The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-09
WOMEN'S CLUBS
PEER into PAST
Speaker Calls Up Spirit of
Puritan in Contrast With
Present.
HEROINES OF FRONTIER
LECTURER SAYS FEMININE oP-
TiMISM MADE THE WEST.

/ W0men's clubs. which is holding its
/ sixteenth annual convention IN TINS
| city at present. Two addresses were
/ given before the members az tne
/ Ladies' Literary club house. No. 70
| Third East street. Mrs. R w. FIsnef
! having a paper on The spirit OF tile
/ Puritan and Prof. George MarshalI
/ of the state university speaking on
/ The Literature of Puritanism in the
| American Colonies
! A resolution was presented by the
| members of the tourist section Of the
/ Ladies' Literary club for action by Ihe
/ members of that OrganizatiOn petition
/ ing the city council not to grant
| tunnel site for the Little Giant Mining
/ company on city property in the head
| waters of City creek. Ine prOposed
! grant was turned down by the council
! at its regular meeting last Monday
! night. but it viii come up for recon-
/ sideTation at the next session on mo-
ton of Councilman T. r. Black.
! The resolution was adopted by a
! vote of the club women who oppose
/ the granting of the site chiefly on ac-
/ count of the effect that the mining
operations would have on the water
Mrs. L. d. Miller. president of the
/ Ladies' Literary club, presided at the
/ session Friday afternoon, the hall be
/ ing completely filled when the session
/ opened. The first feature was a piano
/ solo by Miss Beulah Belle and after
! this number the chairman presented
| Mrs. Fisher to speak on The Spirit OF
the Puritan"
After calling attention to the fact
that nearly every phase of Puritan lie
has been touched upon by the writer's,
and referring briefly to the character
! istics Of the Puritan household, OF
| which the husband was the undisputed
/ ruler. the speaker took up her sub
ject by describing a supposed return
| of the spirit of one of the New Eng
land ancestors TO the world of today,
piCturing the view which he might
/ take of present day customs. She con-
] puritan
when mother was not even supposed
to kiss one of her children on sunday,
with these OF {gGa{ d Sd3 s much t9
place mankind on q higher plane The
meek, submissive wife of Purlt tan
times has her representatives among
the women of today, but most women
of today are becoming emancipated-
The paper was followed by the ad-
dress of Prof Marshall on The Liter
allure of Puritanism In the American
Colonies He called attention to the
fact that Puritanism is most potent
force in American letters. and said that
the literature of the time is deeply
tinged with the religious sentiment
which prevailed among the first New
! EnglandeTs. He spoke briefly Of the
CalViuistic features of this eligiOn and
then touched upon the literature of the
period, the address being full of in
teTest
A vocal duet by the Misses Amy and
Isabel Osborne closed the afternoon
program.
The session Friday morning was pre-
sided over by Mrs. Byron Cummings,
president of the federation. the fea-
ture being an open parliament on sew
eTal questions of interest, conducted by
Mrs. John 7. Cowan. Five minutes
/ were allowed for opening the discus
sion and two minutes for each sub
| seQuent speaker. The subjects of dis
cussion and those leading in the topics
Club Ethics" led by Mrs. W. A.
Nelden; simpler Dress for High School
Girls" Mrs. a. V. Taylor: What Can
Club Women DO to Reduce the Cos.
ence of other Peoples Income on Our
Standard of Living" Mrs. Edward
/ BichSel. adequate Protection of Fruit
. Connections and Other FOOdStuffs Of
: ! fered for Sale DIR. Alice HOughtOn
b What Shall We DO for the Helpless
but Worthy, Old People?' Mrs. Lydia
. Alder, What Club Women Can Do for
Their Town" Mrs. NJ II. Jensen.
After an instrumental solo by Miss
{ Lillian oliver and reports from stand
/ ing committees, the visiting women
! luncheon at the Y. W. c. a rest and
! lunch room, in the Brooks Arcade.
Friday night at the First Congrega-
tiOnal church the club women heard
! several fine musical numbers and an
address by Arthur WalbTidge North on
1.-THE Optimism of the American From
tierswOman." The lecture was illus
trated by stereopticon views
/ The program was opened with a
r short organ recital by Organlst Tracy
Y. Cannon, the numbers including Sui
liVan'S Lost Chord" the AndantinO in
y fiat. by Lemare, and the Pilgrim
song Of Hope Mrs. Byron Cummings
{ president Of the state federati then
., introduced Mrs. Walter futile, haTpist
and Miss Esther Allen, violinist. who
gave duet.
b. MIR. North. the lecturer of the even
r ing. was introduced by Mrs. Cummings
Prior to taking up the steTeOpticOH
portion of his address. Mr.. North gave
q talk on the early explorations on
. / the American continent and told Of the
b part which women have played in the
expeditions during the last century
b He said many persons had read OF
o ! the daughters Of old Virginia, at q
later period, and he said it was fit
ting that tribute should be paid tC
1.-The herCism of the women who had
faced the perils Of the plains, the tow
ering Rockies and the snoW-Capped
SierraS. I'm their Journeys into the I'M
known western country, He said the
American frontier il rapidly disap-
I pearing and that the frontierswomar
viii be q thing of the past in a short
? | time The spea ker said that many
/ tiersWoman with words of pity, but
, referred to the fact that most of them
had not looked upon the life as one
3 He said the American frontiers
r woman possessed one domineering
: CHARACTERISTIC which has made the
west the NlTile UncOnqueTable terri
tory that it is today. this character
: istic being her splendid optimism.
| The speaker took up briefly the ear
| ly explorations of the western pOr-
ton of the American continent. ex-
. | tending down from the sixteenth
] through the nineteenth century. He
said the west had been referred to, as
: a painless region but said that il
| was not such even a hundred years
ago. having been travelled through
7 nearly its entire extent by persons on
foot and horseback. He said the early
trapperS never succeeded in making
ANYTHING of the western territory
which they traversed and that the de-
/ velopment Of the west dated from the
coming of the frontierswomen about
sixty years ago He mentioned the
expeditions of 1889. 1916 and 1871 the
| last mentioned that of the Mormon
pioneers, i'm which the women had a
part, and said the women of this
period made the best of everything
her innate wCmanliness probably be
ing the keynote of her attitude In
gave Illustrations of frontier women
and children from Wyoming. Idaho
Utah. Colorado and Arizona.
| The lecture was followed by a vocal
| solo by Mrs. Emily Sitter, and a quar-
tet for the harp. violin. organ and
voice. by Mrs. futile, Miss Allen. Mr.
Cannon and Mrs. sitter.
Arthur Walbridge North the
speaker of the evening, is an attor-
ney. recently from New York, now in
the service of the oregon Short Line
Aside from his legal studies, Mr.
| North has devoted himself to explora
ton and literary work.
hunted through the remote regions OF
p the Sierra Nevada and Coasf Ra1ve