The Topeka state journal., 1906-01-07

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of the Parkdale school house and
furnishing fuel for the kindergarten.
The Boys club has dfty-two members
ana Mrs. Carnahan announced that
although when the club was first or
ganized the boys ran away whenever
/ company came, they had now out
grown their timidity and the club
women might safely venture to visit
Tuesday evenings. The Girls club has
4 afternoon meetings and the members
are learning to sew and embroider.
The members of the FiIOg0ppa club.
| the east side, take charge Of the
reading room. One cf the state travel
ing libraries is at the reading room and
! While it has been announced that this
was the donation of the West Side
] Forestry club, Mrs. NJ A. Johnston
announced Thursday that it was sent
by Mrs Walter L. Bates of that club.
VINO personally met the expense. The
! West Side Forestry club. however, has
pledged itself to send another library
at the end of the six months when the
one now in use must be returned, so
Jilat the reading room viii be sup
| piled with books for year. The Flo
mena club selects the books.
The Tabard Inn club said Mrs. E.
G. Foster, retiring secretary, in her
good report to the federation Thursday,
/ has the honor OF being the first club to
pay its dues to the federation. The
Good Government paid for the highest
number of members, fOrty-one, the
Ceramic Art second with thirty three,
and the West Side Forestry third with
thirty.
1t was a fine example of the irony Of
fate that Mrs. W. A. Johnston and Mrs.
Lee Monroe both of whom were op-
posed to the constitutional amendment
providing for standing nominating
| committee, should be Obliged to serve on
the first committee elected. But with
characteristic ability to take their
! medicine gracefully they accepted the
burden of that committees responsible
ties cheerfully and did their work WELL
thoroughly canvassing the federation
for candidates and considering all rec
! concentrations. Il think in time the
! nominating committee may prove sue
! cess, said Mrs. Johnston in her report
1 Thursday, but it will take some time
/ The clubs will have to realize their re-
sponsibiities in the matter, consider the
available candidates and present their
names some weeks ahead"
Speaking for Mrs. May Belleville
Brown of Salina, the state president,
Mrs Lee Monroe, appealed to the club
women Thursday to make preparations
to attend the biennial Of the G. F W. c.
! at st. Paul from Nav 81 to June T.
gates to the biennial said Mrs. Monroe
but of course many more women than
4 that will attend and if they will per-
suade their clubs to federate which they
I can do very easily. they will be entitled
i to all the privileges of a delegates and
will enjoy the biennial that much more.'
! The club dues to the G. F. w. c. are
! ten cents per capita. Clubs wishing to
! federate are requested to write Mrs
May Belleville Brown, Salina, or Mrs
L. D. Monroe, 909 Harrison street, To-
peka.
Mrs. Lee Monroe's statement at the
meeting Thursday in explaining her
withdrawal from the nomination for the
presidency that she considered the nom
ination an honor and would be glad to
serve if she could be elected if she had
not already arranged for all the work
she could possibly do in 1906, is not
] likely to be forgotten by the club wonl-
en- when they consider d candidate for
/ the presidency in 1907. No woman in
the federation is better equipped than
Mrs. Monroe for this position and none
| has larger personal following. AL
/ though she has lived here a comparative
! ly short time she has entered with zeal
and enthusiasm into the local club
| work and has done her share willingly
| and well. Mrs Monroe is a practicing
attorney, a good business woman, an
excellent parliamentarian, a ready and
witty speaker, has lots of good ideas
and the energy, independence and will
to carry them out She is right in line
for the city presidency in 1907 and her
boom may be said to be already
/ launched.
Commenting on the programme of
the Woman's Kansas Day club on
which the place of honor has been
given to Congressman Charles F.
Scott, the Parsons Sun says:
Well, the Kansas women's club had
to t4arr
ever hear of a mans club granting the
most prominent place on the pro-
gramme to womani The women
surely could find good material in our
state among their own sex. The sub
ject of honor-Kansas- given to d
native born Kansan in the mems club.
1 There are several women. Kansas
born, who could do their sex credit
and one we have in mind has been,
until just recently, president of the
Fifth district federation and is at
present an officer in the state fedora
ton. We believe even a congressman
could take a back seat for her. She
/ does not claim kinshiD to Jim Lane,
we believe. but Lane was her name
until a few years ago.
A Topeka club woman says: "Espe-
cial attention should be paid by the
nominating committee to the appoint
ment of the new committees for the
federation and the most important of
tAtCoE are thlG pA0S Ac1lAlAAlG anu CiQD GN-
tension committees. With good work
ers on these committees a year of sue
/ cessful growth for the federation is
assured. Good programme meetings.
well advertised will give a new inn
petus to the federation work. Live
+ topics, topics which provoke discus
sion, should receive their share of at
tention and the local talent should be
employed as much as possible for
/ there is more interest in a local speak
er than in an imported one unless he
or she be very well known The new