The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
FOR THE WOMEN.
Much Interest in State Fedora
tiOn Meeting Next Week.
Tnnrnauod CInh REon,bo.nl,sn In
Increased Club Membership In
dicates a Large Attendance.
HOUSEKEEPERS' HINTS
Some Appetizing Things and
How to Prepare Them.
What Women Are Doing in
Other Portions of World.

AS the weather grows warmer the
study clubs are one by one discontinu-
ing their meetings until fall, though
the state meeting at Winfield next
week and the biennial at Milwaukee the
first week in June will keep up an ac-
tive interest until far into the summer
New names are continually being added
to the list of delegates to attend the
meeting at Winfield, and a number of
Topeka ladies will doubtless go to Mil
waukee. Mrs. Hill P Wilson, OF the
Zodiac club. of Lawrence, will read a
paper at the biennial meeting on The
Value Of Training Schools for Domes-
tics in Small Towns"
At the next meeting of the Hays City
Saturday Afternoon club, the members
answer to roll-can with MY Particular
Hobby; following viii be papers on
Religious and Austrian Wars "The
Sunday Newspaper" and Sheldon
ism
Massachusetts has a Floral Emblem
society that is endeavoring to have the
Mayhower adopted as the emblem of
the state.
Mothers Congress.
The Mothers congress meets in Des
Moines May d to p. It is expected that
thousands of persons will attend. as
the GOuSEGSS mas DeGn ORGANIZED IN
eighty counties of that state during
the past year. Among the subjects to
be presented will be Child Study in
its Possibilities for Boys THE Right
of Young Children - THE Ideal E.dt1ca-
tion,'' The Benefits to be Derived from
Organized Motherhood" The conven-
ton will meet in the Auditorium, which
seats 4,500 people.
Flannel Shirt Club.
The Flannel Shirt club, of london.
has been in existence for three ears.
and has for its president Alice. Countess
OF Straford- This club has been the
means of supplying warm shirts to pa
| tients discharged from the wards of
geenral hospitals in London.
It was discovered by the founders
that Sisters and nurses in medical
wards were often reluctantly compelled
to let men just recovered from serious
| illness leave their care insufficientIy
/ clad Often, too, the patient happened
to be the bread winner of the family,
and through his inability to work it
was impossible for the wife to provide
1 a good flannel shirt for the time when
/ her husband left the hospital. An
/ effort was therefore made to provide
| each necessitous workingTnan witG at
/ least one warm shirt, and the under
| taking has met undoubted success.
The Ideal Club.
'HThe Ideal Aim of Women's Clubs
was discussed by the Young Fortnightly,
which met in the Women's club rooms
! yesterday afternoon. Addresses were
made by the presidents of several prom
| inent clubs-Mrs. Henrotin, ex-president
| Of the federation; Mrs. Henry Wade
| Rogers. representing the Fortnightly
/ Mrs. Cyrus H. Mccormick of the Fri
| day club; Miss Gertrude Beeks of the
National Association of Women Stenog-
| raphers. and Mrs. Ira Couch Wood OF
the Wednesday club.
Mrs. Wood believes the ideal club is
long and have the benefit of each 9th
/ erSs ideas. Miss Beeks believes many
women will in future be spared tht
necessity of earning their own living il
! mothers will teach their sons the neces-
| sity of providing for their wives. Mrs
| Mccormick considers idleness the grea
| danger in clubs, and believes the mem
bership committee should be active il
| securing conscientious workers, ire
/ spective of personal interest and prefer
| ence.-Chicago Times-Herald.
A California Club.
The Woman's Club of Pa1o Alto, Cal.
acting through the Village Improve
ment committee. has arranged for th
purchase and distribution of a numbe
| of large rubbish or trash boxes" Thes
| are to be made as pleasing to the eyi
as possible. each painted a differen
| color and placed at convenient distance.
| throughout the town. An appeal ha
already been issued to the boys ant