The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-01-25
FEDERATED MEETING
OF WOMEN'S CLUBS
Held Friday in the Con-
gregational Parlors
Miss Hale Gave Club Women Praeti-
cal Pointers on Helping the Town.

cal Pointers on Helping the Town.
Charles Dudley Warner calls atten-
zion 70 The fact that the least import
ant part Of the example Of the busy
bee Is his buzzing around. an1 some
one writing OF Women's clubs has
rather ungraciously said that per
haps tho least important part Of their
work is the buzzing around in Fed
GRAFTON meetings and elsewf ere
To convince the latter writer of his
error. however. il would only have
been necessary to secure his presence
at the federated meeting of the three
literary clubs OF the town, the
Woman's club, Sorosis and Town In
provement Society on Friday after
noon. Jan. 70, when. if honest ne
would have been forced to admit thai
while there might have been fair
degree Of buzz" it did not interfere in
no least with the gathering of good
Is amount of honey by those who
We're 50 fortunate as to be present.
It las been the custom Of the clubs
FOR several years TO hold during the
season enc or more federated meet
lnss and this on Friday afternoon
though the initiative of the Womans
club was in pursuance Of this pleas
ant practice and most successfully
carried out.
By the courtesy o. the president OF
the Homans club Mrs Gertrude :.
Bucknam Mrs Elizabeth Merrill.
president OF the Town Improvement
society welcomed The members of the
three clubs and presided during the
presentation OF the program, which
had for lis main feature an address
by Miss Florence NJ. Hale of the
Presque Isle Manual Training school,
upon the sbuject What the Clubs Can
Do for the Community"
After the opening number, a piano
duet The Country Dance by Miss
Mabel Ross and Miss Mary Emery, the
reading of Rudyard Kipling's poem
The Female of the Species by Mrs.
Elizabeth Merrill, Miss Hale was in
troduced and after a few words upon
the general work OF clubs and what
they can accomplish in a town,
announced that she had hobby How
to Save the Boys, the boys who would
very interesting manner proceeded TO
give her theory and practice in dealing
with the problem, considering at some
length the query, What shall we do
with the leisure of our children and
emphasizing many points that cannot
be too strongly dwelt upon, or too
often brought TO the attention OF
those Woh have in charge, in any ca
pacity. the training Of youth.
Miss Hale is a viyacious speaker,
deeply impressed with the Importance
of her work and very much in earnest
in the search tor ways and means 10
which II may be successfully accom-
plished. illustrating her talk by many
pertinent anecdotes and incidents, and
in closing quoted the poem whose re-
frain gave point 10 much that had
been said
"Strew gladness on the paths Of men,
You will not pass this way again.
4 vocal duet on, How Sweet the
Hunters Song. was given by Mrs.
Emma H. Dunton and Mrs, Mabel
Bragg, with piano accompaniment by
Mrs. Abbie Lambert Miss Gertrude
+. Carter gave a charming character
recitation Parting Scene between
E.. Ulysses and Calyps", act |, Scene >
from Ulysses by stephen Phillips.
and the program closed with a tenor
solo For All Eternity" by Mr. Elmer
T. Harris, Miss Faith Harris giving
the piano accompaniment.
The meeting was held in the Congre-
gational yestry Mrs. Matte Walton OF
the Womans Club Mrs Mae {, Butler
of Sorosis and Mrs. Nettie W Paddock
of the Town Improvement serving as
! hostesses for the afternoon. At the
F.. close of the meeting an informal re
. OtpNiOu Wis ltuueItu MISS maze sldl
those present might have the pleasure
of meeting her socially and expressing
their appreciation of her address, and
also TO enjoy for a brief time the gen
iel good fellowship that characterizes
these federated meetings to a greater
degree, perhaps, than those held at
any other time or for any other pur-