The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-07

noon by her daughters. Mrs. F. A. w. Davis
and Mrs. Thomas l.. Hibben. The reception
was given in honor of Mrs. Ketchams
eighty-ffth anniversary. and many callers
were received during the afternoon and gifts
of fruit and flowers were also sent in pro-
fusion. Mrs. Ketcham came to Indianapolis
when the capital was changed from Cory
don with her father. Samuel Merrill who
was treasurer of state. In the party was
Lydia Douglas, daughter OF Mr.; Douglas;
the State printer, who is now Mrs. Alfred
Harrison of this city Mrs. Harrison was
bridesmaid at Mrs. Ketcham's wedding and
was special guest at the reception tues
day. Mrs. Ketcham was a charter mem
Der of the Second Presbyterian Church,
but is now member OF the Fourth PresDy-
terrain Church. She is a charter member
of the Home Of FriendleSS and has always
been a vice president of it's board of man.
ayers Her children are Mrs. Davis, Mrs.
Hbben, Miss Susan Ketcham, Mr. William
A Ketcham, Mr.. j. L. Ketcham. Mr.. Henry
Ketcham, of New Jersey. Mrs. Frank
Ketcham and Mr.. Edward Ketcham, of Gin
cinnati. Those of the children who live In
the city assisted in entertaining during the
afternoon and the grandchildren assisted in
the dining room. The latter are the Misses
Flora, Agnes, Jane Priscilla, Eleanor, Eliz-
Helene and Miss Hazen Hibben, and Mrs
Hugh Nick. Landon Mrs. Edward Dean
Mrs. Frank Ketcham, Mrs. Margaret v
Marshall, Mrs. Moores and Mrs. Harrison
were assistant hostesses.
What women's Clubs Are Doing.
The Dorothy Q Chapter. d. r., of Brook
line, Mass, are trying to buy the old
Quincy house in Quincy, where the famous
and well-beloved Dorothy passed her girl
hood There is danger of the destruction
of the ancient house, and the chapters
throughout the State are being addressed
by the Brooklne chapter in its behalf.
A tablet in memory of the Revolu-
tionary soldiers who are buried under the
old Dutch Church, in Flatbush, will be un-
yelled on Feb. 9, under the auspices of Fort
Greene Chapter of the Daughters of the
anniversary of the First Reformed Church,
which stands at Flatbush and Church ave-
nueS.
The thirty-sixth annual convention of the
National American Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation will be held in the National Rifles
Armory Hall, Washington, d. c., Feb. IL
to II inclusive. A programme of unusual
interest has been prepared consisting OF
an evening with the national officers, one
with philanthropists and one with sOclolo-
gists, when men and women foremost
along these lines of thought will be heard.
One of the most important topics sched-
uled for the St. Louis biennial of the Fed
Grafton of Womens Clubs is forestry
Much interest has been taken in the sub
ject by clubs all over the country during
lumber interest has been found to rank
third in the great industries of the United
States. Massachusetts club women have
devoted especial study TO forestry, and
there will be some notable papers and adj
dresses heard from them and others at the
biennial.
Belva Lockwood having been asked by
the INSTRUMENTATION Council of Women
to aid in unseating Senator Smoot. tartly
declines to do so in letter of some length
in which she says: You have no more right
to inquire into the conscience of Reed
Smoot than you have that of any other
! United States senator. The Constitution
| does not require a man to have con
| science in order to become Senator
| Utah is State where the women vote anC
| help to make the laws. They have a righ
/ to representation in the United States
| Senate and to select whom they please
1t is the fundamental right of a State.
Mrs Redwood adds this unsolicited ad
| vice: IF you good Christian women really
wish TO do the world q service and com
memorate yourselves. take up the miserable
condition of the submerged class of womer
| in our great cities like New York, Chicago
and San Francisco-the victims of system
worse than polygamy, if any exists in this
| country-and the poor, miserable, hal
clothed half fed children there who do no
| know what mother love or care mean.
This is an era Of culture, arbitration
and liberation, sisters! Let us pray 70
light! l do not believe in polygamy."
| Mrs. ID. w. Marmon read her paper
/ The Chronicle of the Year." before TIL
Indianapolis Research Club on Monda.
afternoon. In giving this story of tn
| year, Mrs. Marmon drew beautiful pic
lures of the changing scenes of nature
| Her listeners did not think of the loss o
| gas or the price OF COAL and even forgo
TO shiver, so intent were they upon tn
! shifting pictures of stream, wood field
| and all animate and inanmate life of win
ter. She brought summer, the sun, tn
| birds and butterflies and the drowsy dron
| ing OF the bee, that animated the tOrri
zone" Mrs. Marmons autumnal day
| were not melancholy days, but cheerful
days with the prospect of plentiful har
vest. Her viewpoint is that There is eve
| a song somewhere, my dear; there is eve
| a song somewhere"