The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1910-06-23

the big register. The menu was fine.
The choice chicken, hot biscuits, de-
licious salad, luscious strawberries and
the rest of the good things were dis
posed of with the thought that the
host and hostess of the hotel, Mr. and
Mrs. George McCarn had done their
utmost to make the meal the best ever.
In fact it was so good that a special
vote of thanks was rendered to the
management for the excellent viands.
The Twilight Hour.
After the banquet the company en-
joyed an hour on the lawn and wharf
before the toasts were given. The
golden twilight in the west, the jump
ing fish, the busy calling of the whip
Or-will and the gradual changing of
day into night was feature, both en-
tertaining and picturesque.
About $3.50 in the music room of the
hotel, H. K. Page, the toastmaster,
brought down his gavel and the pro-
gram opened. When Mrs. 7. w. Eng
lish, the secretary called the roll, all
re ;ponded with nature sentiments. AS
a portion of the presidents address,
II. E. Cole read the program for next
year as follows:
Oct. "A Three Months Holiday
Abroad. Mrs. Il. B. Griggs.
Oct 2l-Mark Twain. F. H. Horst
man.
Nov. - Review of Edward Alfred
Steiner's. Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb
and Flow" Mrs. E. NJ. Adams.
Nov. I8-Woman's Relation to Gov
ernment. Mrs. Margaret D. Hill.
Dec. 2-Amusements of the Present
Day, Their Tendencies and Influence.
Mrs. E. J. Battles.
Dec. 16-Byron. II. X. Page. A
Quotation from Byron will be given by
each member.
Jan. "a Federal Bureau of Health.
Mrs. j. E. English.
Jan. 2O-Our People of the Fifties.
Mrs. T. W. English.
Feb. s. The Modern Chronicle by
Winston Churchill Mrs. E. Pfannstiehl.
Feb. 17-What Life Means to Me.
Mrs. f. E. Settergren. The paper will
be followed with five minute talks or
papers on the same subject by Rev. E.
G. Henke, City Clerk ]. S. Workman,
r. 3. Griggs, Mrs. B. A. Clarke and
Superintendent H. r. Chamberlain.
Mar. 3-The New Conception of Civic
Righteousness. Mrs. f. H. Horstman.
Mar. 17-American Artists and Their
Work. Mrs j. H. Hill.
Apr. THE Rockefeller Foundation.
Mrs.IHugh Kelley.
Apr. 2I-Is the Rule of the Social
Democratic Party in Milwaukee Sue
cess? F. Z. E.:Settergren.
The speaker urged that the club
advertise itself by doing good
work and having excellent discus
sions.
The POSTMASTER introduced the
speakers with many witty anecdotes
and apt phrases fitting the individual
subjects and speakers.
"Our Friends" was given by Mrs.
E. NJ. Adams. She spoke of the true
friends and the good they often do fol-
us. She quoted Emerson who gave
the two essential qualities of true
friends, truth and tenderness.
"Friend is word of royal tone;
Friend is poem all alone"
F. E. Settergren was assigned
ssWho's Who" He said that from
what the tOastmaster said that new
tail had been hitched to his subject
and he did not believe that it was q
fish tail either. He then read q
criticism on President Taft and
said that Taft had made 8
mistake when he let the good men
get on the other side. At first the peo
pIe thought that Mr.. Taft was one-hal
Mckinley and one-half Roosevelt, but
they had been disappointed.
Mrs. T. W. English dealt gently
with "Our Men," She said that many
a home was wrecked by the long alb
sence of the head of the family. Sh,
toasted. the different lines represented
in the club; editors, lawyers, mer
chants, farmers, tailors, schoolmaster
and mail clerks.
s. j. HooddeaI with "Delinquents.
He did not have so much to say abou
delinquent subscribers as he did will
DELINQUENT club members. He though