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Annie L. Millkk, Editok.
Officers of the State Federation of Woman's Clubs.
President, Mrs. B. M. Stoutenborough, Plattsmouth.
Vice-president, Mrs. E. M. Cobb, York.
Secretary, Mrs. Henrietta Smith, Omaha.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. V. Nichols, Beatrice.
Auditor, Mrs. Ella S. Larsh, Nebraska City.
Librarian, Mrs. G. M. Lambertson, Lincoln.
The Courier will give a full report while men only notice if their pet ma
of the Denver Biennial next veek. chine revolves light merrily. It may
grind the life out of the children and
The fourth biennial convention of the still be a successful machine.
General Federation of Women's clubs
was called to order by Mrs. Henrotin i lno evening club meeting at
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clo:k in the Omaha on Saturday, tho speakers were
Broadway theatre. Twenty-two dele- Mrs. Alice Ives Breed of Lynn, Mass.,
gates were present from Nebraska. The Mrs. Sadie American, the secretary of
auditorium 6eats 1500 and a few times tne national council of Jewish women,
that number were without clamoring and Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson of Phila
for room. delphia. Mrs. Breed gave a short ac-
Daintily dressed in a white brocaded COunt of her travels in Japan and China,
skirt and Dresden silk bodice, tho presi- and Mrs. American spoke of "A Summer
dent bowed to tne salutation of the big Duty," which is our obligation to the
band of women, while handkerchiefs poor, herded during the warm months in
waved over beads of seatholders. Mrs. our jarge cities. Mrs. Stevenson is
Henrotin said she was glad the federa- president of a Civic ciub, and her paper
tionwasasort of traveling show, be- treated of that subject,
cause it gathered a lot of inspiration as
it wound around the country; and just Woman's club day at the exposition
then some of this article came in when grounds on Saturday wa3 an tno 6UC
Governor Adams walked toward the cesg and more thaQ faad been ant;cipat.
footlights. He said he could appreciate ed The 0maha women rendered every
women's clubs, women's thoughts and C0UrteBy to the vis;tor8. Numbers of
every id a, in fact, which springs from a th(J reception committee met the morn
woman. "For," he scid,"were it not for train8 tQ distr;bute printed slips an
women and women's votes, some other nounc5ng that the even,Dg meeting
man would be taking up my space here. wouid aiau bo heid jQ the auditorium
There were several other addresses or inBtead"of down town. The afternoon
welcome, with a response by Mrs. Hen- pr0gram assembled au inspiring audi
rotin and the reports from the officers. eucQ of yast nUmbere, which almost
The meeting waB continued in the af- fii,ed tbe auditorium,
ternoon, when further reports were SeIl0m have so many intelligent, edu
heard. . cated women been brought under one
The ways and means committee rec- rQQf Tfae pxoSTam iasted about three
ommended that the annual dues for houre andj -n BpUe of the inteD6e beatf
clubs whose membership consists of hfty retained the interest of those present
or less shall be S5; the annual dues for remarkably.
clubs of over fifty members shall be at Mrs. Winona S. Sawyer, president of
the rate of 10 cents per capita. The an- tfae Board of Lady Managers or the ex
nual dues for state federations shall be p;,,,, a,e0ciation, presided. She had
at the rate of 25 cents per club. Dues jDtended to ask Mrs. Henrohi to assume
shall be paid annually the first or May, that duty, but the latter was unable to
beginning with the year 1900. remain long at the meeting, as she took
Who shall obtain the nomination for an atternoon train for Denver,
tho presidency is still the question of MrH Sawjer opencd the meeting
paramount interest. Failing Mrs. Platte, WJth a few well chcten remarks, and in
who has positively declined the honor. troduced each Bpeaker in her usunl
thenameotMrs. W. B. Lowe, of At- cuarm;ng manner.
lanta. Ga., is given most prominence. MfB Margaret J. Evans, dean of
r 4i, n a t? Carleton college, Minnesota, offered a
The new state regent of the D. A. K. ' .
j.ne -0"""" , . brief prayer, after which the Lorelei
is Mrs. J.R. Haggard of . quartet, consisting of Miss Lillian Terry,
ia.lineal descendant of Deborah Avcrj J, J
for whom the Lincoln chapter ,s named.
The stitement made by Mrs. Mum rings Legends- For an encore "Old
ford in her remarks on sewing hat Kentucky Babe ' was given and received
patches cannot be put on by machine, is with warm app.ause. dispite the tact of
Contradicted by a bright clubwoman its inappropriateness for so an .nielli-,
who says she alwajs patches that way. gent an audience. However, .intellect-
' ual is by no means synomymous with
The programs were well arranged for "musical. '-
the visiters in Omaha on Saturday. The Mrs. Draper Smith, president of the
morning was given to tht exhibits and Omaha Wotuah's club, then welcomed
there was Ftill time for two grand or- the visitors on behalf or tho organiza-
chestral concerts besides the afternoon tion. Her few, pointed remarks were
nroeram Those who attended the charming and bad the wisdom of brevi-
evenine concert by the Marino band ty. She said that it falls to the lot of
missed several good addresses, otherwise few citizens to be refused a convention
there was no conflicting of attraction. and then receive the cream of it in ad-
vance. This was the unique position
One of the best reasons given for the that Omaha now occupied. She then
Dlacineof women on school boards and bade them thrice welcome in the name
otherwise in charge of the educational of the club, the city ana the state.
interests of children, was given by Mrs. President G. W. Wattles, of the expo-
Mumford. She said that women view sition association, welcomed them in its
the needs of the children individually, behalf. His address lost force through
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its delivery from mLnuscript, as also did
those of eome of tho succeeding speak
ers. The ladies preceding him had spoken
entirely without notes. Mr. Wattles'
words were most complimentary to tho
work of the women in connection with
the exposition.
Mrs. Henrotin, president of tne Gen
eral Federation, replied to these greet
ings. She was given an enthusiastic
Chautauqua salute aB she stepped for
ward on the platform. She said the
history of tho General Federation was,
in fact, a history of expositions. In this
connection she compared the part that
the women had taken in the Centennial
with that which had beeh performed by
them in connection with the Trans
Mississippi exposition. This illustrated
tho progress of woman's clubs.
Immediately after the address, amidst
enthusiastic waving of handkerchiefs,
Mre. Henrotin, graceful and smiling,
left to take the train for Denver.
A boy soprano from Milwaukee, Mas
ter Horace Simp, gave Arditi's
"Love in Springtime.' He has a very
sweet voice, but tho selection was un
suitablefirst 'rom its difficulty and
also because, like other choir boys, he is
evidently accustomed to singing only
sacred music.
Mrs. Mumford, of Philadelphia, fol
lowed with an excellent address on "A
Phase of Education." She began by
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