The Chilhowee echo. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1899-19??, 1899-10-28
Club Notes.

ing meeting OF the year at the res
idence of Mrs. Samuel Mckinney
ON Wednesday morning Oct. %.
The Year book published by the
National Herbart Society, togeth-
CT with the supplementary course
of study presented by the chairman
offers a most tempting and profit
able study for the season, The
Club will meet on Friday, Nov. 3
at $50 a. m. at the residence of
Mrs. John Williams, Cumberland
avenue.
The Knoxville Art Club held its
initial meeting in the assembly
hall of the Woman's Building
Tuesday evening, Oct. II. The IN
clement weather prevented the full
attendance of the club, but those
who attended were fully repaid, as
the programme presented was so
pleasing 1t should have been heard
by all interested in art in Knox
vile. The minutes of the bus
mess meeting showed the studio
in the small western room on the
lower floor of the Woman's Build
ing to be now open for the work Of
art students. A committee OF
artists was appointed to be pres
ent each Monday morning to ad-
wise with the students about the
work of the week, which shall be
on exhibition. This committee
consists of Mrs. Lutz, Mr., Lloyd
Branson, Miss Mary Ogden, Miss
Mollie Kennedy, Mr.. J. W. Wal
lace and Major Hunter Nicholson.
The programme for the evening
was begun by a short Introductory
paper by the president of the club,
Mrs. A. A. Yeager; after which a
paper was read by Mrs. J. E. Lutz
on her work of the summer. Miss
Mary Ogden, who has spent the
summer studying under Chase, in
New York, talked most charm
ingly of her work. Each of the
many sketches made by her was
pinned upon screen, while she
gave in her modest, candid way
the criticism or commentator OF
the master.
The three musical numbers were
violin solos by Miss Amelia Burns
accompanied by Miss Hooking
They were artistic and beautiful
in perfect harmony with the ART
programme.
The studio is open every day
and these literary meetings occur
the third Tuesday in each month
From the third Monday in Dc
tober until the Odd of May, Mon
day lay is .Ossoli Day, :. The z. busy
housekeepers Of Knoxville ma,
have "blue Monday" mornings
but they have the privilege o
spending the hours of the after
noon in the discussion of subject
of literary or of economic value
On Monday, October Odd, the frs
of the series of literary pro
grammes for the year was carrie'
out. Mrs. Harry n. Saxton, tn
president, was in the chair, an,
promptly at the appointed hour
2:30 o'clock, the business of tn
Circle began.
The committee appointed to Sc
cure a bust of Margaret Fuller Os
soil was granted more time 70
conference with New York artist
on the subject.
An offer had been made to tn
State Federation, through its pres
ident, Mrs. Beard, by the presiden
of Oriad Institute, of Worcester
Mass, of a free scholarship to tina
institution to be given to som
young woman of Tennessee. TIL
appointment of Miss Fain wa
made during the summer, Mis-
Fain is now at Oriad Institute
from which she will return pre-
pared to teach practical industrli
science.
The next business was IN regar
to a communication from Pro
Cooper D. Smidt, of the Unive
sity of Tennessee, regarding tt
expenditure of $50 that Ossoll ha
voted toward the maintenance
Cuban students at the Universlt.
The Cubans having proved III
worthy, it was decided that tt
fund be used for the assistance
East Tennessee girls who could NJ
defray the expenses of the Tn
versity.
Miss Mary B. Temple, one
the committee on literature, &C
ing as chairman in the absence
Mrs. McAdoo, presided over Il
literary exercises. She stated TIL
the object Of the committee was
this last year of the century to pr
sent a recapitulation of the liter
ture of the seventeenth centur