THE COURIER.
invitation from the Bar association to Restive. The inspiration worth are
the lecture by Judge Woolworth to be "Upward and Onward for Evermore,'
Koi,i ha ,.;. nr hrnnrv 4th in and thorn narticularlv chosen for the
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the First Congregational church.
Mrs. Annah Herring announced that
club members would be allowed to bring
live guests this season or club tickets.
The chief business transacted during
the afternoon was the amendment of
the constitution and the consequent
change in the mode of electing club of
ficers. The constitution now reads that
vonr'n work. "Tha sun rises bright in
France and fair setB he." The club waB
both organized and federated in 1893.
The places chiefly studied are Paris,
with a prelude of Atlantic Steamer
Lines, Normandy Brittany, the Valley
of the Loire, the slopes of the Pyrenees,
French Navarre, Lourdee', the Khone,
Burgundy. Lyons and Versailles. One
gram except that of February 22od.
The current event topics are assigned
and include almost every country in
their outline.
the election of oHcers will be held two program is devoted to the Crusades and
weeks before the annual meeting of the the Huguenots, another to French Pot-
club.
Mrs. II. II. Dutcher of Minneapolis
spoke to the club for a few minutes in
theintereste of the Woman's Keeley
rescue work, a branch of which she
hopes to start in Omaha.
The club register showed a list of
gueetB from Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota,
Michigan, Colorado and Massachusetts.
Miss Ella Day recited Kipling's "Re
cessional,'' "After Whiles" by James
Whitcomb Riley, and "Angelina" by
Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
Miss Margaret McHugh, teacher of
German and English in the High school
addressed the club on the "Relation of
Literature and Philosophy." Mrs. Mary
Andrews closed the program by an in
teresting paper on the "Motives and
Aims of the Eth'cal Society," organized
by Dr. Felix Adler.
The announcements for the week are:
French conversation class on Tuesday
at 10 a. m. The musical department
will have a Schumann program on Fri
day morning and the oratory depart
ment gives its first public recital on
Thursday at 2:30 p. m. The English
literature department will have a fine
program on Thursday at 10 a. m.
tery and the Home of the Stilts, the
Women of the Old Regime, the Women
of the Salon, and the Women of the
Revolution are other topics under con
sideration. History of French Art and
Artiste, Preachers and Philosophers,
.and the Maid of OrleanB are also dis
cussed. Music occurs eight times on
the program. The officers are: Presi
dent, Elizabeth Chamberlain; vice presi
dent, Minnie'Shaw; secretary, Maggie
Stewart; corresponding secretary, Laura
Tracy; treasurer, Helen Seaver.
The Year Book of the Norfolk Wo
man's club comes to us in a cover of
white and lavender with the subject
"Review of Progress of the United
States during the Nineteenth Century."
The lavender garniture in the shape of
scroll work and lettering is pretty for
about Lavender there is a particular,
peculiar charm. The club was organiz
ed in 1896 and has at this time a mem
bership of forty-eight The officers are:
Mesdames A. J. Durland, president; J.
C. Aid, vice president; C. H. Reynolds,
recording secretary; W. G. Baker, cor
responding secretary; C. C. Gow, treas
urer; L. M. Beeler, librarian.
The Paris exposition is the first, pro
gram representing the status, of attain
ment of the present day. This is fol
lowed by a program on political history.
Electricity and agriculture with their
wonderful advances form an absorbing
topic. Poetry and music are studied to
gether, literature is given two after
noons. A mock trial, novelists, promin
ent women of the century, household
economics, sculpture and painting, pro
gress of religion during the century,
educational institutions and social evo
lution are other topics under discussion
The Zetetic club of Weeping Water
has prepared a convenient little calen
dar for the year 1900-1901. The club
was organized in 1831 and federated in
1891. The club color is corn and the
emblem bittersweet. There could be
no happier combination of well being
than their chosen words proclaim, "Mu
tual Good Will and Mental Growth."
The club is evidently accustomed to
preparing programs, for the outline is
both concise and consistent. The sub
ject is English Literature. Twenty
minutes are devoted to the history of
the period at each meeting. The Anglo-Saxons
and their Literature is the
opening topic followed by Literature
under the Normans. Chaucer and his
Canterbury Tales form another topic.
Then comes the period previous to that
wonderful Elizabethan age and then
the remarkable period itself. The pro
gress of literature from Elizabeth's
death to the Restoration; the literature
of the Restoration; Eighteenth Cen
tury Tendencies in Literature, and the
Evolution of the Novel are studied.
One afternoon is devoted to Scott and
another to Dickens and Thackeray.
One afternoon is given up entirely to
music and interludes appear on num
erous programs. The officers are: MeB
dames Rhoda Roubc, president; F.
Augustine Gates, vice president; Flor
ence Teegarden, secretary; Edith Done
Ian, treasurer.
The calendar of the Minden Woman's
club wears a rose-colored cover tied
with white ribbons. The club was or
ganized in 1896 and federated in 1898.
"Improve yourself and so improve the
world" are the imperative words the
club has chosen for its uplift. The pro
gram is of a miscellaneous character
substantiated by Sbakspere's line "Like
Four reviews, book or magazine are pro- each thing that in season grows."
vided for in the year's program, this xne officers are: Mesdamps Minnie
with a dramatic day for the last open 8nedd Cline, president; Hattie Morgan
meeting which occurs in April, con- ""'Barman, vice president; Harriet Wim-
cludes this interesting year's work.
The Current Events department of
the Woman's club met Friday at the
club rooms. Mrs. Wheeler lead a very
intelligent paper on "Motherhood."
Sorosis met Tuesday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Lees. Miss Annie Miller
had charge of the program for the after
noon, "Traveling Libraries." Miss - Mil
ler spoke of the Library Bill and gave
much encouragement as to its passage.
She alno spoke interestingly of libraries
in general and their influence. The
next meeting of the club will be on
Tuesday, February 5th. Miss Perseon
will lecture on physical cultute.
The following is the program for the
next meeting of the Fairbury Woman's
club:
Business; Response menu, recipe or
decoration; Music; Talks: 1. Hints to
the young housekeeper; 2. Artistic and
practical furnishings for the home
Mrs. McDowell; 3. Advantages and dis
advantages of a meat diet Mrs. Weid
ner; 1. Practical lessons in cookery with
demonstrations Mesdames Cropeey and
Letton; 5. How to select and prepare
meats Mesdames Cropeey and Letton;
Muiic.
The Woman's club of York met Mon
day, January 21st. The topic for the
afternoon was the reign of Edward VI
and Mary Queen of ScotB.
The Matinee Musicale.
January has been a propitious month
for the Matinee Musicale. The meet
ings have brought pleasure to many.
Mrs. Sbipman, a charter member of the
club and a guesVin Xincoln, contribut
ed much to the success of the program.
The following was last Monday's pro
gram: Musical Contrasts
(a) Oh, My Maid Is Fairer Still....
Pease
(b) Irish Love Song Margaret Lang
Mrs. Jobn Doane
(a) Prelude-Gavotte" Corell 1600
(b) farantelle, G flat Moezkowski
Miss Anne Stewart
(a) Evermore Lost to Me Bach 1578
(b) Spring Song from "Valkyrie". . .
Wagner
Mrs. H. B. Ward
(a) Adagio Religioso Ole Bull
(b) The Zephyrs Hubay
Miss Silence Dales
(a) The Lost Chord (In memory of
Sir Arthur Sullivan Sullivan
(b) A Georgia Cradle Song ....Sullivan
Mrs. D. A. Campbell
(a) Romance, opus 5 Tschaikowski
(b) Badinage Victor Herbert
Miss Marie Hoover
(a) A Mother's Song Woodman
(b) Spring Song Becker
Mrs. George E. Sbipman.
mer, recording secretary; Ella Coloin
Thomas, corresponding secretary: Susie
Friends in Council have kind.y sent d?S' TT
the Courier their Year Book 1900-1901. irZ?- ?
bound in pink with the theme "A year ,nleDtoP'rt ow, music, recent
-c ti u- u i. , novels, inventions, superstitions
id France," which is charmingly Bug- PL-Im0 ' . """""ns,
J R Christmas program, review of Present
Relations between the Nations of the
0'rxraQ World, China, Mother Goose with origi-
TUC EDIHVI IN IPC PDCIU nal interPretati0D8. cial reforms and
L I fit iKHrtrUIR IDE WllM ) Aboriginal America. A program is also
V And DairV Go V plBnned in h0D0r of Washington's birth-
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of vital iniereet. The Woman, Past,
Present and Probable, is of peculiar in
terest, .especially where probability is
concerned. The volunteer program is
an unusual and good idea Time for
current events is provided. on every pro-
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Editor Courier:
I see by the last Courier that the
members of thn Worcester Woman's
club are still resolving on the colored
question. They say in their resolutions
of December 12 tb, that the board of
directors of the General Federation of
Women's clubs, refused to admit to
membership the Woman's Era club of
Boston, and gave no satisfactory reason
for its action. And they request an ex
planation or reversal of its decision.
The executive board of the General
Federation does not have to explain its
decisions, and there is nothing in the
constitution to that effect, and .the
members of the Worcester club, as well
as every one else in clubdom, knows that
the New Era club of Boston composed of
colored women was not admitted to the
General Federation for the simple rea
Bon that colored women are not personae
grata to the majority of the members of
the General Federation. There is an
unwritten law of congeniality which wo
cannot ignore, and just as soon as un
congeniality exists in an organization
its usefullnees is gone. The sayiug that
we are all equal is a fallacy. We may
he born equal under the law, but that is
all. Equality never has nor it never
can exist in this world. We may hae
socialism and communism, as the result
of a change in human laws, but natures
laws are fixed. Some are born white
and some are born black, some are boru
short intellectually and some are born
shiftless phyeicislly; and heredity, edu
cation and environment, tend still far
ther to destroy the balance, and all that
is left for us to do is to accept existing
conditions and do the best we can and
work for the greatest good of the great
est number, and that is just vhat the
board of directors of the General Fed
erationdid. For the admission of that
colored women's club would have an.
tagonized throe-fourths of the members
of the General Federation, whose mem
bership mounts up to the hundreds
of thousands, while the New Era club of
a few members would never have known
it wanted to belong to the General Fed
eration had it not been incited thereto.
And it is my opinion that had Massa
chusetts candidate been elected presi
dent at tho Denver biennial, the Wor
cester club would never have clasped
the colored population to its breast and
wept They know that the race ques
tion is the sore spot in the Bocial an
atomy of the south and the Worcester
club with reprehensible perseverance
insists on putting its finger on the spot
and scratching off the epidermis. The
club movement is a culture organization
for the benefit of the home and the in
dividual. It is a not a reformatory nor
a society for the leveling of social die
Unctions and it has the same right to
exclusiveness as the home has and it
would be as sensible for the General
Federation to insist that the members
of the Worcester club entertain their
butlers, cooks, footmen and houeemaids
in their parlors with honoted guests,
because the conversation would be ele
vating to the servant class, who are ful
ly their equals in color, freedom and
sense, as it is to insist that colored clubs
shall be taken into the General Federa
tion, when they would be socially repug
nant to the greater number. I have
no prejudice againist the colored race.
I am a northerner by birth and educa
tion, and my rather was an abolitimist,
but I wbb always taught that a lady
would never intrude herself or her
friends into company where she knew
she or they would not be persona grata:
and what is good form for an individual
is good form for a collection of indivi
duals. It is human nature when one
attempts to thrust something down your
throat to shut your teeth, and while I
believe in doing everything possible to
help the colored race improve, I do not
believe in rubbing elbows with them so
cially. Let ub teach them industry,
economy, cleanliness, honesty, virtue
and the art of home making and home
keeping, but do not inculcate a social
ambition except among themselves for
any other will never benefit the negro
class and is obnoxious to the sensibili
ties of the refined portion of the Cau
cassion race. The black and the white
races will never amalgamate and the
Worcester club might just as well res
olute against any other law of nature
Had the members of the Worcester club
expended one half the force and energy
in establishing clubs among the colored
population, and in teaching them how
to benefit their own race by being bet
ter mothers, better wives and better
sweethearts, that they have expended
in making themselves generally obnox
ious to the National Federation and
the community at large, they would
have received some tangible result
from their labor. Since the Milwaukee
