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THE COURIER. ! !,'! '31 i i!i I il l I IMimillMIMIMIIIIMIMMIMMM i-uiicu uy iiiiao ncjcu vs. nanvuuu. hmmimimimummmmimiimiiim Board Meeting. A meeting of the board of directors of the General Federation of Women's clubs was held at Washington, D. C, February 27th and 28th, 1001. The meetings were presided over by Acting President Denison. The members in attendance were: Mrs. Rebecca Douglas Lowe, Mrs. Dim ies T. S. DeniEon, Mrs. Emma A. Fox, Mrs. George W. Kendrick, Jr., Mrs. Ed ward L. Buch waiter, Mrs. William T. Coad, Mrs. Cornelia C. Fairbanks, Mrs. Mary Smith Lockwopd, Mrs. Lora Rockwell Priddy and Mrs. Anna D. West. Mrs. Denison was made assistant chairman of the program committee. Mrs. Wiles, of the program committee, was in Washington and met with Mrs. Priddy, chairman, Mrs. West and Mrs. Denison. Nothing definite as to the program of the sixth biennial is au nounced as yet, except that it was de cided to devote one evening to music. Mrs. Kelly, chairman of the commit tee on industrial problems, and Mrs. Brockway, chairman of the art commit tee, were both present and submitted the plans of their respective committees to the board. Circulars to be prepared by each of these committees are sent to each club. The report of the educational com mittee sent by Miss Sabin was read. A reciprocity committee was agreed upon, and the executive committee was instructed to admit no secret societies to membership in the General Federa tion. Mrs. Buchwalter was made chairman of a biennial committee, whose duties for the sixth biennial are to be inde pendent of those of the program com mittee instead of having the entire arrangements under one committee as heretofore. . The board endorsed the action of the Wednesday club of St. Louis and .the Missouri federation of Women's clubs in proposing Mrs. Philip N. Moore of St. Louis as a member of the board of managers of the World's Fair to be held in St. Louis in 1903 in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Lou isiana Purchase. It was decided to restrict the use of cards of introduction issued by the Gen eral Federation. The women of California have been v?ry earnest in their efforts to convince the board that it was not only for the interest of that state, but equally for the interest of the General Federation, that the sixth biennial should be held in Los Angeles. The railroad authori ties, presumably at the request of the California women, gave to the board the rates which they would make for visit ors to the biennial should it be held in Los Angeles in 1002. The board weighed the pros and cons very carefully, and on the last day of their meeting voted to accept the in vitation from Los Angeles. The month of holding the meeting is not yet deter mined. Several protests were received in re gard to the action of the board in laying on the table the motion to admit the club of colored women to membership in the General Federation, A motion to take from the table was lost, the board feeling that it was wiser to allow the larger number assembled at a biennial to first express an opinion. After a serious consideration of the question in al! -its bearings, but not wishing to bring the question before the next biennial unless the clubs should desire to discuss end vote upon , the board decided 18 request all clqbs and state federations belonging to the General Federation to consider the ques tion of admitting clubs of colored wom en to the General Federation and be prepared to vote on the auestion at the sixth biennial should it be presented. The committee on reincorporation re ported progress, but desired further time. An invitation to hold the next meet ing of the board in Topeka was received. The time and place of the next meet ing was left to the president. The Ashland Woman's club closed a year's course in the study of Hamlet, April the eleventh, with a Shaksperian recital, at the hospitable home of Mrs. Alex Laverty. After a few happily chosen words of welcome to invited guests by the President, Mrs. Von Mansfelde. the curtain rose revealing Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, reciting the soleloquy. Mrs. Fred White who was the impersonator received the unanimous commendation of the audi ence. The twenty different characters portrayed from Shakspere were all of merit and deserving of mention, show ing that the study of Sbakspere has awakened a deep and more lasting in terest than eve u I he program committee anticipated; In Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Overholt clearly gave the complex character, the wickedly ambitions, women and the strong and true wife. The Ashland Woman's club owes much to the courage and energy of Mrs. Laverty and Mrs. Overholt, each a host in herself. After the literary feast the humau companionship was deepened by a feast which was called "supper" and while the April rain made the night dreary without, within there was merri ment and good cheer. The Woman's club of York met Mon day, April the fifteenth, with various historical points for a subject. The Woman's club of Fairbury has voted to invite the state federation to meet in Fairbury in 1902. The follow ing program was given by the club on April the sixteenth: Business; response, Duty; Instrumental solo, Anna Griffin; Paper, Methods and means of making our town more attractive, Mrs. A. . Thomas; Instrumental duet, Mrs. Perry and Miss Tolleth; Address, iiayorllar tigan; Talk, Mr. George Hansen; Vocal solo, Miss Powers; Refreshments. The Auburn Woman's club enjoyed during the last days of March the fol lowing musical program: A Narcissus Nevin B Etude aG Wollenhaupt Miss Minnie Hay Greeting Hawley Miss Myrtle McGrew Russian Dance Leschetizky Professor Smith Kentucky Home Fishing Messrs Stevens, Dawley, Filley and Robinson Valse Styrrenne Wollenhaupt Miss Gardner The Moon is Bright Misses McGrew and Gillan Messrs. Simpson and McGrew Piano selection Professor Smith The ladies of the Episcopal church gave a tea last Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Rhodes. Mrs. Camp bsll, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Rathbone, Miss Murphy, Miss Hoover and Miss Hollow bush furnished the music. The after noon was a success financially and so cially. Each guest was presented with a souvenir. The general meeting of the Columbus Woman's club convened Saturday after noon, April the sixth, the art depart ment having the meeting in charge. After the regular business of the month and rail call, Mrs. Garlow and Mrs. Freicjig rendered a Tocal duet. Mrs. Yf C.Phillips of Lincoln then addressed the club on the subject of "Art's Prac tical Influence for Good." The sub stance of her argument was that the love and cultivation of the beautiful, bb seen in nature, is necessary to our hap piness. The address was listened to with interest by all present. Mrs. Phil lips was the guest of relatives, the Tur ner family, whilo in the city. The Domestic Reform League of Bos ton has been preparing and sending out documents this winter concerning the various perplexing questions of house hold service. These pamphlets have presented many practical suggestions and there has been a great demand for them. The Aldine club met on Monday afternoon with Mrs. Schwake. The Al dine club has devoted the year to the study of Egyptian history. On Mon day Miss Jennie Smith lectured on the sixth dynasty of Egypt. The Nineteenth Century club met with Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Usher on Mon day evening. Messrs. and Mssdames Bignell, Guenzel, Hoover, Quiggle, Rich arde, Foster, Sharpe, Harris, Garroutte, Stevens, and Mr. Foster were the players. Doctor Davenport entertained the Round Table oc Monday evening. Dr. Hindman discussed Christian Science. Sorosis met on Tuesday at the home of Mies Anna Miller. Mrs. W. G. L. Taylor gave a thoroughly 'interesting and scholarly address on "Trusts." The discussion following was entered into with freedom and animation on the part of the members. Mrs. Taylor's outline was as follows: TIE TRUST PROBLEM. 1. Different causes assigned to ac count for the existence of trusts, a. Trusts, the inevitable product of industrial evolution, b. Trusts, brought about by the conditions of destructive competition, c. Trusts, an effort to secure the economies that arise from combi nations of capital, d. Trusts, as the result of special privileges, control of transportation, tariff, patent lawe, etc. e. Trusts, as monopolies obtained through dis honest representations. II. Brief history of the formation of trusts, a. The earlier and well known trusts, such as Standard Oil, Sugar, Whiskey, etc. b. The "industrial" movement since 1898. III. The process of forming trusts, a. The work of promoter and finan cier, b. The basis of capitaliza tion, c. Methods of organization and management. The effects of the trusts unon: a. Manufacturers, b. Laborers, c. Consumers, d. Stockholders, e. The general public. Remedies, a. On the theory of competition, b. On the theory of controlled monopolies. IV. The installing of Mary Big Buffalo as chief of the Cheyenne Indians, the first Indian woman who ever acted in this capacity, is somewhat startling and evidence possibly of a Frenchman's theory, that the woman epoch is a regular, natural occurrence every bo often during the centuries, this century, of course, being by far the most impor tant and progressive. The woman move ment or club movement has not yet gone far enough to have perceptibly in fluenced Indian tribes. The recognition of this woman's ability and the estab lishment of her power Beems to be un accounted for except as a spontaneous action on the part of the Cheyennes. diary Big Buffalo, in her officiafposi- tion, attends not only to all the business of the tribe, but she will also act as chief medicine man or woman for the Cheyenne tribe. She claims direct gifts from the Great Spirit. It was she who proposed the plan of having all her peo ple go to Mexico and live and when she found the United States government op posed the arrangement, she called tho Cheyennes together and told them that she had received word from the Great Spirit saying that it would be better for them to remain on their present reserva tion. Only a few white people were per mitted to witness the installation which took place on the reservation near Dar lington. For three days before the event Mary remained in seclusion com muning with good spirits and sending encouraging messages to' her tribe. During this time the thirty medicine men were 'making mysterious prepara tions to initiate ber into the rites of their order. They erected, tents around the royal tepee and fasted for three days while the common Indians gathered on the dancing ground, feasting upon the provender- that Mary supplied them with in plenty. One night Big Snake, chief of the medicine men came out very weak from fasting to announce that all was ready for recogniziog the nsw chief. The In dians were busy all night painting them selves and singing songs. At sunrise Big Snake called in a loud voice: "Woman come forth, Cheyenne tribe who never show white man fear have choose a squaw for big warrior, but squaw is brave. She had brave buck. Sue knew Great Spirit She make good chief." Mary Big Buffalo came out very weak almost pale from her long fast. After a long ceremony of weird songs and the blowing of medicine whistles, tho In dians eujoyed a feast, the gift of the new chief. Mary Big Buffalo will have power to make treaties and sell land of the tribe, but will not have the authority to pun ish criminals or administer any form of justice to offenders. The Florida federation has increased during the last year from eight to ten clubs with a membership of over flit hundred women The committee on Birds has a particular field in Florida and is making an earnest effort to pro tect the birds of the state. The educa tional committee has undertaken to secure more thorough examinations of teachers, higher qualifications of officers, the appointment of women on school boards and is attempting to do away with political influence in school mat ters. Attention is being paid to the need of kindergartens. The village im provement department is also doing good work. Mrs. W. W. Crummer is president of the federation. The educational work of the Alabama feleration has resulted very beneficially to the state. The federation has as signed this phase of its work to one gen eral and three special committees. The latter are kindergarten, Girls' Industrial school and Boys' Reformatory. These committees were formed with the pur pose of establishing such institutions as the titles suggest. The legislature pas sed bills in support of each effort, chief ly through the work of the committees. The Boys' Refoimatory school is the re sult of federation work and is now un der the control of a board of women. The president of the federation is Mrs. J.D. Wykerof Decatur and the cor responding secretary is Mrs. J. C. Hil dretb, New Decatur. The New England conference of wo men's clubs was held in Boston during Thursday and Friday of last week. From three hundred and fifty to four hundred club women were present. The original purpose of the mating as J
