The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
WOnnen's
Club News


The June number Of the Club Mem
Der, Margaret Hill McCarter's new
ma gazine is out and the indications
are more and more in favor of a pre-
sumption of the magazines success
The subscription list is growing, the
advertising patronage increasing ano
Mrs. McCarter IS getting out very
readable and interesting journal which
Kansas people may take some pride
an supporting The June number has
@ poem by Lila Day Monroe (Mrs
Lee Monroe, G story by Myra Viii
Hams FARRELL (Mrs. Frank Jarrel). a
poem bg William Carey Campbell OF
Los Angeles, formerly of Topeka, q
story by Jessie Wright Whitcomh
Mrs. H. j. WhitcOmb), an article by
the Rev. Charles N. Sheldon and q
poem by Mrs. Mary L. Parke Cham
berlain. The departments are breezy
and entertaining as usual and the edi-
tOrial comment OF much interest The
magazine is published between the
fifteenth and the tWenty-hfth Of each
month and subscriptions received after
the fifteenth will not begin until the
next month The price has been raised
from ten cents to twenty-five cents a
gear
The club season is over in Topeka
for the summer All the clubs have
discontinued their meetings until Sep
TENDER or October except the West
Side Forestry, which takes its vacation
An the winter time, and most of them
have been closing the years work by
picnics of which there have been many
the past two or three weeks. The
West Side Forestry club will have an
all day meeting next Thursday at the
Robert I. Lee residence, west of town
on the West Tenth avenue road. The
husbands and z. few other friends will
be asked. The principal object of the
outing is to locate and mark wild
flowers. vines and shrubs which Will
be transplanted later to Willow park,
the new park on the west side which
the club has been the means of adding
50 the Topeka park system
OF course with all the clubs resting
the city federation is doing nothing
much now. Mrs. Clement Smith, the
president, is out of town and there will
be no more meetings, unless some I'M
foreseen occasion should arise, until the
October meeting. The ciVics commit
tee met last Saturday at the home of.
the chairman. Mrs. J. F. Close, in Pot
win, and laid out a plan of summers
work As for the past three seasons
the committee is interesting itself in
early Saturday closing for the shops
and most of the merchants have
agreed not to keep open after o'clock
on Saturday nights during July and
August. The committee also discussed
the subject Of a public play ground.
which was introduced by Mrs. G. A.
Huron at the June meeting of the fed
Grafton The east side seems most in
need of play ground and steps will
be taken toward securing site. The
committee includes Mrs. Close, Mrs. J.
p. Carnahan. Mrs. Q. E. Hoover and
Mrs. E. F. Stanley.
The art exhibit at the Manual
Training high school, which is under
the auspices of the department of fine
arts of Washburn college and the art
committee of the federation, will con-
tinue over another week in the hope
that it may yet make expenses. The
cost of the exhibit is about 81 900 for
packing. shipping, insurance and the
small incidental expense of exhibiting
and the indications are now that the
committees VIII lose about $500 in the
venture There is a chance, how
ever, that this sum may yet be raised
if more interest should be shown in
the exhibit during the next geek. Peo-
pie VINO have not seen the pictures
should avail themselves of this ex-
tended opportunity to do so, for their
own sakes as well as to encourage art
Interests in Topeka. There are some
excellent pictures in the exhibit. and
dr. George Stones frequent talks
about them are delightful. He will
continue these talks next week and the
gallery should be crowded on these
occasions.
The I. S. S. P. club of the Y. w. c.
"a viii give its annual picnic at Vine
wood Tuesday evening of next week.
The start from the transfer station
will be made at Sis o'clock. In case
of rain the party will spend the even
ting at the Y. W. c. A. rooms.
The RambIers cbIub viii meet next
Tuesday afternoon with Mrs Fanny
Sutherland, S15 Monroe street.
Judge and Mrs Wood of 81 Clay
Street entertained the History club
Friday evening. Judge Wood delivered
a very interesting lecture, 'Theosophy
rs. Christianity" and Mrs. Wood read
an excellent paper on THE Study of
the Bible I'm Topeka On Saturday at
ternoon, July 1, the History club will
picnic at Ninewood park
FLIES NORWFCTAN FLAG