Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1879 — Literary. [ARTICLE]

Literary.

At a recent meeting of the "Irving Literary Club.* a resolution was adopted to secure*, the following talent for the lecture course during the coming season: Susan B. Anthony, Mr. and Mrs. Fredone Clark. Homer D. Cope, Abby Bage Richardson, Alfred J. Knight, CoL Nicholas Smith, Eli Perkins and the Juvenile Pinafore Company. This list will bear close inspection. It is an expensive course, and is also characterized by the highest degree of art and true merit Should any herein mentioned fail to respond, the place will be filled by another equally as good, so that those purchasing tickets will run no risk. This enterprise will cost the “Irving Club” nearly S6OO 00, for which sum the members hold themselves responsible.— The establishment oKa lecture course

in our little town is a great under*ak ing, and all should be not only interested, but lend a helping band toward the improvement of public tastes and morals in this community. The subject chosen for Miss Anthony’s lecture, is—" Woman wants bread, not the ballot”—and is considered by the public generally as her best Mr. and Mrs. Clark will appear in their new and original Costume Travesties, Character Sketches, Recitations, etc. Cope, in the rendition ofißanlra’s \Srand Classical Drama of "Damon and Pythias,” followed by Mark Twain’s Humorous Masterpieoe entitled “Uncle Daniel’s Appirarion.” Abby Sage Richardson will present a “Trio of Poets”—Longfellow, Whittier and Lowell. Alfred J. Knight is expected to appear in his famous Historical Costume Impersonations. Col. Nicholas Smith will talk on “Horrace Greevuly,” or “The True Aspirations of American Youth.” Eli Perkins will give the “Philosophy of Fun,” while the “Pinatore Company” will present the fun sentimentally and musically. Single tickets will be sold at 50 cts. Season tickets, $3,00; Season tickets admitting two, $5.00. * WheD called upon to purchase tickets, do not complain of the hard times, and then, during the season, spend ten times the amount fn tobacco, cigars, or liquid headache. Gentlemen, buy a season ticket for two, and take your wife, sister, or—some other fallow’s sister. Ladies* if no one asks you whom you care to go with, just be independent and buy a ticket for yourself. True, you could spend the money in adorning the person; but do you know that in the world’s great mart, adorn* ment of the mind far surpasses decoration of the form. Forego a few trifles, kveby body, and help to make your town, esthetically, among the best of its size, in the State.