The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1905-02-04
CONVENTION OF
READING CLUBS
Local Club ERtertdiRS the County
Federation, With Thirty-five
Guests preSent---ERjOy-
able Session
MUSICAL PROGRAM AND LECTURE

Last Saturday was red letter day
Federation of Reading clubs, when the
members of the federation from Car
bondale, New Castle, Emma and
Grand Valley gathered in Glenwood
Springs and were entertained by the
Glenwood club.
AT one o'clock at the Dougau hall
diningroom thirty five guests sat down
at the beautifully arranged and deco
rated tables after listening to the ad :
dress of welcome delivered by Mrs. E.
M. Tully, president of the local club.
The club colors, pink and white We're
carried out in detail; the candy was
pink and white, the cake was pink
and white; the white souvenir card
containing a verse from a noted au-
thor at each plate was tied with pink
ribbon and pink and white hyacinths
We're much in evidence among the
smilax and potted plants. The lunch.
con was in three courses, and was
pronounced by all as a triumph of the
Indispensable art.
After showing their appreciation of
the good things desired and required
for sustaining the temple in which
we live the guests We're invited to
the lodge room and their artistic ten
denotes We're RECALLED by pleasing
musical program Miss Short, W no
nl, Ia,
the program for two instrumental
selections, but was encored so enthu
siastically that she had TO respond each
time. Mesdames Rudasill and Pletch
er executed duet with their usual
skill while Miss shepherd. Miss Alb
hie Robinson, Mr.. Thorson and DIR.
Cassill each contributed a delightful
solo, Misses Robinson and Shepherd
each responding to an encore.
After the lecture by Rev. c. A,
Berger, the federation was called to
order by Mrs Grubb, of Carbondale,
the president, who gave an able ad-
dress, and IA short business meet
ing was held the special subject be
fore the association being the merits
of the Bay View reading course, and
only two members reported unfavor
ably upon it.
The federation adjourned to meet
in Carbondale the last Saturday in
May, and the reading clubs of the
country, both inside and outside the
federation, are invited to attend
The visitors We're lpud in praise
of the entertainment by the Glen
wood club, and especial credit is said
to be due to Mrs. Henderson, the
chairman of the committee ON ar
judgements, whose tireless and we'll
directe efforts contributed greatly tc
the success of the affair.
Following are extracts from the
splendid lecture delivered by Mr.. Ber-
ger the evangelist. his subject being
Woman Work Influence and
Love" which he handled in mas
terfnl manner.
by the new woman, | mean the
progressive woman, the ideal Ameri
modern times obstructs woman pro
gress mistakes the spirit of the age.
In modern progressiveness there is
neither male nor female, bond nor
free. In these modern times no one
can reverse the wheels of the world $
advancement against progressive wom
anhood and tell woman what an atfec-
tionate son of Grecian days told his
mother, Mother stay close at your
home. Nor dare we say as the gen
tie Xenophen said The greatest duty
of woman is to look after her hus-
band food and clothes Nor can
we go back to the times when books
were written by men, for men, with
the expectation that only men could
or should read them In modern lit
erature the new woman has become
the helpmeet and counterpart of man.
In modern times the new woman is
fast becoming useful as we'll rs bean
tifnl. She is esteeming brains more
highly than feathers and tlOnnces. y
young lady once sang in the presence
of John Ruskin what she deemed to
be d great song, Live and love and
die. Had it been written for moth
ing better than silkwurms, said Rus
kin, it should at least have added,
"spin. The revised edition OF the
song would read, Live and spin aud
die and perchance love.
Among creatures there is none
greater than the true, noble new wo-