Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-13
Women S Clubs

teresting routine OF daily duties alreauy
outlined and colored by iron circum-
stances. But a man who addressed the
Friday Morning club yesterday, G.
Hanford Henderson, LII. d., speaking
on "The Larger Issues" is demonstrat-
4 ing the great problem of painting his
canvas here and now, and Is seeing MS
efforts materialze in the lives of young
n men who are developing along the
right lines, mentally, morally and phys
Il ically as they prepare TO enter the
arena of life
DR.. Henderson, who is perhaps best
"a known to the general public by his con-
81 tributions to the Atlantic Monthly, and
by his books on educational and eco
a nomic questions, is at the head of a
school for boys, called "Marenfeid,'
that Is situated about twelve miles
4 from Riverside, and which possesses
more of the characteristics of camp
than a school. In the summer he takes
those pupils who care to accompany
him to a little nook in the southern
part of New Hampshire, at the foot of
Mt. Monadnock, and there he opens a
summer camp, which has been in oper-
4 alton eleven years.
His work in California, he said was
started thirteen years ago in Philadel-
phia, when in a school of 300 boys he
discovered that many conditions which
the school system was not able to con-
troll in day of five hours, five days a
week, ten months in the year.
The results obtained by the teachers
in five days were minimized by the two
days intervening at the week end, and
in September, when the pupils returned
after vacation much time was spent in
catching up where the work had been
dropped at the close of the school year.
This seemed to DR.. Henderson a dis
tinct loss. and he devised the summer
camp as Stop-gap or storage reser-
voir taking with him to the mountains
of Pennsylvania in the summer of
1906 fifteen pupils. Here they lived the
simple life, were expected to be self
dependent, self-controled and to con-
tribute each his individual share
toward the community life. Two years
later this camp was removed to New
Hampshire for the benefit of the brac-
ing air.
Starting on the principle that boy
is a very valuable animal, each was
given physically somewhat the train
ing young colt receives and treated
intellectually In the same sturdy fash
ion, and it has been DIR. Henderson's
effort to send each out into the world
with a love for work and possessed of
a philosophy that should make him
worth while as contributor to the
sum total of the worlds good and
happiness. That he is not a dreamer.
that his theories are tangible and
practical and have n recognized place
in the educational world Is shown by
the attendance of nearly 100 boys at
his camp last summer.
This philosophy which Dr. Henderson
endeavors to teach and which was the
theme of his discourse yesterday asks
the individual soul to drop selfhood
and to identify this self with the uni
verse; 1t teaches that to view matters
of purely personal interest in spirit
of detachment, to feel this universe
is mine, and l am the universe" is to
place oneself where no possibility of
failure or disaster can reach. This
philosophy AYERS that when all thought
of individual good slips out of sight
and the larger life takes possession,
then the individual life is rescued from
insignifcance and failure, and a way
of escape is offered from the pettiness
and trvialites of life that is infinite
ly better than anything that has been
given up. In the realm of religion DIR.
Henderson teaches salvation is
process of escape from the small world
of self into the larger sphere of the
spiritual world
s.
Under the direction of Mrs. A. s.
Glasgow the following program has
been prepared for the meeting of the
Wednesday Morning club next week:
"A Japanese Song" Miss Rose Wood,
Miss Eunice Sewers accompanist;
Home Life of the Japanese" Mrs. I.
eigners," Arthur NJ Clark, two years
newspaper correspondent in Japan;
Japanese Love Song Miss Gertrude
Ferry; "Explanation of the Japanese
Marriage Ceremony" Mrs. A. S. Glas-
gov; Japanese wedding, under Mrs.
Priors upervision-Bride, Miss Anita
Burchill; groom, Miss Gertrude Ferry;
brides father, Miss jeanette Hazel;
grooms father Miss Anna Yost; brides
mother. Mrs. L. c. Jacobus; groom's
mother, Mrs. G. Greene; bridesmaids,
Olive Saunders and Eunice Sewers; the
go-between, Mrs Glen Velzy; music
from 1.-THE Mikado," Mrs. e. D. Park.
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The members of the graduating class
of 1908 entertained the Shakespeare
alumni of the Wednesday Morning club
with luncheon at the home OF Mrs. J.
e. Brown on Eastlake avenue, Friday
afternoon. After luncheon a business
meeting was followed by a quotation
contest. and prizes were awarded the
successful contestants.
Assisting Mrs. Brown were Mesdames
w. H. Fillmore. o. l.. Robertson and
A. v. Dunsmoor
Members of the alumni present were
Mines. o. II. Hubbard, Fl. C. Cover,
II. e. Brett J. b. Liversidge, w: H..
Fillmore, A. V. Dunsmoor. Allison Bar
low. C. s. Goodrich. f. M. Nickel A.
e. Hodgson, l. A. Douglass. NJ. "A.
Pierce. Frank Caldwell. H. II. Harri-
son, Il. K. Foster, F. w. Fuller M. B.
Pitkin, W. H. Harrison, r. Sharp, Mary
Pierce. A. w. Lagrange, F. r. Prior o.
l.. Robertson and e. D. Park.
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First in the course of stereopticon
lectures to be given before the Wednes-
day Morning club by B. r. Baumgardt
will take place the night of March 20
with "A Ramble Through Spain" as the
topic. vienna and Budapest" is an
nounced as the topic of the lecture on
April 8. with Naples and Venice"
April 16 and April 80 respectively.
s.
The Galpin Shakespeare club held it's
regular monthly meeting Wednesday
morning in the Shakespeare room at
Cumnock hall, Mrs. Egelhoff Rundel,
the leader for March, being in charge.
The subjects under consideration were
Later Elzabethan Literature" "An-
tony and Cleopatra" Julius Caesar"
Plutarch's "Lives" and "Timon of Attn
ems" Mrs. e. H. Barmore read a pa
per, written by Mrs. Sherwood on
Moore's "Utopia." Mrs. j. T. Fitzger-
aid presented a well written essay on
Shakespeare and Bacon. Mrs. j. O..
Atkinson read an excellent paper on
life. a Failure" Miss Julia Wyman
was on the program for current Shake
spearean commentary. Questions were
answered by the club The messenger
scene and death scene from Antony
and cleopatra" were enacted by Mrs
John Kahn, Mrs Helen Steckel, Mrs
y. u, Clampitt and Miss Fannie Smith
After the meeting luncheon wasl
served. Mrs. VIM Bauerhite made an
earnest appeal in behald of the mater