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

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south of the Santa Fe General offices.
This spot shut in with an artistic stone
wall low enough to look over but not
to leap over, is shady with trees, one of
them a cottonwood. and velvety with
bluegrass. Across this bit of green
beauty white cement walks wide and
clean lead to the center. Along the
wall boundary blossoms grow and fine
foliage plants. But naturally and not
with the painful precision of state in
stitutiOn flower bed
In such a setting rises up the hall of
fame, in the form of a Greek cross. two
splendid stories. with an attic under
deep roof of red cedar wood shingles
with dormer windows and unlimited
decorative possibilities. The building
itself is of red boulders from the old
glacial morain south of town It has
a wide sort of colorado or verauda
around its entire extent, including both
the upper and the lower stories. A
flight of stone steps leads up to each of
its four entrances after the fashion of
the state capitol, only smaller, and in
artistic proportion There is no base
ment only high foundation So here
it is all complete and no trouble with
a contractor to settle.
And it may be well to state now. once
for all. that inasmuch as no legislature
will ever be compelled to levy a tax for
what exists only IN the club mem ber's
mind. it is useless to offer any criticism
on the site. architecture or choice of
those whose statues shall fill in the
inches of honor If you don't like our
Kansas hall of fame, go build your
own.
The first story is for a museum of art
and history-Kansas art and Kansas
history. All that the state historical
society shall have gathered in the years
here find permanent abiding place.
Each of the wings of the second story
contains inches for husts. five on a side
and two at the end, making fOrty-eight
all together In the center of the
building will be two heroic statues, one
facing east the other west. Each niche
/ is beautiful in itself with wide windows
/ on either side and above each the 81
I light through stained glass panes will
make the halo the marble needs. 1t
VIII be the club members labor of love
to fill these inches month by month
until the fOrty-eight spaces are adorned
with marble or bronze bustS. or life
! size figures depending on the eternal
| fitness of circumstanoe-and the cen
trail figures are set up in nlace. Kind
1 ~ suggestions and historic information
Will be gladly received Adverse criti-
cism will be time wasted by the one
VINO offers it, as viii also the offer of
any statues carved in butter. This is
no Jacob is-Roosevelt school of
sculpture.
So comes the first unwilling. It is of
| that eastward gazing figure in the cen
/ ter, a bronze cast life size with sad
stern visage, the air of a commander,
the garb of Spaniard, Coronado, 1.-The
warden" of this civilization of the west.
At his feet is the imitation of the
rude stone cross on whose bas we may
read the inscription, Francesca Vas
quez De Coronado, general of the army,
arrived here" In the record of Kan
/ sas history there is no more heart
1 breaking bit of pathos than this grim
/ wording that tells of a journeys ter
minal. And yet no hall of fame erected
to the memory of the men of the south
west could be appropriately equipped
without the figure of this Coronado, the
man who discovered Kansas. who car
/ ried into it a brave ambitious heart
4 and who turned his back on it regret
fully, believing as true-hearted Kan
/ sans have ever done that the future he
could not shape for it, a younger gen
Grafton would work out.
/ Mrs. Edward A. Austin was the hos
tess of the Nineteenth Century club
/ Monday afternoon. Current Events
were led by the hostess. Papers on
/ Marie Antoinettes Chateaubriand and
/ Meissonier We're read by Mrs Austin,
/ kepley- Mrs. Henry Bennett had a
I table talk on France at the Louisiana
/ Purchase Exposition. Mrs. T. W. Har-
| rison reviewed two chapters of a book
which the club is now studying. How
! to Look at Pictures, and Mrs w H
4 RICHTER reviewed the current number
+ of the Bay View magazine. Mrs. Mary
Mulvane Dent of Newcomerstown
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next meeting viii be with Mrs. T. W.
4 Harrison.
Mrs. Luther Burns was the hostess
/ of the LakOta club Monday. Mrs Har-
rison S. Morgan read a paper about
Foods Necessary for Different Ages
/ Sexes, Occupations and Climates Mrs
Earle c. Williams talked about Serving
and Setting the Table. Miss Morgan
of Essex. Conn.,, was a guest. Miss
Mary Thompson will be the next hos
tess.
The Chalitso club met with Mrs A
G. Potter on California avenue, High
/ land park. Thursday. Mrs. Chubb read
a paper on Domestic Science and Mrs
! Theodore Wilkie reviewed the current
number of the Worlds Work. Good
Roads and Consolidated Schools, two
subjects of much interest to a country
! club such as the Chalitso prides itself
upon being, although its members live
in one of the fashionable suburbs
We're discussed by all the members
Two new members were admitted tC
/ the club-Mrs. Pennybacker and Miss
/ Pennybacker. Other visitors were
Mrs George Hanley and Mrs. George
Flanders. Mrs. George NJ. Stone vii
be the next hostess.
Mrs. ]. P. Raster was the hostess OF
the In Temporal club Tuesday, and viii
entertain the club again in two weeks
The Clio club met with Mrs. W. E
Culver Monday afternoon and finish eC
the study of Midsummer Night'i
Dream. The next meeting will be helt
with Mrs. c. A. Wilbur and the an.
nual election will be held.
The Chaldean club will have al
evening meeting February &c at tn,
home of Miss Isabel Thompson, 8Oi
Topeka avenue, Miss Thompson Mrs
William F. Bowen and Mrs. James Mel
son Green hostesses.
The West Side Reading club viii
meet with Mrs. c. D. Welch at tn,
home Of her sister. Mrs. Clement Smith
4 Tuesday afternoon.
The Junior Atlanteans listened to
talk on Alma-Tadema by Mrs. l. D
: Whittemore Tuesday. at the home O
Miss Charlotte Nellis. The meeting