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THE COURIER. A r HMIMMMMMMIMHMHIIMH" 1 LHBS- is smiiiii -111111111111 iimmmH NOTICE TO CLUB "WOMEN. Mrs. T. C Munger requests that all dele gate to the Sixth State Federation of Wo men's Clubs, which will be held in Lincoln on the 9th, SOth and 11th of October, 1900, send their names to her immediately. Arrangements will be made for their enter tainment on the ITarvard plan. All com munications should be addressed to Mrs. T. C Munger. 1505 S street, Lincoln, Nebr. Tbe Auburn Woman's Club has seDt The Courier the year book for the sea son of-1900 and 1901. This club was organized in 1893 and was federated tbe same year. Tbe officers for the current year are: President, Mrs. Stowell; first vice '.president, Mrs. Foley; second vice president, Mrs. McCarty; secretary, Mrs. Harm an; treasurer, Mrs. Campbell; ser-geant-at-arms.Mrs, NeaLThere are seven departments: literature, lecture, so cial', domestic economics, current events, music and miscellany. At every meet ing there is music. The topics ar ranged for discussion are selected from arUiteratureand current topics.The club colors are scarlet and cream. The book is neat and comprehend ve.The club year books which come to The Courier office are testimonials of the work done by Ne braska publishers as well as to tbe ability of Nebraska club woman to out line a subject and prepare it for the printers. Principle subjects for discussion for the year are: "Do we owe most to our piet or prose writers in shaping our thoughts?" "Value of ventilation in the home." "What can the woman's club do for a library?'' "What can a library do for a town?" "The spirit of giving." "Christmas suggestions." "Cooking meats." "A plea for flowers and shrubbery.'' "Women inventors." "Value of muBic in the home." "Sketch es of noted musical composers." "Ar tistic side of music "Educational value of good litetature." "What should a busy woman read?" "What can women's clubs do for the Bchool?' "Southern writers." "Healthful liv ing." "Hygienic cooking.'' "Scientific tread and cake making." "Art of con versation." "Advantages of a club life." "Art as a message and beauty its messenger." NEBRASKA FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS. SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING, OCTOBER, 9-J2, 1900, LINCOLN. Tuesday, 10 A. M. Executive meeting. 2 P. M. Meeting of Board of Directors. 3 P. M. Program. Meeting of the Federation. Mrs. Apperson, chairman. Invocation, Address of Welcome, Mrs. H. M. Bushneu, Lincoln. Response, Mrs. Adelaide F. Doane, Crete. Address of President, Mrs. A. L. Apperson. Report of Recording Secretary, Miss Mary HuLYork. Report of Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Virginia D. Arnup, Tecumcch. Report of Treasurer, Mrs. Adelaide F. Doane, Crete. Report of Auditor, Mrs. A. B. Fuller, Ashland. Report of Librarian, Mrs. G. M. Lambert son, T frnroltii Report of Reciprocity Bureau, Mrs. A. A. Scott, Lincoln. Report of State Chairman of Correspoad- cace, Mrs, Louisa Lowe'Rickerts, Lincoln Report of Credential Committer. Roll Call of Defecate. Thursday Evening, 8.-00 P. M.-Report of Biennial Delegates. 830 P. M. Art, Mrs. F.M.Hall, Chairman. (a) "Antiquity of Pottery, Mrs. Wiggen hom, Ashland. (b) "Prehistoric Pottery, Mrs. Morey, Hastings. (c) "Potteries of the United States," Mrs. Perfect, Omaha. (d) "Pionetrs of Ceramic Art in America, Miss ButterBeld, Omaha. (e) "The Influence of Ceramic Art on the Home, Mrs. Brock, Lincoln. (f ) "Ceramics as a Wage Earner for Wom en,' Miss Lumbard, Fremont. Illustrated talk on the picture and statuary of the Park Exposition, K rs. F. M. Hall, Lincoln. Wednesday Morning, 930 A. M. Meet ing of the Federation, Mrs. Ap person, Chairman, dub Reports, Eighty nine Clubs, two min utes each. Wednesday Afternoon, 230 P. M. Busi ness meeting, Mrs. Apperson, Chairman. Unfinished Business, New Business. 330 P. M. Music, Mrs. Barbour, chairman MUSIC IN AMERICA. Music of the American and Indian Negro (illustrated) Mrs. H.-P. Fames, Lincoln. Evolution of American Music Madam Baetens Omaha Polonaise Brillante J. C D. Parker Mrs. Lily Ruegg Button Fremont The Spirit of Spring Ilenry Parker Miss Lora Holmes Lincoln Slumber Song Valentine Abt Miss Lillian Kauble Plattsmoutb A Day in Venice Nevin Dawn Gondoliers Venetian Love Song Good Night- Serenade Liebling . ..... ;... Miss Corinne Paulson Omaha One Spring Morning Ethelbert Nevin The Nightingale's Lament Mks Belle Warner York Songs of the Sea MacDowell To the Sea- Song Flute Idyll MacDowell Witches Dance MacDowell Mrs. Will Owen Jones Lincoln Merrily I Roam, Waltz Song, Schlieffarth. Mrs. Wagner Thomas Omaha Serenade Victor Herbert Miss Hagenow Mrs. Hagenow Miss Brownell MissEiche Lincoln Wednesday Evening, 8.-00 P. M. Recep tion. Thursday Morning. 930 A. M. Reports of Biennial Delegates, Mrs. Ap person, Chairman. 10-00 A. M. House hold Economics Meeting, Mrs. Pugh, Chairman. Report of Chairman, Mrs. Mary Moody Pugh, Omaha. 1. "Are cooking school methods practical in everyday life?' Miss Rosa Bouton. Lincoln. 2. "The domestic prob'em and its solu tion," led by Mrs. J. Paul, St. Paul. 3. "Echoes from the domestic science ses sion of the Biennial," Doctor Georgiana Grothan, St. Paul. 4. "Food adulterations and what may be done to enforce pure food laws," Mrs. Harriet S. MacMurphy, Omaha. GenJ eral Discussion. 5. Recitation, "Domestic Science," Miss 'Alice Howell, Lincoln. 6. "Home making from a father's stand point," Reverend Fletcher L. Wharton, Lincoln. 7. "Science vs. drudgery," Mrs. Anna M. Steele, Fairbury. 8. How we may interest women in the practical department of club work, " Mrs. Minnie Durland, Norfolk. 9; "Ethics of home life," Reverend Mary Girard Andrews, Omaha. 10. "Report of the national household economic annual convention at St. Louis," Mrs. Susa Gates, Provo, Utah. Thursday Afternoon, 230, P. M. Mrs. Apperson, Chairman. Report of Biennial Delegates. j 3HX), P. M. Edu cational meeting, Miss Haskell, Chairman. Biennial report of educational session by Chairman. "The school laws of Nebraska," Mrs. Grace tH. Wheeler, Lincoln. "The public schools of Nebraska." (a) "From a mother's standpoint,'' Mrs. Minnie S. Gine, Minden. (b)"From a teacher's standpoint," Mrs. Bertha Bloomingdale, Syracuse. (c) "from a county superintendent's stand point," Miss Charlotte M.White. (d)"From the school board standpoint," Mrs. Harriet S. Towne, Omaha. Address, Miss Alice French (.Octave Thanet) Davenport, Iowa. Thursday Evening, &00, P. M. Mrs. Ap person, Chairman. Report of Biennial Delegates. 830, P. M. Indus trial, Mrs. Harford, Chairman. Report of the Biennial industrial meeting, Lillian R. Harford, Omaha. Address, "dub revolution,"' Mrs. Sarah S. Decker, Denver. "Industrial laws of Nebraska," Althea Let ton, Fairbury. Report of industrial work done by our club. Discussion: "What can we do to better in dustrial conditions ?" Friday Morning, 930, A. M. Business meeting, Mrs. Apperson, Chairman Report of Nominating Committe. Election of Officers. Report of Resolution Committee. Installation of Officers. Adjournment. POET HENLEY'S RAMPAGE Poetical Idols are Overthrowing . Mr. William Ernest Henley has gone on the rampage. A recent article from bis pen on tbe subject of Byron runs amuck among the literary gods. Noth ing more iconoclastic has been done in criticism since Robert Buchanan at tended to Kipling as "the voice of the Hooligan," or, as we should say, of the hoodlum. The article in the Pall Mall Magazine is condensed in the latest issue of the Literary Digest. Mr. Hen lay declares that Byron compares only with Carlyle's "Ram Dass," who had in his belly sacred fire enough to burn up the world. With this fire Byron lighted a conflagration that has not done blaz ing yet. Byron, he declares, had the poetical temperament as no English speaking man had it since Shakspere died. Byron was the man of his age and "the men ahd women his contem poraries were afire with his own un rests, rejoiced and were strengthened in his expression of them and so would have no other bard but him." Mr. Henley goes oc to rap Macaulay. "Macanlay's account of Byron's mes sage to the world that you should hate your neighbor and love your neighbor's wife is, like so much else of Macaulay, the cheapest claptrap." Mr. Henley insists that Byron spoke to something in the popular heart of the time or else there would have been no sale of 40,000 copies of "The Corsair ' in three days, there would have been no raze over "Lara," "ParaBina," "The Giaour" and "Ihe Siege of Corinth." After slapping at some of Mr. Edward Dicey's dicta concerning poetry as "proof and sign of his capacity for writing about everything except litera ture," and sneering at the present Poet Laureate, Mr. Henley proceeds to blas pheme against Tennyson and scoff at Swinburne. And ByroriV-Kaled," ""Zuleika" and' "Haidee," are they, asks Mr. Henley, so very much more remote from reality than "faintly smiling Adeline,' or the My Queen "with her Rubin, and those 'garden tool' and that 'Traviata cough' others" and other early Tennjsonian beauties? "I trow not," exclaims Mr. Henley; "for these shams signed 'Ten nyson' are already dead, and not dead only, bat damned damned to the in fernal deeps, with 'Erebus and tortures vile also.' They are not perhaps so dead as the "Laura Pendennises" and the "Esther SummersonB" of the epoch. But they are dead, and they are like wise damned, and there is urely an end of them. As dead, but scarce so con siderably damned, once we come to think of it, as the Swinburnean ideal which some five-and-twenty years ago we young men that made rhymes went mad to match." But when Mr. Henley comes to con sider Roesetli, he says things that will hock the pre-Raphaelites into a state of coma. Mr. Henley insists that there are numbers in Rossetti's "House of Life" whch Byron, had he written them, would have refused to print, and which, accepting them as the work of another man, he could not have read without blushing. "That, being a gen tleman, and having decent traditions, Byron would have rather died than sign some sonnets in "The House of Life ' is, to Mr. Henley, "a circumstance beyond the reach of doubt." Byron would have blushed over the cold, bald, peering statement of what happened between Mr. and Mrs. Rossetti, to say nothing of the dreadful story of the lover and husband, his grief, his re morse, his passion, and the recovery of the miserable verses, from the buried woman's living, clinging hair. Mr. Henley declares that Rossetti is a tra dition and naught else to him. Mr. Henley says, "I know. that he was slovenly, that he is sometimes ungram matical, that there is this to be said against him this, that and the other thing; all that I know. But I know also that he wrote English: English with a ground bass of Milton and Shakspere, and an overpassingly fluent treble, touched with slang if need be; and, therefore, taking in the whole liv ing world of speech." Then Mr. Hen ley proceeds to make great fun of the Rosssttian refrain poems which, it will be remembered, also evoked the scorn of Max Nordau. "What then would Byron have to say about these Wardour street experiments,' couched in the right Wardour strain, of English and pentiment both, which some, too highly cultivated to endure or "Donna Julia" or the "Giaour," wern pleased to regard as a great invention in art. There was a lady lived in a hall , Large in the eyes, and slim, and tall , And ever she sang from night till noon Two red roses across the moon: and so on for Borne twenty stanzas? Here is another sample of this same mediaeval bric-a-brac: The clink of arms is good to frrar , The flap of pennons good to see! Ho lis there any will ride with me Sir Guy le bon des barriers ? "Yet another sticks in my mind, 'God remember Gwendolen,' the refrain of it; which, for its nauseating effect of 'man lihead,' war worn yet ever-simple, val orous yet ever-mild, were hard to beat. I do not think that this rubbish is read of many nowadays. Yet time was when 'twas regarded as an improvement on "The Idylis of the King," and was thought to take you straight back to the age of Chandos and the Black Prince, Chaucer and Froissart, tbe leaguer of Calais and tae striken fields of Crecy and Poitiers. Bow do Byran's creations show beside these? And how, think you, would the men and women who dreamed and lusted" and aspired i -Y