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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1898)
m tp tSJSgMpfcraPK.'-.' f&&girTll?z i &-'--', t"c - -t v?;y "e"P v,t-h -'J'vy"' JTA"T'9f f r----5:Tg-" THE COURIER --. do for the drunkard? Are dhiTUren imprtSoneU! witm old ouendcrs wnem held as witness or for petty crimes; Proper treatment and' punaslunenit of females, liio neeb of police matrons. Public School System How admin istered. Is it effective, progressive, satisfactory? Kindergardiens. Marau ul traiuGng for both boys and girte. Compulsory education. Public Iinbrovcments Parks. Play grounds for children. Planting- and mvSjervatioit of trees. Pictures amd otfher works of art for pubhe enjoy- iuen& awl cultivation. Public Kbraroes and art museums. Are -they freely opened to all classes? Local Charities As libmes, Jiospit- als, etc. Are they adequate iot neeus, - ! ihv ino manv? Are they well managed? What are the evils of very large institutions? Advantages rf the f-i,;u- svsitvni" in the some. Are fhbre women on the Boara of Manage ment and women, physicians, espe- pirillv where women and: children, are cared for? Are there state or county institutions in the town? Duty to these. Public Health What means may be taken to preserve it. Vaccination. lia, Portia, Desdemona. RofcaOnd, Be- mony which is to be one of the de Shall hou&es which liave contagious atrfce, Ben- Jonefon, George Herbert, sirable results of the co-relations of disease te quarantined? Izaak Walton, Robert Herrick, Sir club life. Still we have not touched Factory Systems of the Town now JdHn Suckling, Sir Richard Lovelace, the point at issue. There is an np many employed? What are usual Sir Francis Baconi parant hesitancy in approaching it, wages, length of working day? Cost References Tome's English Litera- possibly we fear we shall be called of living. Employment of women and ture. Translations C&ry arid Lorigfel- provincial, but that is not n -name to children. Provisions made for (health low. Chronicles of the Cidr Soutihey. strike terror to ones heart. Why may and com fort of employes. ToWnatex- tent is shop work done in tle liomes of poor people. PROBLEMS OF THE DAY. National Legislation Pape! A Study of Our Government. Some Typ- es of American: Statesmen Immigration Papers Shall Immi gration be Restricted? Our Natural ization Laws. Domestic Service. Commeroml and! rolitfical Ethic Papers Trusts ami Syndicates. Po litical Machinery. DiscussionH-The Ba-gatn. Social Life Papers Provincialisms from Maine to the Gohlen, Gate. Train ing df American and English Children Compared. Dsciissionr-Amerkan Etiquette. Capital and Labor l'apers uauor Organizations ami Strikes. MiCaon- , ,r -!.- , 41n tio(Mm of aires anu age-rw"a w.- ..e eadh. Social Parriers. Political Issues Panes Protection. Free Trade. Taxes State and Municipal Taxes. Single Tax Theory Skeletons in Our Naltitonul Closet PapersThe Rett Man. The Black Man. The Mormon. How ShaHl We Help Them. The Criminal CL-u&es Papers Pris ons and Reformatories. Licensed Evils. Social Purity. Public Education Papers Public Libraries. Modem MetQiods of Edu cation. Compulsory Education. The Tress Papers The Doily Tr Women. Journalists. Saniirtary Science llapers Water and. Waste. Tlifc Air We Breathe. Highways ami Byways. Prisoners of Poverty What Women Aro Doing- for Them Papers Day Nurseries and Kindergartens. Indus- -J. - trial and Educational Unions. Friend- Iy InnH aiwl Kcvrsboysf Work. Hos pitals. Orphan Asylums. MidnSgM Missions and Kindred' Work. EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE. Anirlo-Saxon- Literature Chlristian- Sty aind Early English, roetry. The Rise of Eniyh' Prose. Baeda. Trans- Intions of Alfred. Beowulf. Thb Norman Period, A. D. 1 -1328 The Effects of the Norman Con- queat. The King Arthur Romances", The Troubadours. The Minnesangers. for hot summer weather. These Bi The Cad. Dante, Boccaccio. Petrardh. ennials are great educators and not The Cnauoer Period, A. D. 1328-1400 nib Moral Condition and Kekn of -the Tunes. John WycIIffe. Tlie Social Condition of Ure Times. The Now Tongue. 01iniKer Biographica. Sketch The Principal Sources from Which' Chaucer Drew Material for liJs Work. Reading from Qiaticw. The Dark Age, A. D. 1400-1558 The Effects, of tlhe Hundred; Yearn' War and1 tOne War of the Roses. Tlie Soeia: Coiufttion of the Times. The PaNton Letters. William Cnxton. The Early Trantfaitors of the Bible. Early En- fish Songs and Ballads. Reading Tlie Nub-Browne. Mayde. The Earl of Sirr- Jumtng. iir Thomas More Blo- gmrihlieal Sketch.. Works. Reading. rey Biographica Sketch. Works. Thie Reformation. The Elizabethan Age, 1558-1 G49 The Social and- InteXeatual Gondltton of the Times. Sir PMlip Sidney Bio graphical Sketch. Works, Reading. Edmund1 Spenser. Readings from Spenser. The Novel Sir tihe Time of Blizabdtlh. Miracle Plays a-raj Masques, The Ride of the Modem Drama-. Shaks- pere Biographical Sketch. Sontoets. Some of Sbakspere'a Heroines Ophe- I'fte muOorneUne. Dante Botta and Rossebtff. Life of Petrarch Mrs. May AMen Ward. Lowell's Historj- of Eng land. English and' Scotch Ballad Prof. ChiWs of Harvard. Whipple's Elizabeth, Literature of 'the Age of Spenser and- His roetry Craik. An cient Mysteries Howw. axOl His Tiiries Drake Hugo. Human Life in Gilds. Bacon Macaulay. Shakspere and Victor Siinspere ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITEKA The Lake School df Poets. Charles Lamb. Walter Seobt, novelist antl- poet. Walter Scott in prose. Byron, Shelley nmd Kealts. ' DeQuincey and Hazlitk Tennyson and the Idyls of the king. Robert and Elizabeth Browning-. A trao of poets Long-fellow, lxwell, Whiiflt3fr Prose works of Longfellow and Low- 3'k A group of women- novelists, a. nJne Austen A Social Study, b. The In- fluence of Women Writers in the De velopment of Modern Fiction-. Charlotte Bronte. Thb Bronte family. Swinburne and the Later Lyrists. John- Ruskin1. i Robert Burns. William Morris. Thomas GarlyJe. Walter Savage Landor. Emersom and Thoneau. NahtanSel Hawthorne. 1 ne courier in last week's issue, as we,t as a11 other critics of the gowns worn b'some of the speakers and offi- eers at th Denver Biennial, fought ' ot the real point at issue. It is not a questfon of fine dressing- or ex- ... , , pensive dressing, or the beauty or be- comingness or suitableness of "chic, light lawns or organdies," or of the preny wnue musnns wnicn were in evuienee not onlj- on the rostrum, but all over the house. Their beauty, be- comingness and seasonableness with the thermometer playing- around the hundred points-were not questioned, Possibly the cool, comfortable look of- those so attired did give rise to a cer- tain amount of envy from those who were not wise enough to go prepared one of the least important things we learned in Denver wis to go prepared for hot weather anil cool weather, for elegant receptions nml the eiunlly elegant but more conservative family dinrner, for church and theatre, for home and excursion. Don't try to go to a Biennial in a .satchel. It has been well said that "a beautiful wo man well dressed is doing her part to make others happy" ami we have no doubt but she m:iv 1m? mi iiiimllv- i...i club wouian with her intellectual s!s- ter more plainly garled, but "there is a time and a place for all things." We ln-lieve in prettv and cxiMMisive gowns for the home, for the club, for dinners, for receptions and other social gatherings if thepursecanulTord them. Thus we have no light with Shakspere's advice on this point. It is an education to nil to sec a beauti fully and suitably dressed woman and not only is it the privilege but the duty of the women who can ntTortl it, to dress well. It is a compliment to ones associates to dress as well as one can nfford. But there is a beauti ful mean between the overdressed and the underdressed woman, a hnr- not the customs of one province be ns worthy of honor as the customs of another province? Possibl we fear we may wound some one's feelings. and far be it from our intentions to say one unkind word of the noble, intelligent, beautiful women who made of the last. Biennial one of the greatest gatherings of women the world has ever known. But the real point at issue, the real criticism cen ters around the decollete gowns. Their absence at public business meetings at the B:ennial would have obviated all criticism. Now whether the great mass of club women shall be con vinced that the decollete gown is suitable for public business meetings or whether the smaller number of club women shall consider it in better taste to reserve them for more private or strictly social gatherings remains for the future to determine. What- ever the conclusion, be assured there will be no unkindly or caustic criti- cism and the adaptability of the American woman to the decision of the majority is worthy of the highest praise, but while it is in thus condi ton of plasma let us have a full and free discussion of tlie real point at is sue. Let us admit that the decollete gown has its place in the social world. We must on the other hand contend that there are places where it would not be in good taste, viz.; a lady who was giving a small dinner party had in her employ a new servant. After all preparations were completed she said, "now go to your room and pre- iare to serve the table, put on some sweet, prettj- frock and arrange your hair smoothly and simply." The the hostess, feeling perfectly at ease 1m;- cause she knew- everything was ready, gave her whole thought to receiving - . and caring for her guests. After they were seated at the table, imagine the consternation of that Iad3 when she saw Mary apinnir. iM'hind lier, with server in hand, in. decollete gown, There are other places where, in the mind of manv broad intelligent wo- men, the decollete gown should not be in evidence. New Typewriter What time am I to hove dinner hour? Employer-That depends, Miaj Take down. Sometimes I lunch at 12, sometimes at 1. INDIAN PLUME. In day gone by wltvu red men roumcl the pmirtit wide. So runs tlie Iiultam legend, 'told with modest pride. There came a plague among them oiw ud year Tl.ttt nihil their Mid hreuxts with abject fear. It .-Kircd not young or oK the, Itiug'hijng cliiliL Or f now nling chief tllta uctiden, coy amd intld; And !uty youth oil, ail wilto felt tthe breath Of this fell plague were marked at once for-dixit h. Tlie women wafted lM-iIe their dtxid And iiuwiy warriors paled iwid tied. Yet still the p&iguc ragttl, grim and dread. Ami in, ttlwr tribes w-Jiere reigiuil this king of death and gloom There lived a tender UKuid, tihey calletl her "liulioiiv Plume," Her voice was gentle n the summer wnd, Her every net ion graciously in- cltneil, Her eyes were soft as dHxr eyes, wlille her hair Was black as inidiuight, alid'her face wxih. fair As e'er tine western siui Nhone down iiMn, Her tep w:w light and spriugly as 'the fawn, And all who knew her loved Ir-.r well With a love t'liey luul im tongue to tell, , Tlliis eoft-voivetl, soft-eyetl Indian belle. She wnlked among tin; dead and dy ing like a saint; smoofclDetr each brow mud fluxird She eadh ad and sighting pfcilint; She moLs-tcned parching- His and Hcotlhed the fears Of wnfKng- children, hushing tliein to sleep With .turJeful melodies iticli nml deep. folded o'er each breathless breast stiffened 'hand of Uiriso ui.n She Th droppel to rest, And still the pL-igue raged on and on- From dusky twSligbt tiU tlie lawn, And tlirough. the day till day was gone. At last the wiVe men, of life tribe, i VII solemn state, Proclaimed the oirnrtng- anger of tijic ir bpjrit Great, And said that to appease His wratih Hix: doom- Of desifh must Im; pronounced on In dian Plume , Tlie maiden heard and grasped a gleajiung- knife; SI.e sacrified' for rtiem iher precious life, And Where her blood was spilled dp nn. the ground scarlet flower the natives found; later riiey eallel the bloom precious growing In lionor of tlie doom, maiden's noble The prairies, glory, Indian Plume, And thus the deadly plague was stayed When died this noble Indian maid And o'er the summer prairies shines In tmts of ruddy, running winea This well beloved blood-bathed bloom In memory of fair Indian Plume. WILLIAM REED rrWOY, Subscribe for The Coueier, ft 1 A A t i ?