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such a place, but many favor ol it and
were willing to help financially. After
a thorough canvass monthly pledges
were s;cured fcr an amount large
enough to rent rooms and give a Email
'margin for incidental expense?.
The room rentsJ was largo and a short
distance from tjo business center of the
'town. It was on tha ground lloor facing
amain street so that it might be easily
accessible to tired woircn. It was par
titioned into four room?, reception room,
lunch rooaj, toilet room and dressing
room. The furnishings were donated
by the club numbers and in some cases
by merchants. Tee gas company fur
nished free gas, the water CDiupany, free
water; tho ice mm, frea ice; a telephone
was put in free
All this bail bejn done practically
without tho co-op3N.tion of the country
women themselves. The rojm had been
advertised carefully in tho daily and
weekly papers and it remained to bo
Eeen, when tha rooms were formally
opened upon tha venture. The first day
after the opening reception happened to
ba Memorial day, when of coursa an un
usually large numbar of country people
were in tho c'.ty. Rut the number en
tertained went far beyond tho expecta
tion of those who had charge o the
rooms, reaching a httlo more than sixty.
When success was fairly assured, tho
dotails of managing tho room3 wers ar
ranged more definitely. Tvo club women
looked after the rooms each day an.i the
work was und;r the supervision of the
president and oscretary who lived near
the rooms.
It seems that no regular literary or
social meetings of the club were held; at
least none are reported. But tho home
like atmosphere of tho club and the re
sultiag social intercourse between tho
city and country women cculd not help
bring tho two classes into unusually
close sympathy.
Membership in the club is open to all
women from out of town who wish to
avail themEelves of tho privileges com
jug from tho rest room and intercourse
with city members, and with each
other.
The work is well staitjd now and is
considered ona of the permanent fea
tures of the woman's clubs in Rochester.
One of the Rochester papers, in a report
of.ihe work last November S3id:
"In the latter part of August the
woman's club opined a register at their
reception rooms for the 'purpose o! as
certaining tho number of people who
made use of the rooms. Up to data
(November 3) there are five hundred and
thirty names on tha register, exclusive
of those who give Rochester as heir
place of residence. This cannot bo re
garded as a complete list ts many do
not register, but it is largo "enough, to
show that the leception rooms are doing
all in the wr.y of entertainment that was
expected." - - ,
This is r.rlntcl ucder the title "A
Good Showing' and indicates concisely
the attitude taken towards tha work of
the club by those who have no -direct
connection with it. -
These two town and county clubs may
be considered samples of the clubs that
are being formed. The work and tho
methods arc modified of course by spe
cial conditions. The size of towns and
more particularly, the kind of people
that live around the towns. Each club
must push out for it:elf and determine
by experiments the kind of work needed
and the best way for the work to be
done. In Mrs. tlcnrotin's opinion, viry
few towns da not give opportunity for
some work of this Eo:t with a definite
purpose in view of unifying theinterests
-of town and country women.
As Mrs. Henrotin spoke of this I
wondered just what work could be done
in Lincoln. I knew that it could not be -characterized
to any extent as a market
town, thongh a large part of its business
-W of course the marketing of country
produce. I knew, tco, that tho country
people about Lincoln we e rather hetero
genious, perhaps almost equally divided
between Americans and foreigners. But
I had lived on a farm near Lincoln my
self and I knew from experience what
opportunities a country woman has for
study or self-improvem?ut. It is not alto
gether that a farmer's wife has no time
to read, though as a class they are bueier
than town women. But they cannot
get any amount of good reading matter
except at an expense impossible alike to
town and country. They cannot hear
the best lpctures and the best music.
These things are made up in part by the
freedom and independent life, by the
thoroughness with which a country
woman reads what books do come to her,
and by the increased enjoyment when
she does hear lectures or music. But
they can never be quite made up. I am
of the opinion that club intercourse
with Lincoln women would stimulate
them.
And 1 am not altogether sure that the
stimulation would be just on the one
sice. There is a wholesome energy and
practical directness about many of the
country women that I know around Lin
coln that would never be quite super
fluous even in Lincoln clubs that have a
good deal of this quality themselves.
At least this tun n and country club
movement has been started. It has suc
ceeded already in many places where it
has been tried. The work that it does
and can do is worth consideration and
general commendation. When the wave
itachcj Lincoln it will be time to specu
late about u Lincoln town and country
club and to watch how conditions shape
the growth of the work here.
ANNIE PREY.
The Linco'n city improvement associa
tion met Tuesday at the Commercial
club parlors. Considering tho large
number of ladies absent from the city
the attendance was good. The all
absorbing subject of weeds received a
large share of attention in proportion to
me laree extent ci city ground tney oc
cupy. The spread of Canada thistle in
certain localities was discussed. Mrs
McConnell brought one that all might
be able to recognize it.
Street Commissioner Licdsey was
present by invilation, and an informal
conference was held looking to his effici
ent cooperation. He was especially re
quested to have the gutters bordering
on the state house and high school
grounds cleaned so that the weeds could
not nave a chance to grow in them, as
these localities were always observed
by visitors as well as observant citizens.
To this ha readily agreed. It was, re
ported that the secretary of tho school
board ha3 been asked to look alter weeds
on the high school grounds.
Mrs. Coffrjlh and Miss Elliott were
appointee! to request managers of tele
graph, telephone and street railway com
panies to see that all advertisements are
removed from their poles in the interests
of seemiiness. Tim was attended to
immediately, and a very hearty affirma
tive response received.
Lincoln was compared with other
cities in regard to neatness and there
was a hijh estimate placed upon the
"commercial value of cleanliness," and
an earnest desire to impress the com
munity with this very practical featuic
of the movement. All were cheerful,
hopeful, helpful, not expecting sudden
transformations, but having all confi
dence in the magnificent results of "etick-toativeaess."
Determined Not to bo Beaten.
Dawson I've seen divers go down
and stay under water an hour.
Jawson Pooh! I've been em' go
down and stay an hour and a half and
imoke all the time.
Dawson I saw one go down a year
ago and he has not come up stneel
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