The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-11
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Wednesday, July 20 will be wo-
mans Day at the Topeka chautauQua
and all the women's organizations OF
Topeka and the surrounding hamlets
and Villages are invited to visit the
Chautauquaa at Vinewood park that day.
women's council will be held in the
morning at which the work of the Wo-
mems Kansas Day club will be dis
cussed and in the afternoon Mr.. JUS
tice A w. Benson of the supreme
court will give an address. There will
be patriotic music. Women are cor
daily invited to visit the Woman's
Kansas Day club headquarters which
will occupy one of the most attractive
tents in the park and where they will
be welcome at all times.
A committee including Mrs. w. A
McCarter, Miss Lucy Kingman, Mrs.
Lee Monroe, Mrs. J. d. Mcfarland,
Miss Effie Graham and Mrs. L. d.
Whittemore assisted by Miss Zu Ad-
ans, Miss Emma Wallace and Miss
Maud Bishop members of the Topeka
federation's Kansas history depart
ments will act as hostesses. Every
evening a sunset meeting will be held
at the w. K. d. club headquarters. 1t
will be thoroughly informal in charac-
| ter with no set program and will be
devoted to informal discussions OF sub
jects Of interest to women. Visitors
will be cordially welcomed both to the
meetings and the discussions. Some
of the topics to be considered are
Squaw Talk: Indian stories and re-
miniscences; Organized Plays for Chill
dren; How to Choose a Career; Fifty
Ways to Make House Keeping Easy
and Interesting; The Western Wom-
ems Parliament; Visiting Nurses for
Rural Districts; The Art Of Story
Telling.
At meeting Of the executive board
80 IL CO. a
Monroe this week it was voted to make
the Women's Field Day at Vinewood an
annual event.
Mrs. w. A. Johnston who returned
from the meeting Of the G. F. w. c.
in Boston last week has been i'll in
Stormont hospital since on account of
an injury to her knee which is SO pain
full that she will be unable to bear her
| weight on it for some time.
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter will go
to Hiawatha Monday to attend the
Chautauqua at which she is one of the
speakers Other distinguished names
on the programme are Senator Long.
J. L. Bristow, w. j. Bailey, Cyrus Le-
land, w. r. Stubs and William Allen
White She will be the guest of Mrs.
Notes.-The while she is in Hiawatha-
Another Topeka number on the Hia-
watha programme will be a whistling
solo by Miss Anna Marie Nellis.
Mrs Sarah Plat Decker Of Denver
whose term as president of the Gen.
eral Federation of Women's Clubs has
just closed is candidate for con-
gress and if Kansas club women could
help her to achieve her ambition 1t is
safe to say they would. Mrs. Decker
made a great hit in Kansas on her re-
cent visit to the state federation meet
| ing at Manhattan and in Topeka and
nobody who heard her lively and high
| ly intelligent addresses on these occas-
| IONS noted her breadth of mind, her
wit, her perfect sanity and poise would
contradict the statement that she is
| better qualified for the position to
| which she aspires than most Of the
men who achieve like ambition. And
| this, whether one believes in equal
| suffrage or not. Mrs. Decker is one of
the most capable women in public life.
| She is so charming, agreeable,