The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08
Women s Clubs.

large number of the members of
the Ladies' Literary club and some Of
their friends who were invited were
given q treat Friday afternoon at the
joint meeting of the current events and
current literature section of the tourist
section, when Mrs. Lydia ID. Alder, a
member of the Utah Woman's Press
club, gave q most entertaining talk on
Palestine Mrs Alder described the
life there as it had come under her OBJ
servation, and showed many of the ar
ticles brought from there to illustrate
her talk. She was dressed in the ma
tive costume, and this made the enter
tainment more interesting still
Miss Florence Kimball gave three
solos, q bright little ballad to open the
meeting. and later two songs to illus
trate Mrs. Alder's talk, Jerusalem"
and Memories of Gallilee." At the
close of the literary part Mrs. Howard
S. Stowe, Mrs. w. H. Bramel and Mrs
Clarence Post served tea. About
eighty were present.
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The WOmaD's Athenasum of Park
City met Monday afternoon at the
home of Mrs E. P. Lecompte. Mrs.
Allen made a report 10 the Athenaeum
of the directors of the federation. which
convened in Salt Lake Saturday, Nov.
80. Mrs. Dan B. Shields was lesson
leader. Miss Kate Lawrence gave. a
paper on the famous battles of the 100
years war. Miss Luny gave a pa
per on the houses of York and Ian
caster. Mrs. Dan B. Shields had q
reading from history on Joan of Arc.
Mrs. Allen played two piano solos,
Harp at Midnight" and Evening
Breezes."
A union meeting of the Baptist La
dies Aid and Mission circle was held
Thursday at the home of Mrs. Thomas
J. Nipper, 1874 Brigham street Mrs.
E. e. Shepard, president of the ". c.
T. T., gave an earnest and spirited talk
on temperance work, which was en-
Enthusiastically received by the ladies
present. BY a unanimous vote of the
Mission circle honorary life member
ship was conferred on Mrs. Thomas J.
Nipper, president of the local Baptist
Mission circle. Refreshments were
served by the hostess.
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The next meeting of the Ladies' Lit
erary club will be held next Friday aft
ernoon. Mrs. John F. Cowan will read
a paper on why We Need the Emil
grant" and Mrs. Hal W. Brown will
present THE Unfavorable Side of I'm
migration" The music will be given
by Mrs. Virginia Swift DAILY, Miss
Pearl Rothschild and a double quar-
tette under the direction of Madame
SwensOn. The singers are Miss Norma
FentOn, Miss LenOre Morse, Miss Elsie
May Angel, Miss Rasbourne, Miss De-
line Jacobs, Mrs. L. e. Goddard, Miss
Hazel WINNER and Mrs. Thomas Wise
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The Monday Night Literary club
held its last meeting with Miss Rosalie
Pollock. Professor Byron Cummings
gave the members a talk on his last
summers trip to southern Utah, which
he illustrated with a large number
of photographs. This included de-
scription of the wonderful geological
formations of that region and the ruins
of the ancient cliff dwellers Profess
sor Cummings made a special plea for
keeping all valuable relics here in
Titan for the use of our own students,
instead of allowing them to be taken
away to enrich the large museums of
distant cities and foreign countries.
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The Wasatch Literary circle met
with Mrs. McNiece and Mrs. Parsons in
Gunton Memorial chapel Tuesday Aft
ernoon. "The influence of Education
on the Child Mind" was the subject of |