The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02
1he Topeka club Woman.

/ Mrs. W. A. Johnston, chairman of the
educational exhibit of the woman's de-
partment of the state fair, announces a
series of illustrated lectures, or demon
strations in her department during fair
week. All the speakers and their sub
| jects have not yet been announced but
| among them will be Miss Gertrude Co
burn of the state department of agri-
culture, who will talk about Economical
Cooking and Miss Alice Lakin, graduate
of the Simmons School of Domestic
Science, Boston, whose subject will be
Teaching Sewing in the Public Schools.
The educational department offers
number of valuable prizes, among them
a life size bust of Longfellow, given
by the Hall Lithographing company,
which will be AWARDED the public school
making the best exhibit in clay model
| ing.
| There are heaps of good things in the
| September number of the Club Member,
| just issued and Mrs. Margaret Hill Nc
| Carter the editor, is to be congratula-
| ted upon getting out the best magazine
since she started her venture, few
weeks ago. Mrs. May Belleville Brown
of Salina, president of the Kansas Fed
Grafton of Women's clubs has clever
| little story, "a Happening in Home
spun,'' and there is another good exam
| pie of the short story in Nob1esS Oblige,
| by Tracey Foster Smith, an Oklahoma
woman and a friend of Mrs. McCarter's
who has contributed before to the Club
| Member under her own name of Grace
Nichols Leathercock. Robert J. Bur
dette's sketch, Alpha and Omega
/ from his "Chimes From a Jester
Bells" is republished by special per-
mission of the Bobbs27Merrill company
DR.. Henry w. fRoby contributes poem,
| kansas in Septembef,' and Ellen G.
/ Parkhurst one ION the House Roof. u
! The editorial comment IS In Mrs. NC
Carriers accustomed trenchant and at
tractfVe style. The magazine cover pen
4 and ink illustration is a woman's head
by Carl P. Bolmar.
i Mrs. May Belleville Brown of Salina
president of the state federation of wo-
i mems clubs. will be in Topeka next
week to meet her committees of the
woman's department of the state fair
and make some arrangements for the
presidents council to be held here dur
ing fair week.
An interesting college town reunion
to be held next week is the centennial
anniversary of the founding of Gran
vile, Ohio, the seat of Denison uni
versity, which Mrs. NJ. D. Henderson
! of Topeka, left Thursday to attend
Mrs. Henderson was a graduate, class
| of 1876, of the Granville Female in
J stitute, the first school established
west of the AIleghanies for the educa-
merged with Denison university
Among the celebrated alumni of the
college are Mary Hartwell Catherwoo6
and Mrs. John Sherman. The gov
ernor and other state officers Of
Ohio and many prominent college
5 presidents and other educators will at
tend the reunion and make addresses
I One of the social features is an old
fashioned costume reception and bal
to be given the closing evening of the
reunion. Mrs. Henderson's costume
: for this occasion includes a silk petit
, coat and an old Spanish girdle. elabo-
7 rately hand embroidered, heirlooms ir
her family of much value and in
Z. terest.
= Another special prize of $40 in cash
offered by the Inter-Ocean mills, il
:; announced by the committee which
l has been soliciting special prizes fol
: the woman's department of the state
fair in Topeka week after next.
t The West Side Forestry club wa.
2 entertained at it's August meeting
Thursday at the residence of Mrs.
NJ. Meade. Mrs. D. H. Forbes had {
paper on wines" and the response:
1 | to rollcall historical flowers, vine:
, / and trees made an interesting sym.
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