The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-24
KANSAS NEWS.
A Day at the Chautauqua at
Ottawa
Described in a Breezy Manner
by a Topeka Woman.
OTHER KANSAS NEWS.
Bullet Located by X Rays at
Winfield, Kansas.
General Items of Interest From
Kansas Localities.
OTHER KANSAS NEWS.

est Park, but there are so many lASSA
ious ways of making you forget the
fact in the various interests of the AS
sembIy. that one may be pardoned if
desire to gloze over the truth springs
unbidden in the human breast. During
Abe midday hours the wilted tresses and
disheveIled dresses of the female pOr-
ton of the seekers after learning are
pretty much in evidence. The men,
wise creatures, seek the SecIuSlOn IHdL
the tent bedrooms grant and calmly in
dulge in sieStas, but the ladies persp1r-
ingly march laboriously to and fro in
search of knowledge.
They swarm up into the tabernacle.
They troop down to Philosophy hall
They crowd the Art gallery. They
cluster in Prentis hall Everywhere,
bareheaded and shirt wasted, with de-
termination in their eyes and note books
in their hands, they are drinking deep
of the Pierian spring. Incidentally they
drink also a good deal of well water.
Apropos of wells, if the park manage
meuU could cOntrive to cover the well
platforms with something like a street
car floor. it would save some very pref
~ shoes and slippers heaVy cOatlng
of mud. While on / he subject OF man
agement 1 wish somebody would Sug-
gest to the unjust board of directors.
that a law abiding citizen confronted
with the order to throw no rubbish"
$50 the sign board reads) on the grass
and an empty lunch box is IN a sore
strait. His agony might be SOOthed by
hamper. placed at convenient intervals
All the citizens of Forest Park are
still full of "reminiscences of the storm
of Saturday which blew over two tents
and tore off innumerable branches of
the trees and frightened the men al
most to death.
The new women all got together in
Prentis hall and sung Rock of Ages
and Nearer My God to Thee while
the men. poor distracted creatures, ran
around trying TO hold the encampment
in place. 1t is still here, and tho still
somewhat muddy no whit discouraged
OF course, Topeka visitor imme-
diately on arrival, bent her steps to
Philosophy hall to hear our brilliant
young Doctor Frances Storrs talk on
the duties of women to humanity, and
we'll the doctor talked too. The pre-
siding officer wanted her to say that
women ought to have the ballot, but
with a blush and a smile she stood
boldly by her cOlOrs, that woman as
money maker or woman in business was
a mistake. a necessary misfortune, but
nevertheless. a destroyer OF that con-
serving energy which is the sole prero-
gative of the eternal feminine. Only one
person was bold enough to applaud this
doctrine, so distasteful to the new Wo-
man. She was an old woman probably.
] forgot to say that men We're not ad-
1nitted to this discourse, though a few
of them hung lingeringly around the
edges of the hall
A stroll up to the tabernacle caught
Prof Palmer of Washburn entertaining
the children immensely with the verna-
cuIar of the barnyard, Tine Cocks
ShriH Clarion" reused the children to
ecstasy and only the irOn-clad rules OF
the presiding officer prevented con-
kinuous performances
The ways of the world and the nauSh-
fy ballet We're reflected in a paraSOl drill
by little girls They omitted the allur-
ing smiles and other supposed qualI1-
cations Of a premieres danseuse, but
they gave infinite satisfaction neverthe-
less.
Mrs. W. G. Campbell has a whole
brood of girls of the Y. W. c. A under
her care at Bethany circle, and patti
iently attends to calls for matches and
medicine and advice and had snap
shot of herself and belongings taken
with all the suave sweetness which in
variably characterizes her actions.
At the WOman's building or Prentis
hall. as it was fondly called by the af-
f-ctionate admirers of Mrs. PrentiS, who
swarm at Forest park and are scatter
I'd all over the state. Mrs. Kingsley of
PaOla made a strong plea for more
work in the high schools. In the dis
Cussion that followed the school boards
of Kansas We're sOundly bella bored for
their general incompetency and ignor-
auce-
W c. Campbell was urged privately
70 give his experience with the tax pay
ers' league of Topeka as at least par
tial explanation for some of the faults
of school administration in Kansas but
he mOdestly withdrew and suffered in
EllelGE- W IllN d tct4IdLC VI A4CAo4lQ
Stanford and a pupil of the state nor
NAL explained how she had been ignOr-
ed and despised by the school boards of
Kansas
one elderly gentleman complained
that there were too many sisters and
cousins and aunts of influential citizens
who had to be put into places, whether /
qualified or not. He disappeared too
amid recommendations to obtain a new
backbone or resign.
At a three-cing circus like this at OF
tawa, You have to be in with a good
many people to get even a. Smattering
of what is going Shakespeare and
Matthew Arnold. music and art were be
Ing eXpounded at one and the same time
while Chicago Commons was being di-
lated upon by Prof Graham Taylor
Down at Philosophy han Or. Hurlburt
was industriOusly trying to find ont how
many histories and how few novels his
auditors had been INDUCING in during
the year. The novels seem to have the
best of it-but DR.. Hurlburt did NOT
seem to take into account how much
historical knowledge may have drifted
into his hearers brain through the per
usal of current maya zines
As the heat lessened the women fresh
ened up their tresses and their dresses
and resumed their search after infor-
nation by listening to Col. Balm COM
pare the old woman with the new WO-
man. Col Balm being a gallant Ken
tuckian, of course sided with the new
woman. so largely present at the as
sembly. and told stories thrilling anus
ing and pathetic, by the hour, while the
audience listened and applauded and
waited for the cinemetograph pictures.
Objections in the name of art and
mOdesty and refinement ought to be
made to the kissing and boxing pic
lures Perhaps as the exhibitor stated
they may be favOrites and were served
grace of Cupid and Psyche about the per
mands that ought not to be met and
there were a good many objections from
young and old to the long continued os-
culation. There was naught of the airy