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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1902)
THE COUKIEK fr y Eleanor Barbour played flute solos very pleasingly. Delicious refreshments were served. At the meeting of the art department of the "Woman's club yesterday Mrs. W. F. Kelley gave an exceedingly interest ing talk on oriental rugs. A large num ber of handsome rugs, belonging to pri vate Individuals and to merchants, were exhibited. A daintily appointed dinner was given on Thanksgiving day by Doctor and Mrs. Joseph Scroggs. Guests were Doctor and Mrs. H. J. Wlnnett, Doctor and Mrs. S. E. Cook, Miss Bertha Wilkinson of Pennsylvania, Miss Lethu Daniels and Doctor Orr. Mr. and Mrs. M. Friend gave a six handed euchre last evening. A wedge wood Jug rewarded the lady having the highest score, and the man who was most successful received a handsome stein. A luncheon was served to the fifty guests after the games. Tt? Misses Mary Tucker and Hazel O'Con- : ner gave a dancing party at Walsh hall this morning. One hundred young peo ple were present. Ices and wafers were served. The young hostesses were as sisted by Mesdames A. P. Tucker, C. W. Branch, Turner and Thompson. a- Wednesday evening Congressman and Mrs. Burkett gave a dinner to eight guests. The table was adorned with red roses' and the candles and shades were of the same hue. Guests were Messieurs and "Mesdames H. K. Burket, T. C. Hun ger, R. M. LeGore, E. W. Davis. Congressman and Mrs. E. J. Burkett gave a green and white dinner Tuesday evening. Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. George Moore, Mr. and Mrs. James Farrell, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Houseworth, Mrs. Wright, Miss Herrick, Mr. O. D. Herrick and Doctor E. L. Holyoke. &. The Nineteenth Century card club met Tuesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Guenzel. Besides club members those present were Messieurs and Mesdames C. H. Rudge. W. D. FitzGerald, S. A. Foster and Mrs. Charles Carney of Meeker, Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Marshall went to Omaha today to spend Sunday with Mrs. ' Marshall's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jay White, and her brother and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Fred White. Mr. and Mrs. Fred White are soon to remove from Omaha to Forest City, Iowa. Miss Blanche Garten was recently elected grand president of Delta Gamma soroity to fill the place made vacant by the resignation of Mrs. B. W. Wilon. The choice of Miss Garten for this im portant position Is a wise one. as she has been very active and useful in the work of the sorority. The Brlttannla high-five club met last evening with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Seitz. Members of this club are Messieurs and Mesdames William Tyler, Charles Seitz, Henry Barth, E. Fleming. X. G. Ensey. William Lawior A. H. Pauli: Miss Maude Tyler and Mr. Henry Brown. The Cotillion club will give a party this evening at Fraternity hall. The favors will be appropriate to the Thanks giving time. Visitors will be Mrs. Thomas W. Griffith of Pittsburg, Mrs. Valentine of California, Miss McClure of Mt. Pleasant, and Mr. George Forseman of Minneapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Burr of New York city, who are coming to attend the Burr-Meadows wedding, will stop in Omaha for a few days to visit Mrs. Burr's sister, Mrs. Bauir. They will probably reach Lincoln on Thursday. Miss Julia West Anderson of Taylorville, Illinois, who will be one of Miss Burr's maids, is expected here on Monday, j' al -i rC rST C "Every great musician," observed Uncle Allen Sparks, "charitably hopes his fellow-musicians will go to heaven, but he hopes it will be some other heaven." "Brother, what kind of a thing is a maggot?" "My goodness, Dolly, what an ignorantness! Why, that's how papa made all his money by being a coal-maggot." Brooklyn Life. "Why did Miss Thynne throw over the German baron?" "I hear he insisted ,on calling her his angle.' " CLUB NOTES THE WEEK'S REVIEW At the meeting of the Candle-Light club which occurred Monday evening at the Lincoln hotel, Mr. T. C. Munger spoke on "Needed Changes In the Rev enue Laws of Nebraska." 44 - i Tf P Tsr The New Book Review club was enter tained Wednesday afternoon by Mrs. S. C. Hoover at the Llndell hotel. Mrs. Elias Baker reviewed "The Two Van Revels," by Booth Tarklngton. Miss Louise Hoover, who Is quite a skillful pianist, entertained the ladles with mu sic. The club will meet next with Miss Rowland. Jl J .3 tC' t,.- . The regular meeting of the Century club was held Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. W. C. Phillips. Mrs. Hays told of the far north, giving a description of Alaska and supplementing her subject with an account of Peary's expedition towards the north pole. Mrs. Davisson's subject "was "Western Writers," and that of Mrs. Garten the "Yellowstone Na tional Park." All of these papers were very Interesting and were heard with close attention. The next meeting of the club will be with Mrs. Garten, 121.1 H street, Tuesday, December 9. The regular meeting of the Matinee Muslcale will be held Monday afternoon at Fraternity hall. Mrs. Will Owen Jones, pianist, and Mrs. Mark Woods, soprano, will present the following pro gram: Overture to 29th Church Cantata Bach-Saint Saens Intermezzo Moszkowskl Fantasle, F minor Chopin Aria Piete Slgnore Meyerbeer Andante and Finale from Sonata, F minor. .Brahma Group of old Ballads (a) September. (b) Doujrlas, Tender and True, (c) Nymphs and Shepherds Purcell The Linden Tree Schubert-Liszt Two Poems after Omar Khayyam. . . .Arthur Foote Of Br'er Rabbit, from Fireside Tales. .MacDowell LaCampanella Liszt V. Ji -H An Important event" In clubdom will be the triennial convention of the Council of Jewish women, to be held In Balti more from December 2d to 9th. Mrs. Moses Goldenberg president of the Balti more section will make the address of welcome. Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon of Chicago will deliver her address as presi dent. Miss Jane Addams of Hull House will speak on "The New Social Spirit." "The Aspects of Judaism in America," with subdivisions. "The Large Cities." "The Scattered Groups." "The Young People," will be discussed. "The Juvenile Court and Probation Work" will be the subject of a paper by Mrs. Minnie F. Low. The federated charities will be dis cussed by Mr. Max Senior. Mr. Charles F. Bonaparte will speak of "Civil Ser vice," and Mr. Solomon Blum of "The Needs anil Attitude of the Junior Sec tions." A large attendance Is expected. ji .it o r Ttr . The Woman's club of Worcester, Mas sachusetts, has recently opened its beau tiful new club house, said to be one of the finest In the country. It Is a three story brick building with an American basement. There are two entertainment halls, capable of accommodating four hundred and three hundred respectively: four reception rooms, a men's smoking room, a kitchen, a dining room and ample olllces for carrying on the sbclal and educational work of the club. Attractive features in this club home are a Dutch suite, finished in Flemish oak. with blue draperies, paper and window cushions. and a Moorish suite, opposite, with a fireplace tiled In designs from the Alhambra. with ori ental hangings and Saracenic effects In the dado and the capitals of the hand somely turned pillars. There are also colonial suites and a renaissance suite, where everything Is gold and brown, with hangings of velvet, valance and gold braid and furniture of brown wal nut. Scattered through the building are many pictures and other works of art, the gifts of members past and present. 4i !. -i TV" .- ! The World-Herald has the following to say of Mrs. W. E. Page, the new presi dent of the Nebraska federation of clubs: "Mrs. W. E. Page, the new state presi dent, made many friends during her stay in Omaha the past week. She is a very charming woman, full of original Ideas, with the executive ability to carry them out. Mrs. Page has served before on the board of auditor, and has been on the educational and program committees and on the club extension committee for two years. "Mrs. Page lives on a fruit farm about half a mile from Syracuse, the fruit con sisting of apples, peaches and straw berries. She says she Is known as 'a farmer's "wife,' although In realty her husband Is in the lumber business. She has two boys. 11 and 15 years of age. "Mrs. Page believes thoroughly In club culture and Its benefit to the community. She hopes this year to carry on the work of organizing clubs and gathering In the unfederated ones." Club women of the state have received from Mrs. Page copies of a map of Ne braska, which she has had printed for distribution. In it the congressional dis tricts are marked out. and an Index Is arranged for finding every town in the state. It contains a list of the state offi cers and was almost entirely paid for by the advertisements on the cover. In several of the smaller towns In ROBERT BRUCE FAULKNER. One year, son of Dr. and Mrs. A. O. Faulkner. J Wisconsin, where u strong organized movement has been mnde to get the names of women on the registry' lists, consternation hns been caused by the discovery that a married woman Is not legally registered if the Christian name by which she is designated on the list Is that of her husband. Thus, "Mrs. John Smith," whose "given" name Is "Mary," cannot vote unless she is registered as "Mary," or. If she does vote. It must be by the troublesome process of "swearing In." Socially, a married woman always goes by her husband's full nnme. pre fixed by "Mrs." until he dies, unless the pair are severed by -i divorce. Legally, however. It Is only his surname which be comes hers by marriage, and her Chris tian name continues to be an essential part of her formal designation, supple mented. If she chooses, by her patro nymic. If she Is a public character a writer, a speaker, a physician she Is generally known by the name vhlch she bore previous to her marriage, with her husband's surname appended. Thus Ella Wheeler became Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Thus Elizabeth Cady became Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The whole nation knew the great woman suffragist by that name, but comparatively few people knew her by the name of Mrs. Henry Brewster Stanton, though Henry Brews ter Stanton, her husband, was In his day a well known man. Evening Wis consin. The work of the home department of the Woman's club has always appealed to a large number of the members, so the large number present on Monday to hear Professor Wolfe's address on "The Inter-relations of the Home and the High School," was not surprising. Mr. Wolfo paid he accepted gladly the Invitation to read this paper to the "Woman's club as he hoped to Interest many of the moth ers In the school work. Since the beginning of the semester but six of the six hundred mothers who have children In the high school have crossed the threshold of the building. They were all Invited to go often, to enter without knocking, any of the class rooms and to go from one to another as they chose. If they did not feel free to do this. Mr. Wolfe offered an escort to conduct them from one place to another If visitors would call at the office. He hoped that mothers would regard the work of the high school as a part of their own work. The school should be an extension of the home work. Mothers owe It to the school to see that their children go there with well rested bodies and clear heads. Children respond unconsciously to environments, hence the school rooms should be made attractive. Tn speaking of the high school building Mr. Wolfe said the ventilation is very defective. He was asked if It could be remedied. He replied that It could, with the outlay of considerable money, and school boards usually get money to do what public sentiment demands. The entire absence of pictures from the building was also mentioned. The Lincoln high school has the strongest corps of teachers In the state said Mr. Wolfe, but they are working under trreat disadvantage. When asked. "What does the school need most from the patrons'" Mr. Wolfe replied. "Interest." The program opened with a fifteen minutes talk by Mrs. A. W. Field, on some of the rules of par Hamentarv practice. In beginning her remarks Mrs. Field said the three re nuisltes for a good presiding officer are eood sense, a spirit of fairness, nerve, and the greatest of these Is nerve: but with the a little knowledge of parlia mentary practice Is handy. Mrs. J. L. Herzog played brllllantlv "Caprice Espaenole." by Moskowskl. and "Home Sweet Home." with Miss Sydney Murnhv n accompanist. Mrs. Joseph Omlntrer sane "A Song of Thanksgiv ing." bv Allltsen. with good style and expression. Tb next meeting wl'I be In charge of th" srt department, and there will be an exhibition of p-ilntlne. pyrography. basket" and othr articles made by mem bers of the club. The ladles were In vited to bring their needlework and pend th afternoon. The complimentary violin rpcltol to b clven by Herr Oel schagel on December 19. was also an nounced. X -i ! Von Blumer I'll be hanged If this plumber did not charge me car-fare for his men. Castleton Well, that's cheap enough. They might have come in automobiles. H- a- "They say she is awfully good to her parents." "In what manner?" "Why she actually asked them to one of her receptions." a