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Mr. Dreher and Mr. Isham exchanged it for the one we now have, which is proving more satisfactory.
Mr. Isham, on May 18, favored us with several solos-"The Holy City," in most magnificent style, and "I Am Content," a sweet ballad; and Mrs. Halliday and he sang a duet, accom- panied by Mrs. Isham.
In June, Miss Florence Drake sang three beautiful numbers, accompanied by her mother. On July 20, she illustrated her talk on "Voice Culture," giving Madame Marchesi's method with songs. Miss Gertrude Hunt kindly favored us with two solos on the new piano.
August 17 .- Mrs. Corlin sang two solos.
August 31 .- Again Mr. Isham assisted to make our after- noon pleasant by giving three beautiful songs, "Answer," "Bonnie Jean," and "God Guard Thee, Love;" also, bright little Percita West gave her little song of "Bow-Wow."
September 21 .- The contralto, Miss Jean Groff, of Colo- rado, delighted us with two songs, accompanied by Miss Stewart.
October 5 .- Miss Maud Thayer helped to vary the program with two fine piano solos, which were very much enjoyed.
November 2 .- Miss Hoyt played, accompanied by Mrs. David Hawley, who sang "The Holy City," by Adams, in beau- tiful voice and style.
December 21. Mrs. Dr. Richmond favored us with two contralto songs.
January 4 .- Mr. Frank Barrett gave us two fine violin selections, accompanied on the piano by Miss Hoyt.
January 18 .- Mr. Barrett kindly came again, and played a cavatina by Raff. Mrs. Blunt, a graduate of Boston Conserva- tory, gave a piano solo.
February 1 .- Miss Elsie Ethel Stoner, of Akron, a contralto
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of fine quality, pleased us very much with two fine selections, accompanied by Miss Anna Estabrook.
February 15 .- Mrs. Halliday and Sorosis in chorus. Miss May Norton, from Boston, gave two fine violin pieces.
March 1 .- Miss Jackson gave a piano solo, beautifully ren- dered. She also accompanied Mrs. Maltbie, who sang in charm- ing voice, three lovely songs.
March 15 .- We were greatly favored by having two such fine sopranos as Mrs. Searles and Mrs. Blanche Byrnes. Mrs. Searles gave us three songs, which were very much enjoyed. The flute solos by Mr. Henry Dreher were delightful, and Mrs. Byrnes charmed us with her one song.
March 22 .- National airs were given by the representatives of thirteen colonies and Sorosis-"America" and "The Star Spangled Banner."
April 5 .- Mrs. Churchill, disappointed in her plans for music, gave a piano solo, "The Fairies' Dance."
April 10 .- We were entertained finely by the singing of two beautiful duets by Miss Gerlach and Mrs. Paul North.
At the Rose luncheon the Messrs. Sturm furnished beauti- ful music for piano and violin. Mrs. Halliday sang Schubert's "Serenade," accompanied by both instruments. The Rita Elandi concert proved a very charming affair, and we shall always feel greatly indebted to her.
At our recent annual banquet, we all appreciated the sweet, delicate music of the High School Mandolin Club, the fine piano solo by Miss Wright, and Mrs. Blanche Byrnes' charming voice and selections enraptured us.
The Chairman of Music feels very grateful for all the assistance given in engaging many of those who have helped to make our afternoons so pleasant and delightful. To Mrs. F. E.
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Wright, Mrs. Dr. Knowlton, Mrs. Eisenmann, Mrs. Sturm, Mrs. Gage, Mrs. and Miss Stewart, we would extend our sincere thanks.
MRS. L. C. CHURCHILL, Chairman of Music Committee.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON DRAMA
Today finds us at the close of our second year in the de- partment of Drama, and it is with a sense of gratification that we present this report. For while there were many obstacles in the way of the fulfillment of our plan of work, they were met by energy and a persistent purpose for good, and a presentation of that which was true in the dramatic art. We saw the obstacles melt as ice before the sun. Today we feel the reefs of a new departure to be safely passed, and all who follow may sail into deeper waters with impunity and without fear of being misunderstood.
Perhaps no department in Sorosis needed more careful handling than this; certainly its utility was questioned when, two years ago, we were invited to take the chair, and we did so with a full realization of its difficulties as well as its possi- bilities, but, aided by a most able committee, we hoped for much, and have realized more. The first year was marked with suc- cess, so we now feel justified in claiming for the department of Drama in Sorosis, not only a place, but its place. From this source we have been able to present, not fine home talent only, but also the work of the more advanced artist. In reading, recitation, speech of play, the various emotions and passions have been depicted, and we trust have brought you into closer touch with humanity at large. We have been privileged to present to you, now a picture brilliantly colored with the fire of animation and life; now touched with the softer light of pathos;
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here a soul has fired yours, as he or she led you in historic poem, while still another has led to sublime heights by a bit of masterly word-painting. The purpose has ever been advance- ment of our ideal, the literary as well as physical side of dramatic art, the cultivation of taste for that which is best in this line of thought and action.
We dread to use the term elocutionist, since upon it has been showered so much ignominy, and yet we wish you to judge us by the standard, not of prejudice, but by that of the mighty poet, Longfellow, who tells us that he who well interprets a great poem is equal with him who writes one. But work which is progressive is never the work of one, but the united effort of many, and hence we desire to thank first the stranger within our gates, who, while tarrying with us, delighted us with his or her contributions to our work; next, our committee, who have ever been faithful each in the discharge of her duty.
A few days ago we called them to an afternoon tea at our home, and at that time it was decided that we would gather the work of the year, as a whole, into a garland of flowers, to be held in touch with a ribbon of thought from the pen of each member of our committee, knotted and bound by its chairman and presented as our offering to the Annual of '94, with the wish that it may keep in fragrant memory the first regularly outlined work in drama, in this our Woman's Club of Cleveland.
The following persons gifted in the art of reading and re- citing have kindly given their services during the year to entertain and add to the attraction of our program. We would extend to them our sincere thanks:
Mesdames C. H. Seymour, E. A. Campbell, Arthur Hatch, B. F. Taylor, H. B. Roosa, O. C. Lawrence, C. P. Feil, Ida Hoffman, Bodifield, Olga Sturm, C. A. Selover; Misses Maud
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Herrick, Josephine Hurd, Marie Hasenpflug, Flora Harroff, little Percita West, Grace Bond, Claudia Leonard; Messrs. Henry Lewis Hamlin and J. Edmund V. Cooke.
During the month of December-the month especially de- voted to drama-the chairman in charge presented Ingelow's poem, "Songs of Seven," which was beautifully given by the following persons :
Misses Alice Tucker, Mina Blanchard, Josephine Hurd, Master Crum; Mesdames C. A. Selover, Arthur Hatch, Carrie Feil, Lida Seymour, Miss Gabrielle Stewart, and Mr. Harry Cody.
Immediately following this was a Delsarte drill, with statue posing, arranged by Mrs. Tucker, given by pupils from her school. This gave great pleasure, and was participated in by Misses Maud Herrick, Josephine Hurd, Mabel Zell, Claudia Leonard, Marie Hasenpflug, Birdie Heller, Mamie Stiefle, and Lucy McKean. On this occasion member of committee acted as reception committee.
Mrs. Lawrence sent with her ribbon of gold, the words of Charlotte Cushman, "I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others, because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was poetry. He formed it and that was scripture. He colored it, and that was painting. He peopled it with living beings, and that was grand, divine eternal drama."
Mrs. Feil ascribed upon her ribbon of blue: "The drama, representing human life in all its phases, should appeal to the intellect as well as the senses. In its highest sense, it should be the language of the soul. Yet it degenerates because the artist-who is, alas! often bread-winner also-stoops to the
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pleasing of the public rather than the interpretation of the divine."
Mrs. Olga Sturm writes upon her violet thread these words: "A life devoted to art is a priesthood, guarding that which is true, beautiful and holy from contact with what is artificial and commonplace. The true artist points unceasingly to his lofty ideals, waiting the time when the light which illumines his own vision shall dawn for others, and meanwhile heeding the maxim : 'To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can'st not then be false to any man.'"
MRS. ANNA P. TUCKER, Chairman.
THE ANNUAL BANQUET
From the Report of the Sun and Voice, May 6, 1894
Never in the history of Cleveland Sorosis had its rooms in the City Hall taken on such a gala appearance as they did on Monday evening. It was the occasion of the society's third annual banquet, which goes on record as one of the most notable events of the season. The ability of a representative body of Cleveland women was strikingly illustrated by the eloquence and brilliant thought of the addresses and toasts. It was dis- tinctively a woman's affair throughout, and the several promi- nent masculine guests, while being so royally entertained, could not fail to note the advanced position of this cultured body of American women.
The numerous tables for the banquet were each in charge of members of the society, and were elaborately decorated with handsome candelabra and a profusion of cut flowers, the dainty color schemes being artistically worked out in roses, violets, lilies of the valley, pansies and all the flowers of spring. Bowers of palms about the borders of the room, and wreaths of smilax
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and flowers on the walls made a charming background for the elegantly dressed assemblage, numbering more than two hun- dred and fifty. The menu was discussed at six o'clock, and during the courses of the banquet, the Central High School Mandolin club rendered some choice music.
On a platform connecting the parlors was a table set in pink. Seated at it were Mrs. W. G. Rose, president of Sorosis; Rev. Dr. and Mrs. C. S. Pomeroy, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ingham, Mrs. C. P. Wyman, toastmistress of the evening; Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Churchill, Mrs. Blanche Byrnes, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Robertson, Mrs. Jane Snow, Mrs. E. R. C. Cody, Mrs. Rainey, Mrs. Armstrong, Mrs. Wright and Miss Marie Wright.
At the conclusion of the banquet, Mrs. Rose, the president of Sorosis, welcomed the guests of the society, and spoke briefly and well, with clearness and logical force. No one who heard Mrs. C. S. Selover's response to the toast "The Gentlemen," would imagine that women were suspected by some of insus- ceptibility to after dinner humor. "The Ladies" never had better treatment from any toastmaster at a menfolk's banquet. Superintendent Draper, Professor Charles F. Olney, and Editor George A. Robertson were alternated with speeches among the women speakers, just to show that the ladies feared nothing from comparison with masculine oratory. The later addresses by Miss Georgia Norton on "The Future of Art in Cleveland;" Mrs. Mary Alden Ward, on "The Western Reserve, Our New England;" and Mrs. Frank Houghton, on the "Future of Sorosis," emphasized the favorable opinion of women as speak- ers created in the earlier part of the evening. Mrs. Anna P. Tucker's humorous talk on "The Drama of Sorosis" appropri- ately concluded the intellectual feast.
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THE ROSE BANQUET
From the Report of the Sun and Voice, November 6, 1893
Roses were everywhere about the rooms of the Cleveland Sorosis yesterday, and it was appropriate that they should be. Mrs. William G. Rose, who is the president of the organiza- tion, recently returned to the city from an outing on the St. Lawrence, and the ladies decided that her welcome home should take the form of a banquet and reception. It was given yester- day and was one of the most brilliant functions of the season. Instead of there being one honored guest at the banquet, how- ever, there were two. The second was Mrs. J. C. Croly, who is better known as "Jennie June," one of the most brilliant of writers, and a hard worker in the interest of woman.
The banquet was set for 12:30 o'clock, and when the ladies sat down the scene was a brilliant one. A reception followed, the members of the Reception Committee being: Mrs. N. Coe Stewart, Mrs. J. M. P. Phelps, Mrs. M. B. Ingham, Mrs. J. K. Hord, Mrs. W. S. Kerruish, Mrs. C. W. Loomis, Mrs. A. B. Stockwell, Mrs. T. D. Crocker, Mrs. C. C. Burnett, Mrs. Charles Gill, Mrs. M. H. Barrett, Mrs. Charles Leonard Seymour, Mrs. J. H. Paine, Mrs. A. T. Anderson, Mrs. M. A. Reilly, Mrs. Rose M. Anderson, Mrs. S. H. Short, Mrs. Leo Dautel, Mrs. C. E. Wyman, Mrs. A. B. Foster, Mrs. C. S. Selover, Mrs. M. J. Caton, Mrs. H. E. Hammond, Mrs. A. E. Hatch, Mrs. X. X. Crum, Mrs. J. M. Wilcox, Mrs. E. W. Doan, Mrs. E. C. Tilling- hast, Mrs. F. E. Shipherd, Mrs. James W. Chestnut, Mrs. W. C. Ong, Mrs. Frank Houghton, Mrs. H. L. Tobien, Mrs. B. F. Taylor, Mrs. E. L. Harris, Miss Mary Quintrell, and Miss Georgia Norton.
Mrs. Charles L. Seymour and Mrs. C. S. Selover presided over the two booths. The reception lasted all the afternoon and was in every way a success.
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THE ROSE BANQUET
Paper Read by Mrs. H. E. Hammond at the Rose Banquet, Given by Sorosis, November 4, 1893.
Organization is the watchword of the hour. Great prin- ciples and movements are coming to the front for the better- ment of humanity, and if they are to succeed and become embodied in law, back of them must be organization.
One man or woman alone can do comparatively little, but join to that one a hundred or a thousand and you make the small force a mighty power that makes itself felt. We have heard how the snow flakes organized-how one by one these little feathery messengers piled themselves up into a snow-bank, and for eleven hours held a train of cars, the engine unable to move. When the sublime forces of the woman movement come together, it will stand. Women have aspirations and griev- ances. They are organizing, and as a consequence their power is being felt.
The "Council of Women," as an organization, is becoming recognized as a power, and the fact that it is a representative body, each member representing some other organization of women, gives it greater force and influence. Every woman in the Cleveland Council stands for thirty women in some other body, making it really a federation of Cleveland organizations. No one society can possibly be as strong as this council.
The "Woman's Council of Cleveland" is pledged to the same purposes as set forth in the preamble of the National Council:
"We, women of the United States, sincerely believing that the best good of our homes and nation will be advanced by our own greater unity of thought, sympathy and purpose, and that an organized movement of women will best conserve the highest
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good of the family and state, do hereby band ourselves together in a confederation of workers committed to the overthrow of all forms of ignorance and injustice, and to the application of the Golden Rule to society, custom and law."
"This Council has no power over the organizations which constitute it, beyond that of suggestion and sympathy," but in Cleveland the co-operation of all the organizations represented is expected in carrying out its plans of work for the poor, the degraded and helpless women of our city. Do you ask me, is there need of championing the cause of woman?
At the World's Fair, one of the groups of statuary made an indelible impression upon us. The group illustrated the custom of a foreign country, in times of scarcity, of throwing a limited number of labor tickets from a window into a crowd of people, that all might have an equal chance. Was the chance equal? This group answers in cold marble. A woman was prostrate upon her face on the ground, clasping a little child in her arms, while over her stood a stalwart man, holding the coveted ticket aloft in his hand, that he had secured by his greater strength and unencumbered by the child. On one side a weaker man was trying to secure the ticket, and on the other an old and feeble man was pleading for it with an imploring look, while at his knee a little lad with upturned face was beseeching for it, probably for his fallen mother, who was prostrated to the earth while struggling for bread for her little family.
In all this struggle for labor to bring bread, which was the under one, ground down to the earth? Woman.
It is the same today-smaller wages for the same work if you are a woman, and if there is a fight for life, woman goes to the wall. Many laws are oppressive to woman because in her
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hand she has no ballot. That woman on the ground could not call the child she was battling for, her own. Yes, there is need of championing the cause of woman, and that champion must be woman herself. The greatest obstacle in the way of advance- ment of woman, and of obtaining equality of rights before the law, has been woman herself. She has been educated, through ages, to believe that to look pretty and delicate, and to be a doll and plaything for the stronger sex, was the chief end of woman, but it is in this, the Nineteenth Century, that idea is exploded. It was of gaseous formation, and although very old, it took only one prick of good sound common sense to make it collapse. We are coming to know that woman has a soul and brain of her own, and that God made her responsible therefor to her Creator, who made her equal with man in everything, even giving her just as much real estate and just as much per- sonal property as he did man at the Creation. We are but just beginning to apprehend it in this, "women's era," as Victor Hugo puts it.
Women have been much like Paddy Flaherty, who made his will, but before dawn the next morning, he was knocking at the door of the officer of the law. He put his head out of the window and asked what was the matter. Paddy said, "I could not get a wink of sleep thinking of the will I had made." "What's the matter with the will?" said the officer. "Matter, indeed !" said Pat, "sure I have not left myself a three-legged stool to sit down upon!"
Women, like Pat, have been too generous.
"We live for the long tomorrow, With its triumph but begun; When truth shall drop its shackles, And the goal of hope be won; Chipping, chipping, chipping, With patience, and faith and prayer,
Stones for the edifice whose towers
Shall rise in the upper air."
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CHRONOLOGY OF THE YEAR
May 18, '93 .- Prayer, Mrs. Cory. Report of trip to Not- tingham, Mrs. S. P. Churchill. Papers, Mrs. M. B. Ingham, Professor Olney, Miss Georgia Norton.
June 1 .- Prayer, Mrs. Foote. Song, Miss Florence Drake. Paper read by Miss Emma Perkins.
June 15 .- Prayer, Mrs. Hammond. Paper read by Mrs. S. M. Perkins. Address, Rev. C. S. Bates.
June 29 .- Talk on Musical Education, Miss Amelia Groll. President's Report, Mrs. W. G. Rose. Recording Secretary's Report, Mrs. S. P. Churchill. Report on Printing Annual, Mrs. J. H. Paine. Report of Executive Committee, Mrs. J. M. P. Phelps. Report of Custodians, Mrs. C. H. Seymour. Report of Treasurer, Mrs. C. S. Selover. Report of Auditor, Mrs. M. A. Reilly.
July 20 .- Song, Miss Florence Drake. Address on "Voice Culture," Miss Drake. Recitation, Mrs. M. J. Caton. Papers, Mrs. Wyman and Mrs. Perkins. Address, Mrs. Jones.
August 3 .- "Talk on Business Women," Mrs. Wyman, Mrs. Hammond, Mrs. Tobien, Mrs. Lines and Mrs. Snow.
August 17 .- Prayer, Mrs. J. Ross. Paper, Mrs. O. L. Jones. Address, by Mrs. E. M. Avery. Song, Miss Gertrude Hunt. Recitation, Mrs. A. P. Tucker. Address, Mrs. M. S. Fraser.
August 31 .- Prayer, Mrs. J. Ross. Poet's Club: Papers, Mrs. Sturm, Mrs. Reilly, Miss N. Gunn. Songs, Miss Corlin and Miss Cory. Papers, by Mrs. Shipherd and Mrs. Arthur Hatch.
September 7 .- Prayer, Mrs. J. L. White. Song, Mrs. Isham. Paper on "Physical Culture," by Mrs. Caton. Recitation, Miss Percita Dietrich. Talk, Mrs. Caldwell. Recitation, Miss Grace Bond.
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September 21 .- Prayer, Mrs. Crossley. Address, Professor Sidely, of Akron, on "Physical Culture." Song, Miss Jean Groff. Address, Mrs. Lee Caldwell, "White Chapel, London." Mrs. Sidney Short, paper on "Health Dressing."
October 5 .- Prayer, Mrs. Perkins. Recitation, Miss Flora Harroff. Song, Miss Maud Thayer. "Talk on Whittier," Mrs. Tucker. Paper on "Pictures at the World's Fair," Miss Norton. Recitation, Miss Leonard.
October 20 .- Paper, Mrs. B. D. Babcock, "Ceramic Art." Paper, Mrs. Short, "Norwegian Pottery at the Fair." Talk, Miss Norton, "Art in Cleveland."
November 2 .- Prayer, Mrs. Perkins. Talk, Mrs. Ingham. Addresses on "Business Women," Miss Norton and Mrs. Fraser. Paper on "Women Physicians," Dr. Touslee. Recitation, Miss Harroff.
November 4 .- Rose Banquet.
November 6 .- Talk by Mrs. Croly of New York.
November 16 .- Prayer, Mrs. Rose. Paper, "Women as Educators," Mrs. Caton. Paper, "Business Women," Mrs. Ed. Doan. Talk, Mrs. E. G. Willson. Paper, Mrs. Helen King, "Tapestries."
November 23 .- Fifth Thursday of World's Fair Experi- ences. Papers, Mesdames Hammond, Shipherd, Reilly, Seymour, Thomas King, Wilson, J. E. Snow and Webb.
December 7 .- Prayer, Mrs. Rose. Recitations, Miss Bell, Prof. Cooke, Miss Hasenpflug. Song, Mrs. David Hawley. Ad- dress, Mrs. Tucker.
December 21 .- Prayer, Mrs. Hickman. Song, Mrs. Dr. Richmond. Recitations, Mrs. Lee Caldwell and Mrs. Henry Hamlin. Solo, Miss Hoyt. "Seven Ages of Woman's Life," represented by Miss Hurd, Miss Gay Stewart, Mrs. Arthur
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Hatch, Mr. Harry Cody, Mrs. Selover, Mrs. Carrie Feil, Mrs. C. H. Seymour and Mrs. Kennedy.
January 4, '94 .- Prayer, Mrs. Hammond. Violin Solo, Mr. Frank Barrett. Mrs. Selover, "Visit to Canton." '93 Club invited to visit Cleveland.
January 18 .- '93 Canton Club welcomed by Sorosis. Ad- dresses, Mesdames Sherwood, Morrow, Morgan and Jones. Re- sponses, Mesdames Bierce, Avery, Southworth and Coggswell. Novelist's Club-Papers, Mesdames Short, Tillinghast, Caton, Thomas, Tobien and Miss Quintrell. Recitation, Mrs. O. C. Lawrence.
February 1 .- Prayer, Mrs. Rose. Recitation, Mrs. B. F. Taylor. Papers, Mrs. Tobien and Mrs. Roosa, on "Business Women." Paper, Mrs. Sturm. Recitation, Miss Nellie Gunn.
February 15 .- Poet's Club-Recitations, Mrs. Caton and Miss Gunn. Papers, Mesdames Taylor, Thomas, Selover, Ship- herd. Selections read by Mrs. Reilly. Recitation, Miss Harroff. Violin Solo, Miss Norton. Piano Solo, Miss Callaher.
March 1 .- Prayer, Mrs. Crossley. Piano Solo, Miss Jack- son. Song, Mrs. Maltbie. Addresses by Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Root.
March 15 .- Prayer, Mrs. Rose. Song, Mrs. Searles. Paper, Mrs. Davidson. Flute Solo, Mr. Harry Dreher. Papers, Mrs. Dautel and Mrs. Lance. Song, Mrs. Blanche Byrnes.
March 22 .- Columbian Association. Papers, on World's Fair, Mrs. Churchill and Mrs. Robertson. Song, Miss Jones. Recitation, Mrs. Tucker.
April 5 .- Prayer, Mrs. Snow. Piano Solo, Mrs. Churchill. Parliamentary Drill, Mrs. H. E. Hammond.
April 15 .- Prayer, Mrs. Hickman. Gift of Clock from Webb C. Ball. Song, Miss Garlock and Mrs. Paul North. Papers on "House and Home," Miss Zerbe and Mrs. N. Coe Stewart.
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April 30 .- Banquet. Mandolin Club; Miss Wright, pianist; Mrs. Byrnes, vocalist; Mrs. Wyman, toastmistress. Papers, Mesdames Pomeroy, Ingham, Farmer, Selover, Houghton, Tucker, Miss Norton, Prof. Olney, Supt. Draper and Mr. George A. Robertson.
May 3 .- Annual Meeting. Prayer, Mrs. Ingham.
October 11 .- Informal talk on Ceylon by Mrs. J. E. Cary. Refreshments served. Society received present of a bookcase from Mrs. Cary.
October 18 .- Talk on the Federation of Clubs, Mrs. Rose. Paper, "Corals," Mrs. S. M. Perkins. Vocal Solo, Miss Marie Hussey. Reading, Miss Flora Harroff.
October 27 .- Special meeting in honor of Genevieve Steb- bins. Talk, "Pantomime," Mrs. Stebbins. Song, Mr. Trehearn. Selections, The Ashburn Mandolin Club.
November 1 .- Remarks on the meeting of the Federation of Woman's Clubs, held at Springfield, O., Mrs. S. M. Perkins. Talk, "Physical Culture," Mrs. Anna P. Tucker.
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