrs. C. H. Van Law, who appeared be-
fore the club for the first time, read
a humorous article which she callet
she told, in an amusing way, of the.
efforts of the school marin from the
city TO drive a country calf. The tele-
graph editor was Mrs. II. l.. Laird and
her assistant was Mrs. G. r. Brown.
The messages received by the Marconi
system of wireless telegraphy. Were
very astonishing. Mrs. F. w Russell
had contributed a witty little article on
Whats in Chidren's Minds" which
was replete with sayings of the little
ones. In the absence of Mrs. Russell
Mrs. A. b. Conway read the article
Mrs. S. b. Lutz held the position of city
editor and in her department answered
the questions from correspondents. She
also edited the column of Some Facts
Worth Remembering. The contribu-
ton of Mrs. D. r. Smith was entitled
"A Fairy Tale of the Nineteenth Cen
tury." and as she told of the improve
ments from the time of her grand
mother, she made an imprisoned plea
for woman suffrage and temperance.
For the womans page of the paper,
Mrs. l.. r. Willard had written an able
article on the servant problem. Mrs.
A. b. Conway read the article and the
paper had been read through with the
exception of an extract from lettei
recently written by Mrs. ]. NJ. Whit
aker in Salt Lake City, and read by
Mrs. S. P. Knisely
The T.-R. can think of but one failing
of the Argo but it is grave one
Where is money to come from with
nary an advertisement!
Mr.. f. o. Hanks closed the program
with piano playing as Prof. Barbourka
had opened it with violin music. Mr.
Hanks selection was Sharwenka' s
Polish Dance and for an encore he
played a catchy waltz. Prof. Bar
bourka, accompanied by Mrs. r. w
Mcbride played Chopins Second Noe.
turne and the THE Song of Love" by
Taylor.