Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1916 — Indianapolis Conference. [ARTICLE]

Indianapolis Conference.

The great centennial charities exhibit which is being prepared, will be set up in the state house, Indianapolis, on May 5, and the formal opening will occur probably on the eventing of May 6. The committee is calculating that 100,000 people will visit it. Rensselaer will be represented by a member of the local charity board; Dr. Ournick, who is the corresponding secretary of state charities, will probably be in attendance. All civic and church organizations are urged to send a representative if possible. Some parts of the program of general interest will be published later. The Choral Club is making fine progress in the preparation of the cantata, “The Rose Maiden,” a poem adapted fropi the German. Music by F. C. Cowen. The following is an outline of the argument: The Queen of the Flower Fairies, weary of a life of unbroken calm, prays of the newly returned Spring that he will, bestow on her also the gift of love that he bestows upon man. He warns her of the risk she runs, but finally yields to her entreaties by changing her while she sleeps into the form of a beautiful voung girl, under the name of Roseblossom. She wanders thorugh the world to find the love that she seeks and meets with a girl, who, having been betrayed and deserted by her lover, loses her senses and dies broken hearted. But, undeterred from her search, Roseblossom becomes the •Kfe of a forester, wdth whom she lives for a time in such perfect happiness that she can not survive his death. The elves bewail the fate of their queen and curse love as fatal to peace and happiness. The orchestral accompaniment is a