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MRS. DRAPER SMITH OF
OMAHA IS PRESIDENT

State Federation of Woman's Clubs
Elect Her to Act for the
Coming Year

Mrs. Elia W. Lebingier of This
City Is Corresponding Secretary
- Mrs. Peattie's Talk.

Special Dispatch to the World-Herald.

Wayne, Neb., Oct. 10-The following
Woman's club federation officers have
been declared elected from the ensuing
year.

President Mrs. Draper Smith, Omaha;
vice president, Mrs. Wunnue Durland,
Norfolk; recording secretary, Miss Ninette
Mcarn, Fremont; corresponding
secretary. Mrs. Ella W. Lobingler,
Omaha ; treasurer, Mrs. George Cross,
Fairbury; auditor, Mrs. H. M. Bushnell,
Lincoln: librarian. Mrs. Belle M. Stoutenbrough,
Plattsmouth.

The convention convened in special business
session at 10:30. The vote was taken
at once. While waiting for the
count, greetings were read from the
Iowa federation. The report of the committee
on library extension was then
read by the chairman. Mrs. Stoutenborough,
who stated that the library bill
originated by the federation was passed
by the state legislature creating a state
library board and that this is the first
state having such a bill originated by
women in which the women have no
representative on the board.

Mrs. Stoutenbrough also read a request
from the Stat university that the
library of the federation be turned over
to them. A motion was made to that
effect and after spirited discussion carried.

ON HOUSE ECONOMICS.

The department of household economics
then took charge of the meeting. Mrs.
Baker of Norfolk presiding. She gave
a report of the house economic work in the
state, indicating great interest and giving
great credit to Mrs. MacMurcphy and
Mrs. Pugh for inspiration and assistance.
An excellent program was carried out by
Mrs. Stuele of Fairbury. Mrs. McMillan
of Norfolk and Prof. Rosa Bouton of Lincoln.

Business was then resumed and the following
delegates elected to attend the
biennial which meets in Los Angles next
July: Mrs. Mathewson of Wakefield, Mrs.
Bushnell of Lincoln, Mrs. Cross of Fairbury,
Mrs. Stoutenbrough of Plattsmouth,
Mrs. Pile of Wayne, Mrs. Langworthy
of Seward, Mrs. Draper Smith of
Omaha and Mrs. Burland of Norfolk.

The new officers were inaugurated amid
great enthusiasm.

At the evening session Rev. C. S. Harrison
of York delivered an able address
on the "Practical and Aesthetic Value of
Forestry," after which Mrs. Elia W.
Peattie of Chicago was introduced and
held the audience in delighted interest
for an hour.

MRS. PEATTIE'S PAPER

Mrs. Peattie's paper had for its subject
"The Trend of Americal Social Life,"
and it deals with society in the general,
rather than its specific and fashionable
sense.

The inability of the country to sustain
its ideals of equality was touched upon
and the different forces that work for
democracy were considered. Mrs. Peattie
said American social life started out with
the postulate and all men were born free
and equal, and to this there is only one
objection: that it is not true. In the
boyhood of the nation we believed it; now
in the period of swaggering adolescence
we have discovered that there a
number of persons who are not equal to
tough we have of course yet to
find any to whom we are not equal. That
dull discovery remains no doubt for the
lack-luster days of our national maturity.

A number of humorous anecdotes followed,
illustrating the speaker's meaning
concerning the servant class. Mrs.
Peattie said "We say down in the cities
that the servant class is quite established
and demarked nowadays but we are
wrong. No servant class has yet been
established in America which is content
to remain such. There are always ways
down which the most menial may look
and at the end of which arise palaces
of dreams." Concerning caste the speaker
said an English lady visiting the
country for the first time asked me the
other day if it was true that we had
not caste, American caste, I said is
something like the mist on the mountain
side-it looks as if it were there
when you see it from a distance, but
as you draw closer to it it becomes impalpable,
or can be felt only by a slight
chill which pervades your body but to
which you presently become accustomed."

TYRANNY OF EQUALITY.

Mrs. Peattie called the tendency of
trades unions the "tyranny of equality."
She said women did not gravitate towards
these unions because they are
distinctively individual. She said "America
is the friendliest nation in the
world; the American spirit is in league
to protect the country fro caste. There
being no entail on property, a man must
have ingenuity and industry to keep
properly earned fro him by his father."

The speaker said: "We Americans do
not want a settled social life: we have
it puzzling and progressive like euchre."
The speaker declared the faults of America
were those of youth which is perhaps
its own apology. It was because
of our youth that our Columbian exposition
excelled in beauty the expositions of
older countries. We were humble before
beauty; knelt at her feet; asked
her blessing. She said our flag was
run up first above the city of Pekin after
the siege--not because we had any
right before the other powers, but because
our boys thought it would be good
to have it first. That the exuberance
of our youth hurried us into our late
wars.

Mrs. Peattie made a plea to club women
for loyalty to each other and to
the great work before them to avoid
criticism of each other and work together
for the end in view. Mrs. Peattie
said in conclusion the American is an
optimist; gay, bright and fucile of intellect,
yet not a scholar; oratorical and
eager, but seldom profound. A man of
action, the captain of commerce; the
inventor but above all the world's jack
of all trades who whistles defiantly as
he works. In society he is prodigal,
hospitable, inclusive, slightly timid, a
trifle bored, not unscornful of etiquette
and not beyond the notion if he be an
honest and intelligent man, he of necessity,
be a gentleman.

Thus closed the seventh annual convention
of Nebraska Federation of Woman's
clubs.

MORNING SESSION

The convention convened this morning
at 9:30 in business session to consider the
report of library committees and consider
the Louisiana Purchase memorial.
Owling to the rain and a meeting of state
presidents as a committee to nominate
officers, the meeting was small and Mrs.
Storutenborough, having the library report
asked for postponement, as the matter
was of such importance, which was
granted to her.

The report of the Louisiana Purchase
memorial was read by Mrs. Jayne. Nebraska
women were asked to assist in
erecting somewhere in the Mississippi
valley a memorial to suitably commemorate
the purchase and the growth and
work of the state comprised in the purchase.
Suggestions were offered by the
committee, which met at Kansas City,
for that purpose. After some discussion
all matters pertaining to the memorial
were referred to the nominating committee,
composed of the presidents of the
clubs belonging to the federation.

The constitution committee reported
several by-laws covering necessary
changes relating to the new amendments
taking effect next year.

Mrs. Smith then reminded the federation
that this convention elected the delegates
to the next biennial meeting of
the general federation at Los Angeles
next spring. One matter to come before
that convention would be whether representation
in the biennial conventions shall
be by state federation or by clubs.

After a little discussion of this matter
it was left to later meetings and Mrs.
Peattie, the guest of honor, who arrived
last night, was asked by the president
to speak to the convention. She came
to the platform amid cheers and waving
of handkerchiefs.

Mrs. Peattie congratulated the convention
on its work in the direction of public
libraries. She also indicated some preference
for representation at the general federation
of clubs, instead of state federations,
as that would have a tendency to
strengthen and develop inexperienced
women, instead of fostering the opposite
tendency, to which state federation representation
rendered us liable that of sending
the same strong, capable women year
after year.

She also touched broadly on the question
of colored representation. Mrs.
Peattie's remarks were roundly applauded.

PAPERS PRESENTED.

The session was then turned over to
the program committee, which gave an
excellent program on industrial subjects,
with Mrs. Amanda M. Edwards presiding.
Papers were read by Nellie Elizabeth
Cady of St. Pail on the Girl's Industrial
school at Geneva and other state institutions
by Mrs. Elizabeth Sisson, Norfolk,
on the Nebraska Industrial home at Milford:
by Mrs. M. D. Carey of Seward on
"Women and Children as Employes;" by
Etta R. Holmes of Kearny on the
"George Junior Republic." Mrs. Presson
of Milford being absent, Mrs. Snow
of Columbus read her excellent paper
on "Parental Schools and Courts for Juvenile
Offenders."

A special business meeting was then
held at the close of the program to receive
the report of the nominating committee.

BIG MEMORIAL TO M'KINLEY.
Plans Made for Raising $1,500,000
by Popular Subscription.

Cleveland, O., Oct. 10.--The trustees recently
appointed by President Roosevelt
for the National McKinley Monument association
met here today and organized
by electing the following officers: President,
William R. Day, Canton, O., vice
president, M. A. Hanna, Cleveland; treasurer,
Myron T. Herrick, Cleveland; secretary,
Ryerson Ritchie, Cleveland.

The headquarters of the association will
be located at Canton. It is proposed to
raise about $1,500,000 by popular subscription
to build a marble memorial at Canton
in honor of the late president.

Real Estate Transfers.

The following real estate transfers have
been filed with the register of deeds:
F. H. Gains and wife to M. H

Hawes, e80 feet, lot 8 and e68 feet
of s9 feet, lot 7, block 3, sub-div
of J. J. Redick's add, wd ................. $21,000

J. W. Shaw and wife to J. W.
Munn, e80 feet of w1/2 of e1/2 of
n1/2 block Z, Shinn's 3d add, wd ........ 2,000

Star Coal, company to William
Byrne, lot 10, block, 10, in 2d add
to Mount Douglas, wd.............. 1,250

C. M. Christiansen et al. to J.
Gosch, lots 7 to 10, block 5 Millard,
wd ............................................... 500

M. D. M. Malchion et al. to H. G.
J. Lehman, e190 feet lot 15, block
5, Kountze & R.'s add, wd............... 1

B. C. Williams to J. A. Canning,
lot 7, block 1, Reed's 1st add, wd. 1

Stephen Chomic and wife to Joseph
and Mary Tom, n1/2 lot 18, block
1, Brown park, wd .......................... 800

Jesse Lowe and wife to Crane compasy,
w68 feet, lots 5 and 6, block
188, Omaha, w d ............................. 80,000

F. T. Murphy to J. C. Barnard, lot
16, Nelson add, q c d ................... 1

G. G. Quincy et al. executor ey al.,
to F. B Barnes, lits 11 and 12,
Briggs' place, d ............................... 1,190

Frank Thompson, executor, to J.
C. Barnard, e1/2 of a128 1/2 feet of
w180 feet lot 3, Bartlett add, d ............. 675

Sherif to Union Investment company,
e50 feet of w150 feet of n1/2
lot 7, block 3, Orchard Hill, d .............. 1,876

Total amount of transfers .............. $59,394