St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-12-15
WOman'S Club Column.
The Tenth Biennial


The tenth biennial of the General Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs is to be held
in Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, May II,
1910. Club women all over the world
are interested in this meeting because mo-
mentous questions are to be discussed,
because of the beautiful new clubhouse
of the Cincinnati Woman's Club; and be-
cause of the opportunity to attend the
May musical festival
Some of the subjects treated at
recent meeting of the AS You Like 1t"
club of -Nergennes WERE THE Evils of
American School System; "A DAYS
Work of a Public School Teacher;
"What Our Cities are Doing for their
Children IA Backward Pupil. "
The Alturian Club at Springfield had
for its definite plan of work last year the
public library, and this year it is work
ing tor the Village Improvement society.
1t is organized for the social and educa-
tional benefit of it's members, and is one
OF the new clubs in the Vermont Fedora
ton.
Mrs. E. c. Smith ofSt. Adams recently
addressed the Klifa Cub OF Burlington on
"Non.F Federated Women's Clubs" and
made some interesting statements show
ing what the club had accomplished in
St. Adams. Mrs. F. S. Richardson spoke
on the progress of the Klifa Club during
its nine years existence.
At the regular meeting of the Woman's
Club of Morrisville last week chldren's
sayings were given in response to the roll
call paper on Yukon, written by Mrs.
George Bates was read by Miss Anna
Mower; current events were given by
members of the club, followed by paper
on "Rubenstein" by Mrs. Ida Churchill
Charles J. Glidden, the we'll known mo-
torist and balloon pilot of Boston gave
very entertaining illustrated lecture at
Rutland last week under the auspices of
the Woman's Club. He spoke of his per-
sonal experience as balloon pilot and
told the story of a trip around the globe
in motor car.
The subject of the meeting of the Fort
nightly Club of Bennington last week
was Christmas. Perhaps the choicest
bit of Christmas literature, Dickens
Christmas Carol, was given by Miss Val
entine ; another of his word pictures, A
Christmas Tree, was read by Miss Wal
bridge, and old Christmas carols were
sung by number of little girls.
The Fortnightly club of Hardwick held
its regular meeting December with Mrs.
Walter Dutton. Mrs. Florence Mcclure
gave paper on 1.-THE Free Cities" Mrs.
Maude Cole one on milan and two 9TH
er Cities" Mrs. May Dutton one on
"Gueifs and Ghibellines''; Mrs. Amy Law
sons subject was "Rienzi;;" "Rienzi to the
Romans" was read by Mrs. Isabel Nc
Naughton,
Nearly 5000 was realized from the an
nual entertainmentgiven by the Woman's
Club of Bellows Falls last week. The en-
tertainment took the form of a progress
sive dinner and bazaar, at which were
the usual booths, and farce and dane
ing followed. The progressive dinner
was divided into four courses, served in
Union hail. During the afternoon lunch
counter held forth and dainty lunches
were served. The farce was Poor Pilli-
coddy" and was exceedingly funny.
1.-THE Artistic Temperament" by Miss
Laura Simmons, interpreted by Mrs.
Maud Huntington Benjamin, reader;
songs by Miss Edith Castle contralto;
and violin selections by Miss Helen