Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-12
Literary and Musical Club Meets.

The members of Excelsior Literary and
Musical Club met in regular session, Tues
day afternoon. at the residence of Mrs E.
J. Easily. 125 B street southeast. Mrs. Ad-
die Foster, president. presided and Miss
Flora McCreery. recording secretary, kept
the minutes The members severally quoted
briefly from noted authors and followed in
the same orders with short views of cur
rent events. Mrs. A. II. Frear brought up
tho Panama question and asked for infor-
nation about 1t. Mrs. Emma A. Hawkes.
explained the threatened German invasion.
as foreshadowed in dispatches of the pre-
vious day, and submitted that 1t would not
be quite right for Excelsior Club to sit idly
by and permit the German army to close In
upon the new republic" This view seemed
to meet the general assent Of the club.
Mr.. s. w. Russell. honorary member,
suggested that the threatened peril on the
isthmus might be easily overshadowed by
the struggle to set up unwholesome and I'M
slightly booths in the vicinity of the new
union depot, and explained how members of
the club might bring individual influence to
bear to avert the danger. This view was
accepted with enthusiasm.
Mrs. H. B. Sperry. president of the Fed
Grafton Of Women's Clubs. supplemented
this view with the statement that she lived
on the border Of this debatable land and
expressed the view that, while the low
drinking places would undoubtedly be kept
out" she was apprehensive that a gilded
palace, much more to be dreaded than the
low dive. might be reared in front of the
beautiful depot"
Mrs j. F. Engle read from a recent is
sue of The Star a description of the en-
cravings and etchings in the Library of
Congress, which had been presented the
United States by her sister republic,
France, and spoke of delightful hour she
had passed before them. and expressed the
<y1n Iax1
be greatly pleased with the study of them"
Mrs. Hawkes. of committee on Socials an
nounced that the clubs first social of the
season would be held Monday evening, the
Both instant, at the home of Mrs. Frear.
$50 Sth street northeast
The main study for the day was opened
by the hostess, Miss E. j. Easily, in the
reading of an original paper entitled: Ger
man Literature of the Nineteenth Century"
In her prologue Miss Easily adverted to
the space Of an afternoon hour, bird's-eye
view of the literary work and workers of
a mighty nation during the past one hum
dred years." and submitted that no better
look into a room at Weimer where, upon
the last night of the eighteenth century,
four men met to drink farewell to the
dying era, and hearty one to the new
one about to be BORN
I'VE shall find she continues, these
men to be Schelling. the philosopher, his
disciple. Henrick Stefens, who has been
called the Scandinavian apostle of Roman
ticism;' Schiller and Johann Wolfgang
Goethe. whose name stands at the head of
the romantic movement which came into
existence with the dawn of the nineteenth
century" Miss Easily followed with bright
illustrious scholars and writer's. bringing
the record down to the dawn of the twen-
tieth century. The paper received general
and favorable comment.