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and restrain criminals, because cer
tain citizens of Lincoln believe that
Mr. Thompson is an unscrupulous boss
who would cripple state institutions
and has offered his convictions for
sale to gratify his ambition. Mr.
Thompson's messenger intimated to
Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews that
his course in allowing The Arrow
Ilead to be published would very seri
ously endanger the university appro
priation, thus showing the club that
the delegation will use to beat patri
otic, high-minded men into Mne for
Thompson. Would a man who loved
his state influence aslavish delegation
to deprive an institution, educating
three thousand citizens, of a grant
necessary to continue the work? Mr.
' Thompson is laboring to convince the
people that lie is wi?e and good and
honest enough to represent the stale
in Washington, yet so far he has
failed to meet all the tests of
good citizenship which have been
applied to him. Until he aspired to
oflice he did not even vote. His gift
to the soldiers was theatrical for his
threat, to cripple the largest educa
tional institution in the state shows
that he cares nothing for youth. The
number of his municipal sins against
citizenship have been many and fla
grant. Say, is a man who can not be
trusted at home where we can watch
him and appoint council committees
to investigate him, tit to be sent as far
away as Washington in the capacity
of the senator from Nebraska?
The Old Town.
This very delightful sketch of Ihe
Old Town by Miss Flora Bullock is a
particluarly appropriate present for
Christmas for a distant friend to
whom one wishes to send something
of the soil, something that recalls the
glistening air, fertility, breadth and
horizon of the Nebraska downs and
steppes. Miss Bullock's technique
though ssholarly and sure has a west
ern feeling and the pictures would
bring Nebraska into a wanderer's
Held.
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The Literary department of the Co
lumbuB Woman's club was very pleas
antly entertained at th? home of its
leader, MisB Bpebib Sheldon, on Satur
day afternoon. November 24th. Look
ing forward to our great national holi
day, a program in keeping with the
season had been carefully prepared.
Beautiful quotations from Ewing, many
of them selected from the Scriptures,
were given in response to roll call.
The subject of "Individual duty
toward those less favored" waa discuss
ed. Mrs. Brindley, one of the most suc
cessful primary teachers in the schools,
told how happy the little children were
to share their Thanksgiving treat with
those less favored.
Miss Parks rendered an enjoyable
recitation. An original Thanksgiving
story was read by Miss McMahon. Miss
Sheldon had prepared a literary game
and a pretty book was awarded Mrs. A.
J. Baker for guessing the greatest num
ber of books represented.
President, Mrs. Edwin P. Uh!, Grand
Rapids; first vice president, Mrs. J. H.
Webster, Cleveland, Ohio; eecond vice
president, Mrs. Philip N. Moore, St.
Louis, Mo., treasurer, Mrs. John Leve
rett, Alton, Ills.; vice president of the
Northern Middle. Section, Mrs. Frederic
Ullmann, Chicago; and the Recording
Secretary and National Press Com
mittee; Mrs. Thomas . Ellison, Fort
Wayne, lnd. The first day's sessions
were devoted to reports of Federation
work. The second day, to arranging
the Biennial program. The date is fixed
for April 30 h, and VI ay 1st, 2nd and
3rd, IDOL The mornings will be devot
ed to businees, and to papers on club
methods. This will be a very entbusi
astic feature of the convention, as it is
a subject upon whjch ail the delegates
have varied theories and practice. The
afternoons will be rilled with concerts
by the representatives of the federated
clubs, drives about Cleveland and social
entertainments. Of the four evenings
one will be devoted to a public recep
tion, the others to concerts given by the
highest order of arti-ts.
The session closed with an artist re
cital given by Mr. Earl Gulick and Miss
Edwina Uhl, tendered the board by
Mrs Charles B. Kelsey, President of
the Saints, aod Mrs. Unl, President of
the Federation.
The officers of the local Biennial
Board of Cleveland, Ooio, and thpir ad
dresses are: Mesdames J. II. Webster,
president, 925 Prospect street; Edward
W. Morley, vice president, 2233 Euclid
avenue; Henry A. Harvey. Samuel Ma
ther, Charles F. Olney, James J. Tracy
and J. H. Wade, honorary vice presi
dents; William E. CuBhing, recording
secretary, 12 Uayward street; Dudley P.
Allen, chuirman committee on recep
tion, 278 Prospect street; Charles I.
Dangler, chairman committee on hospi
tality, 1415 Euclid avenue; David Z,
Norton, chairman committee on enter
tainments, 1G3L Euclid avenue; Arthtr
Bradley, chairman committee on trans
portation, 63 Adelbert street; H. P.
Loveman, chairman bureau of informa
tion, 491 Kusseli avenue; George H. Mc
Grew, chairman committee on press, 715
Case avenue; R. A. Harmun, chairman
committee on badges, 930 Prospect
street; Frank Kelly, chairman commit
tee on ushers, 47 Hay ward street; J. V.
N. Yates, chairman committee on dec
oration, Gil Euclid avenue. Misses
Florence Wade Jones, corresponding
secretary, 99G Prospect street; Anca
Barges', treasurer, 510 Euclid avenue;
Adella Prentiss, chuirman committee on
credentials, 273 Princeton street; Har
riet L Keler, chairman committee on
hot el c, 93 Ohve street; Mary L. South
worth, chairman committee on printing,
844 Prospect street.
A called meeting of the Board of
Management of the National Federa
tion of Women's Musical clubs was held
in Grand Rapids, November J 4th and
loth, for the purpose of arranging the
program of the Biennial Musical Festi
val which will be held in Cleveland in
the epring of 1901. Those present were:
finishing touches. New York City is
the most important centre of the trade,
and is supp ed to turn out nearly one
hilt of all the toys made in the United
Sates. The work is irregular, beia at
a maximum from July to November,
and at a minimum from Christmas to
April. A few toys are made exclusively
by women. These include several va
rieties of dolls, paper figures, Christmas
tree decorations, toy flowers, and dolls'
trousseaux. With such toys as patent
dolls, dolls' houses and kitchens, Noah's
arks, and the cheaper mechanical af
fairs, the work is very evenly divided
between the sexes. Strange to ray,
women seldom, if ever, succeed with
mechanical toys. On the other hand,
it is just as tare f"r men to master the
art of putting on a doll's complexion or
coloring a woolen cow so as to please
the juvenile heart
The trade was formerly very un
healthf ul, but so many have been the
improvements of late years that most of
the former drawbacks have passed away.
The workrooms are well lighted and
ventilated, and the accommodations
praiseworthy. About one third of all
the work is done at home. This is par
ticularly the case with dolls' raiment,
creations in piper, cloth and tine), and
the coloring of dolls' faces. The wages
paid differ greatly. Each shop or fac
tory has its own system. In factories
wages vary with the skill of the opera
tor, and run from f3 to 88 per week.
The more common practice is to pay by
the piece. When this is done, the ope
rat've's income runs from 50 cents to as
high as 12 a day, and averages about 85
cents a day. New York Evening Post.
The Woman's club of University
Place held its rezular meeting on De
cember Gth. After the routine business
was disposed of, toe following interest
ing numbers were furnished by mem
bers of the club: Social events, Mrs.
T. M. Wimberly; Woman, Mrs. M. Cald
well; Science, Mrs. W.A. Wells; Tem
perance, Mrs. John Caldwell and Mrs.
Smith. Then came the rich literary
treat to which our ladies have come to
look forward namely Professor For
dyce's talk to the club on Psychology.
His theme this time was"The adaptation
of education to the periods of growth in
the nervous system." This proved a
moat helpful and delightful address,
and was highly appreciated by all pres
ent. Our club is most fortunate indeed
to receive from one so eminently quali
fied, a lecture of such a high character,
at each of its regular meetings during
the year.
Mr. George M. Spurlock delivered an
address upon " The Hebrews' before the
Woman's club of Piittsmouth, on Fri
day evening, December 20 h. His dis-
urse was a narrative of the Jews from
the time of Jacob until after their jour
ney through the promised land. Mr.
Spurlock demonstrated that the hand
of God was always with them. A violin
eoIo by Miss Lillian Kauble, with Miss
Olga Hajek as accompanist followed
the lecture. A large number of gentle
men were present.
Women Toy Makers
There are 15.000,000 children in the
United States, each one of whom con
sumes at least two toys a year These
toys laid together would form a belt
reaching from New York to San Fran
cisco. The making of them is a huge
industry in which the factors are ma
chines, men and women, 'the machines
do the hard labor, the men attend to
the mechanical part, and the women
add the artistic elements and put on the
At the recent meeting of he Albany
State Federation at one of the early
meetings of the convention, a delegate
speaking from the floor, remarked upou
the small attention that federated clubs
give to Federation matters and suggest
ed tnat a poll be taken. Not more than
twenty of the delegates responded.
The Federation stands as a whole, for
just what its parts stand for. Every
club can assist in dictating plans and
methods of the body. It can indicate
its wishes in the matter of making up
its program and in various other mat
ters as well, but to do so it must under
stand the progress of the Federation
work thoroughly. Better than criti
cism after the meeting would be co
operation beforehand.
A London paper gives the following
expression of Sir Walter Besaut's opin
ion of clubs:
"I am a great advocate for the crea
tion of societies. I have always found
that when a body of men and women
form themselves into an association for
carrying out certain ideas, doctrines, or
projects, their ideas do get a chance of
a bearing. The ancient method waa
essentially individual. A man with a
theory or a project, or a reform, thought
to impress himst-lf all dpy by himself
his single individuality upon the world
He therefore wrote a pta-mplnt, or even
a book, in which he advocated his prin
ciples. Of course he failed, because
not one man in a million can so im
prest, bjmself upon the world. It you
turn over the leaves of old forgotten
pamphlets say, in the London library
you will he surprised at finding ideas
and theories projects of reform, far in
advance of the time in which they were
written. I believe, in fact, that thero
are no new idaas; they are all old, and
only feem new when they havn been
modified by new conditions of improved
science. These ideas were like seed
falling upon the bare rock; they could
not grow. Presently, however, thero
comes along a man who holds, very
strongly, certain ideas and advocates
certain reforms. He finds other people
who hold the same opinions perhaps
not so strongly, nor so plainly under
stood; he associates these people with
himself; he fires them with some of his
own enthusiasm, and they form a so
ciety. They do not write a pamphlet
and thin c the thing is done; not at all;
they begin to present their doctrines in
varioup wajs;in handbills, in leaflets, in
letters to the papers, in public meetings.
And they do not present them once or
twice; they keep hammering; they en
list new members; their secretary all the
time thinks for them, proposes new
plans for keeping up the interest in the
socibty and enlarging its powers; and so
by degrees, if the program is really one
that is useful to mankind and to the
country, they get attended to; oven tbo
Government of the day attends to them,
and the thing they wanted get3 itself
accomplished."
At the last meeting of the New Eng
land Women's Society, the program
consisted of songs and a paper, "Art in
the Colonies." A new feature of the
society's work was the "order table" on
which articles made by New England
women were exhibited, and at which
orders might be given. Bead purses,
work-boxes, miniatures on porcelain and
ivory were some of the articles exhibited
The Nebraska Branch of the Associa
tion of Collegiate Alumjae will meet at
the home of Mrs. W. G. L. Taylor at
425 North 25th street at three o'clock
Thursday afternoon, December 25th.
The Branch will be happy to Bee all
alumnae of colleges recognized by the
National Association, whether or not
they are members of the Nebraska
branch. The following program has
been arranged: Business meeting 3:20;
The ligic of the higher education for
women. Chancellor E. Benjamin An
drews; Compulsory education,. Doctor
DaveDport; Discussion by members.
The New York Branch of the Inter
national Council for Women has under
taken the crushing out of polygamj as
its specific work.
A conference of members of the Mas
sachusetts State Federation, who are
presidents of women's clubs, was held
in Boston on Tuesday, December IStb.
Announcement of the prizep. awarded
by the federation committee on arts and
crafts, was made. There were practical
discussions from the floor on "What is
the opportunity of the club in the small
town?'' The executive board of the
Massachusetts State Federation has
voted to invite the clubs of the six New
England states to a conference in Bos
ton to be held, April 11th and 12ib.l!)01.
The Rainy Day club of New York
recently met to discuss the subject of
evening gowns that ehould conform to
the club's idea of sensible attire. It
was expected that the meeting would be