The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-15

A subject that is at present agitating
the minds Of club women is the advisa-
bility of making the club meetings pub
lie. In the past admittance to club
meetings has been steadily denied to
the newspapers, and in consequence the
reports from the various clubs have
been merely a skeleton outline of the
proceedings. OF late, however, MEM
bers of the prominent clubs have been
brought to the realization of the inter-
est, rot only in tie city, but through
out the state, that is being taken in
the progress of the club movement.
People are not only interested IN the
work being done, but they are inter
ested in the subjects under discussion,
and it is believed that in the Lear fu-s
ture the members of the more progress
siVeA clubs Will amend their cDnstitiI-f
lions and permit fuller and more salts
factory reports of their proceedings,
Addresses BY Superintendent Cooper.
on Friday afternoon the. members of
the Ladies' Literary. club and their
guests listened to a most interesting
and instructive address by Superinten-
dent Frank B. Cooper, on Literature
and Life He said. Thinking. loving,
doing, should be the motto of life. We
have not time to live. We put off all
enjoyment into the future until we. are
older Children are entitled TO enjoy
ment as we'll as older mem and women.
School IS not a preparation for life, it
is life and it should be enjoyed
THE initial sources of life cannot be
discovered; but some of the elements.
which go to make UP life are known,
and / shall today discuss one of these,
a. stream which may pour a clear and
life-giving food into our lives, on a foul
polluting stream.
"a beautiful poem speaks of us as
sculptors, chiseling our lives from
blocks of marble. This is exquisite
poetry, but incorrect psychologically
we are builders, and the blocks we use
are IDEAS These ideas are elastic, they
become larger according to- the infiu-
ences brought to bear upon our lives
| Schools are to- furnish very largely the
material for these ideas. What we do
ourselves furnishes a part f3f our lives.
| but wtat other people do and what We
| think of what they do constitutes the
larger part.
sThe proper study of mankind is
man The deeds and character OF a man,
not his words. are what have the great
est effect. We realize in later life that
the strongest influences in our school
days was that of the teachers person.
| atty. net the Latin we read or the
! problems we worked.
| $50 in choosing an ideal teacher l
! would demand that her language be ac-
curate and elegant, her manners those
! of a princess and her morals so pure
that she has poise of life which can
never become unbalanced.
/ 1.-THE associations and language Of the
home have the same effect; and the
teacher can tell at once from the child s
language the kind of home from
which he comes, and the style of lam
guage. lie hears there. / have spoken
| of the direct association with living
people, and the influence therefrom.
/ There is an indirect association possess
! ing an influence no less potent The
men and women in the world of the
! imagination touch our lives as forcibly
ais those of the real world. Lincoln,
/ Washington. Christ are our friends.
4 Florence Nightingale's life ennobles
ours And in like manner the host of
! friends in bocks-Victor HugoS Grand
Bishop OF Myriel,'' Quentin Durward,
David Harum and Billy P. Cullum,
each exerts over our minds and lives
his peculiar uplifting influence.
'NThis power of imaginative character
has been recognized from the earliest
days. The stories of Homer We're re-
cited for centuries before they were
/ written. and served to arouse the hero
/ ism of the Greek youth.
Plutareh's Lives have furnished