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"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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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