The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
B.&P. CLUB OBSERVED
MOTHERS DAY WITH
INTERESTING PROGRAM

Flagstaff Business and Professional
Women's clubs first meeting in their
new home at Hotel Monte Vista was
most enjoyable. The dining room was
filled to caapcity. Pink carnations as
fayors graced the centers of the long
tables, giving seasonable atmosphere
for Mothers day. Every club mem
Der brought her own or somebody
else's mother.
Miss Agnes G.. Lynch presented a
nicely balanced program. Several
original appropriate songs were sung
in chorus. and the club orchestra
jazzed several numbers. Miss Selma
Aas delighted with a solo with Miss
Elsa Myers at the piano, and gracious
ly}favored with an encore.
Mrs. Carolyn Smith, president, re-
uuested Miss Lorraine Allen to read an
interesting letter of appreciation from
Mrs. Helen Dillman McDonough for
the savings account started by the club
for her little son, the first child born
to charter member of the club. New
members present were Mrs. Hattie
Dunn, Miss Helen Sheehan and Miss
Cora Houghton.
E. S. Toelle, authority on Indian
crafts and early history of the native,
was the speaker of the evening. Mr.
Toelle, who deals in native products,
derives from his work inspiration for
huge enjoyment. Styling himself as
seeker of the unusual, he displayed
examples of the unusual and beauti-
full in pottery and weaving. He DEM
onstrated Miss Lynch's statement that
we may live in most remarkable en-
vironment only to be awakened to its
interest by an outsider. Mr.. Toelle
showed blankets of fineness and
beauty rarely to be seen by the aver
age dweller on the edges of the In
dian country, and many beautiful and
ancient pieces of pottery.
Beginning with the first attempts
at weaving as indicated by scraps of
yucca cloth found in ruins, thence to
textiles made of hair from animals
that the Indian knew of, the speaker
traced the history of native weaving
through the bayeta era to the present,
illustrating with specimens. The bay
eta is a product woven from raveled
Spanish soldiers uniforms, the last
weaving of this dating back about rs
years. Mr.. Toelle exhibited two gor-
geous bayetas, one which for rs years
had been before the altar in church
at st. Johns, and another from a
Snowflake home.
Miss Lynch completed the program
by giving 'sThe Indian Weaver" by
Edwin L. Sabin.
Guests: Mrs. John Chisholm, Mrs.
John Weatherford, Mrs. G. w. jake,
Mrs. Olive Carron, Mrs. C. T. Benson,
Mrs. I. B. Koch, Mrs. John Verkamp,
Mrs. G. F. Manning, Mrs. Lillian
Robinette, Mrs. Catherine Backwith,
Mrs. NJ. S. Miller, Mrs T. A. Stahl,
Mrs, George Baxter, Mrs. F. NJ. Gold,
Mrs. Fred Merkle, Mrs. J. NJ. Rodri
duez, Mrs. J. B. 0rn1ond, Mrs. H. C.
Metz, Mrs. John McWilliams, Mrs.
Tom Rickel, Mrs. Dan Williams, Mrs.
Priscilla Raudebaugh, Mrs. Mary
Lynch, Mrs. J. O. Parsons, Mrs. P. ].
Lihdemann, Mrs. Josephine Back, Mrs.
Edwina Pooler, Mrs. Henrietta Myers,
Mrs. George Garfield, Miss Helen Will
liams, Mrs. William Rudd,. Mrs. Sarah
Jones, Mrs. E. T. McGonigle, Mrs
John Cooney, Mrs. T. E. Pulliam, Mrs.
Walter Runke, Mrs. P. J. Moran, Mrs.
Rosabell Young, Mrs. Margaret Han
ley, Mrs. Frank Quirk, Mrs. w. F.
Wallace, Mrs. Henry Crawford, Mrs.
John Sheehan, Mrs. Viola Richardson,
Mrs. Grady Ganmage, Mrs. F. w.
Perkins and Miss Phena Perkins.