The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-19

I clubs on the contrary" said Mrs. Sage,
| "are organized with a serious purpose,
| not for mere personal comfort"
! The New York Household Economic as
| ISOLATION is teaching the housewives of
| the slums to cook. Since good food makes
| better men, the value of the work Of this
| association is very great if the effort is
| kept up long enough to have permanent
results. These lessons are given at the
| home of some tenant Of the house, who
| offers the use of her kitchen and invites
| her friends to attend Glasses under the
| direction of Mrs, Christine Terhune Her
| rick are held at the Industrial building on
! Lexington avenue and certain afternoons
in the week Maria Parloa reads interest
! ing papers al these classes.
The Pascal institute. recently opened in
| New York, is probably one of the most
J thoroughly equipped manual training
| schools for women in the country. 1t
was founded direct result OF a read
| ing given in April, 1928, by Miss Margaret
| Pascal on "A Model School of Manual
| Training for Girls 1t is supported by
gifts and subscriptions. The dressmaking
class was the first one to open.
The new club directory of the Wisconsin
State Federation shows the federation to
be composed of 101 clubs, a gain of nearly
20 over last years directory. with manl-
bership increased from 3,6S2 of last year
to 3947 for this year. The Wisconsin wn
men are proud of the fact that they are
to act as hostesses to the next biennial,
to be held in Milwaukee in 1900.
The members OF the Homer club royalty
entertained their president, Mrs. Moore.
at luncheon at the home of Mrs. Ham
mond The table was laid for a, in the
form of a r. and eXquisitely decorated in
the club colors, white and green, the flow
ers used being lilies of the valley and as
paragus fern, The menu consisted Of
seven elaborate courses. interspersed
with toasts, which were responded to in
a brilliant and witty manner
The 18th meeting of the Martha Wash
irGton Reading club was held at the art
rooms of the public library March a. The
members responded to roll call with quo
tations from William Cullen Bryant. The
history lesson was of unusual interest it
being on colonial civilization, the many
ners. customs and education of that day
being fully discussed, Mrs. c. +. Hoyt,
the president, acting as teacher.
Mrs. Graves prepared an excellent paper
OH Edgar Allen Poe which was very much
enjoyed by the members.
Mrs. H. C. Alcott was appointed secre-
tary and treasurer in place of Mrs. A.
n. Erick, resigned. Several of the mem
hers were absent on account of sickness,
but the meeting was very much enjoyed
by those present.
The first number on the programme at
yesterdays meeting of the Woman's club
of Anaconda was a paper entitled THE
Hotel Rambouillet,' written by Mrs.
Durston. A synopsis of the paper is as
fellows:
Rambouillet owes its name to a Norman
chief of knightly character Some au-
thors describe the range of buildings as
taking the form of a horseshoe, but the
hoof would be indescribable to which Il
shoe SO shaped could be fttingly applied.
The changes have been endless, and in its
present entirety it wears motley an
aspect Occur de Lion might, We're he
to walk down Pail Mall with modern
box coat over his suit of complete steel.
The lands of Rambouillet passed, in the
14th century, to the d'Angennes family,
| who held them for 300 years.
Scarcely monarch has had anything
to do with the residence of Rambouilet,
, but mischance has befallen him. In the
year 1900 Catherine de Vivonnes. espoused
Charles d'Angennes, lord of Ramboullet.
The celebrity of Madam de Ramhoullet
, is due to the salon. or literary meeting
place, which she established early as
1908 She endeavored to refine manners
by giving special attention to literary
conversati ton. The Precieuses owed their
existence to Madam Ramb0uillet's salon
and influence. Her most famous child
was Julie dAngennes, who afterward
. married the Marquis de Sales. Ramhouil-
let was subsequently bought by Louis
, XVI, who erected model farm.
, Louis Philippe would fain have kept
Rambouilet for himself. but the govern
ment assigned it to the nation.
IS,lI xipty ArG 7 ROT oil
paper on "Descartes and His Philoso-
ply" Briefly sketched the paper is as
follows
Modern reforms of logic. by which may
be understood the attempt to place logi.
cal theory in a more close and living re-
: laton to actual scientific method, begins
> with Bacon and Descartes. The latter
founded the Cartesian school, the object
being to establish all truth after the
, model of mathematics. In considering
, the contributions made by Descartes, We
= must consider several important i'm
| provements in algebra. He was the tirs
to place on clear basis the doctrine Of
( powers, freeing it from its connection will
geometry and comforting on the science
. new and potent organ of expression b,
d the Introduction of the index notation
| His leading discovery is the application
:, n of algebra to geometry. Descartes' prin
u cipal works were "A Discourse on tn
Method of Regulating the Reason and 0
= 1nquiring After Scientific Truths Met
aphysical Medtations' and "Principle
; of Philosophy
Descartes was born March 50. 1896 AS
: child he was very feeble He nur
tured in the gardens of Southern TOu
; raine. In 1904 he was sent to the Coles
: of La Fleche in Anjou. He finished hi
course in 1872. He was sent to Paris Il
), see life, and appears to have taken read
- lily to the amusements of the gayer youth