Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-09
THE ATLAS CLUB.

On Thursday evening the Atlas club
met with Mrs. Whitcher at her apart
ments in the Lenox hotel. The regular
business programme was finished, cur
rent events discussed and the two pa
pers read before sociabilty reigned.
Then it was really a discussion of cur
rent events, and the evening was not
only thoroughly enjoyed, but each one
felt she had learned something from
the general conversation. Refreshments
We're served.
Mrs. NJ Slater told in the current
events discussion of Miss Gertrude
Cutcheon of Lebanon, who is a nlathe-
NAUTICAL wonder. OF her having solved
problems in geometry that scholar
had ever solved before, and Mrs. Slater
gave the problem. Mrs. Daum spoke of
the small pay given to women in Rus
STA, describing the different kinds of
labor. Mrs. Whitcher opened inter-
esting subject by speaking of the recent
action of the Womens clubs of Chicago
passing a resolution regretting the eX-
clusion from the general federation the
Woman's Era club (colored). This ques-
ton has been widely discussed and will
no doubt be bitterly fought in the next
meeting of the federation. The Atlas
club discussed it, and the majority felt
ious to help all women progress to give
them sympathy and counsel they
would not feel like inviting them to
their homes. The difficulty is where to
draw the line. If negroes are admitted
to federated clubs, then they must be
allowed to attend all social functions OF
said clubs. And the women of the south
and those from the south would not
minsle with them. It-so the club
thOught-meant really the Withdra wal
Of the southern clubs from the fedora
ton if the color line is dropped. One
member seemed to have the sympathy
OF the members when she said that she
| thought the colored women should have
\ their own general federation, their own
| clubs, as they DO their own churches
President Gilbert read the first paper,
| Grants Administration. She COM
| menced by saying:
The name by which Gen. Grant is
known in history is not that given to
him in baptism. He was christeneG
Hiram Ulysses. The name Hiram was
proposed by his grandfather and Ulysses
by his grandmother, though fate de-
creed that he should bear the initials
of his country-U. S.--for the member
OF congress Who seventeen years later,
appointed him a cadet to the United
States military academy, sent in his
name Ulysses S. Grant, and the lad,
after vainly endeayoring to have the
error corrected by the West Point au-
thorities. submitted to the inevitable
and, even after leaving the academy
always signed himself Ulysses Simpson
Grant"
Mrs. Gilbert then told of Grants
BIRTH and gave a brief synopsis of his
career. From that she passed to the
great events of his administra ton 1t
was like all of Mrs. Cibert's papers,
most interesting, and while of necessity
culled from historical references, she
made many side issues part of her
paper and told many things not often
encountered
Mrs G. w. Munroe was to have read
paper on Noted Women of the
SOUTH but being unable to attend,
Miss c. l.. Turnkey kindly acted as sub
stitute. OF the paper one can judge
by reading it. 1t speaks for itself. In
addition to the women mentioned in
the paper. Miss TURNKEY spoke of the
Mrs. Vanderbilt who built the univer-
sity at Nashville, of Mrs. Frank Leslie,
Amele Rives Chanler, and many others.
Her afterremarks were as interesting
as her paper, which follows:
Noted women of the south-ladies and
gentlemen VINO are not here--I am a
sub. If there is truly delightful
work in the world it is that of a sub"
1t is redolent of that delightful SUCCESS
ton Il am doing something that SOME
body else could have done and would
have done much better" Yet by the
grace of the women of the Atlas club,
who ever have a kind word an an en-
couragins smile for me. l essay to do the
best | can. 1t is needless to say that
my subject is long and broad one.
AS the south reaches east and west
around this great globe of ours and ex-
tends even TO the point where the south
pole sets up an icy barrier to extension.
Again. Woman is such a permeating,
such an all-pervading subject, that there
cannot be a shooting Or stabbing or
even a plain drunk or bank robbery,
but some of the smart set-men, of
course-ask pertly, who is the wom-
an?"
Still I will try to ''set bounds to the
universe" and so condense my volatile
subject, Woman" that few at least
of the noted women of the south may be
touched. Now. where shall l begin?
They began themselves. I believe. with
Pocahontas. She had a mother. think.
her birth, marriage. occupation and
death 1t is presumable that she was
born, and almost certain that she died.
The annals are full of the doingS of
Pocahontas father, Powhattan, which
fact modern logic would construe into
deduction that Mr.. Powhattan was a
considerable man."
But Mrs. Powhattan wasn't "nothin'.''
Some think. Pocahontas is only nom
de plume of one of one Mrs. John
Ralfe on whom Queen Elizabeth con-
ferred the title of Lady Rebecca.t