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The Woman's Reading Club,
APALACHICOLA, FLORIDA
1899-1900
"We owe to books those general benefits which from high intellectual actions."
-Emerson
...PRESIDENTS...
OF THE
WOMAN'S READING CLUB
Mrs. MARY A WISE....... 1896-1897
Mrs. J.D. RUSH..... 1897-1898
Mrs. GEORGE H. RUGE...... 1808-1809
Mrs. JOHN R. RUGE,......... 1899-1900
[Signature]
Apalachicola, Fla.
PROGRAMME.
ENGLAND'S AWAKENING.
"History is not merely the narrative of events, but the exhibition with every propriety of color and form, of the spirt and the body of the time."
-E.P. Hood.
PROGRAMME.
November the Second
Music-Duet,.... MISS HOPPE AND MISS MURAT
President's Address.
THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE CROWN AND PARLIAMENT.
"The right divine of King's to govern wrong."
PAPER- House of Stuart- Second Period, 1660-1702,... MRS. LEFEVRE
PAPER- House of Stuart- Third Period, 1702-1714,... MRS. PECK
CURRENT EVENTS, ....... MRS. WISE
November the Sixteenth.
THE ERA OF THE RENAISSANCE.
"Attend all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise,
I tell of the thrice famous deeds, she wrought in ancient days,
When the great fleet invincible, against her bore in vain,
The richest spoils of Mexico, the stoutest hearts of Spain."
-Macaulay.
CHARACTER SKETCH- Sir Walter Raleigh.... MRS. PORTER
PAPER- Arrival of the Invincible Armada.... MRS. WHITESIDE
MUSIC,..... MRS. W. MARKS
PAPER- The Revival of Classical Learning,.... MRS. RICE
CURRENT EVENTS,....... MRS. RUSH
November the Thirtieth.
HUMORISTS OF THE RESTORATION.
"Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
To run amuck and titlt at all I meet."
SKETCH {John Dryden, Daniel Defoe}..... MISS MURAT
PAPER {Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope}.... MRS. MARLER
READING- Rape of the Lock,..... MRS. W. MARKS
CURRENT EVENTS,..... MRS. PORTER
December the Fourteenth
POETS OF THE AUGUSTAN AGE.
"Poets are all who love, who feel great truths and tell them." -Bailey.
SKETCH AND READING- Isaac Watts (Hymn).... MRS. WISE
SKETCH AND READING- James Thompson (Seasons).... MRS. H. MARKS
Music,..... MISS HOPPE
SKETCH AND READING- Thomas Gray (Elegy).... MRS. WEFING
SKETCH AND READING- Oliver Goldsmith (Deserted Village). MRS. GEO RUGE
CURRENT EVENTS...... MISS RICE
December the Twenty-eighth.
BIRTH OF THE ENGLISH MAGAZINE.
"Books like Proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed." -Sir William Temple.
SKETCH- Addison and Steele,...... MRS. PIERCE
READING- Spectator,.... MRS. PECK
MUSIC,.... MISS WRIGHT
PAPER..... MRS. WAKEFIELD
READING- Rasselas,..... MRS. WRIGHT
CURRENT EVENTS,..... MRS. MARLER
January the Eleventh
RISE OF THE NEW ROMANTIC SCHOOL.
"The life of every age can be judged by the records it leaves in art and literature. Poetry accords with some ages, philosophy with others, in ours has come the day of the novel."
PAPER- Samuel Richardson.... MISS D. HOPPER
READING- Pamela....., MRS. MARLER
SKETCH AND READING {Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollette}....... MRS. WHITESIDE
CURRENT EVENTS.... MRS. GEO RUGE
January the Twenty Fifth
PURITAN ENGLAND
"Nothing possesses deeper interest to the thoughtful man, than the history of a struggle between an oppressed people and their powerful rulers." -Hendly
PAPER- GATHERING OF THE STORM..... MRS. RUCH
READING- Trial of Straggord, (Mozely)..... MRS. WISE
SKETCH- Charles First and his Counselors.... MRS. RICE
CURRENT EVENTS.... MRS. WRIGHT
February the Eighth
ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING.
"One alone can do but little, but he can avail who is in the right hour unites his strength with others." -Goethe
ELECTION OF OFFICERS
"We have reached the point where no woman dare say that her education is finished."
-Alice Freeman Palmer.
MUSIC.... MRS. MESSINA AND MISS HOPPE
February6 the Twenty-second.
THE FALL OF PURITANISM
"Give me the liberty to know, to think, to belive and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties." -Milton
SKETCH- Laud and the Puritans.... MRS. JOHN RUGE
READING- Landing of the Pilgrims (Mrs. Hemans,).. MRS. H MARKS
PAPER- Superstitions and Customs of Puritan England... Mrs. Coombs
Reading- America's Obligations to England, (Barre). MRS. W. MARKS
"God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness."
-Wm. Stoughton.
PAPER- Some Lessons from the Life of Washington, ... MRS. RUSH
CHORUS- America,...... The Club
March the Eighth
BRITISH SONG WRITERS
"In spite of all that time is rbinging,
Treasure of truth and miracles of art, Beauty and Love will keep the poet singing, And song still live- the science of the heart." - O.W. Holmes.
SKETCH- William Cowper,.... MRS. MESSINA
PAPER- Localities made famous by Burns.... MRS. BUFFUM
DUET- "And wert thou in the cauld blast,"... {MRS. WEFING AND MRS. WAKEFIELD
PAPER- Trio of Lake School Poets, [Wordsworth, Colerige, Southey,}... MISS RICE
CURRENT EVENTS,..... MRS. PECK
March the Twenty-second
DAWN OF ENGLISH SCIENCE.
"The study of science cannot but lead the thoughtful mind
to draw sharper dinstictions between the
essential and the unessential." - Mary W. Whitney, A.M.
PAPER- Character Sketch of Sir Francis Bacon,.... MISS WRIGHT
PAPER- The Royal Society,..... MISS WHITESIDE
"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in the night,
God said, 'Let Newton be,' and all was light."
SKETCH- Sir Isaac Newton,.... MRS. WHITESIDE
READING- Testimmony of the Rocks, (Hugh Miller,).. MRS. GEO RUGE
CURRENT EVENTS,..... MRS. COOMBS
April the Fifth
EARLY ENGLISHA RT
"Art then is nature passed through the crucible of mane's sympathetic intelligence. And great art is nature passed through the intelligence of a great man." William Ordway Partridge.
SKETCH- Sir Joshua Reynolds.... MISS D. HOPPE
READING- Cole's Old English Masters..... MRS. WAKEFIELD
SKETCH- Art Galleries of England.... MRS. PIERCE
READING- Beauties of Hampton Court..... MRS. WEFING
MUSIC,.... MISS MURAT
CURRENT EVENTS.... MRS. JOHN RUGE
April the Nineteenth
THE REVOLUTION.
"They were cut off in the flower of their days, and few of them laid their bones in the sepulchers of their fathers. They know the service which they had chosen, and they did not ask the wages for whcih they had not labored." -Froude.
PAPER- Marlborough and the Tories..... MRS. JOHN RUGE
READING- An Empire won in the East,..... MISS HOPPE
PAPER- Character Sketch of Warren Hastings.... MRS. BUFFUM
PAPER- A Colony Lost in the West.... Mrs. Coombs
CURRENT EVENTS,.... MRS. RICE
May the Third.
GREAT NAMES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
"Talent's age is a span: Genius spans the ages."
PAPER- Whitefield and his Associates,.... Mrs. Wise
SKETCH- David Hume,.... MRS. W. MARKS
PAPER- Edward Gibbon..... MRS. WRIGHT
MUSIC,.... MRS. BUFFUM
READING- Walpole as a Peace Minister, (Green,)... MRS. PORTER
CURRENT EVENTS.... MRS. LEFEVRE
May the Seventeenth
ELOQUENCE OF MODERN ENGLAND.
"Earth, air, sea, sky, the elemental fire,
Art, history, song- what meanings lie in each
Found in his cunning hand a stringless lyre,
And poured their mingling music through his speech."
-O.W. Holmes.
PAPER- Pitt, the "Great Commoner,"..... MRS. LEFEVREW
PAPER- Burke, the Orator..... MRS. PECK
PAPER- FOX, the Statesman..... MRS. MESSINA
MUSIC..... MRS. PIERCE
SKETCH- Garrick, the Actor..... MISS MURAT
CURRENT EVENTS,..... MISS D. HOPPE
May the thirty-first
VISITS TO ENGLAND'S HISTORIC PLACES
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, For there is in London all that life can afford." Dr. Johnson
PAPER- Oxford Univeristy..... MRS. RICE
SKETCH- Windsor Castle..... MISS HOPPE
STUDY- Westminster Abbey.... MRS. GEO RUGE
PAPER- A Day in old London.... MRS. WHITESIDE
CURRENT EVENTS..... MRS. H. MARKS
MUSIC,...... MRS. MESSINA AND MISS WRIGHT
"Enough is equal to a feast."
-Fielding.
OFFICERS
TERM: November, 1899, to February, 1900.
PRESIDENT,
MRS. JOHN G. RUGE.
VICE-PRESIDENTS,
MRS. C. F. BUFFUM
MRS. A. H. LEFEVRRE
SECRETARY
MRS. S. E. RICE.
TREASURER AND BOOK COMMITTEE
MRS. FRANK PORTER.
CRITICS
MRS. ELLEN PIERCE
MRS. J. D. RUSH.
REPORTER
MRS. A. H. LEFEVRE
PROGRAM COMMITTEE,
MRS. C. F. BUFFUM
MRS. M. A. WISE
MRS. G. H. RUGE.
MRS. G. F. WEFINGMRS. C. J. PECK
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MRS. G.F. WEFIN
MRS. J. N. COOMBS
MRS. C. W. MARKS
MISS HOPPE
MISS MURAT,
MRS. FRANK PORTER, EX-OFFICIO.
MEMBERS
MRS. C. F. BUFFUM
MRS. J. N. COOMBS
MISS JULIA HOPPE
MISS DOROTHEA HOPPE
MRS. A. H. LEFEVRE
MRS. WILLOUGHBY MARKS
MRS. H. D. MARKS
MRS. W. T. MARLEE
MRS. JOSEPH MESSINA
MISS IRENE MURAT
MRS. C.J. PECK
MRS. ELLEN PIERCE
MRS. FRANK PORTER
MRS. S. E. RICE
MISS STEPPIE RICE
MRS. JOHN G. RUGE
MRS. J. D. RUSH,
MRS. J.W. WAKEFIELD,
MRS. GEORGE F. WEFING,
MRS. GEORGE H. WHITESIDE
MISS MATTIE WHITESIDE,
MRS. M. A. WISE
MRS. U. M. WRIGHT
MISS RUBY WRIGHT
Honorary members:
MRS. S. PAXSON
WATTERS
MISS MATTIE PATTON
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