The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-01

beginning with Chaucer, reading in
turns Milton. Shakespeare, Scott, Dick
ems and the greater writer's of both
prose and poetry. Later they will study
foreign authors, as Ebers and TOlstOi;
then they will turn to American Htera-
ture, taking first the eastern writer's,
then the western including those of
Kansas. As last year, they viii read
the later works of fiction, among which
are "PenelOpe's Progress when
KnighthOod was in Flower" Rose of
butchers COOlly," and David Harum-"
Their meetings will be interspersed with
occasional days on other interesting
topics, such as the five on church study.
the ones on tMonopolies and Trusts,
Great Conventions of the Year" Re
cent Scientific Discoveries and a mus
ical program.
This club was organized March 26.
1886, first as a Chautauqua circle, but
after finishing the course prescribed by
that body they have chosen their own
topics for study There have always
been fifteen members-at present they
are: President Mrs. Ada F. Riddle;
vice presidents, Mrs. Carrie K. Goucher,
and Mrs. Emma o. Jack; secretary,
Mrs. Pearl z. COughlin; treasurer, Mrs.
Ella w. Dickinson; Mrs. LOrain NJ
Clark, Mrs. Lizzie E. GaffOrd, Mrs. w.
Blanche Morris, Mrs Emma Cole, Mrs.
Emma b Gemeny, Mrs. Clara. c. Hen
ry, Mrs. Christie N. Midgley. Mrs
Catherine F. PurtOn, Mrs. Alice M
Sexton, Mrs. Zorah l. Thompson
Something New in Club Lines.
A new path in club lines has been
struck out by the County Womans
club, of Lapeer, Mich. The organiza-
tiOn is composed chiefly of farmers
wives and other women who have lived
on farms.
There were two vacant rooms in the
county court house. and the women got
permission to use them as clubrOOms.
Each member paid for one yard Of car
pet and gave one chair one cup. saucer,
plate, knife, fork and spoon. The club
has literary programme every Satur-
day, and a meeting, with refreshments
once a month. The rooms are open all
day Saturday, giving the members
comfortable and hOmelike place to
which to come. This club is the first of
its kind in the state The idea started
at the meeting of the State Federation
in Detroit, and was carried out when
a farmers institute was held at Lapeer
soon after.
About Women.
Mrs c. W. GoOdlander. the young wife
of the mayor of Fort Scott, Kan, has
attracted much attention by innOVa-
ton she has introduced in the line of
assisting her husband in one of his most
oneroUs public duties, namely. provid-
ing for the needy poor of the city. She
spends certain hours of each day driv-
ing around the poorer quarters of the
city and personally investigating claims
for assistance, and no indOlent or unde-
serving person gets an order from her
She permits no social function to inter-
fere with this work. The results of her
enterprise are being anticipated with
great interest
Several of Ellen Terry's gowns which
she wears in "RObespierre' We're de-
signed by her daughter. Miss Craig
who also superintended the making of
the wOmen's costumes.
Mrs w. H. Gannaway, wife of the
Methodist pastor at Latah, Wash, late
ly took charge of the pulpit services /
for Sunday in her husbands absence,
and conducted them with credit to her
self and satisfaction to the people.
It IS well known that the Princess of
Wales and her two sisters were early
trained in all domestic economies They
had to make their own gowns when at
home, and the Princess of Wales has
always been an industrious worker. She
has become an expert boOkbinder
In Paris and other large cities in
France women are taking the places of
the boy bootblacks. They wear a pc
culiar garb, not unlike that of the Sis
teTs of Mercy. which renders their ap-
pearance neat and attractive. Not a
few among them attend to their work
with glOved hands.
An anecdOte that has created cOnsid-
erable amusement has been told of the
Princess Charles of Denmark and her
interview at a railway station with a
reporter The latter was scribbling in
notebook, when, looking up, he caught
the princess regarding him intently
Then she began to write in a notebook
Tearing the leaf out, she dropped it
near the reporter and walked away. He
eagerly picked it up and found written
upon it. I wish I were a reporter
The oldest love letter in the world is
a proposal of marriage for the hand of
an Egyptian princess, made $500 years
ago. 1t is in the form of an inscribed
est, but the most substantial love letter
that has ever been written
A Few Delicious Salads.
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