The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-30

AyAsAEACN E-EGsAtACAAAs-
First District-AIrs. H. o. Garvey, To
Second District-NIrs. D. s stephens.
Third Bistrief@Sfigs Estelle Dalton.
Fourth DistrictEAlrs. Flora Sands Of
Fifth District-1Irs. Catherine HonEian,
Enterprise, president.
Sixth Distriet-Mrs. ". H. Nelson,
Si4lth CenIer' president ,...,
Seventh District-AIrs. E. L. RetuJohn,
Dodge City, president
Eighth District Organizer-h1rS. S. K.
Usage County Federation-DErs. Emma
Iroudner, Carbonate, president
Topeka Omeers.
President, Mrs. Clement Smith 721 Polk
street Ind. tel. 1873.
Vice President Mrs. J. W. Going, 500 To-
peka avenue. Ind. tel. $50.
Second Vice President, Miss Lucy B.
KIngman, SIS Monroe street.
Secretary. Mrs. E. G. Foster 713 Topeka
avenue. Ind. tel. 2S01.
Treasurer. Mrs. E. D. Robertson, as
auditor. Mrs. G. A. Huron. 221 Fillmore
street Ind. tel. e67.
I suppose that club women make good
resolutions at the New Year in common
with less-favOred humanity 1t is so
easy to tell ourselves that we will stop
that little habit of Ours=Of sarca site
speech perhaps of careless thinking,
even of the midnight dissipation over the
interesting book, We refresh our cOn-
sciences by telling ourselves very glfbIt
mat after the first of the year we will
improve our minds by so much study
every day, that we will say only kindly
words, that we viii set our retiring and
rising clocks at an earlier hOur-in short,
that we VIII reform at once all the little
more or less harmful habits into which
we have fallen
New Years resolutions may be kept
sometimes. The Recording Angel would
be able to tell; but ii is safe to say that
the first Of the year win find US indulg-
ing ourselves as before. The world is
not greatly impressed with sudden re-
forms, nor do they accomplish what
steady growth does.
If you can look back over the past
year and feel that there has been a
growth of heart and soul and mind no
matter if only little, you are vastly
better off than if today you should sub
scribe to whole pages Of res 'utions
which are likely forgotten by tomorrow.
And club women are growing. The
naked eye OF the mind shows US that In
my business, club troubles come to me
as well as club joys. 1t is my place to
tell club joys and to keep as sacred con-
hdences club troubles. But it is no viO-
lation Of confidence to say that, with
the stories of disagreements in club life
and I am happy that the sum total is
feW-I have yet to find any spirit of
vindictiveness or of vengefuIness.
Wounded or injured, the club woman
may feel herself to be, but there is al
ways the desire to be just, the fear that
her own personal feeling may mar the
harmony of club life. There is a grow
ing tolerance, willingness to differ
pleasantly, to put aside personal feeling
for the good of the greater work.
Club troubles rise usually out of
what is only a difference in ideals a
divergence of paths Of thought which
really start from the same premises.
and which viii eventually arrive at the
same conclusion.
One by one the favorite anti-riub
theories are being exploded-about
the woman who neglects her home,
who is careless of the amenities, or the
femininities of life, who neglects her
children, or who refuses motherhood
Along with these, abnormal in woman
hood, who really do not thrive il the
sanities of club life. we relegate the
quarrelsOme, or the spitefuI woman.
for it is sure that we do not meet her
fin our declarations.
Taken, month by month, old 1905
has been a good year to us. and has