The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-09

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| hners all ready for her but she was
] afraid to take the time to go after it
Tor fear she would be late. A very chic
| (chick) and becoming one graced the
| mead of the chairman of the committee
| on credentials. The president appeared
as usual unbonneted, a manner of Golf
1ure which seemed somehow to give an
ar OF simplicity and sincerity TO the
| proceedings which was very grateful
| TO the feelings of the many earnest
| women present.
formal notice was taken of the exQuis-
tie present from the president to the
CITY Federation. Their club colors,
PINK and lavender, in two large and
lovely bouquets of carnations and hya-
clnthS, adorned with yards and yards
or satin ribbon which the presidents
daughter herself wearing a mighty jon
gun IN her buttonhole tastefully ar
ranged on the platform before the
meeting, complaining meanwhile that
While carnations always lent them
being graceful because they
were born So" hyacinths were stub
born. Perhaps they all the more thor
oughly typified the two classes of wo-
men IN the federation. The carnations
are the sweet and yielding conserva-
lives who stand or drOop for art and Gull
ture, while the hyacinths though even
more perVerS1vely sweet are the stiff
and unbending radicals who always re-
member that article II of the cOnstitu-
ton contains also the ''betterment of
federation.
The closing meeting of the old dele
gates was very brief, just affording
time for a few reports and a somewhat
t1mld and hesitating reminder by one
delegate that the federation could not
De run on taffy alone, and that while
resolutions of thanks were all Wen
enough there was great necessity that
the clubs should stand by the officials
N "a any arrangements they authorized
a No ion ford
lecture to which the federation pledged
It's nearly support, and then the 81
members took Al tickets.
Women learn slowly the rules of par
llamentary proceedings. The nominal
lions were so infrequent so feeble and
IaIterng that many times they were
almost inaudible. Even the nominations
Tor president, in whose election there
was much interest, were given so
murmuringly that one would have
thought it an assemblage of bashful
school girls, instead of mature women
very much bent on electing a favorfte
cand1date- There were no nominating
speeches., until the treasurer's name
was reached, when an enthusiastic del
egate determined to create a sentiment
in favor of her candidate and having,
no doubt, in her mind, a memory of a
convention of men she had somewhere
attended did refer briefly to Mrs
Thurston's merits, and tho somewhat
ratified, triumphantly announced that
she would have made a nice long speech
if she had known that she would be
called upon to nominate anybody
At this the federation laughed and
breathed easier.
The contest between the candidates
for president was very Close and
though there was intense interest in
this election, there had evidently not
much fixing been done.
The ticket finally stood:
President-Mrs. w. A. McCarter.
Vice President-Mrs. Movers and
Mrs. Latham.
rV-NTrc II z MorriS
Treasurer-Mrs. S. A. Thurston.
Auditor-Mrs. S. M. Wood
This was pronounced a strong ticket.
There are at least two we'll trained
business women on the executive board
Art, Culture and Society are all we'll rep
resented by capital letters, and it is well
understood that in some of these wo-
men there is a hankering after Reform
also with a capital letter.
To be sure, the president-elect in her
opening address announced that the
the lines of culture and education only,
but if the writer is not mistaken there
is pretty strong unGercurrent of de-
sire for something a little more broad
ening than self-imprOvement, merely,
among the women of the federation, as
sisted though it may be by discourses
on books and pictures-given by itin-
Grant peddlers of knowledge.
1t would not be a bad idea to have
used the money so literally bestowed on
art the past year in sending a qualified
member of the federation (there are
several such) to some gallery of note
from which, after some months of study
she might return to Topeka with copies
of best pictures, correct and entertain
ing descriptions and pour out her gath
cred riches for our benefit. We should
have the pictures, and her, too, as a
source of inspiration and delight.
The retiring presidents speech was
like herself-gentle, sincere, modest,
gracious and full of practical and useful
suggestions. There was not a hint of
sciences suffered affront when she
spoke so soothingly of loyal support,
and "a faint Renaissance of weak-heart-
ed efforts at help in the Whitcomb Ri
ley, the Stole and the Marion Crawford
entertainments fioated DER them.
The preSident-elect declared painting
ly she was scared to death when she
reached the platform.
She made a rafting good speech as
she always does, and sat down amid a
gentle storm of applause.
The federation was so exhausted by
it's elective efforts that little business
was transacted, proposition being car
ried to listen to Mrs. Fishell of st. Louis
on Domestic Economy" next Friday,
at 10 cents per head, with only one poor
lonesome little mo- in opposition. Mrs.
Sarah Platt president of that mighty
engine of war which dethrOneS kings
and sets down on aldermen-the wom-
ems club of Denver-waS reserved for
the 9th of April, and then the fedora
ton departed from their annual meet
ing feeling on the whole pretty well !
satisfied with themselves.
Beggs' Eye Salve will cure infamed |
or weak eyes. Nothing better. Try it.
At druggists.