The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-02-05
wouan'S Club.

The social afternoon which the Wo-
mans Club enjoyed at Mrs. Bentley's,
one might say, punctuates the work of
the year and this punctuation mark was
happy period. When the rooms were
well filled with club members, myster-
ious numbers were passed on tray-29-
17-12-and at once we remembered to
have seen those numbers ON chairs dis
tributed in all the rooms, and were as
sured that there was chair for every
one. This finding of chairs to match
ones number left the room quiet for the
space of minute and Mrs. II. Kirk
White announced that her paper and
Mrs. Bentleys were about to be read.
First, would we discuss the "Circus"
with our right hand neighbor. Such
babble Of tongues. A bell rings. Part
ners are torn away in the midst of
trapese performance to talk with the oc-
cupant of chair No. - something else
on the Spring styles" or How to bring
up children, the bell always interrupt
ing just at critical moment, leaving
the little ones without anything to wear.
The club was never so well shuffled in
it's life, with not pair or three of a
kind left in hand. This must have been
Mrs. Whites paper and Mrs. Bentley's
followed with a long and difficult rhyme.
While the ladies were composing
themselves for work Miss Lyon sang,
and her beautiful voice made all glad
they had come.
Some of the Woman's Club are lit
erary, for they guessed it, but some of
us are still wondering why it was so
hard to make Jane Eyre rhyme with
tire. This was the rhyme, clever enough:
The girl and heroine, my friends,
Was known as "Alice VI Old vincennes."
No words can use her charms to enhance,
For she was fair. you might say, as "A Lady
of France"
She lived when Indians were q power,
And not when 'Knighthood was IN Flower"
In those past times so quaint and olden
She fell In love with "Eben Holden"
Then as her friends began to marvel
rival came called Richard Carve.'..
And each his sword began to draw
And needed not THE Reign OF Law"
They slew each other, alas! and then
Along came man named "Crittenden."
And as In his love there was nothing sinister
He took her of course to The Little Minister
The merry bells rang in each steeple
And loudly cheered "The Voice Of the PEG.
ple."
In reading OF courtships we none Of us tire.
Although we may be as old Us Jane Eyre"
honeymoon trip they took
BY going around the World in Eighty Days."
They stopped at a place, think it is called
Dayton,
But surely it's told in Adventures OF Phae-
ton"
There really was nothing their pleasure to
For he wore on his head THE Helmet of Ne
varre."
And she as a usual thing wore her hair curled
Whenever they went out in "Wide, Wide
World"
They finally came home on double bike
And lived at "Stringtown on the Pike"
Now, for d moral which some might prefer,
For you know most any of you might have
"Ben Hur."
But If any of you wish this moral to try,
Just please drop line to "Prue and l."
The prize, Napoleon Jackson" by
Ruth McEnery Stuart, was won by Mrs.
Harland White, who lacked only three
books out of the seventeen.
After this came coffee and sandwiches
and such doughnuts as mother makes,
and happy crowd dispersed good deal
later than they had planned, thanking
Mrs. H. Kirk White and Mrs. Bentley
for their papers made so clear after the
reading of the rhyme