The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

a reading room for the older people
will be opened there, probably the last
of next week. Mrs. Clement Smith mas
appealed to the presidents OF the olI-
ferent clubs to ask their members for
contributions OF books, pictures, maya
zines and furniture for the reaolnS
room and these will be gratefully re-
ceived by the committee. Mrs. j. f.
of the committee in place of Mrs. close
at present, may be communicated with
on this subject. She lives at FOL Adams
and her telephone number is SSS2. mo;
Mrs. Clement Smith will also be gao
to hear from any one who Will neip tne
federation's new project.
It looks as though the new city ad-
ministrat1on were ready to jump rlgh1
into the fray and do things, IN spite OF
the fact that the temperature is ap-
preaching the point where any activity
is a punishment and which usually
marks the waning of the energies OF
the leaders of the club movement. rms
public playground idea was broacheo
by MIS- G. A. Huron at the June meet
ing of the city federation, along with
lot of other possible objects which the
federation might take up and the earn
eStneSs and interest which Mrs. smith
and her civic committee have shown IN
following the suggestion speaks well
for the seriousness with which they
view their responsibilities and the local
mission of the federation, which 1t must
be confessed has sometimes seemed to
a dispasSionate onlooker, to be most
ly talk about reform and things with
very little active work in any worthy
direction. This playground and reading
room movement for the east side, now
ever, is a good thing, and the civic
committee ought to have the enthusi-
astic support of the whole federation
and all the best element of the com
munity in carrying it to successful
finish.
Mrs. Clement Smith, president of the
city federation will probably call a
meeting of the executive board of the
federation early next week to consider
some plans which the civic committee
of the federation has to offer and to
talk up the presidents council and club
woman's day features of the state fair
which Mrs. Brown, the state president
is planning for September. Mrs. Smith
and Mrs. Brown We're in consultation
during Mrs. Browns recent visit to To-
peka and the Topeka federation presl-
dent will cooperate with the state pres
ident to make the presidents council
next fall a conspicuous success. Mrs.
Smith has recently returned from a
short visit to relatives at Nauvoo, Ill.
The Ramblers club which is one of
the few clubs in the federation which
continues its meetings during the sum
mer was entertained by Mrs. Clarence
D. Skinner, 915 Monroe street. Tues
day afternoon. The clubs summer
work is not heavy. The meetings are
informal social gatherings for the
most part, with a short reading lesson,
perhaps, or some equally mild intellec-
tual exercise and the members who are
out of town or who find the Higher
Life impracticable in dog days, are ex-
cused from attendance without fines.
Last night the club gave a picnic at
Kinderton, Mr.. and Mrs. George Hack
ney's country place in Highland Park,
and the husbands were invited. The
company included Mr.. and Mrs. Hack
ney, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Hackney
Mrs. Charles King, of Valley Falls MI
and Mrs. Frank Hahn, of Salt Lake
City, Mrs. A. F. Robinson. of Chicago,
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence D. Skinner, Mr..
and Mrs. j. Howard Stuart, Mr.. and
Mrs. f. D. Stevens, Mr.. and Mrs. F. M
Conwell, Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Lewis,
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. M. Hale, Mr.. and Mrs.
c. E. Eldridge. Mrs. Fanny Sutherland,
Mrs. Dora Carr, Mrs. Curry, Mr.. and
Mrs Frederick lies, Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
B. Mcdowell. Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Ly-
man, Mrs. M. L. Metcalfe, Mrs. Clara
Bells, Mr.. and Mrs. P. I. Murphy, Mr..
and Mrs. H. A. Warner and Mr.. and
Mrs. Scott Warner.
The Ohio club will meet Monday,
July IT, at the home of Mr.. ]. H.
FOUGHT, 712 Taylor street.