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CALENDAR OF NEBBABKA CLUBS.
ApriL
, Woman's, c.. Annual meetlnc Stanton
0 ( Woman's c. Parliamentary prac-
v ? tice Omaha
n I Woman's c. Political and social
science Omaba
j Woman's c Parliamentary prac-
" j tice Lincoln
9, Sorosis, History Stanton
10, Sorosis, Modern charity Lincoln
p. Woman's c General meeting Falrbury
10, Woman's c Ethics and Philosophy'.. Omaha
10, Woman's c., French conversation... ..Omaha
in J Woman's c. City improvement de-
1U "j partment Omaha
10, Woman's c. Current topics. Omaha
10. Woman's c, German history Omaha
10, Woman's c. Current events Lincoln
( History and Art c House of Com-
10, mons Wordsworth, Byron, Tcn-
( nyson, Browning Albion
11, Woman'sc., Oratory Omaha
II, Woman's c. Music Omaha
-, J Century a. Literature, music,
r, drama and science of Holland. ..Lincoln
1 yrman's a Art Omaha
1 iVoman'fi " Education Omaha
l Woman's cPtory Lincoln
j Woman's c Parliamentary
" 1 department -Plattsmouth
13, Woman's c.. Masic ;..,....Lincoln
. - J XLX. Century c. Painting in Spain
- J History of politics SewaTa
,- J Hall in the Grove. Modern Italian
" "j life ....' Lincoln
., ( History and Art c The Luxem
' t baurg emperors John Huss.... -Seward
14, Woman's c.. Child study. North Bend
14, Woman's a, English history. ...Stromsburg
14. Woman's c, Child Study. Lincoln
14, Woman'sc., French Lincoln
,. J Zetettc a. Household econ-
" omlcs WcepingWater
,. J Fin de Slecle c Compare Bret
-" J Harte and Hawthorne Seward
OFFICERS OF X. F. W. C 1899 1900.
Pres., Mrs. Anna L. Apperson, Tccumseh.
V. P., Mrs. Ida W. Blair, Wayne.
Cor. Sckv, Mrs. Virginia D.Arnup, Tecumseh.
Kec Sec. Miss Mary Hill. York.
Treas., Mrs. H. F. Doone, Crete.
Librarian. Mrs. G. M. Lambcrtson, Lincoln.
Auditor, Mrs. E. J. Halner, Aurora.
The Nebraska Federation of Women's
Clubs has issued a beautiful little year
book. A book is interesting or uninter
esting, useful or useless, according to
its contents, but more than these quali
ties are necessary to make it attractive.
The outside or worldly appearance of a
book is a source of great satisfaction a
good binding, fine, heavy paper aad
clear print are certainly worthy attri
butes of a book. Both inwardly and
outwardly is the Year Book of the wo
men's clubs of Nebraska a success. It
is printed upon heavy white paper with
a handsome monogram upon the outside
cover. The book, according to matter,
is well arranged and compact, being full
of much necessary information. After
the names of club officers, of committees,
and their members there is a kindly, in
spiring greeting from Mrs. Apperson,
the state president, and messages and
words of encouragement from the
various committees as to their respective
work in the individual clubs of the state.
Such a book speaks highly for the
efforts of the officers of the stata feder
ation. A smaller pamphlet, alec issued
by the N. F. W.C., accompanies the
year book. It is compiled by the House
hold Economics committee and con
taine in blue covers a greeting from
President Apperson, a preface by Linda
Hull Larned, president of the National
Household Economics Association, and
a program and biography for a season's
study of the science.
The credential committee has issued
the following notice to the delegates to
the Milwaukee biennial. This is offic
ial and should be preserved for future
reference:
The credentials committee will be in
session Saturday afternoon, June 2,
from two until five o'clock; Monday
morning, June 4, nine until twelve
o'clock; Monday afternoon, June 4, two
until five o'clock, Monday evening, June
4, eight until ten o'clock; Tuesday mor
ning, June 5, eight thirty until ten thir
ty o'clock.
The headquarters of the credentials
committee will be posted in all hotels,
and published in the daily papers.
The visiting card of each delegate
must be attached to her credential
blank.
Club receipts for general federation
dues for 1900 must be presented with
credentials.
All club women are requested to wear,
upon arrival, a knot of light blue ribbon
on the shoulder, for identification by
the reception committee, members of
which will wear yellow.
On Thursday afternoon the literary
department of the Lincoln woman's
club met at the high school building.
The subject under discussion was the
second act of "The Merchant of Venice."
The last meeting of Sorosis was held
at the home of the president, Mrs. II.
H. Wheeler. The subject for the after
noon,"The Philosophy of the Vedantae,"
was very interestingly presented by Mrs.
E. L. Hinman from the following out
line: Introduction Tne nearness and the
remoteness of Hindu thought.
The Sacred Writings The Vedas,
the Vedautas, the Upanisbads, the Ve
danta Sutras.
Characteristics of the Upanishads.
The interior and superior religions;
ethical requirements for knowledge of
the higher.
The fundamental principle of the Ve
dantic teachings; the self.
The different degrees of reality and
unreality, Brahma, Maya, lsvara, Hiran
yagarbha and Purusha.
The relation of the individual soul to
the self; Metempsychosis, and the re
lease from Metempsychosis.
The conspicuous defects of the Ve
dantic philosophy.
The influence of the Veiantas on
English literature of the nineteenth
century.
The next meeting will be held April
10th at the home of Mrs. A. S. Tibbetts,
658 South Seventeenth street. Mrs.
T. S. Allen will lead on the subject of
"Modern Charity."
To dubs of ten taking The Courier the
annual subscription price is seventy five
cents (75 cents). Regular subscription price
one dollar per year.
officers of the club, Mrs. F. C. LaSelle,
president; Mrs. M. V.Nichols, first vice
president; Mrs. H. A. Harden, Becond
vice president; Mrs. Charles Blakely.
secretary; Mrs H. E. Burch, correspond
ing secretary, received the guests. The
reception room and parlors were beau
tifully decorated with large palms, and
the dining room was lovely with the
table banked with smilax and crowned
with an immense crystal bowl of Amer
ican beauty roses. Festoons of the
smilax extended from the table to the
chandelier and ceiling, and the effect
was very beautiful. In the west parlor
a delicious punch was served to the
many guestB by Miss Alice Beachley.
Mrs. Walter Scott, assisted by Mesdames
A. H. Kidd, Charles King and E. C.
Salisbury, was in charge of the dining
room, and the ices and delicate cakes
were thoroughly enjoyed. The music
was furnished by Mrs. L. C. Parker,
MisBes Agnes Kennedy and Alice Beach
ley. The leaders of departments, Mes
dames Maurice Deutecb, G. A. Murphy,
A. W. Mickell and Ida Adamson, were
present to assist in entertaining. The
day was fine, the attendance large and
the reception altogether a most enjoy
able affair.
to the material world, where "only man
ia vile." The picturesque feature of the
coast towns covers much misery, degrad
ation and immorality. Miss Hayden
spoke briefly of a quaint little town in
Holland, describing the manners and
customs of these Dutch people, their
great cleanliness and their honesty. The
next meeting of this department will be
in three weeks. Mrs. Brock will ad
dress the class on "Decoration in Pottery."
Dr. Lowry will deliver an' 'address
upon "Italian Art'.' boiore the Hall in
the Grove on April 13.
When I hear a club woman arguing
as to the direct and personal good her
club is to derive from membership in
the general federation, or hesitating and
debating about the expense of the ten '
cents per capita which goes to the sup
port of an organization of which all
club women are proud, I wonder if wo
men have been unjustly accused of nar
rowness and parsimony, and if they are
really unable to take a broad, disinter
ested view of questions of philan
thropy and business. Not each mem
ber can hope to be a delegate to the
state or biennial meetings. It is an im
possibility for many club women to be
away from home duties the length of
time required to attend these meetings.
There is strength in numbers, and the
work planned by the general federation
for the uplifting of humanity needs the
enthusiastic co-operation of every wo
man's club in America. Do not ask
what shall we receive, but what can we
do to further this noble work. Remem
ber that the giving is more ennobling
than the receiving.
The woman's club of Beatrice held its
annual reception at the. residence of
Mrs. F. C. LaSelle Friday afternoon
from three to five o'clock, and a most
delightful occasion it proved to be. The
The art department of the Lincoln
woman's club met ThuiBday, March 29,
and listened to a delightful talk by Mies
Hayden on "An Artist's Sketching
Tour Through France and Hollaud."
Miss Hayden told of the beautiful pal
aces, galleries, museums and cathedrals
erected by centuries of labor.
Many artists find the villages the most
charming and picturesque, beginning
with Ecouen, the home of several of
the older French artists, among- them
Edouard Frere, whose charming pic
tures of children and peasant lite have
made his name a familiar one in every
land. This village is but thirty minutes'
ride from Paris. Few artists know of
this charming place.
Barbizon recalls at once a gallaxy of
famous names. Tourists often drive
over from the Palace of Fontainbleau,
five miles distant, to see the home of
Millet, the fields where he painted "A
Man with a Hoe," "The Gleaners" and
"The Angelus." The woman who poeed
for-the latter was living there two years
ago, but Blowly dying of consumption.
The peasants work in the fields, and are
more simple, moie primitive than the
peasants of Ecouen. American women
who see her sisters bending under heavy
loads or harnessed in with the beasts of
the field, give thanks that their lot haB
fallen in a country where such a state of
things is impossible. A complete change
of scenery is found in Etaples, a snall
hamlet on the northeast coast of France,
half an hour's ride from Boulogne. It
is a very old town, and when held by
the Romans had a port large enough to
admit a large fleet. Now the sea has
receded two miles and Etaples lies on a
tidal river, which is alternately a great
bay and a shallow stream. The people
here for generations have wrested their
living from the sea, and the stranger
coming from the interior turns bis steps
naturally toward the shore. Every sum
mer findB a large colony of artists at
Etaples. It ia not too far from Paris,
nor too expensive, and there is a great
variety in the way of material. Louis
Dessar haB an artistic home a short dis
tance from the town, where he comes
from New York to spend his summers.
The bridge is the great rendezvous at
sunset for both the artists' colony and
villagers. It is a most beautiful right,
but when one retraces his steps through
the darkling streets, a burst of drunken
laughter greets his ear, and a reeling
figure crosses his path bringing one back
'The broadening influence of club life
has nowhere been felt with more force
than in the south, where social barriers
are higher and more difficult to level
than in the north. Mrs. Neil Carothere,
referring to this subject, says: "Aris
tocracj of worth is nowhere more em
phasized than in club circles, and if
nothing else good can be said of wo
men's clubs, the beautiful club spirit
pervading this Sorosis band is truly
most wholesome in its effect and worthy
of higher commendation. And 1 confi
dently assert that of all the social, mor
al, political and religious influences at
worK in the land today none are eo po
tent as women's clubs in their tendency
to obliterate the old and heart breaking
lines of social distinction among women
and substitute in their stead those dis
tinctions which look for their standard
to the head and the heart. No prestige
growing out of wealth, political position,
or a long line of creditable ancestors
counts for anything in club station.
Any woman with a pure and refined
heart and a desire to advance herself
and humanity secures immediate recog
nition, and can aspire with confidence
to the highest honors attainable in club
dom. At least this is true of Arkansas
clubs which, the state over, boast of the
culture, talent and refinement of its fair
femininity. That 'God hands gifts to
some and whispers them to others' is
clearly understood by the executive
committee of the-clubs, and a special
niche is found for the development and
use of each particular style and calibre."
There is a reaction among club wo
men, the large majority feeling that one
club is about all they can do justice to
while attending to their many other
duties. There are still women .who
boast of belonging to halt a dozen or
more clubs. One Boston woman belongs
to twenty -seven, a New York woman to
thirty-three. To offset these the presi
dent of the Chicago woman's club claims
that a woman can be an acceptable
member to but one club.
The club women of Nebraska should
take a larger interest in school matters.
As commercial life becomes more and
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