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A WORD WITH THE WOMEN

(By Elia W Peattie)

The Lincoln Journal and the Fremont Tribune are both of them dipleased with the Woman's club for the resolutions passed upon the mysterious case of Mrs. Notson The Journal vents its wrath in a sentence eighty-seven words long the impassioned rhetoric of which is interrupted by but three commas It is of the opinion that 'the Womans club has shown very likttle capacity for judicail function in its findings" Very few will be able to agree withe the Journal If ever findings were discreet and absolutely just, tempered by good sense and written with dignity, theyw ere those in which Mrs Norson's marital troubles, her depts, her ill health and her political disappointments were found to be the causes of her disappearance The evidence as to Mr Corbetts promise was examined carefully and without passion Mr Corbett deceived Mrs Notson Politicians concur in saying that that is what might have been expected, and that it is what most men would have done under the circumstances One cannot, howeve, accept this extenuation of Mr Corbett, but merely as the statement of a disgraceful fact The Fremont Tribune thinks that the club should have decided on the much more material point to whether or not Mrs Notson and her children are yet alive The grammar in which these remarks are addressed to the womans clun is no less entertaining and unusual thatn the untrammeled verybosity displayed by the Lincoln paper However, setting aside the questions of rhetoric which appears to be of so little concern to our contepraries, it may be remarked that the question considered by the Womans club was the reprehensinility of Mr Corbett, and not the from which Mrs Notsons despair had taken

The case in point was Did Mr Corbett deceive? not Did Mrs Notson die? The women shoued a logic and consistency which it seems were not appreciated by the sex which is always accusing them of the antithesis of these qualities What the Womans club did was the very least it could do and was only the public ecpression of an intese condemnation of such political methods This will be expressed in other forms at other times when it will mean more

Mrs Reed, wofr of Ensign Reed of the Salvation army is about to leave Omaha for St Louis, after a sixteen moth residence in this city There have been many devout women Salvationists in Omaha, but none more interesting in Character and personality than Mrs Reed She is an Irish gentlewoman by birth, the niece of a member of parliament and also f a bishop of the Church of England Her ealy life was spent in luxury provided for her by others Later she used her artistic talents in the designing of fine Christmas and Easter cards, book covers etc, and was rapidly acquiring a reputation in this line as well as making a handsome income, when she became convinced that it was her duty to go to India as a missionary for the Church of England It was in Bombay that she was won to the Salvation army and her chage of life came only after much struggling and suffering, and sacrifce of vanity and prejudice. The most of her Salvation army work has been done in various cities of the United States In this city her pleasant manners her high-cred accent and somplicity of devotion have done a great deal toward winning friends for the cause she represents In leaving Omaha sh leaves many friends, not only among the Salvationists and the lowly people with whom they work but in all classes of society Ensign Reed her husband, is a handosme and enthusiasitc young man who has been very popular with the congreations at the barracks They have two little children who are trained up to army life and who wear small blue frocks with 'Praise to Jesus' emroidered across the front in scarlet and minute poke bonnets