The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-19


session. Different phases of club work,
its present and its possibilities will be
discussed.
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter is get
ting more and more of a Chautauqua
tauqua is complete without her. At
the Lincoln Park Chautauqua this
summer she will read a series of six
short stories.
An interesting event in club circles
next week will be the reception at
the club headquarters at the Chau-
tauqua for the women on the grounds
and the members of the Topeka Fed
Grafton. Mrs. A H. Horton and the
officers and past presidents of the
Federation will receive. 1t will be a
Simple Life reception; decorations
furnished by nature exclusively. re-
freshments, ice water; no prepare
lions, no fuss, no worry, no expense.
The w. c. T. U. department in
charge of Mrs. L. A. Case, Mrs. G.
M. Blair, and Mrs. o. M. Currie an
quarters Wednesday at 5 o'clock;
Miss Irene We1shans will give read
ings.
The Missionary tent is to be in
charge of Mrs. J. p. White. Friday af-
ternoon there will be a program by
Miss Ceora Lannan. reader. Miss
Ruth Kline and Mrs. George Lerrigo
will also be on the missionary pro-
gram.
Miss Ono May Miller, vocalist. will
be one of the artists on the w. c. T.
U. programme. Mrs. Hatton will give
a whistling solo at one session.
Frank Hardy Lanes lecture,
Shakespeare's Royal Portrait Gallery,
will be an Unusually strong feature of
the Chautauqua.
III TnII
Day.
No feature of the program promises
more interest than Miss Effie era
hams lecture. Miss Graham is at the
head of the department of mathe-
mates in the Topeka high school and
she has a pronounced literary gift
and a talent for public speaking. Her
lecture, Living Arithmetic is pro-
nounced by those who know some
thing entirely out of the ordinary.
She takes that (to the average lay
mani dry-as-dust subject of the ped
agogy of arithmetic and makes it alb
sorbingly interesting. Her lecture is
illustrated c1everly and 1t is really a
distinct achievement of which Tope-
because in it Miss Graham has hit
upon an idea original. clever and
worth while.
Miss Martha Berry of Rome. Ca,
who has established an Industrial
school among the Southern Highland
erS is known for many miles around
as 1.-THE Sunday lady of Postum Trot."
Miss Berry is beloved and respected
by the tall, gaunt mountain men and
women and to her is intrusted the
care and education of their children.
The mountain folk are a strange mix
ture. They are shrewd readers of
character and their mistrust of edu-
Gated persons is remarkable. 1t is the
personal touch, which money cannot
buy, that has helped Miss Berry in
her work with them.
Miss Berry tells of the beginning of
the large industrial school which she
has established. Ten years ago, she in
vited group of children to her '1og
cabin study in the orchard for a Sun
day school lesson. The class became
permanent and soon the mothers and
fathers and even the omnipresent yell
low dogs were brought each week to
be instructed. A day school started by
and by, and, after Miss Berry realized
the great need for education among
these people and how pushed aside
and neglected they were by the world
in general. she resolved to devote her
life to giving them at least fighting
chance.
The first Christmas that the small
chain of mountain schools was eS-
tab1ished proved the Waterloo to Miss
Berry's social life, for she sacrificed
a house party and a week of good
times and pretty frocks to stay in the
country and give her little ones a
Christmas tree.
People who had to come for miles
in OK and mule teams were at that
tree and she not only gave away ev-
cry trinket she possessed. but calmly
helped herself to those belonging to
her family.
Then she decided a. farm she owned
as the site for a school building and
today it is valued at s15o,000 and is a
well equipped industrial. agricultural
and preparatory school The gradu-
ates are admitted to the state univer-
sity and the industrial standing of the
institution is excellent. There were