The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-26
HNoNG THE
GLUE WoNlEN

The Shakespeare club of Dillon has
begun the work for this year in good
earnest. Thus far three enthusiastic
meetings have been held and Is new
| members enrolled At persent the
membership numbers about &c. The
annual elections are held In January.
The officers now serving are: Presi-
dent, Miss Laura Miller; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. B. F. White; secretary and
treasurer, Miss Mary lines. During the
fall months the club has been study
ing Othello, but owing to the fact that
new officers are elected in January the
work for the entire year Is not yet
mapped out.
The Fortnghtly club of Helena began
its years study on September %. The
study of Browning is the chosen work.
A most excellent and comprehensive
programme has been issued which
however, is only a bare outline Of the
manuscript programme arranged for
the club by the Chicago university
In this are included Hints for Study"
and outlines and suggestions on the
papers to be written. The club is at
any time at liberty to appeal for ad-
ditonal light to the department at the
university.
llG llIsL lIllllS CDIlSluGTeu III tl1e pTO-
gramme is Brownings art form, which
was presented in paper by Miss
Stole. Previous to the paper comes
a reading of My Last Duchess" by
Miss Sutton, following a study of the
same. Then a reading of Count Gis-
mond by Mrs. Wickes and study by
Mrs. Harlow. This is the chief man
ner of treatment of subjects through
out the year; now and then we note an
excellent plan, as the study and dis
cussion of unsettled points with a
leader in charge.
Brownlng's works are arranged ac-
cording to their character as art poems,
religious poems, love poems, humorous
and grotesque poems, dramas, music
poems, poems of patriotism and strug-
gle and unclassitied poems. The last
two meetings of the year take UP Pippa
Passes, which furnish two very full
days of study; there are quotations, Sc
lecsions from first soliloquy paper on
Brownings women, conversation on
unsettled points by the class and dis
cussion of leading characters. AS far
as we know, the Fortnightly is the only
club in the state that has it's pro-
gramme prepared by specialists. In this
one thing at least the Fortnightly leads
To do good work in the study of any
subject a club must first be provided
with good programme. To arrange
programme giving the proper proper
ton OF time to important and trivial
events requires an immense amount of
reading and a fine discrimination. 1t
is unreasonable to expee. committee
of women with a multitude of domes-
tic and social cares to produce such
programme allowed by most clubs dur
ing the summer vacation. 1t stands to
reason that those who have spent
lifetime in the study of one or two par
ticular subjects are best qualified to
plan course of study on those sub
jects. 1t is well worth the amount ex-
pended to know that ones study is
planed in a systematic manner. Now
adays 1t Is an easy matter to have
club programmes thus provided, in
fact new profession has been created
by the demand.
The expense of membership in the
General Fedora ton of Women's clubs,
as provided for in the Denver amend
ment, is at the rate of 10 cents per
capita annually instead of cents, as