The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-03-25
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 25, 1908.
THE W0MAN'S CLUB
ENTERTAINS LAVISHLy.
Reception to Mrs. Elwood of Ellens-
burg and Celebration of Eighth
Anniversary Features.

the Woman's Club of North Yakima to
Mrs. Elwood president of State FEEDER
alton of Woman's Clubs on Tuesday
evening, March IT.. 1t was an informal
affair with only the Twentieth Century
Club as guests for the evening. Upon
invitation MIR. Poole sang for the ladies',
and Mrs. Horsley and Mrs. Cannon
rendered a duet in their happiest style.
There we're also several instrumental
selections during the evening.
Tuesday afternoon was the eighth
anniversary of the Woman's Club, and
it being special day the efficient pro-
gram committee, with Miss Wright as
chairman, drew upon the beauty, wit
and talent of the club to assist in enter
tanning their president of state fedora
tions. Mrs. Richards, with her usual
with piano solo, selection from
Schubert, after which Miss Wright in
troduced Mrs. Harry 5. Elwood, who
made an extemporaneous talk OF about
! fifteen minutes. She is ready, easy
talker, and has the happy faculty OF
saving the right thing in the right place,
and in this particular instance, touched
upon those subjects which the various
town and city clubs might be mutually
interested in. But her topic of most in
terest was the forestry question in the
woman's club or tc be explicit, the part
the Woman's Club would like to take
in helping to preserve the forest of the
state. She told of the discussion OF this
subject at the meeting OF the state board
| in Ellensburg in February last. 1t
would seem at first glance that the
women's clubs could not do much to-
wards the prevention of forest fires, the
replanting of the burned lands and the
using of economy in the selection of the
timber cut from forest lands, etc. They
realize that to accomplish anything in
this line, two things are necessary-in-
formation on the subject and money to
carry out their IDEAS. Prof. Piper, Of
the Agricultural College, Pullman, pro-
poses to issue a series of leaflets on the
history of various trees, as he terms it,
"the life struggle" of the fir, spruce,
maple, oak, as the case may be. Also
leaflets with suggestions as to the re-
planting of the burned over lands.
These leaflets distributed among the
various clubs would give the informa-
ton necessary and through the men,
bers would interest those who are inter-
ested in whatever the clubs are doing.
They would be in certain way and to
some extent in the nature of education
on those subjects. To issue these leaf
lets it was suggested at the board meet
ing that fund be raised by subscrip-
ton. One prominent lumber firm
offers 800 towards publication of such
leaflets. Mrs. Elwood also spoke of
what the clubs might do towards help
ing to beautify and improve the walks,
parks, etc, and lettering of sanitary
conditions in the towns and cities were
clubs exist. She concluded her remarks
by telling the ladies some of the things
the recent legislature did accomplish,
because, as she explained, they had
heard so much of what the legislature
did not do.
After Mrs. Elwood's talk, seven of the
club gave Shakespearian farce in
which Lady Macbeth Mrs. Marshal
Scudder) falls violently in love with
Romeo Mrs. snyder, who will not re-
ciprocate the ladys affection, and leaves
her with his heart still true to OpEelia
lNlr, White. The witches Mrs
Thomas, Miss Lombard and Mrs. Lom-
bard appear, bearing a huge caldron
lbeled "Woman's Club" into which
they throw all the recent literature Of
The day, and being implored by Lady
Macbeth Tor aid in her suit for Romeo's
love, they give her book which, if
read, will produce insanity. This book
j. labeled THE Woman's Club Literary
Record Ophella appears, reads it at
Lady MacBeth's instigation, and be-
comes violently insane, and at once falls
in love with the first man she meets,
Gobbo Mrs. Williams. Romeo i'm
plores Lady Macbeth to undo the evil
she has done, and Lady Macbeth burns
the record OF literary labors of the
Woman's Club and at once Ophelia is
restored and finds her Romeo, and
Gobbo and Lady Macbeth console each
other They quoted Shakespeare some