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THE COURIER. .A r T ; r- .,-" V &- d h ' 4 January 28 Hostess Mrs. Taylor Roll call Quotations Wbittier First year civil war Mrs. Lipp War literature Mrs. O'Laughlin Painters of battle scenes Mrs. McMasters Othello, "Act III. February 11 HosteBS Mrs. Vedder Roll call Quotations Mrs. Browning Second year civil war Mrs. David Women writers Mrs. Campbell Standing of American artists abroad Mrs. Eckman Othello, Act IV. February 2o Hostess Mrs. Williams Roll call Quotations St. Valentine Third year civil war Miss Wortham American humorists Mrs. Tracy Noted painters of last J-century Mrs. Kingsbury Othello, Act V. March 11 Hostess Mifs Wortham Roll call Quotations War LaBt year civil war Miss Vedder Dialect writers Mrs. Taylor Parliamentary drill Mrs. Williams March 25 Hostess Mrs. Kingsbury Roll call Quotations Spring Johnson's administration Mrs. Stewart American orators Mrs. Vedder How to judge a picture Miss Latson Pronunciation test Mrs. Robinson Hostess Mrs. Tracy Roll call Quotations Alice Carey U. S. Grant's administration Mrs. McMasters American drama Mrs. Lipp Parliamentary drill Mrs. O'Laughlin April 22 Hostess Miss Vedder Roll call Quotations Tennyson ilayes and Garfield's administrations Mrs. Eckman Late writers of American Action Mrs. David Spelling contest Mrs. Campbell MayG Hostess Mrs. Stewart Roll cbII Quotations Scott Cleveland and Harrison's administra tions Mrs. Williams Magazines of today Miss Latson American at the World's Fair Miss Wortham May 20 Hostess Mrs. Lipp Roll call Quotations Walt Whitman McKinley administration Mrs. Taylor Recitation Mrs. Kingsbury Life of Shakspere Mrs. Eckman June 3 Hostess Mrs. Robinson Business Meeting Election of Oflicers Annual Picnic. lowed. "Water as a life giving agent." was given by Mrs. Skeede. -Thw we followed by a solo from Miss Myrtle Boyce. Mrs. W. II. Moor gave a talk on Architecture, dividing it into three classes: Ecclesiastic, civic and domes tic. Mrs. Carey then read a critique from the Club Woman, on Mr. Edward, Bok. The program closed with a vocal duet by Misses Delia Fletcher and Myrtle Brooks. )944960t4449t The following is the Sorosis program of November 27 th: "The Story That Transformed The World." I. Mediaeval Religious Dramas. 1. Mystery 2. Miracle 3. Passion Play II. Ober-Ammergau 1. The Place 2. The People 3. Caspar Scbuchler 4. The Vow III. Theatre 1. The Old 2. The New (a) Stage (b) Orchestra (c) Auditorium IV. Presentation of Play 1. Time 2. Actors 3. ChoruB 4. Costumes 5. Tableaux G. Music I Eton Jackets Box Coats And Forty-inch Cloaks In Black and All the Pop ular colors. B00MIaotlMMtlM HIM MHMllt; Tailor Made Suits WalUirxg Skirts j and Dress Skirts In the Very Latest Shapes. MIIoMsRft PAINE i i MMMMIMMIMMMIM8MMIMIIMIMMMffrMMMMMIMOOOIIOIIMIMM V. Impressions Mrs. Lees. November, 27, 1900. The Woman's club of Seward, met on Saturday, November 24th. There was a good attendance. The president, Mrs. Grace Porter Miller, being absent, the first vice president, Miss Frances Mil ler, presided, and the usual business meeting was held- Nine names were voted upon and elected to membership, and eight new names proposed. The program for the day was under the direction of Mrs. Carey, leader of the Household Economics class. This department has many enthusiastic members. The program opened with a piano duet by Ethel Norval and Bees Anderson. Mrs. Carey then gave a talk on the "Aim and scope of house hold economics." A paper on 'Chil dren's Rights," by Mrs. L. E. Ost, fol- J. !i 1 I32J O St. Iorx, 762. PLUMBING. STEAM MD HOT WATER HEATING Gas Fixtures and Instantaneous Heating. T . . . Have You Paid Your Subscription to The following "Point of View" may be somewhat severe, but our own point of view can only be made strong and full of charity by pn earnest attempt to comprehend the opinions of others (who have opposite ideas.) "There are plenty of northern women who come south to live, and who never have the least bit of trouble. This is because they have good manners, and do not set themselves up as the censors of the southern women with whom they are thrown. Many of them have a dif ferent conception of the negro from the southern women. They may not agree politically with their southern sisters. They have their own ideas of house keeping, of food preparing, and of giv ing entertainments. No one begrudges them their views; no one would inter fere with their methods; no one cares how they manage their housenolds. They get along in the south because they do not try to crowd thier own ideas and methods on southern women, and put on superior airs, and speak con temptuously of southern methods. These people are as much at home in the south as if they were born in the south. Some of the northern women who come south can doubtless do some things better than some southern wom en; buttbe southern women have the advantage over them in other respects. We do not admit that the general ad vantage is on the side of the north. The idea that southern women sit around the house and reading paper back novels when they ought to be at tending to their housekeeping is entire ly fallacious. The best women in the Eouth busy themselves with the details of housekeeping. They do not cook when they can avoid it, but they know how to cook. The southerner does not want his wife to go into the kitchen. It breaks down ber health, and makes her a drudge, She is the home-maker, not the servant of the household. The northern woman who is offensive to the south is the one who comes here to "improve" our Bocial usages and med- ITGR lOOO? die with our manner of living, point out the evil of our ways, and bestow upon us the light of civilization and rpflne ment. This sort of person usually be gins by calling socially upon the "color ed ladies." admitting these "ladies" to social equality, and then lecturing the southern white women for not doing the same thing. When northern women seek this sort of society, it is generally accepted in the south that they have found their level, ahd they are allowed to pursue their natural bent; but, at the eame time they are no longer received in white folks parlors. Northern wom en who come south to establish social equality between the races can be as sured in advance of social outlawry in the south." Memphis Commercial Ap peal. Is woman the head of the house? asks the Chicago Tribune. Judge Purdell, of the United States circuit court of appeals at Richmond, Va thinks she is and has so announced in bis judicial ca pacity. Therein he differs from Dis trict Judge Waddill, who holds that a woman living with her husband is not the head of the house. The "woman in the case," who is now likely to be come famous and much envied by her sex, is Mrs. Marion Richardson. She was engagea in business and made an assignment for the benefit of her credi tors. The assets were not sufficient to satisfy them, if her claim of $2,000 un der the homestead exemption law was allowed. The lower court would not allow it, but the higher court sustained it, making the sweeping decision that "a married woman, either living with or apart from her husband, can be con sidered the head of the house.'' The new woman thus enters upon the new century under new conditions. Under the unwritten household law there has long been an impression that many women are the "head of the house." In some cases men are made aware of it in ways that are trying to them. In other cases the household sovereignty is as serted in such exasperating fashion that it leads to revolt, and this leads to the divorce courts in some instances. In still other cases, and these are not in frequent, the woman is the head of the house, but so tactfully exercises the governmental authority that man is cot only not aware of it, but goes through life in the vain belief that he is the head. Such men are usually happy, and show a lofty superiorly totae breth ren who are constantly in a struggle for 'he mastery of the household. It will be interesting to watch the effects of this Virginia decision upon those who have heretofore been considered the "weaker vessels," as well as upon men who have followed the precedents laid down so emphatically by Paul. The authority of Paul, however, has sensi bly diminished in the lapse of time. There have been many bold women, headed by Mies Anthony, Mrs. Catt and Mrs. Devereaux-BIake, who have not heitated to call him opprobrious names, and he is now quite generally regarded not only as an old fogy but a woman hater. It is questionable, therefore, vhether the Pauline injunctions of nine teen centuries ago will hold as against the decision of a United States judge on the eve of the twentieth centurv. And yet there will be men, undoubtedly, who will be eager to learn whether Judge Purcell decided tbii case upon its legal merits or upon personal convictions im pressed upon him by Mrs. Purnell. The Mirror.
