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as related to civil service reform;" Mr.
Charles W. Birtwell on "Woman Suf
frage as related to the care of the young,
the poor, and the defective." Mra. Fan
ny B. Ames is expected to Bpeak on
"Women and the public schools.'
An appropriate entertainment will be
given in Copley ball, Boston, on May
the fifteenth, at the Colonial Day Festi
val, under the auspices of the New Eag- treated as a member of the
vacation for the purpose of discussing
"The Hired Girl; Her Uses and
Abuses." Here would be something
practical and tangible and the field is
ripe for the harvest, as it were. There
are two big Bides to the hired girl
problem, and if the Woman's club
could compromise in some manner the
differences between the hired girl and
the housewife, so the latter would be
family and
THE OLD ARMORY.
KATHARINE M. MELICK.
(For The Courier.)
land Women's Press Association. An
old-time country dance, the Sir Roger de
Coverly, will be flret on the program,
followed by a Papoose dance, the Min
uet, dance of Canadian Voyageurs and
Coureurs du Bois. A group of singers
will give old church tunes, modern Eng
lish glees and the wild songs of the
Canadian Voyageurs.
the other could have assurance of be
ing through with her work before the
fifteenth hour of the day, all might live
happier ever after. Fremont Tribune.
Twenty energetic girls, members of
the Froebel Circle of King's Daughters
at Savannah, Georgia, have purchased a
cottage at Tybee and fitted it up for a
seashore home for waifs. A day nurs
ery has been supported there during the
entire year, and a Christmas tree enter
tainment was given to five hundred
children. A matron and cook are in
charge of the home, and 180 children
were cared for there during the last
year. Three years ago the society start
ed with a capital of $150; today $1,300
of the $1,500, cost of the home, has been
paid, in addition to the expenees of
operation during the two years.
A"darningclub,,isCentraliB,Mis&ouri's
latest departure in club organizition.
This unique society is composed of thir
teen young matrons who meet every two
weeks and do mending of all descrip
tions while discussing the subjects of
literature, music and art. Stocking
mending is a specialty of the club, and
the most proficient in the art are re
warded by election as officers.
A muBicale was given by the Mental
Culture club of Auburn at the home of
Professor W.H. Gardner, on April the
ninteenth. Sixty guests were present,
including Mrs. W. A. Swearingen and
Mis3 Lillian Eauble of Plattsmouth.
The following program was presented:
Talk, Music
Rev. G. W. Borden
Piano solo, The Flatterer Chaminade
Miss Allie Furlong
Solo, Happy Days Strelezki
Mrs. W. A. Swearingen
Piano solo, The Storm Chopin
Miss Gardner
Violin solo, II Trovatore Snigalee
Miss Lillian Kauble
Solo - Selected
Miss Dora Swearingen
Reading Selected
Miss Emma Berlet
Solo, The Swallows Cowen
Mrs. Swearingen
Violin solo, Caprice Bohm
Miss Kauble
Piano duet, Lee Sylphes Bachmann
Misses Eustice and Reed
Solo, For all Eternity Mascheron
Mrs. Swearingen
Duet, O that We Two were Maying
Mrs. Swearingen, Miss Swearingen
Piano solo Selected
Miss Swearingen
The Tribune would be the last to hint
that the Woman's club might be en
gaged in more useful business. It
knows the intellectual stimulus the
club has been to scores of women, but
it is impelled to remark that the ques
tions of literature, art, history, music
and the like might be given a week's
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A bouquet which will be presented to
Mrs. McKinley at San Jose, California,
will be more than a hundred feet ic cir
cumference, and will contain two toes
of flowers, representing all the varieties
of flowers and leaves in that country.
A call has been issued by Mrs. May
Wright Sewall of Indianapolis, United
States representative on the internation
al peace commiEsion of women, asking
the women throughout the country to
arrange for meetings on May the eigh
teenth in behalf of international peace
and arbitration. The call says: "Not
withstanding the discouraging condi
tions since the holding of The Hague
conference and the many pessimistic
jeers, it is certainly matter for grateful
consideration that, as a result of the
conference, the permanent court of in
ternational arbitration will convene at
The Hague on the second anniversary of
the conference May the fifteenth."
On Tuesday the English literature
department of the Omaha Woman's
club had charge of the program. Mrs.
F. H. Cole, the leader of the department
briefly reviewed the work of the year,
and the special study of John Milton
and Jonathan Swift. Mrs. Charles
Urqubart sung, The Lsrelei, by Liezt.
Mrs. A. W. Bowman read a paper,
Italian Influence. The Polacca Bril
liante was then played by Mrs. Edward
Johnson. Miss Fairbrother read Rob
inson Crusoe An Analysis. She was
applauded enthusiastically, and pre
sented with a beautiful bouquet of roses.
The program closed with the exquisite
song, Life's Lullaby, by Gerald Lane
sung by Mrs. Urqubart.
During the business session of the
club a complete report of the bill board
committee was presented by the chair,
man, Mrs. C. W. Damon. She read
portions of the state laws which declare
impure bill boards and advertising to be
nuisances and stating the penalties
therefor. Mrs. Damon said the mayor
had promised assistance and that the
newspapers had written circular letters
advising advertisers of the said state
laws. A circular is also being prepared
for use of club members in making com
plaints. A message to club members from the
president of the state federation, Mrs.
Draper Smith, was read by the secre
tary. Miss Kennedy. It contained sug
gestions for the appointment of a club
extension committee and for a state fed
eration day which will be considered at
the next meeting.
The delegates elected to attend the
It is not so very old, yet the chalk
ring in the centre, and the chalk wish
bonea enclosing the two baskets Beem
strangely infantile on that floor. The
tall referee who stands holding the ball
in the very act of the toss up, was
spreading an army blanket on that self
same spot, three years ago tonight, for
his first soldier sleep. See the khaki
uniforms coming down the company line
It was in one of those that the referee
loarned that swinging step the old com
pany team plays an Academy line-up,
and the town has turned out to Bee. It
has seen the orchestra, and the bean
bag race between Academy girls and the
tumbling and leaping of Academy boys
everything but what it has come to
see a victory for the Company team.
There is no doubt in any mind as to
the outcome, when the over-confident
array of orange and black sweaters
fronts the dingy khaki line. You can
Bee darker streaks on those wiry dun
trousers streaks of Cavite mud, and
Mololos mire. The mother of Stub,
there the blocky little chap who plays
guard wanted to wash his, and only
Stub's accidental appearance on the
scene forestalled that catastrophe. See
with the Company was presented on
that stage, the night after the lads bad
bunked on the floor together, the eve
ning of the call. No townsman will ever
forget that day each soldier hurrying
home from the bank, or the store, or
garden patch, or school laboratory, to
pack his knap-sack and bring it here.
All you can see on that platform is a
dozen pieces of tipsy green forest, flank
ing the Academy orchestra, but I see
the Piesident's wife, with a brave white
face, and a voice full of tears, trying to
tell the lads what we put into their
keeping. By the lockers here under
the balcony they say Hyshie spread his
blanket, when the mothers and Bisters
had gone away and when the last Billy
young volunteer had been Bet in a roar
by Hyshie's fun. It was just in front of
the stage, where the basket stands,
that he lay when they brought him
home from Camp Merritt, and every
mother with a boy on the transport
came to weep with Hyshie's mother.
Little Stub was with him most, cost
ing his forehead until Hyshie would be
gin to reach out a hand for "Mother"
the mother who came too late. There.
See Stub go after that ball again. How
they slide! The floor is smooth bb wax.
Yes. There's been many a company
dance here. You think they're noisy,
now, but these walls have echoed more
laughter and more sobs they have
the stains from end to end of his Bquare- , ,. ., . ....
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when all the churches came together to
join in a memorial service for our lad
that lies yet in Havana harbor, where
the Maine's top mast marks the place
from that Sunday to th3 other when the
returning transport was righted, and the
people flocked, without prearrangement,
here together for their evening prayers,
it has been our Forum.
Troupes who play sometimes on the
Armory stage complain of undemonstra
tive audiences. Look at those old
ladies leaning out over the balcony, and
see the small boys dancing over that
one score for the Company. You would
n't think this same assemblage open to
such indictment. But it is. -The Herr
Magicians and Frau Prima Donnas are
right. Tragedy and comedy have been
played eo high in these walls, that they
cannot be shaken to the resin dripping
rafters, by the impersonator who
"cawn't eat, and cawn't Bleep," or the
Tyrolese troupe with yodels, green hate,
and a glass orchestra.
To tell the truth, I didn't want to
watch the last half. Twelve to two for
the Academy, the referee is saying.
But it's good to know that the Academy
nees
went in to the neck. Gold lace would
n't touch it. Look at the sturdy brown
fore-arm, out of the half sleeve of brown
shirt. The tropic tan had not worn
away when he touched Golden Gate
harbor, and the first boats brought him
word of his father's death. Stub came
home to finish the cement walk his
father had been laying, and he has laid
every cement, walk in town since that
day. See how he gets the low ball.
But how the Academy guard reaches
over his head. Too high that play.
But what a Centre the Academy has!
He wriggles out of every skirmish with
that ball in bis hard white arms. The
Company Centre seemH to miss his
reach. His sleeves are in the way, and
he had to leave them because he does
n't want to show a tattooed arm.
Who threw the ball to the Academy
Forward? That was sleight of hand.
Hear the new yell over the rest! It
wasn't any trick to put the ball in,
when not another player was within
five yarde. Where was the Company
left forward? They fairly played the
Academy team off the floor, last prac
tice. Watch it now. Khaki strikes hard,
but eee the thing fly back from hand to
hand, as if it were jerked by a trolley
wire. The Academy puts good practice
into the lads. See that slim professor
reach over little Stub. Twice! In four
minutes, too, and not a point for the
Company. It's queer.
Not enough spirit, though, in such a
contest, for men who have run against
bamboo hedges and crooked Tagal
knives. Every one of those ex-volunteers
is an Academy man. Just there,
where the ball is rolling out from under
the melee see that Centre get it again,
state federation meeting at Wayne, Ne- they hung the booth o! Filipino sword-
braska, are: Meedames Penfold, Towl, iron, in the exhibit of Manila products,
Keysor, Damon, Rosewater, Creigh, Mc- after the Company came home. Men
Gilton, Towne, Ward, MacMurpby and
Charde. The president, Mrs. Tilden, is
also a delegate by virtue of her office.
Reverend J. Stitt Wilson of Evanston,
Illinois, spoke to the club for a few
minutes on, The Relation of Christ to
who have faced anything from a feather
tipped poisoned arrow, blown out of a
hollow bamboo, seven feet long, to a
bolo or a wooden cannon wit i a section
of gas-pipe for barrel, or a shell made of
J. R HARRIS,
No. I, Board of Trade,
CHICAGO.
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studied social questions. In this coun
try he hae been connected with the
Northwestern University Settlement
and Hull House in Chicago. He is an
earnest speaker and is to conduct meet
ings in the city this week at Fourteenth
and Harney streets.
GjS
a tomato can filled with ruety nails
the Social Problem. Mr. Wilson is how can they set their teeth to win a Grain, Provisions CottOIl.
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Six times in a teh minute half, and
not a throw for the Company. The Private Wires to New York Citv and
second half may eine another soner. but Many Cities East and West
while they wait, the Armory has re
sources of its own for those who know MEMBER
it. New York Stock Exchange.
The flag which the Academy sent '"ffiat Trade
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