The evening star and Newark advertiser., 1907-11-15
WOMEN'S CLUBS
MRS. CORLIES ENTERTA AIMS
PHILITSClPOMA.
Members Hear Talk ON "Fiction" by
Rev. Phoebe A. Hanaford-Musi-
cal Program Follows.

Philitscipoma held a most delightful
meeting at the residence of Mrs. James c..
Corlies 20 East Park street yesterday
afternoon Mrs. Benjamin Norton Scud-
der was the chairman of the day Miss
Annie Tichenor the president, who has re-
Gently returned from a seven months
trip abroad. opened the session with
few words Of greeting to the club and re-
counted some of her European experiences
Mrs Charlotte Wilbur and Mrs. May
Reilly Smith, of Sorosis, who were to
give addresses, were unable to attend, and
their regrets were read by Mrs. Scudder.
Miss Olive Mills gave a piano solo, Sc
Iections, from Martha, as the first number
ON the program. and Mrs Louise oliver,
who possesses Il voice of strength and
mellewmess sang IA Gypsy Maiden, l. y
by P,Tlaar, and as an encore "A Dande-
lion."
ssF1cti,n as a Fine Art was the subject
of the T ,eV. Phoebe A. Hanaford's paper.
She said:
sFicuon is to literature what pictures
are To art Fiction touches the heart, as a
beautiful D. Ict1lre does. 1t most certainly is
one of the fine arts-and by fiction we
don't mean nntruths, but the wonderful
workings of the imagination. and it culti-
Yates that MA gination in the reader as
well as the ritter
"our highest. authority for fiction is the
Divine Master, W ho, himself spoke in par
ables. Fiction is not to be deplored, as it
was in the Puritan days for it has now
taken its right ful place in the ranks of
literature
Miss Maud Po rtef Lafferty. of Pittsburg.
PA. delighted the members of the club
with her singing. of Stern's 'Printemps.
As an encore size sang most charmingly
Loves Entreaties.' by Brackett; Miss
Lafferty Is soprano soloist in the Third
Presbyterian Church, of Ptttsburg, and
her voice is most pleasing
Mrs Ellen M. Staples, of Hoboken.
member of the New Jersey Womens Press
Club, read paper on Provincial Scottish
Novels
..We grow blase over the novel of the
day." said Mrs. STAPLES. Sensation Of
every sort is crowd ed into them. and car
ried to the extrer ne The Objectionable
novel of the new school outrages our
ideas Of decency. But like breath of
heather, comes the revival Of the Scottish
rural novel; When Barrie opened The
Window in Thrums we thanked God and
+ools courage Mrs Staples read selee-
tions from that book and from Ian Mac
laran's works in the Scotch dialect. Miss
I,afrerty sang IAN Irish Love Song," by
Lang and June by Mrs. Beach,
A pauer written by Miss Ellen e. Miles,
who through illness, was unable to be
present. was read by Mrs. Scudder. The
was rs There Any Age Limit to
lhfodiectY-'
s.Why,v asks Miss Miles, SHOULD men
and women withdraw from activity, be-
cause they have passed the three 'scoro
wear and ten mark? God has placed no
age limit to intellect. The body may
wIther but the mind-never.'
Mrs. Henry H. Dawson, the president
of the New Jersey State Federation, in
speaking to the club, urged them to help
the weaker clubs-weak because of the
lack of advantages in their environment,
and, most of all, the libraries. |
Mrs William Brown, in speaking on the
educational movement, made an appeal toI
the club TO aid in the work of sending
circulating libraries to the outlying dis
tricts and librarians, to teach them thel
value of library.
There were words of greeting spoken by
Mrs. A. ]. Hahn of the Phalo Clao New
York; Mrs. McCullagh and Mrs Moffet, of
New York
A social hour followed the program. A
business meeting of the club will be held