Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-13
Club News

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Cosmos club members assembled for
their first meeting at Ebell club house
yesterday afternoon and enjoyed a de-
lightful musicale and social hour Ow-
ing to illness in the family, Mrs. George
w. Jordan, president. was unable to be
at the meeting, but Mrs. G. w. Murray,
first vice president, officiated as presid-
ing officer and introduced the women
on the program with grace and tact.
Mrs. Harry Dow Kirk gave two
songs, "Staccato Polka" by Mulder,
and the lullaby from "Jocelyn," and
Mrs. Harry Underwood played delight
fully upon the violin a canzonetta by
A. d'Ambrosio, and as an encore the
"Serenade" by Pierno. Miss Eva Olney
accompanied the violin numbers and
Otto Kunitz played for Mrs. Kirk.
After the musicale punch was served
from beautifully decorated bowls,
wreathed effectively with clusters Of
grapes and their accompanying softly
tinted foliage. At the tables were Mrs.
j. p. Mullin, Mrs. w. B. Corbin, Mrs. f.
w. Kane, Mrs. j. L. Hagadorn, Mrs.
Amelia Stocks, Mrs. Howard Wallace,
Mrs. w. F.. Montgomery, Miss Belle
Lothian, Mrs. u. S. House, Mrs. j. b.
Cook, Mrs. Leo Sutor, Mrs. j. c. Hug
gins, Mrs. j. II. Bean, Mrs. w. f. An
derson, Mrs. Frederick webb and Mrs.
F. C. Summers, all members of the hos
pitality committee. Mrs. Charles Stans-
bury, chairman of the courtesy COM
mittee, with these members of the COM
mittee, were near the door and about
the rooms: Mrs. W. L. Adams, Mrs
MacF. S. Page, Mrs. o. e. Wern, Mrs
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Mrs. L. II. Dutton, Mrs. George Hunter
Mrs. Abbot Kinney, Mrs. Walter e.
Fisher, Mrs F. c. DeLano, Mrs. w. b.
Corwin and Mrs. w. D. Curtis.
The new year books for the season
we're given out, and prove useful in the
information they contain and con-
Venient and artistic as to size and col
oring.
At the next meeting the Rev. Robert
Burdette will speak.
Miss Cora Lewis and Miss Fanny
Wills will give the report of the state
suffrage convention at the Votes for
Women club meeting this evening"
Mrs. George Drake Ruddy, past presi-
dent of the Political Equality club. will
tell of the suffrage situation in Homo
lulu, and there will be a debate partic1-
pated in by members Of the club upon
the subject, "Is the Dependence OF
Women Upon Men for Financial Sup
port the Cause of Political Inequality"
Members and officers of the club have
presented an invitation to Miss Minnie
Bronson, M. A., who effected the or
ganization of the Anti-suffrage assocl-
alton early in the week, to meet with
them, and all members Of the new asso-
citation are also included in the inv1-
tation.
Shakespeare class of the Wednes-
day Morning club was organized yes
terday and held it's first meeting under
the leadership of Mrs. H. E. Brett.
The attendance was large and the
opening was most auspicious. In the
afternoon Mrs. Jane Beatty gave
talk concerning the more interesting
Of current events, paying especial at
tention to troubles in Portugal and to
the present situation in Spain. Mrs.
e. j. Sergel, recently returned from
several years passed in south Amer
lea, furnished the club members with
an excellent talk on the Argentine Re-
public, where she resided for six years.
Mrs. Sergel will have charge of the
department of the club which will
study South American affairs this
winter.
The four voyages Of Columbus
formed a timely subject for Mrs. R.
w. Clemson's talk yesterday morning
at the Ruskin Art club, and follow
ing this talk Mrs. w. j. Sands gave
an interesting discussion Of the Amer
ican coast line. Attendant topics for
this same meeting included Cuba,
which Mrs F.. H. Snowden treated in
an Illuminating manner, illustrating
her talk with magnificent photographs
and prints. Mrs. G.. L. Hutchinson dis
cussed Hayti and the other Antilles.
Leaders for the morning were Mrs d.
G. Barber and Mrs. r. w. Clemson.
This completes the subjects on Span
ish America as far as the east coast
is concerned, and with the next meet
ing the general development Of North
America will be discussed. Mrs. j. D.
Gibbs and Mrs. Robert Young will be
the leaders for october 10.
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Mrs. E. H. Barmore, president of the
Galpin Shakespeare club, made
members CT the club assembled yes
terday afternoon for the first time this
wear. She outlined briefly the pro-
posed policy of the club, explaining
some of the changes which will be
made.
Mrs. Edward North had charge of
the lesson, and the papers were all
helpful and instructive. Mrs. Robert
Robinson had for her subject, "Greek
Drama" Mrs. c. w. Kesler gave a
short dihcussion of Grecian, Elizabeth
an and present day dramatists, and
Mrs e. P. Brown gave a talk on An
cient Greek life.
Mrs. North read "Macbeth." arranged
as an Ancient Greece tragedy from
the works of r. G. Moulton. The gen
eral topic for conversation was the
requisites OF great plays.