The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-23

The Sixth district of the State Fc1-
Grafton of Women's clubs Will pc nelu
in Cawker City, october 18 and 19.
The dates for the meeting OF the
First district will be November and
8. and Seneca has been chosen as the
place Of meeting
The Minerva club will meet Monday
afternoon, September 25, with Miss
Maud Mary Kline, at her home. lO3
Western avenue
Mrs. e. G. Foster gave a kitchen
shower today for Miss Lucille McAfee,
who will be married next week Her
guests were members of the Minerva
club Miss McAfee. herself, is one of
the members and has been especially
active in the musical department
The first meeting of the Nineteenth
Century club for the year, will be held
Monday afternoon at three o'clock.
the meeting will be held at the Coun-
try club.
Mrs. George G. Beach viii entertain
the Monday Tourist club at their meet
ing for the season, at her home in
E1mhurst, next Monday afternoon. The
hostesses for the afternoon will be
Mrs. Beach, Mrs. c. I. Martin, Mrs. G.
f. Fuller, Mrs. w P. Snyder, Mrs L
S. Lewis The subject of the program
will be Shamrock and Blarney."
The West Side Forestry club will
meet Thursday afternoon, September
%, with Mrs. w M. Forbes, 328 Wood
lawn avenue Mrs. Forbes and Mrs.
e. E. Ames Will be hostesses. Mrs.
Harry Forbes will read a paper on
study of Ants and Mrs. Ward Burl-
ingame will have a paper entitled 1.-THE
Ever Blooming Garden
Mrs. Katherine A. Hoffman, of En-
terprise, is the official delegate to the
conservation congress to be held in
Kansas City. She has appointed the
sas Suffrage association: Mrs. W. A.
Johnston, Mrs. w r. Stubbs, Mrs.
Genevieve Chalkley, of Lawrence, and
Mrs. Matte Toothaker Kimball Of
Manhattan.
The Ceramic Art club met Friday
afternoon with Miss Gussie Fuller,
1900 West Sixth avenue.
Suffrage Notes.
Word has been received by Mrs. w
A. Johnston, president of the Kansas
Equal Suffrage league, that Lincoln
county of the Sixth district, has been
organized for campaign work. Mrs.
Murphy, of GoodIand, Mrs. Anna G.
Wait, Of Lincoln, and Mrs. @. w. Smith
women Of the county, and elected Mrs.
Eula Morgan, of Sylvan Grove, presi-
dent. The Sixth district is divided into
three sections, and each of the sections
will be properly organized in the near
future. The meeting was an enthusias-
tic one. and the workers of that dis
trict have no apprehension as to the
outcome of the campaign in that part
of the state.
a man who is spending a few days
in Topeka on his way east from Cali
fornia, tells a Topeka woman that the
cause of suffrage on the west coast is
prospecting well: It have been from
one end of the state to the other" he
said, t'and the woman business is hum
ming. Everybody talks about it. and
believe the state will go big for the
women
1t is an old argument against the
granting Of the ballot to women that
they do not want to vote. In the first
place they do want to vote. else why
all the stir they are making, but sup
posing they didn't, even that does not
mean that they should not. Some one
told Abraham Lincoln, arguing against |
emancipation that the majority of the |
slaves did not want freedom. THAT |
only shows" he said, how much they
need it." The child doesn't want his |
the boy doesn't want to go |
to school; the girl doesn't want to |
practice her piano lessons, and the |
are the things they need. nevertheless.
Mrs. Ellen Humphries is in Califor-
MIA at this time and writes home that /