The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-09

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of Women S CIubs, Mrs. c. II. McMa.
hon, will leave Thursday next for Mem
phis, Tenn, to attend the council meet.
ling of the general federation to be held
there April II to %, inclusive. AS
already announced, the six days ses-
sion will be devoted partly to a dis
cussion of settlement work in its broad
est scnse7-more especially as applied to
the work in the south, and partly to
the discussion of some changes which
have been agitated in regard to the
federation. Among the interesting
things to be discussed are "The Fedora.
tion Bulletin" GA Reorganization of
the Federation as Proposed by Penn
sylvania and Other States,N "The En-
Plan Biennial?" :'The Relation of
the Individual Club TO the Fedora
tion.'
The society which was formed for the
purpose of establishing a reading room
for the blind has reason to be proud
of the results of the past few years
directors held last Monday it was re.
ported that 500 worth Of new Brazil
books with the raised letters had been
purchased, and an attendance of 13I
persons in the reading room for the
blind at the public library was report
ed. Miss Elizabeth Niles now has per
manent charge of the room and during
the early part of each afternoon va
rious persons who are interested in the
work read the newspapers or the mag
azines to the blind. The work has been
greatly appreciated, far III excess of
what was hoped for when a few years
ago a handful of women under the
| leadership of Mrs. A. S. Rowan of Fort
Douglas organized the society. which
thus quietly and without any fuss has
been doing this helpful and much need
ed work.
The women of Lloyd Alliance viii
meet for the regular monthly Kensing-
ton on Wednesday afternoon next at
230 at Unity hall. This is to be the
last in a series Of Kensingtons given
| through the winter, and fine literary
and musical programme has been pre-
pared, and all their friends have been
asked to attend. A quartette composed
of Mrs. Joseph Wood, Miss Jane Skol-
| field, Samuel Winter and Julien Thomas
accompanied by Miss Leah Arnold will
| furnish music and there will be. solos
| by Miss Evangeline Thomas and Miss
Josie Hinckley and monologues by Miss
Sarah Pcrkes and Miss Enid May.
The general meeting of the board of
federation will be held in this city on
Thursday, April 81, and will doubtless
be followed by luncheon, according to
the custom so pleasantly inaugurated
last time. The meeting will follow inn
mediately after the council meeting in
Memphis and will be of especial inter
est to the Utah clubs on account of the
prominence of their president in the
matter of preparing the programme for
the coming biennial.
The Ladies' Literary club will hold
| its regular meeting next Friday after
noon at the club house and will devote
the entire afternoon to the subject of
travel, under the head of Snapshots
From Eurone,' Mrs. S. j.. Fenton will
give brief review of her trip around
the world last year, and letters will be
read from Mrs. Lafayette Hanchett,
Mrs. T. l.. Oswald and Mrs. f. d. Bck-
ford The musical numbers will be fur
nished by Ernest Olsen and Mrs. Emily
Sitter.
The club women have again taken up
the celebration of "mothers day.
which this year will be observed on
May a. The state federation and the
Playground association will work to-
gether for the proper observance Of the
day. having held a meeting during the
week at which the work was mapped
out for the two associations, Mrs. A
j. Gorham will have charge Of the
flower committee and Mrs. j. II. J, Hay
ward will be chairman of the commit
| tee on CONCESSIONS.
The third meeting of the 1nterna.
tional Peace society will be held early
/ in May in Baltimore, and Mrs. Sol Sic
gel will represent Utah's peace society
on that occasion This meeting will
close with LARGE dinner, and sig
nihcant fact is that this is the frsi
time women have been allowed 10 at
tend the dinner or tQ subscribe to it.
The first meeting was held in 1907, the
second in 1909.
The REGULAR monthly meeting Of the
board of directors of the Young Wom,
an IS Christian association will be held
81 week earlier than the date set this
month, the meeting being next Friday.
April IA Matters of importance in con-
nection with the new building are tc
come up, and definite plan mapped
out for campaign.
The Bay View Reading club will
meet on Monday at 2:3o with Mrs. e.
L. Davis at her home, 1907 First ave
nue. Mrs. C. II. Morse, Mrs. Grant
Swan and Mrs. D. n. Straup will give
the topics of the afternoon, the last
named giving review of con the
Face Of the Waters,'' by Flora A
Steele. and the others the lesson and
magazine review.
The April meeting of the Woman s
Republican club which was held on
Tuesday last was devoted TO the subject
of Canadian Reciprocity the subject
being handled in an able way by Mrs
Frank j.. Hines. Current political
news was reviewed by Mrs. j w Per
cival and social hour was passed
after the programme.
The history section of the Ladies
Literary club will meet next Thursday
morning ut the club house, when the
subject of scholasticism will be taken