The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-24
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The first meeting for the new sea-
son. and the opening meeting of the
i new administration OF the Topeka Fed
/ Grafton of Women's clubs, will be held
Thursday afternoon, october 6, at the
/ First Christian church. The first
/ hour of the meeting will be devoted to
/ a business session. A program has
been arranged to begin at $3.50. There
will be three ten-minute travel talks,
| as follows: Mrs. w. Z. AtchiSon, who
/ has recently returned from Europe,
where she spent the summer, viii
speak on the Passion Play; Mrs. S. ].
| HOdgins will talk about Alaska and
! the Northwest Coast. Mrs. Hodgins
spent the month of August in Alaska
and the northwestern part of the
/ states, and is particularly we'll quail
fed to talk on that subject. Miss vi
Wan Tuttle who Travelled in the west
during the summer. will give a talk on
California and the Southwest. Follow
| ing the travel talks. a musical pro-
gram will be given, under the direc-
ton of Mrs. F. P. MacLennan.
The federation will open its seasons
work with an interesting meeting, and
it is desired that the members all make
an effort to attend.
The Minerva club will have its first
meeting for the season Monday, Sep
TENDER Is, with Mrs. George Mays,
1O4 Woodlawn avenue. The hostesses
will be Mrs. Mays and Miss Jessie
Walker. The Minerva club has two
| departments-the literary and musical.
The subjects for the meeting will be:
! English Literature Previous to the
Time of Chaucer," and 1.-The Begin
nings in Music"
The Alta Vista club will hold its
| first meeting for the season Monday,
/ October 8, with Mrs. T. F. Doran, 125
! Western avenue.
The West Side Forestry club will
meet Thursday. September %, with
Mrs. J. NJ. Meade at sher home on
/ Western avenue and Crane street. Mrs
/ Meade and Mrs. Harry Forbes Will be
/ hostesses. The paper of the afternoon
will be on the subject, Putting the
J Garden to Sleep" and Will present the
matter of winter protection of the rose
and the perennial garden. Mrs. o. E.
Walker was appointed to read the pa
per- but as she will be absent from the
meeting, Mrs. A. T. Daniels VIII have
the paper. In answer to roll call the
members will present specimens of
Towering shrubs.
DIR. F. K. Sanders will give a lecture
Tuesday evening. october 4th, at the
! Central Conversational church, at the
corner Of Huntoon and Buchanan
| streets It is to be a recital-lecture
on "Vfl1age and Folk Songs of South
ern India" The entertainment will be
a real treat to the people of Topeka
examples of folk songs, and the doc
tor will play his own compartments.
The following paragraphs by Mrs.
A. A GODDARD. president of the city
! federation, give an excellent idea of
what a public audience room should
TRIBUTE TO OLD LIBRARY HALL.
Personality in Room
| Some rooms consist of four walls.
| a floor. a ceiling and some things
called furniture. Other rooms have a
| personal charm which is due to
number of things not easily defined,
but very easily felt.
The old library hall in the Topeka
! library building had personal atmos-
/ phere about it. For several years en-
| tertainn ents of musical and literary
| character were given there. 1t seat
| ed about three hundred people. The
ventilation was as good at the close
| of the evening as at the beginning,
even when the hall was crowded. The
| acoustics of the room were perfect,
1 both for speaking and hearing. Meas
ured by pure enjoyment of listener
and entertainer, the old library hall
was a source of pleasure which an
| inanimate room is capable. of giving
| people because of personality.
There Is another audience room in
Topeka, recently built. which reminds
/ hall of its excellent dualities-and that
| Congregational church. corner of