The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-21


The Woman's club met as usual
Friday afternoon, with Mrs. Sherman
as leader. The fifth act of much
Ado About Nothing" was read. Mrs.
Eddy was elected an active member
of the club. Other club work was
dispensed with, as Mrs. r. G. Young
of Butte, Professor Hamilton of Mis-
soula and Professor Condor of Helena
visited the club.
Mrs. Young made the first address.
She. described Butte as being more
fully organized than most cities, it's
clubs, lodges anr other organizations
being legion. For instance, the Ma
sons alone have over 20 lodges. OF
course, in such q progressive city,
it goes without saying that the women
take an active interest in the pro-
gress of the town, and the club women
are making an organized effort to
improve in every way possible the
condition of the inhabitants. Mrs.
Oul6 uCoNAl . Nv V0lAOu0 NUNS, VI
which the Homer is the oldest, and is
limited to 30 members, while the
Woman's club is composed of about
200. She dwelt upon the fact that
club women do much to improve a
community, and said that united eff
fort can accomplish wonders.
Professor Condor chose "Art" as
his subject, and dwelt especially upon
Roycroft, where Hubbard, the author
of Little Journeys" has established
a unique enterprise in art, which is
fully described in the Cosmopolitan
for January, 1902. He also urged the
club women to interest themselves
in the identifying Of the city as much
could be done in this direction. His
address was interesting and instruc-
tive as was that of Professor Hamil-
ton, who is a favorlte in the club, hav-
ing last year given an address, which
is remembered with p%leaure. He said
that there is much less vandalism in
Europe than in America, and that the
reason was in all probability that the
European from childhood is familiar
with beautiful paintings and %statuary;
that he learns to love and regard
with reverence such objects and would
look upon it as sacrilege to mar or
deface them. "However, in this coun-
try of ours" he said, 1.-THE love OF art
and all things beautiful is rapidly in
creasing," and ere long, he hoped, in
each school there should be at least
a few beautiful copies of good paint.
pupils.
Professor Brother also made a short
and interesting address. He, too,
spoke of the value of objects OF art
in the public schools, and made the
announcement that about the first
week of June he hoped Billings would
the public schools, when he hoped a
few hundred dollars might be raised
which would be invested in good pic
lures for the schools.
The party on Easter Monday, given
by Mrs. Gerald Panton for her little
daughter Geraldine, was very much
enjoyed by about so OF her friends,
including a few grown people. AS
the weather was warm and bright,
the afternoon was spent on the lawn,
where all sorts of games were played,
run, and altogether a jolly time
was spent. AS it was a birthday par.
ty. a number of very pretty gifts were
left as mementoes OF the occasion
Between 5 and 6 o'clock the children
were seated on the veranda and were
served with refreshments, consisting
of sandwiches, delicious cakes. and
ice cream. Before going home each
child was given a prettily colored
egg. A prettier group of children
could not have been found, and Mrs
George Griggs was tempted to take
some snap pictures OF them. Those
assisting Mrs. Panton were Mrs. Har
ry Ramsey, Mrs. Harry Fish, Miss
Calhoun, Miss Lulu Railsback, Miss
Goldie Elliot and Miss Minnie Panton
The guests were Mrs. Railsback, Mrs
George Griggs, Lelah Allen, Kate
Matheson, Christell Cooke, Alberta
Bair, Elizabeth Drum, Phyllis Trask
Nell Toole, Marie Segur, Geraldine
Lamport, Vivian Vale, Ina Sansome
Gerty Hannah. Louise O'Donnell
Ruth Cushman, Hazel Grove, Kuls
Moss, Marguerite Smith, leila Card