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Rosa Woodman of Drake university, an
dire member of the Margaret Fuller
dab. Mr. George H. France renewed
"Eben Holden," Miss Ida Duffield
"Tommy and Grizzel,' Mrs. Joseph
Gardner "The Helmot of Navarre," and
Misa Preston -The Master Christian."
Refreshments were served toy Mrs.
Irish, aeeistec by Mesdamee M. H. Un
derwood, J. M. Pierce and J. L.Par
rish. The society will give a picnic to
day at Greenwood park in honor of Mra.
Irish.
Young women with a taste for statis
tics may be pleased to know that the
twentieth century will have twenty-four
leap years, the greatest number possible
in a century. The middle of the cen
tury will be January 1, 1161. February
will hare fire Sundays three times 1920,
1948 and 197G. The earliest possible
date on which Easter can occur is
March 12. The last time it occurred on
that date was ISIS. The latest date on
which Faster can occur is April 25. It
will be on that date in April, 1913.
There will be 330 eclipse during the
century.
Misa Mamie Gertrude Morris, daugh
ter of R.3L Moms of Chattanooga,
Tennessee, has recently been honored
by an appointment on the military staff
of Governor Chandler with the rank of
lieutenant-colonel and aids.
One of the honorary commissioners
from Iowa to the Buffalo exposition is
Mrs. Erelyn Belden of Sioux City. Mrs.
Belden is on the editorial staff of the
Sioux City Tribune, and is serving her
.third term as president of the Iowa
.Equal Suffrage association. Mrs. Mattie
Locke Macomber of Dea Moines is the
other woman commissioner.
"The Recent Impulse," declared the
most brilliant spectacle the world has
ever seen to be the -magnificent experi
ment of seventy millions of persocs edu
cating themselvee.without depending up
on bishops, lords or intellectual aristoc
racies, but themselves making the ma
chinery out of which the whole educa
tion of the whole nation shall come."
"The Literature of Power" was dis
cussed by Mrs. Jeanuette N. Leeper;
The Littrary Censorship" by Mrs.M.
C. Douglas, and -The Making of the
Writer," by Mrs Julia Hutchins Far
welL Miss C. E. Mason, in speaking of
The Effect of Our Receat Wars on
Literature,"' expressed the opinion that
since the recent ware have increased
our national restlessness and our thirst
for material success, they have in just so
far retarded our literary growth by fos
tering these two national faults. Mrs.
A. W. Maatick referred to the literature
of sociological intlaence and the litera
ture of nature study. Mrs. E. P. Cape
gave her personal experience on the
subject of children's literature, stating
that it k better not to read from the
printed pages of books too old for them,
bat to absorb the book and give it oat
with the personal touch. Mrs. May
Wright Sewall of Indianapolis, president
of the International Council of Women,
poke of the literature that is illustrated
by Kipling, Seton-Tbompeon and others,
which seeks to express the feelings of
animals in their attitude toward man,
and of that other literature vhich is
endeavoring to make a breach in a wall
in which we are not sure there are any
breaches the literature of psychic phil
osophy. Mrs. C. G. Cbilds and Rer.
Anna Garlin Spencer also took part in
the discussion M usic was furnished by
Madame Von der Hende and Miss Edna
Baughman, and a recitation was given
by Mrs. E. W. OIney.
Members of the San Diego, Ca' Wo
man's club are working for a club house.
Lectures, fairs and other entertainments
hare been given to swell the bank ac
count, and a beautiful lot opposite the
new public library has been purchased,
with the prospects favorable for a new
building in the near future.
The last meeting for the year of So
rosis, New York city, was in charge of
the committee on literature, Mrs. Carrie
Stow-Wait, chairman. The subject for
the day was -Modern Literary Condi
tions," and preparation for the discus
sion was made through the winter
by a systematic study of Buskin. Dr.
J. de la M. Lozier emphasized the need
jof contemporsxeous literature in speak
ing of the "Reaction Toward Litera
ture." Mrs. Cornelius C. Cook, speaking
of -The Author," stated that over eight
hundred new books had been published
in this twentieth century, fully one
third of which are novels. Mrs. Sara
Conant Ostrom touched upon the mis
sion and influence of the modern critic
whom she declared to be more than ever
before a dictator and interpreter of lit
erary thought. Mrs. Mary Cooley Bas
sett of Sewickley, Penn., in discussing
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school room written on the cover. Af
ter one dollar's worth of stamps have
been placed in the book, this amount
may be placed in the bank and a certifi
cate of deposit and the interest will be
paid to the depositor. The funds will be
placed in the State Savings bnk and
the value of stamps deposited in the
book can not be drawn from the bank
until one dollar or more has been deposited.
Mrs. Otto H. Metz, the newly elected
president of the Chicago Woman's club,
is an accomplished musician and has
for fifteen years been prominent in club
and educational circles. She has given
much time to the philanthropic work of
the city and the success of the charity
balls given every year is largely owing
to her efforts. Mr. Met: is a well known
architect in Chicago.
Miss Ruth Mason, daughter of Sen
ator Mason of Illinois, was graduated
from the Washington college of law last
Thursday night. Miss Mason is con
sidered the most brilliant member of her
class. She will enter the law office of
her father and brother in Chicago.
A bootblacking establishment exclu
dveiy for women has been started in New
York city by Miss Martha Parkhurat.
The room is furnished with writing
tables and- divans; pictures are on the
walls, certains at the windows, a carpet
is on the floor, and in the rear of the
room is a white marble bootblacking
stand with six small oaken chairs and
footrests. The work is done by boys
under the direction of Miss Parkhurat.
A woman must be appointed the
guardian of her own child. If she is in
business she can be made to support
her husband. She can not sell her busi
ness if her husband objects. And she
can not will it away, even to her own
children, when she dies. It all belongs
to her husband. She can not do business
as a sole trader, even in her own name,
to support herself and little ones, with
out she swears that her husband can
not or will not support her, and then
she must explain why she does not wish
to be divorced. She has no disposition
of her half of the community property,
even if she worked and paid for all, if
she does this work after she is married.
California Club Woman.
A concession for a cereal kitchen at
the Pan-American exposition has been
secured by Miss Emma C. Sickles of
Chicago, secretary of the National Pure
Food Association. Miss Sickles has
achieved much success in legislative
work, also was of great service to the
country at the time of the ghost dance
disturbances in South Dakota in 1890.
when she carried messages from General
Miles, General Schofield and Secretary
Proctor to the chiefs of. the Sioux In
dians and persuaded them to come to a
conference with the American officers.
At the meeting of the Dee Moines
Woman's club last Teek the program
was in charge of the philosophy and
science department with Mrs. Gillett,
chairman. The board of directors held
the last meeting for the year last week.
Tuesday at the home of Mra. W. L.
Read. Dues for active members were
raised to five dollars and for associate
members to seven dollars. A three
course luncheon followed the meeting.
The Aloha club closed a year of suc
cessful work on the same day with a
meeting with Mrs. X. C. Berkey.
The following officers were elected at
a recent meeting of the Colorado School
of Domestic Science: Mrs. Stuart D.
Walling, pre.; Mrs. Hecry E. Wood,
first vice pres.; Mrs. Charles Whitman,
second vice pres. These were re elected,
rec Bee., Mrs. Henry Newman; corr.
secMrcJ. A. Ferguson; treas., Mrs.
A. E. Annis and Mrs. A. B. Beckwith.
The directors are the officers and the
following: Mrs. J. D. Whiting, Mrs. J.
B. Grant, Mrs. J. M. Downing, Mrs. J.
S. Appel, Mrs. James Fletcher, Mrs. E.
G. Stoiber.
The Penny Provident association
has been adopted with success by
the schools of many cities, and at the
suggestion of the Mothers' club has been
introduced in the schools of Dee Moines.
The object is to encourage habits of
economy in school children, and the
idea is carried out in a business-like
way. Principals of the schools are sup
plied with the amount of stamps neces
sary to supply the children and for these
they are held responsible until the
money is returned to the bank. The
principals return the stamps for money
revived from the children who will
each be furnished with a stamp deposit
book with holder's name and number of
A Word and Its Origin.
"Boycott," says a writer on "Words
and Their History," in the June St.
Nicholas, came into common use about
1875 to signify a method of injuring the
business or social prospects of a person.
The word and the custom of shunning a
boycotted victim arose in Ireland; but
boycotting soon became so general that
it was recognized in all so-called enlight
ened countries. The agent of a large
landed estate in Connemara was a Cap
tain Boycott, who was so unpopular with
the tenants that they begged for his re
moval. As Lord Earce, the landowner,
refuse to remove him, the tenants
sought redress by refusing to work for
the agent or to allow others to do so.
Tradesmen would not deal with him.
his own servants deserted him, and
many of his friend gave him the cold
shoulder. Finding that he was in
danger of starvation, a number of Ulster
men came to his relief, harvested bis
crops while under the protection of
armed troops, and enabled him, for a
time at least, to escape absolute ruin.
Many men have been boycotted since
Captain Boycott's unhappy experience
introduced the new word, and boycott,
the world over, is recognized as a term
for which there Is no exact synonym.
The Collegian's Expense.
In an article in the June Century on
-Working One's Way Through College,"
the cost of living at leading universities
is considered:
At first glance Yale seems an expen
sive place, but though a "eon of En"
can spend a great deal of money if he
has it, the man with none to spare can
go through on a surprisingly small
amount. The remission of nearly all
his tuition lifts a great burden from the
shoulders of the man struggling to earn
hia nv. while the loan library f nrhinh t
supplies him with text-books), and oth
er kindly contrivances, relieve him of
expense in many email ways. The pro
portion of belf -helping students at Yale
is growing greater year by year. The
number of those receiving degrees dur
ing the last ten years who helped them
selves through makes a total of five hun
dred and nineteen men, and of the three
hundred and twenty-seven graduates
last June fifteen paid their way through
college unassisted and sixty-nine earned
a large part of their expenses.
Harvard, which has smarted, unjustly
perhaps, under the appellation of the
rich man's college, has any number of
eraduatee wno will testily mat it is the u
poor man's college as well, and that the
working student, if he will, can bring
bis yearly expenses within three hun
dred dollars. The same amount in a
different college community might pur
chase luxury. At Harvard it means
rigorous economy. But if the working
student can accommodate himself to a
quart-measure limit, probably he will be
happy there on three hundred dollars;
if, however, he desires a bushel-basket
horizon, he is bound to be hurt and
bruised by beating against the limita
tions of bis state. The prospective Har
vard freshman does not always under
stand this after reading the letters col
lected by the late Mr. Bolles, secretary
of the college, from Harvard alumni
whose vearlv exnenses had ranged be-
ttrwn thru hundred and five hundred N
dollars. Self-support, from those let
ters, seems rather a simple matte"r, and
the college has been trying to live down
the effect of the pamphlet ever since.
With the optimistic blindness of youth,
hopeful boys have ignored the reading
between the lines, and with the utmost
trustful nees have made their penniless
pilgrimage to Harvard, demanding of
the first distracted college official they
met, "A job, sir, if you please.' Many
of them seem to feel that desirable po
sitions may be picked off like plums
from a tree, and they are personally ag
grieved to find that the utmost supply
of lucrative employment matched the
demand long before they appeared on
the scene.
J. R HARRIS,
No. I, Board of Trade,
CHICAGO.
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