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THE COURIER. tory of America, and finally who were able to lucidly and .forcibly state the reasons for and against any national policy. In lieu of statesmanlike qualities it was urged- that Mr. Thompson was a benevolent man, that he was a good business man, that he was in control of the local machine.and that it would be well for Lincoln, if a senator residing here, who understood handling, the sort of men who direct ward politics, could be elected. It does not effect ttie rest of the state that Mr. Thompson has thought he could buy disreputable men. The rest of the state is Influenced by the traditions of the party as to desirable qualifications of ao United States senator. It is very kind of the candidate to organize the "Thompson Tired Moth ers' Excursion," but was it wise, con sidering the limitations of the suf frage, to exclude the Tired Fathers from the refreshment and culture .of travel ? jt J Righteous Indignation. The Sultan while refusing to pay our bill for missionary homes and other property dlsroyed, still pro) poses to send Turkish troops, to China to avenge christian missionary in sults on the Chinese. Kings and queens, emperors and sultans are not consistent. The exigencies of an ab solute reign forbid. Therefore they are never obliged to make explana tions or to harmonize today's conduct and speech with yesterday's, which is one comfort of rullsg alone without the advice and consent of the people He I wonder how. many men have ver kissed you before. She Ae if I could remember every thing. Town Topics. Hundreds of men who have married little, aweet, Billy women, with the idea of "moulding" them, are now occupying untimely graves. Town Topics. About the time people make as much fuse over their religion as they do over their politics the millenium wii! be along. The Saturday Evening Post. IMIIIIMIMIliMMIlilMMIIIMMMt LBBS- MIMIIMMIMIIIIMMHIMMmiHM OFFICERS OF N. F. W. C., 18 a 1900. Pres., Mrs. Anna L. Apperson, Tecumseh. V. P.. Mrs. Ida W. Blair, Wayne. Cor. Sec., Mrs. Virginia D.Arnup, Tecumseh. Rec Seti. Miss Mary Hill. York. Tress., Mrs. H. F. Dome, Crete. Librarian, Mrs. O. M. Lambertson, Lincoln. Auditor, Mrs. E. J. Halner, Aurora. G. F. W. C Officers for 1900-1902. President Mrs. Rebecca D. Lowe, Georgia. V.-Presldent Mrs. C. T. Denison, New York". 2d V.-Pres-d't Miss Margaret J. Evans, Minn. Rec Sec Mrs. Emma Fox. Michigan. Cor. Sec Mrs. G. W. Kendrick, Pa. Treas. Mrs. E. M. Van Vechten, Iowa. Aud. Mrs. George H. Xbyes, Wis. . Director Mrs. Edward L. Buchwalter, Ohio; Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, Indiana; Miss Margaret J. Evans, Minnesota; Mrs. Margaret J. Lockwood. District or Columbia; Mrs. Annie West, Massachusetts; -Mrs. W. J. Christie, Montana; Mrs. W. J. Coad, South Dakota; Mrs. William Streeter, New Hampshire; Mrs. R.L. Priddy, Kansas. The year book of the Cozy Club of Tecumseh bound in lavender and white is herewith acknowledged. The topic of next season's study is Tho French Feo-' ple.The officers for the ensuing year are: - President, Mrs. Harris; vice president: Mrs. Sullivan; secretary, Miss Ella Mc Crosky; treasurer, Mn. Boston; librar ian, Mrs. True. Program cdmmittee: Mrs. Pollock, Mrs. SBllivan tod Mrs. True. Music commitee: Miss Appel- January 30. get and Mise Ella McCroeky. The book is bound in k vender and white and contains much in little as -the following outlines indicate: BUSINESS. October.3. Business. Current Topics. Music, Ethel Atnup. With Mrs. Harm. October 17. FRANCE. Paper, Trance Under the Kings," Mrs. True. Sketch, "Richelieu," Mrs.Suffivan. Paper, Trance as a Republic," Mrs.PooL "Napoleon," Eulogy... Ella McCrosky. Music Mrs. Wilson. With Mrs. Rosakrans. October 24. SOCIAL QUESTIONS. Sodal Settlements," Mrs. Barton. "Vagrants," Mrs. Pollock. "The Ghetto," Mrs. Davidson. Discussion of Papers..... Music Prof. Olson. With Miss Appelget. November 7. FRANCE. "Characteristics of the French People," Mrs. Apperson. "Why Does France Govern the World of Fashion?" Miss Appelget. "Home Life in France," .... Mrs. Harris. Discussion Music .- MksHassett, ' Villi Miss McCrosky November 21. EDUCATION. "Is Education Culture?" Mrs. Dafoe. "Fads in Education,". .Mrs. McLanahan "The Magazine as an Educator," ...Mrs. Bouton. Discussion Music .Jessie Davidson. With "rs. True. December 5. FRENCH ART. "Early French Art," "French Sculpture and the Nude m Art," .Miss McCrosky. Painters of Eighteenth Century Watteau, (Painter of Caurt Life) .... Vemet, (Marine Painter) Greuze, (Painter of Domestic Life). . Mrs. Sullivan. French Recitation Mrs. Pierce. With Mrs. Barton. December 19. THE HOME. "How Science has Improved Our Domes tic Living," Mrs. Allen. "Social Duties of Women," Mrs. Rosenkrans "Household Decorations,". . . Mrs. Barton. Discussion.... Music Jessie Davidson. With Mrs. Davidson. January 1. NEW YEAR RECEPTION. "We stay our haste, we make delays, For what avails the eager pace?" Hostess, Mrs. Svllivan. January 16. FRENCH ART. - "French Art in Nineteenth Century." Corot,(Painter of Sentiment in Nature,' Millet and Breton, (Painters of Toilers,) Rosa Bonheur, (Painter of Animals,) Tissot, (Religious Painter,) David, (Reviver ot Classic Style,). . . .Conducted by Miss McCrosky. June 5. Music Sadie Stiver. Whi Mrs. Allen. THE WRONG WOMAN. THE HOME. "Home Making vs. Housekeeping," "What Shafl We Teach our Daughters?" "System vs. Individuality," Conducted by Mrs. McLanahan. Music. ..'Mrs. Rosakrans. With Mrs. Apperson. February 13. FRENCH WOMEN "Women of France in Literature, Ella McCrosky. "Conversation on Mark Twain's Joan of Arc," Led by Mrs. Alien. "Women of the Salon,"-. . .Mrs. Pollock. With Mrs. Pierce. February 27. NEBRASKA DAY. History of Nebraska. Topography and Natural Resources. The University and the Public School System. Nebraska Journalism. The Writers of Nebraska. , Readings from Dunroy, Mrs. Peattie, Bizby. TOASTS. The Clubs. Early Days in Tecumseh. The Garden Spot of Nebraska. Nebraska's Backbone-The U. P. Things that Foster Our State Pride. Arranged by Mrs. True. .With Mrs, McLanahan. March 13. FRENCH LITERATURE. "French Historians and Novelets," Ella McCrosky. "French Dramatists and Scientists." Mrs. Harris. Conversation on "Les Mkerabks,'' Led by Mrs. Apperson. Music Anna Pollock. With Mrs. Pollock. "March 27. ' a " LITERATURE. "The Novel-If s Influence," Mrs. Pool. "The Newspaper," (Two Minute Talk,) Mrs. Allen. Conversation on "The Gad Fly," Led by Mrs. True. Music . Eva Cooper. With Ella McCrosky. April 10. FRANCE. Paper, "Pascal and Voltaire," Miss Appelget. "The City of Park," . . . .Mrs. Davidson. "Chateaux and Cathedrals of France," Mrs. Rosakrans. "Amnrican Colony in Park," Mrs. Pollock. Music With Mrs. Dafoe April 24. PROBLEMS OF THE DAY. Conducted by Mrs. Sullivan. With Mrs. Bouton. Mayo. FRENCH INSTITUTIONS French Academy University of Paris Mrs. Dafoe. "The Church Problem in France," Mrs. Bouton. Music Misses Sullivan, Chamberlain. With Mrs. Sullivan May 22. "The Books of the Year," -. Mrs. Apperson "The New South,". . . Mrs. McLanahan. Conversation on "Red Rock," Led by Mrs. Bouton. .Music M McCrosky. With Mrs. True. BUSINESS. With Mrs. McLanahan- AN AFTER-DINNER TALE. "Now I have given you a good dinner, a good cigar, and the most comfortable lounging place in the house, and I want you to be nice to me.' "Why, my dear lady, am I not always that?" and the most aggravating man in the world, next to Jem, stretched himself just a little more on my beauti ful green couch. "No, you are not. You shut yourself up closer than a clam; especially when you have something very rich, rare and racy that I am just dying to hear. You know I never gossip with any one except you and Jem, and yet you love to pose as a sphynx, only instead of at king un answerable questions, you make me ask questions that you don't answer." "Ye gods! What a stump speaker the woman's party lost when Jem won you. v What have I done that I should be eo A berated? If you had not just dined and wined me I should leave you at once." "No, you should not, for I would not let you, This is my only opportunity to learn ot that dear little curio, that dainty piece of porcelain, who plays the violin like an angel and talks like a de mon." "I thought they used harps in heaven." "Perhaps! I've forgotten. The other simile is correct isn't it? ' "That Schenskow talks like a demon? Oh, uo more like a London cabman, I think. Do give the de'il his due and admit that he is. at least, a gentleman.'' "What a diplomant you think you are! As if you could make me lose my tack by talking about your cloven-footed friend! He's interesting, of course, or you would not know him, but, now, I am more curious about your musician." "Because you haven't known him eo long?"' "Well, he is more of a novelty. Do yon intend to satisfy the curiosity?" i "Curiosity, and you confess it? Marvel " ot marvels! I shall tell Jem he has an anomaly for a wife: a woman who ad mits she is a lineal dsscendent of Eve." "As a general thing you men seem to have preferred her to Lilith'." "Ah, but the exceptional Lilith makes us forget our preferences in remember ing her." "Will you forget yours now and tell me the romance?" "Romance? Poor little Schenskow, I suppose, thinks it a tragedy. Queer, isn't it, how much more dignity our lives have for ourselves than for others how we magnify our own doings until they seam events of importance? I sup pose you think the ordering and serving of a dinner as momentous as an affair of state?" "So long as you think eating my din ners worth while, I shall think ordering them well worth while." "What a pretty speech! I succumb;,--But why are you interested in Schens kow's love affair? I have heard you de clare, oyer aud over, that the personality ot the artist has nothing to do with his art; that good poetry is not a question of good morals, nor fine acting attained by being true to one's wife. Have you never warned me not to tell you that your favorite composer snored and that your pet painter cheated his trades men?" "If you were my huband, I should poison you," I say, calmly and collect edly. "The most annoying people in the world are those who have so little imag ination that they roust have a reason for everything. I once heard a comic opera. In that opera was a fool, who shoved that he was one by never saying anything but 'Why?' I know now that the librettist who put that word into the mouth of his simpleton was genius." "Am x a. simpieion." my irtend qua- V v )