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THE COURIER. folk", chairman, who will further as tar as possible Una. work. A. letter contain ing the hopes and desires of this, com mittee will soon be sent to every club, federated and unfederated, in this state that can be reached. It has been de cided since the meeting, not to print a new year book, but to add a supplement to the old one, which will contain all changes in reports and such other addi tions or Bubstractions as will make the book complete. It gave each member of the board a great pleasure to have the privilege of endorsing the revised compulsory educa tion bill now before our legislative body, and they stand ready to give it any fur ther aid in their power. Members of the library committee are to be congratulated upon the fact that their appropriation bill for the traveling library is meeting with hearty endorse ment, and will undoubtedly become a law. Miss Fair.brotb.er has made the very generous offer of devoting the seventh birthday of her Woman's Weekly to state federation news. It seems an especially fitting thing to do, as her pa per had its origin in the birth of the federation. It will contain much of in terest, and will scatter information we are anxious to distribute, If one can depend at all upon hearsay, it will prob ably be the last issue in Omaha of the Woman's Weekly, as Mips Fairbrother expects to remove to California soon on account of the health of her mother. One very important thing which we did do at the board meeting was to ac cept unanimously the invitation from Wayne to entertain the state federation next October, and we hope our decision will meet the approval and generous ef fort of all the clubs in the state. The president, Mrs. Draper Smith, wishes me to Bay that she received your message, and that we will be glad to give you all the matters of interest that we get for publication. Standing Committees. ART. Mrs. F. M. Hall, Lincoln. i Elizabeth Langworthy, Seward. " Anna R. Morey, Hastings. HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS. Mrs. W. D. Baker, Norfolk. " Sullivan, Columbus. " Sarah Wells Phelps, Schuyler. INDUSTRIAL. Mrs. A. M. Edwards, Milford. " Nellie Cady, St. Paul. " Etta "R. Holmes, Kearney. LIBRARY. Mre.B M Stoutenborough.Piatlemouth " L. L. Ricketts, Lincoln. " H. S. Towne, OmBha. CONSTITUTION. Mrs. A. K. Gault, Omaha. " Draper,Soiitb, Omaha. ' Stoutenborough, Plattsmouth. .. MUSIC. Mrs. Lily R. Burton, Fremont. S. E. Sedgwick, York. Miss Mary A. Smith, University Place. EDUCATIONAL. Mrs. Anna L. Apperson, Tecumseh. G. M.Wheeler, Lincoln. Miss Cory Berryman, Central City. CREDENTIALS. Ire. John Erhardt, Stanton. Brainard Dearborn, Wakefield. E.M.Smith, Wayne. PROGRAM. Mrs. C. S. Lobingier. Omaha. ' Hainer, Aurora. Stoutenborough. PlattBmouth. TRANSPORTATION . Mrs. H. D. Neely, Omaha. " E. V. Herford, Omaha. RECIPROCITY. Mrs. Archibald Scott, Lincoln. Stratton, Provincial Secretary, in regard to better care and protection for women of feeble intellect. Mr. Strattnn Prom ised investigation aa to thia class in Great Britain and the United States. The Lincoln Woman's club will meet next Monday afternoon at three o'clock in the club rooms The French depart ment will have charge of the afternoon and it has prepared a program interest ing and amuBing. The Century club met in interesting and social conference on Tuesday after noon at the home of Mrs. Hays. Mrs. Milton Scott read a paper on Ethiopian Invasion, Karnak and Luxor. Soroaia met Tuesday with Mrs. E. L. ninman. Mrs. Munger discussed the germ theory of disease. New York and Boston clubs are con tinually agitating the questions of "sweat-shops." Fcrtunately this per plexing problem is not one Nebraska has to solve, but it is one of vital interest to all parte of the country from a humane and sanitary point of view. The Con sumers League in New York and Mass achusetts has done much to alleviate conditions. Massachusetts represents a more encouraging state of affairs in this regard. In nineteen monthB 20,000 li censes for home work have been issued in New York City and in the state of Massachusetts only 1,00.Ab the most of the homes to which work is taken in New York are in a most unsanitary con dition, the garments made are neces sarily unhygienic and often the cause of serious results to the wearer. Massa chusetts has honest factory inspectors and the hoiue work permitted there is generally acceptable. The ninth annual midwinter confer ence of the Maine federation of Wom en's clubs was a recent occurance. A discussion as to the forming of a New England federation took place. This question resulted in the adoption of a resolution denying such an idea on the part pf the federation. The state su perintendent of education spoke of the public school conditions and needs. Mrs. Sarah Piatt Decker gave two large musicales in Denver lawt week. The Denver Woman's club was large ly attended on last Saturday. The pro gram consisted of etereopticon black and white illustrations by famous artist?. One of the most thoughtful phases which modern charity has taken, is that recently begun by the Woman's Auxilia ry to the Guild for Crippled Children. Many children, badly crippled, were pre vented from attending kindergarten and school, owing to the inability of their parents to afford a carriage, go-cart or even puah cart for them. The Guild a short time ago bought a wagonette, up holstered with comfortable seats and cushions and made with special refer ence to bumps and jars. With what pleasure the children now look forward to their to and fro journeyings is expressed by a small boy who on getting out of the wagonette exclaimed: "After all being a limpy has some fun to it." The National Council of Women of Canada through their representatives, Mesdames Willoughby-Cummings and Jarvie, have appealed to the Hon. Mr. Some of the eastern clubs that have been bo decided in their opinion and ac tion in regard to the colored question as first opened at the Milwaukee biennial will Bee how far reaching the effect is al ready becoming by the recent refusal of the Woman'e club of Richmond, Virgin ia to join the General Federation. Mrs. Lowe was present at the meeting and urged the club to unite with the nation al organization. The idea was received with favor until one of the members mentioued the. fact that one club in the federation admitted colored women. Mrs. Lowe met this statement with the argument that this was only one club and that it was exceedingly improbable aa long as colored women had clubs of their own that they should ever wish to join clubs of whits women. The mo tion, however was voted down. "Undebatable Questions" will be the subject for the Parliamentary depart ment of the Lincoln Woman'e club on February 2G. Mrs. Morning, leader of the Current Events department of the Lincoln Wo man'e club furnishes the following re port: The next meeting of the Current Top ics department of the Woman's club will occur on the 5th of March. The prin cipal subject of discussion will be the Passion Play of Oberammergau. Miss Janette Green, who was a witness of the last rendition of the play, will be leader for the day. The subject of the suc ceeding meeting will be Bacteria dis cussed by Mrs. Munger. Russia will be taken up next and will occupy two meet ings. We will be assisted by Mesdames Maria Rose. H. II. Wilson. Walter Lamb and Ricketts. The subject of tbe last meeting of the year will be City Light ing. A visit will be made to the gss and electric plants. The Current Topics department of the Lincoln Woman's club met on Tuesday at the club rooms. Mrs. Frank Hall talked about the development of French art. She showed the opposition which artists encourage in their strug gle to break away from the traditions of the Italian school. She explained the development of a characteristic Preach school of art. And tbe opposition of the French schools of today which was so strong a factor in the awarding of prizes at the recent exposition. Pic tures were shown illustrating the points brought out in the talk. The Literature department of tbe Lin coln Woman's club met on Thursday of this week and devoted its time to a study of Wordsworth. His "Ode to Im mortality," "Ode to Duty" and -Daffodils' were discussed. The Houoehold Economics depart ment of the Seward Woman's club, met with Mrs. Will Dickinson, at her home, on Satuiday, February 2. The program consisted of a fifteen minute discussion on hygienic cooking of oat meal and other cereals, and th& effects of improp erly cooked food. Mrs. Tierney, who recently visited the School of Domestic Science of the State University of Ne braska, presented the club a very in teresting and scientific series of tests of a small portion of flour. The first of these Bhowed tbe amount of mineral matter such as potash, iron, lime, and phosphoric acid obtained in the flour. In the next process the flour was burned with ether which left the oil. The third process evolved the starch containing tbe carbohydrates and the fourth test extracted the gluten and proteids. This Bubject was most ably handled by Mrs. Tierney, and will be given by her at the general meeting of the Woman's club. Mrs. Gwartney read a paper on the Process of Bread Making. Mesdames Holland, Diers, Suppiger, Dickinson, Moore and Gwartney prepared dishes made of corn meal, whole wheat, graham etc. Mrs. Anderson served Grape Nuts manufactured by her. Mrs. Holland in the neat drees of the professional cook, mixed baking powder biscuits in the parlor, before the class and after they were braed, served them to the ladies with honey and butter. Mrs. Diers serv ed coffee cake and Zweiback with coffee. Mrs- Suppiger supplied the students with sandwiches made from whole wheat bread. Mrs. Mcore prepared chocolate pudding, and also a minute gelatine puddle which was served with whipped cream. Delicious graham sandwiches made by Mrs. Dickinson were served with the deasert. No two articles of food tre so illy prepared by many cooks aa coffee and bread, and the Household Economics club demonstrated the scion tficially proper way to prepare both. The annual banquet of the Seward Wo man's club was held last week. On laBt Saturday the western repre sentatives of the Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution lelt Chicago about ono hundred in number, for Washington to attend the tenth annual congress of tho D. A. R. The Pennsylvania Women's clubs are working eagerly for the passage of a Juvenile Court bill that will be present ed during this session of tbe state legis lature. The New Century club of Phila delphia and the Pennsylvania Congress of Mothers are putting forth particular ly earnest efforts for tho success of the bill. The Woman's club of Hawaii has been studying the Transvaal War for the last four months and has now begun the study of China. The club baa a mem bership of forty-eight, the members be ing mostly native Hawaiians, with a few Chinese. English is spoken entirely in the club, though a few songs are in Hawaiian. The club has at present two branches, one in Waimea, Kauai, and the other in Hilo, Hawaii. A club whose name promotes im mediate interest and curiosity, is that of the All Around Dickens club of Boston. At the last meeting letters were read from corresponding members in England and readings with charming impersona tions. A report was read of the banquet given February 7, in honor of the anniversary of Dickens birth. At this feast Prof. Blackwell of Cambridge was the speaker of honor, his subject being "The place of Dickens in litera ture at ths beginning of the twentieth century." Mrs. R. O. F. Chester of Brooklyn has written for one of tbe New York pa pers a scathing criticism of federations of women's clubs. Her thrusts are directed especially against the last meet ing of the New York federation which occurred in Albany last fall. Her feel ing is intense upon the subject and her view therefore is neither kindly, moder- ate nor logical. Some of her points, t (Continued on Page 0 .) .. J. R HARRIS, No. I, Board of Trade, CHICAGO. STOCKS AND- BONDS Grain, Provisions.- Cotton. Private Wires to New York City and Many Gtit East and Wot. MEMBER New York Stock Exchange. Chicago Stock Exchange. Chicago Board of Trade 4 1J
