The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-04

the Hospitality inclined citizens of that
town declared who took the women
away from their beer-scented purlieus
and sheltered them in their own homes.
"The Topeka delegation dropped into
the church where the meetings were
held just in time to hear Mrs. Todd Of
the Hypatia club of Wichita fling def
ance in the face of Boston in the name of
the south and west.
"One of the founders of the Hypatia
clab was Mrs. Lease, and some resent
ment was manifested at little personal
fling which was made at that celebrated
lady. One member remarked emphati-
cally that there were ladies holding OBJ
jectiOnable opinions IN politics and relig-
ion in the social science federation who
had not in addition Mrs. Leases ability
to recommend them.
"Then there were reports and reports.
many of them dull and statistical and
too long-but there is no doubt that
when the American woman gets to-
gether, she does just like the men, ap-
points president and secretary. and
draws up a constitution if it is only to
study Browning or decide whether Il
beefsteak should or should not be washed
before broiling.
"The president, Mrs. Scammon. who is
nothing if not amiable, and who has de-
veIoped during her four years. expert
ence in the chair from a rather shy and
self -depreciating little woman into a
, president who has slipped hand of iron
| into her velvet glove, adjourned the re
ports and called a Chicago doctor, a
woman of course who wore a Dutch bon
net, the immense brown wings and pink
roses, of which were the secret envy of
half the women present, up to tell US
| about Hull settlement, and she explained
to US in a very convincing and pathetic
| way how very lonely the rich
were in their gilded palaces until
Miss Jane Adams opened this avenue of
employment to them and showed how
| their solitude might be exchanged for
| the intimacy and sympathy of the deni-
zens of Halstead street
'There was quite good deal of sym
pathy poured out upon the rich and the
reporter who is poor herself and felt
that she was not in it at all, let her medi-
tative eye wander over the audience and
take in other Dutch bonnets, with wings
big enough for an aerOplane; the severe
simplicity of the women who wore theil
hands under their cOat-tail5, la the
tyrant man; the sweet things who
breathed Madonna like simplicity il
their parted aud uncurled bangs; the
familiar faces of the members of the
OlQ OOClo1 OC1OuC0 CAuI, duQ Mis- MOT
rill smiling in a serene and non commit
tai way.
"Mrs. Scammon's address deserves
more than passing mention, so earnest
so enthusiastic, so eloquent was it-anC
with it she laid down the sceptre which
she has learned to WELD with so muci
power and grace, and then announced Il
the dismay of many Kansas women pres
ent that Missouri had determined t.
flock all by herseIf-thau Kansas was (,
be turned out into the cold, cold worlC
alone.
There were some tears and many re
monstrances, but when it was seen tina
the parting was inevitable Cush
} ing of Leavenworth, Mrs Church of To
: peka, Mrs. Kellogg of Emporia, Mrs
Singer of Wichita, and Mrs. Miner O
Hiawatha went away into the deep re
cesses of the church basement to form
. constitution for the unprotected wall
and the Interstate Social Science Fedora
, ton of Kansas and Western Missouri
, was no more.
: "Governor Morrill, was next bombarde
with a resolution, resolution which de
handed that he place a woman on tn
state board of charities, and the deman
, being backed by $50 women who at ORE
, sent have no right to vote, will doubles
D any oscillations of the state house dom
J attributable to the rocking of the GOV
ernor's chair been observed?
Mrs. Cushing of Leavenworth wa
: the woman endorsed for the position. j
woman extraordinarily capable and IN
versally beloved. Mrs Gregory's pape
which was not paper at all but a mos
telling speech in favor of the universe
adoption of kindergartens and the dut
of the Social Science federation to furthe
. their introduction was followed by
recital of her personal experienc
in conducting a kindergarten in tn
slums in Providence, R L, that brough
g smiles and tears to the listeners eye
. and convinced Topeka delegates at leas
{ that all virtue had not gone out of Kar
sas when Missouri had left US.
"The Western Sorosis had alread
achieved distinction by its succinct an
interesting report through its represer
tative, Mrs. Huron, by the number an