Elia Peattie articles from Omaha World-Herald

MRS. PEATTIE ON JOURNALISM.

Mrs. Elia W. Peattie will read a paper on "Woman in Journalism" at the First Christian church Monday night.

END OF A SUCCESSFUL YEAR

Omaha's Chautanqua College Holds Its First Anniversary Celebration.

Speeches by Dr. Duryea, Mrs Elia W. Peattie, Judge Ambrose, Rev. Frank Crane and Others of Nole.

The first season of the Chautauqua college was brought to a fitting close last night in its home, the lecture room of the First Methodist church. About 173 members were present.

After supper had been disposed of Mr. Ralph W. Breckenridge briefly reviewed the work of the college, which was established last October and thorught following the general Chautauqua principle, was in detail of Omaha Institution. The college differed from the regular Chautauqua circle in the same manner as a university differs from a school. Mr. Breckenridge found that it had been a success and congratulated it on having proved that Omaha wants, needs and appreciates a course of weekly lectures by prominent local and foreign speakers. Miss McClintock, the secreatry, read the report and Mr Breckenridge then called upon Major Halford to act as toastmaster.

Dr. Daryes was the first speaker and, as usual, he not only aroused himself, but also his audience. In Dr. Duryes's opinion it is a man's dury, not only to God. But to his fellow man, to increase his ability and to stimulate his intellectual growth; the measure of a man's duty, he said, was a man's ability and opportunity, and the man who deliberately gave all the day to work for gain and all his lelsure time to amusement, neglecting the development of his higher self, awas a original. Dr. Duryea scored not only society for its shallowness and falseness, but also the churches, for not doing the work they should promoting the growth of men.

Mrs. Peattie spoke of "The Value of Sentiment," and in doing so declared it to be the mother of human development, of religion, of liberty, of all that is highest and best in man Dividing society into two classes, the egotistic and the altruistic, Mrs. Peattie said taht the former class largerly predominated the world over, but nowhere more tan in republics, owing in part to the theory that all men are born equal, and the herces and selfish competition which it involved Selfish motives were often lauded, and the greates crime today among men was to fall; yet the unselfish man could not under existing conditions, from the world's point of view, succeed. All the sorrow and sin, Mrs. Peattie said, came from selfishness and it was against selfishness which sentiment waged constant war; it was sentiment which had given woman the place she occupies today, changing the harem into the home; to sentiment could be traced invention and literature and it remains as a star guiding himanity on to its high destiny.

Rev. Wesley K. Beans spoke of "The Relation of the Church Education," and gave a history of the educational efforts, chief among them being the Chautauqua of the Methodist church in the United States.

Judge Ambrose talked on "Flies and Hired Girls" The former, he said, was the greatest ill inflicted on suffering humanity, and after graphcally describing the ghoulish glee with which a fly will torment a man when he wants to sleep in the morning, he declared that some good christians have found it hard to forgive God for ever making them. In his talk on the latter Judge Ambrose went back even to Adam, Abraham and Job, but did not give the long-sought solution of the present day problem.

Mrs. F. A. Tucker was to speak on "The Woman Questions," but disappointed the audience by changing the tables, and in place of talking about woman she talked about man Mrs. Tucker's talk was very different from the backneyed and worn out speeches about woman's rights and was refreshing in its originality. After simply referring to the constantly increasing class of women who believe in political equality, Mrs. Tucker quoted freely from the poets in sustaining her position that has been and isdue to a false chivalry that woman is denied the rights she now claims and that men have been misled from the highest niotives and are not intentinally unjust to women.

Mr. E. A. Benson was down on the program for a talk on electricity, but on account of the lateness of the hour simply told a short story and asked to be excused Rev. Frank Crane then briefly gathered up the "crumbs," and the frst season of the Chautauqua college, which has been the most sucessful effort of its kind ever made in Omaha, was closed.

THE SOUP HOUSE.

Opened by the Associated Charities rand is Ready for Business.

The Associated Charities has opened its soup kitchen. At 807 Howard street, the Associated Charities headquarters, where already there is a laundry where women can get work and where men may turn an honest penny, the association has made provision for furnishing a good bowl of rich soup and a half loaf of bread for the small sum of 5 cents to any man, woman or child who may apply.

A visit to the soup kitchen yesterday at 11 o'clock discovered a cleanly furnished, white painted kitchen having two tables laid with white oilcloth and surrounded by chairs ready for the noon occupants. A little apart was a big soup kettle, such as are used in hotels, from which issued the most savory odors. A man with a big wooden paddle was stirring the ingredients and when asked what was in the kettle, replied:

"There are cabbage, carrots, onions, potatoes, parsnips, turnips and meat." Don't you think it smells good?'

And verily it did to a hungry man who had worked hard in the cold it must have smelled good indeed.

We don't expect many here today," said Secretary Laughland. "We have not advertised it yet very extensively, but tomorrow we'll have a big crowd. We are going to give each man two bowls if he wishes and as much bread as he can eat. We have had a request form the night men who work on the Union Pacific and Burlington & Missouri roads to have a night supper, and I think we can supply them without any trouble."

"Will you have a Thanksgiving celebration?"

"Yes," said Mr. Laughland, "we'll keep open house tomorrow from 11 o'clock until 3 or 4."

Mr. T.L. Kimball, president of the association, Mrs. Jardine, Mrs. Thomas Kilpatrick, Mr. L.H. Williams, Mr. Hosmer, Miss Shaw, Mrs. R.B. Peattie and a few other interested in the charity visited the kitchen yesterday, tested the soup, and said that it was good. Mrs. Laughland and Miss Laughland, with a daughter of the secretary are in charge for the present.

There is not much made by holding fowls until the holidays for market. The demand may be greater but the supply also is greater and prices are forced down.

WOMAN'S CLUB ORGANIZED

It Became a Reality Yesterday With Seventy-Six Charter Members.

Something About Its Scope and Principles The Officers Elected-What It Proposes to do.

The Woman's club became a reality yesterday, and now stands witha membership of seventy six and a corps of provisional officers. The vlub stands espoused to the general principles designated in the report of the committee on plans, which was printed in yesterday's World Herald. At least 100 women were in attendance, and the discussion of the work that a club might do and of the duties which it might assume was remarkably unrestrained and general. The business was transacted with a dispatch that might only have been expected from persons experienced in such work, and the gathering of women was exceedingly democratic, including professional women, society women, working women, women with some celebration as students and women who might be considered purely domestic. The first effot of the club will be to promote a general good fellowship it is felt that after that is accomplished a reasonable development in soy and many directions will be forgone conclusion. The club year will be from the third week in September to the first week in June, and therefore the officers eleted yesterday are intended only to fill on the brief remainder of this year. Of these, Harriet C. T owne is president, Mary Harris the secretary and Irene Neely the Treasurer. The membership is as follows.

Harriet C. Towne, Agnes Sonners, Sue P. Blackburn, Elia W. Peattie, May L. Copeland, Miss Bruin, Mrs J R. Nicholas, Mrs. Frank Irvine, Ida M Street, Mrs. George A Calderm Mrs. F G Patrick, Edna Forbes Lillian Woolson, Anna N Mclague, Clara C Rustbrook, Abbie E Van Court, Mrs B F Burbank, Miss E A Rowe, Mrs M F Sullivan, Annah M Herring, Irene Neely, Jennie E Raysor, Mrs. Clark Woodman Mary M Lafferty Mrs C W Van Tuvi Mrs. Charles Gardner, Mrs. Alber Billings, Mrs L. D Baker, Mrs J A Griffith, Alice M Walemeyer, Mrs A C. Troup, Ida E. Edison, Fasncy M Potter, Mary Gifford, Feorgia Valuntine, Anna L G Howell, Anna L Gardner, Mrs. J. H Troute, R. H Walker, Ida Fleming, Miriam Ford, Gertrude Pusadon, Eleanor S Daily, M.D. Anna L P Duryes, Mary Alter Mrs G W Ambroso, Helen A Lewis, Harriet D Hay, Margaret E Beson, R W Wilson, Mary R Mount, Mrs C F Catiln, Lucula C Martin, Ida C Benedict, MRs. C H Baster, Mrs F L Haller, Mrs C F Byrne Mrs Marietta Powell, Eva M Ribbel, Marry Harris, Mrs E M Covelt Mrs J S Stuart, Adelaide A Cross, Mrs Clinton Powell, Mrs E G McFitan, Mrs G A Tilson, Mary Harard Andrews, Mrs. John S Bridge, Harriet S MacMurphym Wegia H H Tracy Carrie Millard, May K Sanford, Augusta H Henderson, Mary N Thompson, Mrs G W Clark, Miss C Tonnant Clary Freeda M Lanaton, M.D

A committee to prepare a constitution was appointed, consiting of Mrs. Hanchett, Mrs Frances Ford, Mrss McCague, Mrs. Martin, Mrs Van Tuyle.

This committee will report at the next meeting of the club, which will be Monday, April 24, at the Young Men's Christian Association building. After the adoption of a constitution and possibly the arrangement of some of the sections for study a paper will be read by Elia W. Peattie on the work of hte Chicago Woman's club. The dues of the club will be so small that no woman will feel herself excluded, and they will be determined by the expenses which will be incurred. Information as to what these expenses will be can be given by the tins of the next metting All women joining the club before June 1, 1893, will be considered charter members and no fee will be required from them beyond the yearly dues. The first work of the club must of necessity be literary and social, but more serious and unselfish work than can be developed by wither of these pursuits is contemplated, and the co-operation of all owmen is sympathy with the club is cordially solicited.

THEY LIKED IT.

Hastings Traveling Men Applaud Defense of the Craft.

HASTINGS, Neb, Aug 8.--[Special] ever a newspaper article was duly appreciated, the defense of the traveling men. Mrs. Lila W Peattie in the SUNDAY WORLD HERALD was the one. The boys do not admit that their lady defender was the first to discover that a traveling man could and is a gentleman, but they appreciate it and her defense for the reason that so it as they know, or have ever heard, she the first lady to come out publicly in a two column newspaper article and state her experience with a class of citizens she had from early infancy been taught to publicly declare that for days that for three days and nights she was the only lady passenger in a carriage with load of "drummers," and that during the long and tedious ride she escaped the slightest insult. Mrs. Peattie has made a friend of every traveling man who read the article in last Sunday's WORLD-HERALD and upon any future trip she need only make herself known to the "boys" upon the trains to secure a friend. Every traveling man who read the article cut it out and pasted it in his grip or memorandum book. There were scores of multiple WORLD-HERALDS in Hastings yesterday and presumably all over Nebraska.

The silver wedding at the pleasant house of Rev. Dr. Britt on Saturday evening in was a very enjoyable affair. Dr. Britt popular all over this section of the state not only in the Methodist church but in other churches. He is popular outside the church with people of all classes, ages and conditions. The opportunity to show the full appreciation of Dr and Mrs. Britt's many virtues was afforded by the twenty fifth anniversary of their marriage. Many friends gathered at their domicile and many who were absent and unable to attend sent letters of regret. There were several handsome presents and an elegant repast.

Work upon the two wings of the asylum will be commenced this week.