The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-22

month which would have taxed the en-
ergy and ability of the national admin
istration. They wrote to and asked for
the advice and services of every promi-
nent woman from Winnipeg to Yucatan.
A bare list of the names would I'LL this
column. They then arranged a series of
woman s congresses Oh all subjects of
feminine interest, from universal suf-
frage to soups Tor the sick, to begin with
the opening and run daily to the close.
The scheme was well managed, too, and
q surprisingly large number of eminent
women agreed 10 be present, but the OF
ganism was 80 per cent too big for the
environment.
Well. on opening day the assembly
room was damned full of lumber, and
there WASH I a room in the place fit for
a lady TO breathe IN, much less to lee
ture. So they fell to and reconstructed
the programme for the first three weeks.
This necessitated a general change o4
dates, and SO they got the appointments
doubled and overlapPed i'll a confusion
which would have driven q business
man distracted The placid womanhood
Of the south, however, rose to the situa-
ton, and they went at the tangle i'll
way to remind one of that dame in the
juvenile rhymes who feared the dread
full brute. They ''sat on the stile'' and
continued to smile in way that really
did soften the heart of the cow Be
fore the close Of the third week, at the
cost of many headaches, they had the
system running fairly well.
The first suggestions and general
Of {loOcO
furnished by Mrs. Louie M. Gordon of
Atlanta, sc the board Of woman mar
ayers named her as chairman, with
large committee of represen tative ladies
of the south.
go into the North Carolina room"
said my feminine guide, land see the
fine millstones. ="
"Millstones In woman IS building?
What on earth are they here for?''
well, the quarry they came from
belongs to a lady"
This is an extreme case, but it illus
trates the logic of much of the arrange
ment. At first view the old knives,
swords and horribly clumsy pistols in
oue case looked incongruous, but they
are part CT the exhibit of colonial relics,
Mrs. William Lawson Peel being in
charge as chairman of that committee.
Patents of American nobility is
what we call these things she said,
Gas the old families can be traced by
them. Here, for instance, are Tecum-
sch s pipe, captured by a Kentucky vol
unteer and kept in his family since
1914; British swords picked up Jan. S,
1915, at New Orleans; a tomahawk
brought from Tippecanoe by a Tennes-
seean, invitation to Mrs. Finley of
Memphis to attend a ball in honor of
Lafayette, powder horn used by the
donors great-grandfather at Kings
mountain; spoons, tin plates, cups, etc,
handed down in like manner, and a vast
array of old miniatures, letters, deeds,
commissions and fragments Of old dress
es. 1t looks a trifle odd, however, to
see a bust of Darwin, photographs,
Cremona violin, maps, richly bound
books aud elegant modern jewelry III
this collection, but we must remember
that the ladies have been greatly hurried.
Among the really unique and charac-
teristic exhibits in this building l am in
clined to place that of Mime. Alexan-
drina Linoff Pogosky as first. She is in
charge OF the Russian cottage i'll the up
per hallway, and has shown unusual
skill and Judgment in selecting repre-
sentative Russian work, SO as to make
the most OF the small space allowed. She
is an artist in all kinds of needlework,
and has therefore made the handiwoTk
of peasant women in that line most
prominent. 1.-THE industry and patience