The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-22
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work. The department of current
events will also be continued. Owing
to the indefinite absence of both the
first and second vice presidents, Mrs.
Eggleston and Mrs. Fitzgerald were
elected to fiji the vacancies pro tenn.
yesterdays meeting. The first was en-
titled Architects of the French Renais-
sance, and Their Buildings and was
written by Miss DAILY and read by Mrs.
l.. G. Smith: the second was 1.-THE Re-
vival of Learning under Francis L."
written by Mrs Walker; the third was
Raphael" written by Mrs. Dorches-
ter. After the reading of the second
paper, interesting biographical sketches
of Luther and Calvin We're given by
Mrs. Wood and Miss Douglas Mrs.
Brigham gave short sketch of the
life of Francis Is sister.
The first woman's club house ever
built within Boston limits, and so far
the only one, is that of the Dorchester
Woman's club, which was formally
opened Oct. 81, and is a model in every
particular. The club has membership
of 500 and for two or three years every
effort has been made toward establish
ing themselves in a club house of their
own. The building is a beautiful and
symmetrical structure, costing $4,000,
and rejecting great credit upon those
who carried the project through to a
successful completion. The building is
in colonial style. Upon entering the
club house proper one passes through
vestibule Skill feet in size. opening
into a larger reception hall 22x3O feet,
finished in quartered oak. From this
hall there open two parlors 1Sx26 feet
and a larger one 1SX5S feet Folding
doors between these rooms permit them
to be thrown into one large room. The
presidents office is also on this floor.
The left half Of the building Is intended.
for the society's purposes, While the
right half has been devoted to a ban
quet hall, an auditorium and a gym.
nasium. The second floor is designed
much like the first and includes tile
offices of the, secretary and the direct
ors. Over the stairway in the hall is
located a musicians gallery, so arrang-
ed that one may gaze from the upper
hall directly into that below The upper
story of both buildings is devoted to
gymnasium purposes, the club house
side containing five bath rooms, IL
dressing rooms, IA lockers and ctor-
age place for apparatus.
After holiday, the Nineteenth Cen
tury club of Kalispell met for work
on Jan. 6, when, after roll call an
swered by quotations from French au-
thors of to-day, business and current
topics, an hour of conversation, leo oy
Mrs. Walker, on prominent French
writer's of fiction, history. poetry,
science and criticism, was briskly kept
up each member doing her best to
make this feature in the club work
pleasant and profitable. A paper On
Victor Hugo, by Mrs. Sewall, and one
on Mime. de Stael closed the afternoon.
On Jan. IS the work taken up after the
usual routine was a continuation of the
previous weeks programme, with a
conversation on the French stage and
it's celebrities, led by Mrs. Walker,
brought out some very pleasant crti-
cisms and descriptions of prominent
people of the music world, an exhaust
i've paper on the French academy, by
Mrs. Stanford. being the end of the,
work for the day.
The Girls New Century club of Kali
ispell, composed of girls between the
ages of IL and Is, under the auspices of