The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-03

One of the most interesting meetings
Of the coming biennial at Milwaukee
will surely be the one held at the
Athenaeum Monday afternoon, at
which the presidents of state fedora
lions and chairmen of state CORE
spondence viii make their reports. Mrs.
Sarah Plat Dicker VIII be chairman
OF the meeting and unlike the SINH
lar meeting IN Denver, it viii be open
10 delegates and visitors.
The reports are limited to three min
utes and in that time it is not posi-
bic to give in any degree a full account
of the work accomplished in any one
state but each state president viii
doubtless have some salient feature TO
bring before her fellow presidents.
The president Of the Arkansas Fed
Grafton, for instance, may have some
thing to say about a Bird Lovers
Club newly organized in her state.
II has the simplest of organizations,
there being no dues and no meetings,
and but one officer, a president. ANY
one can join by giving her name ana
address and signifying her purpose TO
keep the pledge. This is not to buy
any more wild bird plumage 1t will
be observed that this does not forbid
the wearing Of plumage already bought,
nor Of ostrich plumes nOr of any quilts
from the departed inhabitants OF our
baFnyards. The fact that the member
ship of this Arkansas club grew from
one TO fifty in four weeks would seem
10 prove that public sentiment, in that
community at least, s becoming alive
TO the horror of killing the beautiful
little DEMONS Of our woods and noun
tains to adcFn "a our hats.
The Colorado Federation, that organ
ization of whose members il may truly
be said that they have learned that the
true work of knowledge is not to know
bus TO do, will have good results to
show of its efforts to preserve the
wonderful cliff dwellings of Colorado.
Its committee has had the cO-Opera-
ton of one of COlOradO's senators and
Of one Of her representatives and there
is a very good prospect that these arid
lands Will become a state park.
Another instance Of the way in which
work is pushed ahead in Colorado is
the establishment Of travelling libraries.
1t was voted at the October meeting of
the federation to undertake this work,
using to start it the surplus left from
the biennial fund Of 1898, Since Octo~
Der twenty travelling libraries, each
containing fifty bound books besides
magazines and paper-bcund novels,
have been put in the field.
We are perhaps more interested in
Colorado than in any other state, be-
cause it lies so close to our doors, al
because its interests and conditions
are so nearly the same as our own.
Hence we VIII speak of one more club
movement there,
The Denver women have recently
started a lunch club Such is the name
and lunch is provided for 10 cents or
soup alone for 5 cents. The object of
the club is. however, far wider in its
scope, as il aims to be a place where
girls OF ali s0-called classes who are
earning a livelihood may meet each
other. the more fortunate ones giving
OF their culture ana knowledge To
those who have not had the sams 90
pOrIunities as themselves. There is
pleasant room where the girls can rest
for a few minutes after their luncheon,
and ia the evening there are classes in
physical culture and several different
branches OF mental training. Hhe fee
IS 81 per year. and it is said that many
a poor girl who could not afford that
sum has had the membership presented
20 her by some fellow-worker with
Esrger wages.
A rather notable club woman passed
through salt Lake last week, stopping.
however. but two days. This was Miss
Louise OseOOd, d well known lecturer
on art Miss OsgoOd was returning
from Portland, Ore, where she had
been giving a series OF art lectures.
She win attend the biennial as dele
gate from the Alumnae association of
Wheaton Seminary of Massachusetts.
one OF the few institutions which still
retain the name seminary"
Miss Osg0od was very much delight
ed with what she saw of Salt Like,
was enthusiastic over the enterprise of
the Ladies Literary club in building
a club house and hoped to return at
some future time 10 talk TO the club
women and their friends on the subject
nearest her heart