Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-12-12
waferss.
.Dindonneau Roast aux Huitres.
Jackson, a la Bechamel
Sailed Almonds
lce CREAM.
Shrimp, en- Mayonnaise.

Coffe-ette
AS Was to be expected the feast was
not without its intellectual sauce. but
With risticSoriginality the toastss
We're announced as -prandial In
stead of post -prandial and were SO.
given. Miss Mertie Halbert. president
81 the club, asked Rev. p Boardman.
TO pronounce the Invocation, after which
She introduced Mrs. Martha Green as
the ster of ceremonies. which service
she performed in as brilliant and enter
tanning q manner as ever similar sary-s
ice was rendered.
The entertainment committee com
posed Of NIes dames Hawkins. Ioenmead
and Kaufman, die the gracious thing
in preparing it's program By allowing
the men a place in the speak
Ing. Whether or not it was due
% the discriminating powers of the
COMMITTEES IS not known but the repre-
sentation from the weaker sex pres sent
"a their part of the program with an
eclat and ability that suggested the
marked superiority of the modern club
woman, Mrs. Nellie II. ady' res pended
to Two Times Seven Are Fourteen
citing the ancient Jewish custom of
holding a feast year one in every seven
and pointed out the fitnesssof the pres
crlt occa son. Following another course
Mrs NJ II. Schseler toasted s'Ths. Un-
5expeeted Guest until he felt that he
was glad he had come. Another course
Intervening and Mrs. Agnes c. Sears
defended the change that the wonlans
club movement had wrought In the
ancient characterzation Of matrimony
as being Il state Of two in one by re-
spending to the subject Two Times
One Are Two. she maintained that.
astho with the new woman matrImony
no longer meant two souls with but
a single thought, the matrimonial
state had lost none OF its charms here
by. Mrs. jessie Van Zandt recited OF
The Club Woman" Who was not pres
7ent following which Mrs. S. Marion
Boucher explained the "Cocci- Socia-
bills. It is needless TO say she began
with the undivided attention of her
audience on such a subject and to her
credit 1t may be said She lost nothing
from her start. The "cocci- sociaplilis'
Mrs. Boucher had discovered, after a
germ with which the entire membership
3CtuDs DcCOlIlt IttitcSiy III
noculated, resulting in disease called
sociability Azure she thought impos-
stble and even undesirable.
Coffee was then served as a bracer
and the men given a chance 70 talk
back. Rev. j. "a Niblock spoke upon
the Close of the Nineteenth Century
being encouraged for the good of hu-
mainly in the great advance the CEN
fury had shown in moral, spiritual and
material development The toaS tmas-
ter then announced that the clue hav-
ing recently married into a newspaper,
the know all newspaper man should
be asked to talk about Annual
Meetings. which Mr. D. w. Norris. Jr,,
did by assuming it TO have been crime
to select for this task man, since he
could tell nothing of the annual meet
ings of the Marshalltown Woman . Club
and proceeded to administer punishment
by discourse upon the Importance OF
the annual meeting as a reviewing point
of each past years work In the proper
guidance of the. work of the year to fol-
low. He was followed by Mr.. c. H
Van Law. a lawyer, upon Nineteen
Hundred Plus Ten. What Them" Mr.
Van Law said that 1t was but natural
for people, az their situation grew des.
perate, to call upon the lawyer and he
was glad to know that as he rendered
the situation even more desperate there
was In reserve still older lawyer who
would be called upon for assistance;
Mr.. A. c. DAILY waste close the program
The first lawyer thought that, at this
present rate of progress of the weaker
sex, 1900 plus 10 presaged grave
dangers for the so-called sterner sex
unless the men got up and hustled. MIR
DAILY closed upon the text When Two
Minus One Equals Nothing, which he
interpreted to mean the Wives" He
proceeded to prove his proposition by
proving the corollary that one plus one
often equals something and citing fire.
nuent historical evidence Of it. II,
thought that the wife's influence was {
great power even without woman.
suffrage and he brought down the hous.
when he spoke OF the grief women has
escaped by not belonging to his politica
party. which had not elected presiden
lin more than forty years. He ther
diverged to the proposition that IL wo
men would read more their husband,
would read more and gave some advic,
az to what they should read. Mr.. Dial.
having no fear of trespasHng on anothe
| speakers time gave decidedly the long