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tho coatumoB of each character. All thte
1b certainly vory fine and very effective
and dono bb no living man today could
do it. Yot it 1b interesting to boo bow
this young Mr. Hewlett dareB to be
different. lie constructs no stage, he
finds ono and stops in. Ho produces no
atmosphere, he 1b already submerged in
it beforo ho begins his books. He does
not toll you what peoplo wore in the
Middle Agos, but HudJonly you And
that you begin to have a pretty distinct
notion of how they felt. He does not
design to toll you in what century his
romance transpired, nor what wib tho
political situation, nor, indeed, in what
country it transpired. Either this gon
tlomuuhas not "road up" on mediaeval
affairs, or, if ho hae, he has tho grace
not to show it. Bocauso the names are
French one euppoBOB that his forest iB
somewhere in Franco, but on sober
Bocond thought I should say that it iB
located in the Domain of Pure Phantany
somewhere between A ready and Shak
spore's Forent of Arden. Mr. Hewlett
makes no more effort to produce an his
torical sotting than Sbakepere did in
"As You Like It." Yot from the first
pago of his delightful romance you drop
into his world, tho antique world recon
stiucted in dreamland. Before you
have turned many pages you are incal
culably far away from tho world of
steam and telegraph and W. D. Howells.
The strangest feature of this forest ro
mance is its convincing flavor of
reality. Like tho wood of Arden, the
foreBt is more real than a real forest;
the people smack of the soil, the shep
herds smell of their flocks, the maids
are brown as hazelnuts and red as wild
Btrawborriee. I remember Ethelbert
Nevin said that the book ought to be
made into a woodland symphony, but
that BrahraB was the only man who
could get close enough to tho soil to do
it, and ho, unfortunately, is dead. I
am inclined to think that BrahraB would
have got altogether too close to the soil,
and Germanized the thing and crushed
tho fresh, Bturdy spirit of romance
under his ponderous tonal architecture.
Whether it is ever supplemented by
muBic or not, "The Forest Lovers"
remains a masterpiece of imaginative
literature, exhaling into onr arid atmos
phere a fragrance bucolic and pastoral,
a humor rich and robust, a sentiment
delicate and poetic. The whole per
formance announces the advent iuto the
world of letters of a vigorous, virile
mentality, a hand skillful and exquisite,
a craft unique and somewhat exotic and
which is a law unto itself. Surely the
wood nymphs were abroad and the pipes
of Pan were playing in the hour when
Maurice Hewlett was born. His other
two books,"EarthworkB out of Tuscany"
and "Pan and the Young Shepherd" are
quite as remarkable as this, and wholly
different in atmosphere and feeling.
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Treasurer, Mrs. Phillip N. Moore, St.
Louiu, Mo.
Auditor Mrs. O. P. Barnes, Louis
ville, Ky.
State Chairman Mrs. Louisa L. Rick
etts, Lincoln, Nebr.
Officers of the State Federation of
Women's clubs;
President Mrs. S. 0. Langwortby,
Seward.
Vice President Mrs. Anna L. Apper
bo n, Tecumseh .
Recording Secretary Mrs.F. H. Sack
ott, Weeping Water.
Corresponding Secretary Mrs, D. G.
McKillip, Seward.
Treasurer MrB. H. F. Doane, Crete,
Librarian Mrs. G. M. Lambertson,
Lincoln.
Mrs. A. B. Fuller, Auditor, Ashland.
sions, with many social features inter
spersed. All in all the convention was a
counterpart of the one held in Denver
last summer by the white women of the
United States. Even the excitement at
tendant upon the election of officers a
year ago was not lacking, and strange as
it may seem the defeated candidate
Mrs. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffln came
from Boston. Defeat was followed by
threats of a bolt, but the inherent good
sense which even men in politics gen
erally exercise prevailed. The situa
tion was accepted and peace reigned.
Wayman Circle of Chicago.
Phyllis Wheatley club of Chicago.
Woman's Civic league of Chicago.
National officer from different stateB
Prominent colored men assembled in
Chicago Auguac 17 to 20 inclusive to at
tend the national convention of the Afro
American council, they discussed the in
crease in negro lyncbings, the separate
car system, convict lease system, and
the elevation of their race through education.
Booker T. Washington said, "I believe
that the negro problem can be worked
out, only fn the south and by education.
This education must be along home,
moral and industrial lines principally,
and will take time. We have already
made great advancement and have had
only thirty years to work in. The plan
of transporting the American negroes to
Africa I consider impracticable. I gave
the subjret special study in London, and
the result of my observations is that
there is no part of Africa to which tho
colored man could nmigrate, in which he
would not be under some European
The following comprehensive study Among many resolutions passed was power, except Liberia, and that is an un-
Indeed harmony of action and unity
of purpose characterized most of the
sessions. Mayor Harrison delivered an
address of welcome and Mrs. Henrotin
represented the C licago Women's club.
The topics chosen for discussion were in
tended to be helpful to the negro race,
viz: The convict lease system, public
schools, the miscegenation laws of the
nouth, the separate car laws of the
south, domestic science and the labor
problem as applied to colored women
etc., etc.
plan outlines a work on Germany. It is one deploring the death of Col. Ingereoll
AN INTERRUPTION.
from the calendar of the Cosy club of
Tecumseh, Nebraska. This club meets
every two weeks, yet this outline could
easily be adapted to weekly clubs. For
want of space 1 am compelled to omit
many of the side topics. An adequate
chronology is presented and a scholarly
bibliography is an important feature of
the calendar. The secretary of this
club is Mrs. Nellie I. Allen, Tecumseh,
Nebraska.
October 4 Primitive Germans. The
migrations.
October 18 The Germanie Kingdoms.
Charlemagne and the Carlovingian Dy
nasty. November 1 Early German Litera
ture. November 15 The Holy Roman Em
pire. November 29 House of Hohenstauffen
The CruBadeB.
December 13 The Interregnum. Ru
dolph and Ludwig.
December 27 UhriBtmas cuBtomB in
Gormany.
January 10 The Church and State.
Swiss Independence.
January 24 The Reformation.
February 7 Middle German Litera
ture. February 21 The Thirty Years War.
March 7 The Rise of Prussia.
March 21 Frederick the Great.
April 1 Napoleon and the Allies. Im
portant events in the history of Poland.
April 17 An Afternoon with the
German Composers.
May 2 Revolution of 1818. Austria
and Prussia.
May 16 The New German Empire.
May HI Modern German Literature.
who in his will had left $1,000 to the
John Brown monument fund. The fol
lowing is a list of the colored women's
clubB of the United States:
Tuskeegee Woman's club of Tuskee
gee, Ala.
Ten to One club of Montgomery, Ala.
Woman's club of Atlanta, Ga.
Athens Woman's club of Athens, Ga.
Woman's Commercial Reciprocity
club of Indianapolis, Ind.
Woman's Improvement club of Louis
ville, Kentucky.
healthy country. If we are to be under
any government than our own, let it be
that of the United States. Besides,
when the next census is taken, it will be
found that there are nearly 10,000,000
negroes in this country too large a num
ber to be moved to a foreign country.
The Tuskeegee institute baa 1,000 pupils
from twentythree states. We teach
twentysix industries, and ma)ce special
ties of industrial and academjc work
We have 2,300 acres of land, 7Q0 of which
is under cultivation."
Phyllis Wheatley of New Orleans, La. Bishop Turner of Atlanta, Ga., senior
Afro-American union of New Orleans, bishop of the African M. E. church, and
Tho grass widower took his pea in
hand, and wrote as follows:
"My Dearest Wife: I feel that I must
write you tonight, although even now it
ia after midnight and I ought to be
sleeping Eoundly. The fact is, dear, I
am very reetlesB without you. With
mo, things are not the samo as when
you aro here. I want you to enjoy your,
eelf, of couree, and now that you are
away and your outing is doing you bo
much good, why, do not hurry back on
my account; stay as long aa you can,
only 1 bog of you, dearest, do not spend
any more than you can holp, as I bavo
had to moot Eomo very heavy and un
expected expenses in tho last day or bo
You have no idea how I long to boo you
and-"
"Look horo, old chap," broke in tho
man who had boon sitting at his right,
"how many hands are you going to stay
out of ibis gamo, anywuy? Tho Dealor
The first biennial convention of the
National Association of Colored Women
wae held In Quinc chapel, Chicago, laBt
week, one hundred and forty-five dele
gates representing sixteen states and
forty-six clubs were present, and Sunday
was made a gala day by the colored
population of Chicago. The African
churches of the city were filled with
crowds to hear somo of the prominent
colored women. At Grace Presbyterian
church on Dearborn Btreet Miss Anna
H. Jones spoke on "The Fine Art of
Living." An Quinn Chapel Mte. Bruce
of Washington spoke on "Some Ethical
Considerations in Manual Training."
Bethel church people listened to the
national president, Mrs. Mary Church
Terrell, on "Harriet Beechr Stowe."
At Olivet Baptist church Mrs. J.Salome
Yato's spoke on "Tho Evolution of the
Negro in tho United States." Morning
BOBslonB wero dovoted to business, and
the afternoons to addresses and discus-
Louisiana.
Woman's Era club of Boston, Mass.
Willing Workers' club of Detroit,
Michigan.
Women's Federation of Ann Arbor,
Michigan.
Sojourner Truth club of Battle Creek,
Michigan.
Improvement club of Detroit, Mich.
John Brown of St. Paul, Minn.
Woman's Missionary club of St. Louis
Missouri.
Wednesday Afternoon club of St.
LouiB, Mo.
Self -Culture club of St. Louis, Mo.
Woman's club of St. Louis, Mo.
Orphans' Home association of St.
Louis, Mo.
Willing Workers of Palmyra, Mo.
Woman's league of Kansas City, Mo.
Woman's club of Jefferson City, Mo.
Progress Study club of Kaniaj City,
Mo.
Woman's Loyal union of New York
city, N. Y.
Woman's club of Rochester, N. Y.
Woman's club of Omaha, Nebr.
Improvement club of Omaha, Nebr.
F. E. W. Harper club of Pittsburg,
Pa.
Woman's Minerva club of Cleveland,
Ohio.
Woman's League club of Newport,
R.I.
Coterie Migratory club of Memphis,
Tenn.
Orphans and Old Ladies' homo of
Memphis, Tenn.
Woman's league of Jackson, Tenn.
Phyllis Wheatley club of Nashville,
Tenn.
Mutual Improvement club of Knox
ville, Tenn.
Relief club of Nashville, Tenn.
Woman's club of Peoiia.
J. R. Gaskins club of Evans ton.
Colored Women's Federation
Chicago.
Progressive circle of Chicago.
I. B. W. club of Chicago.
Ideal Woman's club of Chicago.
Woman's Conference of Chicago.
the first colored man to bcqmmnioned
in the union army by President Lincoln,
also attended the convention, gnd In dis
cussing the negro problem paid: "I be
lieve that the government phould es
tablish a line of steamship between this
country and Africa to carry negroes at a
nominal price. No people eyer prosper
ed which did not have a .country of ite
own. The colored man should live in
his own country and have hjp own gov
ernment and commerce. He has the
brains to establish such a government.
Such emigration would solve the race
problem and give the colored man a
chance to show what is in him, which
will never be done under the present
system. Tne AngloSaxpn face never
did and never will live with any other
race without treading it under foot. I
believe emigration the only practicable
solution of the problem. Aa to the
lynching of negroes, blood always calls
for retribution, and this country will
suffer for these outrages. If the e.tate
government cannot atop lynching the
federal government fi6ud cjo 0 If
they don't the curse of God will be on
thorn. Abroad we have the name of be
ing the most brutal nation on earth, and
we gained the name by allowing these
outrages."
These opposite views on thie question
are interesting, coming as they do from
two of the leading men of this race.
In nearly every town and city in tho
United States there is a large High
School Alumnae club. The good such
an organization can accomplish in any
community is practicality unlimited.
Here you have an aggregation of "tho
best ye breed," and we baye a right to
expect that they will solve many o tho
problems with which the' passing gener
ations have wrestled. The. High School
of Aumnae club of Louiiyjlle, Kentucky,
hap undertaken so meritorious a work
that we ere glad to pass (he good wpnl
aloa.fr. Last autumn, says Margaret
Hamilton Welch, the three hundred apd
fifty members of this club, encouraged
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