The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-19
SOCIETY GIRLS.
Will Bake, Boil and Stew For
the Multitude
At the Pure Food Show In
Charity's Cause.
TO BE TONS OFFOLIAGE
Used In Making Hamilton Hall
a Beautiful Sight.
Patriarchs Militant to Give an
Excursion Train From Horton

The Topeka kindergarten association
has undertaken the task of furnishing
the pretty girls to look after the de-
tails of the exhibits of the Pure Food
show. In Topeka the task will not be
a difficult one
The young ladies will be from the
flower of Topeka society, and they will
wear white aprons and caps and bake
bread, pancakes and biscuits to show
the people who attend the Food show
that they can. There are a. few cynical
people among Topeka young men who
nave said that the society young ladies
Know nothing about domestic science
and the art of cookery. The fact that
number of the prominent young WO-
men have already offered their Serv-
ices disproves such statements and at
the same time demonstrates that they
are perfectly able to cope with the real
tiles of life.
OF course the ladies who will officiate
in the various booths would not do so
for money. 1t is purely a. matter of
charity with them. They have tender
ed their services to the kindergarten
association and the money received for
their services will be collected by the
association and turned into the treas
ury of the society.
The ladies who will act as interme-
diaries between the young women and
the exhibitors are a committee selected
by the kindergarten association and
are as follows: Mrs. Edward Wilder
Mrs. t E. Bowman, Mrs Eugene Ouin-
ton and Mrs. John NJ. ClUgStOn, who
are ready to supply as many young la
dies as the occasion may demand.
A half dozen carpenters are working
on booths at Hamilton hall. The cook
ing school auditorium has been com
pleted and the front of the partition
has been covered with southern smilax
and artificial flowers. The work in the
lower room has been practically COM
pleted and a force of men has been put
to work in the upper hall, which has
been cleared of chairs.
The plan to have booths on the stage
has been given up and wide stairway
has been built leading onto that portion
of the building. The three arches that
have been erected will effectually sep
arate the stage from the other part of
the auditorium and it will be made in
to a reception room.
The interior will be fitted up with
chairs and divans where the ladies who
visit the exposition may spend a half
| hour resting and at the same time en-
| Joying the beauties of the hall and the
displays.
There will be carpets and rugs on the
| floor and it will be made to look like a
parlOr
There was a proposition before the
! Pure Food association to serve light re-
| freshrents on the stage, but it has
been decided that it cannot be done
without a great deal of trouble and
| abandoned.
The tickets for the exposition, which
were placed on sale last week. have
! been greedily snapped up. In one gro
Gerry store so tickets were sold in two
| hours and the same store has disposed
of 200. The fact that the advance sale
| is at reduced rates has done much to
| stimulate the buyers. Many people have
| purchased tickets for the entire week,
| expecting to attend every day.
| Secretary Adams has heard from at
! least one excursion that will come to
| Topeka during the Pure Food EXPOSE
| ton. 1t will come from Horton and
| will be under the auspices of the Patrf-
! archS Militant of that place. All the
| arrangements for the excursion have
| not yet been made, but Secretary Ad-
| ans has been notified that it will come
| off as advertised.
| The cooking school lecturer. Miss
| Emily Marian Colling, of Philadelphia
| will arrive next Saturday, but the first
| lecture will be given at 8 p. m. on Mon
| day. The Detroit News, where Miss
J Colling lectured last month, said of the
| lecture:
"A noticeab Bile feature of the lectures
| is that she never talks above the heads
| of her audience. Her directions are
| easily within the reach of all, even
| where lack of means prevents the &C
| cumulation of modern appliances. Miss
| COlling wears the costume of a refined
| cook during her lectures, large. white
| apron, long white cuffs, deep collar and
| ruffles and snowy cap. thereby conpIet-
| ing the picture of homelike comfort. 1t
| is like a realistic bit dropped from the
stage of everyday life