The St. Louis Republic., 1904-10-30
WOMEN'S CLUBS.

The Literary Symposium discussed a
Worlds Fair programme at Hotel Beers
Wednesday morning. In giving the great
fairs in history, Mrs. Griffith finds tina;
the louisiana Purchase Exposition com
hines, in one grand whole. the best
and olymgiads, with modern Industrial
and art exhibitions. She noticed the fairs
of India the Jahrmarkets of Germany
and later European expositions. drawing
Characteristic sketches Of the people and
things We see at our own great Fair. She
closed with a description of the painting,
No. 3S. room 81. in one of Great Britain's s
galleries; The club visited the Palace of
Varied Industries Thursday afternoon,
making special studies in the depart
ments Of Germany and Japan. The sub
ject for Wednesday, November 2. at 1870
o'clock. Is Gems of Painting. France
At the first regular literary meeting Of
the Wednesday Club the current topics
section was in charge of the programme.
THE sorbonne" was the subject for the
day and Miss Louise Garesche, who is a
recent graduate Of the institution. was the
speaker. After briefly tracing the story of
Garesche described in detail the buildings
and surroundings, as well as the course Of
study. at the Sorbonne. the oldest college
OF the Oldest university of Europe. At
graduates are women, although the courses
are dihicult and the examinations rigor-
Gus. Many good pictures were thrown on
the screen by way of Illustration.
At the FIRST meeting OF the history and
literature section Mrs. Bray was the pro-
gTamme leader and presented paper on
"shakes2earean COMEDY" The Tanning
the section and gave topics for cousidera-
BILE discussion.
The section of social economy had the
pleasure Of accepting the invitation of Mr..
Benguiat to visit his unique museum at
the Fair. Mr.. Benguiat described his
curios and showed his rare and costly rugs
aud one beautiful drapery that had been
the magnificent and interesting. rooms
brought from an o.d Damascus palace,
the ladies were served with delicious Turk
ish coffee.
lightful morning last Saturday. when 1t
made a trip through the Government
building under the guidance of Mr.. q. L.
Springman. who, for three hours, showed
exhibits of this very attractive building.
1t was pleasant and unique experience
to be carefully protected from the pushing
crowd by the Government guards. 50 that
each member of the section could hear the
explanation Of the wireless telegraphy, ir-
rigation. the coming Of money and many
Of the exhibits VISITED tS
deepest feelings Of patriotism. This was
the story OF the stands in the dead letter
exhibit on which are mounted the photo
graphs Of dead soldiers. sailors and citi-
zens which never reached their loved
ones.
On inquiring why there were SO many
vacant places on the pages it was learned
that the photographs that had been in
these places had been claimed during this
Exposition by the families Of the dead.
Everyone felt that a Government that
had heart enough to preserve the photo
graphs OF its defenders for forty and
more years is made Of the stuff that will
endure.
"Art Exhibits at the Worlds Fair" was
the subject Of the art sections pro-
gramme this week. with Mr.. vauthier,
chief Of the Belgian section of the Fine
Arts building. as the chief speaker Of the
day. Instead Of lecturing. Mr. vauthier
preferred to conduct in a charmingiy in
structfve way an informal discussion Of
certain aspects. Of modern Belgian paint
ing. Many topics Of special interest were
Mr.. vauthier closed with an invitation
to the section to study with him the Bel
gian division of the Fine Arts building ON
Saturday.