New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-09
NEWS FROM ROCHESTER.
INTERESTING AND LIVELY DISCUSSIONS
AT THE STATE FEDERATION.
LITERATURE. DRAMATIC ART AND PATRIOTIC
SOCIETIES ARE SOME OF TIE SUB
rr-f-Ts TOUCHED Upon


Tho club women Of the New-York State Fedora
ton in session at Rochester are gathering inspira-
lion On every side and the hostesses Of that city
are arording opportunities by their unbounded
hosnltaltv for the unlimited interchange Of ideas
The city streets and homes are fairly owned by the
club women. Everything which means the advance
uent Of women. morally. educationally or social
w. receives the gravest consideration III inc CON
vention sessions.
The lvelest discussion o. Tuesday afternoon was
upon the resolution OF Mrs Carpenter. Of Sorosis,
dealing with the proposed reorganization Of the
General Federation Of Womens Clubs. Mrs. Car
penter spoke as follows
In order 10 bring the question OF the reorganiza-
ton Of the General Federation before this CON
vention wish to present the foilowing resolution
that a DECENTRALIZATION Of the General Federation of
Womens CLUBS IS not advisable al the present time
tut that changes in representations be recommend
that no Club less than year old shall be ad-
,ni,eS 70 mem hersh!p in the General Federation Of
Women's CLUBS nor one whose membership IS less
man y and that ne tb o 9 ees or 'he
THAT the 70 per cent tax is approved individual
Thai the tax or State Federatiors OF % cents
for each club for General Federation purposes is
THAT the office Of State correspondent be anol
ished IN States that have decorations. and as fast
as state federations are formed
Some Of the members were opposed TO the General
Federation as catering too much to the officers
and as not afording sufficient distribution Of ben
eH;s and knowledge 10 the rank and file OF the
club members After considerable hot discussion
the resolution was received but not passed. and
referred 10 a committee OF five 10 consult with a
committee Of fifteen from the other States
RACE ELEMENTS IN LITERATURE.
The morning session opened yesterday with dis
cussion on literature. Mrs. Edward Addison Greedy
uss chairman and introduced the topic. She said
IN part:
ito
ed!,or OF a prominent New-York daily parsr he
spoke with Somewhat masculine leyiiy OF the "a
tets proposed by this federation for discussion In
reply il was suggested ma ie If s his own edj
tor.al work, excepting telegraph news "hch alone
FOR instance" he continued what can be stated
that IS novel about herature?
in reply ! modestly quoted the topic to which my
The Combination Of Race Elements IN Literature
He ou.zzcaiiy bestowed shrewd glance from an
ex-erleTred eve and promptly exclaimed, Why.
that's clever; there ought TO De money IN that
4 new people must evolve new forms OF art In
America is spriaging up type OF merary VOTE
the insight wrought by conscious effort to de-
yelop the best there is in US we nave our own
dialect stories our types OF character our repre-
sentative literary searchghts. Browning gladly
acknowledged that his widest range OF readerS was
W america ana J." '1''''N'
Following Mrs Greely's Introduction. Mrs. Lo-
zier q New-York City. spoke as follows on Scot
tsh Dialect Stories
Ian Maclaren Crockett and Barrie nave carried
Us inc fhe kailvard and the lonely Highland VII
lage and nave charmed not only with simple
and graphic painting, but nave lntICouceu u
10 yIs ~ Character fascinating In originality and
spirtusIity From ''Rab and His Friends 10 the
doctor in Aud Lang Syne' we uaVe! thIougn
gallery 81 portraiturc Of canny Scotch. suDue,
mys,ical and practical strong IN poetry ana haru
sense .-
These Scotch writers have enriched our literature
with uumherless beautiful and suggestive meta
phors ana have made their own names syHoHS-
nous with truth purity and strength
Mrs George b. Wallis, OF the Continental Chap-
ter Of the Daughters Of the Revolution. spoke on
The Japanese Tale" She said in part;
The japanese have a volumnous literature wnhn
has been very imDerfectly studied. and OnIy "Itl.
the last ffty years have had glmpses OF cel g.
phases through the transations OF rev sSno'a.'
u this difficult language The Language oa .a,nrs
uon Is necessarily part and parcel OF iNS "a absr-
and customs the japanese Is as curious an" ortoinal
scterstic as anything belonging 10 ms oiie''
type Of mankind" - ,o md I'm
II IS remarkable fact that very latge an la
pOrtani part OF the best literature "hlch '1 errtts
has produced has been written by women. a 49,,
was doubtless due TO the absorption or the hi"9
line intellect ia Chinese studies ana also tno
tempt Of the stronger for the iftNoyus Praason
OF writing poetry and rOmances AhV'nc. ttoiteve
IS that the Japanese in those days ala not s
that women should be kept In subjection ~ We" We
not until later when Chinese IDEAS "ere IL. aad
ascendant that the position OF women va oS frec-
ms Is why their literary work has an an VI rhar
acter <..
The Cent Monogatori" is a novel OF hily-lou.