Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-12
Club News

The women's Press club met yes
terdav afternoon at the new mead
quarters In the Women's sclubhouse'
Mrs. David Chambers McCan, presld-
ed and opened the meeting with Il
brief address. She summarized tno
duties of club work In brief manner
and gave a short announcement coh-
cerning the plans of the club Tor the
coming year. Special attention was
maid to the fact that the club mas sncn
pleasant and homelike quarters. Ine
year, beginning under such faVoraple
auspices, Is sure to prove SUCCESS
full one. ,,.., D.
The club will send an invitation to
Ella Wheeler Wilcox to be guest oL
honor at the regular meeting 10 DC
held Tuesday November q. ~, ,,Ennr mmv.
Purd B. Wright, the new city hprar-
ian. will speak. An informal recep-
tion with tea will follow this address
and members will be privileged 10
bring guests.
The subject of the shop talk pro-
gram arranged by Miss Rose EllerDe
was Literary Marketing" and mum
ber of helpful and entertaining artl-
cles, and talks were given on the SUD
iect. Charlton Lawrence Edholm, one
of the most versatile of western writ
ers. submitted a breezy and amusing
letter on the subject, which Mrs. Dora
| Oliphant Coe read. lncldently MI
Edholm suggested that after his pa
per was used at the club 1t might ne
peturned to him and he might pos
sibly get some publisher to use IT, 5au-
Iv at Variance with his instruction for
safe and sure sales was the notlcaole
| fact that he inclosed no stamps Tor
| return postage.
Mr.. Edholm offered much consolation
| to those would-be writers who accept
the first returned with thanks slip
as final, by saying that several OF MS
works had been declined by as many
as forty publishers before they 1ouh9
a market, that others were accepted
bv first class magazines after being re
| iected by the fourth-raters, and lately
| that within the past week he had SOLD
poem which actually was written IN
the last century
Mrs. Elizabeth Strong, writer, and a
new member of the club, was most en-
couraging and optimistic in her re-
sumo of hardshine endured and diff
culties overcome by persistent writers,
and Mrs Georgina Townsend gave
helpful talk full of valuable sugges-
tions to the novice. The next meet
| ing of the club will be held Tues
day, October %, when Dick Ferris Will
give a talk on Staging Play" treat
| ing the play as to scenery, costumlng,
| lighting, and stage directing, matters
in which his own wide experience Will
enable him to give most illuminating
and entertaining address. This talk
will be open to guests, and as the
| first open meeting of the season Will pc
an especially brilliant affair. Tea VIII
be served and an informal social hour
will follow the address, when Mr.. and
Mrs. Ferris will assist Mrs. McCan and
the members of the social committee
In receiving the guests.
Mrs. Louis A. Gould will speak at
| the first meeting of the Normal Train
| ing school Parent-Teacher association
which will be held in the kindergarten
Thursday afternoon at 8 o'clock. The
meeting will be an important one as
and work for the winter season Will
be outlined and planned.
officers elected yesterday morning
for the George Junior auxiliary board
are: President, Mrs. stephen Rendall'
vice president, Mrs. Judson Davis. IL
nancial securetary, Mrs. Mary Ban
ming, and corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Henry ]. Martin, who was reelected.
Two entertainments are planned by
the women of this board for the bene-
fit of the republic, but the dates have
been set for neither Mrs. Kendall
will appoint committees to complete
the arrangements for these AFFAIRS at
once. however, and announcements
will probably be made shortly. A
| vaudeville entertainment at the Audi
torium and a twilight tea and musi-
Gale to be given at some downtown
hotel, probably the Alexandria, are in
the present plans.
The board will meet at the Woman's
clubhouse on the afternoon or the
fourth Friday in each month.
e
Miss Anna Mcconnell Beckley gave
the members of Highland Park Ebell
club an inspiring talk on Spanish
painters at the club meeting yester-
day morning. She Is an enthusiastic
student and admirer of the Spanish
school, and believes that the works Of
Velasquez might serve as a text book
for the whole world should everything
else in the famous galleries be swept
away.
Beautiful prints selected from the
citv library were arranged near the
Speakers desk and were used by her to
| illustrate her remarks. She viewed
each work of art not alone for It's
mere pictorial value, but from the
standpoint of the spiritual as well. Her
| listeners were captivated with the sub
| iect and its presentation and regard
the morning as one of the most bril-
liant in the history of the club. =.
| Miss Belle Barker gave two vocal
numbers also. Members of the pro-
gram committee, of which Miss Mary
| A. Rhodes is chairman, are delighted
over having secured Major General
Adna r, Chaffee for an address for
the meeting of Tuesday, November l.
and other programs to follow promise
to be unusual and interesting.
Twill HOLD EXAMINATION