The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-16
KANSAS CLUB NEWS.
Official Department Kansas Federation Womens Clubs
Conducted by Mrs. May Beleville Brown, President.

OF the club. the membership of which
is limited to fifteen, have long exerted
| a recognized influence in the commun-
| ity On the first of the month, the
club held its annual party to which the
| husbands Of the ladies were asked.
The affair which was in form of a
! seven o'clock dinner. was held at the
| spacious home of Mrs. Chas Evans
| the secretary of the club. Covers were
/ laid for twenty-four in the dining
room. which was prettily decorated in
| pink and green. The tables success
fully carried out the color scheme in
the floral decorations OF ferns and
pink carnations
the evenings entertainment consisted
in illustrating and guessing the names
OF Kansas towns near Colby. Much
merrimenr was occasfoned by some Of
the drawings as well as by the guesses
as TO the identity of the towns por-
trayed-
A short musical programme in which
several OF the club ladies participated
was followed by piano solos by County
Attorney A. L. Taylor and Asa Smith,
who surprised all by their unsupported
ability in the rendition OF popular airs.
After other interesting features the
evening was brought to a close The
membership of the Leisure Hour club
includes: President. Mrs. J. B. Hamp-
ton; viCe-president. Mrs. " c. Nicol;
secretary. Mrs. C c. Evans; treasurer.
Mrs J. R Connolly: Mesdames DANES.
Eddy Wertz, Smith. Marshall, Ray,
Drake. Hamilton and Taylor
the Oregon State federation, in the
Portland (Ore-) Journal:
Every day almost some question
comes to the State Federation Off
GERS regarding club work. where they
can get this or that information. who
the national officers are, and a multi
tude of questions which the officers,
and particularly this department of
The Journal. delight to answer: but a
few days ago a question came up in
which it was necessary to refer to the
Federation Bulletin. Promptly the re-
ply came back
What is The Federation Bulletin %
Now it was a shock to learn that any
club woman in Oregon was not famil
Jar with the official organ of the Cen
eral Federe ton. Lest there may be
others. We feel called upon to say that
no club woman in the United States
can afford to be uninformed as to what
it is 1t is published in Boston C13S2
Beacon street). and edited by May AL
den Ward and Helen A. Whittier, two
Of the most eminent women journalists
in the country. It is a little maya
zine of perhaps fifty pages, every one
Of which is teeming with bright, chat
~ club news from every quarter of the
country The very best of everything
in the club world goes through its
pages in condensed form. and gives not
only entertaining reading, but a vast
fund Of general club information.
The price of the magazine is almost
nominal,-but fifty cents year,-and
how il has been able to reach its
healthy stage of vigor on such slim
financial nourishment is surprising. |
and can only be attributed to New
thrift and women managers
We have no way of knowing how
u Dir lot in n--.a-
gou, but we do know that. il every !
single club woman can't take il. every |
club could take one or more copies for |
the use of its members.
The best that is in any one has
never been brought out by selfish ex-
clusicn from the outside world and so |
it is with club life To live within our
selves IS going around in a circle, and |
even the news OF our own state does |
not sufficiently broaden US We need |
the broader. wider touch Of the nation. |
We need to know what the women all |
over the country are doing. we need |
with theirs to improve ourselves where |
We do not come up to the standard of |
others, and to encourage US when we |
excel. and this is why an official organ /
was established by the national con- |
vention. and exceedingly well are Mrs
Ward and Miss Whittier carrying out 1
the intent But. to make il reach its /
greatest usefulness. II must have gen. 1
arous support, and the State Fedora (
ION board Of Oregon earnestly urges 4
1Don every club in the state the duty /
Of making IL a matter of consideration I
and sending in their subscriptions as
early as possible
From the salina Journal: The
meeting OF the Twentieth |
Century club. which was held Friday
evening. was a very enjoyable one
Mrs Stowe most graciously opened her
pretty home and did much to make
he guests enjoy the evening. Mrs
seftv presided over the meeting in a
iignified and pleasing manner, which
las char cterized all her work as pres
dent Of the club.
short business session was held at i
ne beginning Of the meeting and this
vas followed by the first number on
he programme which was a rr4ttvl