THE COURIER
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A Day Jn Vonico" which is rivaling
"Narcissus" ia popularity. Ho lived in
Venice for a year on tho Grand Canal,
and today a biff black gondola glidos in
and out of tho ancient watotways with a
Bpray or yellow jonquils and tho naino
"Narcissus" painted oo the prow. Tho
Venetians havo beon a mueic loving
pooplo from time immomorial, and No
vin'a old gondolier saw fit to eommomo
rate his sojourn in Venico in that pontic
fashion.
I. Alba-D&wn),
Tho llrst movemont bogins with a fow
drowsy harinonieB, as tho sun touchos
tho spires or St. Mark's with tiro and
the gondolier rouses and Btrotchoa him
self in the Bunlight on tho stops of bo mo
old church whero ho has boon eleopirg
The lagoons are sih'cr and a thousand
scents are in tho air and tho froshnoes of
morning is upon tho watei. Tho gondo
lier laughs at nothing at everything,
at life and youth, laughs boeauso the sky
is blue and the sun is warm, laughs for
joy at the gla JneB9 and beauty of an
other day u d ly in Venice.
II. Qondolieri -(Too Gondoliers).
"She to me
Was as a fairy city of the heart?
Rising like water columns from the sea,
Of joy the sojourn and of wealth the
mart." Byron.
Tho swing of the paddle ia in the first
measures, tho rythmic theme huunta
one.carriosono out upon dream highways
fairer even than tho waterways of Ve
nice. It is a short cut to poetry and
dreamland. Tho -gondoliers are off for
tho day, out upon the histjric wator
wajs, gliding down the Grand Canal,
under tho arched stone bridges, through
deep, still streets where the stone walls
on either side are messed with age, and
the shadows make the water green and
tho air is cool, and out again into tho
broad sunlit lagoons. It iB in Venice,
where people believe in happiness, even
at work, and tho gondolier ba9 no other
creed. He is not ambitious, he desires
nothing but to bo always a gondolier, hb
his fathers were baforo him. Ho will
live a little, laugh a little, love a little
while he is young, pray a little when ho
is old; what more would you hnve? Per
baps no baa hoard how one of his fore
fathers, long gone, carried guoats down
those eamo waterways to the fetoe at tho
palace tf tho Doges; perhaps that ho
carried some doomed victim of tho
Forties out into the Adriatic and
brought him back no more. But that
and all the dark history of Venico is for
gotten in the sunlight and the swing of
tho pat'dle and the rythmic, hauuting
melody of the gondoliers' song. Life ib
good on tho lagoons,
III. CAUZONE AMOESO(Veao
tian Love Song.)
Tho love song is written in the koy of
A flat, tho key in which beautiful things
happen. The work of the day is over,
and tho gondolier has his little sweet
heart beside him, and in all the world
there are but two pooplo and tho moon.
It is a safe and happy lovo bom:, yet
thro is an intense fervor in the opening
melody, for he has beon away from her a
wholo day and that is bo long Boroo
timee. Tho second Bubjoct, Eofton
more tender, than tho first, rising to a
climax in one voluptuous, languishing
chord over which, in tho ecoro, tho com
poeor has writton: "70 !ZMJI0!"-(I
lovo you). Pow greater thingB are writ
ten now-u days than that lovo sang.
IV. BUONA NOTTE (good Night)
As tho gondolier and his sweetheart
glido out toward the Adriatic they prea
an old church from which the Ave
Maria is sounding. Porhaps tho lovora
sing a Bnatch of the hymn, perhaps the
little girl cropsoB hereolf. Night sleeps
doop and peaceful over Vonico, tho lights
glimmer behind them, the moon draws
a litllo lleecy veil over her faco, like an
abbess who demurely draws up her Bur-
plico, said DoMiiBsot. Thoy are happy,
and thoy hopo that all tho world is bo.
V
1 i:nvoi.
In tho afternoon, as wo nil Bat upon
tho porch at Vinoacro, tho t'tlk ran
hither and thithor and boiuu of ub were
drifting into a di6(!UBsion ot utilituri
unisiii, whon Mr. Novin's father spoko
up, as one having authority and imid
calmly: "Wo aro all creaturca of gonti
mont, wo live and die by it, dispute it
hb wo will, and it is tho 6trongost force
thoro is." Tho romurk set 1110 to think
ing. I fancy it explains Etholbort
Novin and hiH music. In his childhood
ho waa novor taugnt to bo afraid of
Bontimont, and ho haa novor loarned to
foar it. That iB why his musical in voli
tion is so singularly fro., why tho in
fluence of no school haa ovor touched
him, why in all bis music ho iB bo entire
ly and gloriously himself. If MaeDow
oll is king of Franco, this man is king
of Navarre. Ho has a provinco of
hiB own in the music of tho world in
tho art of tho world. No othor man has
over bot foot into his kingdom; it is
wholly his own and he ia tho only man
among all men living who can toll of it.
His mossago is for hiB lips alone, no
other could over speak it. His work is
uniquo among tho world's beautiful
creations. Ho carrioB so much ot our
pleasure and delight under that huir
that is tingod with gray. His harmony
and melody aro his own, liko no
one's cIbo. He ha9 no affectations;
ho is not afraid o! simplicity, of
diroctncsB.as somu on j haa Eaid his melo
dies "gain a certain distinction from
their very unconsciousness of tho
dangor of vulgarity.'' To everything ho
writeB, however slight, that raro grace
and distinction clings, an aroma of
poetry, a breath from somo world
brghter and bettor than ouis, und ex
halation of roses and nightingale notes
and Eouthern nights. Take, for in
stance, tho little negro melody ho did
for tho Dartmouth collogo boye; if any
one oIbo had writton that it would havo
beon cheap. Is it? Try it and see! Evon
in his children's songs thoro is the buino
graco and tenderness. What ho touches
ho dignities. Of a simplo lyric ho can
make a noblo trngody. And ho ib the
courage of genius. I was asking his
little daughter. Doris, who iB just six,
about Bomo little French and Italian
songs she sings when ehe startlod mo
bysajing, "But best or all, I liko 'On
ward Christian Soldiers'". I told her
gravely that I didn't beliovo her fa' her
would consider that much of a song at
all. "1 don't caio," replied the young
lady, "I liko that best." Not bo much
unliko her father, after all. For if
Ethelbort Novin liked "Onward, Chris
tian Soldiers," he would say so, and ho
wouldn't give a snap of bis gentlemanly
fingers wlnt tho roat of tho worl J said.
A LULLABY.
The nestling birds have ceased to pzep
Beneath the mother's wing;
The fairies now the dewdrops steep
In fragile lily-cups down deep,
The cheery crickets sing.
Sleep, baby, sleep!
While God above with guard of love
A tender vigil keep.
Each nodding flower knows sleep is best
When darkness falls
And bars sun's window in the west:
From pillow soft on mother's breast
Sweet slumber calls.
Rest, baby rest!
No harm comes near my baby dear
By love caressed.
Across the little mouth a gleam,
A smile that does not cease,
The moon sends down in silver stream
An angel message in each beam
A gladsome note of peace.
Dream, baby dream!
Of childish joy with no alloy
And love alone supreme.
Annie L. Miller,
woocoooo mooom
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Tho following aro tho ollicora of tho
General Federation of Woiiiod'h clubs:
President Mm. Rebecca D. Lowo
Atlanta, Ga.
Vice PrcBidont- Mrs. Sarah S. Piatt,
Donvor, Colo.
Recording Secretary M re. Emma A.
Fox, Detroit, Mich.
Corresponding Secretary Mre.Goorge
W. Kondrick, Philadelphia, Pa.
Treasurer, AItb. Phillip N. Moore, St.
Lou in, Mo,
Auditor Mib. C. P. Barnes, LouIh
villo, Ky.
Stato Chairman -Mrs. Luuiea L. Kick
ettB, Lincoln, Nebr.
Olllcora of tho Stato Federation of
Womon'B clubB;
President Mtb. S. 0. Langworthy,
Seward.
Vice President Mrs. Anna L. Appor
bod, TecuniBoh.
Recording Secrolary Mrs F. II. Suck
ott, Weeping Water.
Corresponding Socrotary Mrs D. G.
McKillip, Seward.
Treasurer Mrs. II. F. Doano, Crete,
Librarinn Mrs. G. M. LamberlBon,
Lincoln.
Mrs. A. B. Fuller, Auditor, Ashland.
Mrs. D. G. McKillip, corresponding
secretary Nebraska G. F. W. C. ootids
tho following contribution to The
Courier concerning tho limitation of del
egates to tho national federation to the
state federations. It wnB printed last
week but through ono of tho unaccount
able orrata of tho composing room Mrp.
McKiilip's namo wa9 omitted from hor
osBay. Mrs. McKillip has beon and is
st? Btrong and helpful u club woman
that the oinmiesion of her name from
a contribution is liko leaving off tho
Bignaturo of a check or from tho tpyo -writtou
letter of a friend. For tho eako
of identification it is thcreforo reprinted
this week:
Apropos of tho subject of reorganizing
tho G. F. W. 0. it iB not often that a now
movement becomes bo successful that it
has to bo abandoned, but such seema to
be tho case in regard to tho National
organization. Tho biennial meetings
havo grown so largo that it is doubtful
if another invitation will bo extended
from any city, and tho businoss men of
Milwaukee by whoso invitation tho com
ing biennial is to meet in that city, will
for onco in their lives have enough of a
good thing. Yet tho resolution to reor
ganize and have the biennial composed
of representatives from tho stato federa
tions only, thuB throwing overboard tho
individual clubs that havo made tho G.
F. W. C. tho pronounced success that it
ib today, appears to bo rank injustice.
Another objection will bo tho incroasod
taxation of tho stato federations. The
financial question is tho Chineso puzzle
of tho Ex. Board of thoNobraaka Fod.and
will bo as long aa tho dues uro only 82 00
per annum for each club, and year books',
badges, and programs cuntinuo to cost
monoy. To increaso tho stato taxation
to equal tho rovonuo received by tho
general federation under tho proEunt
system of representation whore tbo ma
jority of its funds come from tho dues
paid by individual clubs would result io
the withdrawal of many states from tho
Genoral Federation, and if tho State
Federation increased tho dues of tho
local clubs ir order to meet the increas
ed Stato tax tho consequences would bo
that many local clubs would sever their
connection with tho State Federation, bo
it would bo as broad as it is long. Tho
ten cent por capita tax would not fur
nish tho rovonuo 10 the General Federa
tion that the prcBont system of aasoHH
mont does.
Tho largo clubs would undoubtedly
feel that the money they would pay out
for tho honor of belonging to tho Gen
eral Federation when that honor would
coHt sixty cr Hovonty dollars a year,
could bo more profitably Hpont at homo
and who can dispute that argument?
The liberal donation of the Oma
ha Woman's club started tho circulat
ing library of this Btato that is Buoh a
help to country clubs, and its contribu
tion of fifty dollarB a yoar 111 bo noces
Bury to its cxiBtonco, and it waB the
generosity of tho Lincoln Woman's club
that put tho Reciprocity lluroau on its
feet. The liirgo city clubs are of more
bonellt to tho local olulB throughout
tho etato than is tho Gonoral Federa
tion. Thoy can exist without tho Gen
oral Federation and never know the
difference, but many would find hard
work to got along with out thoao helps
that aro tho results of the philanthropic
efforts of tho largo city clubs. Tho
most jtiBt solution of tho dillluulty that,
confronts our National Oiganizatlon
would bo to keep tho prosent systom of
taxation and divide tho Gonoral Federa
tion into districts and theno districts
conventions elect an equal number of
delegates to tho Bionnial mootingB and
in thin way all bocUohb of tho country
would bo equally represented without
tho immonBo number of dologatos that
biilB f.u'r to sink th Bienniul ship,
Tho election of olllcors for tho Inter
national Council of Women rosulted in
tho choicoof Mrs. May Wright Sawnll
for president, and Lady Aberdeen, tho
former preHidont.as vice president.
Perbifps ono of tho moBt important
subjects discussed by tho Council waa
that of handicrafts. Tho thought por
vading this discussion waa that hand
work must bo omployod as well as brain
work to insure tho development of tho
race, that head work minus hand work
and hand work without head work are
defoiming thoraco, that a just ethical
stardard can novor arisj unUl montal
and physical work havo reached juet
propor ions in every human boing, and
that as pooples, until wo stop living arli
floirflly wo cannot fail to havo arlilicial
und superficial handicrafts; that overy
human boing should bo taught Io work
with his hand& and no snobs tolerated.
LadyAbordoen is a diplomat of no
small power. On the moraine of tho
Fourth of July she invited tho spoakorB
of the Council to n breakfast at West
mmstor Palace hotol. Whon. our
American delegates arrived tho Btara
and stripos wore lloating at tho ontranco
and this little touch or tho human ef
faced many unplsassnt impresjiona of
tho convention. In a nico little speech
Lady Aberdeen said ehe could not bo in
all tho sections to hoar the speakers,
and tho public rocoptions wore too
crowdod to give her a chanco to know
oaeh individually, bo sho gave this nine
o'clock broakfaBt just to got acquainted.
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