The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08

3 at the home of Mrs. G. w. Payne,
1921 West Eighth street, Mrs. Payne
and Mrs. w. D. Davis were hostesSes.
The guests were: Mrs. Geo. Hodges,
Mrs. w. L. Brown. Kingman, Kan,
Mrs. T. P. Whitmore, Mrs. E. D.
Schonberger, Miss Eleanor Bartel,
Miss Dorothy Barber, Mrs. ARA Clark.
Mrs. w. c. Keiser, Mrs. H. w. Heitz-
man, Mrs. Tom Powell, Mrs. c. o.
Bruce, Mrs. John Payne. Miss Mabel
Gallagher, Miss Thomasine Jackson
and Miss Winifred Green. The follow
ing program was given:
Tolstoi, Mrs. S. B. Rohrer.
Manuscript read by Mrs. c. G.
Blakely.
Prelude, Rachmaninoff. Mrs. w. D,
Davie.
war and Peace, Tolstoi. Mrs. Geo.
G. Moore.
Cossack Cradle Song, Napravinik,
Miss Florence Craven.
Song Without Words. Seeboech.
Selection, Eberhardt, Miss Mae Clark.
Lullaby, Napravinik, Mrs. r. H.
Morehouse.
Violin Obligato. Miss Mae Clark.
Polichinelle, Rachmaninoff, Mrs.
Morton Albaugh-
Schwanenlied. Hartman; Lilacs.
Cadman, Miss Eleanor Bartel.
Nocturne, Napravinik, Miss Nell
Shepard.
Farewell Ye Hills, Tschaikowsl1y,
Mrs. F. P. Whitmore.
Reading, May Isabelle Fisk, Mrs. E.
D. Schonberger.
The women are taking a lively in
terest in legislation this year, and the
bill to abolish the travelling library
commission is one in which the club
women are very much concerned Inc
travelling library was establlShed by
the club women of Kansas thirteen
wears ago, and it's work is still grow
ing and increasing. The original col
lection given by the club women, con-
tanned 5000 volumes and "a shlpplng
cases The library now has 4l,0OO
volumes and 525 shipping cases. Many
of the states have esta oilsheo Puonc
libraries in the different school dis
tricts and all those states found that
after a time that the books in these
small stationary libraries became
scattered, and that there was a steady
decrease in the number of volumes
after the first few years FOR a
library is like a reservoir of drinking
water and must have constant fresh
stream running in, or it becomes stag
nant and unusable. This freshness
is not dependent on the date of the
books publication, but on the time 1T
is first seen by that community"
This is the secret of the success of the
travelling library, and the interest that
a new set of books stimulates, is re-
newed every time a new set takes its
place. as 1t works out IN the IrdNel-
ing library system every six months.
Thus. the interest is kept alive, and
the books are worn out in actual
service.
Those who send in orders for books
make out list from which their Ii
braries are selected, substitutions be-
ing made when necessary. There
are now five German libraries in the
travelling library of Kansas, which are
used by the many Germans who are
living in the German settlements in
the state. A few special libraries
have been bought for a course in the
university extension work carried on
by the state university. Two COM
plete libraries on domestic science
have been added for the use of classes
organized by the domestic science de-
partment of the State Agricultural
college.
At the time of its organization, the
library occupied a small room adj
joining the state library, and it now
occupies two or three large rooms in
the west wing of the capitol. Sta
tistics showing the growth in the last
two years have been made up by the
secretary, Mrs. Adrian Greene, and
in the past two years 1o6 more IL
braries have been sent out than in
the two years preceding. Two years
ago the libraries reached $50 stations
and now they reach $40 stations.
An Impressing Picture.-The Post I'm
pressionist-I painted this picture to keep
he xyoI from dnar xx-fx dor7 .