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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1901)
WWW?! f THE COURIER. the encouragement of patriotism, the circulation of good booke. Generally the work of women in clubs is quiet, modest, not boastful, self-seeking, or de structive of any of those things which makes for charm, feminine attractive ness, or womanly service. The consider ation of these subjects by great numbers of persons givee us atmosphere, which, to breathe, makes sound moral lunge, clear heads and clear consciences. This atmosphere, 1 believe, women's clubs create and help to sustain. "At first the whole attention is seir culture, but as Mrs. Stanwood of the Illinois Federation has said, 'There is no subject under discussion in any wo man's club but eooner or later a mem ber rises to ask, "But how will this af fect the child?"' This interest in educa tion has given a definite purpose to wo men's work. It has brought us into contact with teachers, has given us sym pathy with modern ideas of education.' The Ohio Federation is represented in this work by four committees, and I am glad to say that these committees do not simply adorn our year book by their names, but adorn our history with what they accomplish. They are the educa tional committee, working for the estab lishment of a training school for Ohio teachers; the art committee, which be lieves that the surrounding walls and the play grounds of our school houses as well as books are educative; the domestic economy committee, which believes that since two-thirds of the human race must earn their bread by the sweat of their brow, and since two thirds of the American children at an average of fourteen years of age leave echool it is important that the hand as well as the brain should be taugh; bow to work; the library committee, which is busy in furnishing those desiring good literature, or remote from centers of publication, with the best books free of all expense." The project of forming an order of the Children of the Revolution was dis cussed at the meeting of the Des Moines Daughters of the American Revolution last week. The object is to promote patriotism, and the organization will in clude all children in the city who are eligible to membership. The require ments are the same as those for older persons. A meeting will be held today at the home of Mrs. Charles Hewitt to perfect the organization. The Des Moiness Woman's club in vited the Art Fund association and the Proteus club to meet Mrs. Edwin H. Conger, Miss Laura Conger and Miss J. R HARRIS, No. I, Board of Trade, CHICAGO. G9 STOG KS AND- BONDS Grain, Provisions: Cotton. Private Wires to New York Gty and Many Gties East and West. MEMBER . , New York Stock Exchange. Chicago Stock Exchange. Chicago Board of Trade Mary Pierce at the regular meeting last week. Chinese tea and fruppe and wafers were served late in the afterpoon. Mrs. Conger gave a vivid description of the peculiar customs and manners of the Chinese and dwelt particularly on the details of the terrible siege in 1900. The collection of curios and specimens made by the Conger party during their residence in China was also on exhibition. The annual May festival was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, last week when the following excellent program wsb given: May 1G, 8 P. M. Mendelssohn's "Eli jab." by the choral union, Boston Festi val orchestra, Mrs. Marie Kunkel-Zim-merman, Mies Fielding Roselle, Messrs. Leslies Brown, Glenn Hall, William A. ITowIand. May 17, 3 P. M. Dvorak's New World Symphony by the orchestra; Tschaik oxsky's Concerto, B fiat minor, by Al bert Lockwood, pianist; Wagner arias from "Die Walkyrie" by Gwilym Miles. 8 P. M. Haydn's Symphony No. 1, E fiat, and other orchestral numbers; Con certo in A minor, by Saint Saens, by Alfred Hoffman, 'cellist; Bongs and a Tschaikowsky aria by Glenn Hall, tenor; a Dubois Fantasie, by L. L. Renwick, organist. 7:30 P. M. Sullivan Cantata, "The Golden Legend," by thn choral union, orchestra, organ, Mrs. Zimmerman, Miss Roselle, Evan Williams, Gwilym Miles, W. A. Howland. The Dew agricultural building of the university of Illinois was dedicated last Tuesday. This building is in four parts, built around an open court, and is the largest agricultural building in the world. The main building is 218 feet long and three stories high; on each end is a large wing 100 feet long and two stories high. The building contains 200 rooms with a floor space of two acres, and is divided into spacious offices, class rooms, toilet rooms, a fire proof storage room for records, a museum, rooms for farm machinery, dairy manufactures, domestic science exhibits and a large assembly hall. Jliss Bertha Wilbur of Rochester, New York, has received the appoint ment of pension agent in place of her father, who recently died. Miss Wilbur was her father's assistant for several months before his death, and was pro nounced by the Grand Army to be competent to carry on the work. The Woman's club of New Bedford, Massachusetts, recently received a com munication from the local merchants, asking them to do their shopping in their home city. A special meeting will be held to consider the matter, at which the merchants are invited to be present and take part in the discussion. The fourth annual meeting of the National Congress of Mothers was held in Columbus, Ohio, this week. The fifth annual meeting of the Washington state federation of Wo man's clubs will be held at Tacoma on June ISth, 19th and 20th. The Ottumwa Woman's club gave a most enjoyable reception last week Thursday at the home of the retiring president, Mrs. S. H. Harper. Over two hundred women were present, in cluding members from the Oskaloosa Woman's club and other guests from out of town. The floral decorations were beautiful and effective; music was furnished by the mandolin club, punch was served in the upper hall and dainty refreshments in the dining room. The reception was in charge of the social committee, consisting of JJesdames J, B. Dennis, John Pope. Will Harper, Calvin Manning, James Cooper, J. A. Hammond, F. M. Hunter, Fred Tisdale, George Pope, C. L. Graham and R. H. Moore. The literary department of the Woman's club gave a picnic on last Thursday in honor of the retiring chair man, Mrs. Dora Mitchell, and of the new chairman, Mrs. J. C. Bonbam. Elaborate preparations are being made by the Minnesota State Woman Suffrage Association for the entertain ment of the National Convention the first week in Jane. The Woman's Peace League held its first meeting recently at the Teatra Libertad, Manila. Addresses were de livered to a large and enthusiastic audi ence by prominent American and Fili pino women. The league was formally organized, and Senorita Jacoba Patemo, Senora Simplicia del Rosario, Mrs. Taft, and Mrs. Mans were elected directors. Six American and six Filipino women were then selected to form an execu tive committee, which at its first meet ing sent the following cablegram to President McKinley: -'To the Presi dent and Ladies of North America: We have organized a Woman's League to obtain peace. We salute the Presi dent. We salute you, pleading your cooperation. Signed, The League. A large amount of work has been accomplished by the sociological de partment of the Woman's club of Chel sea, Massachusetts, during the last year. Successful mothers' meetings have been held; stamp-6aving societies have been organized in two schools, and meetings have been held in the interest of the city improvement. Possibly the most effective work of the last two years is that of the sand gardens, where thous ands of children have been taught the lessons of cleanliness and politeness. tep for Btep, serried file upon file, pha lanx wedging phalanx, came the W. R. C. ladies, 300 strong. In a similar contretemps men might not have been blamed for taking poison or some other strong drink, even though they showed the courage to resist the temptation to beat an ignominious re treat. With the ladies, however, there was not a thought of giving up. The dismay was but momentary. They paused merely to shudder a single shud der, then stood by their guns. The tel ephone bell jingled jangled. The kitch en range was stoked up until it smoked like the boilers of an ocean liner. The lady assistants grabbed for aprons, rolled up their sleeves and prepared to do or die. Almost before the first of the guests had responded in kind to a reception which made each and every one feel that her presence gave the hostess especial joy, the grocery wagon, driven like an ambulauce responding to an emergency call, backed up to the rear door and unloaded caso upon case of wafers, uneeda biscuits, and great can nisters of tea. from which latter a royal brew was soon being made in the largest wash boiler in the neighborhood. In the parlors, on the spacious but crowded veranda and the beautiful, shaded lawn, the ladies in their dainty white aprons flitted with their trays of tea and wafers. Finally, however, there came a time when the refreshments had made their last round and all the ladies were free to enjoy the society of one another. So after a delightful afternoon the guests departed, bat not one ever guessed how nothing bat coolness of head, readiness of the never clouded feminine wit, and promptness of action had saved the en tire day. Plattsmouth Journal. Preparations have been made for the executive session of the National Coun cil of Women, to be held in Buffalo on September 11th, 12th and 13th. A program committee consisting of Mes dames Gaffney. Carrie Chapman Catt, Ellen A. Richardson of Boston, and Anna Garlin Spencer was appointed, and a bullentin committee will be com posed of Mrs. Spencer, Mrs. Richard son, Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, Mrs. May Alden Ward and Mrs. Gaffney. During the encampment of the G. A R. last week Mrs. Stoutenborough con ceived the happy idea of giving the W. R. C ladies a four o'clock reception at her home one afternoon. To assist her in welcoming the 6tratigers she called on Mesdames Theodore Livingston, Al Gas. G. M. Spuflock, W.L. Pickett, Will Streight and C. D. Eades all of them past mistresses in the art of enter taining and all erudite in the mysteries of the four o'clock tea. Perhaps through extreme modesty, ignorance of the extent to which their fame bad gone abroad, or because of a threatening appearance of the heavens, the ladies estimated that probably ten or twelve women might put in an ap pearance, and laying their plans accord ingly ordered two small pasteboard boxes of salinaciouB wafers and a half pound of hyson of the oolong or soolong brand. The hour arrived. The dainty little refreshment table, beautifully decor ated, Btood in the center of the Stouten borough parlor. Mrs. Stoutenborough, with her retinue of retainers grouped about her, waited in readiness at the door, when some one gasped faintly and fell limply to the floor. The othere fol lowing the fixed stare of her startled gaze, then fell as abruptly into chairs. For around the corner the invited guests were coming; with flags flying, keeping MORE ABOUT IT. (Hillsdale Leader.) In the spring we let the furnace Fire die at night, and lo ! When we wake up in the morning All the world is white with snow. Arlie Fisher. In the spring the boys play marbles And their sisters jump the rope ; In the spring we fill our systems Full of various kinds of dope. Marguerite French. In the spring the women fancy That it's time to rip and tear, And the man who has a club spends All his leisure moments there. -A. G. W. In the spring we rummage through the Closets and proceed to haul Out the summer clothes we threw a Way forever in the falL Clarence R. Belden. In the spring the neighbors' chickens Come and scratch around, and so Leave us wondering why the seeds that We have planted never grow. Gracie Mattison. In the spring the iceman tells us That he'll have to raise the price, Owing to the total failure Of last winter's crop of ice. Frances R. Browne. In the spring we take our woolens Off too soon and make things blue, Blaming the confounded climate For the troubles that ensue. Mildred Myrtle Robertson. lie warn ice mil And Dairy Go. 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