THE COURIER.
that tho prosidont of each federated club
roport tho wishcB of hor society to tho
chairman hoforc Janimry 15.
That tho reorganization committoo
iBBUo not lator than March J, a plan of
reorganization and Bond it to tho presi
dents of Btato fodoratione with tho ro
UCBt that it bo circulated through tho
Btato, and aleo to send it to each presi
dent of federated clubs, and invito criti
cism and suggestions.
That tho committoo on reorganization
niako tho final roport in tiino to havo it
Bont to clubs a month boforo tho bien
nial, at which timo it shall bo acted
upon.
Thoeo resolutions covor tho questions
of representation and taxation. Tho
question of procodooco hotwoen Stato
Federation proBidonts and Btato chair
man was loft with oach stato.
Tho oxecutivo committoo was author
izod to make preparations for a worthy
exhibition of club work at tho Paris ox
position, and Mrs. Lowo was olectod tho
roprosontativo of tho Federation for
that occasion. Tho secretary reported
tho admission of two etato federations
and thirty clubs sinco tho Denver bien
nial and tho withdrawal of thirteen
clubB, two on account of tho ton cent
por capita tax. A largo amount of
work was accomplished at this council
meeting, and a very wiso preparation
made for a thorough understanding of
thoeo important questions which aro to
como beforo the next biennial. I wish
overy club woman who roads this article
would Bond a brief Btntomont of hor
opinion in regard to representation and
taxation in G. F. VV. 0. to the editor of
this department. By an open discussion
of this question we shall como to a bet
ter understanding and be able to vote
more intelligently at the coming meet
ing of the state federation.
There was a pleasant mid-summer
gathering of the old and now directors
of tho Lincoln Woman's club at the
hospitable homo of tho president Mrs. A.
W. Field last Friday afternoon. Tho
new directors met at 3 o'clock for con
foronco rolutivo to next year's work, they
wero joined by tho old board. An hour
later when a goneral good social timo
was enjoyed. Tho members of tho
Woman's club have reasons to expect
programs of groat interest and profit for
another year. Two extra meetings by
foreign talent are being planned, which
should prove an added attraction
towardB membership, for all will be free
to the club. One of these will be for the
art cla6B who hope to bring a tine lec
ture! on art A Shakspore recital
with musical illustrations iB another
idea that will probably, be carried out.
The plane are not only for tho amuse
ment of club members, but several de
partments hope to advanco in philan
thropic Hues. The household economics
would like cooking classes for the poor
and for children, the child study depart
ment hope to reach tho busy mothers
who really need thoir instruction in
fact the growth of tho club is shown in
the goneral desire to enlarge tho work
and not selfishly confine its benefits to
club members, Suggestions wore re
ceived in regard to tho year book which
will be issued early in the club year.
Tho Courior is under obligations to
Mrs. J. Lindsay JohiiEoc, president of
the Georgia Fedoration of Women's
Clubs for thoir vory neat and suggestive
year book. In the report of the Press
Committee there is a strong ploa for
club women to co-oprato through the
press. Believing that tho pceeB is tho
bulwark of woman's progress, and that
while without its strength and co-operation
women might bo as great, in effort,
she can never bo aB groat, in accomplish
ment. Thoreforo they urgo strongly
upon women's clubs of the Stato Feder
ation tho importance of tho novor-tiring
ubo of tho prcBB in tho bolief that though
thoro bo a diversity of opinion all club
wotnon will unito in tho common pur
poHO of helpfulness in whatever tonds to
purify, broaden and onnoblo tho in
dividual and the groat struggling mass
of human kind. Tho roport further
says: "In ordor that tho smallest light
may not hide its shining, but as gladly
as it rocoivos, give of its brightness for
tho gonoral good, wo would most earn
estly insist upon every Club in tho Fed
eration appointing an able and enthu
siastic member to koop club women
throughout tho stato through some me
dium of exchange, regularly informed of
its mootingB, its hopes, aims, and ambi
tions, at tho same timo throwing out
valuablo hints upon matters of interest
to women in general and club women in
particular. Wo would also suggest that
if the Stato Chairman would use eomo
medium for tho furthering of tho planB
of thoir special work, it would promote
a broadening of thought and prove a
real education to thoso seeking the beet
and complotest information along those
special lines.
"Given a co-oporativo press, and a
president, clubB and various chairmen
who use its columns.aud you will find in
clubdom a reciprocity so beautiful, a
fraternity of Bpirit so broad, a diversity
of purposo eo united, that not a weak
link will mar the symmetry and strength
of tho Federation chain. Press Com
mittee Georgia Federation.
Tho lbBt meeting for this year of the
history department of the Women's club
was held last week at the homo of the
assistant leader Mis? Brackett. This
department has been making a special
etudy of the early eottlement in Virginia,
and it wbb especially appreciated by tbe
members that the year's course of Btudy
wbb closed by an able address from the
specialist, Professor Caldwell of tho
State University, on the character of the
Virginians and the effect of tho intro
duction of slavery into Virginia. Officers
for next season aro as follows: Laaden
MiES Treraaine; assistant loader, Miss A.
E. Brackett; secretary and treasurer,
Mrs. Stanhope.
The Chicago Women's Club was
favored laBt winter by Mrs Colia Parker
Woolley, the Unitarian minister, on the
"growing Ideal of Womanhood as De.
picted hy our Greatest Novelists," she
presented tho subject systematically
under types as follows:
The Commonplace Type
Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa
Harlowe, Fielding's Amelia, the Vi.
car of Wakefield's wife and daught
ers, Fanny Burner's Evelina, etc.
The Artificial Type
Jane Austen's Emma, Mrs. Bennett
and hor daughters in "Pride and
Prejudice," Elinor and Marianne in
"SenBO and Sensibility," Thackeray's
Amelia in '-Vanity Fair, tho good
but silly women; Bocky Sharp, tho
clover but unscrupulous; Ethel New
como.Laura Pondonnis.Lady CaBtlo
ton, otc.
Tho Domestic Type
Walter Scott and Charles Dickons
woman's strength and weakness!
Joanio and Eflio Doans, Rowena and
Rebecca, Amv Robsart, Agnes and
Dora in "David Copporfiold" Lizzio
Hoxam, LittloDorrit, Esther Sum
morson, etc.
Tho Growing Typo
Womon attaining a highor individu
ality of her own, Churlotto Bronto'a
Jano Eyro, Shirley and LucySnowo;
Mrs. Browning's Aurora Leigh.
Tho Thinking Type
Tho era of modorn culturo and its
effoctB upon woman's work and
character. George Eliot's horoinos:
Dinnh Morris, Romola, Maggio Tul-
livor, Dorothea Brooke, Gwendolen
Hurloth, Fcdalma, etc.
I'ho Living Typo
Present-day author;- and thoir hero
ines: Mrs. Humphry Ward's
Katherino ElBinoro, Marcella, and
Laura Fountain; Hardy's Te68 of
tho D'Urbervilles; Goorgo Meredith's
Diana of tho CroEBways Hall Caino'e
Glory McQuayle, otc.
Somo womon, especially thoso who aro
popular with tho lords of creation, de
clare unhesitatingly that one man friend
is worth a dozon femoriines, and that a
man at least is not spiteful or treacher
ous, eays tho Philadelphia Times. Then
again, other women, with equal force,
remind ono of tho proverbial tlcklonesB
of men, and how a new face and a
brighter manner often drivo completely
away an old and timo honored friendship
But this, others will answer, telates only
toalovo affair, and naturally when a
little god arrives on the scone all such
cold affairs as friendship muBt tird lodg
ing i Isowhero.
Probably like all assertions either way
tbe truth lios-betwoen the two extremes.
Somo men are particularly calculated
for friendship. As friends they are
loyal and honorable. Thoy never talk
of or -discuss thoir friends. They aro
always willing to servo a woman, they
really caro for, and are always on hand
in trouble and sorrow with ready sym
pathy and help. But friendship of this
kind exacts the Barae loyalty and service
in return.
And now we got from Hull Caine
himself an interesting account of the
circumstances that suggested tbe realis
tic Manx stories with which he has de
lighted the world for the paet few years.
At a banquet tendered him by his fellow
Manxmen at Douglas a few weeks ago
Mr. Caine told the story of his first im
pulse to writo. Several years ago in a
bungalow, on tbe Isle of Thanet, Danto
Gabriel Ro-setti, the celebrated painter
and author, lay d)ing for want of sleep.
To relieve tho tedium of tho long wake
ful night ho to!d tho slowly dying man
stories of life on the Islo of Man. Rosset
ti, artist and poet, was charmed with
tho vivid word pictures Caino drew of
a little nation standing apart with its
own race, its own laws, government and
customs, exclaimed many times "You
must write thip! You must givo it to the
world!" True to this last wish of his
friend Hall Caino undertook to put on
paper his knowledge of the lifo of thiB
people with which ho is so familiar.
Ex president Benjamin Harrison has
never been noted for his sparkling wit or
humor and yet, says tho BoBton Herald
ho is reported to have ruado tho whole
Venezuelan arbitration commission
smile by remarking that working four
days in tho weok wbb all that ought to
bo expected of ordinory men, and "that
tho gentlemen assembled to arbitrate
tho Venezuelan difficulty wero all ordi
nary men. This dolicato bit of humor
carried the day, and tho commission
will sit but four days in each week.
An album of personal clipnings is a
unique presont; but this is what promin
ont shipping mon of Now York city will
presont to Admiral Dowoy on bis arrivul
in that city, says tho Herald. It is to bo
a mammoth album, containing assorted
clippings from tho principal newspapers
aud publications that havo mentioned
Admiral Dowoy since a year ago last
May, so arranged that they givo a com
plete hiBtory of tho part that Dowoy
took in tho war. Frederick B. Dalzoll,
treasurer of the committoo which haB
tho memorial in charge, said that the
money to pay for it had been subscribed
and that ho thought tho volumo would
givo the admiral a hotter idea of how ho
is rogarded by tho public than anything
oIbo. Ho hopes to include in tho collec
tion autograph lettors from President
McKinloy and other prominent men.
Tho volumo will bo illustrated by lead
ing artists.
Tho adoption by tho British houso of
commons of an amondmont to tho Lon
don local government bill declaring
womon oligiblo to election as aldermen
and councilors should not bo overlooked
by tho sulfragiBts in this country as a
notable triumph for the groat idea, sa)s
tho Boston Globe. Thoro is a possibility
that tho people on tho other side of Iho
world may got ahead of thoBe on this
side in bringing in tho era of sex equality.
Already thoy havo womon suffrage,
womon mayors, and other officials in tho
British colonies in tho antipodeB, and
here is the imperial government looking
to a like innovation at homo.
There is something incongruous, in
deed, in the idea of a woman alderman
of London. The imagination, inspired
by the traditions of many years, pictures
that official in a guise none of the sex
could aEsume. Tho green turtle soup
and tho other accepsories of the position
do .not harmonize with tbo femalo
characteristics. Indeed, if the most un
feminine dignity in tho entire list of
municipal offices were to bo chosen, it
would be that of alderman.
For this very reason the innovation
proposed by tho house of commons is tho
more significant. It indicates a growth
which must sooner or later make itself
manifest on this side of the world. We
may yet liva to seo women in the Boston
board of alderman aB we lately eaw one
presiding, gavel in hind, over tbe de
liberations of the Echool committee.
An important matter presented at
Philadelphia, at the recent council meet
ing of the General Federation, was the
report of tho program committee for
tho biennial session next year at Mil
waukee. While to some extent a tenta
tive report which will have modifications
and alterations, it will in the main be
carried out. The dato3 decided upon
are from Monday, June i, 1900, to and
incliiBivo of Saturday, Juno 9. An im
provement over laBt year's program is
tho placing of tho election of officers on
the 8th, instoad of on tho last day as at
Denver. Ab that day happened to ba
Monday, many delegates were obliged to
remain over who might otherwise havo
left tbe city on Saturday.
The first day, Monday, bb usual, is
given up to the board meetings and
meetings of chairmen and State presi
dents, the actual opening of the conven
tion being announced for Tuesday morn
ing. An art meeting, under M-s. Her
man J. Hall, takes up the afternoon.
Wednesday, June 0. Morning: Edu
cational session (chairman, Miss Evans),
and meeting of library committees. Af
ternoon: Educational mooting continued
and a lecture on the "City Beautiful."
Evening: Continuation of art meeting.
Thursday, June 7. Morning: Lecture
on "Industrial Conditions as Affecting
Womon and Children" and on "Club
Womon and Homo Problems." No
afternoon mooting. Evening: Address
on sociological subject.
Friday, Juno 8 BuBineEB mooting and
oloction of officers.
Saturday, Juno 9. Board meeting.
A point omphasizod to the council
wbb, that it is tho purpose of the pro.
gram committee to koop tho discus
sionB along club lines by speakers who
are club womon. There are not to bo a
few brilliant talkers, but the meetings
aro to bo devoted to practical discussions
by the many. It Iipb been felt that it is
not necessary to presont a program of
entertainment purely. Delegates come
for aid in their club work, and this it
will be attempted to give them more
thoroughly than haB boon the case at
other biennial meetings.
Following tho presentation of this
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