El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-27
WOMEN SOON RAISE NEARLY $4,000
FOR THEIR NEW CLUBHOUSE FUND
Two Donations of $1OO Each Are Reported From Out
siders- Talks Are Made in Favor of Retaining the
Five Lots Recently Purchased So That Club
house May be Enlarged-Enjoyable Program.

lions Of money from the members It
is the desire Of the club directors to
rush the building Of the clubhouse as
rapidly as possibly so that it may be
available for the meetings of the club
next fall
japanese Prints.
Preceding the mass meeting the reg
ular meeting Of the art department was
held with Mrs. a. P. Averiu presiding.
The afternoons study was devoted to
japanese prints. Mrs. Carl Lee Smith
read an interesting paper on the Japa-
nese artists and their work reviewing
the various periods of art with the
periods and the most noted artists in
each. Miss Eleanor Porcher gave a
well prepared talk on the influence Of
japanese prints upon our own modern
art. Miss Porcher described the proc
ess employed in the making OF the
prints and the characteristic features
of Japanese art Illustrative OF the
study Of the afternoon were 2. group
Of japanese prints learned by Mrs r
3. Alves and Mrs Tamura Hilworth,
and Chinese prints loaned by Mrs. X.
L. Simons. Mrs. J. ". Lorentzen was
in charge of the exhibit.
The rostrom was decorated with
Japanese vases, belonging to Mrs. A.
P Averill, filled with cherry and
apple blossoms and samples OF Japa-
nese embroidery. 4 Japanese screen
was loaned by Mrs. Paul Ginther.
a Musical Treat.
A pleasing feature Of the program
was Mrs. H H. Stark's singing. Her
selection was THE Wild Dove" which
she gave in a japanese costume OF rose
pink silk, embroidered in chrysanthe
NUNS Of the same color Her hair
was dressed in japanese style orma-
mented with flowers and fancy combs.
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accompaniment
Mrs. c. r. Townsend presented the
current events in Americas art world
she commented on the murals repre-
senting Pioneer American and Ameri-
can Law, English law and Roman Law,
by Albert Herter, which have been
placed in the supreme court room OF
the Madison, Wisconsin, capitol build
ing at Madison, and gave a brief re
view Of the exhibition held IN the
various galleries Of New York
The business meeting Of the art de-
partment followed the program Mrs
s. Aronstein read the secretary's min
utes Mrs. Frances Well gave the
treasurer's report. Mrs. Averill an
nounced that the original work pro-
gram Of the club would be given on
the evening of February l9, Which
would be a Joint program of the three
departments Mrs. H E Christie viii
be in charge Of the original prose and
poetry Mrs. Frank Seward viii be
in charge OF the art exhibits and Mrs.
c. o. Rucker of the original musical
compositions.
Concert For Rescue Home.
Mrs ". l. Crockett announced 4
concert TO be given by the Rescue
Home association in April to raise
funds for the payment of the remain
ing debt on the building. Miss c. NJ
Moore told about the musicians who
viii be brought here to give the con-
cert
Mrs. o. 4 Critchett announced en-
behalf o. the Equal Franchise league
that the first week. in March would be
observed all over the country as Baby
week end that the Equal Franchise
Cd sue p ould be in charge OF the work
lere. The principal idea Of the y eelS's
Observance is to have an educational
to instruct mothers in the
proper feeding and caring OF their |
'abies with the view to lessen the in |
-ant mortality rate