The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-02
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TUESDAY.

The West Side Forestry club met
Thursday afternoon with Mrs. A o.
| Walker. Mrs. W. A. Johnston gave
interesting account of the Biennial at
| Cincinnati Mrs. F. p. MacLennan read
| an excellent paper on Recent Floral
| Developments and Mrs. A. Reinisch
had helpful article on Bulbs for Fall
/ Planting" Japanese Iris and pond
| lilies decorated the house.
| The Vignette club has voted to study
| Shakespeare next year, and will begin
with Hamlet under the direction of
| Mrs. ]. K. Jones. The club has closed
it's work for the summer, but will begin
| it's sessions again in the autumn.
The Searchers' club have issued their
new year book. 1t is a pretty little
! book, made up in white and lettered in
| gold The club will study the systems
| of government of the various countries
! of Europe, with a few interesting side
lines, such as "a comparison of the
! schools of Germany and the United
States" THE Relationship of the Royal
Families of Europe and French
Prisons and Police"
| Mrs. C. c.. Goddard, of Leavenworth,
president of the State Federation, will
spend the summer in Colorado. at her
| summer home, at Ismont.
| There is chance that Clifford Pin
| IT,.
as chief forester of the United States
| government, will make a visit to To-
| peka. Chancellor Strong. of the State
| university, sent him a formal invita-
| ton to come to Kansas for the meeting
| of the State Teachers association in
October. The letter from the chancellor
was followed by an urgent letter from
| Governor Stubs to accept the invita-
| ton. Mr.. Pinchot is the center of
good deal of interest just now on ac-
l o1safi (r7G Ia m a
/ in the department of the interior, his
discharge from office, and his friend
| ship with Col. Roosevelt. He is par
| ticularly popular in the west on &C
| count of the stand he has taken on the
subject of the conservation of natural
| resources. This is a subject in which
women's clubs have taken an active
part and in the interests of which
] department has been organized by the
/ General Federation.
| Miss Annie Morgan, daughter of ].
Up. Morgan of New York. has become
| interested in the formation of the
| womans committee on industrial prob
| LENS Its object is to promote the
organization of working women. and
will mean a vast help to them in their
protection and progress.
| Ada Patterson in Human Life tells
the story of Saint Sophie Of New Or
l
have chosen to designate their best
citizen" She is a cripple with white
| hair who has been handicapped all
her life by weakness and pain, who
has been honored by the c;ty's declara-
| ton that she has done more for It's
| welfare than any other person. Her
work in her city has been the founding
of free night schools. She teaches dur
| ing the day in a school for girls,
whereby she earns her living and that
1 60, ont
for three hours in the evening she has
charge of the instruction of 1900 men
and boys who work during the day and
are too poor to pay tuition. For &c
years. since she was a pallid little
woman of IS. Miss Wright has kept
this school and has given a start in
| life to thousands of men and boys
who needed just the help she had to
give.
| incurable cripples and has helped to
maintain a home for convalescents.
During the yellow fever pestilence in
New Orleans she went about the
street carrying aid and comfort TO the
stricken ones, and made her deserted
school a depot of supplies. Soon after
= wards, a meeting was held in one OF
the big parks of the city. and those
whom she had helped and those who
knew of her work-thousands OF
them-gathered in the park to pro-
claim her their "best citizen" and
present her with a loving cup which
| contained a draft for $4,000.
| For the first time in the history of
Sweden, two women have been elected
to the municipal council of Stockholm
/ One was elected by the Conservatives
and one by the Socialists.
| Miss Ellis Merideth, a club woman
of Denver. has been nominated by the
new Citizens party for election COM
missioner.
"Fraulein Brustlein, daughter of a
federal Judge, is the first woman to
practice law in Switzerland She re-
lcently won a remarkable case in Zu-
rich A woman railway gatekeeper
was accused of criminal negligence
| She had closed a gate too late, and in
consequence an express train had
killed a small child that had wandered
on the track Fraulein Brustlein
pointed out that her client re-
| ceived only $40 month from the
railroad for twelve hours work a day,
and was forced to crowd in outside
work to support her children. She had
closed the gate too late, end by acci-
| dent the express was running on
| schedule for the first time in many
months. The jury acquitted the wom
an gatekeeper.''-The Kansas City In
dependent
1t is for the defense of women in
such circumstances that the depart
ment of justice of our City Federation
has been organized.
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