The Topeka state journal., 1905-10-22

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Mr.. Plum Towner Mr.. Ray Porter, Mr..
/ J. S. Elder. Mr.. R. H Hearick, Mr.
Fred Howe. Mr.. Eugene Bowers.
/ Miss Sophia Nelson has gone to Chi
cago to spend couple Of weeks with
relatives and friends.
The Topeka Club Woman.
The city federation's free kinder
garten for the East side which was
/ opened in the Parkda1e school house
( last Monday has been handicapped at
! the start by a diphtheria epidemic in
/ the neighborhood, so that only eight
! children were enrolled the first day.
I The kindergarten will probably be
closed for few weeks or until the cpl
| demic is over, but this has not been
fully decided upon and will not be be-
fore tomorrow.
The disciples of Grover Cleveland,
VINO view with alarm the growing in
/ fluence Of women's clubs and fear that
4 the women who belong to them will
lose interest in womanly pursuits,
should read a letter written by the
president of a district federation in
! Kansas to a Topeka club woman this
week asking her to speak at the an
nudl meeting of her federation. The
/ district president. who is one of the
most active as she is one of the most
progressive and intellectual women of
| the Kansas club women devoted three
! lines to club matters. merely giving the
/ invitation and letting it go at that and
| three pages to a new blue-eyed baby
recently arrived at her home.
The Ladies Music club is talking
about bringing Mrs. Carrie Jacobs
I Bond to Topeka for one of her clever
song recitals. A musical girl who was
I visiting in town this week on her way
home from Chicago where she spent
the past month spoke enthusiastically
about one of Mrs. Bonds recitals
which she attended. s'She is positively
the most fascinating woman I ever
saw" she said You know she has
no voice, although they say she once
/ had very good contralto, but al
4 though she has no voice she sings ex-
quisitely-better thousand times than
people who are better gifted lyrically
because she is so full of music. She
/ gives delicious little readings, from
: her own verses, too. She is not one
/ bit pretty, at first sight, but after she
has been on the stage a while and you
4 feel the wonderful charm of her pres
ence, andthe grace and fascination of
kher manner, she becomes positively
beautiful. I do hope you will have an
! opportunity to hear, her in Topeka, for
you are sure to be delighted with her" 3"
Mrs. E. W. Hoeh, Mrs. W. A. John
ston. Mrs c. T.. Mcclellan, Mrs. H. o.
/ Garvey, Mrs. Clement Smith, Mrs.
K Eugene +. Ware, Mrs. De Witt c..
Marie Nellis Will go to Seneca Thurs
day to attend the meeting of the First
district federation of wOmen's clubs
Mrs Johnston and Mrs. c. c. Goddard
of Leavenworth viii be guests of Mrs.
W. F. Thompson while they are in
Seneca.
The Art League of Leavenworth'
will have the Travelling Art gallery be-
longing to the state federation for ex-
nibit in their town Monday and Tues
day, October 80 and 81
Mrs. w. A. Johnston has been asked
to make an address at the meeting OF
the Fourth district federation of clubs
in Emporia which meets the second
| week in November.
The u and L club has given one
hundred dollars from its charity
\ fund to buy cooking utensils aud a
stove for the Provident associat ton
rooms. A gymnasium for the boys
and girls will be started within the
next two weeks and the kindergarten
will be reopened for the winter.
The Individual clubs of the city
federation have been providing enter
tainment and refreshments for the
/ Mothers club meetings held fortnight
/ ly at the Provident association rooms
at Fourth and Jackson streets for the
past year the clubs taking the re-
sPonsibility in alphabetical order.
Each club has assumed the duty once
and the list is now exhausted and q
called meeting of the board of di-
rectors viii be held soon to decide
upon a new plan for carrying on the
| work. The Provident association is
looking after it for the present
The Ceramic Art club was enter
tained Friday afternoon by Mrs.
i Clement Smith and Mrs. w. F.
l. Of n r.--
on Polk street Following the clubs
regular lesson in the principle of de-
sign. under the direction of Miss
Marie Witwer. was a social hour Of
which feature was the programme
consisting of vocal numbers by Miss
Jennie Erickson, piano numbers by
Miss Leila Gowdy of Abilene and read
ings by Miss Florence Bailey. The
club viii meet next month with Mrs.
H E. Lyman. The subject of the
amendment of the city federation con-
lsdtution was brought up and discus
sed but will not be voted upon until
the last meeting of the club before the
/ federation's December meeting
The meeting of the West Side Fores-
try club has been postponed from this
coming Thursday afternoon, the regu-
lar meeting day, to Thursday of next
/ week. On account of the meeting of
the First district federation at Seneca
which is to be held on Thursday and
tTlQi1ys OCTOBER 70 ana q. MIS- W. a
Johnston will be the hostess.
The Nineteenth Century club held
the first fall meeting last Monday at
the home of Mrs. John Cleveland, 1904
Quincy. street. with Mrs. r. B. Kepley
as hostess. In response to roll call
current events were given and dis
cussed. Papers on ART in France to
the Close of the seventeenth Century. .
by Mrs. W. H. RICHTER, and on 1.-The
Ruling Families of France to the Close
Of the Eighteenth Century by Mrs.
z. A Austin were the features of the
Iprogramme. The club is STUDYING the