The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05

tory for every member of the federa-
ton and if you haven't had yours
you have missed something. The di-
i rectory is artistiealIy printed and got
| ten I'D and illustrated with pictures
of prominent Topeka club women.
A slap on the wrist for mentioning
| anything SO frivolous in connection
with a federation meeting. perhaps
But Mrs. McCarter was wearing a
/ mighty good looking chic and becom-
ing gown at the October meeting
| Thursday In spite of the Disagree
attractive looking women in the audi
| ence was notable.
! The weather permitting. the Cali
| dorean club will have an all day
meeting at Green Tree Lodge, the Mer-
RAM country place. Monday.
| Mrs. George WiImarth of the West
Side Reading club read a memorial
| to the Late Mrs. Sargent of that club
| at the federation meeting Thursday.
The current number of the Club
Member, Margaret Hill McCarter,
editor, has picture of Mrs. Eustace
H. Brown of Olathe, president of the
Kansas Federation of Women's clubs
for a very charming frentispiece.
Mrs. Browns paper, -Shal We Edu-
cate Our Girls for Business Career -
this summer is the leading article of
the magazine, and it is well worth
reading. Mrs. Brown is not in favor
of Industrial competition for women
and she supports her convictions with
excellent arguments. Speaking of
this paper when Mrs. Brown read it
at Council Grove number of working
women who were present, were asked
to discuss it, among them young
woman who occupies q prominent
Oh ay-
pected to take the other side but
much to the astonfshment of her
hearers she defended Mrs. Browns
contentious and sided with them COM
pletely. She said women We're not
happy in public life but found their
true meter in the home and she
thought the influence and thought of
women of position ought to be di-
which would save girls from the nee
essity of going out into the world as
wage earners. rather than in widening
their opportunities in this respect.
t'Theodsia Ruthven." a clever sa-
tire is the leading editorial in the
Club Member. If a man should write
a thing like that, now, wouldn't he
catch it? He'd be mobbedt But there's
some sense to it, if it is treason to say
so.
The Art club will be entertained
Monday by Mrs. Norman S. Wear. the
president, at the first fall meeting. |
The officers of the club are Mrs. Wear, |
president; Mrs. Margaret Wiggin, |
vice president; Mrs. Aston w. Dana |
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES; Miss Helen Hoge- |
boom, club reporter. The club will |
continue the study of American art |
this winter. The programme for
George H. Boughton by Mrs. Dana. |
The Carnegie Institute, Mrs. Robert |
D. Carver and Thomas Moran Miss |
Marian Garretson.
The Monday Tourist club will meet |
Monday afternoon with Mrs W. R.
Martin. 917 Topeka avenue for the |
first programme meeting of the year.
The Nineteenth Century club will |
meet with Mrs. E. A Austin, SIS |
Buchanan, Monday, October I at $50 |
o clock. /
The Music Study club will meet
with Mrs. r. H. Morehouse 400 East
Tenth instead of with Mrs. Laycock.
the study of French composers.
The Portia club will have its first
fall meeting with Mrs. F. c. Slater.
1850 Polk street next Thursday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock. The club will
have an American year and its pro-
gramme is devoted to American his
tory and literature.
The ChaIitso club will meet Thurs
day. October 10 with Mrs. J. Chuff.
Answer to roll call quotations from
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The suggestion of Mrs. McCarter
that the quarterly meetings of the
federation be hereafter composed of
TWO sessions. one for the programme
and one for business met with general
approval As a rule the federation
are too long. The one
Thursday for example, interesting as
t was. throughout. lasted so late that
some who had come especially to
hear Mr. MacDonalds lecture were
obliged to leave before it was fin
shed A morning and an afternoon
meeting in the same day would be open
% similar objections. Women who
amt give up half the day to the fed
grafton certainly couldn't give up all
IF it. Perhaps the federation could
lave a short business meeting once a
as one woman suggested.
That the corresponding secretary
If the federation be instructed to keep
newspaper scrapbook with reports
If all the federation,s doings is an
,ther suggestion of Mrs McCarter.
She thinks such a record of the club
work would be invaluable
The Chandos club will meet Thurs
lay with Mrs. Rutter in North Topeka
when the club will take up the study
II julius Caeser
The Nautilus club had a delightful ,
Lfternoou at the home of Mrs. J. H.
Johnston on West Fifteenth street
tuesday. 1t was the first meeting of {
he fall season. The club is study
ng modern American authors this
winter and Mrs. Margaret Deland was
he subject Tuesday. Mrs. H. C. Bow
nan read a sketch of her life and Mrs.