Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-02
Women S Clubs


to Marion Craig Wentwol i, who will
present "Play Votes for Women
written for her by Elizabeth Robins,
March 12-"California and Japan" James
A. b. Scherer president of Throop POLY
technic institute.
Vaughn Moody. read by Mrs. George "
Wright.
March 19-"some Larger Issues" c, Han
ford Henderson
March 26-"Book Review" some recent
English novels and novelists. Brief criti-
cism.
"Call of the Blood" Spirit in Prison.
Robert Hchens. Miss Packard.
Judgment of Eve" May Sinclair, by Mrs
John Golsworthy." Sinclair. DR.. Dorothea
Moore
Joseph Vance" "Allce for short" some
how Good" william de Morgan, Miss Kirk
land
"The Halfway House." Maurice Hewlett.
''Furze the Cruel" John Trevena Miss
Van Dyke.
Theodore B. Comstock opened the
Ebell March calendar yesterday with a
lecture on THE Signs of thu Times. "
Other dates are the following:
March S-Lecture, THE Romance of
the Desert, or A Neglected Industry, y
MIR. Frank G. Tyrrell. Guests admitted
on members visiting card.
March ia reading with musical
setting-Saul (Robert Browning), Mrs.
Merrill Moore Grigg, assisted by Miss
Fannie Dillon at the piano.
March 22-Two little plays 'Prim-
ley's Select Party (Walter H. Nichols) ;
a hint to the fair sex entitled "a Ro-
land for His oliver" (Theyre SMITH,
Hobart Bosworth and the pupils OF his
Institute of Dramatic Art
March 29-"The Old Pueblo of Los
Angeles Mrs. A. Bandini; "Old Cali
fornia," Gen. Johnsto:-e Jones.
s.
For benefit of the clubhouse fund,
Highland Park Ebell is giving a must
Gale Thursday evening. Songs by
American song writer's, readings by
American authors, and instrumental
numbers by American composers are
to be presented.
The program is the following: Piano
duet, Miss Florence Nelson and Mrs. F.
w. Hornbogen; reading, 1.-THE Same
Old Story" Mrs. H. H. Grothouse; Vo-
cal solo by Lysle r. Mckinney; read
ing, 1.-The Shepherds Psalm" and
Negro Version of the Ninety and
Nine" by Mrs. James Garth; vocal
solo, "a Song of Thanksgiving"
(Frances Allitsen), Mrs. James Fred
erick; Wolf solo, De Beriot's allegro
ing, cutting from Leah, the Forsaken, p"
Mrs. H. H. Grothouse; vocal solo,
storm, the King" (Black), Harold Os-
from; piano solo, witches Dance
(MacDowelD, Miss Brocklebank; vocal
numbers, Nightingale" Ward Ste
phens) and Songs My Mother Taught
Me" (Dvorak) by Mrs. Catherine c.
Shank; reading. 1.-THE Stickit Minister" "
by Mrs. James Garth, and "Old Glory,
CfO1, 20
Glory Goss and Harold Roberts.
Theodore B. Comstock, mining en-
gineer scientist and eminent member
of the Pacific coast literati, lectured
before the Ebell club yesterday, having
for his topic "Signs of the Times" and
after a felicitous and happily phrased
prologue. said in part:
One day as l was diligently con-
fusing the boys with the unknown
names of things well known to them,
a circus band struck up in the street.
Since then no need to tell me what
happens when the band begins to
play" They all ran to the windows
except two-the stupidest and dulleSt
of the lot. Then 1 just loved them for
keeping their seats. Afterward they
made no record in the world. The
three whom l despised most for their
made their marks high in life. Two
of them have done good scientific work
and one made me glad when he re-
marked, do you remember the circus
band the day you spoke in our school?
That was the beginning of my interest
in science. If l can only remember
enough Latin and Greek now, surely
some of the most serious of my audi
ence must become inspired to emulate
IN of
Science is neutrality-suspicious.
knowledge That is ALL. And there
is science of common life in the pos
session of the most thoughtless as well
as the science of the specialist who
delves in the philosophy of the uni
verse. Blame an humble but earnest
and honest observer if he commit a
blunder in interpreting this admonition
not as inhibiting frank and free ex-
preston of the truth, as the truth
appears to him in the light vouchsafed
by the limits of his own horizon.
Pardon a Renaissance. In earlier
days misguided principal of young
women's school in Cincinnati engaged
the speaker to learn his own lessons
by teaching some classes there. There
were many bright girls whose char
acters might interest you, but select
two as examples of the influence of
hopeful faith.
One was apparently less favored
than others by fortune, and in other
respects would have been pardoned
for some lack of the spirit of cheer
fulness. But l saw her tried and Sc
verely tested many times. Never once,
in the hardest luck, did she fail to
come up smiling with the unvarying
remark, oh, my, this is a hard. hard
world. Thank your stars If you get
out alive She passed from view and
I know nothing of her later life ex-
cept that she cannot have helped she'd
ding rays of sunshine about her path
way wherever and to whatever 1t may
have led.
The other young woman was less
vivacious, but she had charm of
manner, a look in the eye and gentle
courtesy which combined to make eff
fective a very strong character. She
has doubtless long since forgotten the
little incident in class room by which
she taught unconsciously a lesson of
value in my life. With no less conf
dence could l have declared the cer-
tainty of her good influence on others
about her. / have not met her for
many years, but there is a man who
was fortunate enough to win her af-
lection and life devotion. He would
take pride and delight in telling you
how much of his great accomplishment
in recent years has been due to her
quiet strength of character. She will
share with him on Thursday of this
week the highest honor in the power
of this great people to bestow-the
presidency of the United States.
We cannot fairly consider the signs
of the Times" without a clear under
standing of existing conditions. You
may regard Science as prosy and I'M
sympathetic with Art and Imagination;
but you are wrong No rhythm of poe