The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-09
THE TOPEKA CLUB WOMAN.

The news received in Topeka yes
terday that Mrs. William A Johnston
had been elected to a place on the
board of directors of the General Fed
GRAFTON of Women's clubs at the ST.
Paul biennial was received with much
satisfaction by Kansas club women In
general and Topeka club women in
Johnston call Minneapolis their home,
but they live in Topeka and Topeka.
people claim them. Mrs. Johnston is
eminently fitted for the place which
ed and received for her. She is a past
president of the Kansas federation and
one of the most capable club women in
the United States. Practical useful
ness is Mrs Johnston's strongest
chara cteristic. She has inauRurated
useful, worthy and necessary move
mentS in Kansas club work than any
other woman in the state. Half the
things to which the club women or
Kansas point with pride they owe to
Mrs. JohnSton's efforts. She is ener-
getic and persevering, a splendid or
ganizer and (she won't like this, per-
haps, but if is a compliment, all the
same), the cleyerest politician in the
Kansas federation. Mrs. Johnston is
frage movement in Kansas. She was
largely iIstrum entail in the organiza-
ton of the Woman's Kansas Day club.
which had its first meeting last jan
uary. She organized and was for three
years president of the West Side For
estry club, one of the strongest clubs
in the Topeka federation and which
has during its short existence accomp-
lished much of practical value to it's
members. Mrs. Johnstan is a graduate
of Western college, Oxford, Ohio, and
Will go from st. Paul to Oxford to at
tend her class union and commence
ment. Her daughter, Miss Margaret
Johnston is a member Of the gradual
ing class this year.
Mrs Lila Day Monroe who came
home from the st. Paul biennial this
week says the Kansas delegation was
one of the best organized at the con-
vention and attracted much favorable
lions had aleeyes at the ArmOry where
the sessions were held and the Kansas
delegation made this into a very attrac-
tive tea room with the sunfOWer large
" in evidence in the decorations ana
the best features from the travelling
art gallery on exhibition and where tea
was served to all the visitors. The
delegation presented the president,
Mrs. Brown, with a gorgeous bouquet
OF American beauties when she gays
her report for Kansas Mrs. Brown
assisted at one Of the receptions given
by a St Paul hostess for the club
women. The st. Paul Pioneer Press
had this to say of Mrs. Catharine Hon
man of Enterprise, a member of the
foresty committee OF the declarations
Mrs. Catherine A Hoffman of En-
terprise, Kansas. is one of the women
who have been working with Mrs. Will
liams in the forestry committee, and
one who is heart and soul in the move
ment Mrs. Hoffman is a native Of
Virginia, but when she was very young
married and went to a small town in
Kansas to grow up with the place. She
is an enthusiastic club woman, ana
one of her hobbies is kindergartens.
which she never fails to advocate when
a chance offers. In her report of for
estry work done in her state. she says.
Z. Kansas club women are taking
to outdoor work instead of embroidery
or oil and water color painting, which
was once so fashionable One paper
before the state federation, Leave
the World More Beautiful Than You
Find 1t" created enthusiasm for OUT
door art and sent far and wide the
message Of the altruistic spirit in civic
life. Our state agricultural college has
furnished leaflets for distribution Out
of the enthusiasm for forestry work
of the club women several towns have
organized civic leagues, composed or
men and women whose determination
it is to make the town beautiful
from what is far more often an mar
tistic mass of scrubby trees and un-
kempt lawns. One town has employed