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THE COURIER. y n Cycle Photographs Athletic Photographs Photographs of Babies 4 y Photographs of Groups 4 p Exterior Views 4 CLUBS. m THE PHOTOGRAPHER 120 South Eleventh Street. 9 It SCRIBNER'S For 1900 includes: J. M. Barrio's "Tommy and Grizel" (serial). Tneodore Roosevelt's "Oliver Crom well" (serial). Richard Harding Davu' ttetion and special article?. Heury Norman's The Russia of Today. Articloi by Walter A. Wjckoff, authors of "The Workers." Short Stories by Thomas Nelson Page, Henry James, Henry van Dyke, Ernest Stetson-Thompson, Edith Wharton, Octave Thanet. William Allen White. Special Articles: The Paris Exposition. Frederic Irland'e articles on epottp and explorations. "Harvard Fifty Years Ago," by Senator Hoar. Notable Art Features, the Crom well illustrations, by celebrated Am erican and foreign artists. Puvis De Chavannee, by John La Farge (illustrations in colors). Special illustrative schemes (in colors and in black and white) by Walter A ppleton Clark, E. C. Peix otto, Henry McCarter, D aright L. Elmendorf and others. IdTlUustrated pro3pectus sent free to any address. Charles Scrib tier's Sons, Publishers, New York. WITH THE 3.35 Personally Conducted Tourist Excursions -TO- OIN Scenic Ronto leaves Kansas City and Omaha every Friilay via Colorado Springs and Salt Lake to California and Pacific coast point. These Tonrist Cars of latest pattern are carried on Fast Passenger Trains, and their popularity is evidence that we offer the best. The lowest rato tickets pre available in these popular pullmarv Tourist Gars. For full description of this service and the benefits given its patrons, redress E. W. THOMPSON, A. G. P Topeka, Kan. JOnN SEBASTIAN. G. P. A Chicago, 111. (Continued from Page 5.) Mrs. E. H. Barbour, Mrs. T, H. Mun ger and Mr. T. M. Hodgman were ap pointed a committee on courtesies. Mrs. Welch presented a request from the City Improvement Society, and Mrs. A. S. Tibbets and Mrs. McGahey were chosen to represent the club at the next meeting of the society next Thursday morning, and also one meeting in Febru ary. Mies Anna Tibbets was elected to membership in the club. Mrs. Lincoln Frost presented the problem of '"The American Negro." The after-discut-sion elicited a great variety of opinions and theories for the amelioration of the negro, and also of the white people who chance to live near large negro settle ments. THE AMERICAN NEGRO. I. Population. 1. Growth in country at large. 2. Migration to cities. 3. Colonization. II. Vital Statistics. 1. Rate of mortality according to age. 2. Causes of mortality. III. Anthropometry. 1. Weight and stature. 2. Lung capacity. 3. Physical strength. IV. Race Amalgamation, 1. Theories regarding race cross ing. 2. Mixed marriages. 3. Illicit relations and illegiti macy. V. Social Conditions and Tendencies. 1. Homo life. 2. Church influence. 3. Education. 4. Crime, vice, pauperism. VI. Economic Conditions. 1. As an Agricultural laborer. 2. OxTcship of f r ne. 3 Industriil f.iu'o.. 4. Wg-B and effi uncy. 5. Employmert. 6. Estimated wealth. VII. Conclusion. BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Philadelphia Negro, W. E. Bu'ghardt Du Bois. Study of Negro Problems, W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. The Future of the American Negro, Booker T. Washington. Arena, April, 1892. Medical News, September, 1891. Atlantic Monthly, November, 1899. Bulletin of Department of Labor. No. 22, May. 1899. No. 14, January, 1898. No. 10, May. 1897. Race Traits and Tendencies of the Amer ican Negro, Frederick L. Hoffman. At the last meeting of the Omaha Woman's Club the resolutions which had been presented at a previous meet ing by the following committee, Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Harford, Mrs. Towne, Mrs. Andrews and Mrs. Keller, were taken from the table and after further dis cussion passed by a largj majority. The resolutions follow: The Omaba club believes the present construction of the G. F. W. C. to be defective for the following reasons: 1. It is illogical. Club membership in the State federation bears no rela tion to membership in the national body. The two are coordinate while the natural sequence is from club to state and from state to national organization. 2. It is inconsistent. An individual club may have more delegates at a biennial meeting than in a state federa tion. The Nebraska federation has seven delegates and the Omaha club six. Sixty four members more in the latter body, making its membership no larger than that of last year, would give it another delegate. 3. It is unjust. Evi ry club in tbo country is benefitted by the G. F. W. C. through its literature, i5s Fp'rit by the advantages acquaintance with its officers and the opportunities of attend ing its biennial gatherings sb guests, while the expenses of the general federa tion are borne by a comparatively 6mall number of clubs. 4. It is undemocratic. While every club may belong to the body, .bo few take advantage of that opportunity that the management of the federation is practically in the hands of a few clubs. To make taxation just and representa tion democratic, all clubs should share in the expense of the general federation and be represented in its councils. We therefore urge the reorganization of the G. F. W. C. and would respect fully offer the following suggestions: 1. That the G. F. W. C. consist of federations of women's clubs only, and include the state and territorial fed erations, and the federation of the Dis trict of Columbia. 2. That a council be constituted to consist or not less than two or moio than three delegates from each state federation, all of whom shall be tha president, and that this council convene annually. 3. That the General Federation ap portion to each state its per capita dues for the support of the General Federa tion and assign the number of delegates dependent thereon, leaving each state to arrange the co' lection of the dues and the selection of the delegates. 4. That the General Federetion meet triennally. The following extracts from a letter frcm the chairman of that committee will be of interest to those who are still debating this many sided question: ' It may seem strange, as you say that th" Omaha Club should adopt resolu tinr s in reorganization directly opposed to those passed by the State Federa tion in October. Yet it is one of the curious facts connected with the pr6e ent organization of the G. F. W. C. that it ha9 a perfect right to do so. It is indeed an anomaly that we. a part of the State Federation, should be entirely independent of it as far as our relatioLS to the G. F. W. C. are concerned. "And that we should be sIbo co-ordinate with it in power practically, Bince three more added to our member ship will give us an equal number of delegates with the State Federation at the Milwaukee biennial "I think I speak for the club and I am 6ure I do for my committee when 1 say that we should like to 6ee this con dition pats. We would prefer to speak through the State Federation only, on the conduct of General Federation af faire, but SB it now is, indapendent judg ment is expected of us, and it may or may not agree with that of the State Federation. "When the Omaha Club must neods respond to the request of the reorgani zation committee for an opinion, our president desired that that opinion be carefully foimulated bo ehe set out to 6tir up thinking on the subject. She arranged to have the arguments for and sgainst reorganization presented at a meeting prior to the one at which the subject was to be discussed, that the rank a-d tile of the club might be clear as to the points, and she secured the time of an entire session for the matter. Her committee to make recommenda tions was composed of those who had attended at least one biennial meeting of the G. F. W. C. and some of them had attended two. It had upon it, a woman experienced in ecclesiastical or ganization another who has worked in the W. C. T. U. and a third who has as sisted recently in planning the organi zation of the Congress of Mothers. That comruitteo read all the litora ture of the subject that it could rind, it eought light by corres pondence, from candles that aro set in candlesticks, and after frequent meet ings and much discussion it carno to those conclusions that the club, having heard of the matter for no less than three consecutive sessions, has macio, itri own. I go into the matter thus fully that you may realize that we have nut acted in Omaha, either hastily nor unintelligently. it might bo a con venience it we all thought alike, but I foresee no very important objection to a difference of opinion. We have but answered a question of the reorganiza tion committee. What we did in York or Omaha was only in the way of sug. gestion to that committee. It certainly 13 not officially binding, either upon organ'zitioc or delegate. "I hope that every club and federa tion will send women of balance, ex perience and opon minda to Milwaukee and leave them free to use all three. In that case I am sure whatever is dono will be for the best interests of Club, State, Federation and G. F. W. C. and those interests are what we all seek." Frances M. Ford. Mrs. E. Lewis Baker arranged a charming program for the regular meet ing of the Lincoln Matinee Musical last Monday afternoon. The afternoon waB devoted to kie '-songs of childhood," while some very delightful solos were rendered by members. The honors were won by a chorus of thirteen little girls which had been trained by Miss Mary Smith. "Tic Tock" and "The Ginger Bread Man-' were inimitably Bung. Mrs. Charles G. Cone, soloist, and Mies Anna Stuart, piauist, new members of the club, made their first appearance on a program yesterday. Mrs. Cone's num bers showed depth of feeling and sym pathy, while Miss Stuart rendered a solo depicting a romance of French life clearly and comprehensively. The ques tion of conflicting with the woman's club waB discussed and arranged. The next musicale, which is an artists' recital, will be given in the morning, in two weeks; then will follow an intermission of three weeks. The program wa9 aB follows: Piano eoIo Cradle Song, Heln-r, FOR SALE. 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