Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-21
WOMEN AT PALIMPSEST CLUB
Many Present to Listen TO Address Of
Prof. Clark of Chicago.
JOHN L. WEBSTER TOAsTMAsTER
Speaker Of the Evening TELLS of the
Boy and Advises He he Taught
the Ethics of Gull
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A banquet the first OF its kind given by
the Palimpsest club at which women at
tended. was held at the Rome hotel Sat
urday night.
In honor Of the occasion John L. Web
ster POSTMASTER, delivered the eulogy. He
closed his remarks with the comment:
"The American Woman-dueen in her own
right by whose gracious permission alone
is the American man entitled to be called
a sovereign fair exponent Of the only
benevolent despotism' the world has ever
known"
Prof. s. H. Clark Of the University OF
Chicago was the principal speaker Of the
evening He delivered a lecture on The
Right Of the Boy to Culture"
Start Culture when hoy is Young.
Culture" he said. must begin when the
boy is young. We cans have cultured men
II we allow the boy TO grow up uncultured
until he reaches that age when he himself
sees the need Of 1t and sets out to acquire
It. 1t must be instilled into him as he
grows. II we wait until he is a man, then
II is his desire to be cultured, rather than
for the culture itself. We have always felt
that the girl should have It, but, in regard
to the boy, we always look at him in the
light Of how much can he earn2' We do
not think 1t absolutely necessary for him.
OF course we believe IL Is so in the case Of
the girl-it is needed Of them, we say, and
rightly sometimes. in the great game Of
WELL until they get married.
The boy has the same right to culture
as he has to education. We should begin
II in him at the earliest opportunity. He
has the right to the knowledge Of the best
that has been thought, the best that has
been written and the best that has been
dreamed Of.
Il hold. first, that he has the right to
the knowledge Of all that is in the realm
OF art. We are eliminating the beauty that
is the legitimate inheritance Of every boy
A. Seen by RuaIZin.
"Ruskin, you know, tells a story of a
blackbird. He never whisted like other
birls and all he could do was to 'oheoo-
cheaw.' He looked upon the beautiful but
terfly and described II as a mere letter
W. upon a Y That wit or desire to
be clever dampens the ideal. Ruskin de-
scribes the blackbird as having a heart
scared with pessimism and the lack Of ap-
probation Of the beautiful With him he
compares the chantecler.
The chantecler believes that he
causes the sun to rise The blackbird
goes about never doing any wrong, never
doing any right 1 want every boy in
Omaha to be a ohantecler. 1 want him
to believe he Is doing something glorious
to have high ideals. The time has
come when we refuse to bow and scrape
to the merely material things.
Our appreciation of the ideal must
grow or we are doomed. Every boy has
/ the right to be able, when he hears us
speaking of Angelo or velasquez, to say
that he knows Of them and what they
| have done. Why those men made his
toryl Our city comes through the sac
rifice of such men as they,
II am speaking now as practical
man who has served his day in Wall
street. The world has been carried forth.
not by the invention OF the steamboat,
| or the telephone or the wireless tele-
graph, or the aeroplane, but by all the
| arts.
should Go to Europe.
Another thing, your son has the right
to travel He has the right to go to
Europe now or tomorrow. You tell him
to wait until he grows old enough and
has saved enough money. He has the
right TO go tonight or tomorrow. When
he expresses that desire to travel you
should not put him off by telling him
how you used to work on the farm and
how you struggled up to the position
you now occupy in this world, and that
you never got to travel. You should not
give him an sll-day sucker to keep him
quiet Send him to Europe
II say. to Europe because there is
where he can get the most for his
money. Give him $500 and let him spend
1t there-it is worth It. Why, in Eng
land the very sounds OF the names of
the streets. which he has read in books,
will give him such a sensation as to be
worth the cost of the trip"
Prof. Clark then told how the boy
could benefit by travel through the var
ious other countries of Europe and of
the culture he would thereby acquire