The Woman's Reading Club

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Woman's Pleading Club.
The UIomam's Reading Club

"Woman's J^eading Club

YEAR BOOK.

1890 - 1900.

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ORQANIZE^D iseo.

Sehevaieii n»lth

I. U. L,. C, 1893.

G. P. W. C, 1893.
W. C. L,., 1893.

\\Afo)TLan's reading dlub

YEAll BOOK.

isoo - 1 ;»<><».

OKGANIZED 1890.

f■c^^.'ratc^ ixtitJt

I. U. I.. C, 1893.
G. F. yv. C, 189^
^V. C. L., 1893.

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"l|^'r| owl edge Tare ^/ve see\ ar|(i s't|ai?e."

OCTOBER TEXTH,

Some Islands in the Atlantic

Ellen R Bursley.

Cy> Susan F. Morgan

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"Round mauv Western Islands have I been. "—Keats.

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OCTOBER TWENTY-FOURTH.

American Illustrators

S. Elizabeth Jacobs

Progress of Decorative Art.

Fanny H. Williams

'Art is not cast in a mould but formed and perfected by degrees."

Montaigne.

NOVKMHKU SEVKXTII.

The Loves of some Famous People.

Agnes A. Seabrease.
May W. Laubach.

"Hearts do n't change much after all."
"All for love."— Shakspeare.

NOVEMBER T^VENTY-PIRST.

A Day in the Emerald Isle.

Oro E. Perfect.

Irish Heroes, Folk-lore and Fairy Tales.

M. Katherine McDougal.

'Through Erin's Isle to sport awhile."— Moork.

DECEMBER FIFTH.

AN AFTKRNOOX OF MTSTERY.

'Pluck out the heart of mv mvsterv.'"— Hamlet.

DECEMBER NINETEENTH.

Study of Typical Characters in Shakspeare.

Georgiana W Bond.
Helen C. Knight.

"He breatheil upon deail bodies and brought them unto life."

JANUARY SECOND.

Educational Influence of Pestalozzi

Mary Adams Thieme.

Child Study and Nature Study.

Marion F. Crightgn.

"Help nature and work on with her, and nature will reward thee
as one of her creators and make obeisance.

JANUARY SIXTEENTH.

Our New Possessions.

Elizabeth C Page.
Sara P. Foster.

'We '11 raise a structure of wise goverumeut and show in our new
world a glorious spectacle of social order."— H all.

JANUARY THIRTIETH.

"THK DAY WE CKLKBRATK."

'Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, whioh bars a thou-
sand harms and lengthens life."— Shakspeark.

\ttoCv- \AoW.-\Vv,\,l(. ^^O-

FEBRUARY THIRTEENTH.

Cliff Dwellers.

Martha S. Stewart.
Eliza Hanna Hayden.

"Tales that have the rime of age."

FKHRUARY T^VKNTY-SECOXD.

A Sketch of Concord and Its People.

IsABELLE G. Fleming.

"The Empire of Cathay."

Mary Rowan Harper.

'•Where once the embattled farmers stood, and tired the shot heard

round the world."
"A ('vcle of Cathav "

MARCH SIXTH.

THY FRANK ELECTION MAKE,

THOU HAST THE POWER TO CHOOSE.

'Oh! that one might know the end of this day's business ere It
comes."

MARCH THIRTEENTH.

A Study in Architecture.

Annie L. Taylor.

"Architpcture is petriflcrt music."— Goethe

MARCH TAVP^NTY-SEVENTII.

The Follies of Collectors

Katherine Hamilton.

Brilliant Thoughts from Brilliant Women.

Laura Alice Wilson.

'Turning the accomplishments of many years into m\ hour-ylass.
•A bevy of fair women."

APRII. TENTH.

Kipling, the Poet

Eliza J. Johnson.

Kipling, the Novelist.

Erin Fleming Carroll.

Great thoughts, great feelings come to him, like instincts, un-
awares.—Houghton.

APRIL. TWENTY-FOURTH.

Up the Coast of Norway.

Fannie M. Thayer.

Modern Norwegian Literature

Carolyn R. Fairbank.

Yes, glorious is my fatherland,
The ancient rock-bound Norway,
With flowry dale, crags old and grey,
That spite of time eternal stand.

MAY EIGHTH.

Westminster Abbey

Mary D Moderwell.

Some Cathedral Towns

Eliza H Seabrease

That temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of
twenty generations lie buried.

MAY T^VENTY-SECOND.

THE president's DAY.

'T is her privilege to lead from joy to joy."— Wordsworth.

OFFICKRS.

Presitlent—

Ella N. Hanna.

Secretary and Treasurer—

Helen F. Guild.

Prosrram (oinmitteo —

Annie L Taylor.

Sara P. Foster.

IsABELLE G. Fleming.

"Our grand business is to do what lies directly at hand."

— Cari.yle.

ACTIVE MEMBERS.

Mrs. Charles E. Bond
Mrs. Gilbert E. Bursley.
Mrs. Albert E Carroll.
Mrs. Thomas J. Cnghton.
Mrs. Clark Fairbank.
Mrs. Oliver E Fleming.
Mrs, David N. Foster,
Mrs. Albert D, Guild,
Miss Katharine Hamilton.
Mrs. Oliver S Hanna
Mrs. Frederick Hayden.
Mrs James D. Harper.
Mrs. John H. Jacobs.
Mrs. Alexander Johnson
Miss Helen C Knight.
Mrs May W Laubach.
Mrs. M Katherine McDougal
Mrs. Hiram C. Moder^ll
-Mrs Oliver P. Morgan"
Mrs. William D Page.
Miss Oro E. Perfect. -
-, Mrs Alexander Seabrease.
Miss Agnes A. Seabrease
Mrs. John L Stewart.
Mrs. J. G. Thieme.
Mrs. I. Newton Taylor.
Miss Leonard E Thayer.
Mrs. Effingham T Williams.
Miss Laura Alice Wilson.

; Although we may never be able to realize our iileals, woe be to us
if we have no ideals to realize."

HONORARY MEMBERS.

Miss Mary Irwin Mrs Stephen B. Bond.

BY- LA.\A.^»

woman's reading club.

NAME AND OBJECT.

This orgauization shall be known as The Woman's Readinc
Club of Kort Wayne.

The object of this club shall be the study of History, Literature
and Art, and the general intellectual and social culture of its mem-
bers.

ARTICLE 11.

MEMBERSHIP.

See. 1st. The number of active members shall be limited to
thirty-two. All names of candidates for membersihip shall be pre-
sented to the Secretary, in writing Wlien vacancies occur a list
of these candidates shall be announced two weeks before they are
to be voted upon. From the li>t thus presented each member shall
be entitled to a vote, by ballot, for a candidate. X majority of the
votes of the active members of the club shall be necessary for her
election. If there is no election on the first ballot the succeeding
ballots shall be confined to the three candidates having the largest
number of votes, nntil there is an election.

Sec. 2. A member who is absent from three consecutive club
meetings without sending a written excuse to the Secretary on or
before the date of the fourth meeting, will be cousidered'as de-
siring to withdraw from the club, and her name will be taken from
the list, the Secretary notifying said member to that effect.

Sec. 3. Any iiieiiiljer may bring a friend not a resident of the
city, to any regular meeting.

ARTICLE III.

OFFICERS.

Sec. 1. The oHicers of tde club shall consist of a President, a
Secretary, who shall also act as treasurer, and a Program Commit-
tee of three members.

Sec. 2. These otHcers shall be elected at the annual business
meetiuK in March: the President and Secretary to enter upon their
respective duties at the close of the workingyear. The Program
Committee shall immediately assume the duties of their office.

Sec. ;>. The duties of the Program Committee shall be to prepare
and 10 have printed the program for the following year, and to dis-
tribute the same four weeks before the first meeting. The drawing
for dates shall be two weeks after the annual meeting. If, for any
acceptable reason a member cannot perform the work arrnnged
for her, the Program Committee shall arrange the work for that
day.

ARTICLE IV.

.MEETINGS.

Sec. 1. The club year shall begin the second Tuesday of October
and end the middle of .May, the meetings to be held fortnightly at
half past two ()'cU)Ck.

Sec. 2. Tiie place for each meeting shall be announced at the
previous meeting. If for any reason a hostess shall change the
time and place of meeting, she shall notify each member of such
change.

ARTICLE. V.

All necessary expenses shall be divided e(iually among the mem-
bers of the diib. There shall be an annual fee of 11.50 for each
mein'oer, pavable at the first meeting in Octotier.

ARTICLE VI.

Twelve members shall constitute a (|uornm for the transaction of
liusiiiess.

ARTICLE VII.

These by-laws may be amended by a majority vote of the mem-
bers present at anyregiilar meeting provided a written notice of
the intended amendment be given the secretary at a previous meet-

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1900—1901.

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KNOWLEDGE RARE WE SEEK AND SHARE.

YEAR ]^>OOK.

1900-1{)01.

LKTTKRS FROM AliROAD

TO THE AVOMAX'«< READIXG CT.Ul!

FORT MAVXK, TXniAXA.

ORGANIZED 1890

Fcileiiitcil uiilh

1. U. L. C. 1S9«.
«. F. W. C. 189->.
^V. C. L. IS.'i.}.

'• 'Tls pleasant, thro' the loopholes of retreat,

To peep at such a world.

To see the stir of the great Babel,

And. not feel the crowd."

"Wliile fancy, like tlie linger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit and Is still at home.

OCTOBER NINTH.

Letters from

Honolulu,

Marion F. Creighton.

Japan.

Josephine Page Wright.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination bj' reality, and in-
stead of thinking how things may be to see them as they are.

Dr. Johnson.

"Take up the white man's burden."

OCTOBER T^VENTY -THIRD.

The Philippine Islands.
Bombay and Calcutta.

Elizabeth Jacobs
Fanny H. Williams

"Forever ours for good or ill,
On us the burden lies,
God's balance watched by angels
Js hung across tlie skies."

Whit tier.

"Wilt thou not ahvays see
Dim shadows beckon thee
O'er the old track again?

NOVEMBER SIXTH.

Siam.

-Elizabeth C. Page.
Hong-Kong and Canton.

Helen C. Knight.

Uu the road to Maiidalay

Where the flyiu' fishes play,

Au' the dawn comes up like thunder

Outer China 'crost the Bay."

NOVEMBER TWENTIETH.

Shanghai and Pekin.

IsABELLE G. Fleming.
Siberia via Vladovistok.

Sara P. Foster.

"Builders of the mighty wall
Bid your mountain barriers fall,
So may the garland of the sun,
Bind the East and West in one."

WECKMliER rOURTU,

/ Nijni Novgorod and Moscow.
St Petersburo and Finland.

Helen R. Bursley.
Agnes A. Seabrease.

"A nation drunken with the wine of blood
Stnjrpr^riniur to take the pledge of l)rotlierhood."

Tennyson.

DECEMBER EIGHTEENTH.

Berlin, Dresden, The Elbe.

Mary Rowan Harper.

Prague, Munich, Oberammergau, Vienna.

M. Katharine MacDougal.

"Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Seheld, or wandering Po."

JANUARY EIGHTH.

Buda Pesth, Belgrade, Constantinople.

Georgiana W. Bond.

V^ I The Egean Sea, Athens, Corinth.

"Where each old poetic mountain
Inspiration breatiies around."

Gray.

JANUARY TWBNTY-SECONI>.

ANNIVEBSARY.

'No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en."

FEBRUARY FIFTH,

Cyprus, Beirut, I^aalhec, Damascus.

Erin Fleming Carroll,

Sea of Galilee, Nazareth, Shechem

Laura Alice Wilson.

"Blue sea of the hills, in my spirit I hear
Thy waters, Genesarct, chime on my ear."

Whittier.

FEBRUARY NINETEENTH.

Jerusalem.

Fannie M. Thayer.

The Jordan, Joppa, The Dead Sea.

Kathrine Brackenridge.

"Enthroned on her hills sits Jerusalem yet,

But with (lust on her forehead and chains on her feet."

MAKCH FIFTH.

Suez Canal, Alexandria, Cairo

Emma J Willson.
Cairo

Katharine Hamilton.

•' The pyraaxids themselves doting with age, have forgotten the
names of their founders."

MARCH T^VELFTH.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

'Talk of nothing but business, and dispatcli that business
quickly."

MARCH NINETEENTH.

The Nile

Naples, Fompeii, Herculaicum

Ora E. Perfect.

Mary Adams Thieme.

"Hail, All hail, O Nile to thee!
To this land thyself thou showest
Coming tranquilly to give
Life that Egypt so may live."

Anna. 1300 B. C.

APKIt, SECOXI>.

Rome

Eliza Johnston Johnson.

Florence, Pisa, Venice.

Mary D. Moderwell.

'For Italy's the whole earth's treasury."

APRIL, SIXTEEXTH.

Milan, The Italian Lakes, Luzerne.

Martha S. Stewart.
Switzerland.

Susan F. Morgan.

"See the mountains kiss high heaven.
And the waves olaj^p one another."

Shelley.

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APRIL THIRTIETH.

The Rhine, Cologne, Brussels.

Mary MacCrea Wilson.
Paris.

Mrs. Annie L. Taylor.

Adieu to thee, fair Rhine! how long delighted
The stranger fain would linger on his way.

Byron.

MAY FOURTEENTH.

Avignen, Aries, Nismes, Marseilles.
Nice, Mentone, Monte Carlo, Genoa.

How smiled the land of France
Under the dark eyes glance
Light-hearted rovers.

Tennyson.

MAY TAVENTY-EIGIITII.

Gibraltar, Granada, Madrid
To Fort Wayne.

President.

''Then westward ho!

Grace and good disposition attend your lady.shlp."

OFFICERS.

President Ella N. Hanna.

Secretary Helen F. Guild.

Cdmmittkk on Programme.

Eliza Johnston Johnson.

S. Elizabeth Jacobs.

Mary Rowan Harper.

ACTI^'K MEMIiEKS.

Mrs. Chas. E Bond 289 Fairfield Ave.

Mrs. Will Brackenridge 32 Brackenridge St.

Mrs. Gilbert E Bursley 301 Fairfield Ave.

Mrs. Albert E. Carroll School for F. M. Y.

Mrs. Thos. J. Creighton 487 S Calhoun St.

Mrs. Oliver E. Flemimg 34c Washington Boul.

Mrs. David N. Foster Fairfield Ave.

Mrs. Albert D. Guild 372 Fairfit-ld Ave.

Miss Katharine Hamilton Cor. Clinton and Lewis Sts.

iMrs. Oliver S Hanna 130 \V. Berry St.

Mrs. Frederick J. Hayden Hanna Homestead.

Mrs. James B. Harper 76 E Washington St

Mrs. John H Jacobs Spy Run Ave.

Mrs. Alexander Johnson School for F. M Y.

Miss Helen C. Knight 160 Spy Run Ave.

Miss M. Katharine MacDougal 143 W Wayne St.

Mrs. Hiram C. Moderwell 93 W. Wayne St.

Mrs. Oliver P Morgan 40 E. Washington St.

Mrs. William D Page 606 E. Jefferson St.

Miss Ora E. Perfect 294 Washington Boul

Miss Agnes A, Seabrease 167 W Berry St.

Mrs. John L. Stewart 234 W. Berry St.

Mrs. J. G Thieme 185 W. Berry St.

Mrs. I. Newton Tayldr 407 Fairfield Ave.

Mrs. Leonard E Thayer 18S W. Berry St.

Mrs Effingham T. Williams 132 E Main St.

Mrs E. M. Wilson .290 W. Berry St.

Mrs. M. C. Willson 59 Oakley St.

Miss Laura Alice Wilson 221 W. Berry St.

HONORARY MEMBERS.

Miss Mary Irwin.
Mrs Stephen B. Bond.

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BY=LAWS

ayoma:n^'s readi:ng club.

AKTICl.E I.
NAME AND OBJECT.

This organization shall be known us The Woman's Reading
Ci.UB, of Fort Wayne.

The object of this club shall be the study of History, Literature,
and .\rt, and the general intellectual and social culture of its mem-
bers.

ARTICLE 11.

See. 1. Tlie number of active members shall be limited to
thirty-two. All names of candidates for membership shall be ])re-
sented to the Secretary, in writins. When vacancies occur a list
of these candidates shall be announced two weeks before they are
to be voted upon. From the list thus presented each member shall
be entitled to a vote, by ballot, for a candidate. A majority of the
votes of the active members of the club shall be necessary for her
election. If there is no election on the first ballot the succeeding
ballots shall be coutined to the three candiilates having the largest
number of votes, until tliere is an election.

Sec. 2. A member who is absent from three consecutive club
meetings without sending a written excuse to the Secret;iry on or
before the date of the fourth meeting will be considered as desir-
ing to withdraw from the club, and her name will be taken from
the list, the Secretary notifying said member to that effect.

Sec. 3. Any member may bring a friend not a resident of the
city to any regular meeting.

ARTICLE III.

See. 1. The ollicers of the club shall eou.sist of ii President, a,
Secretary, who shall also act as treasurer, and a Prosram Commit-
tee of thrt'e inemhors.

Sec. 'J. These ollii'ors shall be elected at the annual business
nieeiingin March; ihe President and Secretary to enter upon their
respective duties at the close of the workins? year. The Program
Connnittee shall inimediaiely assume ihe duties of their oflice.

Sec 3. The duties of the Program Committee shall be to prepare
and t') have printed the program for tlie following year, and to dis-
tribute the same four weeks before the tirst meeting. The drawing
for dates shall be two weeks after the annual meeting. If, for any
acceptable reason a memlier cannot perform the work arranged for
her, the Program Committee shall arrange the work for that day.

.\RTICLK IV

MEETINGS.

Sec. 1. The club year shall begin the second Tuesday of October
anil end tlie middle of May, the meetings to be held fortnightly at
half past two o'clock.

Sec. 2 The place for each meeting shall be announced at the
previous meeting. If for any reason the hostess shall change the
time and place of meeting, she shall notify each member of such
change.

ARTICLE V.

All necessary expenses shall be divided equally among the mem-
bers of the dub. There shall bean annual fee of Sl.r)0 for each
member, payable at the first meeting in October.

ARTKM.E VI.

Twelve members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
of business.

ARTICLE VII.

These by-laws may be amended by a majority vote of the mem-
bers present at any regular meeting provided a written notice of
the intended amendment be given the secretary at a previous meet-

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FORT WAYNE. INDIANA.

YEAR BOOK,

RUSSIA.

FORT WAYNE. INDIANA.

ORGANIZED 1890.

"Fcricratcil milli

I. U. L. C. 1892.
G. F. ^^.C. 189-3.
W. C. T.. 189a.

SUQGESXIONS

OF THE

'COMMITTEE ON PROGRAM.

That the meetings commence promptly at half past two;

That the discussion of current news from Russia occupy
the first quarter of an hour, but no more;

That each membertry to bring some recent item of Russian
news for this discussion;

That each paper occupy not less than fifteen nor more
than thirty minutes;

That the papers be illustrated when possible, pictures be-
ing so disposed as to be visible to all, or passed after the
reading.

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OCTOKER EIGHTH.

1 Current Topics.

2 Geography and Races.

E.xtent. diversity, and unity;
Three chief ethnic elements— Finns, Tartars, and Slavs;
National temperament and character.

MYRA C. W.ALL

^ Historv' to 1462.

Primitive Russia;

Principalities:

Republics;

Mongol supremacy.

ELIZABETH C. PAGE

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OCTOBER ■TAyEXT\ -8ECOXD.

1 Current Topics.

2 History 1462-1689: Consolidation of the Empire.

The Grand Princes of Moscow;
Boris Godunof;
The Romanofs.

FANNIE M. THAYER

3 Legends, Folk-lure and Early Literature — to 1700.

Bilini;

Skazki, or tales;

Chronicles;

Legal codes.

Reading aloud — selection.

JOSEPHINE PA(.E WRKiHT

N<)>'K>IliER FIFTH.

1 Current Topics.

2 History. 1689-172^: Peter the Great.

The inaiT.
Reforms;
St. Petersburg.

SUSAN F. MORGAN

3 Social Orders and Class Distinctions.

The towns and urban classes;

Nobility;

Peasants.

ELIZABETH JACOBS

SrOVEMBER XINETEEIVTH.

Current Topics.
Religion.

Religious feeling;

The clergy;

Monasteries;

Festivals.

3 Literature 1700-1800.
The Renaissance;
European influence:
Poetry, history, fables;
Rise of the drama.

HELEN C. KNIGHT

MARY NINDE

DECEMBER THIRI>.

1 Current Topics.

2 History 1725-1796.

The Germans in Russia;

French influence;

Catherine 11;

Partition of Poland:

Russia in European politics; .

Rise of "The Eastern Question."

MARY R. Harper

3 Reading aloud — Extract from Literature of Middle Pe-

riod (1700-1800. )

MARY ADAMS THIEME

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DECEMBER SEVENTKEXTIT.

1 Current Topics.

2 Architecture: also Siberian Antiquities and Pre-historic

Antiquities of Perm.

KATHARINE HAMILTON

3 Sculpture: also Industrial Art.

MRS. GULDLIN

JANUARY SEVENTH.

^ixnixtcveavii.

.JAXUARV rWENTV-FIRS^T.

1 Current Topics.

2 History 1796-182S.

Wars with Napoleon Bonaparte;
Awakening of the Russian mind.

MARY MACCREA WILSON

3 Manners and Customs, Superstitions, Humor, Amuse-
ments.

ELIZA HANNA HAYDEN

FEBRUARY FOURTH.

1 Current Topics.

2 Travels in the North: St. Petersburg, Finland, Archan-

gel. Yaroslaf, Moscow.

M. E. Hanna

3 The Imperial Family and Court Life.

ADDIE J. FISHER

FEBRUARY EIGHTEENTH.

1 Current Topics.

2 Characteristics and Writers of Nineteenth Century

Literature.

ANNIE L. TAYLOR

3 Pushkin the Poet.

ELIZA JOHNSTON JOHNSON

MARCH FOURTH.

1 Current Topics.

2 Resources and Industries.

Agriculture;

Manufactures".

Mining,

3 Russian Music— illustrated.

Folk songs:
Church music:
Secular music:
Composers:
Virtuosi.

M. Katharine macdougal

MARCH ELEVENTH.
iBlection of ©fftcera.

MARCH EIGHTEEXTH.

I Current Topics.
2. Siberia.

Natives;

Mines and prisons;

Life of exiles.

ORO PERFECT

3 Travels in Siberia.

ISABELLE G. FLEMING

APRTI. FIRST.

1 Current Topics.

2 History 1825-1855.

Censorship of the press;
The Crimean war.

3 Gogol the Novelist.

MARION F. CRIGHTON

APRIL ftftkp:ntii.

1 Current Topics.

2 History since 1855.

Reforms;

Emancipation of the serfs;
Intellectual movements;
ForeiKH relations.

AGNES A. SEABREASE

3 Travels in the South: Warsaw, Kief, the Don, the

Volga, Nijni-Novgorod.

K.ATHRINE BRACKENRIDGE

APRIT^ T^A'EXTY-XIXTH.

1 Current Topics.

2 The Peasant and The Emancipation.

Mir, family and village communities;
Consequences of the emancipation for the landed

proprietors;
Consequences of the emancipation for the peasantry.

Sara P. Foster

3 Tolstoi: Reformer and Novelist.

MRS. WOODWORTH

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MAY THIRTEENTH.

1 Current Topics.

2 Turguenief the Novelist.

ERIN FLEMING CARROLL

3 Reading aloud — from Turguenief.

MAY TAVKXTY-SEVENTH.

1 Current Topics.

2 Painting — illustrated.

Development of Russian school;
Modern artists.

3 Polish music — illustrated.

Vocal;

Instrumental;
Composers;
Virtuosi.

MRS. McKEE

OFFICERS.

PRESIDENT. MARY R. HARPER

SECRETARY.. HELEN F. GUILD

COMMITTEE ON PROGRAM.

MYRA CRANE WALL.

MARY ADAMS THEIME.

K.4THARINE HAMILTON.

ACTIVE MEMBERS.

Mrs. Will Brackenridge.. 32 Brackenridge St.

Mrs. Albert E. Carroll School for F. M. Y.

Mrs. Thos. J. Crightou 487 S. Calhoun St.

Mrs. M B. Fisher Berry and Fulton Sts.

Mrs. Oliver E. Fleming 340 Washington Boul.

Mrs. David N. Foster Fairfield Ave.

Mrs. Albert I). Guild 372 Fairfield Ave.

Mrs. O N. Guldlin Berry and Fulton Sis.

Miss Katharine Hamilton Clinton and Lewis Sts

Mrs. Oliver S Hanna 130 W. Berry St

Mrs. James B. Harper 76 E. Washington St.

Mrs. Frederick J. Hayden Hanna Homestead.

Mrs. J. H. Jacobs Spy Run Ave-

Mrs. Alexander Johnson School for F. M. Y.

Miss Helen C Knight 160 Spy Run Ave.

Miss M. Katharine MacDongal 143 W. Wayne St.

Mrs. G, S. McKee W. Wayi.e St.

Mrs. Oliver F. Morgan 40 E Washington St

Mrs. Daniel B. Ninde Country.

Mrs. William D. Page (i06 E. Jefleison St

Miss Oro E. Perfect 8 Rockhill St

Miss Agnes A. Seabrease 167 W. Herry St.

Mrs. J. G. Thieme 216 W. Berry St.

ilrs. I. Newton Taylor 407 Fairfield Ave.

Mrs. Leonard E. Thayer 188 W. Berry St.

Mrs. George L. Wall 24 Jackson St.

Mrs E. M. Wilson 290 W. Berry St.

Mrs. James Woodworth W. Wayne St

Mrs J. P Wright 606 E Jefferson St"

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ASSOCIATE MEMBERS.

Mrs. ('harles K. Bond. Mrs. Stephen B. Bond.

HONORARY MEMBERS.

Miss Mary Irvviu, Mrs. H. C. Moderwell.

BY-LAWS

WOMAN'S READIN^G CLUB.

ARTICLE 1.

NAME AND OBJECT.

This organization shall he known as The Woman's Reading
Club, of Fort Wayne.

The object of this club shall be the study of History, Litera-
ture, and Art, and the general intellectual and social culture of
its members.

ARTICLE 11.

Sec. 1 The number of active members shall be limited to
thirty-two. All names of candidates for membership shall be
presented to the Secretary, in writing. When vacancies occur
a list of these candidates shall be annouubed two weeks before
they are to be voted upon. From the list thus presented each
member shall be entitled to a vote, by ballot, for a candidate.
A majority of the votes of the active members of the club shall
oe necessary for her election. If there is no election on the first
ballot the succeeding ballots shall be confined to the three candi-
dates having the largest numberof votes until there is an elec-
tion.

Sec. 2 A member who is ab.sent from three consecutive club
meetings without sending a written excuse to the Secretary on
or before the date «>f the fourth meeting will be considered
as desiring to withdraw from theelub, and her name willbe
tiiken from the list, the Secretary notifying said member to that
eflfect.

See. Z. \ny member may bring a friend not a resident of the
citv to anv regular meeting.

\

ARTUl.E III.

Sec. 1. The officers of the club shall consist of a President, a
."Secretary, who shall also act as treasurer, aud a Program Com-
mittee of three memtiers.

See ■_'. Tliese officers shall be elected at the annual business
meeting in March: the President and Secretary to enter upon
their respective duties at the close of theworking year. The
Program Committee shall immediately assume the" duties of
their office.

Sec. o. The duties of the Program Committee shall be to
]ire pare and to have printed theprogram for the following year,
and to distribute the same four weeks before 'he first meeting.
The drawing for dales shall be two weeks after the annual meet-
ing. If. forany acceptable reason a member cannot perform the
work arriinged for her. the Program Committee shall arrange
I lie work for th.it dav.

.\KT1C1,KIV.

MEKTINiiS.

Sec. 1. The club year shall begin the second Tuesday of Oc-
tober and end the midiUe of May. the meetings to be held fort-
nightly at half past two o'clock

Sec 2. The place foi each meeting shall be announced at the
previous meeting. If forany reason the hostess shall change
the time and place of meeting, she shall notify each menber of
siu'h change.

ARTK'LE V.

.\11 necessary expenses shall be divided equally among the
members of tlie club. There shall be an annual fee of SI. 50 for
each member, payable at the first meeting in October.

.\RTICLK VI.

Twelve members shall constitute a tjuoruir. for the transac-
tion ol business.

AHTK LK VII.

These by-laws may be amended by a majority vote of the
members present at auy regular meeting, provided a written
notice of the intended amendment be given the secretary at a
previous meeting.

CLUB COLORS—

GOLD AND WHITE.

CLUB FLOWER-
WHITE CARNATION.

i

I

Woman's Reading Club,

FORT ^AYNE, INDIANA.

1902-1903.

YEAR BOOK.

1902-3.

United States

History and Literature.

TheN)^oman s Reading Club,

Fort Wayne, Indiana.

ORGANIZED 1890.

Federated with

I. U. L. C, 1892.
G. F. W. C, 1892.
W. C. L., 1893.

Page Printing Co.
Fort Wayne, Ind.

I

SUGGESTIONS

PROGRAM COMMITTEE.

That the meetings commence promptly at half
past two;

That a general discussion occupy the first quar-
ter of an hour, but no more;

That each member bring some item on the
first sub-topic given, for this discussion;

That each paper occupy not less than fifteen
nor more than thirty minutes;

That papers be illustrated when possible;

That members use the U. S. History, used in
the higher grades of the public schools for indi-
vidual out line study.

OCTOBER SEVENTH.

TOPIC, WAR PERIODS.

1. "Good old fashioned ways

Of old colonial days."

2. The Revolution.

The War of 1812.

Mary MacCrea Wilson.

3. The Fistorical Novel.

Its Historical Value.

Elizabeth C. Page.

OCTOBER TWENTY-FIRST.
TOPIC, THE CRISIS.

1. The New South.

2. War of the Rebellion.

Slavery.

Bertha Perfect.

3. Famous War Poems.

Their Writers.

Josephine Page-Wright.

1

NOVEMBER FOURTH.

TOPIC, AMERICAN STATESMEN.

1. Prominent Statesmen of To-Day.

2. Character Silhouettes.

Annie L. Taylor.

3. Notable Orations.

Selections.

Marie J. Olds.

NOVEMBER EIGHTEENTH.

TOPIC, NATURE'S MIRACLES.

1. Pretty Lake Resorts.

2. Niagara Falls.

Mammoth Cave.

3. Rocky Mountains.

Yosemite Valley.

Addie B. Guldlin.

Mary R. Harper.

DECEMBER SECOND.

TOPIC, HISTORY OF LOCAL INTEREST.

1. Points of Interest in Indiana.

2. The Old Fort.

General Wayne.

Eliza Hanna-Hayden.

3. Indiana Writers.

Reading from their works.

Helen F. Guild.

DECEMBER SIXTEENTH.

TOPIC, THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN.

1. His Handiwork.

2. His Past.

Fannie M. Thayer.

3. His Present and His Future.

JANUARY SIXTH.

TOPIC, FOREIGN RELATIONS.

1. In Diplomatic Circles.

2. The American Diplomat.

3. Outlook at the Present Time.

JANUARY TWENTIETH.
ANNIVERSARY,

FEBRUARY THIRD.

TOPIC, THE AMERICAN WOMAN.

1. In Woman's World To-day.

2. Ip History and Literature.

Sarah P. Foster.

3. In the Home.

As a Type.

Myra Crane-Wall.

FEBRUARY SEVENTEENTH.
TOPIC, ADVANCEMENT IN ART AND SCIENCE.

1. Art Notes.

2. Industrial Art.

Addie J. Fisher.

3. What has Our Country Given to Art and to

Science ?

Martha Morris-Woodworth.

MARCH THIRD.
TOPIC, SOCIAL CONDITIONS.

1. Prominent Reformers.

2. Great Cities.

Lights and Shadows.

Eliza Johnston-Johnson.

3. Social Settlements.

Elizabeth Jacobs.

MARCH TENTH.
ELECTION.

MARCH SEVENTEENTH.
TOPIC, NATURAL RESOURCES.

1. Recent Discovei'ies.

2. In the Bowels of the Earth.

M. E. Hanna.

3. At the Handle of the Plow.

APRIL FOURTEENTH.

TOPIC, FAMOUS WRITERS.

1. The Monthly Magazine.

2. The American Poet.

Agnes A. Seabrease,

3. The American Humorist.

Helen C. Knight.

APRIL TWENTY-EIGHTH.

TOPIC, COMMERCE.

1. Reciprocity.

2. What Our Great Lakes Mean to Us,

Katherine Hamilton.

3. Foreign Trade.

Importations.

Mabel Sturgeon.

MAY TWELFTH.

TOPIC, MUSIC.

1. A National Hymn.

2. What has Our Country Given to the World

of Music ?

Marion Crighton.

3. American Composers.

Illustrations.

M. Katharine MacDougal.

MAY TWENTY-EIGHTH.

TOPIC, THE FLAG.

1. Where it Floats.

2. The History of the Flag.

Susan F. Morgan.

3. Incidents of its Influence.

OFFICERS.

President MARY R. HARPER.

Secretary HELEN F. GUILD

COMMITTEE ON PROGRAM.

MARION CRIGHTON.

ADDIE FISHER.

JOSEPHINE PAGE-WRIGHT.

ACTIVE MEMBERS.

Mrs. Thomas J. Crighton.
Mrs. M. B. Fisher.

Mrs. David N. Foster.
Mrs. Albert D. Guild.
Mrs. O. N. Guldlin.

Miss Katherine Hamilton.
Mrs. Oliver S. Hanna.
Mrs. James B. Harper.
Mrs. Fred J. Hayden.
Mrs. J. H. Jacobs.

Mrs. Alexander Johnson.
Miss Helen C. Knight.
Miss M. Katharine MacDougal.
Mrs. Oliver P. Morgan.
Mrs. Walter Olds

Mrs. William D. Page.
Mrs. Harry Perfect.
Miss Agnes Seabrease.
Mrs. T. Sturgeon.

Mrs. I. Newton Taylor.
Mrs. Leonard E. Thayer.
Mrs. George L. Wall.
Mrs. E. M. Wilson.

Mrs. James Woodworth.
Mrs. T. B. Wright.

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS.

Mrs. Charles E. Bond. Mrs. Stephen B. Bond.

HONORARY MEMBERS.

Miss Mary Irwin. Mrs. H. C. Moderwell.

BV-L^WS

WOMAN'S READING CLUB.

ARTICLE I.

NAME AND OBJECT.

This organization shall be known as The Woman's
Reading Club, of Fort Wayne.

The object of this club shall be the study of History, Liter-
ature and Art, and the general intellectual and social culture
of its members.

ARTICLE II.

Sec. 1. The number of active members shaji be limited
to thirty-two. All names of candidates for membership shall
be presented to the Secretary, in writing. When vacancies
occur a list of these candidates shall be announced two weeks
before they are to be voted upon. From the list thus present-
ed each member shall be entitled to a vote, by ballot, for a
candidate. A majority of the votes of the active members of
the club shall be necessary for her election. If there is no
election on the first ballot, the succeeding ballots shall be

confined to the three candidates having- the largest number of
votes until there is an election.

Sec. 2. A member who is absent for three consecutive
club meetings without sending a written excuse to the Secre-
tary on or before the date of the fourth meeting, will be con-
sidered as desiring to withdraw from the club, and her name
will be taken from the list, the Secretary notifying said mem-
ber to that effect.

Sec. 3. Any member may bring :>. friend not a resident
of the city to any regular meeting.

ARTICLE III.

Sec. 1. The officers of the club shall consist of a Presi-
dent, a Secretary, who shall also act as Treasurer, and a Pro-
gram Committee of three members.

Sec. 2. These officers shall be elected at the annual busi-
ness mesting in March; the President and Secretary to enter
upon their respective duties at the close of the working year.
The Program Committee shall immediately assume the duties
of their office.

Sec. 3. The duties of the Pi-ogram Committee shall be to
pi-epare and to have printed the program for the following
year, and to distribute the same four weeks before the first
meeting. The drawing for dates shall be two weeks after the
annual meeting. If, for any acceptable reason, a member
cannot perform the work arranged for her. the Program Com-
mittee shall arrange the work for that day.

ARTICLE IV.

MEETINGS.

Sec. 1. The club year shall begin the second Tuesday of
October and end the middle of May, the meeting's to be held
fortnightly at half past two o'clock.

Sec. 2. The place for each meeting shall be announced at
the previous meeting, if for any reason the hostess shall
change the time and place of meeting, she shall notify each
member of such change.

ARTICLE V.
All necessary expenses shall be divided equally among the
members of the club. There shall be an annual fee of $1.50
for each member, payable at the first meeting in October.

ARTICLE VI.
Twelve members shall constitute a quorum for the trans-
action of business.

ARTICLE VII.
These by-laws may be amended by a majority vote of the
members present at any regular meeting, provided a writtan
notice of the intended amendment be given the Secretary at
a previous meeting.

CLUB colors-
Gold AND White.

CLUB flowers-
White Carnation.

Cbc

Reading
€iub.

f on mayne,
Tndiana.

year BooK, i903-4.

MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAM.

the OScmau $ ^m\H &\\h

Fort \^ayne, Indiana.
ORGANIZED I890.

Federated with

I. U. L. C, 1692.

G. F. "i^. C, I892, withdrew isgs.

W. L. C, 1693.

momatrs Reading giuD.

Officers
Plan of mork
members
Constitution

ClMb Colors,

Gold and White.

eiuD flower,

White Carnation.

Officers.

President

SARA P. FOSTER

Secretary

JOSEPHINE PAGE-BRIGHT

Program Committee
ADDIE B. GULDLIN
NELLIE H. ROBBINS
MARY M. WILSON

Plan of (UorK.

October 13. Old Fashioned Days

Mary Elizabeth Johnson
Reading

Mary R. Harper

October 2^. Paris

Susan F. Morgan

November 10. Influence of Allegorical Writing
Elizabeth C. Page
Josephine Page-Wright

November 24. Parliamentary Law
Marie J. Olds

Plan of morK.

December 8. Some Social and Economic Aspects
of Modern Europe

Aristene N. Fells

January 5. Mrs. Delaney and Her Friends.
Elizabeth Jacobs

January 19. Anniversary.

February 2. Charles and Mary Lamb
Helen F. Guild
Eliza Johnston-Johnson

February 19. Nev/ Phases of Education
Clara A. Bicknell

Domestic Science
Addis B. Guldlin

MarcJi 1 . Oriental Rugs

Ella W McDonald
Mary M. Wilson

March 8. Election

March 1 5. Tennyson and Browning
Martha M. Wood worth

Emerson

Annie L. Taylor

March 29. Concord and its Famous People
Eliza Hanna-Hayden

April 12. The Sunshine Movement

Elizabeth M. Burrowes

Bread— Its Use and Abuse
Harriet W. Muirhead

FEanof UJorK*

April 26. What is Art ?

Sara P. Foster

May 10. The Illustrators

Minnie K. Hanna

Beethoven and Mozart
Nellie H. Robbins

May 24. Honolulu

Fannie M. Thayer.

Reading

Addie J. Fisher

members.

Active
Mrs. Clarence F. Bicknell
Mrs. Stephen A. Burrowes
Mrs. Max B. Fisher
Mrs. David N. Foster
Mrs. Albert D. Guild
Mre. Olaf N. Guldlin
Mrs. Horace Granger
Mrs. Samuel D. Hanna
Mrs. Jannes B. Harper
Mrs. Frederick J. Hayden.
Mrs. John H. Jacobs
Miss Mary Elizabeth Johnson
Mrs. Alexander Johnson
Mrs. Emmet H. McDonald
Mrs. Susan F. Morgan
Mrs. Alex Muirhead
Mrs. 'Valter Olds
Mrs. William D. Page
Mrs. Nellie H. Robbins
Mrs. Leonard E. Thayer
Mrs. Edward M. Wilson
Mrs. James Woodworth
Mrs. Thomas B. \(7right

members.

Associate Members
Mrs. Susan C. Hoffman
Mrs. Charles E. Bond
Mrs. Stephen B. Bond
Mrs. Oliver S. Hanna

Honorary Members
Miss Mary Irwin
Mrs. Hiram C. Moderwell

By-Caw$.

ARTICLE I.
Name and Object.
This organization shall be kno>x'n as The
"^^oman's Reading Club, of Fort ^ayne.

T he object of this club shall be the study of
History, Literature and Art, and the general intel-
lectual and social culture of its menrAbers.

ARTICLE II.

J&c. 1 . The nunnber of active members shall
be limited to thirty-two. All names of candidates
for membership shall be presented to the Secre-
tary, in writing. 'W'hen vacancies occur a list of
these candidates shall fc>e announced t^o weeks
before they are to be voted upon. From the list
thus presented each member shall be entitled to a
vote, by ballot, for a candidate. A majority of
the votes of the active members of the club shall
be necessary for her election, if there is no elec-
tion on the first ballot, the succeeding ballots shall
be confined to the three candidates having the
largest number of votes until there is an election.

Sec. 2. A member who is absent for three con-
secutive club meetings v/ithout sending an ex-
cuse to the Secretary on or before the date of the
fourth meeting, will be considered as desiring to

By-£a\v$.

withdraw from the club, and her name will be
taken fronn the list, the Secretary notifying said
member to that effect.

Sec. 3. Any member may bring a friend not a
resident of the city to any regular meeting.

article;iii.

Sec. 1 . The officers of the club shall consist of
a President, a Secretary, who shall also act as
Treasurer, and a Program Committee of three
members.

Sec. 2. These officers shall be elected at the
annual business meeting in March; the President
and Secretary to enter upon.their respective duties
at the close of the working year. The Program
Committee shall immediately assume the duties
of their office.

Sec. 3. The duties of the Program Committee
shall be to prepare and to have printed the pro-
gram for the following year, and to distribute the
same four weeks before the first meeting. The
drawing for dates shall be two weeks after the
annual meeting. If, for any acceptable reason a
member cannot perform the work arranged for
her, the Program Committee shall arrange the
work for that day.

By-Eaws.

ARTICLE IV.
Meetings.

Sec. 1. The club year shall begin the second
Tuesday of October and end the middle of May,
the meetings to be held fortnightly at half past
two o'clock.

Sec. 2. The place for each meeting shall be
announced at the previous meeting. If for any
reason the hostess shall change the time and
place of meeting, she shall notify each member
of such change.

ARTICLE V.

All necessary expense shall be divided equally
among the members of the club. There shall be
an annual fee of $ i .50 for each member, payable
at the first meeting in October.
ARTICLE VI.

Twelve members shall constitute a quorum for
the transaction of business.

ARTICLE Vll.

These by-laws may be amended by a majority
vote of the members present at any regular meet-
ing, provided a written notice of the intended
amendment be given to the Secretaryat a previous
meeting.

Zhz moman $ Reading Club

fort mayne, Indiattd

Vcar Book

1904-1^05

MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAM.

Cfte Woman's Reading Clnb,

Fort Wayne, Indiana.
ORGANIZED isgo

Federated with

I. U. L. C, 1902

G. F. \ff. C, I892, withdrew isgs

W. C. L, 1895

CLUB MOTTO:
"Knowledge rare, we seek and share.

CLUB COLORS:
Gold and \^hite.

CLUB FLO\^ER:
White Carnation.

President

MRS. DAVID N. FOSTER

Secretary

MRS. THOMAS B. ^5(/RIGHT

Program Committee

MRS. OLIVER P. MORGAN
MRS. WALTER OLDS
MRS JAMES B. HARPER

Officers

"The summer's long, sweet, happy dream is o'er
And mellow autumn paints the woodlands red,

And from our restfulness, we wake refreshed,
Prepared to grasp life's mystic thread."

Plan of mork

October Eleventh.

A Consideration of Some Characters in Recent Fiction.

Mrs. Jacobs
iVIusic.

Mrs. Ellison

October Twenty-Fifth.

The Child, the Rhymster and the Poet.

MRS. bright

Readings, Illustrating the Subject,

Mrs. Page

Flan of morK

November Eighth.

The Land and Sea of the Mikado's Empire.

Some Famous Pictures.

JVIrs. Foster

Mrs. Fisher

November Twenty-Second.

The Advent in Japan of Commodore Perry.

The Progress of Music in America.

Mrs. Harper

Mrs. Frost

Plan of morK

December Sixth.

The Panama Canal.

Social Reformsand the Novel.

Miss Johnson

Mrs. Muirhead

December Twentieth.

The Far East and Its People.

Korea: "The Land of the Morning Calm."

Mrs. Hayden

Mrs. Olds

Plan of lUorK

January Tenth.

Music.

German Opera— Wagner.

Mrs. Granger *

Mrs. Robbins

January Twenty-Fourth.

Club Anniversary.

"Frame your minds to mirth ar^d merriment,
"^hich bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.'

— Shakespeare .;

Plan of (UorK

February Seventh.
China and its Relation to the Other Powers.

Mrs. Bicknell
Art in China and Japan.

Mrs. Woodworth

February Twenty-First.

Domestic Science: Food Valuation.

Mrs. Wilscn
Rome.

Mrs. Guldlin

?lm of ftJorlc

March Seventh.

Coleridge and his Friends.

Mrs. Guild
Wordsworth and the "Writers of His time.

Mrs. Johnson

March Twenty-First.

ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING.
Election of Officers.

"Thy frank election n:iake,
Thou hast the power to choose. ' '

Flan of ^lorK

April Fourth,

The Mineral Resources and the Climate of Japan.

Mrs. Straughan
The Flora and Fauna of Japan.

Mrs. Burrowes

April Eighteenth.
Children's Literature.

Mrs. Felts
Nature Studies.

Mrs. Taylor

Plan of morK

A Bit of Russian History.

May Second.

The Great Siberian Railway,

Mrs. Morgan

Mrs, Hanna

May Sixteenth,

Missionary "^ork in the Orient.

islands of the Pacific.

Mrs. McDonald

Mrs. Thayer

''Farewell 'till we shall meet again.

Fair thoughts and happy'hours attend you.

Active
BiCKNELL, Mrs. Clarence F.
BuRROWES, Mrs. Stephen A.
Felts, Mrs. George F.
Fisher, Mrs. MaxB.
Foster, Mrs. David N.
Freeman, Miss Luthera M.
Frost, Mrs. George W.
Granger, Mrs. Horace G.
Guild, Mrs. Albert D.
GuLDLiN, Mrs. Olaf N.
Hanna, Mrs. Samuel D.
Harper, Mrs. James B.
Hayden, Mrs. Frederick J.
Jacobs, Mrs. John H.
Johnson, Mrs. Alexander
Johnson, Miss Mary Elizabeth
McDonald, Mrs. Emmet H.
Morgan, Mrs. Oliver P.
Muirhead, Mrs. Alex.
Olds, Mrs. Walter
Page, Mrs. William D.
Robbins, Mrs. Nellie H.

members

Active— Continued
Straughan, Mrs. Chambers
Taylor, Mrs. I. Nev/ton
Wilson, Mrs. Edward M.
WooDWORTH, Mrs. Charles B.
WoRDEN, Mrs. Charles H.
Wright, Mrs. Thomas B.

Associate
Bond, Mrs. Charles E.
Bond, Mrs. Stephen B.
Ellison, Mrs. Thomas E.
Hanna, Mrs. Oliver S.
Hoffman, Mrs. Susan C.

Honorary

Irwin, Miss Mary
Moderwell, Mrs. Hiram C.

"Culture is never quantity, it is always quality
af knowledge."

— Mabie.

Books

REFERENCE.

Japan (in "Oriental Series") - Brinkley

American Diplomacy in the Orient - Foster

Problems of the Far East - - - Curzon

The Mikado's Empire . . - Griffis

Real Japan . . . . - Norman

All the Russias ----- Norman

China in Convulsion - - - - Smath

Asiatic Russia ----- 'bright

Things^ Japanese - - - Chamberiain

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan - - Bishop

Jinrikisha Days in Japan - - - Skidmore

The Empire of the Tzars and Russians Beaulieu

The Yankees of the East - - - Curtis

The Story of Japan - - - - Murray

Korea ------ Hamilton

Choson, The Land of the Morning Calm Lowell

Japanese Art - - - - - Hartmann

The Great Siberian Railway - Shoemaker

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan - Hearn

BvCaws

ARTICLE I.
Name and Object.
This organization shall be known as The
Roman's Reading Club, of Fort Wayne.

The object of the club shall be the study of
History, Literature and Art, and the general intel-
lectual and social culture of its members.

ARTICLE 11.

Sec. 1 . The number of active members shall
be limited to thirty-two. All names of candidates
for membership shall be presented to the Secretary
in writing, endorsed by two members of the club.
As vacancies occur these applicants shall be voted
upon by ballot in the order in which their names
have been proposed, and it shall require a majori-
ty vote of tfie members to elect. One ballot only
shall be taken upon each name. Names of appli-
cants must be proposed at a regular meeting at
least two weeks before they are voted upon.

Sec. 2. A member who is absent for three con-
secutive club meetings without sending an ex-
cuse to the Secretary on or before the date of the
fourth meeting, will be considered as desiring to
withdrawn from the club, and her name will be

ByEa«?$

taken from the list, the Secretary notifying said
mennber to that effect.

Sec. 3. Any nnember nnay bring a friend not a
resident of the city to any regular meeting.

ARTICLE III.

Sec. 1 . The officers of the club shall consist of
a President, a Secretary, who shall also act as
Treasurer, and a Program Comnnittee of three
members.

Sec. 2. These officers shall be elected at the
annual business meeting in March; the President
and Secretary to enter upon their respective duties
at the close of the working year. The Program
Committee shall immediately assume the duties
of their office.

Sec. 5. The duties of the Program Committee
shall be to prepare and to have printed the pro-
gram for the following year, and to distribute the
same four weeks before the first meeting. The
drawing for dates shall be two weeks after the
annual meeting. If, for any acceptable reason a
member cannot perform the work arranged for
her, the Program Committee shall arrange the
work for that day.

mum

ARTICLE IV.

Meetings.

Sec. 1. The club year shall begin the second

Tuesday of October and end the middle of May,

the meetings to be held fortnightly at half past

tNi^o o'clock.

Sec. 2. The place for each meeting shall be
announced at the previous meeting, if for any
reason the hostess shall change the time and
place of meeting, she shall notify each member
of such change.

ARTICLE V.

All necessary expense shall be divided equally
among the members of the club. There shall be
an annual fee of $1.50 for each member, payable
at the first meeting in October.
ARTICLE yi.

Twelve members shall constitute a quorum for
the transaction of business.

ARTICLE VII.

These by-laws may be amended by a majority
vote of the members present at any regular meet-
ing, provided a written notice of the intended
amendment be given to the Secretary at a previ-
ous meeting.