Minutes 4 February 1905
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Title
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Minutes 4 February 1905
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Description
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[Page 1] February 4th found many of the ladies of our Club who are never behind in matters of hospitality entertaining members of the Grippe family and while it is an unwritten law that visiting friends are always cordially welcomed at our meetings, for some reason not one of this well known connection was present. Miss Thompson’s meeting is always a popular one so when a windy snow storm on Friday gave promise of continuing thro the night, a movement was promptly put on foot among the ladies to have the pleasure postponed until Sat. afternoon. But matters under foot did not improve as much as we hoped, so only a lucky seven gathered at the appointed hour - the young eleventh who were not daunted by anything so harmless as snow. Mrs. Sloan, Mrs. Price, Miss Holt, Miss Neel, Miss Dupuy & our hostess, with
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[Page 2] one visitor Miss Kirkpatrick. Those present gave a generous response to the roll-call. Mrs. Price told of the effort now being made to introduce horsed autobuses in London where at present only some half dozen are owned by the rich. Wheelbarrows are used almost entirely trundled along by the police. To say the least a somewhat trying mode of locomotion we imagine. Miss Holt gave a list of current events that made us think she must have been haunting the library for days, no doubt gathering items as they fell from the lips of the learned wives who seem to be making that head quarters at present. For the benefit of any struggling with water pipes - alas, usually frozen at this season, she told of those used in Canada, made of hard wood wrapped with wire. A reward of $20,000 has been offered for the first motor boat to cross the ocean and no doubt the reward will shortly be claimed by some one.
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[Page 3] A Paris doctor it seems has recently started a profitable sanitarium in which he introduces a unique treatment of disease known as the “Laughter Cure.” The patient, at a given signal assumes a smile that expanding into a laugh must be more for two hours. The daily repetition of this of course will cure if the patient survives the first effort. The author for the afternoon was Henry Seton Merriman, otherwise Hugh Scott. Miss Thompson had been able to secure comparatively little from his publishers as to his life & character. He seems to have been a somewhat obscure writer - the public seeing little of him save thro his books. Mingling little with others he was rarely seen in literary gatherings. In appearance he was said to have resembled Robt. Lewis Stephenson - being tall, sharp-featured & delicate looking. He took several long sea voyages on which he gathered much of the material for
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[Page 4] his stories. He died in 1903. Miss Neel read us a list of his books among the best known which may be mentioned “The Sowers,” “With Edged Tools” & the book under discussion, “The Last Hope.” The social feature was unusually pleasant which is saying much for Miss Thompson as a hostess. Certainly those present seemed reluctant to leave the warm & cozy parlor.
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Subject
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Women-North Carolina-Davidson-Societies and clubs.
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Books and reading.
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Women-Societies and clubs.
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North Carolina-Davidson.
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Creator
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BookLovers Club
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Publisher
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Davidson College
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Date
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4 February 1905
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For permission to reproduce image, contact archives@davidson.edu
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Language
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eng
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Text
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Identifier
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bl-040
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Coverage
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1905
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4049696
