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


ports will be heard and other business
| attended to.
1t must have been very gratifying to
the members of the West Side For
estry club who met at the home Of Mrs.
n. H LOOMS. Thursday, to look out
their hostess biz south windows and
see the improvements which have been
made in Willow Park. the new park.
until recently an unsightIy piece Of
waste land, but which through the eff
forts of this club has been redeemed
for park purposes and which by next
summer viii blossom as the rose OF
course the park is not now a beauty
show spot, but il is already furnishing
play ground for the Potwin children
who have been skating for a week on
its ponds and Thursday the ice was
covered with skaters. The ponds are
only half full now, but by next sum-
mer they Will be well filed, for ar
engagements are being made to utilize
the waters from q living spring north
of the park, which are now turned
into the sewer, but which will later
I'LL the ponds and the little stream
which flows through the park
The meeting of the Forestry club
Thursday was an especially agreeable
one. A Kansas programme was given,
Mrs l. D. Graham contributing Kan
sas paper and roll calls being respond
ed to with quotations from Kansas
authors. Ms E. z. Baker of Chicago.
Mrs w. r. Cowley of Columbus and
Mrs. w. c. Smith of Stockton were out
Of town guests and there were some
other visitors Mrs. E. E. Baker sang
and Mrs Kelly gave a piano solo, The
City Federation presidents letter to
the clubs was discussed and an offer
ing OF two dollars was made toward
the Lincoln Park ChautauQua club
house at Cawker City. The people of
Cawker City have raised $500 for the
club house fund and have asked the
clubs of Kansas to give a third OF the
sum necessary and they VIII do the
rest The club house will then be the
property of the State Federation, to
be used by them at the Lincoln Park
chautauQua meetings. and in case the
chautauqua is ever abandoned the
building will be sold and third OF the
proceeds will be returned to the State
Federation treasury The building
will cost $1,000 and the club women
are asked to raise $500.
The next meeting of the Forestry
club will be with Mrs. D. H Forbes,
the president
The committees of the City Fedora
ton have all been appointed and a
complete list will be published next
week. On account OF lack of space. it
was impossible to publish them this
week.
One of the most interesting club en-
tertainments of the year was the Chal-
dean clubs evening Monday in honor
of the husbands of the members and
some other guests at the home of Miss
Thompson. SOS Topeka evenue. a g.
o'clock dinner was served for the
members and their husbands and the
other guests were asked for the
evening. Supper was served at the
end of an uncommonly entertaining
programme. a lecture had been an
nounced by the hostesses, but the char
acter of the ''talkfest'' was a surprise
to the guests and especially to the per
formers" who were asked. without
previous warning, to discuss the gem
eral topic Husbands with these sub
topics given out as follows: Illus
bands in History and Literature Dr.
s s. Estey; Husbands in Real Life
or Husbands I Have Known" Mr.. ].
B. Larimer: How to Make a Hus-
band Happy" Mr. Justice Henry F.
Mason; The WelI-Trained Husband"
Mr.. Scott Hopkins; THE Husband and
the Baby Mr. Albert Watkins; rs a
Husband an Advantage or a Disadvan-
tage to a Woman in Getting on in the
World - Chief Justice Johnston. Vo-
cal numbers were given by Mrs. H. o.
Garvey and Miss Eleanor Sims
The guests aside from the members
and their husbands. were Dr. and Mrs.
W. A. McCarter. Chief Justice and Mrs.
W. A. Johnston, Mrs. James Hum
phrey of junction city. Mr. and Mrs
H. O. Garvey, Judge and Mrs Lee
Monroe, Dr. and Mrs a. H Thompson.
Mrs. Reid Alexander. Mr.. and Mrs c.
F. Spencer, Judge and Mrs. 7. F. Gar
yer, Miss Eliza beth Davis. Mrs. Es-
terly, Mr.. W. w Mills, Mr.. Wallace,
Miss Emma Wallace. Mr.. and Mrs.
Dell Keller. Mrs. Irene Russell. Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Seery, General and
Mrs. j. W. F. Hughes.
The club house committee of the
City Federation. Mrs. c. o. Knowles, !
chairman, has been appointed and in
the federation. The committee met
Thursday with Mrs. Knowles, and or
gained Mrs A H. Horton is vice
chairman, and Mrs. Clement Smith, |
the exact time and place to be an
nounced later, next week after the |
February meeting OF the federation
The members of the committee are
Smith. Mrs. David Palmer. Mrs. ]. c. |
McClintock, Miss Jennie Bross, Mrs. |
]. B. Larimer, Mrs. H. L. Larsh, Miss |
Gertrude Barnes, Mrs L. L. Kiene, |
Mrs ]. A. P. Carnahan. Mrs D. NJ. !
Hoover. Mrs O. H banner. Mrs A. |
L Wiseman- Mrs J. w Going. Mrs |
F. P. MacLennan. Miss Santa Waters
Mrs. w A. McCarter. Mrs Walter /
Wellhouse. Mrs H. C. Bowman. Mrs |
D. A Mulvane. Mrs J. K Hudson /
Mrs. G. F. Morley. Mrs. W. ]. Lewis. !
Mrs o. B. Martin, Mrs. N. E. Better, 4
Mrs E. H. McBridge, Mrs William 1
Henderson, Miss Maude BISnop, Miss 1
Alice Patterson, Miss Emma Stevens, |
Mrs H. A. Garvey, Mrs. T. w. Wat /
son. Mrs G. H. Whitcomb. Mrs. Noble 1
Prentis and Mrs W. F. Schoch.
The Vignette club viii meet Wednes-
day with Mrs. Speed Hughes The /
Shakespeare lesson is the first act Of
King Lear The club has just COM
pleted an interesting study of "Mer-
chant of Venice under the direction
of Miss Edith Moore