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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1898)
r&fsp??? ' V - f THE C0V1.-L -' : a--. i?r t:- 8r-- m -. & . the meeting were over, the program for the day was in the bands of the Field club. Mrs. F. A. Marsh, their leader, had done her utmost in preparing for the occasion. A large portrait of Mr. Field adorned the audience room, and numerous photographs of members of ' his family and prints of the heros and heroines of his famous poems, were to be seen here and there. The program con shted of sketches of Mr. Field and Tro'.t," ttj citation of many of his poems, with yocal and instrumental mu sic. The new club then presented our president. Mre. S. C. Langworthy, with a picture of Mr. Field and a beautiful bouquet of La Trance roses, with their 'compliments and claimed her as their 'president too. The program was closed ' by their singing a motto song, "Keep sStep With the History and Art" A pri vate letter from Mrs. Field to Mrs. -March was read, thanking her for the 'zeal and labor In making this day of tribute to Mr. Field a success. The let ter bespoke much loving kindness and ap preciation and is highly prized by its owner. Mrs. Norval pleasantly surprised our club by serving dainty refreshments in the drawing room, while the Field club 'wore feasted around the lorg dining ta ble. AUer congratulating the new club and expressing hopes for its future suc ' cess we adjourned to meet one week from date. It cl aba are a good thing why should we keep them to ourselves. "Let the good we are doing shine into every tenement window and en every cottage "floor.' ill club life help to develop a feeling of greater responsibility in women ? Per haps we should first ask is there a need of such development? Are women, as a class, as responsible as charged? Do they fail to keep engagements and are they lacking in punctuality? Let U3 answer the last two questions affirma tively. Will club life help to correct them? We think so. The woman who joins a club and voluntarily assumes the obligations thereof, in a sense pledges herself as a part of a certain 'whole, which she, with others, hopes to make perfect. They pledge to meet so often and at such an hour. Failure to keep this engagement or lack of punc tcality for trivial reasons amounts to discourtesy, even to injustice to Bister club women. And the average woman intends to be kind and just to all her associates, yet the failure to punctually keep engagements often causes annoy ance and sometimes constitutes a wrong. Women are charged with allowing a light headache, the weather, the dr66 maker, a call, to make a valid excuse for tardiness or absence from a meeting where the time and convenience of many others may be involved. Coming to a committee meeting late one afternoon a lady was shocked by having the chair man say, "Mrs. H., you have wasted fifty minutes of our valuable time." Never before had the iady realized that as a part of the whole she was responsi ble for the time lost by each member of that committee who was on time. We are, indeed, "our brothers keeper" in more senses than one. The tardy or un punctual woman invariably suffers her self, but that is of minor consideration "when the inconvenience of others is in volved, many of whom have often over come greater difficulties and made real sacrifices that they might keep their engagements. We expect a remedy for these faults from club lire, because there the general tendency is to discourage careless forgetf ullness of the rights and feelings of others and to correct caprice and irresponsibility. The universal sen timent that the club meetings must be gin on time will eventually accomplish its purpose. 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This is the most modern irouer at this time and has revolutionized the ironing1 of bosoms entirely. Call and see us. Visitors always welcome. Also see our new ironer for flat goods. In th last ten months we have invested $3,000 in new up-to-date machines and have now the largest and most complete laundry plant in Ne braska. Your trade appreciated. laws should be restricted to business sessions, the moral obligation would be enough to accomplish this result. Where it is lacking there is the greater need of raising the standard of responsibility. Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The Truce of the Bear," baa cut its way to public appieciation as quickly and keenly as jiis "Recessional." Through a Hindoo legend be scores the Czar's peace peti tion in a manner at once powerful, sim ple, convincing and terrible. CHBISTMAS DONG'S FOE CLUB WOMEN. Don't spend more than you can easily afford. Don't give a present out of policy. Don't buy just what a child needs un less the little one is actually cold or hungry. Don't cast your bread upon the Christ mas waterB expecting it will be returned after few or many days. Don't neglect to neatly tie 'up the package for nurse or kitchen maid with a little sprig of holly tucked under the string. Don't put off making or buying your Christmas gifts too late. Don't be too practical in selecting gifts for family or friends. Don't forget to be hopeful, cheery, thankful and merry on Christmas morn on this blessed Christmas day let us "dwell on our marciee," thus lighten our own load and honor Him. And alove all Don't forget to help spead that heaven-born Eong, "Peace on earth, good will to man.' Interest in the Milwaukee Biennial is already lively. Mrs. Buchwalter of Ohio, one of the pioneers in Federation work, has charge of the program as chairman, and is already giving serious thought to the task that lies before her. There is a tremendous amount of work, as well as great responsibility in arranging for a great Biennial. It is comparatively easy to find fault with the Denver program; but it is an entirely different matter to tell definitely where and how to strengthen and improve it. Mary Lyon U6ed for the mo, to at Mt. Holyoke in the days when our mothers and grandmothers used to come nnder her caie "Freely ye have received, freely give," although for that matter, the words originated with a Greater than Yary Lyon, What better motto for the club movement? Culture is a worthy end, and one to which we all aspire. But whose culture? Our own or our neighbor's? "Freely ye have received, freely give." If the women of the clubs were to be mingled with non-clubbing women in an assembly; no man could select the active from the pas sive ladies by any of the outward signB which were once supposed to be appropriate to them. Nor is the old quip about the disregard and neglect of home duties and husbands any longer opposite. Mre. Mary Orme Hall, who has been for two years president of the New York Sorosis, has been obliged by pro longed ill health to resign that office. For ajearpaBt Mrs. Hall's health has been in a very precarious condition, and for several months she has bean in sanitarium in Michigan, although she has now improved sufficiently to be re moved to her sister's home in Detroit, where she will remain through the win' ner. if able. Mrs. Hall has long been an active and .popular member of the exec utive board of Sorosis and her resigna tion was accepted with regret The Vice president, Mrs. Dimies T. S. DenuisoD, another exceedingly popular wornar. has been elected president Club Wc-man. To have the entire meaning of a sen tence changed by the typesetter might verily develop incipient insanity. It is bad enough to have tie t po mu tilate grammar and spelling until ou feel youi teeth on edge, as when jcu find yourself on record as usin; a con junction for an article; a plural verb for a singular; a personal pronoun for a relative; the word sense translate I into "issue;" and find lhat Mrs. Brown came "around" with pictures of the ' Buzza cat" ovens, instead of armed anil Buzza cat, etc.; but the ' unkindest cut ' of all, iB to be on record as speaking ,f Hud yard Kipling's Recessional as a ' 2 "J" poem. As soon speak of 0' i ' a5 the good old man. Still, w ' treat sympathy with the typo. uoubt if the average woman or man who writes for the press would send along m in terpreter with thtir copy such nought fulness would be highly appr-tiated by this much abused member of Mciety. The women of Massacb - Ms are showing their loyalty to the - ' resi dent of the G.;F. W. C. in p vid practical ways this week xlTd federation meeting was cal.eJ to meet in Boston December 13 and 14. in honor of Mrs. Rebecca D. Lowe's viE t 'here Meetingq were he!d in Park street t'nirch the mornine and afternoon of Tu taj' The subject discussed at both se was "Industrial Conditions," espt those pertiinine to women anil dren, and in a manufacturing stat Massachusetts there is plenty cf for improvement of these condi' Hon. Carrol D. Wright of Worthit and one of the state factory inspec 'ins ail ike m