Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-04-15

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After dwelling for moment upon
some of the advantages of environ
ment, the beauty and historic assoc
lations connected with the Missouri
Slope at this point, Mrs. Cushing
continued:
Ladies': After listening to these
glowing tributes to the work ac-
complished by dauntless club women
from Virginia to the Pacific Ocean,
from the Great Lakes to the Gulf,
III can do no less than take it for
" granted that the club members of
j Bismarck will not be distanced. That
you, too, intend to stand for bet
8ter Bismarck and that Forward, :"
as your cry. If the good deeds may
8be counted but on the fingers of one
hand, it is well, so that "by our
works we may be known
Our field is wide, our opportunities
1 untold, and I would at once admin
Ulster First aid to the injured by
homeopathic doses-followed by the
alleopath, for we need all schools,
AVlth liberal use of osteopathy, for
3rubbing in"
AS to environment, I would call
#irst your attention to the fact that
bismarck possesses four beautiful
Pnd unusual points Of interest: To
fhe south, the new Fort Lincoln, of
(Which we may well be proud; to the
east, the penitentiary; certainly I'M
usual, if not yet so beautiful. But
Why should it not be? Warden
Boucher did all he could to beautify
the grounds and was making rapid
strides until this city allowed the
railroad right of way to exactly cut
n in two, in miserable, transverse
direction, the splendid lawn and
promising trees-all the fruit Of his
endeavor, causing, at least figura-
lively, tears of rage and modification
to course down his cheeks-and
small wonder! He tried, but-oh,
that Bismarck but! And yet, don't
you suppose there was Valley City
"but'-a Cleveland, a Chicago, q
Boston, Los Angeles, a Rochester
'sbut" as well?
To continue, we approach the state
capitol, the center of the state and
possibly, municipal pride, fortunate
at least in the possession of ample
grounds for future Identification. To
the west and south, upon this i'm
aginary trip, we have ozone only,
and space, broken only by the road
to Wards grove, which leads to q
truly urban spot, place of rare
sylvan beauty. We are unable, how
ever, to include it in this itinerary
from the points mentioned, around
the west end of the city, to the In
dian school, our point of destina-
ton, and a site so beautiful that it
might better have been used, speak
ing from a purely selfish point of
view, for an school of art, so invig-
Grating its atmosphere, so splendid
it's environments. However, the
Great Spirit still sheds its benign
Ibenediction.
Having completed our travels for
the present, I will ask you to keep
those four points in mind; since I
have been told, in no uncertain
terms, that the proper place to be-
Agin our improvements is not in the
aoutskirts. So bend to superior
swisdom-temporarily, you UNDER
stand.
u Ladies: Shortly after I was hon
pred with the request, which / could
mot ignore. for it savored of the
Aueen's command-and I dared not
srefuse, to write this paper, I be-
thought me of very simple way of
casting the largest measure of re-
ssponsibility I had almost
ssaid-upon others, particularly of
1.-THE male pursuasion; and I asked,
lin a casual and harmless sort of way,
number of gentlemen, whom I
considered Of parts, what particular
lpet projects or ideas each might have
to advance toward identifying and
Improving Bismarck. The first gen
itleman smiled blandly, and suggest