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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1897)
THE COURIER. The dirty stolid Uggara that I have known as Indians were not. maybe, fair suable. Then I took a step and came upon the scalp-locks tanned and made into ornaments with exactly the same care given to the baby uadles. In a Luge room north of the Indian room, among totem poles, wigwams and canoes too large for the smaller rooms is an old Egyptian boat dug out of the bank of the Nile, tif ed in all probability four thousand tire hundred years ego. It is a rough boat, the wood warped and discolored by the sand. If I had been somewhat surer of my Jewish history I would have imegined tlis boat rilled with bricks and rowed by Hebrew slaves. It would have been a great satisfaction but I hud to be content without it. For pure and f iraple hideousness the Chinese room is far beyond any of the others. There is nothing beautiful about totem poles, especially those carved in grotesque imitation of human beings, the missbspen little gods from Africa are bad enough, the mummies give their own creepy feeling; but the Chinees room holds more unrelieved ugliness than all of these together. Most people show some attempt toward ornamentation, a real struggle perhaps towards their own artistic ideal. And there is a rough beauty in some col lections to be admired by even the civi lized. The wickerwork and pottery of some of the Indian tribes has a firmness of outline not improved upon by the best of our own work. But the Chinese teem to have worked for nothing ezi ept elaborated ugliness. The Sgure3 of their gods are grotesque, distorted and exaggerated. There are combinations of colors and ugly luiing faces till one almost gets seasick looking at them. I would not care to live in a Chinese hcavec. ANNIE PREY. What Woman's Glubs Have Done for Kansas. The Social Science Federation of Kansas numbers fifty seven clubs and Mrs. Laura E. Scammon, who was greatly interested in organizing the federation, says that "in cataclysms! Kant as there are two types of women 'one the sensational; spectacular, politeal woman, who is often taken seriously as a type, and the other, the true Kansas woman, the refined, prcgre;s.ve, club woman, who labors along the lines of true advancement, not at all pyrotechni cally, but faithfully and without pause." Two thousand of such women are rep resented in the lifty Beven clubs of the fToclii Science Federation, and to a stranger preterit at Hutchinton, where the federation meeting was recently held, the refined, earnest and self-po'sed women who wore in attendance were' most attractive, and that "Kansas is now all right," as one of the delegates expressed it, is becausa her "women ould make it all light." The Social Science Federation of Kansas was or ganized as early as May, 1838, by several of the large towns in the Kuw Valley, and included the two Kansas Citys, thus embracing Western Missouri in its jurisdiction, and it claims to. have been a complete federation many years before federation was known. In 1893 it ex tended its membership and embraced all women's clubs. It was thus one of the first two States to form a union of wo men's clubs. By 1895 this federation had assumed such large proportions that it was judged wise to restrict the membership to the women's club of Kan sas, snd Missouri formed her own State federation, which, in point of numbers, is bow larger than that of the Social Science Federation of Kansas. But the cordial relationship which was formed between the Mk souri and Kansas clubs was not interrupted by the formation of the two federations, and at the annual Metis of tka Missouri Federation held in Kansas City last November, a very large number of Kansas women were present The various Chautauqua assemblies have inaugurated women's club days, whici afford a good opportunity for ex tending the hand of fellowship to wo men in remote districts, and those who spend their lives in Military farm houses, and at theeo assemblies country clubs are biing formed, every one of which becomes a center of a broader social lire. Lawrence and Topeka reported having formed city federations, and tho big Seventh District, of which Newton is the center point, has an unique federation of its own. The general consensus of opinion was that as tho cluts entered upon practical work the division into depattmenti becomes imperative and renders tbo club organization more efficient. Extemporaneous speaking is advocated very strongly by thiB federa. tion, and that symposiums Tie arranged for the diecussion of intellectual as well as social subjects, rather than so many essays; as one club member expressed it, "they bad been paperjd fc death!'' The Kansas Federation hau not been back ward in grappling with the ques tion of public libraries, come clubs hav ing effected a local union of clubs to establish a library. Kansas City, Kan., being a notable instance. Mrs. Scam mon reports "that this Federation pro cured the city tax on dogs and approp riated the money thus collected to their book fund, an example of library enter prise which would seem likely to turn the canice race of Kansas into a many dog power for furnishing its towus with public libraries, since several clubs in different cities avowed their intention to go and do likewise.'' Many tlubs distribut3 books and the best magazine literature through circulating libraries. Through the false and one sided re poit3 of all matters is Kansas that are tent out, a certain prejudice has arisen againbt the state which is not warranted by the actual condition?. Tho citizens of Kansas have suffered from climatic causes especially from the long drouths, and right here I miht repeat as typija' of the suffering which so many of the farmers have undergono a story told me by a traveller in Kansas: It happened toa friend of his who was travelling in a bug?y in the western part of tho 6tate. on some land surveying business. The spring had been veryrainy, the first wot season after several years of severe drouth. Tho rivers were swollen, and in crossing a bridge he oltserved an old man seated on the bank of the river withihis feet in the water. Ho stopped his buggy and called out to tho man.but received no answer. Tho old farmer sceSBcd absolutely oblivious of the prcs-sswj-'of a human being. The man called several limes, as Jie wished to in' quire the way to a certain village, but the old man did 'cot answer. Ho stopped his horse, got out of the buggy and walked down to the fanner and touched him on his shoulder, tie looked up in the stranger's face, gave a smile, and, with a little quiver of the lip said: '-It's water, sir, water." Perhaps no words could have been better chosen to typifv the suffering which had been endured by some of tho Kansas farmers. The west is broad and magnificent, but all over it are strewn human wrecks, most of them from he east, and on their despair and failure is being built up a great and powerful civilization. One must live there, or at least go among them as one of them, to understand there social conditions. In speaking to a student of social economics, the dean of one of the large universities of the country, this remark was made: "I so regret the effect of the snapshot judg ment of the east on the west." 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