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

General Federation SecretaSy. Mrs. Lila
LAY Monroe, Topeka.
superintendent Travelling Art Galley
mrs. Kate Arlington. Council Grove
District Presidents
First District-Mrs. F. H Lemon Lew
Second DistrictEMrs. D. s. Stephens
Third DisfrictNMrs. B. S. Justice. Cha
mute, president. ,,,,,o 11re.+b-
Fifth Bistrict-Mrs. Catherine IIoff-
man. Enterprise Pres1ltdeInHf- smith. stock
ton. president. , 1,44
Seventh District-Mrs Matte BTU
Eighth District-Mrs. S. r. Peters
osaSe' COUNTY Federation-Mrs. Mar
A.shall, Quenemo, president.
Topeka Onicers.
President. Mrs. Clement Smith, IA FUN
Vice President, Mrs. ]. W. Going. 800 To-
peka avenue Ind, tel; so 9,,s. 1,.cv B.
Kipg1nan. 635 Monroe street oo ~,
Secretary. Miss Maud Bishop. 1910 COL
Tress sGe' Mrs. E. d. Robertson. us
Sixth avenue west IN, ,-.,,o-a
once upon a time-and this is no
fairy story-there was woman VINO
returned from Kansas City, AFTER d
weeks absence, on midnight of Fri
day Home looked good to her. Inc
piano cried out for her touch, the gray
cat curled in her lap and purred ms
content, a table loaded with Christmas
gifts waiting to be put away confronted
her. and the best man on earth swore
vengeance on the Fate which should
call her from home again. And on
Saturday at midday came letter IN
forming her that to the westward
LIB, ha6
garnished their hearts and homes, ana
were waiting her coming. All or Wh1ch
meant that at daybreak OF MONDAY
she must be on her way. The piano
remained closed the dust settled for
lornIy on the Christmas presents, the
gray cat left in disdain for. the next
door neighbors, and the best man on
earth sunk into a gulf of dark de-
spair," as Toddie says, in Helen's Ba-
bies.
The sight of all this desolation
moved the club woman to the tele-
graph office for a respite, but back
came the inexorable message: Rus
sell, seventh; Ellis, eighth; Wakeeney,
ninth; Hays. tenth and eleventh
Thus IT Was that in the cold gray |
dawn on Monday this woman scram- I
bled with inward protest, on board the |
Union Pacific, and set forth into a COM !
velvety fog which shut
out the landscape and left the rum
bling train alone in the world. and
after looking into inscrutable space, |
and admiring the crystallized grasses
on the pale surface of the prairie for
awhile, she found herself emerging
from the gloom. So that by the time
the first stage of the journey was near
" over the world did not seem to be
bad. and she could look back
upon the deserted home with more
The Cosmos club of Russell is one
of the largest clubs of this part of the !
country, and has received notice in |
these columns more than once for the !
excellence of its work. Mrs. Nutting, |
the president of this club, with Mrs.
Lewis, had braved the early chill of
the morning to meet the guest. and |
led the way to the Russell house |
where Mesdames Dickinson took the |
wanderer in, warmed, fed and enter |
tanned her through the day.
At the reception in the afternoon, |
which was given in the lovely home of |
Mrs. Foxall, whom remembered well |
as Miss Dean of Ellsworth, it was my |
pleasure to meet and address half a |
hundred bright women, to whom it |
was a pleasure to talk of the work of |
ated club, spoken of in the present |
tense, but in the future I hope such |
condition will change.
Among the members I found Mrs. |
Culbertson, who was for twelve years |
assistant secretary at Ottawa, and who /
still keeps up her interest in the as
sembly.
The City of Russell has a fine little |
library building of limestone, and of /
an artistic design. At present this club
Is concerned with the finishing and