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La Junta Tribune
La Junta, Otero County, Bent County, Colorado
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The Fortnightly Club members enjoyed a Japan-themed afternoon meeting last Saturday, with Japanese-style decorations, costumes, literary papers on Japanese history, customs, and art, musical selections, and tea service. Visitors from Pueblo, Indiana, and Michigan attended.
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The members of the Fortnightly Club spent a delightful afternoon in their rooms last Saturday, the subject being "Japan." The room was artistically decorated in true Japanese style, and the ladies who were in the program were dressed in beautiful Japanese costumes.
After the literary exercises tea and wafers were served "a la Japanese."
The papers were all very interesting and instructive. The following program was given:
"Early History of Japan"... Mrs. Beerbohm
Piano Solo.... Miss Mable Sebree
"Manners and Customs of the People".......... Mrs. Buckey
Selection from the Opera "Mikado"
Miss Hill and Mrs. C. A. Beerbohm
"Japanese Art"..... Mrs. Bentley
Duet.............. Misses Sebree
Miss McDougal exhibited some specimens of Japanese painting on silk, representing the celebrated cherry blossoms. Among the visitors we noticed Mrs. I. M. McCune, of Pueblo; Miss Waugh, of Indiana, and Mrs. Gillespie, of Michigan.
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Members of the Fortnightly Club held a meeting on the subject of Japan, with the room decorated in Japanese style and participants in Japanese costumes. Literary exercises included papers on early history, manners and customs, and art, along with piano solo, selection from Mikado, and duet. Tea and wafers served a la Japanese. Miss McDougal exhibited Japanese paintings on silk.