The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-22

The Thursday club will meet this
afternoon at the Commercial club at
$3.50 o'clock. Its regular place of as
sembly is the Aberdeen, where the re-
mainder of the sessions will be held,
but on account of the first paper of the
year being in the nature of a stereopti-
con lecture from Miss Gauthier on mural
art, the meeting is to be held in the
spacious parlor of the Commercial club.
The Century club has been invited to
hear the talk, and undoubtedly the
room will be filled with members and
their friends. Miss Willes, the presi-
dent, who is now beginning her. second
term as presiding officer has every
reason to be pleased with the flourish
ing condition of the Thursday club. It's
membership is large, this years pro-
gramme, under the able craftsmanship
of Mrs. w. E. Howard, is an excellent
and interesting one, and the year opens
auSpiciouSly.
The Womans Reading club, of Still
water, Will devote its regular meeting
next Monday afternoon to the fedora
ton and will give reception for the
new vice president of the Fourth dis
trict at the residence of Mrs. w. G.
MasterSon. Other guests of honor will
be Mrs. w. L. Graves, of ST. Paul, vice
president at large, and Mrs. Lydia
Philips Williams, of Minneapolis. The
Reading Club of Saltwater is one of
the few organizations which meets
every week, from September until
June, and has regular course of read
ing. This year it's programme includes
English history from its earliest be-
ginnings down to the Ellizabethan age.
Besides this historical work the club
has lecture in the spring and several
meetings devoted to Shakespeare, one
day to music and one to domestic sci
ence. The club is one of the best or
gained and officered in the federation.
The alternates selected by the feder-
alton at Mankato for the st. Louis BIZ
ennial next May, to take the places of
delegates should they be unable to at
tend, are: Mrs. l.. A. Steele, Tracy;
Mrs. William Hengstler. Mankato
Mrs. c. Z. Conant, Wells; Mrs. Alice
Mott. Faribault; Mrs. G. L. Atwood,
St. Cloud: Mrs. F. ]. Evans, Fergus
Falls; Mrs. r. r. Dorr, st. Paul; Miss
Anderson, Minneapolis; Mrs. Charles
Mickens, Moorhead; Mrs. Douglas
Greedy, Pine City; Mrs. G. S. Merrill,
OWatonna.
The following. taken from a New
York paper, will interest club women
and others:
|. Women received further recognition
in school affairs in this city when the
executive committee of the board of
education yesterday recommended that
the board confirm the appointment of
Miss Julia Richman as district super
1nterdent, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Charles S. Haskell.
Commissioner Mack, in seconding the
resolution. said that at times in the
past ne had opposed the appointment
to such offices of women, but that he
thought this appointment a good one.
Mr.. Mack said he was surprised there
were not more women present to ap-
plaud the nomination of one of their
SEX and it proved to him women We're
not So much interested in seeing wom-
en- We're appointed to positions as they
were interested in particular woman
getting particular appointment. He
was glad of the appointment, too, be-
cause he thought the Jewish race
should receive recognition.
Now that the federation convention
Is over and one can look back retro
spectively upon it and upon the tele-
gram of Mrs. Bramhall, refusing to al
low her name to be used for the presi-
dency. 1t is easy to see that she acted
from honorable motives in withdraw
ing ever at the last moment. Last
June, when some of the st. Paul club
| women approached Mrs. Bramhall and
said that Mrs. La Penotiere was not
| likely to take the office again. and ask
1 ed her to become candidate, she re-
| piled that if there was general de-
nland in the convention for her she
| would take the place if elected When
last Thursday morning the result of
\ the informal ballot showed that Mrs.
La Penotiere had ~ votes to Mrs.
! BramhalPs 50, and the convention was
/ not certain that Mrs. La Penotiere
would refuse, Mrs Bramfall regarded
! this as evidence that there was not a
| general demand for her. Neither she
nor anybody else could take it for