Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-06
WOMEN S0UB MEETING
Members Brave the Cold to
Discuss Mechanical Art and
other Topics.
Interesting Debate on Stead's
Article Concerning Future OF
English Peoples.
Delegates to Mothers Congress
Observation-Disclosures News
Of the City.

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Despite the cold and heavy fall OF
snow. goodly number of brave ladies'
were present at the meeting of the
Women's Club on Wednesday after
noon. A massive bouquet of pink car
nations adjoining the presidents desk
made the audience forget the weather
outside.
After transacting the regular busi-
ness, reports were heard from the deie-
gates to the mothers congress. Mrs.
WATSON told of the visit to Des Moines
and the reception there received. Mrs.
Knisely explained the object of the
mothers club and gave many beauu-
full thoughts she had CLEANED from the
speeches she had heard while there.
A discussion of w. T. Stead's article
in the January Cosmopolitan. entitled
"The Future of the English Speaking
World" followed, Mrs. c. III. Van Law
and Mrs. C. H. e. Boardman leading IN
the discussion. Mrs. Van Law reviewed
the article, adding comments favoring
and affirming the contentious OF MI.
Stead, Mrs. Boardman took very
novel way of maintaining the negative.
In a we'll written allegory, in which
John Bull, his son Jonathan and daugh-
tiers, Canada, India and Australia, now
out from under the parent roof. ana
Ireland, Scotland and Wales, still pc
meath it, were the principal characters,
she taught that tho union might be
effected between Mr.. John Bull and his
grown up children and their families.
trouble would result, for mo roof is
large enough for more than one fam
ily." hence the lack of feasibility In any
plan that would seek to unite all the
English speaking world. Several other
ladies joined in the discussion. adding
good thoughts and making the subject q
most profitable one.
mechanical Art" was the subject an
nounced by the department of art and
music. Mrs. Merritt Greene, chairman
OF the department, in very happy
manner introduced each speaker. Mrs.
REYNOLDS opened the program with
piano solo, and kindly responded to an
encore.
"The Art of Manufacturing Fabrics
Lace Making was the subject compre-
hensively treated by Mrs. A. G. Ed
wards. Mrs. Edwards traced the prog
ress made in the art of lace-maRlns
from the earliest times, when threads
OF gold and silver were intertwined,
thru all its stages of development down
to the present day, with it's thousands
of machines and millions of human
hands employed in the manufacture OF
this fabric, now so extensively used by
maids and matrons.
Mrs. C. c. Horton followed with a
paper, 1.-THE Ores of the Earth-Manu-
facture of Iron" Beginning with Tubal-
Cain
"who had caught and yoked the fire,
Yoked 1t with stones that bent the
flaming spire
And made it roar in prisoned servitude,
Within the furnace, till with force sub
dued.
II changed all forms he willed to work
upon,
Till hard from soft and soft from hard
he Won"
Mrs. Horton showed the progress
made and the height attained in in
dustrial achievements due to the me-
chanical uses to which iron and it's
products had been put 1t Is to the ar
tisan rather than the artist that we are
indebted for the beautiful effects pro-
duoed in structural iron. The magnifi-
cent bronze doors admitting one to the
congressional library at Washington.
and those at the entrance to Trinity
church. New York City, are marvels In
art. Much of the iron work found in
some of our small churches today Is
worthy a place in the ancient cathe-
drals. thus showing that American
holiness originality and art have con-
quered.
Mrs. David Lennox in q very able
naper told of 1.-THE Art of Manufacture
Ing Machinery" The progressive spirit
of the times is shown by the fact that
each trade has some paper published,
whose columns are devoted exclusively
10 the advanced ideas and progress OF
that trade. She referred to the per-
fected machinery of modern times, tina.
does nearly everything that can be done
by human hands; rehearsed the Won
ders of the modern printing press that
REQUIRES but a few hours in which 10
print a magazine and send 1t toward us
destination. Comparisons We're drawn
hetween the former methods OF per-
forming many of the domestic duties
and the present. with the many con-
yenient household necessities. Various
occupations are lost because of modern
appliances, for example, the shoemaker
is lost: only the cobbler remains. In
closing Mrs. Lennox urged 1t as the sa-
cred duty of every mother that she en-
courage her boys to learn the practical
in education, to select trade.
The last paper of the afternoon upon
TRANSPORTATION was given by Mrs.
George w. McNeely. Mrs. McNeely re-
viewed the former modes of travel and
the perils encountered on land and wa
ter. also the evolution of a wagon. She
traced the modes of transportation thru
these stages: the beast of burden, early
wagon, chaise, coach, omnibus, horse
car early railroads and concluded with
a description of the palatial cars now
To be secured on any of our great roads,
and the palaces afioat on our seas.
AS closing number the audience
united in singing America.
SENATE HoNoRs p. M. SUTTON.
Senator cIassen Introduces Resolutions