The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-18

Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver who
| viii lecture at the First Baptist church
tonight on his work in the Juvenile
| court which has made him national
| figure, is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. E.
| A. F,redenhagen in Potwin. He will
leave tomorrow. Judge Lindsey's lee
| ture, Save the Children, is given under
the auspices of the Society of Charities
The S. r. was growing because she
had lost her railroad transportation. Il
should think" a man suggested, that
it would be easy for you to get a pass
while the legislature is in session. Why
don't you ask some of these statesmen
who stand in with the railroads for it?
You print enough stuff about their
wives to license you to demand one
in exchange for advertising"
Miss Emma Viets will give a dinner
at the Glenwood tonight for Mrs. A. p.
Havely and Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Vincent
of Girard. The other guests will be Mr..
and Mrs George f. Cole. Judge and
Mrs. c. E. F'oote, Chappelle> Foote, Mr..
and Mrs. C. NJ. Hill, Mr.. and Mrs. C. E.
Lagerstrom, Mr.. and Mrs. A. T Lucas,
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Burns, Miss Maud
Boner. Mr.. Frazier Cole, Mr.. w. B.
Smith.
business woman was seen riding in
an automobile with q member of the
smart set. Doesn't that prove" said
scoffing cynic as they sailed past,
the wonderful possibilities which this
country offers to ambition? There's a
poor working girl who has risen by her
own unaided efforts to that dizzy
height! Doesn't 1t prove again that this
is the poor mans country where all
have an equal chance to succeed? Veri-
ly industry, perseverance and virtue
are their own reward"
Mrs. J. B. Furry was the hostess of
the Monday Whist club today. The
substitutes were Mrs. Harold T. Chase.
Mrs. Eugene S. Quinton, Mrs Schuyler
c. Nichols Mrs. A. ]. Cole and Mrs. L.
S. Ferry.
George AIDES latest syndicated effus-
ion brings alice In Wonderland down
to date. Alice has grown-up and has
become bulky around the shoulders"
and her idea of good lively employ
ment" is to be patroness of something.
She is keenly interested in all Charita-
BILE enterprises that will keep her name
in the nosy old Newspapers at the top
of the Column next to Pure Reading
Matter" The Wonderland which this
modern, grown-up Alice finds is just
our plain old workaday world turned
so topsy-turvy that everything goes
right instead of wrong. She has an
ideal day starting out with her husband
praising the coffee instead of growing
about 1t, and kissing her cheek when
he leaves for down town instead of
missing her ear by about three inches.
In the afternoon she attends a club
meeting described as follows:
This club, of which she was one OF
the Arc Lights. had been organized for
no particular Purpose except to give
a large number of the Unemployed q
good excuse for rounding up somewhere
once a Week.
1t was not trying to regulate Congress
or apply Germicide to most of the litera-
ture turned out by the Male Sex. Tho
organization was simply going along.
without any Ostentation or Newspaper
Notoriety, trying to teach Woman thai
the Home was her principal Sphere OF
Usefulness and that she who knew how
to make good Escalloped Oysters was
more entitled to Renown than one who
had personally met F. Hopkinson
Smith.
When Alice arrived at the Club Room
the Annual Election was in Progress.
Everything was harmonious and a deep
Calm pervaded the Session.
After the Ballots had been counted
the defeated Candidate went over to the
newly chosen President and congratu-