Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-12
THE WOMAN'S CLUB.

again this week and glad enough the
members seemed to be to get back in the
harness again. The Womans club en-
joyed a social day, entertaining & num-
ber of guests. In all the clubs the topic
of conversation was the appointment of
Mrs. T. w. Buzzo to the highest office Of
the Federati in Montana, the news of
which first appeared in these columns
last week. AS chairman of the State
Federation committee Mrs. Buzzo will do
much for the progress of the clubs of
p Montana. and the clubwomen feel greatly
eated over the wise choice of the Ma
tional Federation directors.
Mrs. Buzzo will not sit at home and
W. it for someone to come and tell her
what is going on and ask her what to do
about certain club matters. She Will
visit the clubs of her district and do
everything in her power to help them on
ana it will not be long with Mrs. Buzzo
in charge before we will have a state
federal on
Mrs. Buzzo is a most progressive and
ur-to-date club woman. but first of all
sh is a womanly woman. one to whom
other women instinctively turn when any
dilemma confronts them and she is al
ways ready to aid one and all. She is a
strict parliamentarian and wants all
rules and regula tons enforced but she
always forgves the offenders. She
is one of the best writer's of the
club and a fine speaker. clear and
distinct enunciation. speaking always
to the point and never departing
from the subject matter. She was the
choice of every club woman of any eX-
perience in Butte as the one woman pre-
eminently fitted for the responsible posi-
ton she now holds.
The Pan American exposition at Buff
falo was discussed in some of the clubs
and one club has an original idea in re-
gard to the helping of the Montana COM
mission which will be carried out but for
the present will be confined strictly to
the club members. until matters are
moving smoothly.
The attendance at the Woman's club
was unusually good last Wednesday and
the afternoon one of thorough enjoy
ment. The social and domestic science
department was in charge and the title
for the programme In an Indian Tepee,"
was the keynote. The room was taste
fully decorated with all kinds of Indian
Curios, Indian posters, baskets. ivory
ornaments. wearing apparel. pottery
and in fact nearly everything the Indian
manufactures was represented. The la
dies collected the curosities from cti-
zens who kindly loaned them. Mr..
SchatZlein loaned a number of things.
among them a scene of Indian life and
two Indian heads, the work of Russell
the cowboy artist. Mrs. Green Majors
leaned a splendid collection of baskets.
Miss Kate Hammond loaned her collec-
ton, Mrs. Carter and Mrs. j. c. Baker
also loaned a number OF curios.
One thing which will interest the pub
lie of Butte was the letter received by
President Holbrook from little Nicola
Thomas, the child vioinist whom the
club aided materially by giving a benefit
concert for her She wrote that she was
taking three lessons per week and her
teacher gave her great praise for the
work she was accomplishing. That she
had played one Sunday night before one
OF the clubs of New York. composed of
newspaper men and musicians. That she
was the recipient of an ovation and
was asked to play the next Sunday
night that she did and was pre-
scented with handsome gold medal by
the club.
Mrs. 4. w. Buzzo read paper on Our
that purely original papers are read in
the club the subjects generally being
matters of history. the results of long
and systematic porting of the writer
over encyclopedias and histories. The
Woman's club was fortunate in having
two entirely original papers, that of Mrs.
BuZZo and one by Miss Hammond The
latter's paper being confined entirely to
the Indians of Montana. Both papers
were the result of personal study and in
vestgation and of great interest.
Miss Hammond is now finishing up
history of Montana which is expected to
be a concise authority on many subjects
hitherto never published. She spent
number of weeks on the Flathead reser-
walton, and therefor speaks with author
ity.
Mrs. BuzZO spent number of years
in California and in Utah and had ample
opportunity to study up the Indian and
that she took advantage of the oppor-
tunity is evident.
Mrs Buzzo'S paper is given in full:
Our governments wards may be said
to include its pensioned old soldiers and
sailors-tO whom We owe reverence and
gratitude for gallant services rendered;
of criminals, the deaf. dumb and blind
and the insane-Who call upon us for
wise and patient sympathy, and the In
dams, Oldest, most problematic and most
expensive of them all. Now these wards
are not by any means on par nor am
inclined to tax your endurance by con-
sidering them all in one paper 1t is
quite enough that for a few minutes we
examine into the past, present and
future of" The Noble Red Man."
First comes the thought of the Indian
as he suns himself before the door of
his tepee. Is he dreaming, think you,
of the past of his race? An alien on his
native soil and among his conquerors,
does he feel any interest in the origin
of his people as do the tourist, the ten
derfoot and the ethnologist, who each
after his own fashion. studies. suggests.