Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-19
EVENING EDITION.

COVE and mountains and standing q,
a mortnary marble coinEan-
She creaked, 20 Mrs. K~ennicott
I'm tn sach y fix I'm supposed to
lead the discussion. and / wondered
wouId you come and help 2"
What poet do % take UP today"
demanded Carol in her library tone
Of what book do o wish to take
out?'
Mot ali Of thends
"W-why yes Were learning all
Of European Literature this year. The
club gets such q nice magazine. cul-
ture Eint&, and We follow its pro-
grams. Last year our subject vas
Men and Women Of the Bible. and
nexs year we'll probably take up
FURNISHINGS and China. Ny, it does
make a body hustle TO keep up with
all these new culture subjects. but it
is improving. So will you help Us
with the discussion today2"
On her way over Carol had decid-
ed TO use the ThanatopEis as the tool
with which to liborAIfze the town.
She had Immediately conceived enor-
NOUS enthus&Asm: che had chan,ed.
These are the feal people. When
the housewives. who bear the bur
denz. arc interested in poetry. it
| mean something. I'll work . with
them-for them-anything:"
Her enthusiasm had becoIae wasery
eren before thirteen women resoiutely
removed their overshoes. sat down
neatly. ate peppermints. busted
their fingers. folded their hands,
composed their lower thoughts, and
invited the naked muse OF poetry 10
! deliver her most improving message.
They had greeted Carol affectionate!y,
and she tried to BE- z daughter to
them. But che felt insecure. Her
chair was u in the open. exposed
to their aze and it was a hafd-slat-
chair. Likely 10 collapse publicly and
without warning. 1t was impossible
TO sit on It without folding the handa
q listening piously.
She wanted to kick the chair and
run 1t would make a magnificent
chatter.
She NV that Vida sherwin was
i watching her. She pinched her wrist,
az though she were a noisy child in
and cranped again, h listened.
HrB. Dawson opened the meeting
by signing, I'm sure I'm glad to see
you all here today, ana I understand
that the ladies' have prepared a num-
her of very interesting papers, this
iE such an interesting subject, the
poets, they have been an inspiration
for higher thought in fact wasn't it
Reverend Benlick who said that some
of the poets have been as much an
inspiration as q good many Of the
ministers, and 50 we shall be clad
to heAr- -
The poor lady smiled neuralEically,
panied with fright scrabbled about
small q table to find her eye
glasses and continued, I'VE will first
have the pleasure of hearing Mrs.
Jensen on the subject Shakespeare
and Milton"
Mrs. Ole Jensen said that Shakes
peare was born In 1854 and died 1915.
Standardization, which many
American tourists loved to visit. a
lovely town with many curios and old
houses well worth examination. Many
people believed that Shakespeare was
the greatest playwright who ever
lived. also a fine poet. Not much
was known about his life, but after all
that did not really make 80 much
difference, because they loved to read
best known Of which she would now
criticize.
Perhaps the best known of his
plays was THE Merchant Of Venice"
having a beautiful love story and a
Tine appreciation of a woman.a
brains. which a woman's club, ever
those who did not a to commit
themselves on the question of suffrage,
ought to appreciate. tLaughter.) Mrs
Jeneon was sure that she. for one,
would love to be like Portn- The
Play was about a Jew named Shylock,
and he didn't want his daughter "a
marry a Venice gentleman named
Antonio
Mrs Leonard Warren. a slender.
gray, nervous oman president OF
the Thanatopsfs and wife Of the Con.
gresational pastor, reported the birth
and death dates Of Byron. Scott.
Moore. Burns; INC wound UP:
Continued Monday Evening.