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fresh men ts suitable for tbis occasion
were served. The guests were:
Messrs. and Messrs. and
Mesdames Mesdames
Crandall, Bert Davis,
Fred HaHett, Ransom,
Richardson, Hart,
Kieely. Dr. Sinmis.
Misses Misses
Labr, Ingles,
Holmes, Cook,
Lahr.
Messrs. Messrs.
Dunroy, Kettering,
George Brown, Eady.
Mies Sallie Furnas is iu Chicago.
Miss Roes of East Lincoln gave a read
ing on Wednesday. Music and refresh-
ments added to the pleasure of the
evening.
The Olympic whist club which was or
ganized aeveral years ago but has not
been leorga sized was invited to meet on
Thursday evening with John Lottridge.
AfUr the games, the guests seated them
selves around a large table and an
elaborate supper was served. The table
was decorated with red and jellow tu
lips. The guests were:
At. and Mrs. Mallalieu and Ciarkson.
Misses MiBsea
Slaughter, Cochran,
Brooks, Marshall,
Miner, Winger,
Hollowbush.
Messrs Messrs-
Evans, Walsh,
Morrill, Winger,
Kind.
Miss Helen Nance entertained delight
fully at hearts Thursday evening. Miss
Colson and Mr. Frank GuBtin proved
themselves the best players. Her gue6ts
were:
Misses Misees
Houtz, Richards,
Colson, . Outcalt,
Risser, M. Winger,
Hoover, Heaton,
Norval, Harley,
C. Hammond, Leland,
Raymond, Hargreavee,
Hill, Harwood,
Rector, Odell,
WilliamEon, Brown.
Messrs Messrs-
Green, Ricketts,
Sheldon, Bartlett,
- Williams, Rowe,
Sawyer, Hendy,
Schick, Lehman,
Herschey, Risser,
Gustin. Halatead,
Shedd, Shuff,
Gregory, Corby,
E. Sawyar, Fechet,
Fitzgerald, Seldon,
Hyde, Clapp,
McNae, Williams.
Gregory.
The thiid party of the season given by
the Pleasant Hour club was a german
and was given Tueeday evening. It was
led by Lieut. Townley, who always has
a supply of pretty new figures on hand.
Those dancing wer :
Messrs. and Mesdames
Mallalieu, Beeson,
Hargreaves, Rodgers,
Howe, Wright,
Buckstaff, Marshall.
Houtz, Dorgan,
Woode, Townley,
Ladd, W. C. Wilson.
Mieeses Misses
Fawell, Hollowbush,
Griffith, Harrison,
Latta.
Messrs. Messrs.
Winger, Joyce,
Corby, Sabin,
Welch, Lowe,
Honeywell, Walsh,
Fitzgerald. Baldwin,
Wilson, Will Clark.
Mrs. Dundy, Misses Tukey, and Miss
Cole of Omaha; Mrs. Robinson of Chi
cago; Miss Van Arsdaleof Beatrice, and
Mr. Hebbard of Nebraska City.
Misses Sadie and Jessie Farns worth of
Council Bluffs are the guests of Mr. and
John Dorgan.
Miss Alice Slaughter entertained the
party who were at Okobaji last summer,
in honor of the Misses Farnsworth of
Council Bluffs on Friday evening. Mrs.
Myron Wheeler entertained the same
party on Thu-sday evening.
Mr. J. Wilson Winger, who has been
visiting his par. nts for two weeks, will
return to hiB home in Chicago Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Aitken enter
tained at duplicate whist on Thursday
evening. The regular Chicago or club
rules were followed. Mrs. R. M. Turner
and Mr. O. W. Webster won the prizeB
for the best scoro on East and West,
and Mies Gertrude Aitken and Mr. Wil
lard Hammond on North and South.
Their guests were Messrs. and Mes
dameu C. L. Burr, W. B. Hargreaves,
O. E. Campbell, Mohrenstecher, Wright,
Robinson, Webster, Tumor, Abbott,
A. S. Raymond, Burnham, R. E. Mcore(
Imhoff, C. L. Hall, E. E. Brown, Helwig
Traphagen, Harley, Campbell, W. C.
Wilson, Misses Maude Hammond. Ger
trude Aitken, Messrs. Blackburn, Wing,
Hammond. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond.
Y. W. G. A.
Friday March 4, a Salmagundi social
will be given to all by the reception
committee. A good time is anticipated-
Rev. Louis Gregory is to lead the gos
pel meeting Sunday at i p. m. All
women being invited. These meetings
have been very interesting and helpful.
The acquaintance social given Friday
evening was in charge of the entertain
ment committee. Very pretty souvenirs
were -painted by Miss Don Carlos for
each member of the association. The
entertainment provided was a very
pleasing one and it is certain that all
feel bet'er acquainted by the efforts put
forth.
The editor of the Post sends The
Coukiek the following as an advertise
ment of his very interesting paper:
CREDIT TO WHOM
CREDIT IS DUE.
There is great commotion at Lincoln
over the rottenness of the republican
government of the capital city. Even
the State Journal is now crying out,
"Stop, thief! Stop, thief!-'
The Evening Post is wholly responsi
ble for this commotion in municipal
affaire at Lincoln, That paper has for
the past year or more been to "plug
ugly" politicians of than city a thorn in
the flesh. Hundreds of times it has
boldly and firmly accused those in charge
of the city's administration with inde
cent and shocking conduct, and as often
has The Post proven its assertions. The
evidence that this paper has presented
to the people of Lincoln has been aa
true as it was criminating.
Let the state of Nebraska at large be
thankful that the Evening Post has
finally succeeded in arousing the public
conscience and that something is going
to be done. But picture it think of it
that the self same republican politi
cians, headed by the Lincoln Journal,
should now emerge from the dark alleys
of political corruption and assume to
purge the atmosphere of their own sick
ening smell.
The State Journal and its retinue of
strikere have been the apologists and
defenders of the vilest acts and most
damnable deeds against which they now
pretend to be opposes. For the good
people of Lincoln, irrespective of party
affiliations, to de:y the Lincoln Evening
Post its well earned laurels, is to brand
themselves a community of moral cow
ards Platte County Argus.
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Mrs. Pugh was the only Omaha woman
to attend the meeting, the rest were en
joying a lecture given by Mrs. Rorer at
the same time and place. The officers
were elected, but co business was trans
acted. Though no complaint has been
heard from the delegates, those from a
distance must have been disappointed
at their reception.
The History department will give the
following program at the meeting of the
Woman's club on Monday afternoon:
Music Ideal Mandolin club.
Paper, "Causes Leading to the Puri
tan Emigration, Mrs. W. C. Henry.
Vocal solo Miss Jessie Lansing.
Paper, "Anne Hutchinson," Mrs. S.
E. Upton.
Violin solo Miss Ina Ensign.
Paper "The Settlers of Connecticut,"
Dr. Inez Philbrick.
The Omaha Woman's club was the
scene of another fray last Monday after
noon. The exploits of different warriors
have been duly noted in the daily pa
pers and it is useless for the Woman's
Weekly to go over the matter now. The
editor was interested as she always is in
anything interesting and was very sorry
she could not attend the meeting and
take part in such a brave battle.
When a minority of any organization
undertakes to suppress free speech, free
thought and free votes it always harms
the organization and frequently engen
ders such strong feeling, of a personal
nature, that disruption of the body is
the final outcome.
Not less than a dozen women have
said to the editor during the week, "It
is the beginning of the end of the club."
Omaha Woman's Weekly.
The above paragraph requires little
comment. Coming from the official or
gan of the Omaha Woman's club, it is a
sad revelation of that club's internal
dissensions.
We had supposed the Omaha Wo
man's club, like our own in Lincoln, ex
isted for the general culture and intel
lectual development of its members, and
it is a disappointment to be told its aim
is warfare. Even with Miss Fair
brother's words before us, we. cannot
believe that the club members generally
would openly exult in the "brave battle"
fought; rather would they hide their
faces shamefacedly from the world.
Loyalty to one's club should consist in
guarding its secrete, and protecting it
from public criticism. There is no hope
of reconciliation for the family who call
outside assistance to their quarrels, and
the same principle applies to club life.
It has been the policy of The Codriek
to simply record the work of the
various clubs without comment An
impartial statement of facts, with no
personalities or individual adverse criti
cism, is all the public is entitled to
know; the details of business matters,
and differences of opinion, if any exist,
should be kept inviolate for the club's
members. Women are naturally nerv
ous and irritable, and many things are
spoken hastily which would pass from
the knowledge of all if kept out of
print.
No club in Omaha can be successful if
the present attitude of the press is
maintained. No privacy of club life is
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sacred to its jeerings. Unfeeling criti
cism nearly deetroj ed the Derthiok Mu
sical club in two months' time from its
organization.
If the whole club movement is to be
left for the women who enjoy fighting
and consider it an honorable employ
ment, the gentle, refined, womanly wo
man will be forced to solitary reading,
or, at most, to her former little circle of
intimate friends, as in the days before
the large organizations arose. And with
her departure nought will be left but an
arena for fierce political conflicts.
The article quoted covers four col
umns, mostly devoted to the defense of
Mrs. Andrews and her right to Bpeak as
often as she pleases in the debates a
right which Mrs. Andrews is said to
have always asserted.
The present trouble in the club arose
at the last meeting. A motion was made
that the Omaha club act as hostess and
provide headquarters for the various
club organizations which will assemble
in Omaha during the Trans Mississippi
exposition. Several amendments were
made, including the renting of a certain
church, which aroused such fierce con
tention that the original motion was
never fully discussed.
The whole subject was voted down,
and the Omaha Woman's club is now in
the position of having refused any co
operation with the exposition a posi
tion which all the club members regret.
Mrs. Andrews led the majority of the
voters, and the dread of incurring finan
cial responsibility was given as the rea
son for her action; but back of that was
the crucial test of power.
Two factions exist, of as deep-seated
hostility as the Guelphs and Ghibellinea
of old, and unless the white flag of truce
can be permanently adopted for the
club's banner, and the members taught
that the word "peace," with its implied
self-control, unselfishness and Christian
ity, is a more potent watchword to a
club's growth and prosperity than the
Omaha battle cry, the Woman's club
will cease to exist.
At the meeting of the child study de
partment of the Lincoln Woman's club
on Saturday afternoon Miss Baldwin
read a paper upon Froebel and his kin
dergarten methods, followed by discus
sion ably led by Mrs. Berge.
"The home training of the child be
tween the ages of 3 and 6," was consid
ered by Mrs. Neal, who contributed
much fom her own experience. Mrs.
Marrerding discussed the suaject which
proved of much interest to all.
We are informed that the Lincoln
Woman's club expects to enter the field
of politics and present two of its mem
bers as candidates for the school board
at the next election.
Many club women deem this an un
wise action. Though undertaken in a
non-partisan spirit, it will be impossible
to keep out party politics and the har
mony of the club whose object, as stated
in its constitution, is "to stimulate in
tellectual and moral development," will
be destroyed.
The position of the candidates, also, is
an unenviable one. The women to
whose enthusiastic efforts they may owe
their election will never dream of con-