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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1901
Page
18
The article notes a fruitful week for local women's clubs with literary meetings, papers, and a Butte Federation consultation. The Homer club held a natal day social at Mrs. D. J. Hennessy’s home with art progress talks and masterful reproductions, stressing art cultivation and joy for women.
Members gathered for a social day at the Homer club as five hostesses led a session on German art. Essays covered early art, Dresden and Berlin galleries, Angelica Kaufman, architecture and sculpture with reproductions and photos.
A speaker surveys the rise of oil painting in the fifteenth century and contrasts Michelangelo with Raphael, noting Moses and the Sistine Madonna. Other masters like Miller are discussed as enduring nineteenth century works. The session closes with thanks to Miss Cox and plans for future art talks and a Shakespeare club report.
The Woman's club organizes a Sutton's theater concert on March 5 under club auspices featuring Leonora Jackson with Miss Eburna and Seiden Pratt. Box parties include W. A. Clark Jr and Mrs. H C Bellinger among patronesses from Butte's prominent society.
Regular Atlas club meeting in the Business Men's association room discusses city sanitary conditions, aiding the city federation, and a Porto Rico paper by Mrs. Slater. Mrs. Beckwith traces Our Navy, reports Ite Janette sinking, the pink American beauty rose, New York regents in schools, and a forthcoming Hawaii program.
Ethical Culture club committees reported readiness for Friday night’s social. Miss Berenice Cox, a young art student and teacher, delivered the address Art and Artists outlining art from the Olympian era to the nineteenth century. The talk offered a concise pen portrait but noted no great progress.
The West Side Shakespeare club, with a 25 member roster and typical attendance of 21 to 23, plans an April annual social. Visitors from Homer attended, and the Associated Charities now runs a phone line in the library for locating workers and other assistance. Mrs. J. C. Brenner of Horse Providence, Mont., visited the Woman’s club, while Billings Woman’s club reorganizes into three departments led by Mrs. H. M. Brayton, whose leadership strengthens the group.
The Billings public library in progress of completing a gift of over 70 elegant standard works from the literature department. The library, an elegant structure, is a gift of Frederick Billings of New York. Friends of Mrs. C. W. Paine and Mrs. T. A. Grigg, longtime Woman's Club associates, will be glad to know both are convalescent after extended illness.
Deer Lodge notes describe the Alvalea girls club Valentine meeting with Miss Owings and Miss McLain featuring original valentines and club pin design in white and gold. Chaminade resumes after a six week hiatus due to a death. The Deer Lodge Woman's club begins an Egypt study with a pure food talk by Mrs. Clinton H. Moore. Egypt relgion and Thebes discussions follow at Mrs. Simpson's home and Mrs. Lee Kelley hosts next meeting on topography of Egypt.
A critique of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound argues that constant advertising supports demand via word of mouth. It claims many druggists profit by substituting their own preparations, misleading customers into buying inferior products, and that public ads and grateful letters sustain Mrs. Pinkham's reputational reach.
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