The San Francisco call., 1906-10-01
Topics of..Unusual Interest
Before the Women S Clubs.

Piano solo, Miss Florence Nachtrieb:
Writer'S; reading, Little Billie
Piper" from Joaquin Miller, by DR..
Flora MacDonafd; California Poets" a
paper. by Mrs. E.. D. Treadwell, who
gave extracts from Wallace Irwin.
Lowell Otis Reese, Ina Coolbrith, and
others; reading from Joaquin Miller.
San Francisco" by Mrs. E. Peltret;
an original story The Letter of the
Law by Mrs. w. A. Johnston; soprano.
solos. (a) Dry Those Tears" (b) Be
cause" Guy d'Hardelot. by Miss Ruby
Roylance.
At the meeting on Thursday. Sep
tember 27, a very large attendance
greeted the lecturer of the day. Rev.
j. A. Patterson of Bethany Congrega-
tional Church. The subject was, "On
Top off the United States" and described
his ascent of Mount Whitney with the
Sierra Club.
Two vocal solos contributed to the
pleasure of the club, one by Mr.. SAKE,
entitled Under the Lilies the second
UJ 1niSS Z<lld dilCSy 1IC Odliy 4uCc-
tion." by Meyer Helmund.
The annual convention of the equal
suffra gists of the State will be held in
the lecture room OF Calvary Church.
northwest corner of Fillmore and Jack
son streets, ON Friday and Saturday.
October and 6. The morning sessions
will be devoted to business. but both
afternoons and on Friday evening there
will be programmes of general interest.
to which the public is invited.
l. On Friday morning at $40 O'Clock,
after a greeting by the State president,
Mrs. Austin. Sperry, the annual re-
ports of State officers will be read. At
2:3O o'clock Friday afternoon there will
be an address by Mrs. Sperry, followed
by a talk by Mrs. Arthur .Balentine
daughter of the late Speaker of the
House Of Representatives, Thomas B.
Reed), on The Yellow Ribbon" a new
suffrage paper which Mrs Balentine
has just. started symposium on
The Compensation of Women" will be
composed of ten minute talks by Mrs.
Laura Bride Powers, on journalism;
Miss Ada Goldsmith of the faculty of
the Mission High School, on teaching;
Miss Lucille Eaves, on social work;
Miss Elinor .Croudace, on literature;
Mrs. Covington Johnson, on art; Miss
Claribel David assistant city attorney,
on law; Mrs. J. w. Orr, on club work;
DIR. NJ: e. Kibbe, on medicine. and
summary by Mrs. Horace Coffin.
On Friday evening at o'clock there
will be an address by Daniel OConneil;
Frederick Churchill, secretary of the
Mission Improvement Association. will
speak on Women as aids In Civic I'm
provement"; Thomas e. Hayden will
speak on "The Justice of the Plea for
Equal Suffrage and Austin Lewis will
make an address.
On Saturday morning the various
State committees will report, and the
annual election of officers will follow
The morning session will close with
an informal work conference led by
Mrs. Nellie Holbrook Blfnn, Mrs. Hor-
ace Coffin, Mrs. Helen Moore and Mrs.
Alice Park and participated in by the
delegates. :.
At 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon
Miss Jessica Peixotto of the University
of California faculty will speak on
Women and Economics" Mark L. Nc
Cord will talk on Election Day In
New Zealand" Rabbi Nieto will tell of
The Progress of Women" DR.. David
Starr Jordan of Stanford University
will speak of THE Higher Education
of Women" and Rev. William RAIDER
will say word on The Woman Ques-
ton"
Mrs. Horace Coffin, president of the
Equal Suffrage League, delivered pm in
formal address at Palo Alto last Thurs
day evening at the annual reception of
the local political equality club. There
was large attendance of men and
women. who were impressed with the
speakers earnestness and enthusiasm.
The San Francisco section of the
Council of Jewish Women met on Tues
day afternoon last in the Bush-street |
temple, the meeting being presided over
by Mrs. D. S. Hirschberg. the acting
president. An election Of oficers was