The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-08
WOMEN's FEDERATED CLUBS.
Interesting Discussion In Line of a
Round Table Talk.

At the headquarters Of the Federated
Women's Clubs yesterday Miss Isabel
Lawrence. of the state normal school at
st. Cloud, conducted round table talk
on "'Taste in SEiterature and Its Cultiva-
ton in Children
Miss Louise Kiehle said that it was nat
ural for the child to want to extend his
horizon. and consequently his taste could
readily be directed. along good lines. Mrs.
A W. Rankin recommended that an eff
fort be made to have stores and publish
ers to select a better class Of books and
present them to the public. who would
buy them quite as readily, in many IN
stances, as worthless ones. She sug-
gested that Miss Lawrence might prepare
a list which a. committee could submit to
dealers in the state.
Mrs. Alice w. Cooley, of Minneapolis,
suggested that 3childrens imaginations
did not need cultivation. They would
grow anyway. The question Is whether
they shall be directed by the beautiful
fairy and folk lore or by the neighbar-
hood gossip. A study Of the individual
child was needed in selecting books, and
no list, however valuable, could do away
with the need of that study OF particu-
lar cases Miss Stella Wood, of the kim
(lergarten,. association, spoke on telling
the stories to the children, illustrating by
examples of how readily they understand
and grasp the best. Miss Young thought
there was too much reading and that 1t
accounted for the decline of conversations
al abilities Mrs. Stewart, of st. Cloud,
objected to the continued use of the same
story or FORM no matter how good Tor
the children weary of it. Miss Jennie
Schaefer accounted for much of the read
ing of exciting and worthless books by
the fact that children love activity, and
if their own is; restrained they get the
same satisfaction from their reading.
Miss Todd, Of the public library, called
attention to the need of parental direc-
ton, in the reading of children from IA to
Is. T ~ ...
The programme for today, In charge OF
the library committee, Of which Miss
Countryman is chairman, is as follows:'
"What the State Is Doing for Libraries"
Miss Countryman; The Literary CLUB
and the LlRr nb FOR Mlys MRS Enc
Merriman; Mrs. o. C. Gregg, "An Expert
ment at Coteau Farm" A.: K. Bush, "A
Farmers Reading Circle , Mrs: G.; b..
A. b. Giddings, ''How We Got One at
Anoka;" Mrs. Bessie Laythe Scovell,
Village Reading Rooms" Mrs. b. A;
Chase Why The M9thg E,n Sh9T ime: Rea Mrs.
J. p. Bell, 1.-The Boy and Girl in the Coun-
try
The musical programme yesterday was
by pupils of the Northwestern Conserva-
tory of Music, Minneapolis. Numbers
We're contributed BY Miss Nellie Pratt,
Miss Lentzy, Miss Potter, Miss Alice
Widener Miss Florence Verge and Miss
Marguerite Cole,
Mrs. Follett Was assisted in welcoming
the club women of the state by Mrs. A.
Faitout. Rochester, Mrs. H. A Tomlin-
son. Lake City; Miss Erichsrude, Blue
Earth City; Mrs. AL. Gillette, St Paul;
Mrs. John D. Carroll, st: Paul Park; Mrs.
IT. W. Slack, Sc Paul; Mrs. E. n. Wole-
YER, St Anthony Park; Mrs. 4. F: King King.
man, Mrs, w, 9. .Fryberger, Minneapolis;
Mrs. J. n. Lewis, Hastings; Mrs. G.. A.
Hubbard, Lake City; Mrs. D. A: Akin,
Pennington; Mrs. H., M. Tuelle, Newport;
Mrs. H A. Tom5tinst9h St. Peter; /, Mrs; M.
w Dunlap, st. Paul; Mrs. A. F. King
man. Northfield; Mrs w. L. Written, st.
Paul; Mrs George G. Squires, st; Paul;
Mrs. L. T. Chamberlain, St Paul; Mrs.
John Miller, Nprthfield; Mrs. Schmidt,
Northfield; Mrs! W. e. Todd, Albert Lea;
Mrs. Frank Palmer, Sleepy Eye; Mrs.
John w. Stultz, Owatonna; Mrs. S. r.
Van SAINT, Winona; Mrs. Powell, Mrs.
Luiey, Mrs. Bailey, Mrs: J. A. Swenson,
Mrs J. II. Cornish, ST. Paul; Mrs: J. G.
Crays, Mrs. C. S. Cairns, Mrs; w. B.
Douglas, Minneapolis; Mrs. Montgomery,
Hamline.