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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
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