The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-15
WOMEN'S CLUBS
BEGIN SEASON
Ladies' Literary Holds Its First
Meeting-PreSident Makes
Opening Address.
REPORT ON BIENNIAL MADE
DELEGATES RECOUNT WORK Ac-
COMPLISHED AT SESSIONS.

The club year began yesterday with the
first meeting for the season Of the La
dies Literary club. The clubhouse was
iilled TO the doors with members and
friends. who in spite of the wet weather
had come out TO listen to the address of
the president, the report of the recent
plcnnlal and the musical program to be
presented. The music was I'm the hands
or the chairman OF the program commit
lee Mrs. a. II. Peabody, and Mrs. Walter
-. futile. who had secured some of the
pest musicians of the city to open the
ear s music.
After a few words OF personal greeting
Miss Paul said THE program commit
lee has tempted me to Sermonize by fur
mshing an admirable text Our grand bus
mess IS not to see what lies dimly at a
Glstance, but to do what lies clearly at
hand. With this temptation there was
also made way of escape, for the way
10 DO what lies clearly is to do It, not to
Talk about IL. All that we can save i'm
noise we gain I'm power and so here in
the beginning l would have chosen to
cultivate silence. leaving each of you to
IND the duty that lies nearest. Individual
responsibility is still the theme The
measure of the members sense OF respon-
SlhllltY is the measure Of the success of
the club. There is but one way to es-
cape reSponSibility-there may be assoc
Ciate members. We should take UP arms
against the club trust where those i'm
official positions do their own duty and
OF the work and the responsibility, and
would urge you to remember that one
chairman cannot make a section or n COM
mittee, one program committee a pro-
gram or one presiding officer a business
meeting. Having been on the inside one
self. one views the situation from within
rather than from without. and in conse-
quence ones Judgment is apt to be fairer,
ones appreciation deeper and ones char
ity broader.
Pleads for Shade Trees.
"Ou>civic conscience continues TO thrive
under cultivation and having already
yielded some fruit we are encouraged to
open up a new field for activity. 1t is the
preservation Of the shade trees along our
streets We have all witnessed the ruth
less destruction OF block after block of
them, and as the work of Improvement
goes on so does the destruction of what
IS one of our city's chief attractions. We
suggest this as one of the duties which
lie ready at hand We shall be reason
ably content if after all we may be- re-
garded as one who meant we'll tried lit
tie and failed much as a faithful fail
ure.'
Following Miss Paul's address came
Willard j. Flashman with a flute solo
accompanied by Arthur Shepherd. Mr..
Flashman played a fantasia on a Chopin
theme by Demersseman. and so insistent
was the encore that he was Obliged to
respond. which ne did with a dainty little
selection.
CHS OF biennial
Mrs Allen r. Sanford, who was the
only representative of the state a the St.
Paul biennial made a report OF the meet
ipgs Of the General Federation of Wo-
mems clubs held last May in that city.
Mrs. Sanford read a concise and thorough
report of the work Of the convention, and
quoted from some Of the more interesting
tC pics presented. She spoke of the var-
GUS persons whose work had done much
TO make the meetings notable. and read
as a close an editorial from one Of the
St Paul papers commencing the work of
the @. r. w. G. and putting forth its. aims
and purposes.
Mrs. Elsie Barrow Best. accompanied
by Mr.. Sheppard sang Gounods 20 Divine
Redeemer" and for an encore Spring Is
Coming" As a closing number OF the af-
ternoon Mr.. Sheppard and Miss Cecilia
Sharp played a concerto by TschaikOwsky.
Miss Sharp playing the orchestral part
which was arranged for the second piano.
The afternoon closed with a social hour
when punch and light refreshments were
served and greetings exchanged after the
vacation.