Kansas Women in Literature(文学中的堪萨斯女人)

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KANSAS WOMEN IN LITERATURE

KANSAS WOMEN IN

LITERATURE

BY NETTIE GARMER BARKER

KANSAS WOMEN IN LITERATURE

TO MY NEAREST AND DEAREST-- MY SILENT PARTNERS--

MY HUSBAND AND MY MOTHER.

``We are proud of Kansas, the beautiful queen, And proud are we of

her fields of corn; But a nobler pride than these I ween, Is our pride in her

children, Kansas born!''

--Ellen P. Allerton--

--Or adopted. In this galaxy of bright women, the State has a noble

pride for every name, be its owner Kansas born or adopted, is a mightier

force for good than its ``walls of corn.''

KANSAS WOMEN IN LITERATURE

EFFIE GRAHAM.

The last place one would expect to find romance is in arithmetic and

yet--Miss Effie Graham, the head of the Department of Mathematics in the

Topeka High School, has found it there and better still, in her lecture

``Living Arithmetic'' she has shown others the way to find it there. Miss

Graham is one of the most talented women of the state. Ex-Gov. Hoch has

called her ``one of the most gifted women in the state noted for its brilliant

women. Her heart and life are as pure as her mind is bright.''

She was born and reared in Ohio, the daughter of a family of Ohio

pioneers, a descendant of a Revolutionary soldier and also, of a warrior of

1812. As a student of the Ohio Northern University and later as a post-

graduate worker at the University of California, Chicago University, and

Harvard Summer School, she has as she says, ``graduated sometimes and

has a degree but never `finished' her education.''

Desiring to get the school out into the world as well as the world back

to the school, she has spoken and written on ``Moving Into The King

Row,'' ``Other Peoples' Children,'' ``Spirit of the Younger Generation,''

``Vine Versus Oak,'' and ``The Larger Service.''

``Pictures Eight Hundred Children Selected,'' ``Speaking of

Automobiles,'' ``The Unusual Thing,'' ``The High Cost of Learning,'' and

``Wanted--A Funeral of Algebraic Phraseology;'' also, some verse, ``The

Twentieth Regiment Knight'' and ``Back to God's Country'' are magazine

work that never came back. School Science & Mathematics, a magazine to

which she contributes and of which she is an associate editor, gives hers as

the only woman's name on its staff of fifty editors.

Her book, ``The Passin' On Party,'' raises the author to the rank of a

classic. To quote a critic: it is ``a little like `Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage

Patch,' a little like `Uncle Tom's Cabin,' but not just like either of them.

She reaches right down into human breasts and grips the heart strings.''

It is the busy people who find time to do things and the mother-heart

of Miss Graham finds expression in her household in West Lawn, a suburb

of Topeka. Among the members of her family are a niece and nephew

KANSAS WOMEN IN LITERATURE

whose High School and College education she directs.

KANSAS WOMEN IN LITERATURE

ESTHER M. CLARK.

Every Kansan, homesick in a foreign land, knows the call of Kansas

and every Kansan book lover knows Esther Clark's ``Call of Kansas.''

``Sweeter to me than the salt sea spray, the fragrance of summer rains:

Nearer my heart than these mighty hills are the wind-swept Kansas plains:

Dearer the sight of a shy, wild rose by the roadside's dusty way Than all

the splendor of poppy-fields ablaze in the sun of May.

Gay as the bold poinsetta is, and the burden of pepper trees, The

sunflower, tawny and gold and brown, is richer, to me, than these. And

rising ever above the song of the hoarse, insistent sea, The voice of the

prairie, calling, calling me.

Miss Clark was born in Neosho Co., Kansas, about twelve miles

southeast of Chanute, on a farm. At seven years of age, the family moved

to Chanute and her school days were spent at the old Pioneer Building,

where her mother went to school before her. In 1894, she graduated here,

later entering the University of Kansas for work in English.

In 1906, ``Verses by a Commonplace Person'' was published. ``The

Call of Kansas and Other Verse'' came out in 1909. This volume contained

``My Dear'' and ``Good Night'' which were set to music, and ``Rose O' My

Heart.''

``Rose o' my heart, to-day I send A rose or two, You love roses, Rose

o' my heart, I love you.

Rose o' my heart, a rose is sweet And fresh as dew. Some have thorns,

but, Rose o' my heart, None have you.

Rose o' my heart, this day wear My roses, do! For next to my heart,

Rose o' my heart, I wear you.''

``My Dear'' was written for her baby brother, during an absence from

home, and is Miss Clark's favorite.

She is in the office of the Extension Department at the University of

Kansas, and has exclusive charge of club programs and does some work in

package libraries.

Just now she is contributing prose to some of the newspapers and

KANSAS WOMEN IN LITERATURE

doing some splendid feature work.

KANSAS WOMEN IN LITERATURE

MARY VANCE HUMPHREY.

Mary Vance Humphrey of Junction City, Kansas, has written a series

of short stories on the property rights of women in Kansas, a subject that

was and is, still, of vital importance to the women of the state. ``The Legal

Status of Mrs. O'Rourke'' and ``King Lear in Kansas'' are two of the series.

When young in heart and experience, Mrs. Humphrey wrote a number

of poems. Her work in later years has been only prose. Her novel, ``The

Squatter Sovereign'' is an historical romance of pioneer days, the

settlement of Kansas in the fifties.

Mrs. Humphrey is one of the founders of the Kansas State Social

Science Club and the Woman's Kansas Day Club and the founder of the

Reading Club of Junction City. She has served as President of the State

Federation and as Director of the General Federation of Women's Clubs

and President of the Woman's Kansas Day Club. Her work as member of

the Board of Education has done much for Junction City and her interest

in libraries has done equally as much for the State of Kansas.

Of her record as an official, Margaret Hill McCarter has written: ``Her

whole soul is in her work. She is the genuine metal, shirking nothing,

cheapening nothing, and withal happy in the enjoyment of her obligation.

She stands for patriotism, progress and peace. Something of the message

of the shepherds heard out beyond Bethlehem that Christmas morning

long ago sounds in the chords she strikes.''

As the wife of the late Judge James Humphrey, she proved herself the

able companion of such a worthy man.

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