Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02

women artists never take children or
child life for subjects. Mrs. Reuger
thought perhaps, that women had too,
much of them in the real life to indulge
largely in the ideal. The Heavenly
Twins" were doubtless very earthly to
their mothers and nurses Mrs. Buckles
told Of Butte girl, Miss Florence Coon
ey, now studying art at the Art Institute
in Chicago. Some excellent specimens
Of her work We're shown-Some of which
We're executed when Miss Cooney was
only eleven years old. Miss Cooney's
speciality Is portrait work. Her work
certainly possesses great merit as the
Chicago Art Institute recognized when
sire received, as a reward of excellence
a two years scholarship in the Chicago
Are institute. Butte feels justly proud
of Miss Coorey. Mention was made of Il
Mr. Hiles, OF the Art institute of Lon
don. who is exciting much interest in the
art world. He Yields the brush with his
mouth. having lost both arms through an
accident. in his early youth, showing
tt at the Go 1-given fire of genius Will find
expr, sson und2r any and al! difficulties.
Wednesday being LongfellOw's birth
day some time was devoted to Longfel-
toned how chiltrsn love the poems of
Longfellow, pointing to it as showing
how near that poet stood to nature. The
cfEd like ard untutored red man.
breathes the. poesy OF the air of the
air of the woods of th'2 sky. Tho poetry
of art ana invention never appeals to
him.
The burden OF discussion fell on Mrs
Nation. Mrs. Newill thinks Mrs Nation
IS a misdirected woman while probably
honest. Mrs. Reuger thinks the time
honor5i coup,lt "A whistling woman ar
a growing hen always comes to some bad
end shoud be revised in this day Of
new things. She suggests that it be
written:
"Wl:stling women and hens that crow
will make their way wherever they go"
(Mrs. Rsuger and Mrs. Knox are the
club poets)
Mrs. Green Majors thinks Mrs. Nations
work IS rightly done in a wrong way;
that women might find legal means to
accomplish the same thing.
Mrs. w. j. Christie thinks Mrs Nation
is all wrong and a disgrace to women and
to the state of Kansas.
: Others were of the opinion that men
nave made laws n Kansas. helped by the
wOms ana to plea e he WON IN and then
refused to have them executed to please
themselves.
If women have the power t. procure
the enactment of law" said one. they
ought to have the power to see it exc
cuted. When a Jaw that men are friend
ly to. is violated. they soon find way to
enforce it. That they are not friendly
to the suppression of vice is proved by
the fact that they do not suppress it, And
this is true of Butte as of Kansas Hon
ors are easy between the two: and it,
Butte had a few Carrie Nation's' officers
of the law would be appointed to enforce
the law, and policemen would not step
in to take a drink. like good fellow
with the maudlin drunkard who in ..alt
an hour would assault innocent women
on the street or go home and try to
kill his wife.
THE law says a man shall suffer the
penalty of his crime. whether drunk or
sober. Common decency. a decency es-
tablished by the long and cease,ess cry
of suffering women compelled the enact
ment of such laws, but the justice AM
the jury If there be one, say: Ia is
guilty, but he was drunk, make the SEN
tence light And no wonder that such
conditions produce Mrs. Nations.
The programme of the next meeting
will be in the hands of the Current Top
les department. Up to date matters in
science. in politics, lin reforms. a piano
solo by Miss Belle LeBeau: recent bio
graphy by Helen c. Harper; Some new
histories by Mrs. Hastings.
1t was reported to the club that Mrs. T.
A. Grigg. the recording secretary was
in great suffering from sickness. The re-