Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-16
GALA DAY FOR
CITY CLUB WOMEN
Members Of Ladies' Literary Club
Indulge in a Delightful
= Function.
TOASTS, MUSIC AND FEAST.
MclIangc of Dainty Spring Gowns,
IIowcrcd HINTS. Bright Eplgram
Aud Real Oratory.

The Ladies Literary club mas had so
many rcd letter events that tho term
In regard to It is becoming trite. Yes
torday's celebration OF its thirtIeth
birthday can only be described in SUI
pcrlatve terms. From beginning to
end the junction was memorable.
AT high noon the reception halls at
the Manitou began TO be thronged with
intellectual remjuinity whose dainty
spring gowns aud lowered hats made
Tho place like a garden. When, after
the hours informal reception the sig
nal was given TO repair to the dining
hall. the scene with it's picture panels
Of tables draped in snowy linen ana
bright with baskets Of jonquls and
plumosa above which chandeliers
snlothered In feathery green hung like
large boquets. while green shaded can,
dies lent pretty glow to the darkened
room 1t was one not soon to he for
gotten. While the daintiest OF me-
ms was served. an orchestra Of threc
nisces violin. mandolin aud harp ren~
,ered "A program u beautiful music
ana when AT o'clock the teast 'llpeu
an were IN delightful condition to enjoy
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n iq doubtful N any toastnlisress
ever presided with moro grace and
adantahility than Mrs, w. r. Adams
who did honor to yesterdays occasion
sppropris Selfpossessed and WIN
a remarkably clear and telling voice
she gave greeting and introduced her
followers i'm clever and appropriate
verge, each one Of her many interlndes
being epigrammatic and delighuullN
speaker she introduced, and RESPONDED
with Club "reminiscences. In whirh
she briefly reviewed the thirty YEARS
OF the clubs NE, her chief lhcident
being a. recital of how tho club came
by its handsome pearl gavel Shc aisp
smoke with deep feeling or the ma
festations of affection shown her py
.he olub collectively and Individuals
I'd how much she priced the titie tp'E
had given her of Club Mother.
She smoke of the many good WORKS
ACCOMMODATED by the club and sald hhe
had hoped It would continue I'm enter
prises of both public aud private good
CLUB PREDICTIONS
Miss Ethel Paul. the club president.
met tho toast Club Predictions in her
usual clever and feicitous style. She
alluded TO the title of the club and It's
past aims as being among tho has
beens." No longer are self-improVe-
ment and self-culture fashionable. she
said. AN those things are but
means TO the omnipresent altruistlc
end. Purpose above all things, IS the
note of today, and our sole aim is to
apply literature to life" Miss Paul re-
cited an inspiring vision in prediction
of what might he the clubs future.
ono of it's incidents was more COM
modlous house In which the annual
club breakfast might be given ana oth-
or desra BILE things done. She made
witty allusion to punctuallty and the
golden rule in time becoming the COM
mon rule of conduct. aud ended by
saying that her prophetic spirit con-
WINGED her of the vanity OF her de-
sires by assuring her that the millen-
ium was al hand.
Mrs w IL. Bintz responded to the
TOPIC, "Our Friends the Critics with
pthy references to the condition of
the club, which really made the critics
position seem almost unnecessary.
There were times when material, enun-
citation and even grammar had been
objects OF the critics art, but these
subjects We're becoming obsolete and
left the critic nothing to do. She read
some witty verse on her theme, asking
iirst that the doors might Soc closed 50
that none could escape.
FALLACY EXPLODED
Mrs. c. s, Kinney's topic was "'rhe
club Woman's Goal" and she some
times wondered what indeed it was
There had been an Idea one time prev
alent that to be club woman meant
10 be an Indifferent housekeeper. wife
and mother. But time and experience
has wiped out that fallacy. If the club
does not improve a woman In all these
capacities 1t misses its purpose. The
ideal club makes the average woman
better and wiser, more capable of meet
ing the serious questions OF life. II
puts her In a position to aid more ef-
fectively IN great reforms without her
self becoming professional reformer.
Club Friendships" was Mrs, Box
rud's subject aud was treated In a
thorough manner, with original IDEAS
upon the ideal friendship. and illustrat-
cd with quotations from Emerson, Mrs.
Browning, Charles Kingsley. and from
many OF the famous friendships of his
tory-Ruth and Naomi, Damon and
Pythias, rennyson and Arthur Hal
lam. She paid o tribute to the club
women as a fair type OF the ideal wo-
man 70 whom ideal friendships were
possible.
MISS JEssUP.
Miss Jessup told How TO be Hanpv
Though Club Member" taking some
OF her theme from the topic verse in
the program:
Hers not to make reply
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