Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-12-18
AN OPEN SESSION.
The Monday Club Gives Delightful En- tertainment to Which the Gentle
 men Are Admitted.

Yesterday was the date for the reg ular meeting of the Monday Club. The club met, but in an irregular way. Instead of the meeting being held at the regular meeting place it occurred at the residence of Mrs. J. L. Fisher. Instead of being held at the regular hour in the afternoon it occurred in the evening. Instead of the usual and regular literary and musical programme being rendered, an "open session" was held. An open session means a social session, and in this instance the male attaches of the families. represented by the members of the club, were permitted to enjoy the hospitality of the club. The pro gramme provides for two open ses- sions of the club each year, and the interesting entertainment given last evening insures the club good au- dience at its next one if the gentle men are invited. The interior of the residence of Mrs. Fisher was made still more handsome by the decorations for the occasion and the brilliant electric illumination. The matter of the entertainment provided was entrusted to a committee of which Mrs. J. V. Shepard was the sole working member and the members of the club themselves were not aware of the particular form it would take until they had assembled last even ing. Mrs. Shepard organized the "Coonville Monday Club" composed of the following members: Mes danes Howard Burmister Charles o. Ellis and Fen s. Hildreth and Misses Helen Strange, May Campbell, Olive Fisher, Hattie Oliver, Violet Hatz, Helen Munyan, Amy Nelson, Gussie Raible, Waters and McGill. The members were gor- geously arrayed in costumes from the very latest fashion plates of the Coon vile Delineator and were as dark looking aggregation as one could wish to see.
 Miss May Campbell was made up to impersonate Mrs. May Wright Sewall, the grandmother of woman clubs, while the president of the Monday club, Mrs. F. A. Tritle was impersonated by Miss Olive Fisher and the first vice president of the club was impersonated by Miss Helen Strange. Other members of the club were also duly represented by various members of the Coonville club, whose special and particular duty it was to initiate any special distinguishing actions or motions of the one represented by gestures or otherwise.
 A mock session of the club was held which was full of local hits both of a personal and general nature. The programme was patterned after the regular programme of the Monday club, though of a humorous character which furnished no end of amuse- ment to the members of the club, as we'll as to their guests of the evening. The programme included two musical numbers, each of which elicited an encore from those present.
 Mrs. c. E. Dake and Mrs. G. c. Ruffner constituted the refreshment committee, and at the conclusion of the session of the Coonyille club an elaborate spread was served to the guests.
 Mrs. Shepard, who arranged the proceedings gone through by the Coonville club, certainly deserves great credit for this feature of the en- tertainment as it really consisted of a play, each part of which was written out by her, and each member being required to commit to memory her part. The ladies engaged in it also acquitted themselves most creditably:
 The entertainment demonstrated that the art of entertaining is not wholly monopolized by the male members of society in Prescott.