The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01

friends: Miss Violet Crum bine, Miss
Helen Cook, Miss Ruth Foster Miss
Helen Rhinebach, Miss Mildred Agard,
Miss Bertha Clay Miss Katherine Nc
Farland, Miss Grace Dana, Miss Jane
Alexander, Miss Jean Lindsay, Miss
Louise Bell, Miss Elizabeth Culver,
Miss Emily Seery, Miss Marguerite
Thrapp, Miss Alena Philbin, Miss Mar
guerite Dolan. Miss Helen Hart, Miss
Mildred Leeper. Miss Margaret Shake
shaft and Miss Helen Neese-
The annual banquet of the Grade
Teachers association was held Friday
night in the Y. W. c. A. dining hall
The dinner was served at O'Clock,
and the dining tables were decorated
in white flowers and fern. Guests OF
the club were: Judge and Mrs. G. H.
Whitcomb, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F. farrell,
Superintendent and Mrs. c. G. Starr,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. J. Evans, Mrs. w.
l.. Dickey, Mr.. L. NJ. Penwell Mr.. and
Mrs. L. NJ. Jones, Judge and Mrs. w.
E. Atchison,' Mr.. and Mrs. p w.
Griggs and DR.. and Mrs. c. b. Van
Horn. Two groups of songs, including
the Kansas Song, were given by the
Treble Clef club, whose members are:
Miss Minnie Mccall. Miss Mildred Ha-
zelrigg, Miss May Montieth, Miss
Estella Cooper, Miss Lu Spiker, Mrs
Gertrude Knowles, Miss Lou Tillson,
Miss Camilla Campbell, Miss Ruth
Barrett ana MISS w 1nlITeQ hChIi
Miss Mamie Schenck pronounced the
invocation, and the after dinner
speeches were made by Miss Ethel
Aldrich, Miss Rachel McGiffert. Miss
Lena Davis, Miss Kate Sellards, Mrs
Laura Bailey Mckee, Mrs. ]. F. Jar
reH and Mrs. G. H. Whitcomb- Mrs
Irene Russell, who introduced the
speakers, was a graceful and clever
toastmistress. Miss Aldrich responded
to the toast, 1.-THE Citizeness of Kan
sas." She explained that in the en-
Urgency arising from the last cleo
ton. a new word had been coined. Il
know the meaning of citizen" she
said from attendance at Fourth of
July celebrations, and by observation
of the men who care for the furnace
and lay the sewer pipes, but to learn
the meaning of citiZeness, [ have asked
the learned in many professions" AS
her answer from the president of the
school board, she heard ut is mon
ster of so frightful mien, that to be
hated is but to be seen, but seen too
oft, familiar with her kind, we first
endure, then pity, then we jine.' The
conclusion, of the speech of course was
that the citizeness refused to be taxed
without being represented.
Miss McGiffert's toast was a short
rhyme on the way to enjoy life. Miss
Lena Davis, whose subject was The
Flag" urged all the members of the
association to join with her in trying
to have every school in the city pro-
vided with a flag that should be flying
all the time. except in storms. Miss
Ella True spoke in rhyme from the
subject, ARTS and Crafts" applying
it to the art and craft of the teacher
in moulding the character and destiny
of the child. Miss Kate Sellards re-
sponde ed to the toast. Our Tammany,'
the school board, and the superin-
tendent. "They have weighty problems,
for they must direct the teachers to
know all about reading and writing
and 'rithmetic, art and crafts and
music and all sorts of higher educa-
ton, and now they rejuvenate US and
send US out to romp and join in the
games on tho Fairgrounds, and be-
sides this they must keep down the
pay and taxes Mrs. Laura Bailey
Mckee answered in rhyme, the toast
Long live the teacher, What on?''
The conclusion was. He is well pail
who is well satisfied
Mrs. Jarrell's toast was. THE Magi-
cal Land of Tomorrow She said:
THE child lives in tomorrow. He has
yet no past, and he is impatient of
the future. BY contact with the childs
mind the teacher. also lives much in
the idea of the future. The philoso-
piers tell us to think only of today
but without tomorrow today would
have no meaning and no inspiration.
Yesterday woman lived with her cave
man husband and titled the fields. To-
day she has the vote; tomorrow the
millennium will he here
Mrs. Whitcomb responded to the
toast "Casus belli.' She quoted from
the old poem regarding the cause of
the fight which resulted in the FAM