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THE COURIER.
llrmB, doing buBlnoaa in tho euido lino,
the purpcHo being to koop up and in
croHHo prices. Tho combino is ay lib
sorption of a number of firms into ono
corporation, under ono bond and man
agement, with tho purpose to roduco tbo
cost of munufacturo and production. It
may happon aB somo claim, that it will
bo moro prolltublo to lower tlio prices
than to raiso thorn for turgor conbiimp
tion at higher prices. It ifrqulto possi
bio' for a combino to effect this result.
Tho difforonco botweon a trust and a
combino is, thoroforo, tho differenco bo
twon smallpox and vaccination.
"Theso aro economic probloms that
concorn wemon no less than men. What
proportion tho study of thorn bears to
tho Btudy of art and litoruturo in our
clubB wo cannot tell. If wo Btudy tho
history of tho world wo shall discover an
amazing number of what wo call now
romodios huvo already bson tried with
no euro. Wo must go Blowly and a little
way at a time, bccauBo tho times hold
for ub a groat peril but it is also a
great opportunity. By nature woman
iiro conservative, and wo need a conBorv
ativo forco. Sho 1b courageous, and wo
huvo need of coursgo; in politics thero
is need of a BtitToning of knees.
"Thero is a stato whoro tho politicians
crawl on their handa and knees after tho
labor'vote; that is not in Iowa; our poli
ticians do not do that they crawl on all
fours after tho farmer's voto. A few aro
not ci awling at all, but tho.v can tell hot
ter than I can how difficult it is to line
up tho beBt of them when thero iB neod
of a house cleaning in the city council.
'Comrades, we, all of us, whatever
our creed, boliove in a power that makes
for righteousness. But we need not
only tho heart to feel and the courago to
bear and euffer wo need the oyes to boo
and the forco to act, and in all things
Beware from truth to swerve. "
Tho program committee for tho bien
nials of the G. P. W. 0. doos not havo a
sinecure. Many and various aro tho
qunstions that muBt bo considered by it.
Shall wo havo paid talent? Those op
posed claim that if talont is what is
wanted it is not nocossary to go outside
of tho Fedoration for taiontod women;
or if amusement and ontertainmont is
tho object tho timo of the biennial might
bo more profitably employed. In dis
cussing somo of the current problems of
the day. Many think ihe expense of
employing Mre. Ruth McBnery Stuart,
Miss Agnes Repplior and Mies Muldoon
for their part in tho Denver biennial,
was unwarranted. This may be bo. But
there is another side to tho question,
argue thoBO who aro in favor of paid
talent. The Western Club Woman says:
"Ihe women who camo many inilos,
and were worn out having thoir minds
improved, found those evening programs
a delightful relaxation. Without being
lion hunters, it iB pleasant to moot a livo
lion now and then, and hoar her purr
softly as tho cooing dove. Having
dined with ,vAint Cindy" in early youth,
it is agreeable to meet tho author of her
boing.'and to oliminato Miss Muldoon's
inimitable darkey song would bo to
leavo a really aching void.
Among tho tendencies that aro faulty
in womon's clubs which are othcrwiBO
perfect may bo set down tho over-anx-iouB
treasury defenders, and their dead
ly seriousness. Thero is alwajs a small
coterio of women who can't boar to boo
monoy Bpont. They livo in hourly dread
tho treasury is to bo deplotod,and every
timo somo ono wants to authorize the
purchase of ten squareB of papor at two
and one-hulf conts a square to mount
pictures thoy ask with docp concorn do.
pictod on tinir features, "How much
money is thero in tho treasury?"
Thoro is alto a tondoncy, but this is
not exclusively feminine, to got some
thing for nothing, and feel that tho
honor conf rred quito otVeote tho favor
dono. It would bo hotter for ub to havo
a highor appreciation of what wo hsk,
Ofton wo cannot olFer payment bocauso
wo do not approciato what wo havo ro
ooivcd too much to put a monoy value
upon it. But when wo do pay for value
received wo Bhould do eo ungrudgingly.
Tho best way to "help womon" is to pay
thorn fordoing what wo want dono. Tho
only way to put monoy in circulation is
to spond it.
Wo want Jano Addams and Corinno
Brown nnd Mre. O'Sullivan; wo want to
woop with thoso that mourn, but there
is a time for laughtor ub well as tears,
and wo ought also to rojoio with thoso
who rcjnico. Tho slum child is part of
lifo, but no is tlio old ex slavo who sings
tho woird songs that aro a dim memory
to thoso who havo lived in the South.
If wo boliovo in tho good timo coming,
and tho now era and, tho dawn that is
brightening tho mountain tops though
plain lies in darknesp, we can afford to
smile now and then and believe that with
God in His heaven all must yet bo right
with, the world. Has it not beon said
An ounce of gladness is worth a pound,
of toars to pervo tho Lord with'? It is
timo wo began to realize it.
not only with a club homo, but at the
same timo to enlarge thoir enterprise
and mnko it a business venture; from
which they hopo to realize protitablo
dividends. Thoy huvo organized a
company with 100 charter members or
bond holders, which will issuo bonds to
tho amount of $100,000, and then pro
coed to put a d:sirablo building in tho
businoBB part of tho city. Tho plan
provides for an auditorium seating 1,000
persons, which, upon occasion, can be
changed into a bill-room. Thoro aro to
bo reception rooms, small club roomp, a
banqueting hall, a store and cafo, and
one iloor will bo reserved for studios and
oflices.
Tho following resolutions aro being
circulated by tho Now York clubs:
That the present civil status of women
in tho stato of New York makes tho ex
ecution of tho death penalty upon her
legalized murder.
That the best interests of humanity
demand the abolition of capital punishment.
An interesting articlo by Edward A.
Stoiner, in Woman's Homo Companion,
gives some of tho conservative rules that
governed the girl graduate of a century
ago, Oberlin College iB the pioneer in
advancod educational thought. Broad
and sympathetic it was the first to open
its doors on equal footing to women and
to the colored race. It is now about
sixty-t'.ve years since, for the first time
in the history of our country, young
ladieB studied tho higher branches in
tho same classes with young men and
publicly received tho degreo of bachelor
of arts from tho of t styled cradle of co
education. "In tho year 1811, 'three women grad
uated, and were tho first young women
to receive a dogreo in tho arte;' and in
1884 two women applied for admission
to tbo theological seminary, were ad
mitted, and finished tho course, although
they did not receivo a degreo. One
coveted privilege thoso youog ladies
were not potmittod to enjoy, that of read
ing thoir ess ijb on commencement day.
1'he professor of rhetoric was their
proxy. Such an ardent woman's rights
advouato bb Lw.y Stone had to suffer
undor this humiliating discrimination,
but not without vigorous protest. Her
essay was not read by tho professor of
rhetoric, fcr tho simplo reason that it
was never written. In 1850 that barrier
was brokon down and the pent-up ener
gies of many generations of irate female
students, who hero as everywhere ob
tain their rights if they want them.
"Tho living of tho young Indies must
havo been very plain, for they paid only
soventy five cents a week for board, and
thoy paid that by work at the rata of
threo conts an hour. I find nowhore a
record of class parties, and not a traco
of a cluss picture, and I know that thoro
existed r.o such frivolous thing as a
chocoluto drop. Thero wore four women
to enter tho first regular freshman class.
Though tho frivolities of modern collogo
lifo woro not 'permitted, love could not
bo kept out.und Mary P. Kollogg, ono of
tho four, afterward becamo tho wifo of
ex President Pairchild. The mothor of
Dr. Barrows, tho recently oloctod presi
dent, was ulso ono of thoso pioneers of
co-education, and sho cortainly did not
dream that at a crisis in tho history of
her alma mater sho would givo her bo
lovod son to bo tho leader of that noblo
institution."
Thoro iB a general dosiro among club
womou to po3BCB8 a permanent club
homo at each contor, and many cities
aro realising this ambition. Wo havo
rocont word of what tho club women of
Minneapolis aro doing in this direction,
Thoy aro planning to provide thsmsolvosj
"To live content with small means;
To seek elegance rather than luxury.
And refinement rather than fashion;
To be worthy, not respectable;
And wealthy, not rich;
To study hard, think quietly;
Talk gently, act frankly;
To listen to stars and birds,
To babes and sages
With open heart.
To bear all cheerfully,
Do all bravely, await occasions,
Hurry never;
In a word to let the spiritual, unbidden
and unconscious
Grow up through the common.
This is to be my symphony.
William Ellery Gunning.
Tho last time 1 saw Phillips Brooks to
speak with him waB at a memorable
crisis in bis history writes Elizabeth
Stuart PhelpB in MeCluros. "It was
close upon the date of his acceptance of
the bishopric of Massachusetts; but
this fact was not generally known. If
one had any doubt of this, the sight of
tho man on the occasion to which I re
fer would have made it cloar to tho dull
est perception. Wo were at lunch, four of
us Mr. Brooks, Dr. Holmes, Mr. Ward
and myself, with friends whoso hospi
tality is expert in the art of selecting
tho difficult and delightful number of
guests which is more than the graces
but le-a than tbo muses. Mr. Brooks
was very quiet at first almost silent;
and, it seemed to my slight social experi
ence with him, unprecedently sober.
But Dr. Holmes' conversational genius
soon struck the sparks in tho smoulder
ing flro in the preacher's heart and the
two men began to talk. The rest of us
hold tho breath to listen, as our hostess
with her distinguished tact stirred tho
flame when tho would; and ono of the
most remarkablo conversations which I
evor heard followod. Mr. Brooks bogan
to talk about the duties of tho uppor to
the lower classes of Bociety, and of tbo
Christian to tho irreligious. Ho spoko
rapidly, thon earnestly, then eagerly,
hoily, without fear and without roproach
liko tho Christian Bayard that ho was,
At tho last ho pushed on into monologue
a thing I novor hoard him do boforo;
and no ono, not ovon tho king of Boston
convorsors, cared to interrupt him. To
my surpri6o ho spoko of tho salvation
army in language or deep rospect. Ho
honored its wrk. Ho prophosiod heart
ily for ita future He spoko contemptu
ously of tho norvousnesa of people of
means about disuaao in clothing brought
from the sweat-shops and from homes
whoso horrors but few of us troubled a
heart throb to alloviato. With Bacred
indignation ho robuked tho hoathon of
tho west ond, who cared noithor for
their own bouIb nor for thoso of other
mon. lloscorod worldlinoss of hoart
and lifo in a lofty denunciation to which
it wa9 Impossible to offer a protesting
word, IIo mentioned by name a cortaln
fashionable men's club on thoBac'i bay.
The salvation army,' ho cried, 'ought to,
bo sent thero. Nobody needs them
moro. They ought to go right through
i uch a place aB that and preach new
testament religion!'
"At this point Dr. Holmes suggested
in a subdued voice: 'But, Dr. Brooks'
such mon as those aro not goicg to liston
to the sanation army. It saemB to mo
that you are tho man to go into the
club and proach Christianity.'
"Dr. Brooks made no reply. The root
of us took tho thought up and urged bim
a little. But bo fell into a Bilonco so-sad
that it was impossible to break it. His
gaze wandered from us solemnly. Was
ho renewing tho conflict of soul which
must have preceded his determination
to leavo the pastorate of his loved and
loving people? Was ho heartsick with
his own great ideal of what a Christian
teacher might achieve and must forever
Tail to? Was ho thinking of hiB limits
in tho light of his aspirations? Ho
talked no moro. In a few momentB ho
abruptly and silently loft us.
Mrs. J. W. Bedell, pre.ident of tho
colored woman's club, of Lincoln, enter
tained in honor of Mrs. T.J. Maham
mitt, at her pleasant home, last week.
Mrs. Mahammitt was formerly state or
ganizer and is now vice president of the
colored clubB in Nebraska. The lynch
ingsinthe South, and the importance
of educating their young people, were
the subjects discussed at their meeting.
At the close dainty refreshments were
served.
Cozy club, of TecumBeh, held ita an
nual business meeting June 7th, for the
election of officers and to discuss the
work for the comiog year. The election
resulted bb follows: President, Mrs. Ap
porson; vice president, Mrs. Barton; sec
retary, Mrs. Allen; Treasurer, Mrs. Sul
livan. This club has bad what every
club needB, a live, wide awake president.
Mrs. Apperson has attended every meet
. ing during the yoar, has had the good
of the club thoroughly at heart and has
always presided with such grace and
dignity that her re-election on the in
formal ballot was but a alight manifesta
tion of tho esteem in which Bbe is held.
The work for the coming year will bo
Gorman history. A vigoroua effort
will be made to have university exten
sion lectures. Like children, who have
spent a year in school and have "pass
ed," we hail tho vacation with delight.
Saturday, June 10th, dawned a per
foct day. As prearranged the Zetetic
club of Wooping Water enjoyed a de
lightful rido of seven miles over the
charming country, to meet with Mrs.
C. J. Sage of Avoca. At the usual hour
J P. M the mooting was called to order
by tho President, Mrs. Margaret Sack
ott. Thirteen members lesponded to
roll call with somo fitting quotations.
A very neat resolution of thanks from
tho Vlattsmouth club, for our late en
tertainment, was road by our President.
In Mrs. Butler's absence, her paper,
"Tho Old South," wbb road by Mrs.
Ingorsoll. Mrs. Gates road an interest
ing papor on, "Tho New Nation.' Mrs,
Sago road an instructive papor on, "Thft
Growth of tho United States." Mrs.
Sackott gave an interesting report of
her visit to tho Public Schools. Mr. Sa?e
then giving tho pass word, was per
mitted to como into our domain long
enough to entertain ua with four choice
selections of music on the graphophono.
Mrs. Sago thon had a little surprise
prepared for us in tho way of dainty
refreshments.
Adjourned to meet on Juno 10th with
Mrs. Woodford.
Go to Hanna'a for toda, Cor. 14th & O
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