The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-06
THE Co cLUB woMAN.


Much interest IS being manifested by
local club women in the meeting Of the
First District federation, to be held
here Tuesday and Wednesday of next
week. A reception to be given by Mrs.
Hoch and the Topeka federation at the
the largest social event in connection
with the meeting. The programmes
Will be given in the lecture room of
the First Presbyterian church. A con-
siderable number of delegates and
other visitors are expected, a list of
whom will be found in the society de-
partment OF this issue of the State
Journal.
The Topeka federation, as fedora
ton, does not belong to the First Dis
trict organization. but a number of
the individual clubs are federated with
it, and two of the officers, Mrs. H. o.
Garvey. president, and Mrs. De-Witte
c. Nellis. treasurer, are Topeka Wo-
men. and the local federation will act
as hostess to the district federation at
this meeing, and has assisted the ex-
ecutive board of standing committees
in all the arrangements for it.
Always a stirring and magnetic
speaker. Mrs. Margaret Hill McCar-
ter was at her best Thursday when
she gave a lecture on George Eliot.
the Woman OF Her Century, before the
Topeka Federation of Women's clubs
dL IT'S OCLOOCI injecting. j lie dinO1DCG-
ment of Mrs. McCarter's address which
" as the feature of the programme,
called out a good audience and the
place of meeting, the assembly hall of
the new Y. NJ. c. A. building, was also
an attraction. Following the pro-
gramme, the club women and their
visitors were shown over the new
building by committee from the Y.
NJ. c. A.
Mrs. McCarter touched but lightly
Of
Of George Eliot, devoting most of her
talk to Eliot, the novelist, rather than
Marian Evans Cross, the woman. She
reviewed her greatest novels and paid
her tribute to the literary and ethical
qualities OF each In a mastery style.
Mrs. McCarter is always scholarly.
When she essays to write or speak on
any subject, you may be sure she has
it well in hand and has spent time and
thought on the selection of her ma
terial and its presentation. Undoubt-
ediy she is the best woman speaker in
Kansas, and she is more Interesting
than many Of her brother orators and
lecturers of wider fame In fact, al
range of speakers, local and import
ed it has rarely listened to as strong
and moving an address as Mrs. Nc
Carter gave Thursday
Preceding the regular programme,
/ A memorial was held for three mem
{
have occurred recently: Mrs. c. D.
Startzman of the Portia club. who was
formerly vice-presfdent Of the fedora
ton: Miss Mary Frost of the Junior
Atlantean and Twentieth Century
clubs, and Mrs. Olive Lewis Chamber
lain Of the Ladies' Shakespeare club.
The memorial addresses were made by
Mrs. A H Horton, for Mrs. Startz-
man who was vice-president during
Mrs. Horizons administration as presi-
dent Miss Santa Waters for Miss Frost
and Mrs. H. ". Roby for Mrs. Cham
berlain. During the memorial. Miss
Grace Anderson, the new teacher OF
voice at the College Of the Sisters OF
Bethany, sang THE Homeland by
Hanscom. Other musical numbers
were two Grieg numbers for piano by
Harry Tasker. Morning and Troll
Dantz. and 'The Lass with the Deli
cate Air. DR.. Arne sung by Miss An
derson. Miss Terry. the new teacher
Of piano at Bethany, played Miss An
derson's accomplishments. Mrs. r. II,
/ Morehouse read an analysis OF the