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he sets about by an inductive process
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He fails ingloriously; but the trouble
lie takes to fail and the pages he
takes to do it in would try the patience
of a chess player.
As someone has said, it looks very
much as though Mr. James were paro
dying himself. There are several
hundred pages of the most vague and
illusive conversation about the prob
able personality of the person from
whom the woman invigorates her own
personality after she has depleted it
to feed the personality of a man in
whom the reader is not in the least
interested. The proposition sounds
like a mixture of ''Alice in Wonder
land" and an algebraic formula.
What does Mr. James expect to gain
by thus putting tea-table surmises
and houseparty gossip on the plane of
serious art and addling the brains of
well meaning people with it? Truly,
" method doth make madmen of us all.
The State Convention.
At the republican state convention
held in this city on Wednesday the
usual party contest was exhibited in the
selection of a state ticket.
To those initiated in the work of state
conventions the contest presented un
usual features.
The strategy of politics was well ex
emplified in the process of eliminating
the weaker and less available candidates
and in the final massing of support on
the ones best embodying party senti
ment. The final nomination of Judge
Sedgwick of York for justice of the su
preme court was peculiarly satisfactory
to both factions, and was the logical re
sult of the conflicting ambitions of the
rival aspirants. The endorsement of
Mr. Goold for a Becond term as regent
of the university was a recognition of
his efficient services. The nomination
of Mr. Ernst was based upon his fitness
for the position and upon the fact that
"V-" he is a resident of Lincoln, which is re-
irnrrlnH jq tho rnntrfi of universitv in
terest.
The political phase of the contest soon
broadened into a moral question involv
ing the propriety of paroling a default
ing public official on the promise of a
restitution of embezzled funds. Through
the clamor and confusion of the conven
tion one truth was persistently mani
fested: the judgment of the maes of Ne
braska citizens who are typical of hu
manity at large may be relied upon as
an expression of inherent justice. ,
Personal influence and sentimejjt,
which are potent factors when applied
to individuals and to the ragged edges
of a party or convention, are powerless
when applied to the body en masse.
The eterral principles of right and
wrong must ever find their vindication
or condemnation at the hands of the ma-
fv given full weight in the decision of an
important question Dy a nouy oi iuir
teen hundred men.
The position of Governor Savage on
Wednesday was pitiable when he tried
to explain and justify to the convention
his action in granting the Gartley pa
role. The delegates were members of
his own party, and were in no manner
hostile to him. Eloquent supporters of
his action supplemented his words with
arguments which they thought invinci
ble. Yet in the face of party loyalty
came this unalterable decision from the
representatives of tho republican masses:
Governor Savage's action was not based
on the principles of justice and wisdom,
and therefore must be condemned. Not
m anger, but in sorrow, was the chas
tisement administered by the party to
its chief official. And in sorrow and not
in anger was the cnaBtieemont received.
The Platonic theory of sacrificing the
individual to the state was here forcibly
illustrated.
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The new public library at Fremont
will be formally opened next Monday.
It is interesting to again note that this
library is to be placed to the credit of
the woman's club of the town. The first
forma! steps toward arousing public in
terest wore taken by that organization,
and the dub has great satisfaction in tne
result.
The library is pronounced to be a very
well-selected one. There are about 23,
000 volumes at the disposal of the public.
These have been carefully catalogued
and there is little doubt that they will
serve a most useful purpose. The selec
tions of books have been made with a
view to bringing thebeBt literature with
in the reach of those in whose homes
books are strangers. Standard authors
have been liberally drawn upon. It haB
not been taken for granted that Shaks
pere and Scott and Dickens and Bulwer
were in all the homes of tho town. Fic
tion predominates more largely than the
rule provides. Modern authors are well
represented, for those who may have
moderate private libraries, though neces
sarily much smaller than this modest
public collection. Reference works of
the best to be had have been provided
with comparative liberality. Fremont
may well have pride in joining, though
at a late day, the general movement in
the Email cities and towns for this ap
proved method of securing a broader
public education thanks to the wom
an's club.
Bpolie, Knoiville, Tonn., and Greenville,
N. C, with a total membership of 250,
and a business capital of $Ti5,900. Tho
object of the organization is to oducato
the colored women in matters of busi
ness, to encourago them to eater busi
ness and to enable them to work together
for mutual improvement. The National
League of Colored Business Woman's
clubs held a successful moeting in Chi
cago last week.
The ladies library association of Su
perior will manage a lecture and concert
course during the coming season.
Among the entertainers who will bo
heard are the Parke Quintette, The
Hahns, The Superior Musical Club,
The NonpareilJubilee singers, Robert
Nourse, Ed Amherst Ott and Spiliman
R'gg-
Two wemen who graduated from the
University of Michigan with tho degreo
of bachelor of sience, are practical civil
engineers. They are Mrs. Paul Carus
and Miss Marion Parker, the latter a
structural engineer with Purdy and Hen
derson, New York.
Mis3 Sarah Whittlesley, a graduate of
Radcliffe College, has written for her Ph.
D. degree at Yale a thesis on the Massa
chusetts labor laws, which Commissioner
Carrol D. Wright of the department of
labor at Washington pronounces the best
work of the kind he hae ever seen. Tho
thesis has been published as a monogiam
by the American Academy of Political
and Social Science, with an introduction
by the president of Yale.
Elegant apartments have recently been
fitted up in New York by the Mutual
Life Insurance company, and are in
charge of two attractive women, Miss
Wadsworth and Miss Hay, both of whom
are experienced insurance agents. Miss
Wadsworth has been employed by this
company for five years, and enjoys tho
reputation of writing more insurance
than any other woman solicitor in the
United States. A lajge office business
is done with both society and profes
sional women. The business apartments
are beautiful and artistic. A reception
which is largely attended is given once a
month.
The frrst colored business woman's
club was organized in Chicago by Mrs.
Alberta Moore Smith, who is both na
tional organizer and president of the
Chicago club. During the last twenty
monthB clubs have been organized in
New York, St. Louis, St. Paul, Minne-
Undoubtedly the finost woman's club
house in the country is that of tho
Twentieth Century Club of Buffalo,
which keeps open house during tho Pnn
American Exposition for the 'oternal
feminine" wayfarer. This imposing
structure cost precisely $150,000. This
sum is considerably in excess of that ex
pended on any other woman's clubhouse
on this Bide of the water, at least, though
Boston club women have in process of
erection on Beacon Hill an editice which,
it is eaid ia to cost 8200,000.
The Twentieth Century Club of Buf
falo was begun in 1S93 and completed
the following year, notwithstanding the
unsettled financial condition the country
over. When tho last brick was in place
these Buffalo club women declared
proudly they had "the largest, handsom
est, and most complete clubhoupe in the
country," and no one had the courage or
the clubhouse to dispute the broad as
sertion, says the Chicago Record-Herald.
The clubhouse is three stories high.
There is a stone foundation with the re
mainder of brick. It is located on one
of the principal streets in the city with
the latchstring ever hanging out allur
ingly. By far the most attractive room
is the court, as it is called, situated on
the second floor and reached by broad
marble staircases. The mural decora
tions are markedly artistic, while the
supporting columns at the side give an
added elegance. On the same floor are
the coffee-room, the magazine room, the
music-room and the library. On the first
floor are the office, committee rooms,
whist rooms and dressing-rooms.
It is the third floor of the clubhouse
that is a constant source of income.
Here is a large assembly room, which is
rented for concerts, lectures and dances.
The stage is equipped with scenery so
that it may be utilized for private theat
ricals. There are also a number of stu
dios, which are rented to artists.
Another feature unusual in the femi
nine clubhouse in America, at least
are tho two sleeping apartments, which
members, especially out-of-town mem
bers, may use over night. In London,
on the other hand, the average woman's
club, being largely social, is apt to have
numerous apartments. The London
woman's clubisimmensely more elegant,
it may be mentioned in this connection,
the Empress Club in Piccadilly, for in
stance, costing the sura of 450,000.
This Twentieth Century Club in Buf
falo, however, is all the more praisewor
thy from our American standpoint when
it is understood the membership is com
paratively small only about 300. The
president iB Mrs. John Gienny, who, be
ing an artist, has executed some of the
decorations in the music room. Indeed,
this woman has been mostly instrumen
tal in developing the art idea in the club,
a weekly exhibition by local artists being
a splendid feature during the season, the
picture hanging in the gallery for several
days after.
It is in such an all-around, alluring
clubhouse that hundreds of club women,
who may attend the congresses at the
Pan-American Exposition, will be invited
to have a cup of tea during the summer
months.
dred and Boventy members, each paying
membership dues of forty dollars a year.
A hundred thouiand dollar club houso
with three floors finely equipped for ath
letics was secured during tho first twelve
months. A tea room and a swimming
pool also are attractive features.
The club, now firmly established, is not
a passing fad; it ia a permanent organiz
ation, and the mombera take great inter
est in the athletic work. Individual in
structors are employed for the swimming,
fencing, dancing and regular gymnastic
work, and two entertainments are given
each year to which physicians are in
vited. It is now proposed to start a sim
ilar club in New York, after which it is
hoped to establish a system of athletic
clubs in prominent cities of America.
Paulina Harriette Lyon, secretary and
manager of the Chicago Woman's Ath
letic Club, writes in Collier's Weekly, re
plying to a request for the best daily
routine for an athletic woman: "My an
swer is: Plenty of exercise, a plunge in
cold water, a salt glow, and dependence
upon self instead of upon stimulants. I
am glad to write this advice with my own
pen, just once, for members of the press
have been writing it for me for many
months. The press, indeed, has been
most curious as to the things we do in
our club, and most persistent in printing
the things we do not do. Ail this, how
ever, haB been in a spirit of kindness, for
which we are grateful. So often has the
word unique been applied to our organ
ization that we think the Librarian of
Congress ought to grant us the copyright
of that word."
The by-laws for the maintenance of
harmony among the members may be of
interest to members of other clubs.
Says Mrc. Lyon: "No women is eligible
to membership in our corporation unless
she is either a creditorof the corporation
or a surety or guarantor upon some of its
obligations. Women who are not mem
ber? of the corporation may be admitted
to the privileges of the club under the
name of associate members. A good plan
for placing a club on a sound financial
basis is that of dividing the members into
four classes, known as honorary, life, res
ident, and non resident, the dues and
fees being regulated accordingly. A life
membership in our club costs five hun
dred dollar0
Some of our house rules too. may prove
of interest.. Tho club-house, for in
stance, is not open on Sundays. The
house is also closed on all holidays. No
person residing within thirty miles of
Chicago may be introduced as a visitor
more than once in three months. To
avoid internal quarrels, we allow no com
plaints to be made in person, permit no
verbal criticism. All complaints must
be made in writing to the Board of Di
rectors and signed by the complainant.
Nor do we permit the administering of
reprimands to servants of the club; for
here, again, complaints must be made in
writing and deposited in a complaint-box
provided for that purpose."
When the Woman's Athletic Club of
Chicago was organized two years ago. it
was the only organization of the kind in
existence. With a membership limited
to five hundred, there are now three hun-
The first American dentist to hang out
her shingle in Manila ie Dr. Anna Saw
yer of New York. She is finding great
demand for her services.
Followed Instructions.
At Gloucester some time ago a man
was sentenced to one month's hard labor
for stealing a bottle of medicine that he
had been asked to deliver by the doctor
in the village in which he lived. Some
months after he was brought up on a
similar charge and when in the dock be
was asked what he had to say in his de
fence. "Well, your honor," he replied, "I
was asked by the doctor to call again
for another patient's medicine, and the
bottle stood on the doctor's desk labeled,
"to be taken as before."
He was discharged amid roars of
laughter. London Fun.
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