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

| Mrs. c. c. Goddard, in her holiday
address to Kansas club women makes a
special plea on behalf of the scholar
ship fund under the direction of the
vice president of the State Federation,
Mrs. Matte Britt Hale. Mrs. Hale has
| received letters from declarations of 9TH
er states, telling of their plans for ad-
Vancing the scholarship cause. Among
the letters Mrs. Hale received was one
from Colorado which reads: 1.-The Colo
RADIO plan for their scholarship and loan
| fund is a recommendation from a fed
Grated club or from members Of the
/ faculty of the institution of which she
| may be a student. The signing of Il
| receipt promising to repay at the rate
of $40 per month on less than 5000; SIS
on $500; 500 on $400, and no interest re-
quired. A club woman is on the COM
mittee who is in touch with the state
institutions. They have helped more
| than a hundred girls, and 80 of this
number have already paid back their
! loans" In New Hampshire the girls
are not required to pay back the money
to the federation, but they agree that
| for each year of schooling that they
| receive from the federation, they give
back a year of teaching. That is, they
| agree to teach in any district to which
the state superintendent sends them, at
the salary that district pays, for the
same number Of years that they re-
| ceived help from the federation. This
keeps up the supply of teachers for the
/ public schools.
| The history of the scholarship fund
of the Kansas federation extends over
| a period of six years. The matter of
scholarships was first suggested by
Mrs. J. M. Lewis, and during her adj
ministration and at her solicitation, the
colleges of the state placed with the
federation free scholarships to be Of
fered to ambition young woman. That
administration placed some of those
| scholarships, but not all of them, on
! account of lack of candidates.
Then came the administration of Mrs.
| May Belleville Brown, and the colleges
renewed their gifts. At this time the
question of a scholarship loan fund in
addition to the free scholarships was
agitated. That loan fund has now
reached the sum OF 1904, and $3.50 of the
| amount has been lent to a student at
the State university.
Mrs. Hale has issued the following
appeal to the clubs over the state
through their district presidents: 1.-THE
present official board of the Kansas
; Federation of Women's Clubs, with
Mrs. c. c. Goddard as president, and
| Mrs. W. w. Wood as chairman Of the
| educational committee. is making an
| effort to advance the educational work
of the state and special effort is being
made to increase the scholarship fund,
| already established and in use, to an
| amount sufficient to enable the fedora
ton to help many deserving young girls
! could not enjoy this blessed privilege.
I Will you not assist in this work? If
so. will you pledge your club to increase
| this fund? For this purpose, let me
| suggest that you devote one evening,
some time during the club year, to a
musicale, or some other form of enter
tainment. These home talents are
| usually we'll patronized, and if the OBJ
Ject he explained people will go willing
| ly knowing that the proceeds are to be
used for benevolent purposes. Cast thy
bread upon the waters, for thou shalt
find it after many days."
Mrs Goddard goes on to say: I'VE
have 237 clubs in the state federation.
| If each club will do it's share. we will
be able to help many girl over the
rough places. At the present time our
scholarship fund is SO small we can
only help a little. but it is the am
pitlon of the present administration to
place $4,000 to the credit of this fund
before the close of May. 1911. Will you
not give small portion of your
strength. time, and energy to bring
about this result?''
The Kansas City Star gives an article
by coed of the Kansas university,
saying that rs per cent of the women
of the university are .self-supporting.
She writes "If you are interested in
the college girls who are doing things,
don't overlook those who are doing the
hard things. You won't often find her
a class secretary, an organization lead
er. or a social light. l mean the girls
who work their way through school by
washing dishes. sweeping. and caring
for children. There are a few of that
class at K. u, and to me they are
heroines; for when a girl carries her
work on the hill with any degree of
satisfaction and makes her own ex-
penses by all sorts of household tasks
she has no time for the recreations that
mean so much to a young girl and
which are certainly factor in her de-
velopment. You must realize that it
takes a strong mind and a strong back
to lead the lives that S0rnN Of he <ri~l~