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


with pfetures of famous Kansas
men but have no pictures of Kan
sas women, and Mr.. Martin suggested
that-tlle new club make one of its OBJ
jects the acquisition of some of the lat
ter. Mrs. w A. Johnston, one of the
organizers of the new club. who is
noted as a woman who does things and
does them NOW, Immediately respond
ed to the suggestion and soon informed
Mr. Martin that the club had secured
the promise of a portrait and that it
would be unveiled and presented at the
meeEng January %
a good many guesses have been Of
fered on the subject of the portrait.
Some have said it is a picture of Mrs.
Sarah T. d. Robinson, wife of the first
governor of Kansas; others have
guessed Susan B. Anthony; others
Mary Elizabeth Lease, others Mrs.
Florence Finch Kelly Of New York
president of the National Consumers
league, who was formerly Kansas Wo-
MATHIS a sister of Mr.. Charles Finch
OF the Lawrence Gazette. and has won
fame as a. writer of fiction and on So
Geological subjects.
Topeka women who want to help
the Woman's Kansas Day club along
can not do better than to invite their
women friends over the state whom
they think would like to join the club
to visit them on the 29th. A successful
first meeting with a big charter mem
:
cidentaHy for Kansas women. Kansas
history and Kansas loyalty.
Lots of interest is being manifested
in the club by women over the state.
Mrs z. w. Hoch received a letter this
week asking about the club from a wo-
man who said she had lived in Kansas
for fifty years and was anxious to join
such an organization.
Now if there are any two classes of
women that the new organization espe-
ciaIly wants represented in its person
mel, they are the pioneer women and
the Kansas-born women. So if any
Topeka woman has a woman friend or
acquaintance elsewhere in the state
who lived here in pioneer days, it is
particularly hoped that she will see
that her friend has news of the Wo-
mans Kansas Day club meeting and
cordial personal invitation to visit To-
peka on that occasion. Of course the
Topeka women are wanted also
Every county and eevry town in the
state ought to be represented in the
charter membership of a new club
which promises to become one of most
vital interest to Kansas people.
The Art league of Leavenworth is
planning to give the play "A Beauty
| Doctor the latter part of this month.
| The club prepared to give this little
/ play a year ago but the performance
was postponed on account of the III
ness of most of the members who
were caught in a grippe epidemic.
Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Lee Monroe,
/ general federation secretary for kan
sas. viii send out a circular letter to
/ the Kansas clubs and club women
shortly relating to the approaching
4 biennial meeting of the G. F. w c. at
! St. Paul. The letter viii contain in
/ formation for clubs wishing to feder-
ate with the G. F. W. c. and to send
/ delegates to the biennial, and answer
4 ing various questions about rates and
] - rrTI--
clubs which wish to join the general
federation must be in before March
End, in order to have representation at
the biennial
The appointment this week of Mrs.
May Bellevi1e Brown president of the
K F. W. c., to the position of manager
of the woman's department of the OF
tawa Chautauqua to succeed Mrs.
! Noble Prentis, who has resigned after
| fifteen years service, is very gratifying
/ to the Kansas club women, who take
it as a most comphm eRtary recognition
| Of the fedeEation's Importance. and the
! club movement generally as well as
/ of Mrs Brown * signal talents and at
/ tainments- The appointment came to
Mrs. Brown quite unexpectedly and
| entirely unsought, and as it carries
with 1t distinctions and privileges de-
cidedly worth while, her friends # are
well pleased with the honor that has
! been shown her.
tiIetile president of the federation than
Mrs Brown said Topeka club wo-
/ man the other day. in speaking of the
appointment. THAT is what especially
/ impresses one in attendance at a meet
ing where she presides-her unusual
intellectual grasp, her. easy conversance
| with many varied subjects and her
/ fluency and grace of expression. AS
Mrs Brown viii be in charge Of ali
the Ottawa Chautauqua work and this
| is the biggest and most important
! ChautauQua association In Kansas, heI
appointme means a decided boost for
the club interests of the state"
The Conversation club Of Enterprise
has just cause to be proud Of it's kim
dergarten. They have for directress
Miss Daisy Hoffman, who was at the
Gertrude House" settlement in Chi
cagO for some time and she is doing
noble work in devoting her time to this
line of work. On Christmas day they
enjoyed a Christmas tree and all the
pleasures that go with such an occa-
sion. Miss Hoffman Is a daughter oil
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Hoffman of Enter
prise
The Topeka Club Woman
At the adjourned business meeting
of the city federation, held in the Y
W. c. A. Wednesday morning, the fol
lowing committees were appointed fol
1905