The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-21

HAD A JOLLY TIME
Kansas Authors Club Enjoyed
Annual Banquet.
Eugene f. Ware Was Master of
Ceremonies.
BRIGHT, WITTY TALKS
One of the Orators a Native Of
Japan.
Mrs. Whitcomb Tells Trials of
Author Housekeeper.
BRIGHT, WITTY TALKS

IhII0 annual banquet OF the Kansas
| Authors club was success from every
view point. and the literary feature of
/ the programme was exceptionally in
teresting notwithstanding the fact that
/ three OF those on the programme were
| unable TO be present and their places
We're filled on short notice.
| Inc banquet feature of the evening
! was In the hands of the young ladies
/ of the Y. w. c. A and was as great
! feast for the body as was the program
! for the literary inclined soul. The pro-
gram consisted of seven toasts; and
vocal selections by Mrs. B. B. Smythe
/ who sang LOngfellow's THE Day Is
Done" and Write Me Little Ripping
Rhyme" and solos by Mrs. R. H. More
| house who sang Tostis "Serenade" and
! sDaffodils" from the pen of a Lawrence
I writer.
/ Eugene F. Ware QronquiID presided
at the toastmaster station and intro
/ duced each speaker with appropriate
comments on the subject assigned them
I though in most instances the subject
| was about the only thing the speakers
! did not dwell upon at length. Professor
! w A. McKeever who occupies the chair
or psychology at the State Agricultural
college at Manhattan spoke on Some
I Books Have Not Written and con-
fined himself to his subject, explaining
how the sentiment was in his heart but
words would not come to express his
thoughts and for that reason there are
now books in his system which have
not been written.
After an introduction In rhyme Mrs
Isabel Macarthur recited two short
poems of her own composition. "A
"Reminiscences" and And She a Mar
ried Woman"
B. = Yamamoto, a young japanese
student at the Kansas Wesleyan COL
lege at Salina, provided much of the
humor of the evening by a brilliant.
quaint address in which he portrayed
the handicap under which he Iabors in
attempting to speak to an English au-
dience
Joseph G.. Waters was called out of
the city unexpectedly and his place on
the program was filled by DR.. H A
Warner who advocated theory of his
own as to book reading. Too often
he said. when we are feeling sad We
search out the Psalms or kindred read |
ing or when our financial affairs are not |
running to suit US we turn to the Book
of Job when we should seek reading OF |
a different nature. Nor do I believe |
that We should confine our reading sole
ly to the so called best, for in reading |
all classes of literature we do not fail |
into a certain rut and are broadened |
and deepened by the variety of our
reading"
w. Y. Morgan was detained by his
duties as statesman and sent a note |
expressing his regrets that his duties
to his state would keep him busy until
after the banqueters had sought their
r Young Of the First Baptist church.
Mrs. George H. Whitcomb. who is Il
real author and writes stories for which
publishers are willing to pay, told of
the experiences of The Story-writing
Housewife and as the mother of a !
family of n half dozen children one
readily sympa thizes with her in the
troubles which she depicted. When /
one has the heroine just on the point
of accepting a proposal and is search
ing for appropriate Words she said
there comes a silence from the play
room of the children. Such a deathIy
suggestive silence and one which every
mother knows how to appreciate. The
and heroine are dropped and a mad
rush is made to find the children. Per-
haps nothing more serious has occurred
than a baking party quietly organized |
in which the busy children are mixing
butter at thirty cents a pound with eggs
al thirty-five cents dozen, in the wash
bowl
cor perhaps the search with the
that seven-year-old William is missing
and the rest of the children know
nothing of his whereabouts. A wild |
rush through the house and q search
his mangled form constantly before
the mothers eyes. She returns for
another search of the house and in
the pantry finds him on a high chair
eating jam or dipping molasses from |
the jug with his fingers while the front |
of his wearing apparel is covered with |
the mixture and his hair tangled.
matted mass held together by the !
same mixture These are some of the /
things a story-writing house-mother |
has to contend with though they are
but few of them
throughout the story were woven |
bits of dry humor which convulsed !
her listeners She wound up her talk I
by story of a bride and groom at a
4 II Is.vr-
Finally in desperation the groom I
sought the advice of a married friend |
and after telling him his troubles ask I
ed for his experience along the same |
lines WELL replied the friend "for
the first year I worried along with I
say and after that it was easy and !
we always called her grandma"
The programme Of the evening |
closed with an original poem by DR.. /
TT. w. Roby. Tim Grogan's Wake"
Those present were: E. F. Ware, |
Jessie Wright Whitcomb. NJ T. Yama-
motto. Yamaguchi. Japan, Elizabeth /
n. Barr Mrs Sarah C. Roby, Isabel
Macarthur. DR. H A Warner. Helen I. /
Francis. George H. Whitcomb. Estelle
Knox. Mrs Mary D. Knox. DR.. Mary /
z Stwart, W. H. Stewart. G. F. Kim
ball. Florence Kimball. Tressa Lyman,
DIR. and Mrs H L. Alkire, Mr.. and I
II. Roudebush. J. G. Stoneback. Mrs. I
Ida Stoneback, Mr.. and Mrs John w.
Newell. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Stotts, Her
bert L. Clark Willebald c. Stenger.
Nav Clark. Curtis Avery Smith. Lyrus /
Allen Merriam, G. G. Hepworth, Otis /
s. Allen. s. A. Swendson. DR.. W. May
stout DR. Eva Harding, Eoline Foote /
Lytle Charles A Finch. Luther c. t
Bailey, Ida r. Bailey. George D. LytIe |
Helen Blanche Dodge. William Kret-t
singer H. NJ Crow. S. NJ. Crow, Mr.. |
and Mrs C. w Horn, Albert Griffin, [
Miss Carrie G. Griffin. Mr.. and Mrs. |
r H Morehouse Senator and MRS.