Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-16
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Mrs. Uusle d. r. Wells followed WIN
an article on Alexander Pope
The tourist section Of the Ladies Lat
erary club has charge Of the CLUB pro-
gram Friday afternoon, Dec. END, the
following program will be given
/. Drulds and Druldlcal Monuments
..... Mrs. Fenton
2. Mont ST. Michel .,....Mrs. Daipy
.. A Tour In Normandy ana Brt.
tany ,... ,...... Mrs. 4. q. WeDoer
The next regular section meeting VIII
be Tuesday morning, January 2nd, lsVV,
when the study OF Paris VIII commence
The D. A. r. society was entertained
on Thursday at the home Of Mrs. ems
holm, when an interesting program
was given and a number OF new mem
beers admitted.
The n. w. p. c. will meet with Mrs.
Annie Schiller, 357 east Fourth South
street, Saturday evening, Dec. 3d. Pro-
gram; a poem by Mrs Phoebe Young,
talk on Social Settlement Work by
Mrs. McVicker. q letter from Mrs. AL
der will be read; current topics by Mrs.
Annie Schiller,
Philadelphia lays claim to the oldest
womans club in the country. II was
founded l04 years ago by twenty-three
young women of prominent quaker
families, and is still a nourishing or
ganization. II Is called "the Female So
ciety for the Relief and Employment Of
the Poor" At the Office Of the organi-
Zation, which has been for fifty years
at No 1l2 North Seventh Street, EN-
ployment Is given during the winter
months In. mending, knitting and sew
ing 20 more than hundred women.
The product of their labor is disposed |
of at store attached TO the home OF |
the club. Private sewing Is also done. |
Membership In the organization is in |
herited through the eldest daughter |
passing In direct line from the found |
ers. The business is conducted by a |
committee OF thirteen and the officers, |
who are two clerks and a treasurer
Club women have a 1900 calendar OF |
their own. Mrs. Farlin Q. Ball, ex-
president OF the Chicago WOman's Club, |
has compiled 1t for charity. II is artis-
tlcally gotten UP, and, what is more, is |
OF unusual merit In that the quotations |
lOI thNu QdN III tue year dlt
not "hat stale and Improbable" as
critics ere fond OF saying, but brimful |
OF cleverness from the best-known
writers and wits. Here are several
samples:
Blessed is he who has nothing to say
and says iit."-Lowell.
'Men who stand much upon their
dignity have not as a rule. much else
to stand upon, Merriam.
Ignorance Is not so damnable as
humbug, but when II prescribes pills
II may happen to do more harm. -
Eliot
9TH dead are always poplar knowd
q society wanst TO vote MONUMENT TO
a man an refuse to help his family,
all in wan night. Dooley.
That well-known charity In Chicago,
the Erring Woman's Refuge, OF which
Mrs. L. b. Doud is president. is tie
beneficiary OF this strictly up-to-date
calendar. It is on sale. by the way,
at the Chicago Woman's Club. and club
women are buying up couples for
Christmas gifts.
"'Twere good YOU do so much for
charity" is the Shakespearean sugges-
ton on the coyer-and a good Christ
mas reminder for everybody
Speaking Of calendars. the suffragists
also have one for 1890 that is interesting
and unique. The compiler Is the we'll |
known national organizer, Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait
This one--t is called "woman's
Century Calendar"-is a booklet OF
eighty pages. Aside from dates for the
coming year II has In chronological or