Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-05-16
VvoMAN,s OWN ooNvENr1oN.
The Entertaining Sessions OF the Social
Science Club.

Kansas City Star: People who labor
under the impression that women, alone
and unaided, can't carry on conven-
ton should slip into the Social Science
convention on the other side Of the
Kaw and take few object lessons. It
Is not often that as bright a lot OF wO-
men can be found in one assembly, and
despite the title bias bleu applied to
many OF them, 1t is fashionably at
tired body, 1t was asserted by an east
ern woman present that for conven-
ton OF thinking, writing women, it
could discount Boston women conven-
ton three to one on dress and general
appearance, and though the western
woman's tongue may trippingly attack
the pOllysyllabic sentences OF her Bos-
ton sister, she can work all around her.
why, said the lady, II know q Kansas
woman who can prepare lecture on
the origin OF the Cliff jewellers and their
relation to the prehistoric races, get
dinner for eight people and write two.
columns OF editorial for the weekly
paper her husband is supposed to edit
is getting ready her thesarurus, die
tionary, cyclopedia and hints to
writers, and polishing her spectacles.'
The various professions are we'll rep
resented in the convention. There
several newspaper women, q number OF
doctors, at least one lawyer and several
college professors. while the literary
workers, those who burn the midnight
oil, are numerous. The president of
club, Mrs. L. B. Kellogg OF Emporia, is
sweet voiced, plump little woman,
with merry brown eyes, and enjoys the
proud distinction OF being the first and
only woman to hold the position of as
sistant attorney general of great
state. OF course this was in Kansas,
known to the world as womans para
disc.
The secretary OF the club is Mrs.
George G. Wilder OF Manhattan. Mrs.
Wilder is a newspaper woman OF some
fifteen years standing. She does an
endless grind Of Sunday school stuff for
lot of religious newspapers and maya
zines, has class OF forty grown up
boys in Sabbath school, is secretary Of
half q score OF clubs and societies, has
an enormously large correspondence,
vet keeps house and looks we'll after her
husband and two children. She isn't
thin or cranky either but a portly,
kindly faced middle aged woman who
will never grow any older, and who has
a smile and pleasant greeting for every
body. Among the other newspaper
members are Mrs. Noble Prentis OF
Newton, Mrs. Willis Lord Moore Of
Hutchinson and Mrs. Flora P. Hogbin
of Sabetha.
The Fort Scott History class, which
is famous organization, is present in
body. The members are: Mrs Charles
Haines. president: Mrs. f. B. Fletcher,
secretary. and Mesdames Eugene F.
Ware. K. B. Mitchell. NJ. A. Water
man, Il. L. Page, Grace Manlove, Ell
mer Goodlander and Miss Mary Bar.
low.
The bright and capable members OF
The medical profession are Mrs. DIR.
Jones of Leavenworth. Mrs. Dr.. L.
Noun, Mrs. DIR. Dibble and Miss DR..
Avis Smith. while the list of those who
may be said to earn their living" b.
their literary efforts number twenty or
more. On the roster OF these present
and taking an active part, are the
names OF several women who are lead
ers in society and one of the members,
Mrs. Mary H. Ford. is the author or a
new novel, Which Will VIM" which
has just found its way to the reviewers
desk
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Flora p.
Hogbin discussed ''The Return of the
Odalisk," and figuratively speaking,
stirred up the animals. She scored the
stage, ''scorned such vaporings of in
fanny as Camille and Cleopatra" dashed
Bernhard and covered skirt dancers
and the ballot so deep with the ignom-
my of her wrath that had o premier
danseuse been gyrating before her, the
nimble kicker wouldn't have known
whether she was displaying her charms
in silk tulle skirts and dimond neck
lace or riding habit and trousers. In
the discussion that followed there were
fifty women who held fifty different
views and all talked at once.
Miss May Gleason OF Lawrence, the
elocutionist who will be remembered by
Kansas City people as a performer in
pretty skirt dance recently, got the
floor and held it till she explained that
the people got from theatrical managers
exactly what they asked for. II they
wanted Denman Thompson's ''Old
Homestead. " they got it. II they wanted
Cleopatra" and would pay enough for
its gorgeousness and righteousness
they got that. Mrs. Noble Prentis
sided with Mrs. Hogbin and deplored
the sensual realism Of the modern
drama, and reproduction OF ancient In
famies. Mrs. NJ. Fl. Ford defended the
stage with great vigor.