The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-13
Women s Clubs.

The opening of the club year was
celebrated last Friday with one of the
largest opening meetings ever held in
the Ladies Literary club house. The
hall was well filled and a general air of
deep interest pervaded the club despite
the fact that it was the first meeting
since the long vacation. The presi-
dents address, the only literary part of
the program, was replete with helpful
suggestions for a year of good work.
Mrs. Sanford's main plea was for
greater and more united cooperation
| along lines of club work and after a
brief review of the splendid work done
at the Boston biennial, which she at
| tended, she closed with a strong plea
for more united work on local subjects.
She said, among other things:
THE Literary is now too large a club
to be longer a conservative club. We
should make il an incentive for those
outside our portals to want to join us
in our forward march. There are many
women in the city who. were they
members of the club. working members
would strengthen our organization
There are others to whom we might be
a help. Seneca says God made man
into men that they might help each
other There is not one of us who can
not give something to some one else.
There is not one of us who cannot gain.
We get out of a club just what we put
into it, and the club represents only the
status of the members.
Perhaps enc thing more than all
others that women need to learn is to
believe in one another and to maintain
| a certain loyalty toward the principles
for which the club stands. Let us have
faith in each other and in ourselves
Your president is only a figurehead- She
is absolutely powerless without the
support of the organization at whose
head she stands. 1 want you to re-
member this and to give to the club
and to the officers who have been elect
ed to serve you the coming year your
loyalty, your fealty and your support"
Before beginning her talk Mrs. San
| ford gave to the club kindly message
| from Mrs. Royle, whose regret that she
| could not be. with the club, as usual
at its opening meeting was shared by
all the members. The music of the aft
ernCon was particularly pleasing, Mrs
J. NJ. Davis giving two fine piano num-
bers and Albert Houghton, new BARI
| tone, delighting his hearers with his
vocal selections. Mr.. Houghton sang
His Lullaby" by Carrie Jacobs Bond,
and later Marching Along He was
greeted with such an insistent encore
that he responded with Three Little
| Chestnuts."
The next club meeting will be the
celebration of the wedding day of Eli
zabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
and the day will be devoted to study
of Browning and readings.
|
The monthly meeting of the Spirit of
Liberty chapter Daughters Of the
American Revolution, was held last
Thursday with Mrs. F. S. Bascom,
when Mrs. c. S. Kinney was the chair
man of the afternoon. Mrs. Thomas
Weir read some of her own verses from
"Kinnikinnick," and Miss Florence AL
len read from her recently published
book, "Patris." Miss Helen Hartley
played the little lullaby written by Mrs.
Weir as violin solo. and short adj
! dresses were made by Mrs. Kinney and
Mrs. Henry LaMotte, the chapter re-
gent.
| The tourist section of the Ladies' Lit
erary club will meet Tuesday morning
at 10 o'clock to begin the years study
The first topic will be quick trip over
Russia. studying in a general way her
vast domains and her modes of travel
| A special meeting of the Bay View
club will be held at the residence of
Mrs. II. H. Frame, 122 P street, Mon
day, at p. m.
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The local chapter of P. E. o. will holu
its first meeting of the year with Mrs.
Gorham. 715 Second avenue, on Satur-
day. Sept. 10.
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special business meeting of the
Daughters of Utah Pioneers is called
for next Wednesday at the Lion House
at o'clock. AT this meeting the pres
ident will resign. and If the members
present think advisable, all vacancies
in Office will be filed.
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The art section of the Ladies' Lit
erary club meets Thursday morning at
10 o'clock at the club house A general
review Of the work OF the past year in