The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-13

| man as at any time under the old dis
| pensauon, when that observation was
| first made; anyway that Is the con-
clusion forced upon the state president
| by the responses to the request for a
Kansas Day Offering to the fund to
fight tuberculosis Given in detail it is
astonishing in effort and resuIts-the
work that city declarations. civic leagues
and individual clubs are doing for Kan
sas! And we rejoice in it,
The progress and earnestness with
which many made response to the
tuberculosis appeal, augurS we'll for
subsequent results-after the clubs and
| declarations have had time TO plan their
campaign The VaIhalla club of Yates
Center was among the first to get in
their message: In response to your
request the VaIha1la club has inaugur-
ated plans for the raising of an offer
ing for the Kansas Association for the
Prevention of tuberculosis. and the
money Will be sent as soon as possible.
Yours, EVA E. HIRRICK,
Secretary
Jeanette Scott Benton. of Fort Scott
! You may put Fort Scott in your kan
sas Day report as making hearty re-
Spouse. but assets as yet unknown ow-
ing to lack of time"
| The Council of Clubs of Kansas City,
Kan, ordered 10000 tags for a tag
day'' and their superintendent OF
schools, Mr.. NJ E Pearson, wrote: We
are in full sympathy with your efforts
and the movement in general and shall
do all in our power to assist
The OIathe schools devoted part OF
the Kansas Day programme to talks
from prominent citizens on the sub
| ject Of tuberculosis, and took up a
| penny offering"
Very few reports are in, as to the
amounts rafs-d-but the work is start
ed and the citizens Of Kansas can never
again be as Indifferent nor as ignorant
concerning this dread disease, and to
emerge from Indifference and ignorance
-r1--I- Wit n
purse for the health Of Kansas
FLORENCE MARLEY BROWN.
Mrs. Cora G. Lewis prints the fol-
lowing card of thanks in the Kinsley
Graphic: Much has been said in the
public prints about the men who give
their wives boxes of cigars and fancy
tobacco Jars for Christmas presents
The husband of the writer gave her a
newspaper folder for a birthday pres
ent. It will soon be installed in the
Graphic Office. We claim TO have had
the worse treatment of any Kansas
woman on the birthday question One
Of the small boys in the family once
gave US a beautiful bull terrier pup
for Christmas but that wasn't quite as
bad as this. When a womans birth
days get to climbing toward the high
temperature mark she needs conSOling
presents on each annual occasion
An informal meeting of Topeka
, - Il
afternoon, February 20. at the resi-
dence of Mrs. n. F. Handy. Delegates
to the Continental congress will be
elected and other important business
transa cted, and a full attendance of
the chapter is desired.
Edmund Vance Cooke made so
favorable an impression on his visit
TO Topeka this week when he gave an
acting-reading of his own verses at
6a hfcrh r7ax-
night, under the auspices of the City
Federation of clubs. that his admirers
will be pleased TO know that he will be
one of the attractions at the Topeka
chautauQua next summer. Mr.. Cooke
was the guest of DR.. and Mrs. w A
McCarter while he was in town, and
met the women of the federation and
their guests at q reception at Unity
the place of the February programme
meeting Of the Fed
The Portia clubs guest day Thurs
day afternoon at the home of Mrs G.
F. Worley in Potwin Place was an
other important event of the week in
club circles The programme includ-
ed Lincoln quotations from the mem
and piano number by Miss Agnes
Browne1 Of Concordia and Mrs. W.
w. Bowman. a paper on Gladstone by
Mrs L NJ Powell. a song by Mrs. s
Slater with plano obligato by Mrs
Morton AIbaugh, a song by Mrs. z. G..
Foster, a talk, Perplexing Problems
in Everyday Life by Mrs. C. H. SearIe
a HumOr from washington Irving by
Mrs. D. c. T1llotsou. The guests were:
Mrs. W. A Morgan of Cottonwood
Falls. Mrs. F. 7. Foley. Mrs G. L.
Chapman of Great Bend, Mrs J. N
Dolley Of Maple Hill, Mrs. E. F. Por-
ter of Pittsburg, Mrs. c. s. Huffman
of Columbus, Mrs George H. Hunter
of wellington. Mrs. F. C. Price of
Ashland, Mrs w s. Watson of lola
Mrs w. ?. Lambertson of Fairview,
Mrs. c. A Case Of Abilene, Mrs. r. ].