The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10

be more than compensated by. receiving
al the privileges and advantages ac-
cruing to a delegate, because she viii
always be counted one in all the pleas
ares and little plans for our comfort
while at St Paul
Kansas club women who attended
the biennial meetings of the G. +. W. c.
at Los Angeles and St Paul will re-
member Mrs. Emma NJ. Van Vechten
of Iowa, then treasurer Of the General
Federation, and viii regret to her of
her recent death. Mrs. Van Vechten
was president of the Iowa federation
from 1897 to 1893 She used to visit
in Wichita, and had many Kansas ac-
quaintances.
New York World: To Susan B. An
thony, the Woman's suffrage leader.
was rendered a birthday party this
week at the home of Miss Alice Glea-
son. in honor of the eighty-sixth anni-
versary Of the guests birthday, which
will be February Is. The party was
given this week as Miss Anthony was
leaving for Baltimore. Another birth
day party Will be held in Washington
on the 18th The following day she
will go to New York. A surprise
awaited her when a list of two hum
dred new members of her Political
Equality club was presented to her.
Miss Anthony addressed two hundred
guests. Miss Emily Bishop, of New
scented in which Miss Anthony was ar
rested for illegal voting, as she was in
fact a few years ago in this city Among
the guests was Mrs. Daniel r. An
thony. widow of her brother, the late
Colonel Anthony of Leavenworth, Kas
Newton Kansas Republican: Upon
the invitation of superintendent Shirk,
Mrs. Noble Prentis talked to the pu-
pills of the Seventh and Eighth grades
IN the assem- bly, room Of the high
school Tuesday afternoon after recess
on Kansas history and the importance
of forming county historical societies
to preserve the annals of each county
and hand them down to future genera
tons. Mrs. Prentis told her in her
pleasant way of the benefits derived
from the study of Kansas history in
the public schools and her talk was es-
pecially timely to the pupils of. the sew
enth grade, who are just now entering
Mrs. Prentis also suggested The
organization of a County Historical so
eiety, to gather and preserve the his
tory OF the county and to collect such
CDJeclS as VIII be OF historical interest
in later years. It was suggested that
the county commissioners might be
prevailed upon to set aside a room in
the new county court house to fill the
purpose so admirably served by the
rooms of the State Historical society
at Topeka. If this plan fails to carry,
Mrs. Prentis suggested that a nook in
the Carnegie library DullQ1ng might be
secured for the purpose. A case should
be provided for books of Kansas and
everybody asked to contribute. This is
a subject in which Mrs. Prentis takes
great interest and she spoke for nearly
an hour to very interested audience
The school children without any
doubt would lend their assistance to
such a project as readily as they have
to Kansas Day, Trail Day, and other
patriotic matters, and, with the assist
ance of the older people, there is no
reason why Harvey county should not
set an example for the other counties
of the state by organizing county his
I toricaI society.
Some one woman is, as a rule. the
life of every club. She organizes it.,
she furnishes it with an object and an
inspiration; she keeps it going by en-
couragement and advertisement; She
struggles, alone, against the lethargy
and Indifference of her associates The
question must often come to her: is it
worth Whiie2 wouldn't 1t be better to
do my studying and my reading and my
thinking by myself and keep what
benefit I derive from them to myself2
But down in her heart she knows that
her greatest benefit is in the striving to
help others, and that only by giving
does she receive and grow.
The February number of the Club
Member, Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter,
editor, is out. The contents include
Coronado's March, by the late Captain
James w Steele; Warden's of the
an address delivered before the KAN
sas State Historical society at its 25th
annual meeting January Is, 1901, and
the eighth chapter of The October,
/ Child, the serial by Tracey Foster
Keith. Miss Nina Peacock did the
cover design and the frontispiece is a
/ photograVure used by courtesy of the
Crane Publishing company.