The Greeley tribune., 1904-06-09
VISITS FAIR
ALSO MEETS MANY OLD AND
NEW FACES.
Mrs. H. Z. Churchill Attends
Meeting of the General Fed
Grafton of WOmen'S Clubs
in St. Louis.

lue lnaGnl Qcent and varied at
fractions of the Worlds Fair and its
proximity gave Just the environment
needed to accentuate the social side
of the seventh biennial meeting of
the General Federation of Women S
clubs, which has indeed been grow
ing feature OF these meetings ever
since Denver established the prece-
dent OF pink teas and violet recep-
tions galore, and formal dinners not
few, Hence this seventh meeting,
which was held in st. Louis from the
18th to the Goth OF May, inclusive,
has been characterized as most
brilliant social festival, while main
tanning an enviable standard Of liter
airy excellence.
The three great lines OF activity
into which the work of the federation
is divided, viz, literary, industrial
and civic, found able and expert ex-
porents in MI. f. II. Griggs of New
Jersey, Jane Addams OF Chicago and
Charles Zuebline of Chicago unveI-
sity, to say nothing Of the conStella-
tions Of lesser lights who presented
reports and discussed the respective
subjects in season and out of season.
Ii was perhaps only natural that
the Worlds Fair should prove more
attractive to the average delegate
fhon tho and Iispus.
sions given by people often seen
upon, and heard from, the platform
on similar occasions and upon similar
| subjects. For it is inevitable that
while we are quite willing to hear
! very old truths when clothed in orig
inaI dicton and transmitted through
new and pleasing personalities, they
| soon become dreary platitudes, when
presented in stereotyped forms by
the same people.
The Odeon. the place Of meeting
Is immense in size and has excellent
acoustic properties, but the constant
thrum of pianos and ceaseless semi
demi quavers or the human voice in
process Of development just over our
heads, and the rythmic sound Of
hammer and saw in the wings Of the
stage. where carpenters were at work
every day and all day, was not CON
duciye 10 undivided attention, espec-
tally when the speakers voice was
taxed to the utmost and the them 2
one requiring voluntary effort to hold
the hearer's interest. AT all events,
the matter has been so thoroughly
exploited in the papers and | doubt
not so carefully read by our newspa-
per reading public, that it is useless
for me to present it to your readers,
my dear I Iibuue. Suffice it to say,
the people who 20 to such meetings
to be interested and Instructed were
not disappointed, and certainly the
federation is gaining happy, helpful
spirit Of fellowship, as was evidenced
hy the strenuous efforts OF the big
policeman and sergeant-at-arms to
keep any em0Iance Of order in the
corridors and dressing rooms adjacent
to the main audience room, where
constant throngs of happy people
exchanged varied experiences, chat
ting and laughing in a most IL
responsible and thoroughly Joyous
fashion
The hospitality of the st. Louisans
left nothing to be desired, SO gener-
ous. nay even lavish, in the number
and frequency of social entertain
ments, so magnificent, so genial and
so encompassipg, at once, as If no
one could be left out, The Colorado
delegation came in for much social
attention, both because OF its per
sonnel aud because Mrs. Fine p.
Ernest gave a series Of fancy, bril-
liant luncheons in the st. Louis
women's club house, to which Colo
RADIO women were guests OF honor.
Altogether, this feature of the meet
inu was rivaled only By the magniti-
cence of the entertainment to be
found on the grounds Of the Worlds
Fair, generally conceded to be, in
magnitude, the greatest exposition
this world has ever seen; in varied
attractions, in excellence of exhibits,
in beauty and grace of design, far
bevond the must sanguine eXpecta-
lions. Its very incompleteness gave
added interest to those who are in
terested in the chow of things