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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1901)
- -TWtHfrf'M . !! I I frl fe rHE.,JCQU.RlER- 2 HS:i rfW-f JCsfJW v-l arrogance. There are people whose deep seated -convictions of annolnt inent can not be shaken and occasion ally there is a bold woman who can not be snubbed Into a knowledge of propriety. Neither journalism, med icine, painting nor any other profess sion or occupation ever haSorever ca"n , destroy the 'eternal feminine; To-be honest, truthful, and brayeuswfto be considered exclusive macu!i'ne attri butes. The woman who- liBSany in fluence, nowadays, wlipse children, sons and daughters,- have made their generation better, is honest, truthful and brave. Finishing-school accoru plisbments no longer pass muster for character and the woman's clubs are rapidly separating accomplishments from character. Reliable, brave re porters who will get the news for their papers are valuable irrespective of sex and a profession where such attributes are essential has not hurt the women who are engaged in it. J J A Champion. A man who is forever laboring to convince a contented people that they are abused and offering himself as their champion to right indignities which they are unconscious of, is a man toi be watched. He evidently has not enough business of his own to keep him bus'. In the middle ages younger sons who were without spec ial interest in the administering of their sire's estate used to set out upon the road with the design of rescuing the oppressed. Many a knight trav eled hundreds of miles without meet ing a man-eating dragon, or a maiden strapped to. a horse's back, by a caitiff carrying -her away from her folks. There wsre doubtless knights who wandered the country over and got back to an : expectant castle without making.a single rescue. Mr. Bixby is one of these. lorlorn .knights who can not find a lady that is anxious to be carried back by Sancho Panza into what he calls.a safe and proper seclu sion. According to his daily offer of protection the century is too conspic uous for women and Turkey is the only country where women know their placeand are properly restrained. c J Our China. As China is one of our largest cus tomers of cotton goods and wooden ware, the United States is within its rights in insisting that China be not partitioned and despoiled by the other notions of the earth. That curious 'right'' to an old customer which is recognized as a value which may be sold and whicli may not be destroyed by an outsider is thoroughly estab lished in ourown commercial customs. For instance a doctor sells liis "good will" or patients to another doctor. One of the most important elements of value in any established business, be it professional, trade or mercantile, is the good will. The United States Las the good will of China. China is a market which has been developed by American exporters and importers and Americans have the right to in sist that neither Germany, Russia nor England exact outrageous indemnities that. will for years utterly destroy China's power to buy what and as she has been accustomed to buy. Mr. Thomas F. Millard in the cur rent Scribner's warns Americans of the impending destruction of their market in China and of the confidence which the Chinese .feel and exhibit towards' the American entente. "Of all the powers, the United States' po litical and moral conduct shines bril liantly. And the Chinese know it. Ic October, a special commissioner for the United States and a number of naval officers were being banqueted David Harum and the sort of univer sal masculinity which pervades it, it would not have reached popularity. The lack of form, modern conformity and style caused it to be rejected by - Th. mat 7iSSSHfP.? s'eral p.ub- ence was made by one to the conduct ' ' - - - f-r.:s-5-riwi lls? nouses Deiore " nnauy reacUed of thvTTJn hWT Stateand iontrartedV Whatwasan unusttfl and Jesp6ite-a jber who would accept it. WitSt olitSXrsXSLf m h omra-daily QCCurrW JsIe of Unresl bv H Set()n VSSSfiZZ ; rSofS storyof Corsica. In ,tue struggle wnicu tne two new householders are obliged to maintain at Hankau, a thousand milesTnlaod, women are called upon to administer, in the very heart oK thev Yanlsand as a social force will add greatly valley. At tbetable, where satfmdre- to make the American towns the Citv than thirty top-side Chinese;,ali.men .JJeauuruiorourareams.- of-gegat influence in the commercial. and political life of the emplre,refer- Kiiinfft6'narticfoate intbe bom- upon crime, mwnt oe jubHuea. tbe juggle which hffJC:lni:: -community which gratifies arlust for hmiJL,dfirsarfi ohli II. bope t i nvk&m of peace LZiJZSJyi.SS. would lead to closer commercial rela tions between China and America.' The Piano. is brutalized and another lynching is the reader is reminded of "Phroso" sure to occur, in the same locality and her turbulent and unreconciled again. Immediately after the Cudaby islanders. According to Mr. Merri- boywas abducted in Omaha if Pat man Cor3ica.js an jsiand of vendettas, Crowe had been arrested, he would hpr. m. stahher in ,,hh;il,i- With nearly one hundred tones, the doubtless have" been lynched, though and wliere tnc tribal system is main tained in perpetuity.. The "isle of Unrest relates a series of exciting adventures, murders and escapes, but it is not altogether from the outside. The author catches himself now and nlann' has a ranjas ereater tban'any there is and was a reasonaoie aouni other instrument. Beethoven, Mo- of his guilt. Nothing is more re zart, Chopin, were men of genius and markable in our supposedly growing would have made compositions for culture than the increase of lynch other instruments if there hadbeen ings in the United States. They no such full-toned harp as the piano, rarely occur abroad. Never in despised a(an and does some fine shading and but with the piano as a medium, tuey i;mnawnere me law is nem iu great, anaiytical examination while his were untrammeled by mechanical respect The thin layer of civiliza- heroine jS jn suspense, but in the limitations. A noble instrument tion which separates most of us from main Mr.Merriman does not claim to whose tones sounded in the imagina- savagery Is revealed oy tue nornoie tions of the great composers while scenes at lynchings where negroes are they wrote immortal themes, is in burned and where women and chil these days, in somewhat poorer stand- dren crowd their way to the fire to ing. There are few houses of any pre- secure souvenirs of bone. Punishment tensions which do not contain a piano for such cruelty is not-inflicted by the or organ and intermittently through- law, but be sure that unborn gener ations will expiate the depravity which contemporary society is not wise enough to protect women from having an opportunity to cultivate. Society is like an individual and no individual can indulge in an orgy, without forever being the worse for it. The rapid recurrence of lynch ings all over the United States is a very serious criticism on the weakness of our law, on the cowardice of sher iffs and officers sworn to execute the law and on a barbarous, morbid, vul gar people when assembled in a crowd and unterrified by law. The Isle of Unrest. Literary criticism, or rather criti cism of things literary may be based on the critic's personal taste or upon certains rules and standards adopted by other critics. In France the acad emy still establishes a standard; In England and America it is a matter and dignified real musicians, wish, for of individual taste and Mr. James in in regard tothe canteen has been verv nrotest of tortured nerves, that England Mr. Howells In America have that drunkenness hasdimmished and the piano had never been constructed, attained the dignity and authority of that good order and decency has been Singers of ability never hum. Piauists deaDS- With the assistance of a nov- the rule among private soldiers since of inspiration do not strum. But the elist like Meredith and a poet like tue canteen system was adopted, tin-pan people are in overwhelming Browning they have at least and at Bishop Potter is not an extremist and majority and their strumming is in- last shown t,,e most intemperate he is very certain of his facts before aevotet 01 aaveniure mat woncs 01 authors like Marie Corelli and Hall Caine are unworthy serious attention. Out of drawing, casting impossible shadows, in a chemical light, their heroes and heroines will scarcely sur vive the first quarter of the twentieth out the days of the whole year the keys are struck by irreverent people who like the noise and. are congen it ally unable to distinguish it from music. The piano has come to be the toy of a great many people who care nothing for music but are en tranced by the idea of a. solo perform ance. A busy mother sometimes gives her baby a stick and a tin pan. -He beats the pan with the identical ex pression of rapture with which the familiar type of callow youth beats the piano which has a greater variety .of tone than the pan of his babyhood, and. amuses him for a longer time. After playing stiff fingered for a period, the youth, dis covers that there are various pleasing combinations that sound something like what be has heard the Tillage brass-band play. Then bis musical discoveries are made one by one at the expense of his neighbors who in spite of Beethoven and all the noble be one of the "artistic writers" who deal entirely with motives and dis dain the aid of incident and moving accident by flood and field. In regard to copying French style in the expression of Anglo-Saxon ideas the editor of Scribner's Maga zine says: "The manner of doing constitutes nearly the whole of mod ern -French influence. Ideas the stuff with which we work have come, of late, rather more from other coun tries. The Frenchmen's appeal has has been that of fashioners of 'materi al. But that, exactly, is an eternal appeal. Ideas may have. their seasons, but the striving for perfection in how to put a thing is never without its body, large or smallof worshipping votaries.'' ''"-' J J The Canteen. Bishop Potter Jn his recent address to the faculty and students of the university of Pennsylvania said that the abolition of the canteen was due to the influence of saloon-keepers who before the establishment of the can teen made large profits from the dives established near every barracks. The universal testimony of army officers cessant and the pianos are every where. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes says that everybody has an uncon querable, ever-deepening aversion, Carrie Nation is fortunate in being able to smash hers, and the time may come after hands that were formed to hold a nlnw.handlfi nr fnrrn a snaHo century. The psychological novel, throueh twelve inches of sod have tne development of a character from persisted in beating coon-tunes out -tlie lnSide, the constant view of the broken testimony of competent and he asserts them publicly. In yield ing to the demands for the abolish ment of an institution which has been proved so thoroughly satisfac tory, a demand made by saloon-keepers and reinforced by unreasonable members of the W.C.T.U. the mem bers of congress who voted against the canteen were cowardly. The un- of a piano that patient men and wo men will take hatchets to the instru ment which more than any other is making life a disappointment. J J Women Architect. Mrs. Nichols, the Brooklyn woman architect, ascribes the limited num ber of her sex who enter the profes sion of architecture to the dearth of schools which admit women to the architectural courses. She says: "In no other profession are women so handicapped. Yet I believe that architecture provides a fair field for women especially in the building homes. I think all women should study architecture as they do any other art. Such knowl edge has a practical bearing on house hold economics, which a majority of whole internal machinery is what we see in James and Howells, Meredith and the rest. Not much if anything happens. It is not now good form to startle, frighten or even keep the reader awake, he must not even fall in love with the characters in a; book; not that there is much danger. The rules are very strict in regard to the room or scenery through which the characters move. It is necessary to know the scents which they smelled conscientious officers was in favor of the canteen. As it is now the dram shops will be set up wherever the army camps and the poisonous whis key sold to soldiers will set them wild. The canteen did not soil whiskey or anything stronger than beer or mild wines. National Types. Members of the City Improvement Society and others interested in the while they contemplate certain ac tions. According to the rules, we objects of the organization are giving must know the clothes (cut and color) at the auditorium a fair of nations, which they wear and above all, the National colors, costumes and nro- work of changes of the weather. ducts designate the different booths, too, that Most of the professional critics have Arranged and operated for the nur- learned these rules, but occasionally pose of getting some money for needed somebody's book sells out edition after park Improvements, the entertain- edltion in defiance of system. If it were menthas accomplished another and not for the horse-trading episode in important end, namely setting the 4 1