The ordinary meeting of the American Woman's Club was held at the Palace Hotel on Tuesday afternoon, and was largely attended. A most interesting address was given by Mrs. Parker, this being the fourth that has been given on Colonial History.
Mrs. Parker dealt with the dominion, Virginia, and said that it began with the time of Governor Yeardly, who organized the house of the Burgesses, the first representative body in the new world. The past century had been one of progress, the population growing from 400 to 15,000 in about twenty years. Just after this time the tobacco industry began to flourish, under the systematic cultivation of General Wolff. The influx of people brought many influential men, and the population increased to 40,000. The men who claimed Virginie included Washington, Lea, Tyler and Thomas Jefferson, to whom the greatness of Virginia was due.
Mrs, Parker also referred to Bacon's revolution, which broke out hundred years before the great revolution. The rebellion was against Governor Berkeley, an autocrat, and during its progress, Jamestown, the first town built in America, was burnt. In 1700 the William and Mary College was founded.
The remainder of the address referred to the later history of Virginia, and at the close Mrs. Parker was warmly thanked for providing 80 entertaining an afternoon.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.