Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club Meeting Minutes

Miss Louise Coburn reported to the club the results of the community food conservation kitchen and demonstrations, and gave notice of the classes in dietetics.

The President suggested to the club that each member knit a square to be made into a club afghan which might be sent abroad for the use of convalescent soldiers.

For the Current Events Committee the President announced that owing to the death of Mrs. Ward three vacancies had occurred in our program. Two of these dates would be filled by Mr. Ratcliffe, the afternoons of April 9 and 16, these to be open meetings in the upper hall. This would necessitate changing the dramatic recital by Virginia Weills (Literature Class) to April 2, and the talk by Mrs. Dole (History and Travel Class) to April 30.

February 14, 1918. (Thursday - Art Class)

The Art Class enjoyed a rare treat in its visit to an Exhibition of Old Colonial Portraits at the Coplay Gallery. Mr. Frank W. Bayley, the host, welcomed the members most cordially, and extended to them every courtesy. Besides the portraits there was an interesting collection of antique furniture and hooked rugs. About twenty-five members enjoyed the visit, under the guidance of Miss Lillian Beaumont, Chairman of the Art Committee.

Secretary.

February 26, 1918.

The Tuesday Club met in upper Eliot Hall, with a large attendance, Mrs. Rees presiding. After the reading of the records and a few notices, Mrs. Brackett, Chairman of the Legislative Committee, brought to the attention of the club the hearing to be held next day at the State House on the national prohibition amendment, and urged as many people as could to be present. The afternoon was in charge of the History and Travel Department, and Mrs. Souther presented the speaker Mr. Woon Young Chun, a native of China, but at present a student in this country. His subject was "New Forces in Old China", and in very clear and delightful English, with a most engaging manner, he held the attention of his audience while he eplained in a sympathetic way many of the so-called peculiarities of the Chinese, their customs, manners and institutions, showing their origin and development. This explanation he thought was needed as a background to the understanding of the movements going on in China today. He considered that the three great forces at work today in China are education, morality and nationality. Tea in the lowerh all concluded one of the most interesting and instructive afternoons of the year.

Margaret H Chadwell Recording Secretary.

March 5, 1918.

The meeting was held in the lower hall, the President in the chair. After the reading of the records, Mrs. Henry B. Sears, the delegate of the club to the meeting of the State Federation, read a most interesting report of that meeting. Some notices were given, after which Mrs. Crawford began her talk on Current Events. She spoke first of the recent developments of the war, dwelling especially on the part Japan is to take, and our relations with her, past and present. She took the point of view that Japan ahs been honest in her motives with regard to China and in her relations with us. With a map of Europe Mrs. Crawford showed the changes which have come about in Germany's war schemes since Russia's downfall and her treaty with the Ukraine, but held out the hope that a decisive victory on the Western front might yet serve to check Germany in her sim of conquest.

Margaret H. Chadwell Recording Secretary.

Regular Meeting Executive Board March 9, 1918

The Executive board met at 793 Cenrre Street on Friday, March 8, the President in the chair. The other members present were Mrs. Souther, Mrs. Brackett, Mrs. Kenyon, Mrs. Gardner, Mrs. Laird, Mrs. Pratt, Mrs. Monteith, Mrs. Sears, Mrs. Coe, Mrs. Storrs, Mrs. Crabill, Miss Swain, Mrs. Chadwell.

Invitations were first read from the Dorchester and Wollaston women's clubs, and it was left to the President to find representatives of the Tuesday club to attend those meetings if possible.

The matter of a Current Events speaker for next year was then brought up, and the Board VOTED that the Chairman of the Current Events Committee should ask Mrs. Crawford to reserve at present dates in the first three months of next year, beginning with November, also the last three months, March, April and May, making six dates in all.

Mrs. Brackett, for the Social Service and the Legislative Committee, read a very interesting report of the recent meeting of the City Federation, at which were discussed the bills concerning women police officers, physical education in the public schools, continuation schools, the ratification of the national prohibition amendment, and the minimum wage bill. the clubs were to be asked for assistance

in continuing the work of the tent on the Common, and the Salvation Army was also asking the clubs for social service work at their maternity home in Dorchester. The matter of social hygiene as related to our soldiers, and especially as to conditions in Boston was reported, and it was asked that the clubs help to arouse public opinion in this matter, since Boston was getting a bad reputation. Mrs. Laird for the committee on Home Economics reported that several ten-minute talks on food conservation had been arranged for different meetings of the club. Mrs. Coe reported that the entertainer for Children's Day would probably be a magician, Mr. J. DeVere Simmons. Several communications were read by the President from different organizsations asking for resistance, - the Sailors' Haven, Salvation Army, National War Savings Committee, and from the local branch of the Committee of Public Safety. To this last organization it was thought that the club might contribute something from its war relief fund, and the Board therefore VOTED that it be recommended to the club that twenty dollars be given to the local branch of the Committee on Public Safety. The President reported that toward our quote for the Endowment Fund of the General Federation ($75.00), $28.90 had thus far been collected. The decision as to the appropriation of the balance was left until a later meeting.

The Municipal League had asked that a member of the Tuesday Club he appointed to send in a weekly market report, and the matter was left in charge of the President. Adjourned. Margaret H Chadwell. Recording Secretary.

March 12, 1918.

The club met in the lower hall, and the meeting was called to order by the President. The reading of the records was omitted. The President read an appeal for funds from the local branch of the Public Safety Committee, and the club VOTED that twenty dollars be contributed to this committee from its fund for war work. Mrs. George U. Crocker had been invited to address the club for a few moments on the general topic of food conservation, and made a very forceful and direct appeal for the special saving of wheat, giving figures to show that to be the most vital thing at present in the food situation. The Music and Drama Committee had charge of the afternooon, and Mrs. Kenyon, as Chairman presented Agnes Knox Black, who spoke on "Symbolism in Modern Drama". Mrs. Black pointed out the fact that the greatest drama in history is now being enacted on the world's stage. With an illustration from "Pelleas and Melisande", which she read with dramatic force and a deep insight, she sought to convince her audience that the door is now open and that it remains for us, using the world forces of religion, government, the sciences and humanities, and art, to select the significant in the new education which must follow the changes now so rapidly taking place. Adjourned to March 19. Margaret H Chadwell Recording Secretary.

March 19, 1918.

After the meeting had been called to order and the secretary's report read, the President called the attention of the club to the effords now being made throughout the United States to raise funds for the establishment of furlough or rest houses for the American soldiers in France, places where they can go when given furloughs and have suitable surroundings for rest and recreation until they return to the fighting line. Contributions of one dollar each are solicited by the club from it's members. The Literature Committee, Mrs. Grabill, chairman, provided a most enjoyable afternoon, presenting Professor Dallas Lore Sharp of Boston University, who read selections from his own writing - two chapters from "The Hills of Hingham", real bits out of the author's life in the country, and the longer story "Turtles Eggs to Agassiz". In response to the hearty applause he gave a short story as an encore. The real human interest of this stories, with touches of delicate humor, was greatly appreciated by his hearers. Adjourned. Margaret H. Chadwell Recording Secretary.

March 26, 1918.

The Tuesday Club met in the upper hall, and the meeting was called to order by the President. The records of the last meeting were read and approved, and notice was given of the dates for Mr. Ratcliffe's talks, April 9 and 16. Some further notice about the funds being raised by the women of the country for the maintenance of furlough houses was also given,

The afternoons program was in charge of the Art Committee, and Miss Beaumont as chairman presented Miss Martha A. S. Shannon, an acknowledged authority on art, who spoke on "Russian Art and Handicraft." Miss Shannon did not limit herself, however, to Russia's art and handicraft, but gave some glimpses of the country as a whole, with a brief review of her history and the progress she has made from barbarism towards civilization. Some very beautiful views of many of of her buildings and some of the works of her great artists illustrated the talk. Miss Shannon also exhibited a few beautiful specimens of ikons. Tea was served in the lower hall, with Mrs. Hershey, Mrs. Boyd, Miss Caroline Adams and Miss Esther Engel pouring. The tea tables were especially beautiful, with their decoration of greenery, goldfish and shells, and artistic candelabra. Margaret H Chadwell Recording Secretary.