The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-21

investigate the plan and report on its
feasibility to the club.
The Rota club has. been invited to
become a member of the Kansas Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, and thus
also member of the District FEEDER
alton.
Music for the evening was furnished
by Miss Gertrude Burning, who sang
two songs. accompanied on the piano
by Miss Myrtle Radcliffe. Miss Bun
ming is to give her debut recital Fri
day night at the high school audi
torium.
Mrs. Eleanor Davidson gave short
history of the club from its begin
ming. with a review of the require
ments of it's constitution, and a list of
it's charter members.
/ Mrs. P. P. Womer gave. an inter
esting address on the life of Rabin-
dranath Tagore, the poet of Bengal
whose work has come to be much
appreciated and admired in America,
and which won for him the Nobel
prize for idealistic literature some
years ago She explained the progress
of his mental and spiritual develop
m ent from his early youth to the pres
emit time. He is considered saint
by his own people, and when he ap-
pears to speak in public, the people
crowd about for a chance to touch the
hem of his robe" She read from his
from the stage of sensuouS feeling to
his present spiritual plane.
Mrs. Anna Baright Curry of Bos-
ton, who was an honor guest, was
asked to speak. She told of hearing
Tagore lecture in Boston when he
made a tour of this country raising
funds for the relief of the famine
stricken districts of India. She ex-
planned something OF the difference
between the western and eastern
id cas- of mysticism, and she dweit at
some length on the subject of indi-
vidualism in the new nationalism
which is to come after the war.
Mrs. H. o. Garvey, president of the
State Federation of Women's Clubs,
was asked to speak. She welcomed
the Rota club into the state family of
clubs, declaring that it was the only
organization of business and profess
sional women in the federation. we
are sometimes asked" she said, "if it
is necessary to continue club work
during the war when there is SO much
Red Cross and other war work to be
done. We think it is necessary. be-
cause a great deal of our work is along
PATRIOTS lines, and we must also think
of the future when the war is over"
| Mrs. DE Witte c. Neilis. who was a
| guest of the club, was called upon for
a speech.
| Mrs. l.. d. Wolfe, secretary of the
club, read her report, written in a
witty, entertaining style. quite unlike
the old-time, orthodox report. After
the program she spoke of the life of
| the Kansas men in camp at Doniphan,
and wanted to know why all the eff
forts of Topeka people were directed
toward assisting the soldiers at Camp
Funston, when by far the larger num-
| Der of cur own troops were stationed
at Doniphan.
The women who sat around the
| table were: Mrs. j. K. Codding OF
Lansing; Mrs. Adrian Greene, Mrs
John E. Lord, Mrs. H. B. Wilson, Mrs
June r. Chapman, Mrs. Anna M Foy
| Mrs. c. E. Schmidt, Mrs. W. A Fen.
ton, Mrs. NJ. L. Field, Mrs A s. Thorn
as, Mrs. Hiram c. Root, Miss May Ma
| lone, Mrs. Edna l.. Crow, Miss Glen
Davis, Miss Helen Davis, Miss Lulu
Kelly, Miss Rose Ferlet, Miss M'Edna
| Corbet. Mrs. w. A. Biby, DR.. Viola
| Peak, Mrs. p. H. Adams, Mrs. L. d
| Wolfe. Mrs. H. o. Carney, Miss Ger
trude Burning. Miss Myrtle Radcliffe
! Miss Nanon Herren, Mrs. P. P. Womer
Miss Bertha Hampstead. Miss Kate
| Thomen, Mrs. Eleanor Davidson, Mrs
Charles F. Spencer, Miss Marie wit.
wer. Mrs. De White c. Nellis, Mrs
Jesse d. Cook. Miss Stella G. Nash
Mrs. j. d. Sullivan, Mrs Helen Hodge
Mrs. Grace W. Rees and Miss Grace
| Overmyer.