The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-07
The Monday Afternoon Book Club.


The Monday Afternoon Book Cluh
MRS. w. w. Huske. President
In n autumn Of eighteen ninety
elght the six members of a magazine
club OF several years standing met
TO organize a Book Club. It was to
be a neighborhood affair and thew
named it the "Haymount Book Club"
increasing their number. to eleven
and defining it's object as the i'm
provement and entertainment OF it's
members and the promotion of So
clal Intercourse"
A small booklet written in a fine
Spencerian hand and held together
by a pale green ribbon contains the
first program. If you will open the
book at about the middle you will
ind this quotation:
Il am nothing, if not critical
| Shakespeare
And on the opposite page:
Book Reviewers:
Harry Thurston Peck,
Brandon Mathews.
Lawrence Hutton.
During the year contemporary
poets, actors and illustrators were
studied and over each afternoons
program was written an appropriate
quotation.
In nineteen hundred the member
ship was increased to twenty, and the
name changed to The Monday After
noon Book Club"
In nineteen two, the membership
was increased to twenty, and in nine
teen nine, to twenty-six, as it now
stands.
Four of the six members of h
magazine club are still active mem
berS, and eleven Of the first twenty.
The tender green ribbon Of thu
first program has diverged into 8
sturdy year book of a deeper shade
with gold lettering. setting forth thu
plan Of work for the year nineteer
thirteen-fourteen.
During the intervening years {
number of countries have been stud
led, some with the aid of the Ba,
View Magazine. Two years hav
been devoted to our own country, an
the rest to some phase of literatur,
or art, with the exception of on
year, which was given to current af
fairs.
In the winter Of nineteen four whe1
|. Italy was the subject under discus
. sion DR.. c.. Alphonso Smith was in
: vited to deliver his delightful lee
. ture on that country and a few year
!, later DR.. Mimms, Of the University
delivered a lecture which added niue,
, to the interest Of the years course i
English
? The books circulated in the clu
. have represented the best class G
. current fiction with an occasional col
lection of essays or books of trave
For several years other books wer
= sent to some rural neighbor to b
circulated again. 1t has been sus
gested h al this year they be donate
to the city hospital.
The fact that SO many Of the men
h0rc oro of tho ORIGINAL fWQnfV DIV
> a pleasant stability to the organize
ton, and the advent of IN occasion;
new member brings the variety j
q point of view which is necessary
give interest to discussion.
~ The club has lost many valuab
members, but is singulariy fortuna1
in the material with which its vacal
cies have been filled. Only n men
a Der has died and her influence is ST
n alive among her friends.
Men and Women of Today is tt
IN subject of this years program and
q few examples will show the mann
p in which it has been handled:
re THE Moatessoie System; I'll
Change in Public School deals
r Personality Of h College Pres
IN dent; Shall Women Serve or Il
ne School Boards?"
IL November
~ "A College President in the Pres
We dents Chair: Literary Diploma
lists; "McAdoo, the Man of Achiev
ments"; Shall a abine Minister
Odd Jobs, or Shall the Governme
e. Pay q Living Wager"
Ut December
1.-THE Feminist Movements; ia
Adams; Leaders of the Suffra
We Movement; shall Women Vote.
liza The Monday Afternoon Book q,
err has federated and is happy IN {
wv prospect of sharing in the entertaI
ment of the magnificent body OF "
do men who will represent the State Ee
RS. GRAFTON at it's meeting in May.
= z. MAC. r. LILLY.
Next week the Federated Club pa
tic will contain an article regarding t
Civic Association Of Fayetteville,
u which Mrs. W. T. Brock IS the pI