The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-05-18

mans thoughts, and the dream Of The
beautiful, that is or is hoped to be The
authors, sculptors, and artists Of all ages,
have attempted with word, chisel and
paint TO pay tribute to your sex, and give /
form to their worship, but the irony Of
fate, made the best efforts OF skill, ge-
nus and the endowments of nature mere
travesties upon mans real conception of
woman
On this occasion, those for whom
speak, desire in their humble way, to pay
tribute to your worth, and gave express
sion to their praise And I now take
great pleasure in formally presenting 10
your honored president a gavel. On this
beautiful work of skill is embossed the
Kingfher bird, after which our beautiful
city was named and which, 1t is f1bled,
built its nest upon the surface Of the
sea, and nd power OF calming the trou
bled waves. And it is hoped that, as that
little bird harmonized the discordant ten
denotes of the wave and hurricane of the
boundless deep, may your presiding Off
Ger be endowed with halcyon powers, to
magically transform tumult and discord
TO "ten thousand harps that tuned an
geic harmony"
We trust it will be received as a souve-
mir Of the high esteem we entertain for
you and your work, and as it is used by
your president and her successors in Of
flee at your deliberations may it ever
bring you pleasant memories Of this
event and Of its donors-fathers, hus-
bands, sons, and-sweethearts
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
Mrs. President Dougles' address was az
follows:
Members of the Federated Clubs of Okla
homa and Indian Territories.
Goethe, in the second part of Faust
/ in his wonderful allegory of society
makes the three social graces appear
as the art OF giving, the art of receiving
and the art of acknowledging. These
imaginary beings enjoin mankind to
''Be graceful in your giving,
Graceful in your receiving"
and lastly
when these benefits you own
"Chiefy to these graces shown"
On the present occasion the clubs of
Kingfsher have united in the grace of
giving and the evidences of their cour-
round us on every hand. Truly graceful
and gracious is the welcome voiced by
their chosen spokeswoman, Miss Logan.
The Federated clubs of the two terri
tories are the recipients, and their ap-
probation of this opportunity to be
graceful in receival" is manifested by
the number of clubs representatives here
present. Mine, the happy privilege to
join with Miss Reese and endeavor 20 be
chiefly gracious in thanks.
And now what does our Federation
bring to Kingfisher?
Am 1 not right in saying that we come
to representing a band of omen, who
have united in confederation with sol
emnity OF purpose and with consecrated
objects in view-a band of women loyal
to these objects and to each other:
through our clubs, we, strangers In a
new country, have learned to know each
other, to becmoe acquainted, and that
thereby larger sources of happiness have
been open to us.
Each and every CLUB has done many
things to lift up and better the communi-
ty in which ii exists.
Club life has been more to us, the pion-
eeT women OF OklanOH1d ana 1n0ldn led
ritories, than it could possibly have been
to the women of the older states The
club is to them, whose lives are so full
simply an incident While with us, the
club has minstered to our intellectual
and spiritual as well as to our social
life. 1t has brought inspirations and va
riety and the graces of refinement into
the monotony of our pioneer lives. We
may honestly rejoice that our Federation
has grown in the two years from ten
clubs to thirty, and that our member
ship has increased from two hundred
to nearly seven hundred. The reports OF
our standing committee on education, lit
erature. civics and art, and the report OF
each club, win show during these meet
ings that much has been done since our
meeting one year ago. Streets and al
leys have been Kept clean; parks have
been begun; reading rooms established
school rooms have been decorated with
works of art; libraries have been founded
and library buildings have been secured