The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-11

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| ing in Kansas City, Kansas, yesterday.
/ has a collect which appears on all
/ the official programmes which is Just
] Too Lovely for Anything. It reads like
! this:
Keep us. o God. from pettiness; let
US be large in thought, IN word. in
| deed.
| Let US be done with fault-finding
| and leave off self-seeking.
| May we put away all pretense and
| meet each other face to face-without
self-pity and without prejudice.
May we be never hasty in judgment
| and always generous.
Let us take time for all things;
I make US to grow calm. serene, gentle
Teach US to put into action our bet
/ ter impulses, straight forward and un-
/ afraid.
Grant that we may realize it is the
/ little things that create differences;
that in the big things of life we are at
And may we strive to touch and to
know the great. common woman's-
heart of us all. and. o Lord God, let
US not forget to be kindi
This collect appears to represent the
theory rather than the practice of the
clubwomen- Not in the whole history
of the Kansas federation was there
ever such a row as the one at Kansas
City. 1t all came about because the
Kansas City. Kansas. women tried the
unheard of solecism of running in the
president of their own association OF
federation. One would have thought
that even club women would have had
more practical political sense than to
try to pack the convention and elect
member of the hostess federation, but
it seems they didn't One hundred
and seventy-five new Kansas City,
Kansas. women. mot club women" as
a Topeka club woman explained it,
ssbut card club women"-in other
words. bridge players rather than
High Brows- Joined the federation as
individual members just before the
meeting in order to help make their
candidate, Mrs. D. S. Stephens, presi-
dent. And when the women from 9TH
er parts of the state, led by Mrs w.
A McCarter, president of the Topeka
federation. resented their methods and
denounced it as rotten they Kissed
the insurgents an din other ways For
got that they were Ladies and hist
esses. beside
There were lots of funny features
indeed. the whole situation was de-
cidedIy amusing and typically
chubby" The Kansas City Star.
editorially. described it "as tempest
in a teapot little turbulent, perhaps.
but essentially a tea fight after all
1t was exactly like women" the Star
said Ito get mad and call each other
names and end up by crying about it
1t seems, however. that Topeka in
this instance can point with pride"
to her own club women who, although
they have factions and differences of
unit for peace, harmony. justice and
all the sweet things they pray for in
their collect. Mrs. McCarter made the
speech, which in spite of the rude
Kisses of some of the hostesses spread
oil on the troubled waters and caused
the withdrawal CT the two candidates.
Mrs. stephens of Kansas City and
Mrs. w. ID. Atkinson of Parsons. and
Eustace Brown of Olathe, the dark
horse candidate, who received the al
most unanimous vote of the fedora
ton as compromise president.
Mrs. McCarter was urged to be the
dark horse candidate but refused the
honor.
Although the club women are say
ing that the selection of dark horse
was entirely unexpected there were
rumOrs for about week before the
meeting after the attitude of the KAN
sas City, Kansas, women became
known, that there would be a dark
horse. Probably the thing that start
ed the stampede to Mrs. Eustace
Brown was the Olathe woman's JUS
tice and fairness in a speech which
she made in the midst of the turmoil
in reply to the charge made by a Kan
saS City. Kansas. woman that Mrs
May Belleville Brown of Salina, the
retiring president. was elected by
questionable means in Topeka two
years ago. Mrs. Eustace Brown was
the opponent of Mrs. May Belleville
Brown in this fight and she promptly
arose and denied that under-handed
means had been used in her defeat.
She gracefully and generously abb
solved Mrs. May Belleville and her
supporters of the charges made
against them and this so aroused the
admiration of all the fair-minded
women at the federation that the tide
of popularity Immediately set towards
her.
been very Roycroftie.' Mrs. May
Belleville Brown broke down and
cried and some of the others had
Mysteries. A visiting woman sailed
down in all her majesty on one of the
poor little bridge playing frivolous
Kansas City, Kansas, creatures who
has so little regard for the Higher
Life that she has kept her waist small
and her clothes chic and VINO had
Joined the federation as an individual
member and paid her one dollar fee
on the suggestion OF one OF the CLUB
women and who had no idea that she
lar and said to her in a majestic tone.
do you know that you are endan-
gering your husbands position?',
Gracious me. NOT exclaimed the
poor little Kansas City. Kansas, wo-
man whose husband holds a political
Office Am /? Why I must go right
home ard tell Hun about it."
The whole thing ended amicably,
however. or fairly so, with Perfectly
Grand luncheon at Emery Bird Thay
er's tea room, the club women being
the guests of the firm. Even club
women are more at home in a tea
room than they are in politics and in
this familiar atmosphere their trou-
bles died away from their ruff1ed
minds and the dove of peace descend
ed and rested beautifully above the
scene of their chaste and dignif1ed
revelries.
Miss Eleanor Wheeler will give a
tea this afternoon in Potwin Place be-
tween the hours of and O'Clock.
Miss Katharine Sneve of St. Paul,
Mimi Miss Katharine Holmes of En-
nnria and Miss Frances Cornell will