The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-13


I should be easy to be just.
/ Mrs. Frederic Schoff, president or the
/ National Congress of Mothers says
/ THE WOnan's club movement and the
! suffrage movement are quite distinct.
/ The suffrage question has not entered
seriously into the clubs. Some mem
/ b RS favor it. Others do not. 1t is not
I an issue in club life"
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell wrote:
| Women's clubs undoubtedly pave the
way to a belief in equal suffrage; but
/ so does civic and philanthropic work
/ done by women outside Of clubs: so dc
/ schools and colleges, and the enlarged
/ opportunities for women in every d1~
( rection. Col. T. w Higginson wrote
years ago that, when women were al
/ lowed to learn the alphabet, it became
/ only question of time when they
would want the ballot"
A federation Of women, notaafedera-
1 ton of clubs. is an organization now
being formed in Parsons for the objects
| of civic beauty and kindred reforms
+ Mrs. W D. Atkinson, secretary of the
/ K F. W. c., who was in Topeka this
week for the meeting of the state
/ spoke Friday evening, is one of the or
ganizers of the federation.
We are trying to effect an organiza-
! ton broader than q federation- Of
clubs" said Mrs. Atkinson in speaking
of the work. They have clubs in Par
/ sons and citv federation, but the
/ work the organizers of this new move
/ ment have in mind is work that will
/ appeal to women who are not inter
eSted in the usual club work. They
want to improve and beautify the ceme-
/ terry, for one thing, make the streets
/ ana lawns more attractive, start d
park system and give an impetus to
many forms of activity interesting to
all loyal women who have the welfare
of their home, their families and their
/ towns at heart. Many of such woman
] a -rar-1 l1rae7
/ peare club. They would rather play
cards or gossip over their need1ework
/ ana although the typical high proved
sister who prides herself upon the
superiority in quantity and quality of
/ her cerebrum, cerebellum and medulla
| oblOngata, SCOTS and jeers at such as
these and calls their interests petty and
/ narrow, they are successful workers
/ for church and philanthropy and
would appreciate the wider Opportuni-
4 ties for broad and useful work in prac-
! neal directions which federation such
as the Parsons women contemplate
would afford them.
Think said Mrs Noble Prentfs en-
Enthusiastically, in speaking of the Par
sons project, what such a federation
might do in Topeka and what a valu-
able addition it would be to the city.
1t would be a right hand man for the
1 commercial club, promoting all the OBJ
JecIS OF that organization as only a
federation of women could. 1t would
get away from the sometimes small
/ and petty jealousies and chickering's of
a federation of clubs and it would in
! clude in its membership many women
/ who do not belong to the federation of
/ clubs and would not join such an or
/ ganfzation but would join a federation
I working for the welfare of their town
and for all their property and social
| interests
/ the suggestion that the city federation
/ might assume, with advantage. some of
/ the work which such a federation
/ would naturally do. OF course the fed
/ Grafton does, now, interest itself in
some Of this work but she spoke more
] especially of the duty the women of
J Iopeka owe to the visiting woman
within her gates, the women of promi-
/ nence in their own towns or counties
/ who have no intimate acquaintance
here and who, when they visit Topeka,
as they frequently do, see nothing of
! the town or its people beyond Kansas
4 avenue ana their hotels, s--.s..aaaes ~ Fl
An effort Is being made to organize
q state federation in Virginia. one of
! the few states left in which no fedora
ton exists. Only one club in the state
is affiliated with the general fedora
1 ton This is the Mutual Improvement
club of Clifton Forge. 1t is altogether
/ possible. however, that Virginia will
be represented at the st. Paul biennial
/ by several additional clubs, if not bv a
newly formed state body, as the gen
eral federation committee IS working
hard for this result at the present time
Mrs. Sarah a. Evans, president of the
4 oregon state federation has been APP
/ pointed inspector of meat markets in
4 Portland Mrs. Evans is also on the
per.
Invitations to attend the organiza-
ton meeting of the Woman's Kansas
In To-
been extended to the twelve living
wives of eX-governors of Kansas: Mrs
Sarah T. Robinson of Lawrence. Mrs
S. J. Crawford of Baxter Springs, Mrs
James M Harvey of Junction City Mrs
George T. Anthony of Ottawa Mrs
John P. st. John of OIathe. Mrs
\ George w. Click of Atchison Mrs
n John A. Martin of Ottawa Mrs T. IT
Humphrey of Independence, Mrs. L. d
LeWellng of Iowa, Mrs E n. Morril
of Htawatha, Mrs John W. Leedy OF
Alaska, Mrs. William Eugene STANLEY
of Wichita. and Mrs. Willis Joshua
Bailey of BaileyviIle. A number of them
viii attend the meeting, among their
Mrs. Robinson, If her health permits
Mrs. Harvey, Mrs Anthony, Mrs st
John, Mrs Martin, Mrs. Humphrey
Mrs. Morrill,, Mrs. Stanley and Mrs
Bailey. Mrs. Crawford is in Washing.
, ton for the rest of the winter. anC
Governor and Mrs. Click will leave fol
Florida before the 10Th, so that she
can not be here.
The wives of the ex-governors will
each have a short time allotted then
, on the programme to tell of an event O.
interest which happened during he
reign as first lady of the state. Thosl
who can not attend the meeting vii
I send letters.
! The governors wives and the off
GERS of the state federation will be en-
tertained during their visit to Topeka
Y The oil portrait of a noted Kansa
woman which viii be presented by tn
= Woman's Kansas Day club to the Stat
/ Historical society at the meeting Jan
/ uary 20, has been shipped to Topek;
Y but viii not be unlocked until the da,
t Of the meeting. The identity of tn
subject is a secret known only to on