Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01
woMAN'sD DEPARTMENT.
MADrL q poMERoY, EpIToR.

WOmbn uhV0 pO many NONV'''S
duties rs a rule, few there are who
have more than comparatively slight
knowledge Of music, and the women
who have devoted their lives to the
work could soon be counted. There
are several who are composers OF
dance compositions and songs, and
but very few who have produced any
thing classical, and they are 80 little
known, that their names, as composers
OF such music, cannot be easily spoken
by music loving people. There are,
at present, two women composers who
stand in the front rank of classical
composers, are Miss Gaia Asrup
who is living IN New York City and
teaching in the Metropolitan College
of music. She was born in Copen-
hagen, in the year of 1854, and at six
years Of age began to study the piano,
and devoted her whole time TO the
study of music when in 1888 she &C.
cepted a position in the college where
she now teaches, and within the last
four years she has composed some Of
the most delightful songs and instru-
mental music. The other composer
who began composing at the early
age Of eight, and who stands supreme
among her sex, and on an equal foot
ing with men composers, is Mdlle
Chaminade, French woman by
birth, her compositions have been in
print some eight or ten years, and al
most every publisher has brought out
editions Of her work, and within the
last five years her compositions have
become extremely popular in Amer
lea, While not yet thirty years Of age,
Mdlle Chaminade stands high among |
all the classical composers.
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There have been rallies Of every |
sort this fall, for every commendsble
movement but those that have been
the most successful throughout the
length and breadth Of the United
States, have been the Sunday school
rallies. Immense crowds have gath
cred wherever one has been held,
there was music and speeches, par
AIDES and big dinners, while over all
Aosted the stars and stripes and
banners Of welcome, and big and
little enjoyed themselves, and were
made to more sincerely feel the re-
sponsibility Of the Sunday school
work, and what it has accomplished
and what it may accomplish in the
future. Verify, such gatherings are
as an army to conquer.
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TIE bright September days mark
the beginning Of club activity. AS a
matter Of convenience the club is gen.
orally a town or village inititution, but
this limitation Of its sphere is to be re-
GREETED. The Ohsutauqua movement
found its strongest support in the peo-
pie who are cut off from the advsnt-
ages Of town life, but who by that very I
deprivation found leisure to give to
this work. It only needs a leader who d
will undertake the task OF seeing such
people as would seem likely TO join a I
movement of thus sort to make a club
an established success. The club y
that devotes a certain number Of
weeks to some specific object gener- q
allys accompllshes more than the club y
which devotes one meeting to art, one I
10 literature, music, etc. The work of '
he latter class is too patchy and
'crappy to be of any benefit except to a
he individual member who prepares q
he paper. A club recently took up 8
he consecutive study of American q
History with incidental study of Am 81
'rican literature as it applied to the
lifferent epochs, Work of this sort
'roadens the mental horizon and
,rings a fresh interest to life. The I
ravellng libraries that are establish P
ID in so many states furnish an in y
'aluable aid to such work. In the "
tate of New York any club by COM
lying with certain regulations may
btain a library of fifty volumes for :,
Ise for six months. Many states have -
imilar plans for bringing the best y
ooks within the reach of all. There :,
3 no reason why there should not be :,
club in every school district of the ~
and. 1t is the monotony of rural al
Ife that renders it distasteful to so X
1Rny people. That same uuietnesa h