The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-06
Pythians Had Good Time.

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Pythian Sisters were out yesterday
afternoon to attend the first meeting
Of the Pythian Sewing club and they
spent a delightful afternoon as guests
If Mrs. E. NJ. Read at her home on
North Fifth street. The ladies began
making a quilt which will be dispos-
I'd Of in some manner to raise funds
For the good of the grand temple
which will meet in his city next year.
They worked faithfully until 5 o'clock
md the afternoon was completed with
dainty supper service, Mrs. Read be-
lng assisted by her mother. Mrs. Bee
De. her daughter. Miss Edith and Mrs.
NJ. w. Day. Mrs. James Dinnie was
chosen hostess for the e meeting
which will he held in a fortnight.
New Methodist Aid of,cers.
The election Of Mrs. Jasper Vale as
president and Mrs. H. X. Chidlaw as
treasurer of the Ladies' aid society t
The Methodist church made the bust
ness meeting held in the church par
!ors n of unusual importance and
here was a good attendance of men,
oers. These elections were made to
ill the places made vacant by the res
lgnation of Miss Susie Kendrick as
president and Mrs. A. S. Burrows as
treasurer.
AAASSAAS AAilPoA WAN SoAOAA Wy
at the meeting was the organization
IF districts which have been very
successful under the old plan but
which are nov more fully organized.
Hereafter each district will be gov
erned by its own set of officers and
hold its separate meetings. Every
three months the various districts will
met with the general society to give
reports of their work and turn in
nh taSvn~ vpNrn $hAHv ~3a1y hoH.4 ~atr-
ed, these general meetings quarterly
to be confined to reports and a gen.
eral good social time.
The annual reports showed that a
great deal Of work has been accom-
plished by the society during the past
year, $1,000 having been paid toward
the remodeling Of the church and al-
SO a large contribution to the current
expenses of the same.
Club Begins opera Study.
Anent the decision at the Septem-
Der meeting Of the Ladies' Thursday
Musical club to study opera this year
the work was begun in earnest at the
October meeting held Thursday aft
ernoon at the residence Of the presi-
dent. Mrs. F IS. Sargent. on Reeves
A round table discussion =.
opera was conducted in a most in
teresting manner by Mrs. j. D. Bacon
and during the course of it she read
a most excellent paper on 1.-The De-
velopment of Opera" She touched
upon the forms Of music that pre-
dominated in the earliest time and
then traced the growth Of opera from
the early part Of the seventeenth GEN.
fury up to modern times. treating the
different schools. such as the italian
composers. the German. French, Rus
sian and Polish AMI then the works
Of each Of these that Ii a and were
responsible for the musical perfection
Of the highest form Of music. She
told considerable Of Richard Wagner,
the greatest Of operate composers. al
SO Of Handel. Gluck. Verdi. Puccini,
Strauss Of Germany. Humperdinck,
Massenet. Paderewski and Ruben
stein. She also developed the fact
that the operas of the Italian COM
posers were those Of charm and i'm
mediate appeal while those Of the
German composers possessed the real
depth Of musical beau that gave
them everlasting life.
During the course of Mrs. Bacon's
paper she stopped for discussion and
those who took part added sonie very
interesting facts. Mrs. F. A. Parsons
talked on that part of opera known
as "recitat!ve" and explained explicitly
the various kinds AND now each had
been used in different operas. Mrs.
W. q. Mcdonald took up the "aria,'
giving much valuable information on
its development and Mrs. ]. F. Bacon