The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

meet Tuesday afternoon with Miss
Sadie Ebey. 712 Lane street.
The Nautilus club will meet Tuesday
afternoon at o'clock with Mrs. r.
, Ward. 1852 College avneue.
The Research club will have an
| evening meeting, May 6, for the mem
bers and their husbands at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs CharlesJ. Weld, 1903
Kansas avenue.
The Helianthus Literary club will
meet next Friday afternoon with Mrs.
| E. Deisher.
The Minerva club held its regular
meeting Monday afternoon, April 25,
| at the home of Mrs. II. r. Paxton, 81 B
Polk street. Mrs. Paxton and Mrs.
| George Mays were hostesses. The pro-
gram follows:
Review questions on ISaak Walton
Mrs. F. S. Jackson.
Paper-The Iliad-Nrs. E. E. Ames:
Discussion-Mrs. George Mays and
Mrs. c. G. Blakely.
Neutrality-suspicious. ard Andromache
Mrs. Harry Putnam.
Old Greek Music-Miss Jennie E.
Blinn.
Pythian Ode-Mrs. Eli Foster, Mrs.
E. G. Hughes and Miss Jennie Blinn.
Paper-Edward Schutt-Miss Maude
Mary Kline.
MUSIC
voeal-The Song I Would Sing Al
Piano-valse Op. So, No. g.. .Schutt
Miss Maude Mary Kline.
Piano-Valse Mignonne Schutt
Miss Marjorie Erwin.
Duet-Zareta Whlte
Mrs. E. G. Hughes, Mrs. H. w.
Putnam.
RocaiIAvs Maria '''.'.''' sf en- per
Miss Meta Legler.
Duet-D'uncoeur qui Taime. .Gounod
Miss Legier and Mrs. Bergson.
The guests of the club were: Miss
Mrs. Frank =. Thompson. Mrs. E. A.
Shuttleworth of Fort Thomas, KY,
Mrs. F. J. Evans, Mrs. A. A. GODDARD,
Mrs. Darlington Lodge, Mrs. D. +.
son of Leavenworth, Mrs. F. M. Lynch,
Mrs. Smith of Denver, Colo, and Miss
Elizabeth Barr.
entertain the wives and daughters of
the doctors who will meet here in COIL
vention next week. Mrs. J. c. McClin- |
took is chairman of the committee |
at an affair to be given for them next !
Wednesday.
Delegates from fifty Chicago clubs |
and hundreds from outside cities re- |
Gently met at the Art Institute in Chi |
cago to perfect the organization of the !
Drama League of America. According
to the plan outlined the weekly Stage
Censor" a bulletin containing the Wo-
mems diagnosis of the stage, will be
sent to every club woman in the coun-
try, telling her what shows to shun as
detrimental to her moral welfare. Mrs.
Drama club of Evanston, who is men
toned as candidate for the presi-
dency of the new league, said:
I'VE have tried the idea of demand
ing certain reforms of managers and
are not pleased with the results. Now
we will educate the public to appre-
eiate what is good and shun what is
Women have no more
light to parade themselves in diaph-
anous costume on the stage than
hey have on the street. It is not only
L fight against the immoral show, but
criticism of the weaker among the
When a drama presents scenes of the
corrupt and squalid without teaching
| great moral lesson, we will put it on
,ur black list
Nine. Grunberg a young woman law
-er in Paris, has stirred up great
ommotion in legal circles in the
french capital by putting herself for
ward as candidate for vacant posi-
ion as magistrate. She challenges her
opponents to cite any article in the
ode that prohibits a woman from serv-
ng on the bench, and carrying the war
ntO the enemy'S country, quotes the
ase of another woman lawyer who re-
emily, in the unavoidable absence of
he presiding officer, was summoned !,
o take a place on the bench in order
hat the work of the court might not
e interrupted. If women can serve
Nine. Grunberg asks why
hey are not eligible for permanent
ositions. And the F'renchmen, who at
resent are not willing to share all
heir professions and prospects with
7ornen, seem to be hard put to find
onvincing answer to her contentious.
Mrs Fthe1yn Leslie Huston, formerly
f the New York Herald, arrived
thursday, and is preparing to give be-
ore some of the leading clubs pre-
lecture on the Home Max
RS of America Lecture Course Mrs
[uston is working under the direction
{ Mrs. A. L. Dow, of the editorial staff
E Success and 'Woman's World" of
hicago. Her talk before the clubs
ext week will be on beauty, health,
nd freedom In dress, and the entire
purse of lectures deals with subjects
E domestic interest. Mrs Huston has
cid positions on number of metro
olitan papers and has also done maya
ne and syndicate writing She has
lst come from Kansas City, where she
ctured before one of the large clubs
it'll an audience of two hundred men,
ars. It is her purpose to arrange for |
lie entire course of lectures to be given
ere and wishes to introduce the pro-
ct through the women's clubs.