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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1901)
amnkimn THE COURIER. libraries The Alabama chapters raised any better or happier for our grievances? have a seat after transferring until he ed among the schools, being m funds to purchase MeadowGarden farm, Poverty of the mind or cowardice of the payean additional three .cents u The act fom - to another and Btill others gave valuable worka on just starting out in life should not have curtail the exieting system of tranaf erea tify to .the truth of these assertions. uuuuuiuciBiaiDiiii j "...,., u iiL.i M.tMiar.MrKannni Knur hundred mctnrea are now emit.. American history to the public school a grievance and asKed: "is tne wor.u .p. - ----- "7--r 'J "" 'hBnI. . hrf- " ", 1 ' ","' uu A spec ial loan collection is now doing service in the heart of the Ghetto, hung in the Foster school at Union aud O'Brien streets. There 2,100 children, many of them with homes not worthy the name, may see oil paintings, water colors and Braun photographs of the more fatuous paintings. A collection of forty pictures is also at the John Worthy school at the bridewell. thn hnmn of ftporcre Walton, a signer of the Declaration of independence, and the Connecticut Daughters purchased the Putnam Wolf Den at Porafret Many historical places in the New Eng land and Middle stains were marked by monuments, and the long forgotten graves of privates who fought in the Americio Revolution, were sought out and marked. The Tacoma chapter be gan in 1898 planB for a memorial to Nar cisBa Whitman, the heroic wife of Mar cus Whitman, who saved Oregon to the United Statep. This memorial is a beautiful monument and was finished last year. The two Nebraska chapters, the Deb orah Avery and the Omaha compare favorably in their contributions to the D. A. R relief fund with the wealthier chapters of the east. The report of the Deborah Avery is partly as follows: "The chapter gives annually a costly gold medal to the young woman gradu ate of the Lincoln High Bchool, who pre pares the best paper on some historical Bubjpct, chosen by a committee from the chapter." "During the summer of 1898, contri butions to the relief fund were as fol lows: to the war fund of the National Society of the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution $2759, to the hospital at Chattanooga $5 00 to the Red Cross So ciety at San Francisco to be forwarded to Manila US 00, a total of $80.50. One bale of hospital clothing and rorty pounds of food supplies were also sent to Manila." Mention is also made of the loan col lection exhibited in April 1898. and aft erward placed in the joint exhibit of the Sons and the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution at Omaha during the Trans Mississippi Exposition. In the Continental Congress of 1897, a membership of of 18,000 was reported, in 1898, 23.000, at present the society num bers 35.000 and is financially prosperous. Since 1891 a fund has been accumulat ing, which is intended for the erection in Washington of a memorial building to be known as the Continental Hall. soul is shown by a tendency to throw on others the trivialities of our own discom fort " provides that it be operative every day in the year and that the violation of it is to be punished by a 9100 fine for each offense. Margaret Deland has delivered several lectures of late before various Boston clubs on the "Duty of Happiness." "There are,"' she Baid, "as many opin ions of happiness as there are people in the world, but the first and most im portant distinctions which we must make is this: happiness is a spiritual possession and is independent of ma terial things. Happiness is thinking straight and seeing clear and having a true perception of the value of things.' Mre. Deland declared that young girls J. R HARRIS, No. I, Board of Trade, CHICAGO. ST06KS AND- BONDS Grain, Provisions. Cotton. Private Wires to New York City Many Gties East and West. and MEMBER N ew York Stock Excban. The Woman's club of Chicago or ganized fourteen years ago, what is known as the ''Protective Agency for Women and Children." After two years this department was incorporated as a separate organization, governed by a board of not less than twenty-one. The purpose of the agency is "to tecure jus tice for women and children, to give legal counsel free of chargo, and to ex tend moral support to the wronged and helpless." The work of the agency is carried on by three officers, agent, as sistant agent and attorney, each receiv ing a salary. The members of the gov erning board are representatives from different clubs and are obliged to pay a fee of $105 a year for the privilege of serving. Ab a rule clubs pay the amount of the tar from their treasuries and in this way aid in the support of the organization, which has no endowments and is maintained entirely by contribu tions. Mrs. Crane, the president, for an illus tration of the work the agency aims to do, speaks of a woman, who owing to long illness in her family, had been o bliged to mortgage her household furni ture for $25.00. agreeing to pay a loan company 82 45 a month for the use of the money. At the expiration of eix months she was unable to pay the prin cipal and the loan company threatened foreclosure unless she would agrpe to pay 84 00 a month in the future. She promised to do this and made two pay ment?, but was unable to meet the third payment at the time it waB due and again she was threatened with fore closure. The loan company insisted that she still owed them the original $25.00 and 3 00 more. The woman in great distress applied to the agency, which took up the case, and an agree ment was finally reached by which the woman paid $5.00 which settled the matter of both principal and iutereet. Mm. Crane sajs: "Few people realize how much the poor and ignorant suffer on account of the it justice and imposi tion of money lenders and others who Mrs. J. G Hutchinson of Ottumwa, president of the Iowa state federation, at the recent meeting of .the executive board of that state in Council Bluffs, was asked if she thought early prejudice against women's clubs was disappearing and she replied as follows: "While that feeling may have existed in the early days of clubdom it is grad ually dying out People are beginning to realize that women's clubs are an es sential part of social organism. Women cannot fulfill their duties to their family unless they get away far enough to see its relation to organized life; they can not do justice to the group until they understpnd the relation of their family to this group; they must go outside the family to get inspiration to bring back to the home circle. "The family often grows away from the mother because this is not noted Club life takes women out of themselves, bringB them into contact with oth-rs whose bright, cheerful faces and pleas ant greeting will teach them the lesson of goodfellowahip. There is no room for the selfish women in club life; if she comes in she must work for the general good and be fair and honest in her efforts." Boeton women are endeavoring to start a fund for a monument to Dorothy Dix, who did so much to better the con ditions in regard to the care of the in sine. The government is asked for an appropriation of 810,000. Tne monu ment will be erected at Hampden, Mine, the birth thropist. place of the philan- The Public School Art Society of Chicago. Mrs. John P. Sherwood, presi- oIflon y8 tnat Dt- LIovd a entitled The Woman's Journal of Boston pub lished he following account of the life of Dr. Rachel Lloyd, whom so many Lin coln people knew and loved: "A short sketch has been published of the life of Dr. Rachel Lloyd, who died recently. Dr. Lloyd was professor of chemistry at the University of Nebras ka, and her degree was conferred by tb University of Zurich, where she was a student for two years. Such a degree in chemistry had been conferred upon a woman only once before by a Contin ental university. "It was not until she became a widow thiit Mrs. Lloyd began to study chem istry, although she bad become interest ed in the science because her husband was a chemist. She attended Kadditfe for sevPD years, and then, as there was no college in America where she could obtain a degree, she went to Switzer land. "While in Europe Dr. Lloyd investi gated the culture of the sugar beet, and when she became assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Nebras ka she became convinced that the cli mate and soil of that state were adapted to sugar beet growing. As the Univer sity is at Lincoln, where the experiment al station of Nebraska is located, she, in association with Professor H. fi. Nichol son, began experimenting, and in four years the first sugar factory was estab lished. Beet sugar is now a leading in dustry of Nebraska, and Professor Nich- to dent, has decided to erect a school building, Calmuet by name, and which is expected to be finished by March 1st. The building is to be a model of the best there is in the Chicago public school system. Mrs. Sherwood is di- the greater part of the credit, as she did most of the work. "Dr. Lloyd was a member of the Deutsche Chemisuhe Gesellschaft of Frankfort, Germany, the English Chem ical Society and the American Chemical Society; a fellow of the American As- rectin? nlanR for the hnilHintr flnnr? take advantage of the credulity and in- paintings and reproductions will be pur- sociation for the Advancement of Sci oucbdcb oi vicumB wno ao not Know nh9Dorl 0mi email , r .i.t ence. and a mamhnr nt trip Hnvrinn Art enough or have not the n-eans to seen legal redress." Mrs. L.H.Green wald of York, Pa., is said to be the only woman weather forecaster in the country. She has been employed by the government in this capacity for twelve years, has been often commended for exceptional accuracy, ar.d is an acknowledged authority on climatology and meteorology. Mrs. Greenwald is also president of a wo mxn'e organization interested in scien tific research, the National Science club. chased and small pieces of statuary are to be placed in the angles of the balls. The school board has covered the walls with burlap in quiet shades of grey, green, blue and red. The most important feature in the decoration of the new school will be a callection of pictures, a few of them originals by famous artists, and it is hoped something of fresco painting by our Chicago artists. The best copies of masterpieces will also ba included in the collection. ciub, Browning club, and Society, of Lincoln." Photographic The joint committee on constitutional amendments of the Massachusetts legis lature will give a hearing February ISth to the petitioners for the submission of a constitutional amendment granting full suffrage to women. The Woman's Reform League of Brooklyn has lately had a bill drawn up that prohibits all street and elevated railwajs operating in Brooklyn from collecting full fares unless seats are pro vided. The bill provides that not more than five cents fare shall be collected from each passenger who is provided with a seat and not more than two cents when no seat is provided. If there are vacant seats in the car when the passenger en ters, however, he must pay five cents whether he takes the seat or not. It there are no seats when he enters the car and one subsequently becomes vac- The relative position of advantages and disadvantages of a comparatively The Art society will have nearly 81 000 -recently settled region is distinctly out to spend in the purchase of pictures, lined when the subject of an art and while the women's clubs are arranging crafts department or society is consider to purchase the best works exhibited at ed. In Now England, in the south, the Art Institute by western artists, north and the extreme west character Surely all this gives promise of a time istic arts or industries are constantly be when we shBll no longer deserve unfav- iog revived, as for example the old blue orable comment from .foreign critics. and white embroidery, linen weaving. Behind these plans for schoolrooms various kinds of lace making, basket that shall rival the artist's studio for weaving and carved leather. In this, beauty the spirit is not one of desire for the middle weBt, we have not art nor in display. The purpose of the Public duBtry to revive. There is therefore School Art society is philanthropic, and greater opportunity for invention and its work has gone far enough in the pub possibly a broader hope, for the un lic schools w prove the theory which it known has generally a silver lining, first advanced. The society was organ But on this very account. th hM;nnin izsd by those who said that the environ ment of a schoolroom might change the lifts of children obliged to live in the slums. They said, too, that artistic sur- the ne- Cblrago Stock Exchange. Cblcco Board of Ti arte ant the passenger has the choice of sit ting down and paying three cents addi- roun-liogs would do away with tional or continuing to stand on a two- cessity for discipline, cent fare. Principals of schools where pictures "The bill stipulates that it phall not owned by tho society are now hung tep IO ma4n -. tl ir a. .. mauD uuuuiy aimcuit. m many places, as in Deerfield, Massachusetts, or Brownville, Texas, the industries started by the philanthropic women have replaced real poverty with comfort and happinese. In Nebraska there are many women who need or desire to earn their own liviog, either in part or n. h
