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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1900)
THE COURIER. k "I can't 'reune,' but I've brought some of my plum jelly and butter for the fair, and I can stay as long as Jobn doep. And I've just as good a right to ride on street cars and see things, too." MMHMMIUMMIMMMMOCOOCOO00 LBB3- after he reached the grounds in safety, but they'll expect me to stay to see the but felt no call to write a letter until university open that's a great show, after h had decided to stay over fur the they say but I'm ready to quit with reunion. Then he though he had bent the fair." let her know something tf what he was seeing, for he knew she would be glad Th0 amazing thing was that two days to hear all about it, even if she wouldn't after this letter was written, Mrs., Day come herself. These are 6ome extracts came to Lincoln. "I thought I might from his letter: as well come if John is going to make "WeU, Martha, you bja home here WBB her explanation. ought to be here and see all these things. I'm having a good time, if it is too hot to live. The very first place I went to see when I got .here waB Bryan's house. You know Jim Jeffries always swaggered around and said Bryan had a picture of himself stuck up in his front bow window. I never believed it, and I got off the car and aeked the conductor to wait a minute while I went nearer-to the house. It wouldn't take but a min ute. Everybody in the car laughed, so I Buppose it was a joke on me. Don't see why the couldn't do it I'll tell Jim when I get home that he doesn't know much. Bryan's house is just as ordinary as can be, looks a good deal like the Dawson house, except that the porch is wider. I don't see why they make ?nn of that porch either. It's all right. 1 should think it would be a nice place for the children to play, if they'd coop it up some. Should think if what they tell me is so the Bryan boy ought to be kept in some kind of a coop for a while, or else let loose where there's all out doors and nothing dangerous for him to play with. May be that's what Bryan has a farm for. I've seen that, too. "I've been out on the street cars a good many timee. The girls went with me to the penitentiary. I felt pretty bad about that, just like two little children who were going through them. Their eyes grew so big and they wanted to see everything, bat pretiy soon they begged to go home. I believe I'd rather be hung than go there. You.never could have stood that. trip. ,'. "Jf you want to ride on a street car that is a street car. you ought to go out to Havelock on the fine new cars they have now. You wouldn't be. afraid of them, I know, any more than of our old rickety buggy and Dan at home. Some of the old cars balk some times and have to be tinkered with, but they are real safe. "You told me to be sure to see the Wesleyan. It makes me wish I was rich. There's only one build ing; that new one was burned down be fore it was used. The town is all grown up to weeds and prairie grass, so that it looks real farmy. I wanted to see Cot ner university ever bo much. You know George went there. But they say there isn't any way to get there. .IT - ,nlJ . glad you didn't come to the Assembly. September 29. The women go around with their long Literature under the Normans. skirts trailing in the dupt. I sawayel- Paper Romances and Legends of King low satin dress switching around like a Arthur. mop last Sunday. That would make Reading from Launcelot and Elaine. you mad at the women. Then you ought Duet. December 22. Responses from Shakspere. The Elizabethan Dramas and Dramatists. Shakspere's Heroines. Instrumental Soto. Social. January I. IMMIIMIIMMCIMMIMMMCOOI The Zetetic club of Weeping Water has just issued the year book for 1900 and 1901. The Zetetic club was organ ized in 1884 and federated in November, 1891. I believe it is the oldest federated club in the state. The club color is corn and the emblem, bittersweet, the fruition and the pennant of autumn. The motto is "Mutual good-will "and mutual growth.'' The officers for the season are: President, Mrs. Rhoda Rouse; vice president, Mrs. F. Augus tine Gates; secretary Mrs. Florence Tee garden; treasurer, Mrs. Edith Donelao. Executive committee, Mrs. Margaret Sackett Mrs. Gertrude Girardet, Mis. Katberine Dunham, Mrs. Nellie Sack ett The members will study the history of English literature. The. book pre sents a very sound framework of sub jects, beginning with Caedmon and Beowulf and ending with Jane Austin. According to the program, every meet ing is enlivened' and diversified ,fcfy music This feature is esDeciallv worthv of imitation. Music is oil and par- Review Sense and Sensibility," Austen. fume. It introduces and concludes nannan ajoreanoneruomemporanes. occasions, and harmonizes the mem bers of society. It unites the members of a club better than.any other form of expression. If every club had a member who could train the others in chorus singing, the spiritual effects of Auld Lang Syne or some one of . the old fashioned songs might unite with other club influences in deepening the January 5. Progress of Literature from Elizabeth's Death to the Restoration. Paper John Milton and His Work. Instrumental Music January 26. Literature of Queen Anne and the First Georges. Review, in King's Houses." Character Sketches from " English Humor ists," Thackeray J.Swift. 2. Steele. 3. Addison. 4. Pope. 5. Fielding. February 16. Literature of the Restoration J. Poetry Change in Style and Subject 2. Drama Review, "For .Faith and Freedom," Bes- ant Instrumental Solo. March 2. Eighteenth Century Tendencies in Litera ture 1. Impetus Given Historical and Political Literature. 2. Change Observable in Style of Poetry. Reading' from Burns. Characterization of Oliver Gokfcmkh Brief Synopsis with Extracts from "Vicar ofWakefielcV Solo. (ddrpsses are: Miss Mary Jackson, Providence; Miss Elizabeth C. Carter, president of the federation; Mrs. G. M. Emerson, Norwich, Conn.; Mrs. M. G. Simpson, Boston; Mrs. T. .Thomas For tune, New York; Miss Byrdie M. Boyd, Weet Medford, Mass.; Miss Ells Wilson, Worcester; Mies Ida G. Carter, Npw York; Mrs. Olivia B. Bush; Mrs. Julia O. Henson; Mrs. Elizabeth Tatum, Bos ton; Miss Grace Booth, Nnw Haven; Mies Mary Lewis, New York, and Miss Idella Scott, Norwich, Conn. f Hayertiill, Mass., Gazette. 1 The Massachusetts State Federation is the first, if not the only one, to insti tute a committee on arts acd crafts. The meeting at Newburyport in charge of that committee, the best account of which, by the way, was published by Mrs. A. E. Wbittaker in the New Eng land Farmer, shows what a domain whb open to those who wished to enter into the movement. The arts and crafts exhibition at Mil waukee in connection with the biennial emphasized this fact. It was not an ambitiouB exhibition, but it held the germ of greater things. Besides the in dustries exploited at Newburyport, the Abnakf e rugs, Deerh'eld embroideries, Indian laces and baskets and moutain eer weaving there were exhibits of china and pottery, fine laces, book-making, drawings and paintings, leather and metal work, eastern rugs, ivories and carvings, Norwegian embroideries, and many other things, a respectable, inter esting and valuable collection. English Art Instrumental solo. The Evolution of the Novel. Instrumental solo. Business Meeting. April 13. April 27. May 15. May 25. sisterhood of women in Nebraska. The first meeting of the Zetetic will be held on September 8th with Mrs. Sackett and, after the president's ad dress, Mrs. Woodford will read a thesis on "The Anglo-Saxons and Their Literature." Moral, Religious and Time of Chaucer. Pronuncia'ion Test October 13. Social Condition of -to hear 'Bishop Hamilton give us men folks our deserts. Made me feel as if I ovght to be hung for being born. "Burt wants me to fitAV for hn miininn anil T crnnca htk boys can manage the store, can't they? oa2 Then there's the fair afterwards, and I October 27. might as well take it in. There's always Influences Affecting Literature from Chau- something going on in this town. The cer's Death to Elizabeth. people here have to stay at home mostly , Revival of Learning. to take care of visitors. Don't know 2. Caxton's Work. 3. Reformation. Pen Pictures of Court of Henry' VHI. Cascoden. Sir Thomas Moore and His "Utopia." November 10. EKgahrtnan Prose. Elizabethan Poetry. Reading" Fairy Queen." Song. .... , Responses from Scott Characterization of McCaulay and Carlyle. Review, " Kenilworth." Biographical Sketch of Scott. Instrumental Solo. June 15. Responses from Dickens and Thackeray. Charles Dickens The Man and His Mis sion. William M. Thackeray The Man and His Style. LIST OF BOOKS FROM THE If. F. W. C. LIBRARY. Green's Short History of the English People. The Age of Elizabeth, Creighton. The English Humorists, Thackeray. Hand-book of English History, Guest Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, Whipple. Sense and Sensibility, Austen. tl FKIILIK wvcirvirio ICE GREIWl V And Dairy 60. . V Manufacturers of the finest qua! C ity of plain and fancy Ice Cream ? Tjin n I" -a Utm Wf4 Bflh IiukahKA and. Sherbets. Prompt, delivery and satisfaction guaranteed. 183 SO- 1 2th St. PHONE 205. 1 Providence, R. I., Journal I Preparations are now practically com pleted for the annual convention of the Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs, which will be held in this city on Thursday and Friday of this week. The sessions will be held in the People's A. M. E. Zion church on Winter street Ample -entertainmeut will be provided by the New Century club of this city, Miss Mary Jackson, president Several qplored women of prominence less glaze, unique Among pottery exhibits were speci mens of the famous Rookwood ware, and it is, perhaps, one of the secrets of its success that, as we are told, "the artist ia permitted extraordinary free dom. He may turn his own piece or take it from the 'man at the wheel' and shape it to suit his fancy." The Rookwood is especially interest ing to club women because it owcb its birth to the experiments of a small ceramic club of Cincinnati women, who, influenced by the exhibits of the cen tennial exposition, commenced experi menting with native clays, not with the idea of copying BDy special ware, but "to make pottery." Among these women was Mrs. Langworth Storer, a person of strong character, artistic temperament and ample financial resources. She established a pottery of her own and called it the "Rookwood" after the family summer home. In 1890 the busi ness became incorporated. The aim is to attain a higher art rather than cheap er processes. A spirit of freedom and liberality has prevailed and the deco rators are encouraged to develop their individual artistic feeling. The pottery Bent all its workers to the Columbian ex position in 1893, and has sent several of . its decorators to Europe and one to Japan. The decorating is done by local art ists, young men and young women who are trained in the Cincinnati Art acad emy. The fundamental idea is "to pro mote the material growth of an art pot tery out of local conditions, both mate rial and artistic," Greeley pottery is a Boston produc tion, of which a Philadelphia woman says: "The perfect finish makes every surface soft to the touch, really like velvet, and many of the designs seemed bo like nature as to be poaitivoly start ling." The specimens at Milwaukee were distinguished by the dull, lustre- to this vare. Of : Musical meeting.- December I. will be preeent, including Mrs. ttooker ureeiey, Mrs. j. uowara walker says: T. Washington and Mrs. Ruftin of Boe- "Excepting in Japanese pottery, no ton, the latter of whom is the delegate where are natural forms convention who was refused admission to the re- alized more justly than here. Ab in the cent biennial convention of the General old wares there are no two pieces exactly Federation of Women's Clubs at Mil- alike, for while the general form may be waukee on account of her color. maintained, every detail is a matter of Others who will read papers or make individual regard. The gamut of color i A. J' : f