The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

Women authors are here tonight.
When Charles Dickens attended a
meeting of the New York Authors club
in the COS. several women writer's were
not admitted simply because they were
women. But these women then formed
club of their own, the original Sorosis
club of New York.
Literature is the finest of all fine
arts. 1t is the only thing which does
endure. It's strength must be based
upon its purity as the strength of
democracy must be based upon it's pur-
ity. There will be no pure democracy
until every one is pure democrat-and
people will be made so by the broaden
ing reading of good literature"
Mrs Margaret Hill McCarter's Price
of the Prairie contains a description
of the battle of the Arickaree in which
a handful of United States soldiers in
northwest Kansas held off a horde of
Indians commanded by the famous Ro-
man Nose. A survivor of this battle,
Captain Addison J. Pulley, of Kansas
City, attended the banquet. He was in
troduced by Luther C. Bailey and made
a few remarks. =
Mrs. Don Carlos Makes Her Bow.
Mrs. Louisa Don Carlos of Law
renee read a clever original negro
dialect story. It told how an Indian
territory negro Nanny believed
that she and her son were con
jured" by negro girl who wanted to
Preceding her story she said that
genius was a tense through which the
over-mind manifested itself, and
geniuses like Mark Twain could ex-
press the thoughts and emotions of the
low1y folk so that all could understand.
She also said that when a girl that
"Brer Rabbit" was as real to her as
Santa Claus and that she would wake
up in the night filled with fear that
jim the runaway slave in Mark
Twain's "Huckleberry Finn wouldn't
escape. Mrs. Don Carlos is a south
erner. She formerly lived at Nash
vile, Tenn.
Walt Masons paper gave credit TO
the Kansas papers for the fact that
the state was known all over the world.
His paper stated that he could not be
present because writing for syndicates
required him TO. work by the clock and
that he was kept away from many To-
cal meetings for the same reason even
the meetin-. of the Order of the Black
Hand.
Ralph Faxon of Garden City, in his
paper, stated that the real newspaper
man were the real Kansas authors and
that the papers of the state were diff
ferent from those of any other state.
DIR. Frank K. Sanders, president of
Washburn college. who spent his early
| life in the East Indies, told hon liter
ature had so great hold on the ma
tlVeS prOOaOly because IL was sung III
chanted and the missionaries in that
country took advantage of the fact
and taught religious truths in lyrics.
Mrs. Bessie Stanley of Lincoln read
an original poem on Destiny"
| Mrs Jessie Graves of Pittsburg read
| one of her own humorous poems giving
an old settlers description of womens
clubs
DR.. H. w. -Roby read one of his char
acteristic poems on THE Mystery of
Mind
| Rev. S. S. Estey, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of Topeka, re-
| spending to the toast Canned
| Thought" compared the different va
rieties of canned fruit to different
| books in the library.
! Greetings were also read from the
| following: James NJ. Cavaness of Cha
mute, vice president of the Third dis
| trict; w. H. Carruth of Lawrence,
| vice president of the Second district
and Samuel T. WooIard of Wichita.
vice president of the Eighth district.
| One of the guests at the banquet WAS
Mrs. Anna F. Madison if Logan, Beav-
er county, Okla. She is the mother of
| Miss Chloe Madison, assistant post
4 mistress of the senate. Beaver county
is a new country. Logan is 45 miles
| from a railroad. Mrs. Madison is en-
| deavoring to interest railroad officials
| in the construction of more lines. She
came from Illinois in the early days
| and pioneered in Anderson and Craw-
| ford counties. Until six years ago.
when She moved to Oklahoma, she had