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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1901
Page
5
Thursday December 5 features Mr. Percival Barnard presenting Florence illustrated by stereopticon. Friday December 6 offers Mr. Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Alabama delivering a lecture. SEE.
Mrs. Hubert Vos recounts her visit to Yuan Shi Kai's camp with her artist husband. She notes access granted by courtesy, Yuan sparing face with daily excuses for absence, and even offering to chop off a servant's head. The piece surveys French, American, Russian, and British society, and compares women’s roles, generosity, and salon culture across nations.
A poem by Nixon Waterman contrasts house and home, praising women for shaping the home with enduring love. It asserts that while men construct physical structures, women create priceless domestic beauty and the sanctity of home, with a biblical nod to Eve and Paradise.
A cordial reception honored Miss Es telle Reel national superintendent of Indian schools at the Training school in Lowell. Guests included Superintendent Whitcomb President Everett and Representative Frank K. Stearns. Speakers praised the Indian schools and the need for compulsory education while Reel described basketry programs and the challenges of educating children with no English prior.
Miss Helen A Whittier former Middlesex Women's club president and Bradford academy lecturer gave a preliminary archaeology lecture for the club on The Field of Archaeology. She traced Greek revival origins, Hittites, Nebuchadnezzar, and American archaeology, noting women’s growing interest and the need for training and archaeology schools.
An account of the Alumnae association of the American College for Girls in Constantinople, formed by graduates and associates in New York. The group aims to support the college, raise funds for a third building, and foster social ties among former students, with members in both the United States and Turkey.
Mrs Arthur Paget is quoted in the New York Journal saying she has penetrated further into the great heart of French society than any American woman. She notes that despite occasional strains between France and England when King Edward shows courtesies, knowledge of this fact opens up the conservative French society. She praises the perfection of manners and conversation in the higher French circle.
The Cantab Mass club of Cambridge plans to build an escape. the Woburn club was recently invited to participate in the project.
Members of the New Bedford club hold registers to vote for the school committee, signaling participation in upcoming local elections and committee selection.
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