The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-13

training department. The chairman
of this committee, Mrs. W. A. john
! ston, especially requests the Topeka
/ club WOrsUu to visit the educational
! exhibit in groups. before the fedora
/ ton meeting in order that they may
Z help to show their visitors about The
members of the senior class of the
I high school have also been appointed
/ to serve in this capacity.
The speakers for the educational
session are Miss A4yra Albaugh, Kan
/ sas City, Kan, Miss Louise Rowe.
/ AtchisOn, and Miss AIedin Hamilton Of
/ Wichita
The department of literature, Mrs
Frank Strong of Lawrence. wife of
/ Chancellor Strong of the University
! Of Kansas, chairman, viii have the
programme Wednesday evening. Miss
Albert COrbin and Miss Eugene Gal
/ loo, both of the faculty of the Uni
Versity Of Kansas. will read papers
/ The election will be held at 10
/ O'Clock Thursday morning. Ihe ms
/ torical hour, also set for Thursday
\ morning but which will be changed,
probably to Wednesday afternoon, will
include papers by Mrs. Lillian Picken
/ of Hays City, Mrs. D. W. Wilder OF
! HiaWatha, Mrs. Grace L. Snyder of
Hays City, Miss Abby Huntington
! Ware, Topeka. Mrs. George w. Mar
| tin, Topeka. Mrs. Sara T. D. Robin
son, Lawrence.
/ The department OF civics, Mrs. Alice
Keys of Beloit. chairmna, has Thurs
day afternoon. Mrs. H. B. Asher,
lawrence. Mrs REGIME Y. Chambers,
Hoxies Mrs. L. H. Thompson, Norton,
! are the speakers. For the science de-
/ partment, Mrs. Tom Cordry of Salina,
/ chairman, Mrs. F. E. Munsen of Her
/ ington and Mrs. W. D. Atchinson of
Parsons will have papers and on the
programme of the department of art,
! Mrs. James NJ. Wilkinson, EmpOria,
| chairman. are Miss Gridley of En-
poria, professor of art at the State
7 Normal school, and Prof. Albert Dick
/ ems. horticultural department of the
State Agricultural college at Manhat-
1 tan. Mrs. Alice s. Haldermann of
! Girard. a sister of Miss Jane Adams
I of Hull House. Chicago is chairman
of the department. of philanthropy.
| The speakers are Mrs Julia B. Perry,
! superintendent of the Girls Industrial
school at BeIOit, Henry J. Allen, pres1-
! dent of the state board Of charities,
Edward A. Fredenhagen, president of
the Society for the Friendless, Miss
Edith Short Of Kansas City, Mrs. c.
/ 3. Afford of Lawrence, Mrs. r. P.
Murdoch of Wichita and Mrs. C. H.
| CulbertsOn of lola.
The musical programme, as has
been said, will be given Thursday
night at the Auditorium. Friday
morning will take place the confer
/ ence of the incoming and outgoing Of
ficers and afterwards there will be an
L
women and a luncheon at the Audi
tOrium. given by the Commercial club.
Friday afternoon has been set aside for
a visit to the departm ents of the state
house.
The only Topeka club which has in
/ structed its delegates for a candidate
for president of the state federation is
! the West Side forestry which instructed
for Mrs. May BelleVille Brown OF Sa~
lima at its meeting, after a speech by
| Mrs. c. 3. Hoffman, of Enterprise, who
1 is from Mrs. Browns district and an
/ ardent supporter of her candidacy. The
I other egates-there are fOrty-one-
are uninstructed. It is an unwritten
rule in the federation that the hostess
/ city should neither present a candidate
/ for president or take any active part ia
| the campaign. For this reason the To-
4 peka clubs have not instructed. Never
/ theless it would not be hard to guess
/ how some of their delegates will vote on
/ the president, if they follow the wishes
of the majority in their clubs. There
seems to be little sense or reason in this
/ rule against the clubs of the hostess
/ federation instructing their delegates. 1t
could be done without offense, it would
! seem, and would greatly simplify mats
I tiers for the delegates although it would
interfere somewhat with the schemes
/ Of the managers and henchmen of the
/ opposing candidates who count upon
! their Individual influence with the local
| delegates to control the forty-two To-
/ pela votes. The Parsons Sun in an
| article published this week and copied
/ in the State Journal, which has created
/ some little commotiOn among the local
/ club women, takes it for granted that
! the Topeka clubs will vote as a unit
| for president. This is not true. There
/ will be fOrty-tWo votes cast from To-
peka, each club and the five delegates
at-large voting singly, and there is no
doubt that they viii be divided Prob
| ably the majority viii be for Mrs. May
BelIeville Brown of Salina who is very
well known here and for whom there
/ seems to be much local enthusiasm, but
the other Mrs. Brown of Olathe also has
her friends and supporters.
The four delega tes-at-large appointed
by Mrs. Clement Smith. city federation
president, are Mrs. A. H. Horton, Mrs.
Margaret Hill McCarter, Mrs. J. w. Co
/ ing and Miss Lucy Kingman and Mrs.
Smith herself has vote.
The meetings of the federation next
week will all be open. to the public and
la general and cordial invitation is ex-
tended. The reception at the Governor
their husbands and escorts 1t was nee
essary to limit the invitations for this
as even then, probably one thousand
guests viii be in attendance.
Mrs E1usebia Nudge Irish of Kansa:
City, Missouri, who Will attend the fed
| Grafton meeting next week and will be
a daughter of the late Professor Mudg,
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