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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1897)
THE COURIER. city. It may be that flower gardens will take the place of unsigbtly weed patch e?. It may be that we will lire to eee all these reform, yet we cannot hope for the millennium just yet. Anyway, here is to tb.3 success of the city improvement society! It is bound to bo popular, and those who want to l.o in tho push would beter get into tho wagon before it gets full, and begin to blow a horn. Miss Prey's Interview With Mrs. Henrotin. Club wc men who go 1 1 Beatrice this fall will hear and perhaps meet one of tbo roost attractive women 1 have ever known, Mm. Ellen M. llecrjlin, the president of tho National Federation of Woman's clubs. In looking up tbo club work here in Cnicngo I have met hor Mvsral times and always bIo has given me with keen intuition the vary htlp I needed. My first impression from her face was that the would be a woman who would full time to round out the work she has tried to do in the federation. Mrs. Henrotin is modest, but not overmodot in estimating tho weith of ber own work. "I may not have done tho best alwajs,"' she slid honestly, "but I have done my best." She has been interested in woman's clubs almo3t from their boinnir.g. Sho has been a number of tho oldest woman's club in Chicsg, tho Fort nightly, for twenty jears and of the Woman's Club for fifteen. But only tbo latter part of this tinio has been given in any completeness t) public woik. Beforo ehe was made vico presi dent of tho Woman's Congress of J,ho Columbian exposition she had dine little more than ordinary club work. But in tho threo years, exrositiou work, much of which as a iintlcr of courso fell to Mrs. Henrotin. she g t tho train ing and the working knowledge which fitted her supremely for tho work Of or ganization that she has done. She Bavv, she says, then, that tho work of woman's clubs mint not be aggresslvo but must 1)3 constructive and practical. went to hotels because they meet other delegates there and becauee head quarters are usually there, though the towns where the meetings aro held, still give entertainments to delegates who wish it, being glad in most cjeos to do this, since the meetings do not come to any one place often. Kis Hcnrot:n"s work, which has been vnitirg tbo various states for purposes or organizitioa, has given her a wider view than is given to most women even club womcr. Sh.9 seo3 tho dotails, for sho kr.oas the club woik o! tbo United States thoroughly, understands the. modifications io. aims and methods and tho conditions that givo rise to the-o mo Jilicat'oar, and knoxs many of the Ieadin? club women o! the various sates; but sho can fco bojo-id these detais und mako out the direction in which the clubs of the United St ites are moving, towards closer federat'oa among them selves and coordination with ou'side bodies doing woik in which they are themselves interested. Her own work has been not eo much loading to new WOtMIHMMMMMMMMMIM RECTOR'S IK SHI Corner Twelfth and N Sts. i iiipii ideas ami pushing in ne.v directions as ri m ... . .-... . requ'ro and giro porfect sincerity. Her ono inougni eno saw a cnauce tor woik it has been tfco directing or impulses ly steady mai wouiu mean sonio:rnnj; m mo omce already existing and rapidly growicg. sue now nolJp, eo she accepted it irmy name is to stand for anything eagerly. The work lus developed of among tho women of the United States," itself beyond anything she had expected she concluded, "it will bs rather for my or hoped. work in tha federation of cIuLb than in Her whole effort at first was to build any other lino. up the National reueration by tricg to draw into it states, that, while they had clubs, had lit t Is or no state, organi zation and uo connection with other states, even in the federation. Now this grey eyes are uncompromising and her bearing told in a se.-ond that tin could trust herself to forget her self. She is a woman of middle age with a face no locger joung but wiLi a cheerfulness and freshness in it ILat makes one remember her hb much younger than sho at first seemed. Her beautiful whito hair seems rather an ex pncnt of perfect physical harmony than of age. Hrdtesa of grey linen fitted in Carefully Compounded. 0-0i RECTOR'S Soda Water Fountain. O0fMMMt0l0PI0MM00C0O As I rose to come away, I almost doubled her last statement. If her name is remembered anions club women, as it is quite sure to be, I think it will 1)3 at least in part betauee she is au examp'e goaocooo ooooooo ooooooooeo CYCLE PHOTOGRAPHS g O ATHLETIC PHOTOGRAPHS Q PHOTOGRAPHS OF BABIES g g PHOTOGRAPHS OF GROUPS g O ' EXTERIOR VIEWS O quietly with tho idea of an unobtrusiv:, pai t of th work will practically need no of tho very best kind of club women a self pottered kindly woman. further pushing. States as they aro Sli3 has apartments inlhe Virginia ready for the Federation will find out hotel, u hire I felt bound, as coming their own need themselves. The work frjm tho west, to admire tho richness of sho is giving special attention now is marble tt-ps and velvet cerpete, ma- the co-ordination of woman's clubs with hogany wood work and coisless elevators other organizations, such for icstacce, tun by periona?ee they wero no less as tho teacher's associations; to get the whoso one ambition apparently was to clubs to add this force to tho forces ai- stop the elevator with Euch precision ready woiking. Each state would of and scientific delicacy as heGtted their course have different organizitions for station. I confers that I was somewhat the clubs t work through. Ed i: cation overawed by the mahogany and marble wou'd probably be the-object that most and elevator boys. 1 sat a trifle ill at would work toward. half century has been able to produce, one who unites perfect womanliness with the not unwomanly qualities of keen prcception, sound judgement and untiring activity. Sherodedown in t" eelevator wilhme: she miiBt have understood sympatheti cally my gruesome awe of the dignitary who manipulated the levers, and saw me safely out into tho corridor 1 expee'ed thin to see a loDk of relief come orer her face; I was painfully conscious, low that the elevator boy was watching. THE PHOTOGRAPHER O 2 o 9 lJ'J South Eleventh Street. o 3 8 ooocooooo ooooooco ocoooooo eass in a big plush chair in an upper This is the sketch Mrs. Henrotin gave what it was for mi to be talking on a parlor, looked at tho red plush cirpet me of her work. She said nothing of seemingly friend:y footing with the and the spider-lojged table in the the oppositions and discouragements President ot tho National Fedcra'ion of middle of the room, studied the grand that alinoit of necessity mu?t have come Woman's Clul3. I thought to hear a piano and the ceiling with its delicate to her. As eho talked she rather cool .Good-day;"' she must realize seemed to forget herself in tho intensity of her enthusiasm. She is es pecially enthusiastic ovar the work in southern state;. Her eyes became bril liant, her cheeks flushed softly and her Mane Antoinnetto Cecoralions and waited for what was to be the terror of alt the-e awesome terrors, Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin, wife of the Belgian consul and president of something, I almcst forgot now that I had taken a full hour of her time. But the look of retier did not come, nor the cool dismissal. Instead she asked rather hesitatingly if I cared to whole face grew a'ert and keen as she come again and get the details of a new talked at somo lergth of the oppoituni- developement in club work; sho would ties of the southern women and their be glad to give them to mo if I cared for somewhat recent tendency towards thsm. broader, less exclusivo work. As I came away i found mjself think- .For tho people of the west Mrs. Hen- ing almost sentimentally that any ono rotin has a strong admiration. She who hid never heard Mrs. Henrotin say- Then she answered with cbaracteris- S3y6 sho had never seen land more care- "good-bye," did not know how much tic directness and brevity the questions fully cultivated or people that seemed cou'd ba expressed in one word. I asked. She was born in Por.land 6he more energetic and prosperous than in This is my impression of Mrs. Urn said but ehe has always felt that 6he be. tho states shs passed through on her rotin. I confess in myself now and longea to no special part of tha Uniteel way from Chicago to Denver. Tho peo henceforward almost unbounded ad States. She was educated in Germany pie in the east, she said, do net ap- miration for ber. 1 have not met very and France and England bo far as schools predate at all tho rapid elevelopement many women of her kind. ANNIE PREY. what in my trepidation. When she cams and looked at mo and held out her hand I recovered as if by magic She met me in the parlor sho said because there were visitors in her rooms who might make us Ie s free to speak. First Publication, July, 24th. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, v. Burr, 1G-118. To tho Northwestern Mutual Life In rurance Company, S. A. Maxwell and Company, David B. Welch, Jane E. Chamberlain. Abbie M. Chamberlain, Mnry S. Jrcob?, Jane D. Don dill, the Sullivan Savings Int tttution of Clare mont. No- Hampshire, the Citizen's National Bank of Des Moinee, Iowa, Louis Hax and James Poiter: You and each of you are hereby noti fied that in the case pending in tho dis trict couit of Lancaster county, Nebiaska, iiumtcr HM18, wherein the said Noitawestern Mutml Life Insu rant Company is plaintiff, and you and others are defendants, the National Life Insurance Company, of Montpelier, Vermont, on the 23rd day of July, 1897, tiled its netit'on acaint vou and ihn Claud Thero is nothing more pleas ant than to walk and talk with the one jou loco best. Maud I should think you would get tired of your own company. went and came back to America in 1833; going on in the wct. was married and bean the long educa- This failure to appreciate each other tion that has made her a brilliant news- was ono of tbo thing?, sho explained, paper woman and perhaps at present the that tho National Federation would do bestknown club woman in the United away wi:h. Delegates and club wom?n Statea meet from all pai ts of the United States She had great plans for her newspaper first-in ono state and then another. work, she said cheerfully. She always They cannot helpgettinggradualty more found it fascinating even when it was in touch with the spirit of the different roost exacting. But lately she has found Eo;tions. they must see after a while tli3 other work more pressing, first her woik conJitToas under which th? differnt as vico-presiuent ot tno woman s r: -j 7 T.u w T successes ana niiures. Xne meetings comi-Jeration. Thousands of Americans thenaspreudcatcf he National Feder- would not be so la.go'y attended if the aro finding th out every year by actual a.o, of Woman s Clubs ,n which sh, club members went, not as de'ejates, experience. Before arranging for your .ssemrg her Eecond term of ofli:e. So but as individuals; and not so many summer trip call at B. ; M. city office, she has drop: ed for tha rno-t- jart any states would b3 represented. So. the ccrccr O aad Tenth streets, here newspaper work She will tke it up Fe"e.-aton isa necessity. Speaking of steamship berths, tickets and full infer gain when her second, and, according gratuitous entertainment at the meet- mation will be furnished, to the rulea of the federation, las: term ingsof the Federation, Mrs. Henrotin George W. Bosnell, -expires. She wants now u have h:r caid that rany of the delegates now C p'&T" A A European 1 our. Costs no moro than ono taken in con- states work, and understand each other's cjuntry-everything being taken this into uiuur uuiuLuuiire in saui cause tho object and prayer whereof are .to edjudge that the petitioner, the National Lifo Insurance Com pany has a valiel and fiist lien on a cer tain frame dwelling house now standing on a par. of the land in controversy in this cause, to-wi!: Lots number lo" and 11 in block number 92 in the city of Lin coln in said county, wbijh house former ly stcod on lots number 1 and 2 in block number 180 in said city, and on which said e'itioner claims and prajs alien oy virtue or a certain mortgage executed by the defendants. Carlos C. Burr and Mary E. Burr, on July 11, 1887, for tho sum ot SLi.uou recirded on July 12, 1887.in book llof mortgages, p-ge 502, of thj mortgage records of said county, and covering the last abivo elcscribed land; that the decree in E&id cause may bo so modified and corrcctcl as to ex clude in express terms from the prop-i-rly to bo 6o!d for tho payment of tho liens thereby es'ablished tho house aforesaid; that said housa with all its appurtenances may be sold for the pay ment of your petitioner's lien; and that jou and all the defeat.'anta herein may be excluded from all interest therein or l"en thcreop.and enjoined and restrained from in any manner interfering with the petitioner and all persons claiming through or under tho sann from the re moval thereof. You are require 1 to arswer stid peti tion Df th? National Lifo Insurat.c3 Company on or before the 30:h day of August, 1897. The National L'.fo Insurance Company, of Montpelier, Vermont. By S. L. Geistiiardt, Attorney, Aug 14. f 41 '-S a -:-& i- i dUftecR
