The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, October 05, 1901, Page 4, Image 4
THE COURIER . l - 'X , & - 1 4. $4 " s fc; t-A. L& tSS" r-r Monday Evening, October 7, Eight O'clock Meeting of executive board. PIIOQKAH. Tuesday Morning. 9 O'clock Presen tation of credentials by delegates. Ten O'clock Meeting of board of di rectors. Tuesday Afternoon, 2 O'clock Meet ing of Federation, Mrs. Smith, chair man. Invocation, Mrs. Ida W. Blair, Wayne. Music, violin solo, "Thuringor Volks lied with Variations," H. naessner; OttoVoget, Wayne. Address of welcome, Mrs. J. T. Brese ler, Wayne. Response, Mrs. Gertrude McDowell, Fairbury. Annual address of the president, Mrs. Draper Smith, Omaha. Report of officers. Report of Committees Credentials, Mrs. John Erhardt, Stanton. (Roll call of delegates.) Reciprocity Bureau Mrs. A.A.Scott, Lincoln. Constitution Committee Mrs. Lillian R. Gault, Omaha. Club Extension Committee Mrs. Win nie Durland, Norfolk. Program Committee Mrs. Ella B. Lobingier, Omaha. Tueeday Evening, 8 O'clock Educa tional session, Mrs. Anna L. Apperson, chairman, Tecumseh. Music "Mazourka," for harp, op. 12 Edmund Schnecker; Mrs. Estelle Blake, Omaha. AddreBS "Primary Methods, Miss Ida Swan, Peru. Paper "Woman's Relation to the School." Mrs. J. M. Pile, Wayne. Address Women at the School Meeting and in the Schoolroom," State Superintendent W. K. Fowler, Lincoln. Paper "Patrons' Associations," Mrs. W. M. MorniDg, Lincoln. Address "What Not to Study in the Club," Miss Margaret McCarthy, Omaha. Address Miss Margaiet J. Evans, vice president G.F.W.C. Wednesday Morning, 9:30 O'clock Business meeting, Mrs. Smith, chair man. Club Reports One hundred fourteen clubs, two minutes each. Wednesday Afternoon, 2 O'clock Bueiness meeting, Mrs. Smith, chair man. 2:30 O'clock Art session, Mrs. F. M. Hall, chairman, Lincoln. Art Conference One hour. Music "Valse Caprice, Gabrielle Ver dalle; Mrs. Estelle Blake, Omaha. I. "Benefits Derived from the Study of Art," Mrs. A. W. Field, Lincoln. II. "Art Study in Women's Clubs (a three years' course suggested), Mrs. Jennie E. Keysor, Omaha. III. "How to Build Art Interest,'' Mrs. H. M. Bushnell. Lincoln. Discussion. Ceramic hour. "Early Historic China of United States,'' Mrs. H. M. Brock. Lincoln. "American Potteries'' (eastern), Mrs. Anna R. Morey, Hastings. "American Potteries" (western), Mre. Belle Perfect, Omaha. "American Pottery at the Pan-American Exposition," Miss Mellona Butter field, Omaha. "The Influence of the Public on the Ceramic Worker," Mrs. A. B. Fuller, Ashland. "The Ceramic Worker's Obstacles." Miss Nina Lumbard, Fremont. Discussion. Outlines and Suggestions for Study: China and picture exhibit in church lecture room. Wednesday Evening, 8 O'clock Re ception to the Federation at the home of Mrs. J. T. Bressler, president of the "Wayne Town Federation. Thursday Morning, 9,T0 O'clock Business meeting, Mrs. Smith, chair man. ' Report of Special Library Committee Mre. Belle M. Stoutenborough, chair man. The Nebraska Traveling Library MiBB Edna D. Bullock, secretary Ne braska Library commission. Discussion. 10:45 O'clock Industrial session, Mrs. Amanda M. Edwards, chairman. Mueic "Fruelingsrauschen," "March Grotesque, Sinding; Mrs. Will Owen Jones, Lincoln. Girls' Industrial School at Geneva and Other State Institutions Nellie Elizabeth Cady, St. Paul. Nebraska Industrial Home at Milford Mre. Elizabeth Sisson, Norfolk. Woman as a Factor in Industrial Pur suitsMrs. W. II. Clemmons, Fremont. Women and Children as Employes Mrs. D. M. Carey, Seward. The George Junior Republic Mrs. Etta R. Holmes, Kearney. Parental Schools and Courts for Juve nile Offenders Mrs. M. N. Presson, Milford. Discussion. Thursday afternoon, 2 o'clock Bust ness meeting, Mrs. Smith, chairman. 2:45 o'clock Household economic ses sion, Mrs. W. G. Baker, Norfolk, chair man. Music "Magic Fire Music," Wagner BraEsin; Mre. Will Owen Jones, Lincoln Repmt of state work Mrs. W. G. Baker. Housekeeping on a business basis Mrs. Anna B. Steele, Fairbury. Influence of early home life on chil dren Mrs. M. A. McMillan, Norfolk. Progress of domestic science in schools, Professor Rosa Bouton, Lin coln. Ac drees "Thesocial trend of Amer ican life." Mre. Elia W. Peattie, Chi cago. Thursday evening, 8 o'clock, Mre. Draper Smith, chairman. Music Selected; Jules Lumbard, Omaha. Address The practical and apathetic value of forestry Reverend C. S. Har rison, Pres. Nebr. Park and Forestry AsB'n., Yoik. Town and village improvement, illus trated Mrs. C. W. Damon, Omaha. Music "America," led by Jules Lum bard, the audience joining in the re frain. Friday morning, 9:30 o'clock, Busi ness seesion, Mre. Smith, chairman. Report of nominating committee; election of officers; election of delegates to G. F. W. O. biennial; report of reso lution committee: installation of new officers; adjournment; meeting of the old executive board; meeting of the new executive board. A Critique from Mrs. D. C McKillip. Seward, Nebr., Sept. 17, 1901. A Nebraska story in the September McClure's, by Kate M. Cleary, entitled "The Stepmother," is a lugubrious tale and conveys the impression that Ne braska is not a good place to live in. Why is it that our own story writers writing for eastern periodicals pick out the very worst features of our climate, Buch as a dust storm or a blizzard and, ignore all the delightful, pleasing attributes of the country? Why do they pass over in silence the thousands of happy homes in the state, where the farmers' wives have every comfort and convenience and many luxuries? And why do they select some woebegone individual who "speaks in plaintive monotone produced by color lees years of self-repression and self denial" and hold her up to the reading public as a type of the Nebraska coun try woman? Mrs. Peattie hangs a wisp of faded hair over their foreheade; Kate Cleary's type is "weary-eyed, with a Bcarlet blotch burLing on either cheek, and two front teeth gone, and gowned in the everlasting print wrapper of the prairie housekeeper." It is not with her story that I feel in clined to quarrel, for she has the right to make that just as sad and grewsome as she pleases; but I do object to her generalities and sweeping assertions concerning the characteristics of the in habitants of our state. She Bays they are chary of caresses the prairie people perfunctory Kisses are given at the marriage feast or be fore the burial, but even these are few and far between." She dsecribes the rural population of Nebraska that will compare favorably with that of any other state in the union in civilization, education, enterprise and kind-heartedness, as if they were a tribe in Central Africa having racial peculiarities of their own, instead of being a component part of our great commonwealth with that same human nature that makes the whole world kin. Sympathy is as sweet, kindness as' dear and love as delightful to hearts that beat under a hickory shirt or calico wrapper as the hearts under broadcloth and Bilk, and when ehe further states that the "attitude of a young western farmer to his mother is that of an In dian to his squaw," it is an insult to the very beet of Nebraska's population. For "our staunch yeomanry is the coun try's pride." Many of them are uni versity graduates and hb cultured and kind as their city cousins. I do not think the author knows much about Nebraska or its inhabitants. Her story is full of inconsistencies anyway. She locates the home of the Carneys in a forlorn place and Mrs. Carney tells her stepson, Dan, on Decoration day that "There hasn't been a soul to this houee since Christmas, except some campers whose wagon broke down." Yet in the afternoon, when Dan and his girl get caught in a dust storm on the way home from the memorial exercises and take a short cut to Dan's home, they find the house full of neighbor women caring for Mrs. Carney, who went out a short time before to drive some calves in out of the storm and succumbed to a heart at tack. "Carney trades his eastern business for a rocky Nebraska farm." I have never seen a rocky Nebraska farm, but perhaps Kate Cleary has. And ehe says "there was no timber in that region; the small, shabby house perched upon the bluff was exposed to the bitter winds of winter and to the almost uuore malig nant furnace blasts of summer, yet under these' adverse conditions she grows a flourishing peach orchard which is a great source of income. I am afraid what she knowB about farming wouldn't make a book, and what she knows about Nebraska is still less. Like Rider Haggard who hung bis new moon in tho eastern sky and Jules Verne who had hie party cross Ne braska from Kearney to Omaha in a few hours on a sailing sled, it is a good story, but poor facts. There is a lesson which the author never intended should be drawn from- her article: and that is where, except in productive Nebraska, could a woman with a drunken, shiftless husbaud and a houee full of children of her own, with the help of her two stepsons, have made so good a living? Had they lived else where that "riotous, roystering, healthy brood that came tumbling in at supper time, and laughed and mocked and fought and burst into peala of laughter," might have been too nearly starved to possess euch hilarious spirits. And "Dick, perfumed and pomaded, in his Sunday beet," who went to town to a strawberry festival at the Methodist church might not have had the price anywhere else, for strawberries come high in May. And Dan, who took his girl to Decoration day in a new covered buggy and gave her his silk handker chief to tie over her eyes to ke he dust out, could not be classed a -the unfortunates of the earth. At poor, forlorn stepmother, to whon r sympathies go out, might have g much more happiness from life hau learned that she who asks little . -, nothing, and made her demands ac ingly. When there are thousands . i thousands of prosperous, happy Lo in Nebraska, whose owners started w niless and have reaped a competes from the soil and whose children a' well educated and prosperous, at i whose lives have been successful, vU v can not our Nebraska story writers select a type of inhabitant which rerr sents Nebraskans instead of eterna v chanting a tale of woe? .It is su h stories that give our state a bad re- .. tation. PRELUDE. The blossom-snow begins to blow About the orchid close , The fields forget the violet But soon shall come the rose, My Dear , Ah, soon shall bloom the rose . The long year's prime is summertime , And summer's coming on , But the spring o' the year is all too dear And Spring is past and gone, My Dear, O this is past and gone . October Scribner's. President Roosevelt's Mid-Winter Hunting in the Rockies. In mid-winter, hunting on horse back in the RockieB is apt to bo cold work, but we were too warmly clad to mind the weather. We wore heavy flannels, jackets lined with sheepskin, caps which drew down entirely over our ears, and on our feet heavy ordinary" Bocks, German socks, and overshoes. Galloping through the brush and a mong the spikes of the dead cedars, meant that now and then one got snag ged; I found tough overalls better than trousers; and most of the time I did not need the jacket, wearing my old buck ekiu shirt, which is to my mind a par ticularly useful and comfortable gar ment. It is a high, dry country, where the winters are usually very cold, but thp snow not under ordinary circumstances very deep. It is wild and broken id character, the hills and low mountaus rising in sheer slopes, broken by clilTa and riven by deeply cut and gloou,) gorges and ravines. The sage-brjstt grows everywhere upon the flats an 1 hillsides. Large open groves of pinjoi and cedar are scattered over the peaks, ridges and tablelands. Tall spruce cluster in the cold ravines. Cotton woods grow along the stream courses and there are occasional patches of scrub-oak and quaking asp. The en tire country is taken up with cat! ranges wherever it is possible to get sufficient water-supply, natural or art ficial. Some thirty miles to the ea and north the mountains rise highe the evergreen forest becomes contir. ous, the Biiow lies deep all through t winter, and such northern anitnals the wolverine, lucivee, and snow-sh rabbit are found. This high count is the summer home of the Coloraii elk, which are now rapidly beconiir extinct, and of the Colorado blackta deer, which are still very plentiful, bu which, unless better protected, will (o low the elk in the next decade or fc In winter both elk and deer come don to the lower country, through a part which I made my hunting trip. Fror "With the Cougar Hounds," by The. dore Roosevelt, in the October Sent ner's.