The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-27
Thanks to Mr.. Packard.

read the following resolution, which
was unanimously adopted:
Thanks to Mr.. Packard.
Whereas. In common with the great
BODY of our citizens, the WOmen's clubs
of Salt Lake City have fully realized
the benefit and advantages of the free
public library and have watched with
deep concern its struggle for existence;
and,
Whereas. They have been advised
that to secure the permanency of the
library and to extend it's influence and
power for good, Mr.. John q. Packard
has, in a way best calculated to pro-
mote these ends. bestowed upon the
library a gift of s95. 600; and,
Whereas. This Utah Federation OF
Women's clubs would join with their
sister clubs of Salt Lake City in this
testimonial; now. therefore be it
Resolved. That the Utah Federation
of WOmen's clubs-assuring Mr.. Pack
ard of their full appreciation of this
evidence of his public spirit and noble
nerosity-gratefully thank him for
his magnificent gift; be it further
Resolved, That the secretary trans
NIT to Mr.. Packard a copy of this ac-
ton of the federation"
Mrs. J. c. Royle spoke on the resolu-
ton, giving a short history of the work
done by the Ladies' Literary club to-
ward establishing free library.
Mrs. Corfman and Mrs. Kelly then
outlined the work done during the past
year by the subcommittee of the
travelling library.
Mrs. frame 3. Elliott gave an inter-
esting account of the work of the state
art committee. She felt that while the
work accomplished had not been all
that could be desired, owing TO lack OF
funds and the absence from the state
of various members of the committee,
still what has been accomplished and
the forces that have been put in motion
are worthy of record.
Work of the Committee.
The members of the committee. Mrs
Elliott said, have actively pushed the
work outlined as far as consistent with
conditions. In this city last winter the
club women exhibited over 100 repro
auctions of world-famed pictures The
prime object being educational and sec
ondariIy to raise a, fund from entrance
fees which would be devoted to max
ing a model school room in one of the
school buildings. AS a result of the
exhibitions there is today a better
standard of taste in Salt Lake than
before the Ladies' Literary club
brought the collection to this commu-
nifty.
The next number on the programme
was a vocal trio THE Spell has
Wrought" by Mrs. Ella c. Wetzell
Mrs. Kate B. Anderson and Miss Edna
Dwyer, which was enthusiastically en-
cored-
"As a Means of Culture is the Mod
ern Novel Worthy of Consideration %
was the subject of a thoughtful paper
by Miss Alice Reynolds of Provo. Miss
Reynolds said:
Perhaps the most striking fact in the
literature of the nineteenth century,
writes Brander Mathews, is the i'm
mense vogue of the novel; Dr. Holmes
once said that during the civil war the
cry of the American pOpulace was for
bread and the newspapers. II would
be an exaggeration, of course, to say
that during periods of peace the cry of
the fairer half Of our population is for
clothes and the novel, but it is an ex-
aggeration only and not a misrepresen-
tatiOn.''
Miss Reynolds next criticised briefly
the writings of Scott, Dickens, Defoe.
Richardson, Smoliett and Fielding, and
told of their places in the world
Of literature. And finally coming
down to our own time she spoke inter-
estingly of the works of Marion Craw-
ford, Kipling and Hall Game. And fur
Their said:
Il believe that the inordinate reading
of novels leads to degeneracy It is a
well established fact that it impairs the
memory. Still that is not the gy.atest
evil accruing therefrom. Persons who
read novels and novels only lose poAver
to think the thoughts to be found in a
well knit essay on philosophy. science
and history
The novel today has d monopoly on