The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-30

ects OF cub women and the State Fedora
ton.
The cultivation OF an interchange Of
thought cannot be too strongly urged. Re
ports of clubs and any special features Of
club work are solicited.
All communications should be sent TO the
presidentl
OFFICERS OF THE K. s. S. F.
President. Mrs. S. R. Peters. Newton
Woe President. Mrs. H. c. Toler, Wichita
Corresponding Secretary.
-...-.....Mrs. George ". Puett. Newton
according Secretary .-...--.-....-.'--.--.
Mrs ]. NJ Miller. Council Grove
Treasurer. Mrs Hill P. Wilson. Lawrence
The Kansas Seventh District Federation.
The Seventh District Federation will
hold IT'S second annual meeting IN King
man, November l and 2. at the First Pres
bytenan church.
I, will be entertained by the Nineteenth
Century club. the Shakespeare club and
the Twentieth Century club.
An attractive program has been pre-
pared and every little detail looked after
for the comfort and pleasure Of the guests.
A rate of one and one-third fare has
been secured over all roads provided one
hundred certificates are presented.
Certificates must be signed by Mrs. Lydia
RAIDER Billings. secretary.
Remember in buying your ticket TO pro-
cure a certificate from your local agent.
Delegates and visito TO the convention
Till be met at the station and entertain
Cd by the Kingman clubs.
The headquarters of the entertainment
and credential committee Will be at the
First Presbyterian church.
The Travellers Club. Of Kansas City. Kan.
The following report was read before
the City Federation. September ,. 1858. It
was written by Mrs. Mary L. Gray, one of
the charter members of the club. which
was organized in 1891.
We are tourists. travellers, tramps,
With modern lights and ancient lamps;
Seeking knowledge whereer we can,
BY this. or that. or any plan.
Seventeen years Of age are we
And journeyed far by land or sea;
Pale lavender the tint we wear:
Our flower, violet, shy and rare;
Our legend is I'VE always see
Whate'er We carry eyes to see.''
Three years we wandered slowly through
Lives OF the PoDes" a wholesome crew!
And learned their acts, their wants and
hopes,
and found they knew right well 1.-The
ropes"
Three years we gave our English tongue
All II has said and writ and sung.
Its men OF might and brain and power,
Its women..who enriched their hour;
From letters dawn to present day
We Travelled down a useful way.
With ''Baedeker'' one year we sailed,
And never once we found he failed.
Through Paris old, and Paris new.
He showed Us all their was in view.
The Boulevards so fine and wide,
Where all the gay Parsians ride.
Palace and chapel. hall and court,
Revealed their treasure near, remote
The Champs Elysee. the Isle de Mar.
The Louvre where dresmers ever are,
They held our hearts in fairy spell
And seem the song OF Ginning bell.
Oh for the laugh of this people gay
We sighed Al last on our final day.
Colonial hist'ry then we tried
And counted all the men of pride.
For one whole year we journeyed long
With our great men in prose or song.
IN Boston f1arbor We made tea
And saw the sights there were TO see.
We heard the shot. that fired the world
And saw the stars and stripes unfurled.
We turned Us then 10 Northern seas.
T-T-.r- 81 H.
The Teni brothers and Norsemen's crew
Passed swiftly our horizons view
Nirvana and Valhalla fair
Both n-iraged on our ambient air
Iceland and Greenland babe us hail
Newfoundland furled an ancient san.
Of mvths and gnomes. we had a store
Until we cried of this no more"
And left Columbus. dear, in Spain.
Bound hand and foot with her old chain.
Year ten. 70 Mexico We went
And for its ancient Aztecs sent.
They came. Of slow and ghostIy pace
quaint. unknown and vanished, race.
On ruined walls we stood alone
And marked the sacrifcial stone.
The great sun-calendar we traced,
And on 1t many legend based.
Then 70 the haunted mesa climbed.
Ard in cliff-dwellings body dined,
While over all there came At noon
a phantom troop in every room,
n ninety-two. Columbian year.
Each Of our presidents we hear. :
From Washington TO Cleveland down
And then go forth 70 "Windytown," :
And see and tell all tongue can saw
Of dreams of beauty that died away.
OF that rare White City that wooed and
Won
The choicest and rarest under the sun,
When Weakened at last we turned 20 art:
Three years she Won each travellers heart.
Like ves;a.s old with lamps CT truth
We watched her so from age 10 youth. 6
Two years we walked in ScuIptlres's Hall. :
White and silent. stately and tall
Marble or granite. bronze or wood.
Egyptian, Memphttic or Greek are good :
Iellenisuc or Roman Christian OF Ns,at. 7
All were enchanted with what they had !
not. {
A year then ~ painting We valian;ly took
TO Egypt and Asia in many a nook I
We found there symbols OF Christian
heart
And realiSms of Heather arr
There was beauty Of face. and spirit. too. :
With Raphael Sanzio tracing it through c
-orresIo's chiaro-oscuro air G
Venetians painting their ladies' fair
Flagon OF crystal and golden cup
we took from ancient sepuichre I'D. 5
Flanders and Netherlands. Germany. TOO.
French and English. I cannot say who.
Five centuries deep early painters did