The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, January 20, 1900, Page 9, Image 9

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THE PHOTOGRAPHER
120 South Eleventh Street.
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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
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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,
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