Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-26

and charms, of intrigues and manoeuvret
to be first in the husbands affections.
A flute solo, 'sThe Two Little Finches, ;
by Rev. w. T. Sparhawk, with piano ac-
compartment by Misses Edith Marcoti
ana Grace Lamson. was charming musi-
cal number. Following it came a short
out forcefnl discussion OF "Women's Clubs
from an Educational standpoint" by Prin-
eipal Z. G.. Ham. The organization OF
women for study, for deeper culture and
Tor the benefit that comes from intellectu-
| al intercourse can only be commended
| from an educational standpoint; but the
club is also to be considered as having still
wider possibilities. When 1t is remem-
bered what a powerful influence individ-
ually women are able TO exert, but little
would seem to be impossible to their COM
bined and well-directed efforts in clubs.
They rarely fail singly in having their own
way and their wills united should bring
whatever they really wish to pass. Moth
ing is more certain than that the extension
OF the suffrage rests with them; for when
the majority OF women want the ballot
they will have il.
mankind in General was the toast as
signed to NJ. NJ. Wilson, Esq, who rose to
defend his suffering brethren, their case at
an assembly Of this kind seeming to him
TO need defence the worst way. Man is at
hopeless disadvantage when exposed to
feminine wiles. King Solomon in all his
glory and his wisdom felt his weakness
when the Queen of Sheba came over and
organized his seven hundred wives into a
woman's club. He was moved TO write
the Book Of Ecelesiastes and expressed his
feelings in one OF the closing verses Man
that is born OF woman is small potatoes
and few in a hill. Why that monarch
with all his knowledge and his extensive
housekeeping didn't solve the servant
question for succeeding generations is a
mystery. There was Job, too, a model Of
patience until his wife began TO talk liter
allure to him, and everybody knows how
Socrates, with the scolding Xanthippe for
spouse, took his poison cheerfully.
l.. B. johnson spoke on "Women and
the ess"-their support as large part Of
the reading public, their insistence upon a
proper elevation Of tone in the journals
they peruse and their open interest in To-
cal paper. A woman reads her home
newspaper with frank pleasure in what it
has to tell her OF her town, county and
state, people and doings, but her husband
thinks it due to his loftier pretensions to
affect an Indifference TO such trivial hap
penings and apologies when renewing
his subscriptions by saying that he isposes
he'll have TO take 1t because the woman
likes TO see what's in it. To the town
correspondents, nearly all Of them wom-
en-, Is the country paper most deeply in
debted; for to them it owes its greatest
charm for the readers, and these cores
pondents serve as a rule without other |
recompense than the pride and satisfaction |
they take in having their towns repre-
sented in the columns OF the weekly sheet. |
The woman in the editors home lso has |
marked influence on the paper, alleviating I
the trials OF journalism by providing a |
better kind of pie for the worn and ruffled |
chief than he leaves behind him in the Of
flee.
A second selection by the trio, "The /
Earth is Decked with Beauty closed an
entertaining program. In
the dining room OF the Inn refreshments
Of ice cream, cake and coffee were served 4
by four young ladies in waiting, Misses
Maurine Thayer, Helen Wedgewood, Gem
Give Lamson and Catherine Metzger.