The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-05-07

should be versatile in plans and sug-
geStions for work and study. She
should be interested herself and able
to create interest in others in the diff
| ferent departments of club work. She
should be prompt with the helping
thought and expression, ready with
words fifty spoken" She should have
clear understanding and quick wit.
| There are many such in this club, en-
dowed by nature, cultured by study.
Your presence, your readings, your
conversation, your papers, all testify to
| this high attainment. | urge upon you
| a serious consideration of this matter,
| because it is my earnest, honest desire
that YOU have most efficient leader,
one altogether worthy. Will you not
elect such one? Let me assure your
new president that she will receive the
same loyal support that has been &C
| corded me for years.
| You have accomplished splendid
work. We are far better acquainted
with the fascinating lands and the
| talented men of the old world than
| heretofore Has not hard research
which at times seemed task, evolved
into great delight as our knowledge
grew of men and countries, of literature
and art and music?
| We have had lessons also from our
own American life from brave, earnest
women who 60 down into the slums
and often bring good out of sin and evil,
and give gladness and blessing in place
of misery. Shall we not profit by their
| preceptS and examples? | will not
speak in detail of our Club life-this
will probably be given in reports of
officers. However we acknowledge with
gratitude our Indebtedness to many in
| dividuals as well as to the kind thought
| of the Literature Club, whose generosity
gave to many the evening of April 27th
| two great pleasures that of congenial
| social intercourse and a charming lee
| ture from our genial friend and neigh
| Dor, Mr.. Smith, whom we all esteem and
admire SO heartily. We are puffed with
pride and appreciation that the efficient
| President of this very thoughtful Lit
erature Club, Miss Maude E. Mathews,is
a valued member of our own. We de-
sire also to thank all friends who have
added to our pleasure by their occa-
sional presence, by the sunshine of
their faces, by the sweet music of voice
or touch, by their substitution for de-
linquent mothers. These are worthy
daughters. We are always glad to meet
them, and what shall we say to these
good friends, not members of our Club,
whom we gladly meet when we come to
this happy home. Mrs. Pitcher and
Gladys never refuse to gladden. our
souls from their rich store of talents,
and in the giving never are they i'm
poverished
For Miss Dunton, our hostess today,
words of thanks cannot suffice to ex-
press our appreciation of the varied
hospitality she and her good brothers
have laviShed upon us, both in this
home and in their alluring cottage by
the sea. Now may peace, prosperity,
still higher attainments ever be yours,
honored members of the Travellers
Club
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.
To the President and Members of the |
Belfast Travellers Club: Whatever
the spring time may mean to many of |
you, it has most surely become to your
secretary synonymous with the term |
annual report, and as even paced the |
years come round, it is often difficult to |
vary sufficiently to be attractive the
incidents of travel and other work of |
the year. 1t is, however, sometimes |
interesting and beneficial to take a
look backward, and in glancing over
the files of this department of work it
seems to me that | cannot do better in
beginning than to give you a brief his
tory of our club, an outline picture,
which trust will not be adjudged cob
Webby, of the pleasant hours we have
spent together
1t may not be known to all of you,
but the fact remains, that we are in the
common parlance of the day-a merger.
1t was in the season of 1895 6 that few
congenial souls, believing that club in
auence was healthful and conducive to
social and literary betterment, organic
ed society for the purpose of exchang-
ing ideas and learning how to study and
what to study: We called ourselves
particular at least we were in advance
of our present organization, we boosted
seasons the records show a most pleas
ing course of study of various authors,
current events, sc. Then the interest
tagged, outside and home cares and
duties interfered with the meetings and
finally they were discontinued. But
the president, the same efficient leader
who served as chief officer of this club
the first year and half of its existence, ]
together with the writer, who was the
scribe, were determined to carry out the
sentiment of our motto, mo Steps
and that the little advance
made in club life should not be lost.
After many consultations and CORE
spondence with friends in other cities,
the usual discouragements and ,
in October, 1901, under
the direction of Mrs. F. w. Chase of