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

A meeting of the executive board
of the city federation with the presi-
dent, Mrs. w. A. McCarter, Thursday,
brought out a full attendance, The
characterized the other meetings of
the new admits trHt1ons was IN evi-
dence again ON this occasion s-.--
The executive board has been con-
sidering renting the second floor of
the new Foster Humane society build
ing between Ninth and Tenth on the
avenue. The floor consists of a suite
of three rooms suitable for the smaller
meetings of the federation, individual
club meetings, teas, receptions, small
dances and the like, and may be rent
ed for $45 a month. The federation
would of course expect'-to make all or
most of this sum by 'sub-letting the
rooms for private parties, or other
suitable purposes. The1rooms are very
attractive and will, it is thought, fill
the place left vacant when the old Lii
brary hall, formerly SO popular a place
for entertaining, was monopoliZed by
tho City library art gallery. The ex-
ecutive board discussed this project
freely Thursday and then voted to re-
fer it to the club house and hall COM
nittees for further consideration Mrs.
McCarter is inclined to think it would
be a good thing for the federation to
lease the rooms for a year as it would
give some practical experience in the
business management of the club
poets the federation will own before
many years have passed.
Last year when the Womans Kan
sas Day club had its first meeting the
Good Government club acted as the
hostess organization. This year the
City Federation will assume this re-
sponsibility and whatever honors go
with it. This was decided upon at the
executive board meeting. The fedora
ton will give the reception the even
r.
corridor on the top floor of the state
house for the officers and members
of the Woman's Kansas Day club. The
presidents of the twenty-five clubs or
the federation VIII compose the recep-
ton committee and each club will be
expected to have: out a fun represen-
tation to do honor to their guests,
many of whom will be out of town wo-
men of prominence.
The, social purity movement goes
marching on. !. The Western Sorosis,
which last week presented for the fed
eration's approval and adoption a pro-
test against the existence of joints,
dance halls, clubs, and houses of ILL
fame in Topeka with the consent of
the municipal authorities, has been re-
ceiving encourag cement from all the
other clubs in the federation and from
many unexpected sources e The Min
isterial union and the VIC. 7. Y. have
both endorsed the action of. Sorosis
and one of the card clubs. the Topeka
Avenue Five Hundred club, which met
with Mrs. V. r. Kistler Monday, added
it's endorsement The Chandos club,
a new sShakespearean club of twenty
prominent North Side women, passed
a resolution of protest in line with that
of Sorosis ard among the clubs in the
federation which have taken similar
action are the Monday Tourist, the
Junior Atlantean and the Chaldean,
the Current Iiterature; the Vespuc-
clan and the Froebel Mothers.
At the executive board meeting
a committee to circulate the
protest was appointed. The members
are Mrs Adrian L. Greene, chairman
of the ciyics committee, Mrs. William
F. Bowen and Mrs. Ralph n. McEh- |
tire, .4,. 5000. 4aac -.
Mrs. George A. Huron will present
the matter to the women's lodges and |
other organizations many of the mem
bers Of which have expressed them
selves in favor of the movement. It
is safe to say that no woman's organ
ization to whom the protest is pre-
scented viii fail to endorse IT.
These new department ts-education,
household economics, Kansas history
and libraries have been added to- the
departments and committees of the
Mrs. t. S. Lyon has been
appointed chairman of the department
of Kansas history. ezThe4other chair