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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1900)
ThB 60URIBFf. long for what be bag not and to be dis satisfied with what be baa" is shown in the Chilean treatment of Balmaceda, the president who killed himself at the end of the only revolution which Chile has ever had, He was driven to such straits that be took refuge in the rooms of the Argentine legation, but was finally told that even they could no longer shield him. To keep himself from falling into the hands of bis own. countrymen, who surrounded the house, bo dressed himself carefully in the clothes he wore for state functions, ar ranged himself on a couch and a little later was found with a still smoking re volver in his hand. Now he is the pop ular hero of Chile and one hears peo pie lamenting that he is not alive to be come the next president. My dress maker has seven portraits of him in her sitting room, varying from photograph singly and in groups to a copper relief embedded in plush of a color florid enough to ehow an unlimited amount of patriotic fervor. The etreel6 of Santiago are Just now undergoing a transition and an unac customed population stands im the street corners craning their necks after the blue painted electric cars, "made in Germany' and run by a company with an English name. They have been used to seeing cars crowded inside and on top, pulled by two slender, ill-fed horses whose failing power were exhilerated by constant beating, and, when that failed, by a rider on horseback who fastened one end of the rope that be had to the front of the car and spurred his own beast into pulling the car, horses and all. The women etreet car conductors which impress strangers so forcibly, with their aprons and slimy black hair, their sailor hats tilted down over their eyes and their chins buried in shawls wrapped about their necks, are trans ferred to the new electric line, but the day of the jolly out-rider who takes pride in riding as' recklessly and shriek ing as hideously a? possible, is over, and though the new way is inexpressibly more humane and comfortable, the old way lingers in the memory. can only be appreciated by seeing it. These are the ladies whose clever work makes up the display: Mesdamea S. T. Lund, Fannie Bacbraan, R. Wil son, 0. A Wagner, M. F.Morrill, J. C. Comfort, Ida Harr, J. 0. Morrow, D. Lincoln, G. F. Bergner, S. G. Wright, MisseB Ada Wilcox, Edna Martin, Vina Park, Mabel Truax, Blanche Snyder and last in mention, but one of the first in excellence, Mellona Butterfield. r ! LBBS- ilMIMIIIMIIIMIIM MMIMI Officers elected by the Nebraska State Federation on the last day of the sixth an nual session, October tweMth : President Mrs. Draper Smith, Omaha. Vice-President Mrs. Durland, Norfolk. Rec Sec. Miss McCarn, Fremont. Corr. Sec Mrs. Ncely, Omaha. Treasurer Mrs. Cress, Fairbury. Auditor Mrs. Page, Syracuse. Librarian Mrs. Stoutenborough, Platts-mouth. The Current Topics Department of the local Woman's club met Friday at 3 P.M. The situation in the Trans vaal and the Filipines was discussed. Miss Marian Kingsley of the High school gave a talk on "School Boom Surroundings." Mme. Sarah Grand will come to A merica in January and will lecture on the "Human Quest"' and "Mere Man.'' The exhibition of the Nebraska Ce ramic club opened in the Her Grand hotel in Omaha, on Thursday of last week. There are some new exhibitors' in the display, while some of the -former ones are absent. The exhibit all through is so inviting that it is difficult to mention the most attractive pieces. Besides it is very ex tensive and tha excellence of the work Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford will give two copies of "Old Madame," with her autograph on the title-page, to the Lucy Stone table at the coming Suffrage Bazar. MrB. Julia Ward Howe will give an autography of her "Remine cences," Mrs. Livermore several copies of "My Story of the War," Miss Alice Brown her "Meadow Grass," Miss Lil lian Whiting "The World Beautiful, Prof. Ellen Hayes, of Wellesley, her new book on mathematics, and more vol umes are constantly coming in. Will iam Dean Howells and John Hay have each given a book to the exhibit of their respective states. Mrs. Elizabeth A. Kingsbury has sent to the Lucy Stone table one of the earliest works in behalf of equal rights ever published in this country, ''Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Wom en," by Sarah M. Grimke, of South Carolina. This volume long antedated the organized movement for equal rights It has been for many years out of print, and is very rare. Mrs. Kingsbury esti mates its price at $5. Woman's Journal The royal Victoria college for women at 'Montreal, Canada, was formally opened on November 1st. Lord Strath cona built and endowed it in bonor of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and presented it to McGill University and the women of Canada. Recommendations of committee on library extension of Nebraska Federa tion of Women's Clubs: ''A library is an essential pars of a broad system of education, and a com munity should think it as disgraceful to be without a well conducted library as to be without a good school." The Nebraska State Federation of Women's clubs through its Committee on Library Extension respectfully sub mit the following suggestions for a pro gram, which may aid in the develop ment of library interest throughout the state. 1. Poetic quotations on books and libraries. 2. The public library its value to a community. 3. Nebraska's library laws; (consult the revised statutes ) 4. Does Nebraska need a library commission and traveling libraries? What could be accomplished for Ne braska by euch legislation, and how can it be secured? The committee has reason to believe that the club women of Nebraska are imbued with the "library" spirit and that each one will be interested in cir culating a petition which should be sinned by the public spirited people of the county, club women, leading busi ness men, farmers and their wives, teachers, and others. The petition might read: "We, the undersigned, residents of ( county) Nebraska, in the interest of a more in telligent and contented citizenship, and in the desire to see Nebraska-maintain her position in the front rank in pro gressive education, do hereby petition our representatives in the Nebraska leg islature to put our state in line with Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indi ana, Iowa, Kansas; Maine, Massachus etts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hamp shire, New Jersey,- New York; Ohio, 'Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wisconsin by enacting a law creating- a Library Commission, providing for a system of traveling libraries and making a liberal appropriation therefore." After securing names the petition should be pent to the local legislator. May the clnb women of Nebraska realize that the opportunity is here to do a great service. Mrs. Belle M. Stoutenborough, Chairman, PJaitamoutb. Mrs. Louise Ricketts, Lincoln. Mrs. Harriett L. Towne, Omaha. It is reported that Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt has declined the presidency of the National Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution. Women in New Fields. Miss Bertha Hopkins has for four years made a good living supplying water-ground corn meal to a large num ber of patrons in Georgia and the Caro lioae. She cleared 12,500 last year. A bill will be introduced at the next session of the Georgia General Assemb ly proposing to give women more than eighteen years old the privileges of the textile department of the Georgia School of Tecnnology. New York Eve ning Post. The third afternoon concert of the Matinee Musical e was given on last Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the club rooms at Twelfth and N streets. The program was in charge of the third division. Misses Childs and Givens leaders, and consisted entirely of opera tic music and was as follows: Piano Duo Lohengrin Vorspiel Wagner Misses Givens and Kettering Romanza "Pleta, Pleta" (II Profeta) Meyerbeer Aria La Gloconda, Act IV Ponchielli Mrs. E. Lewis Baker Piano -"Nixenchoir'-' Wagner- Mrs. Powers Scene and duet from Aida "Tu la Sorte dell armi" Verdi Miss Childs,- Mrs. Baker Violin Enrt acte Bflat Ballet music, G major Rosamunde Schubert Mias Ina Baird Ensign Miss Burlingim (student), accompanist Polacca from I Puritam Pellini Miss Anna Gertrude Childs Gypsy chorus from-Precioaa- Weber Spring chorus from Samson and 'De lilah Sain-Saens (The Gages of-Dragon's temple 6wing open. Delilah enters followed by Phil istine women holding garlands of flow ers, in their hands.) First Sopranos-' First Altos Miss Elsie-Fawell Mies Nellie Trigg Mrs. J. Grainger Mrs. II. Doane " O.E.Sanderson " E.L.Baker " J.B.Wright Second Sopranos Second Aitos Miss L. M. Haywood Miss M. Kettering " A. G. Childs MrB. Ross Curtice Miss Ella O. Givens, Accompanist. Mrs. Henry Purmort Eames, leader of the Music Study Department of the Lincoln Woman's club hau prepared an outline of her work for the year. Each piogram is preceded by a ten minute talk by the leader. Mrs. Eamea is not only well prepared for her work but has the rift of racking it very interesting. The following is the program: Hayden, Mozart and Beethoven, com pared. Schubert and The Romantic. Faust and Lucia. Christmas Music. Story of the Pianaforte. German .Opera. Theory. Violin and Virtuosi. Piano virtuosi in the NineteenthCen tury. Theory. Italian and French Opera in the Nineteenth Century. Mendelssohn and Rubinstein. Theory. Schumann. Wagner. The year book of the Twentieth Cen tury Club of Pawnee City, in its charm ing colors of pink and white, with a rose for its emblem, and the words "Mutual goodwill and mental growth" for its in spiration, has been received. The of ficers are: President. Miss Latson; vice president, Mrs. Lipp; librarian, Mrs. Tracy; treasurer, Mrs. Eckman; record ing secretary, Mrs. Campbell; corres ponding secretary, Mrs. Kingsbury. The program for the year has been arranged as follows: October 1 Hostess Mrs. Campbell. Address of welcome President October 15 Hostess Mrs. David Roll call How I spent vacation Washington's administration Mrs. Tracy Colonial writers Mrs. Kingsbury Early American sculptors Miss Worthum Merchant of Venice, Act I. October 29 HoBtess Mrs. Eckman Roll call Quotations Bryant Adams' and Jefferson's administration Mrs. Williams Revolutionary writers Miss Vedder Early American painters Mrs. Taylor Merchant of Venice, Act II. November 5 Hostess Miss Latson Roll call Quotations Burcs Madison's administration Mrs. Vedder Paper on wood engraving, etching, photogravure Mrs. Stewart Merchant of Venice, Act 111. November 19 Hostess Mrs. Lipp Roll call Quotations Woman Monroe and Adams administrations Concord writers Mrs, McMasters American women artists and sculptors Mrs. Lipp Merchant of Venice, Acts IV and V. December 3 Hostess Mrs. McMasters Roll call Quotations Thanksgiving Jackson's administration Mrs. Campbell American historians Mrs. Eckman Picturesque Washington Mrs. David Parliamentary drill Mies Latson December 17 Hostess Mrs. O'Laughhn Roll call Quotations Emerson Van Buren, Harrison and Tyler ad ministration Mrs. Kingsbury Cambridge writers Miss Wortham Paper on art Mrs. Robinson Pronunciation test Mrs. Tracy December 31 Hostess Mrs. Robinson Roll call Quotations Longfellow Polk, Taylor and Fillmore administra tions Mrs. Taylor Early American magazines Mrs Williams Art galleries of America Miss Vedder Othello. Act I. January 14 Hostess Mre. Stewart Roll call Quotations New Year Pierce' and Buchanan's administration- Mrs. Robinson Nature's essayists Mrs. Stewart American Negro in art Mrs. Vedder Othello, Act II. -- A y y
