Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-23
REVIEWS ACTIVITIES OF
WOMAN'S CLUB IN 1921
Lectures of DR.. Lindeman,
Princess Cantacuzene and
Roshanara Recalled.
SERIES OF oNE-Acr PLAYS
Clear md Comprehensive Resume OF
Monday Afternoon Entertainments.
nbleauS, Directed by Miss Will
lfnms, Are CompIimcnted,

Clear and Comprehensive Resume OF
Monday Afternoon Entertainments
TnbleauS. Directed by Miss VIII
Hams, Are CompIimcnted.
AT the annual luncheon given by
the members OF the Woman's Club
OH April 10. Mrs. Charles r. Robins
welcomed the many guests in the
namo OF the president. Mrs. E. NJ.
Crutchhcld, who could not attend.
Mrs. l.. r. Dashiell was toastmistress.
and, In introducing the speakers. said
that she greatly commended The ac-
tivities OF the club during the past
year, and that. having been unable
to serve on any of the committees for
the season, she, like the Irishman,
stood PROSTATE before its accomplish
ments.
Miss Rosalie II. holland. the princi-
pal OF st. GATHERINGS School. gavo a
clear and very comprehensive resume
OF the Monday afternoon entertain
monts. a few OF the programs were
omitted. among them the series OF
one-act plays, excellently staged by
Mrs. Archer G. Jones, because, as Miss
holland said, she had not been present
when they were presented. The lee
lures by DR.. Lindeman, the Princess
Cantacuzcne and Roshanara were re-
called. with pleasure. And the charm
Ing series OF songs and dances by the
two Japanese, Mr.. and Mrs. Ongawa
as well as tho recital by Mr.. Wilfred
the Lutte player. werc referred to In
some detail.
Con, nj In, Toy,J.uux
She complimented highly the
tableauS arranged by Miss Adele
Williams. and in speaking of Miss
Beatrice HEREFORD, mentioned. as an
especially interesting accomplishment.
the ladys ability to masticate so
convincingly upon nothing but her
imagination. The ideals Of the wom-
ans Club. she said. seem to me very
splendid ones. to form an organized
center Tor tho intellectual, social and
moral development OF it's members
and to strengthen their individual ef-
lorts for humanity The club has
done Just this under it's four-fold pro.
sram-art, music. welfare and lee.
tures-a most excellent variety o.
subjects, that sometimes instructed
sometimes stirred to deep feeling
sometimes amused enormously, blu,
mat always Interested.
And may I comment just triefy
on the action of the club which has
most especially appealed to me,-the
authorizing and founding of an edu-
cational endowment fund. under
stand that It is unrestricted-any
giri IN Virginia may compete for
this scholarship. 1t is gratifying to
an educator to find n group of 600
representative women unanimously
tion."
Follows with Speech.
MISS Margaret Prescott Montague
toiioWed with speech. made ex-
ceedinEly amusing by anecdotes. but
based on tho fundamental question
OF the power of the human mind. In
decorating her point. she told OF
now, at her mountain home in West
virginia, there appeared one morn
ing last summer huge battle plane.
The machine had been driven from
lts course by n storm and compelled
to alight for repairs.
The mending lasted for several
days. and the people Of tho noun
tains Hooked to the spot, bringing
their lunch and waiting with spccu-
lative attention for the time when
the plane would rise. Most of them
mad heard of flying machines; some
rev had seen them in other places.
but mono had ever imagined a huge
plane In one OF their own meadows.
when, at last. It roso from amid
the crowd OF country people and
flew away, outlined against the ia
niliar mountains, it seemedO,his
bringing Of the miraculous into the
commonplace-like some indispuL.
able proof to remote dwcllcrs on the
race OF the earth. OF the limitless
power OF the human mind.
Organization of Power.
She referred In closing to Miss
Mary Johnston's article In the last
issue Of the Reviewer. beautifully IL
Illustrating the Same idea, and spok q
OF the Reviewer itself as an exam
pie Of what can To done by believ-
Ing In the impossible. Tho Wom-
ans Club, she added, is an organi-
cation of such power, both active
and latent, that there Is nothing 1t
cannot accomplish.
Dean Keller, OF Westhampton Col
lege, suggested several ways In which
the clubs power might be used. Her
mention OF the need for public
library and an adequate city audi
torium aroused great enthusiasm. She
told also of a letter written by n dis
tinguished Hindoo lecturer who lately
visited Richmond and was entertained
at the club, in which he said that
he felt the Southern women had the
culture OF America IN their keep
Ing.
For Purity OF Language.
Miss Annie Steger Winston pleaded
for the friendliness and informally
OF tho earlier days OF the club, in
sistinS that ono of tho dangers OF
largo organizations was the tendenc,
to become mere impersonal machins
"Giantism" she called tho disease oi
our civilization.
Closing the addresses, Miss Hclec
Stockdell made most authoritative
argument for tho purity of tho Eng.
lish language. She quoted a recon-.
mendation. dated 1865. that a teacher
DO found for ono OF our Virgini.
schools. capable OF teaching Eng.
lish with propriety, with accent, with
cadence and with emphasis" What
can we hope for propriety today, she
asked, when DR.. Brander Matthew
makes use In a recent article OF such
word rs "blurb"2 Accent and ca.
donce are forgotten among countless
foreign influences, and only emphasis
remains. This alone. she ended, need
not be especially recommended here
as All Southerncrs speak with fierce