The broad ax., 1917-09-01
Charles E. Stump The Kansas
Newspaper Correspondent
after Touring through The
South Winds up at St. Louis
Missouri and Attends The
Sessions Of The Supreme
Lodge Knights Of Pythias.

things connected with st. Louis which
will cause one to think when you men
ton the name, and there are many
other things which may cause one to
almost lay his religion aside and say
the things which are not in keeping
with Sunday school ethics, and don't
know which you feel like doing this
week, and I am not going to suggest
anything for it is your business and
none of mine.
L am here looking after the Supreme
Lodge of Knights of Pythias and it is
a great meeting, and there are many
great things connected with it, and it
will be my aim to tell you about some
of them. But before going too far, I
must tell you that have made a dis
covery, and like to discover the
things which will be source of in
spiration to someone else. Going
down one of the streets in town, I
picked up circular with the picture of
beautiful girl of my race with hair
streaming down her back, and recog-
nized her to be a graduate from the
A. & M. College of which the late Will
liam 81. Council was president. On it
1 was able to spell the following words:
"Slaughter SYSTEM" "Llyra Hair
Beautifer," and of course I read it,
and decided to go and see for myself.
Reaching 3O01 Lawton avenue, met
refined, cultured, beautiful young
woman of my race, and because she
looked so much like me, 1 smiled all
over my face. 1 was soon introduced
to her by myself, I told her my name
and she told me that her name was
Mrs. E. Slaughter-Gamble, and I was
delighter to meet her.
She had gone into the schoolroom,
and had taken the time to prepare her
self for something. She got down to
study, and then out into practical life.
She made a speciality of chemistry,
thinking that some day she would
learn how to mix up medicine in drug
store. But before she could reach that
place, she found that the beauty of a
woman was in hair, and she thought up
some of the things she had heard about
and read about, and put them together,
and it worked like a charm, and now
she is as busy as can be, and keeping
10 other women busy.
Mrs. Gamble is an example of what
girls can do if they take time and pre-
pare themselves. She now has a beau
tiful two-story home, and it doth not
yet appear what it will be before she
is ready to leave here. I had the
pleasure of visiting her parlors, met
some of her agents, saw her at work,
met all of her people. She is going to
visit Chicago in a few days where she
has some agents. I will have some
thing else to say about her in another
letter.
Now back to Pythians. had the
pleasure of being in Alabama, where
the Grand Lodge and Grand Court met,
and talked with some of those people.
At the head of the Court of Calanthe
is Mrs. Carrie A. Tuggle, a wonderful
and remarkable woman. I have told
you about her before this day. Well,
she held her meeting and of course was
unanimously elected. She is loved by
the people of her state, and all of them
give it to her, that she is remarkable
woman. She believes in doing things,
and then have all around her move
"Tuggle Institute" will ever live. 1t
is not a Tuskegee, but great school,
and is doing great work. She is just
putting brains in the heads of the
young people there, and in this way she
is looking after the kinks on the in
side. She is making you thinker, and
then she is helping all the women who
come in touch with her.
The Office, the home, the school of
Mrs. Tuggle are all workshops, and
would remind one of an ant bed. Her
work stands for itself. Associated
with her are such women as Mrs. Fan
ME Cosby-Blevins, Mrs. Mary Butler
Murray, Mrs. N. King-Saunders, Mrs.
Pauline D. Jackson, Miss Inez Upshaw,
Miss A. Jackson, Mrs. M Growing,
Mrs. Hattie Vrooms, Mrs. Lena Sher-
rod, and host of others whose names
I do not recall.
But I started out to tell you about
the supreme lodge. I passed through
st. Louis, went to Decatur, Ill, where
I spent Sunday and returned Monday
bright and early ready for
business. Reaching here I went to my
stopping place, at the "Poro College,"
and then went out in the street. It