Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-12-17
WoMAN'S DEP ARTMENT'
MABEL II. PoMERoY, EDITOR.
Hyperion Club.

Minutes.
Business.
History.
Literature.
Review, beside the Bonnie Brler
Busb," Mrs. Royce.
Short poem, Miss Belle Morton
THIRD WEEK.
Response.
Minutes.
BUSINESS.
History.
Literature.
Debate, Are Modern Women as
contented as their GRANDMOTHER"
affirmative, Mrs, Granger, Mrs.. Can
non; negative, Mrs. Mccormick, Mrs.
Ohamplsln.
Music, Mrs. StlnsoD, Mrs. Nelson
FOURTH WEEK.
Response, Milton.
Minutes.
Business.
History.
Literature.
Each member express in few short
santences YOUR idea of what constitu.
tes an ideal home.
Paper, Mrs. M. A. HARDWOOD.
Sketch, pioneer life, Mrs. Heath.
~
A recent report Of foreign mission
airy work from Benito Station, West
Africa, says, our Kombe KING and
his chiefs have just been in council
and have issued some new laws
among them ls the following:
Il. Widows are to be allowed
liberty to settle as they please, and
marry whom they will, and in a case
where the women has been long in
the husbands family, only half the
dowry paid is required to be return
ed, il she chooses to leave the family
OF her deceased husband and make
her home elsewhere.
2. From this date, dowriss required
to be paid shall not be more than one
third the sum formerly demanded.
8. No more infants are to be beth
rothed to men advanced IN years, and
it Is advised that no bethrothsls take
place until the little girls are Of suf-
fclent age to choose their future
partners.
It can hardly be understood what
those laws mean to the women OF the
Kombe tribe where for centuries they
have been bsrtered like goods of mer-
chandise. The seeds Of enlightenment
,sown by the foreign missionaries are
taking root and fast growing.
Interested Sabbath school workers
should not fail to read the article en-
titled, Public School Methods APP
piled to the Sunday School," by Prof.
]. W. Cooper, In the Sunday School
Journal.
The permsncy of the represents
tivss of the supreme court in this
branch of official life is all the more
delightful from the fact that it is so
rare. Presidents, cabinet officers,
senators, and the high officials of the
army aud navy must step down and
out sometime. But when man IS
appointed TO the supreme bench he is
put there to stay and when taking up
his residence in Washington he can
lay his plans to remain there.
The MoraviaD Missionary Code
s,ys, Dear Brother, it requires great
faithfulness in seeking the lost, for
the wandering sheep have gone far
astray many a weary walk will you
take in vain, many q kind entreaty
will be sighted, many an earnest call
will be lost on the air, but tender love
for these benlghted souls will not al
low you to give up your search till
you have joined the poor sheep and
b.oughtit home with joy.
The Kansas State Sunday School
Journal, will, beginning with the
January number, contain the normal
drills, prepared by Prof. Hamill, nor
NAL superintendent for the Interna-
tional Association. Financial strlug-
ency makes it impossible to employ
IN ihis state this year a normal work
or who should devote his entire time
to the work. But by the journal
making this arrangement the demand
for short weekly drills will be amply
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