The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-23

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n QUIET and uneventful week in club
~ circles has passed, but there are
indications Of great activity after
Thanksgiving. Again the election OF
trustees in the Woman's club has been
postponed, owing to the lack of members
present So many do not seem to know
that it now takes third of their men,
bership of 1877 to elect. Members were
urged to attend Wednesday. but did not
do so. AS Incorporation cannot
proceed until trustees are elected. the
prospect does not seem very bright for
incorporation. One member said. in
speaking of the failure of the members OF
the department to attend meetings at
the homes of members that If refresh
ments were served they would attend
If that is the case, there should be a
large attendance on next "Wednesday. for
refreshments will be served and a happy
afternoon be passed by those who at
tend. 1t will be Festival of
All Nations" day. and promises to be
most interesting. Mrs. F. 2. Holbrook
Will recite, and that alone is an induce
ment to attend. Mrs. Mayr Busch, who
is on the program is ill, and Mrs. Jean
L. Hall is out of the city, but the va
cancies will be filled. NJ The Butte
Federation will herea fter meet in the
afternoon, as the majority Of the MEM
bers cannot attend in the morning. A
number of important matters are to be
discussed at the next meeting of the Fed
Grafton.
Tuesday evening the members of the
West Side Shakespeare club met with
Mrs c. S. Lewis at her home in Gale
donia street. There a fair attend
ance. and the session opened promptly at
8 and closed at 10. The usual rollcau
was answered by quotations from the
act read, the second act of Julius Caesar.
one which abOunds in beautiful lines.
After the lesson was read 1t was dis
cussed, and then the members answered
the questions assigned them at the last
meeting.
Miss Mile Griffin. who is a fine Shakes
perean scholar, read a paper on Com
parison; Brutus' Reasoning on Cae/ar's
Death and Macbeth's Soliloauy on Dun
cans Murder" 1t was, although far too
brief, a good sketch.
Miss Coffin said that to understand the
murder Of Duncan by Macbeth and the
murder Of Caesar by Brutus one would
first have to understand tn underlying
motives, and that to do that one would
have to know their lives, their environ
ment and early youth; their ambitions.
and which way they pointed. Each vic
tim was head of the state or kingdom.
She drew a comparison of the two MUIR
derers. Macbeth, a soldier first. one who
eloried in and exercised brute force, not
clever in stratagemS Brutus was with
out a peer in a city of culture, a student
lawyer; one who even carried his books
into camp, while Macbeth despised books
She told Of his dual nature. Brutus was
calm phlegmatic o. the school of stoics.
And yet the greatest Roman of them
all" His life was gentle, his home life
contentment and peace, while he Wor-
SHIPPED his wife and family. Macbeth
was often in the camp, although he loved
his wife after his own fashion. The two
had no children, and after the murder
home was hell where remorse walked
for them BOTH
Brutus and Macbeth were alike in that
each thought the crime necessary. Mac
beth, for his own advancement. but Bru-
tus for the good of his country, because
he feared a Caesar crowned would work
ill to his beloved country. He was the
best and truest type of patriot, excepting
only his crime. Yet he loved Caesar well
and had no personal cause to wish him
dead; nothing but the welfare of ais
country was, as he thought, at stake.
Macbeth had every reason to love Dun
can, who had befriended and advanced
him. He had no spur to urge him on but
his ambition, and cruelty sharp spur it
proved. His soliloquy when he finds
Duncan safe in his home shows he real
lied the enormity of the contemplated
crime. Brutus hated tyranny for his
country, and he thought he recognized
a tyrant in Caesar, were he once crowned
and was supreme ruler Miss Coffin read
effectively the sollloquy of Brutus
and of Macbeth.
The club will meet Tuesday night with
Mrs. p. Mullins in South Dakota street
It will be a poet night, Hawthorne"
Mrs. Cutting will read a paper on the
poet, Mrs. Sheehy on THE Scarlet Let
ter" Mrs. White will read selection
from his works, and Mrs. Stevens will
tell of Brook Farm.
There was a small attendance at the
Womans club, but two distinguished
women being visitors, Miss O'Neill and
Ella Knowles Haskell. Both were asked
to speak, but both declined, greatly to the
disappointment of the club
It was decided to present the Murphy
triplets with q present, whatever is
needed most, and committee will attend
TO that interesting matter. Many current
topics were discussed-the serious Illness
Of young Queen Wilhelmina; mention
was made of the fact that the Metropolis
tan railroad of New York pays $50. 900
yearly in salaries to spoilers. This state
ment called forth an interesting and ami
snated discussion on the municipal own
arship Of railroads and street cars. the