Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-03
Woman'S Work
Activities Of tho Organised
Bodies Along the Lines Of On
a~srtahinG Of Concern 70 women.


with the holidays over clubdom will
resume work again this week and the
coming four months viii be the busiest
Of the year. The omaha woman's club,
which has held no meetings since before
Christmas, will hold its midwinter business
session Monday afternoon. Several mat
tors Of Importance viii come up for dis
cussion and adjustment. Among these will
be a report of the committee appointed to
investigate n site for a club house. After
the report is made it will be thor dghly
discussed that II may be definitely ascer-
tanned just what the sentiment Of the club
is In the matter and how much the mem
bers are willing to put into the enter
prise. The civics committee will have
charge Of the prograin and George Nc
Mutt has been invited to speak.
The literature department will hold its
next meeting Wednesday. January 8, at
10 o'clock. Mrs. NJ. Langfeld, leader. The
subject of the mornings lesson will be,
Great Epics as Great Stories" Papers
upon the great eplcs Of England will be
given by Mrs. @. c.. Bonner, Of France by
Mrs. e. d. Branch and Of Spain by Mrs.
f. A.. Shotwell.
The oratory department will, meet Tues
day morning at 10 o'clock at the studio
Of its leader.
Club work in the state seems to have
received fresh impetus and numerous large
meetings are planned In the several dis
tricts for the late winter and spring. Fully
200 new members were added to the state
federation in the new clubs admitted at
the recent board meeting in Omaha. Ths
club women Of Atkinson are planning a
meeting for January % and all the spring
district conventions promise to be largely
attended. The Sixth district will hold two
conventions, one at Ord and the other at
the west side. This is the largest and most
scattered district of the state and In the
past 1t has been difficult for the women
to ali meet at the same place. Mrs. Simon,
vice president of the district, has planned
the two conventions this spring and the
interest is greater than ever before.
Mrs. +. J. Burnett, chairman of the
household economics department of the
Omaha Woman's club, will be one of the
speakers on the program of the meeting
of Allied Agriculture at Lincoln this month.
She will talk before the women's section
the afternoon of January IS, her subject
to be Food Values and the Home" Mrs.
f. II. Cole will also be a speaker on the
program of January 20. Mrs. Cole will be
the guest of the Lincoln Woman's club,
January II.
Mrs. Frances D.. Keefe, former president
Of the Nebraska federation, has returned
from Washington, ID. c., where she at
tended the meeting of the executive board
of the General Federation of women's
clubs, of which she is one of the directors.
Mrs. w. H. Harrison of York, chairman
of the forestry committee of the Nebraska
Federation of Women's clubs, has gained
gratifying recognition from those interested
In the promotion of the conservation move
ment. Mrs. Harrison has done much to
stimulate interest In forest conservation
in Nebraska and, her paper on that subject
before the last state convention of the
Nebraska federation is to be reprinted in
the conservation magazine.
The January meeting of the local Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution will be
held at the home Of Mrs. Edwin Porter
Peck Monday afternoon. Mr.. H. e. Palmer
will give a paper and Miss Blanche Soren-
son will sing. The following women will
be the assistant hostesses of the after
noon: Mines. N. e. Acker, Ernest Alex,
ander, Edgar Allen, c. A. Anderson, o. D.
Armstrong,W d. Bancker, j. L. Baker, p,
j. Barr, S. d. Barkalow, Alfred BiSford,
Harry Harmon, F. H. Blake, Frank Blish,
James Brown, e. e. Bruce, Frank Bry-
ant, Albert Bryson of Fullerton, Chris
tiancy, Miles Chumlea, ]. L. Conley, ]. c..
Gown, F. A. Collins, Albert Critics of
Chadron and Misses Ella Cook, Anna
Adams, Fannie Adams and lone Barn
hardt.
Mrs. Warren Blackwell will act as leader
at Thursday mornings meeting of the
Society of the Fine Arts and will be as
sisted by Mrs. Victor White, Mrs. w. d.
Williams, Mrs. Palmer Findley and Mrs.
H.. c. Sumney. Charles lie Brun, Pierre
Mignard, Nicholas de Largilliere and
Eustache Lesueur will be the artists whose
works and characteristics will be dis
cussed with the assistance Of the stereopti-
con.
The Imogen Study club OF Florence will
meet Thursday afternoon at the home OF
Mrs. Scarf. The club is studying Hamlet.
Under its auspices G. w. wattles will give
an Illustrated lecture on Japan, January s,
at Florence. This will be the first Of a
series of entertainments of an educational
character the club co~ntemplates.
The South Omaha Woman's club will
hold its regular meeting Tuesday after
rnoon at the home of Mrs. c.. NJ. ~Schindell.
Prof. White Of Bellevue college will give a
talk on Milton"
Mrs. F. H. Cole has received a few
copies of the new leaflet written by Presi-
hdent A. L. Lowell Of Harvard university
and issued by the Woman's auxiliary to
the Massachusetts Civil Reform associa-
ton. These may be had upon application
to Mrs. Cole by clubs interested.
The local chapter Daughters of 1872 will
not meet again until March.
PLAN TEACHERS CONVENTION