The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-03

were voted in at the meeting Thurs
day.
The Federation had an an-day SEES
sion yesterday at the Y. w. c. 4 the
! the department of Forestry and Hor-
ticulture. An out-Of-town woman,
Dr. Adeline Soule. of Kansas City, was
the principal speaker. DR.. Soule is
called in Kansas City the Mother of
Home and School Gardening, and she
chose for the subject of her address
Thursday afternoon the Home and
School Garden. She explained the
origin of the movement in Kansas
City. She said that she had occupied
three different residences in Kansas
City, and on coming to each one she
had found back yard piled up with
cans and broken crockery; she had
cleared her ground, made a garden
that was both useful and ornamental
ample had been followed by every
family in the block. Therefore, rhe
idea of using a small yard space for a
garden had spread to many districts
of the city.
Soon after going to Kansas City to
live DR.. Soule Joined the Atheneum
club, and was appointed to direct
meeting in the department of horti-
culture Already the intelligence of
her activities had reached the club
Later she was made head of COM
mittee to interview the school board
and ask them to back the club and
gardening in a small way in the
schools. The movement grew in Kan
saS City, until there are numerous
school gardens in the city and almost
countless home gardens. The school
board has made an appropriation OF
$4,000 for the work, and has pro-
vlded large central garden for
demonstration. 1t has also installed
department of agriculture in some
of the schools, and has opened Il night
school for grown people and for those
who wish to prepare for teaching that
branch of public education. DIR. Soule
says that the benefits of the garden
idea are too great even to be esti-
mated.
DR.. Soule's lecture was followed by
a short address by Dean J. p. Deb.
Kaye, who said that while the condi-
lions in this city were not identical by
any means with those of Kansas City,
yet Topeka has it's own opportunity.
He spoke particularly of the moral
in life in touch with the soil. He
also expressed his willingness to CO.
operate with the club people in any
effort they might make along the line /
of home and school gardening. Dean |
Kaye is himself an expert in garden |
Ing, and among amateur flower grow /
ers he has a national reputation. In |
the time he has lived in Topeka the !
fashion for cultivating vacant ground !
has grown all over the city, ana this /
tendency to beautify the surroundings /
of homes and public buildings is said |
to be largely due to his influence.
At the business meeting the fed
Grafton voted to give an operetta,
which is to be staged and directed by
Mr.. Joe Risteen and MIR. Charles
Younggreen; the proceeds to be used
sented by Mrs. A. A. GODDARD. The
play will be given about the last of
January
Two department meetings were
held in the morning. The Art De
partment presented one of the best
programs of the season in an address
oy Mrs. L. D. Whittemore on the art
and Architecture of Florence" She
Illustrated her speech by lantern
slides. Mrs. Whittemore is thorough
student of art, and during her travel
abroad she gave special attention to
he galleries and the great buildings
Of the art centers of the world.
The music department had n par
:icu1arly interesting session. Mrs. Fl.
Carney, Mrs. George Fl. Allen and
Mrs Robert Shoemaker furnished The
;ong. Mrs. Garveys songs represented
he Colonial period. She wore n Gown
IF blue silk, with panniers of blue and
pink Dresden silk yelled in silver
;pangled net. Her bonnet was OF
pink and blue silk and transparency.
She had her hair powdered, and she
,arried her wedding fan of white os-
rich feathers with an ivory handle.
Her songs, Ola EnSIlSh compositions,
we're: My Mother Bids Me Bind Up
Ny HAIR" a song that she learned
When she was studying music in Bos-
on when she was a young girl: The
Love Is Kind" and when Phyllis
Danced the Ntinuet,'' a dainty song
hat the singer acted as she sang.
Mrs. Allen sang songs of the middle
# the nineteenth century. Her gown
which is about hundred years old,
vas of brown silk, so woven as to look
ike ribbons sewed in strips. The
kirt was of ruffles, held wide by |
he drop shoulders and trimmed with
ringe. Her hair was parted and
rawn down over the ears. She sang
I'd Be a Butterfly" by Bailey;
Alton Water both the original song H
nd the one that is sung nowadays;
o Whistle and I'll Come to You"
nd a Foster darby song, Boys
larry Me Long"
ongs of the present time. Her h
lusic was by American composers of II
he day, and included, Boat Sail on
he River by Homer; The Bird and
,anza," by Chadwick She was
owned in a pretty matinee frock.
The Forestry department has
AIMED committees to look after de-
vashburn college, Mrs D. w. Null -
ane, Mrs. f. w. Watson, Mrs. Festus
'oster, Mrs. Charles Gleed, Mrs l. +
J. Whit4emore and Mrs. NJ. a. Low:
Park, Mrs. T. 3. Reynolds,
Irs Cornelia H. Curry, Mrs. Robert
tone; Bethany, Mrs. ]. c. McClin-
1ck, Mrs. D. j. Hathaway, Mrs
Tram Price Dillon, Mrs. Bennett r
Wheeler and Mrs. Robert Gordon. /
hurch grounds, Mrs. S. s Estey. Mrs
gorge w. Parkhurst, Mrs. Jonathan
homas, Mrs Afbrecht Marburg, Mrs.
atrick Walsh, Mrs. w. c, Mcpon-
ugh, Mrs T. c. Whiteker, Mrs. W.
. Bolinger, Mrs. ]. E. Tanner, Miss
arnes and Mrs. John r. Shelton;
Tub work, Mrs. L. H. Mum, Mrs
ebert Gordon, Mrs. John Mulvane, |
n nd Hnx I'd