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