The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-08-18

and Alaska" A number of the MEM
bers were pioneers in this or other dis
tricts of the great northwest" and the
sum total of their experiences will be
history at first hand
Novel Features.
Among the novel features on the
club program is the demonstration of
practical luncheon dishes by Miss Lola
Edith Lowther at the close of one of
the November meetings. The intel
lectual and the material are combined
fairly evenly on the outline of study
the matter of prepared foods, food
fads, Fletcherism and how to make
the home healthful and sanitary be-
ing among the proposed topics for dis
cussion.
The roll call for the opening meet
ing, October 5, must be answered by
vacation personals, and any member
falling to answer in the desired man
ner will be asked to contribute ten
cents to the club house fund. The
presidents foreword will be given by
Mrs. Richard Strobach and the dele
gates to the state federation of wo-
mems clubs convention, Mrs. Stro-
L.
their report. There will be music and
a cup of tea and what necessary bust
ness may have come before the club
during the summer intermission.
Why You Live Here.
Members will tell their reasons for
preferring to live in Washington
rather than in any other state in the
Union in answer to roll call for the
October 10 meeting. Melinda Barton
Watt will describe the physical char
acteristics of the state and Josie Drake
Diteman THE Handiwork of Nature
in Alaska" The discussion, How to
Make the Home Healthful Place
Physically" will be led by Jennie r.
Steinman and Annie Cameron Sin
clair.
Reciprocity day occurs October 20,
when there will be musical pro-
gram under the direction of Margaret
Mitchell Boyle. November 2 will be
Indian day. Roll call will be ans
wered by Indian anecdotes. Jean
Donald Vance will consider the In
dian tribes of the northwest; Verde
Akin Erwin will tell of famous In
dian characters and Nellie Williams
Graham will deal with Indian folk
lore, legends and music.
How to Prepare Foods.
Elizabeth Bell Sloan and Lucy Mich
Uis will discuss the scientific prepare
ton and combination of foods for
home use ct the meeting on November
Is. The papers for that day will be
1.-THE Hudson Bay Company in the
Northwest" by Elizabeth B. Phelps
and whitman and What He Did for
Washington" by IneZ Phillips Will
liams. Roll call will be answered by
Happenings in the World Today"
Builders of the West" will answer
the roll call November 80. washing
ton as a Territory will be the sub
Winsor and Lura Buckley Wright
will talk about Territorial Govern
ors" Miss Lowther will demonstrate
practical luncheon dishes. December
IA will be given over to Alaska, Win
nifred Newcomb Congdon having for
subject 1.-The Alaska Purchase" Helen
Gilman Rankin, makers of Alaska"
and Elizabeth Newcomb Janeck,
alaskan Eccentricities." Roll call
will be answered by Public Affairs of
Present Interest"
Fletcher and His Isms.
Anna Scudder Meyer will tell of
Washington's sources of wealth De-
cember 2S, after the roll call has been
gone over by naming novel products
of the state. Marion Richey Gilbert
has for topic 1.-THE Desert Reclaimed"
and Jane Mcmillan Reed and Mary
Rutan Kelly will lead the discussion
on Fletcherism.
1.-THE Tanning of Alaska" by Dora
Stapp Wilkinson, and the Develop
ment of Alaska Mines" by Annette
Seeley Greene, together with a roll
call answered by items of interest to
women, and a business session make
up the list of events for January H..
On January 25 the luxuries Of
modern travel will be compared with
the primitive methods of early trans
portation, Faith Luckey Shannon
having a paper on the latter subject.
Alice Gordon Weed will tell of "Pio-
neers of Washington" and Jessie Free
mont Campbell will lead a discussion
Of Food Fads." The lure of the
west will be considered February by
Mary Henry Rossiter. Ella c. Lemon
will tell of the development of the
railroad in Alaska and Washington
and roll call will be answered by news
of the day.
Washington.
For the second meeting in February,
which falls on the birthday of WASH
ington. 1.-The father of his country"
roll call will be answered by WASH
ingtonia. Elizabeth Harrison Snively
will discuss the coast cities of Wash
ington, the state which bears his name,
and Ellie r. Thomas will describe the
Alaska ukon-Pacifc exposition and
It's effect on the northwest. Mod
ernism; It's Influences and Tendon
cies," will be the round table topic,
with Sue NJ. Lombard as leader.
March is anniversary day.
Is the West IrreligiOus?
as the West Irreligious?" is the
topic for round table discussion
March 22, led by Elizabeth Reynolds
Thompson. The roll call is to be quo