The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-01
W0MEN'S CLUBS
END CONVENTION
Programme Too Long. Though
Full of interest.
PAPERS READ YESTERDAY
RECEPTION IN WEBER CLUB THE
FINALE.
PAPERS READ YESTERDAY
fsnecial to The Herald.1

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convention of the Utah Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs closed this
evening with a large reception at the
parlors of the Weber club. The day
was a busy one. some sessions having
been left over from the previous meet
ings. The sessions represented were
all of absorbing interest, and no one
of them could have been omitted with
out loss to the club members. Never
theless the programme was too long
and too comprehensive to serve the
best interests of the whole body
At the club extension session, Mrs
billiard, the state organizer, reported
two new clubs admitted into the fed
Grafton, the Agricultural College club
OF Logan and the WOman's club of Mt.
Pleasant A fine talk embodying many
good suggestions for the extension of
the club movement throughout our
state was given by Mrs. Nj. F. Allen
of Park City. She suggested that brief
reports of the work done by the yariOus
clubs be printed in pamphlet form and
distributed among the various cities
and towns of the state. these to be
followed by a visit either in person or
BY letter from the state organizer.
The reciprocity session was conduct
ed by Mrs. A. w. Putnam of Ogden
need of a reciprocity bureau in Utah
was not forthcoming owing to the abb
Sence of Miss Rankin, Mrs. Putnam
herself gave such an inspiring talk on
the benefits to be derived from such an
organization that many of the club
presidents conferred with her as to
1he exchange of papers.
Mrs. Ewing's Paper.
One OF the most interesting of all
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mittee. Mrs. A. G. Ewing of Salt Lake
gave so delightful and convincing a
talk on the work planned by the art
committee for the Improvement of the
schools, the betterment of the cities.
the preservation of the natural beau
ties around US and the uplifting value
OF artistic surroundings, that she, too,
had many appeals to her before the
close of the meeting for help in this
line in the outside places. 1t is pro-
posed by the art committee to rent a
collection of works of art and send
them through the smaller towns on
somewhat the same plan as that of the
travelling library
At the clOse-Of Mrs. Ewing's talk she
introduced Mrs. Z. a. SiIberstcin of
salt Lake Council Of Jewish Women.
who read a clever paper on the "Influ-
ence of Art on Modern Life" Mrs. Sill
Dersteln treated the fine art that is the
work of the American artist the work
OF the illustrator, the special influence
OF the cartoonist especially in a pOlft-
zeal way. the wonderful achievements
in municipal art, the art of dress and
the art of house decoration
The afternoon opened with a splen-
did talk by Professor William NJ.
Stewart Of the state university on the
kindergarten and it's relation TO the
regular school room work Professor
stewards talk was illustrated with
stereopticon views, and was greatly en-
JOyed by the whole body. At the close
of the lecture a resolution pIedging the
federation to lend it's aid to the kim
dergarten cause was offered by Mrs
Ida SmoOt Dusenberry, the president
OF the kindergarten association. and
was adopted. Mrs. w. r. Hutchinson.
chairman of the education COMMITTEES
asked for. the support of the club wo-
men in the work of the kindergarten.
the establishment of a school of do
nestle science and the effort to obtain
representation on school boards
throughout the state.
A Literary Production.
After a fine paper, one of the best
from a literary standpoint given dur
ing all the meetings, by Miss Lou
Paden of Springville. the music session
under the direction of Mrs. Nelden gave
a splendid programme. Time will not
admit of comment on each number
but the solos by Miss Edna Duncan
were considered by many as the special
gems of the programme
The home session, which promised.
under the leadership of Mrs. Emily s.
Richards, to be one of the most inter
esting of the convention, and which
should have presented discussions led
by Mrs Solomon Siegel and Mrs. E. z.
Shepard of Salt Lake was. owing to
the lateness of the hour, dispensed
with
The committee on resolutions report
ed by It's chairman, Mrs c. w. Nov
er of Salt Lake. expressing regret for
the death of Mrs Elizabeth Cady STAN
ton, extending sympathy to Mrs
Moore in her bereavement apprecia-
ton of the greetings extended from
the other clubs, appreciation of the ap-
pointment Of Mrs. Nelden to an Office
IN the general federation, urging a
closer union between the state and the
general federation. thanking the cit
liens and the press for their courteous
treatment. and especially thanking the
men of the Weber club for their ex-
tension Of courtesy in rendering the use
OF their club rooms for the reception.