She expressed the wish that women's organizations would study trees, flowers and other beauties of the state instead of turning back to Botticelli and early art. Miss Jewett said a knowledge of the world was needed in order to understand the parish. When in big cities or other lands, I have sometimes found types and conditions which particularly interested me, and then after returning to Nebraska, discovered the same types right at home, only I had not recognized their special value until seen thru another environment. Miss Cather is particularly interested in saving the cottonwoods planted by the pioneers out in the state. Yet everywhere the tall rugged trees are being cut down.
Cottonwoods are out of date.
The soft maple is the thing. I gave a talk at Hastings not long ago and made a plea for the preservation of the native trees. You should have seen the number of old people who stayed to talk to me and all spoke of how it hurt when one of the big trees they loved was felled. A flat country like Nebraska needs great forking trees like cottonwood or poplar. The poplar gets winter killed in Nebraska, but it also does that in Lombardy.