The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22
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members in Santa Rosa She is now
the guest Of her parents in Junction
City. 3
The annual meeting OF the club wo-
men of the Second Congressional dis
trict of Kansas, called by the presi-
dent of the district Mrs. D S. Stew
ems of Kansas City viii be held the first
week in October in -Paola.
There are seventy distinct clubs in
this district, and the annual meetings
are largely attended. Literary pro-
grammes are given and phflanthropic
work is discussed. The club women of
the Second district have long been in
terested in the Kansas City settlement
work and it is toward this charity that
they devote their energy.
The blemish Of American woman
hood, says W. D. Howells in Harper
Bazaar for Ocober, is their speech.
American women toe frequently twang,
and whine, and whiffe, and whinny,
and manage their voices carelessly and
laztly- The questionsshe thinks szone
that might best be considered by a
mothers convention, or made a vital
topic in women's clubs.
"Our women have not a. natural de-
feet to overcome, they have only
habit to correct" he continues. The
average must first be taught that it is
worth while to speak beautifully that
it is even a duty to speak beautifully,
Once persuade the average American
woman that it is her duty to do this
and the thing Is as good as done. Let
her be made to realize that she ought
to speak clearly, promptly, strenuous
", as well as sWeetly, from her throat,
and she Will do it; Hor If she cannot,
she will make her children do 1t. Sup
ply her vivid fancy with the fact that it
is a pain and offense to- the listener to
hear her speak incorrectly, and She will
- A.
When women have naastered this ideal,
they cannot feel hurt or affronted if
the school continues their work in the
case. of their children, Il is possible
that 1t may yet come to such a. pass
with us that the teacher of the public
schools, who may now send home
child coming with uhwashed hands or
face, shall have the right to expel any
little one speaking through it nose.
salina Journal: twill be 100 years
on September 20 since Lieutenant Zeb-
ulon Montgomery Pike and his little
company of nineteen or twenty men
held a council with the PaWnee IN
dams in their village on the Republican
river in Republic county, Kansas. The
! Indians were hostile and the flag of
Spain was flying from their chiefs
tent. Pike demanded that it come
down and the stars and stripes go up
instead. 1t took the courage of a hero
I
| outnumbered Pixies men many times
/ over, but as this was United States do
main, Pike stood firm and the Paw
nees= obeyed and for the first time in
/ its history the American flag waved
| its stars and stripes over the Sunf1oWer
state The centennial anniversary of
/ this event will be observed Septem Der
1920 at Pawnee village, in Republic
county about ten miles north of
CORTLAND. Mrs Elizabeth Johnson
! of CORTLAND is the individual who
deserves the credit of establishing this
idea. and preserving this bit Of history.
/ Mrs. Johnson worked for about TWEEN
I ty years to get this historic soil in her
/ possession so as to keep it from van
dals. After buying $50 acres, Mrs.
| Johnson gave the state q clear title
to a tract of eleven acres to become
state property, provided the state
would fence and properly mark the
site. The legislature of 1901 passed
a bill providing for her demands and
accepted her generous gift Mrs
johnson is a club woman. and is very
enthusiastic in her invitations to all
/ club women to attend the exercises to
| be held Septembe Der 1929 This pro-
| gramne will be under the direction of
the Kansas Day club and its president,
Mrs. J. D. Mcfarland Of Topeka, will
preside. On the beautiful monument
erected on this site in 1901 IS the fol-
| lowing inscription:
Erected by the State Of Kansas.
lSUI
To mark the site Of the Pawnee Re
public, where
LIEUT.. ZEBULON NJ. PIKE
Caused the Spanish flag to be lowered
and the flag Of the United States
to be raised, September
%. 1906.
The Lawrence club women will de-
vote themselves to getting a boys Ii
brary for the z M. G. A. this fall.
THE TOPEKA CLUB WOMAN.
Club Calendar
MONDAY
Monday Tourist club-Mrs-- John T.
Lsagersrom- 1884 Ty4er street.
"WEDNESDAY.
Ladies' Music cldb--ATrs. Frank S.
Thomas, 927 Topeka avenue.
THURSDAY.
Chal3tso cIub=Nrs. w. g. Campbell,
Highland Park.
FRIDAY
Music Study club-Mrs. W. A.
Harshbarger. 134z MuIvane street.
HeIianthus Literary club-Mrs. H
L. Willard, 1870 Buchanan street.
SATURDAY.