The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-16


Mrs. c. c. Goddard. who was last
year president of the State Fedora
ton of Clubs, spent the summer in
| She went out with her husband, DR..
| Goddard, to be with her son, Mr..
| Brock Goddard, who is camping in the
mountains in an effort to regain his
airy tuberculosis, but his people expect
that the gypsy life he is leading in
the west will benefit him.
Suffrage Notes.
Two women who are expected to ar
rive in Topeka next week, have been
asked to come to be present at a suf-
frage conference which will be held
here soon after their arrival The date
and place of meeting has not yet been
decided, but the meeting will be an
| important and interesting one. An
nouncements will be made concerning
the details of the arrangements, as
soon as they are decided upon. The
visitors will be Miss Martha Gruening
and Miss CarIine Flemming. These
women will be travelling about during
| September on an important errand af-
fecting the progress of suffrage work
for the next year.
Miss Gruening IS secretary of the
College Equal Suffrage League. Miss
Flemming is a Vassar graduate, who
has this year been connected with the
New York association. Both of them
are full of a contagious zeal for suf-
frage work, and their exceedingly in
telIigent and broad point of view is of
inestimable value at this time.
The visitors will telegraph the date
of their arrival which will probably
be the first part of the coming week.
Nine of the counties of the state
have now been organized for suffrage
work. Mrs. Genevieve Chalkley, of
Lawrence, who is president of her dis
trict has been doing some remarkably
quick and able work, with the result
that she has completed the organiza-
ton of Douglas, Linn, Miami, and
Johnson counties in the short time
since her election.
Sherman county was recently organ
lied. Mrs. w. A Johnston stopped in
GOOdland, Kansas, on her way home
from Colorado, and she and Mrs.
Murphy, and the suffrage workers of
that part of the country, organized
Sherman county. The women of that
section are practically all interested
in suffrage; for they have some of
them lived in Colorado, and others
have lived near the Colorado line long
enough to inbibe the sentiment and
spirit of the neighboring free state.''
The work. therefore, in the extreme
parative1y easy, where nearly every
one believes in votes for women any
how. Riley, Shawnee and Ottawa
counties have been organized for some
time. and the scheme of making aux
Hilary organizations is being carried
out.
Mrs Katherine Hoffman, of Enter
prise, has a handsome new car which
she calls the Nancy Braugh-" She
will drive in it to Kansas City to at
tend the conservation congress. and
expects to ride in the parade. Her
machine will be decorated in the suf
frage colors, and on one side of the
car will be printed the word kansas"
and on the other, Votes for wom-
en-
A Los Angeles man who is city
Official says of the effect of the en-
franchiseme nt of women on the COM
ing election: eff women are allowed
to vote at the coming election, the eff
feet undoubtedly will be to strengthen
the good government forces. I have
given a great deal of thought to this
probable feature of the election, and I
believe beyond any question the large
continuation of good government. The |
women are strong supporters of the |
moral issues. They have given great
moral support to the officers of the
present government administration,
and If enfranchised they will add their /
votes. AS this has been a decidedly !
moral administration, I do not think /
the women could be side-tracked by /
any other ISSUE"
DR. Woods Hutchinson, who writes (
on the subject of modern hygiene, I
sanitation home, beauty and other
subjects of interest to women, in his
latest article entitled Women in Pub /
lie Life says: zone of the most vivid /
approximations of the prophets of mis- I
fortune appears to be that women are
either losing or will lose their graces, +
their attractiveness, and their charm
or. as the phrase is. become unsexed' /
by this new relation to and contact (
with the outside world. But who ever
seriously breads this knows little of +
biology or of woman. It has taken at (
least five million years to make Wom- /
an female and man male, and he who
imagines that such a. trifle as a change +
in methods of education or a few years +
of freer contact with the world is go
ing to wipe out those differences is sin
gularly lacking in a sense of proper
say nothing of humor.
eff there be any serious likelihood /
of a woman losing her charm, her sex
ual attractiveness, her delightful spon-
taneity, her delicious observation-disclosures,
then let the sun be turned into dark
ness, the moon into blood as speedy as
possible, for life Will no longer be
worth living. But woman may work
in the home or outside the home at I
whatever she pIeaSeS or sees fit. she /