The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12

| proven very popular and. the collec-
| lions are besDoken months in advance
Mrs. Kate Arlington of Council Grove
| is superintendent of the travelling art
gallery and indeed the institution is a
monument to her industry, persever-
ance and business ability. The quota
| ton book which earned the money for
the original collection was her idea
and was compiled and published by
her and she has had charge of the
gallery since it was started and has
kept it busy, made it self-Supportfng
and has shown good taste and discern
ment in her. selection of the pictures
added to it.
New York has a travelling art gal
lery in connection with its travelling
library which has proven valuable
institution. Mrs. w. A Johnston Wis
tied the state library and art gallery
in Albany this summer and was more
than ever determined, when she learn
ed how popular and beneficial to art
interests the gallery had been in that
state, to secure the passage of bill
creating a state travelling gallery in
Kansas.
The EQUAL Suffragists are delighted
with that part of the governors mes
sage to the legislature recommending
a bill extending the right of suffrage
to women. Mrs. E. S. Rice, of Law
renee, president of the K. E. S. A, is
preparing a suffrage bill which will
be presented at this session of the leg
islature and which her organization
will exert its utmost power to get
through both houses.
Salina Evening Journal: The Kan
sas Day. club meeting promises to be
most interesting this year. An excel
lent programme has been prepared
and a large attendance is expected.
Mrs. J. d. Mcfarland, as president,
has spared no pains in planning for
this meeting which will be held jan
uary 29th and goth. The programme
will be given Tuesday afternoon and
a reception at night while the business
session will be held the following day.
Every loyal Kansas woman should at
least pay dues and be member of
this club, whether it will always be
possible to attend or not. This organ
ization is to promote loyalty, patiot-
ism and good fellowship, only meets
once a year and the dues are decided
ly within the reach of all, twenty-five
cents yearly. The entire programme
will appear in this column later.
A Topeka newspaper published an |
interview with an eastern painter, who |
has done a number of portrait COM |
missions for a Topeka family. The
New York Sun, which has somebody |
on the staff who, likes to poke fun at |
made the article, which was |
written in a somewhat crude manner
by q reporter who evidently knew !
more about the fstic than the other
fine arts. the subject of an editorial |
in facetious vein, on the "Renaissance
Of Art in Kansas" Last week the Art |
Union of Newton, an organization to /
foster local art interests and which |
doubtless expects within a few seasons
to rival the Art League of New York |
in influence, had its first meeting and /
the place of honor on the programme |
was given this Sun editorial on the |
Renaissance of Art in Kansas" which i
was taken in all seriousness and re /
yarded as well-deserved recognition |
by The East of western culture and
.efin ement~
A wakeeney club woman who
wishes her name withheld, sends the
following report of the recent visit to
ler town of Mrs. Brown, state presi>
lent:
Last "Wednesday Mrs. May Belleville
Brown president of the State Fedora
ion,l visited the clubs in Wakeeney.
Kan.
The Locust club, with their guests,
Mrs. Purcell.
The club repeated their collect
by song by Mrs. Neisley, "a
Cradle Song"
Mrs. Brown then talked to them on
he origin and history of the State
and of the work done and
low in hand in both National and
State Federations.
She proved the power Of numbers,
md that in union is strength.
That women are weakening, not only
O the needs of the world, but to the
act that they can help. not by leav-
ng the home-but by being counted
n.
She gave a telling account of the