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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1898)
"Wti-WVrSiil AT 68 S,s- -v.,- "fta--r'f 4 -. ft . - - THE COU...L -r ." t' r i . IV r jt v ? I t.v i K fe sr & Iik' 1 -.- lCr fj LS- ' I- i j ttie civil war. The power of explosives has been multiplied, powder has been wade smokeless, range finders have been invented and all guns, notwith standing their greater carrying capac ity, have been made lighter. The sol dier's knapsack has also been reduced in weight. No attempts have been nade to teach the cooks to prepare better and more palatable food, to supply them with portable kitchen r w t ttfftttftStfWWHMttltttffHHffftttfH CLHB.g. HMiMfaMMMfM8MMtettHmHtM I ' The Fifth Section club of Carthaire Headrick for the nut-nose of for 4n whose possibilities would make a re- hag ohanged its Mmc to lhe Century a city federation. Mrs. Tracy, of Urn apecwue cuisine x ,., &.:. club. , 1 Friends in Council, was elected presi- dent, Miss Blanche Roberts, of the The Ohio Board of State Federation, Deka, secretary and Mrs. True, of the at its meeting last week, announced Cosy club, treasurer. The executive the annual convention to be held at committee will consist of one member Columbus, October 26, 27 and 28. from each club, to be chosen later at the first meeting of the individual we have learned since the civil war about the microbes of typhoid fever the government, in establishing a camp at Chickamauga, which was to be occupied lor months, should have provided immense water boilers. iaii1b . rtt 1 mtdl "acra TT Vw . V Yesterday was a red letter occasion clubs. were not to be procured but the re- Woman's club of The federation. emits were marcnea irom an over xne - ,,, country from comfortable camps, where they might have been drilled and made into soldiers without loss of 'life, into the arid Chickamauga, where was organized for Lee's Summit, marking its initiation outside work, which, the ladies feel, into the Missouri State federation. can be preformed better by united effort, ing year, was distributed. It is a very neat Rttle pamphlet and records the names of only forty-seven people who have been members dn its nine years of existence. As the membership is limited to twenty-five the slight changes are a tribute to the interest felt in the club. The book is cream colored with a handsome monogram of Sorosis on the cover. The title page is illustrated wJth a picture of bread fruit. The emblem of the New York Sorosis is a pineapple. The word comes from a botanical term meaning an aggregation of blossoms and any fruit of such a character is emblematic of the name and meaning of Sorosis. The resignation of Mrs. A. C. Bick etts and Mrs. Fling Was read by the secretary, Mrs. Summers, and accepted with much regret by the club. A band of Chicago society women have distanced the world in Ihp fnrnia. The new organization stands tion of a club ttafc has no prototype. Twenty-five thousand women are en- pledged to work for the city library It $ dulv incomorated under the -. swarms of microbes waited in the wa- "led in the New York federation of this year, whose needs just now are of the Woman's Athletic club, ana has ter to iump down the throat of the "omens cm ds ana tne state presmenT. h"k. " puouc unrary ready beld i1s firet election of offi- thirstv. The men who died, and those Mn- " ...., -.- " . "" r'T ' ! ceTS- Charter members have Mrs. William Tod lielmuth, conn-, louno risen this month witnout a who are still dying at an appalling dent,v P"" that 5- more "m home and .w8 ffed to finish and bought three year memberships with rate, were slaughtered by a Chinese aonea-ro xne 10m ay me wire vi me .. , ch u um.-u.u- a view , keeping the organization on indifference to sanitation, the effects anmial meeting, which takes place in pleted room in the city hall. They a hIffll McW imd intellectual basis, of the spoils system, and because no November. Besides New York's seven- wwjtwi beautiful, airy room, com- Two year8 affo Mrs. P. D. Arm0ur, Sr., one has thought it so much worth ty-eigbt clubs that are federated there fortably furnished, but it has left the Mrs. William B. Lynn,, discussed while to make a study of how to save is an outside list of 227 clubs. Notable board with very little funos for new the movement with a few friends and soldiers lives before the battle as how in the dn of hta " are the W boolt' In thls crisis the MP ,rom the work was carried on quietly until man's Health rrottctive association xne cuy ieaerauon wiu oe mosi formulated plans were brought to per and the Looking Forward club, the timely. fection. Last week a state license was last an imposing society of 500 busi- As four members of the library jssuea ana an outline of the oreaniza- board are also active club members it inn tnrmanv nn..wi rri,OM .-o " ""j vihwuiivvu A.at-a a7 cvr to kill them in it. The North Pole will probably be dls- ness women. covered by a man on a bicycle. The difficulty of transporting food and "Mrs. Mary H. Ford will shelter has been insuperable from the lectures before the Arche club of Chi- fact that the dogs or enrrisrs must al- capo this season. The club is pursu- year's work on the 5th of October, and christening. Over the swimming pool so be fed, and the amount over and jnj a course of American art and liter- there will probably be a large repic- a floor jqo feet in length is laid. This above what they consumed was not ature. Mrs. Ford's talks will be given sentation from our clubs at the fedem- constitutes the grand hall for dances sunicient, to nnage tne asstance ne- on alternate Fridays upon the follow- non meeting in umaaa. . anj receptions. is not strange uiat tne ciuds are en- a ciubbouse on Michigan avenue. give nine thusriastic over library worK. furnished with equipments that more The clubs of Tecumseh begin their t-, justify the club,s ambitious tween the pole and the explorer's last infr snbiects: "American Out of Door camp. On hard snow, with a bicycle Men." "Hawthorne and the Scarlet built for two and crjrying cocren- Letter," "American Poets." "Emer trated food, the few hundred mites be- son," "American Decorative Art," tween tne point nearest the -ole yet Congressional Library" (illustrated). The ample provision of the club as a first home of modern conveniences are evi- I3nco3n Sorosis met for the meeting of the year with Mrs. Welch denced in its Turkish baths, hairdrass- on Tuesday, September 27. According ig and manicuring establishments. to custom it was pureiy a business There are anartments for indoor tennis reached and the pole, may be reached "Southern Novelists." "American Wo- meeting and officers for the ensuing and basket ball and a fascinating bowl before the century closes. Unless the men in Art." "American Sculptors," year were elected. Thev are: Presi- ing alley. The library is to be made hummocks are too tall and it is not amj "American Illustrators." dent, Mrs. Munger, vice-president, Mrs. a special feature. The membership is practical to go around them, there is Bell, secretary and treasurer, Mrs. limited to 500 women. The entrance glory waiting for the man on an ice A cieTer point that has been over- Bnrlingim, executive committee, Mrs. fee is $100, and $40 represents the an bicycle with a boat attachment that looked in the general defense of club Sawyer and Miss Harris, delegate to ual dues. starts for the pole. interests is made by Miss Annie Laws the state federation, Mrs. Summers. Besides the privileges of the club, of the Woman's club of Cincinnati. The delegate was instructed to do as members and their daughters are en MY MOTHER'S SONG. Her view of the club's influence is she -thinks best in the matter of the titled to instruction in swimming. optimistic and refreshing. Miss Laws per capita proportion. The next Card playing and the use of alcoholic rve eard the world's sreat singers "J81 "J seems " m tnat t is a T meeting will be held with Mrs.- Bur- beverages in the club are strictly pro- Whose voices, sweet and clear, With songs of rare enchanting Have charmed my willing ear; Bat all their songs are nothing Compared to one I know, The one my mother sang to me In the yean of long ago. beautiful thing that the club women fcmgim at 1810-H street. After tne ar- mbited. The incorporators are: Mrs. of this country, who apparently were rangements for the year were com- William B. Linn, Mrs. C. K. G. Billings, being diverted from their homes in pleted Mrs. Sawyer read the following Mrs. P. D. Armour, Sr., Mrs. William It was a aoBg of sweetness Of sleepiness and calm. And carried in its cadence A soft and soothing balm, Aad on aay tired eyelids Pressed down the weight of sleep As she rocked me on her bosom, To slumbers sound and deep. Tonight my cares are heavy; I loag for peace and rest, My brain is sorely troubled, There's a turmoil in my breast, Bat all my cares would vanish And all my heartaches flee If I could hear my mother sing That dear old song to me. WILLIAM REED DUNSOY. From the Medley. DR. LGOXHARDT'S Ccaire Billioux.oa Nervous Ills, Pill Hbit Corrtipaion, and hil'itBsoess. Action not followed by eoauvensss. uoutit; Jrytt. mp! Ti-. DriMnrit.25c. or addrenANII PILL CO., Lincoln, Nebr. going into many organizations, have resolution, which merely gone out ..or a little time, to adopted: get better ready to go back and take Whereas; .The central idea of lhe to those homes the instruction and club movement is culture in its broad the instinct of the mother that has est sense: that clearness of thought been so often only a blind instinct and facility of expression are as essen into a loving insight that gives her tial elements of culture as th- ac great knowledge of what she ought quiring of information, therefore be it to do for the development and educa- Resolved, That the members of So tkm of her little ones. This is one of rosis discourage the use of manu the great steps that we have taken in scripts; that the leader be given thirty club work. Some of our state superin- minutes an the remaining minutes, tendents have expressed themselves tn less ten, be divided equally between strong terms, speaking of their pleas- the members present; that the presi ure in the co-operation of the club wo- dent shall keep record of time and men with the schools. They believe announce the number of minutes to that this is one of the greatest move- which each member is entitled., no one ments of the age; that, strange to say, shall be permitted to exceed the ap the women of the homes, for the first portiomnent, nor speak twice, until time, are expressing their interest in all shall have had an opportunity xto the schools in various practical ways, speak; that the last ten minutes shall What better work is before us? What be open for questions or general re more hopeful sign have we in our edu- marks; that the leader and members rational work than just this, that the shall not be interrupted during the women of the homes are coming into time apportioned to them; that while close touch with those self-denying it is desirable to have all participate, and earnest women who are the teach- no member shall be compelled to ers in our schools?" speak, and time waived shall be added . to the closing time for general dis- The three culture clubs of Tecum- cussion. SmnlA seh' Tke Cosy club, The Friends in The year book; which, n the case of was unanimously R. Lynn, Mrs. William Hale Thompson. V rx H. W. BROWN Druggist and Bookseller. WblUnK's Fine Stationery and Calling Cards 127 S. Eleventh Street. PHONE 88 00000099090900090009000 ( v CYCLE PHOTOGRAPHS ATHLETIC PHOTOGRAPHS HOTOG APHS OFBABIES PHOTOGRAPHS OF GROUPS EXTERIOR VIEWS Council and the Deka, met on the 1th Sorosis, is a record of past programs of this month at the home of Mrs. May rather than a program for the com- sQu&rtfiaify THE PHOTOGRAPHER 129 South Eleventh Strerh EOOOOOOOOQOQPPOQOOOOOOOQO . - rf c? c" ! 'Ai.v AlftJ