The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-29
KANSAS WOMEN

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Continued from re=e One.'
ence that equal educational advan-
tages were provided for boys and girls
acted The men who sat in the con-
vention asked her help, because they
thought her equipped to assist by l-cr
experience in educational and edi-
torial work in the east. Mrs. Bur-
lingame said of her: Mrs Nichols
was a cultured women, was deeply in
terested in suffrage for woman, md
speaking frequently in public by re-
quest. Her quiet presence in the con-
vention was a help and inspiration.
She died in California in 1885, and we
Kansas women would fain lay a fresh
wreath on her grave in membory of
her good works.
Memorial Exercises.
Memorial exercises were held for
four deceased presidents of the club:
Mrs Mary Vance Humphrev, Mrs. W.
D. Atkinson, Mrs. Scott Hopkins and
ston presided Portraits of Mrs. Hop
kins and Mrs. Ware were presented
bv the club to the State Historical So
ciety Mrs. Adrian Green presented
Mrs Hopkinss picture, and MRS Il
W. Poindexter of Kansas City, pre-
sented Mrs. Wares. and both were
accepted by Mrs. A. A. Doerr on be-
half of the Historical society.
Mrs. Greene spoke of Mrs. Hopkins
connection with the society first as
secretary and then as president her
nublic spirit and her domestic devo-
tion Mrs. Poindexter gave a brief
review of Mrs. Wares life and club
work. Mrs Doerr. in accepting the
pictures, spoke of the admirable way
in which Kansas remembers ITS
worthy men and women, the value OF
the pictures to the historical society.
and she reviewed briefly Mrs. Wares
connection with the historical society
and her interest in it, and Mrs. Hop
kins' efforts along educational lines
in the state. The pictures were I'M
yelled by Mrs. Noble Prentis.
Memory of Mrs. Humphrey.
| Mrs. c. c. Goddard of Leaven-
worth made an address in memory
of Mrs. Mary Vance Humphrey- She
said, in part: LAS president of the
| Woman's Kansas Day club and of the
State Federation. Mrs. Humphrey was
ever a, tower of strength, support in
every good work, with executive abil-
! ity united with that delicate discre-
ton which makes for harmony and
success. Representing our club women
as director in the General Federation,
she was loyal. tolerant, helpful and
| hopeful. Always using superior
| judgment, she gave poise to the coun-
| ellis in which she sat. Her first lit
|
Godey's Ladies' Book and Peterson's
magazine. She gave in the Squat
| ter Sovereign some information of
value and romance of Kansas history.
| Her short stories dealt with real per-
sons and places and accuracy charac-
terized her newspaper work. She was
| educated in a. Wesleyan school in Gin
cinnati and a Baptist college in
Springfield. While teaching in the
high school at Colum bus, she decided
| to come west. On this trip she met
her prince, young Englishman, who
had been in this country but two
years. From earliest days both Judge
and Mrs. Humphrey were advocates of
womans suffrage and were friends of
Susan B. Anthony ana elizabeth Cady
Stanton.
Every word she said, every effort
which she made to aid or strengthen,
| either individuals or society, consti-
tutes the monument which bears the
record of a life.
Music for the morning consisted of
a song, kansas by Florence Wood
bury Miller; solo, GOD Is Love-" by
Mrs. F. A Derby. and Whittier's
poem, The Kansas Emigrant," by
the audience.
Afternoon Program.
Luncheon was served at 1 o'clock,
and the afternoon program included
d.
dents. Mrs. A. A. GODDARD. president
of the First district. gave some bits
of Kansas history which she received
from the diary. of her father, the late
Judge Valentine, and from the lips
of her mother. She said in part:
| My parents came to Kansas in the
summer of SIS, driving over the great
er part of what is now the First dis
trict. Fathers diary says of Topeka,
then four years old, that it had such
lovely prairies all around. In Leaven-
worth he inquired about rented houses
and found they were all 16 by 20, 20
and 32 feet. and rented for s12 up
to $40 They spent a night in Law
renee in the house of a Delaware In
dian. In the fall they went back to
Iowa and returned Immediately to
make Kansas their permanent home.
Mrs. c. P. Chapman of Rochester sat
in the free state legislature as far
back as 1856, as reporter for her
husbands newspaper, the Kansas In
telligence. In those troublous times
the women had all the worries of the
men, and hoops besides. There were