The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-01


the committee on credentials are: Miss
Gertrude Barnes. Mrs. J. D. Mcfarland,
Mrs. F. A Snow, and Miss Mabel Ritch-
lie. The tellers will be: Mrs. c. E. Jor-
dan, Mrs. E. s. Marshall, Mrs. Ellen
| HUMPHREYS and Mrs. Ralph Skinner.
made up of the past presidents of the
federation and the executive board, as
sisted by Mrs. John Movers, Mrs. w.
H. Rutter, Mrs. w. E. McVey, Mrs.
John Switzer, and Mrs. George Port
! Ashton.
After the luncheon and the business
meeting the women of the federation
expect to take their guests to the an
llual exhibit of the manual training de-
partment of the high school.
The program for the meeting will be
as follows.
| In the forenoon-Reports, roll call.
election of officers. and address of re-
firing presidents. For the afternoon
meeting:
Prayer-Mrs. George Huron.
! Welcome-Mrs. W. r. Stubs.
Address-C1ubs and Club Work, Mrs.
J Georgia Notes.-The, Hiawatha.
| Paper-Public Health and the Ballot,
Mrs. C. A. Hoffman, Enterprise.
| Address-Work of Women Physicians
and Nurses. DR.. Ida Barnes.
| -Addre~s-Mrs. Charles Curtis, Usage
City.
Poenl-Mrs. Ida NJ Ferris. Usage City
News OF Lawrence Federation-Mrs
/
| L. H. Kennedy.
/ Reports of presidents of federated
clubs.
Presentation and reception of new
! officers.
The following musical numbers will
| be given during the afternoon session:
! Violin solo-Humereska, (Dvorak-
Rehfeld) Miss Jessie Waller.
| Musical readings-(a) o Heart of
Mine, (Riley) (b) Lowcher Arcade
| (Care) Miss CeCra Lanham.
! Quartette-Welcome Pretty Primrose
Flower, Mrs. E. G. Foster, Mrs. R. H.
Morehouse, Mrs. Morton Aloaueh, and
| Mrs. G. Holden.
| The youngest member of the family,
| q girl in her early twenties, happened
| to be at home alone yesterday after
| noon when the book peddier called, car
rying under his arm a prospectus OF
| new doctor book. The household pet had
| reVer been initiated into the mysteries
| Of medical work and for half an hour
| gave her interested attention to the
| salesman. Then he began to urge her
| to buy and knowing that it was quite
| out of the question for her to negoti-
ate a purchase involving the sum of
| so, she settled herself to the task of
| getting rid of the agent. The struggle
| brought lines of worry to her face and
| evidently gave her an appearance Of
| age much Beyond her actual years; for
1 with the canvasser's usual zeal he put
| the question: What would you DO, sup
posing the baby had a spasm?" Per-
| ceiving at once that she was credited
| with being the care-laden parent Of
| family of croupy, bilious children, she
replied with wicked deliberations: II be-
lieve I would put him in tub of hot
water well, but if he should be ia
ken suddenly with collie, what would
you do? Send for the doctor, would you
| not?" II never do" she answered, with
I absolute truthfulness. Anyhow" he
{ ntinued, you know that sometimes
! the baby wakes up in the night and
bawIs and bawls. and you get up and
walk the floor with him and can't quiet
him; then your husband tries to quiet
! him and fails, and so you send for the
| doctor and find out that the child is
| only cutting teeth. and YOU could have
| relieved him at once, if you had only
| had this book Fearing that she was
getting beyond her depth, she replied.
IL look as though [ spend my nights
promenading with a crying baby, the
thing need is a facial massage, and
as all the members of the family cut
their teeth some time ago, and we're
not subject to fits or whooping cough,
perhaps you'll have better luck next
door" The young woman now consid-
ers that she has beheld a sight seldom
granted to mortals-an embarrassed
| book agent.