Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-18
The Maine
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meeting at the home of Mrs. Nellie
F'arrar. The program, which was
| most interesting one and greatly ell
| loved, was as fellows: Scripture reau-
| ing, the president; current events. MIS-.
| Nellie Farrar, Mrs. Marion Crosby ana
Lizzie Hanscom; paper. History Oh
Penobscot County" Mrs. Ella Leonaro'
Hamlet. Act H. the club; questions Oil
the lesson. the club; critic, MISS MARY
Snow.
The Thursday Club of Biddeford, one
30 tho Loading woman's organizations
of the state. always has programs OF
.;rh order as the following which
| ,s given at the meeting of the cluD,
.his week. will show: Music. piano,
,,ioIin and cornet, Miss Rena Bracket,
Master CLYDE Twambley. Master Fran
cis robertson; paper, "Maeterlinck.'
Miss Clark; singing, selected, Walter
7. Parker; paper, "Swinburne;
music. Miss Bracket, Masters Twam-
blev and Robertson; biographical
sketch of Robert Browning. Mrs. Ken
dan: singing, selected. Walter L.
| Parker.
The needle club seems to be grow
ing in popular favor. The literary
CLUB and the whist club have for time
| relegated the old-fashioned sewing
| club into the background. The needle
| however, is coming to the front again
and there are more and more women
who are either actual members of a
sewing club or getting into line to be-
| long to one.
| The sewing club seems to be par
| ticularly popular with Lewiston wo-
men, The ladies of the faculty OF
| Bates College have organized the
Bates Needle Club. this season. one
or two other sewing clubs are III
| progress of formation. One club. now
| projected goes a step further and calls
itself the Mendng Club. and to this
each member is pledged to take the
family mending, or something of that
kind, which can come under the mead
of mending. The originator says
| that one is expected to bring the
awful things which seem so hard to
sit down to alone and get thrust into
convenient baskets waiting for "some
| other day"
| As the club season is coming along.
the oft mooted and never settled
question of club refreshments Is
cropping up again. In first one club
and then another these little savory
| endings to an afternoon of study are
| creeping in, quietly and easily. ana
it must be confessed are cordially
welcomed. And then the first thing
which comes up, the club Is brought
about with round turn. and mo
refreshments" is pinned upon the
club wall where all may see. That
the little social chat over the teacups
is charming. no one denies. 1t gives
a finish to the affair which is pleas
ing for all. and opens the way for
real sociability; for it is we'll
| known club axiom that never can
one talk so comfortably. and all to-
| gether, as when the music begins,
| or the china rattles. But after all,
1t is a most insidious little mischief
maker, this after club lunch. 1t has
a way Of growing, does this tiny re-
| freshmen, until it becomes bur-
den to the hostess. though she sell
dom admits it, and at the same time
it makes for dyspepsia in surpris-
ing 1egree After q lunch at four
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supper at home as one ought ana
if one goes to more than one club, d
habit is socn formed of breaking up
the supper hour badly. Already one
club this year is taking the matter
UP, and others are thinking the thing
over.-Lewiston Morning News.
CHANGING through the club columns
of various newspapers it will be seen
| that the pure food question is u live
one among women who think. Ana
since the women who are not given TO
thinking must have some one to think
for them, the clubs are earnestly and
seriously considering the pure food
problem in its many phases. For
there are many phases; there are laws
in one state that do not just har-
monize with those in another; there are
some laws that are very strict and i'm
possible to evade. while there are 9TH
ers in which loopholes appear so plain
ly that one suspects they were in
territorial But before Congress. at the
coming session, an attempt VIII be
made to bring defective laws into line
and to provide new ones that may be
depended upon to protect the public
health And the attitude of women,
and especially Of women's clubs.
toward this question must influence
materially and morally the men who
have the important mission of perform
ing these high duties.
| The Women'S Literary Club of Carl
bou which is studying Japan and Rus
STA with much pleasure and profit, en-
joyed the following program at re-
cent meeting: Roll call. "Cities of
Japan. Location and Populations;
quotations. Modern Japan" Chapter
VII and VIII; review. Chapter VIII.
Mrs. Hardison; review. Russia.
church and state. Miss Bartlett: paper.
"Helingfors. and Strong Men of Fin
land" Mrs. Sincock; discussion, Rus
sia's Treatment Of Finland" Mrs.
johnson; reading. Japanese Story OF
| Creation" Mrs. Ross.
The kennebecside Club of Hinckley