Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-26
GENTLEMEN'S NIGHT.
Ladies' Of the Literary Club Entertain
Their Husbands and Friends.

Ladies' Of the Literary Club Entertain
Their Husbands and Friends.
The Randolph womsn's Literary cluI
entertained 1t friends Gentlemen's night
Friday evening, at the Randolph Inn with
a rare grace of hospitality. Miss Jennie
Stewart, Mrs. H. V. Fletcher, Miss Etti
HARDWOOD, Mrs. Mary Mann, Mrs. Samue
Knowles and Mrs. d. F. Lewis formed the
committee extending the courtesies OF the
| club, and providing most successfully foi
| the enjoyment of the ninety or more
members and guests, in attendance.
Little Misses Helen Blanchard and Olive
| Knowles waited upon the arrivals to the
cloak rooms, and 10 the door of the parlor,
where they were welcomed by Miss Eta
| Harwood. The ladies receiving were the
| president Mrs. &. +. Moulton; the vice
president, Mrs. Homer White; Mrs. W. E.
Lamscn, Mrs. Samuel Knowles and Mrs.
ID. r. Lewis. Passing the two receiving
lines, the guests were seated by Miss Jen-
ME Stewart for the program of wit and
music that was unfolded to their great and
increasing pleasure.
The president, Mrs. Moulton, gave the
address Of welcome, which opened with
the words, fright welcome, sirs; ere we
depart, we'lI share a bounteous time, and,
with the thought Of the sweetest songster,
sdlQ. ne ROOUuEHH Oh lut night upon
you, friends An English woman, after
an extended tour through the United
States, declared that the most American
thing in all America is the American
woman's club. There are 100000 women
in this country members of clubs, and
these 100000 women are joined in one
gigantic association called the General
Federation, composed Of about 500 indi-
vidual organizations, representing nearly
every state in the Union. Out of this
association of women with women many
latent talents are developed. They become
attached to each other, and their vanities
that used to be directed for the admira-
tion OF men are now encouraged for their
own mutual qualification. With the hope
that hearing OF women and their clubs IN
various places would prove both pleasant
and profitable, and in the name Of the
Randolph Noman's Literary club, she
babe the company welcome.
The secretary, Mrs. Z. o. Blanchard,
conducted the roll call, to which responses
were made in apt quotations, and a trio
selection, directing WAS very sweetly
sung BY Miss M. Blanche Sparhawk, Miss
Grace Lamson and Mrs. T.. ID. Segar.
Miss Annie Walsh was then called upon
to respond to the toast, 'sTo solemnize this
day the glorious sun stays in his course,
and paid a suspici0usly glorious tribute
to the gentlemen, 'illustrious members OF
the ever delightful SEX She coaxed them
to lay aside the timidity so natural to
them and with the irresistible eloquence
thai awaits their disposal move the notable
assembly with their humor, pathos and
earnestness. Addressing them by the
title they love the best, Lords OF the UNI |
verse, she begged them to show the fair
company before them they are indeed
creations Of all that is great and good.
To this Rev. Fraser Metzger responded |
in lively vein, setting forth in humorous
light the eccentric curves and compound |
OF the feminine character |
that are continual puzzle to inquiring |
man. What masculine IA rial, he asked, |
could ever hope to comprehend sex, |
whose members in the face OF sudden |
death will remember, TO the exclusion of
all other thoughts, an undarned hole in
the left toe OF a stocking Though an
enigma to man, woman, nevertheless, Is
his dearest companion and his truest in
spiration.
aThe eternal womanly leads us upward |
and on was the theme OF neat little /
speech by DIR. +. o. blanchard, who de
clared that OF the three leading influ
snces the pulpit, the press aud the petit
coats, the latter are not to be found away |
back In the rear, but at the head OF the
dragging the press and pulpit /
and everybody else after them. IL was
the eternal womanly that led HIM into the
3uuertngs OF a sptecD- maker ana IN rising
10 the occasion le was free TO confess he
had never had such time in his life.
THE status OF women in Turkey was
given by Mrs. G. +. Ladd from personal
knowledge obtained through residence in
hat country, who compared their cireum-
'cribed and limited existence with the
freedom enjoyed by American women, in
happy homes, and with opportunities and
that almost overcrowd their
ives. The Turkish woman spends days
Il a time without a sight Of her husband,
Who lives quite his own life in the mems
de OF the house. III, as is not probable,
he can read, she has only some soiled
fellow covered French novels or an in
erior Turkish paper. She is subject TO ]
Ter mother Jaw and cannot sit down
Without her consent. There is no control
yer the children, especially over the sons, {
Who are in truth lords Of creation in that I
ountry. Embroidery, sweet meat max a
ng and listening TO stories are the main
In serious illness the only
clip is from missionary or an old native
1oman, never from male physician. All I c
Intercourse with the outside wcrld is car
led on through the slave who guards the ],
ate save when permission is given to 90 i
hopping, to take the air or to call at some B
her harem. If there Is more than one C
life in a harem, of course there is the fur q
her occupation OF making love philtres q