The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-07
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SATURDAY.

file for her successor, giving In form
easily accessible, the wishes of the in
dividual clubs Of the city.
Mrs. w. A. Johnston left today for
Cincinnati to attend the General Fed
Grafton Biennial. She will be gone sew
eral weeks. stopping at Oxford, Ohio.
to visit her daughter on the return
trip. Mrs. Johnston expects to take
the Mammoth Cave trip planned for
the Biennial visitors by the women of
the Kentucky federation. Between
twenty-five and thirty delegates will
attend the Biennial from Kansas. Each
district will be represented, and all the
state officers will go. Among the Kan
sas delegation will be: Mrs. Johnston,
Mrs. c. C. Goddard of Leavenworth.
dock of Wichita. Mrs. Barker of Law
renee, Mrs Rodgers of Mound City,
and Mrs. Schlagel of Smith Center.
Grafton will be held the first Thursday
in June. 1t is to be an all-day meet
ng, and the program is now being pre-
pared. Invitations have been sent to
the officers of the Lawrence, Usage
County, First District, and Burlingame
federations. There will probably be
good many out-of-town guests, and the
federation is anxious to make tho
meeting pleasant for the visitors.
The women of Chicago have won a
victory in the highest court in the
state. The supreme court Of Illinois
has decided that no short weight in
f1ated loaves of bread may be sold in
Chicago. The decision upholds a Chi
cago ordinance that the weight of a
loaf of bread be plainly marked there
on and that all loaves shall weigh one
pound or a multiple or fraction
thereof.
The Minneapolis Federation of
Women's Clubs has mailed thousands
of pamphlets into every section of the
state. urging upon the heads of fam
lilies that under no circumstances
should they permit their daughters to
come to the cities unless precaution-
airy measures are taken to ascertain
the exact nature of the work which
they are to perform and the surround
ings in which they will live. The action
is intended as blow to the white slave
trade, and the contents Of the PAM
phlets are a condensed reprint of
report made by United States District
Attorney Edwin A. Sims of Chicago.
Thus far the pamphlets are in Eng
fish, but translations into various Ian
guages will be made. and mailed to
newly arrived foreigners living in the
state.
The club women of Kansas passed a
set of resolutions at the State Fedora
ton meeting in Abilene that have BEEN
noticed by some of the eastern papers,
One feature of the resolutions in par
ticular has impressed the public as be-
ing more than ordinarily cheeky"
and the most glazing kind of q danger
signal. They have resolved to ask
that the national government place a
woman in the presidents cabinet and
create a department looking to the
welfare of women and children. That
women should have the temerity to
ask for a position in the cabinet and
seriously hope to get 1t, in the minds
of the ants-suffragists, portends a ter
rible social upheaval and the death of
family bliss and f1reside tranquility. It
gives them visions of men in letters
and women dashing about the country
in masculine attire. running the gov
eminent and starving the babies But
they will wake up some time and find
that they only had nightmare, as sill
ly and impossible as bad dreams usu-
ally are.