The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30
WOMEN GO HOME.
Their Kansas Day Meeting was a
Success.

The Woman's Kansas Day club closed
its annual meeting Monday afternoon
by a program. including addresses from
some Well-knoWn Kansas women. Mrs
Eustace Brown, of -Olathe spoke first
Though not a Kansas pioneer, she has
been president of the State Fedora
ton of Clubs. Her subject yesterday
was woman Then and Now" and her
address concerned the economic value
Of woman's work of today compared
to that of former years when she did
the spinning and weaving and often
worked side by side with her husband
in the fields. She asserted that women
had lost nothing of their value in the
scheme of life, If they employed the
time saved them by new methods of
housekeeping in the service OF their
community and state Mrs. ". D. At
kinson. of Parsons, president of the
State Federation of Clubs. followed
with an address on kansas with Vari-
ations.'' Mrs. Atkinson reused a storm
of applause in her audience when she
criticized the curriculum in use in the
public schools and expressed a wish
that the books for the school children
could be those used of the old days
before publishers controlled school
boards. She touched on the need of
uniform child labor laws for all the
states, the use of school houses as So
ciaI centers. and the advantage Of
package libraries connecting with rural
districts. She reviewed the glories Of
Kansas, and spoke of its writer's and
reformers. Another great need she
said, lis scientific medical inspection in
schools, the removal of tubercular suf-
ferers. and the provision of proper sur
roundings for those afflicted"
The next address was by Mrs r. H. !
Murdoch, of Wichita, on Development
teaching of art in Kansas schools fails Z
to get close enough to the student to /
make it a part of his life. He sees pic |
lures in black nd white on the walls, |
but it lacks color and meaning for him /
and is remote from his own expert |
ence-'' She went on to give women a /
hint on the servant problem by re- |
Tninding them that their maids should ,
artistic quarters, and that if those girls /
We're driven to wrong doing through |
the neglect of their employers. it was
their duty to interest themselves in re-
claiming her. 1.-The art of the nation
cannot develop she said, unless the
heart life of the women is wide and
sympathetic
Mrs w I LOWS. of Colby. Kansas,
had for her subject, Can You Hear
the West" Her address contrasted
the conditions of women in Kansas of
the old time and the present She en-
phasized especially the need of the ball
lot for women, and showed how the
West was giving to the East a lesson
IN Justice. Tor only western states nave
yet enfranchised their women. showing
the strength and breadth of the west
ern mind.
Mrs. Cora 6. Lewis made her farewell
address. Her remarks covered a great
variety of public questions. including
the schools TT is a fact" she said
that One-half of the students that go
suit of the schools fail to make their
grades. and any system that has
waste equal to its finished product is
vicious. An adjustment should be made
whereby students can advance accord
ing to their mental powers. and none
should be hurried and none retarded.
The highest intellectual development in
the world is in Kansas, and it should
be available for public use. After the
primaries are over for each election
so that there can be no political motive
iEvolved-meetings should be held for
the discussion of public questions, and
at these meetings the boys and girls
should be present. The plan has been
tried in Switzerland. and it found to be
the best way of teaching citizenship to
a community. The first thing the wom-
en- of Kansas should do after receiving
their political privileges next fall is call
these meetings as thankohering."
Every speaker on the program touch
ed on the pending election at which
the suffrage amendment will be voted
on, and each one urged the women to
work for its passage. Mrs. Brown
quoted Dean Sumner, head of the vice
of Chicago, as saying that
it was a necessity in the battle against
tho social evil, and every speaker
prophesied its coming with rejoicing.
Music for the meeting was provided ,
by Mrs. Joseph Vance. who sang the
Kansas song and Miss Hazel1e Love-
land, who sang a cycle g three songs. :
Mrs. A H. Horton. asked. on behalf of {
the Kansas City chapter of the D. A. !
R. that the women of the club use 7
their influence with the men who are
Interested in the good roads work and {
With their congressman and senators, to q
have the new road follow the old his
Ioric Santa F'e trail (
Some pioneer women sat on the plat a
sorm during the meeting, among them
Mrs John J. Ingalls,, the widow of i
Kansas most distinguished senator. /
Mrs. J. K. Hudson. of Kansas City v
wife of the late General Hudson and
author of several books, and Mrs Anna
:. Waite, of Lincoln, Kansas, who has
been worker for suffrage for many
rears, and who was the first teacher
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