The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-14

regularly every month this winter ami
are proving a pleasant diversion for
the members of the Ingleside house
hold whose pleasures are necessarily
rather limited. Mrs George w. Park
hurst, Mrs. John Kleinnans, Mrs.
Charles kleinhans. Miss Grace Keefer,
Miss Clara Freshman and Miss Ona
Miller will contribute a programme
of songs, piano numbers and readings
Wednesday.
A Topeka girl named Florence VIII
talks all the time and her sister who
never says word are known as the
"ebb and Flo of talk"
Miss Hazel Branch of Wichita. VINO
is student at the University of Kan
sas and often visits Mrs. Eugene b.
Stotts in Topeka, was one of the mem
bers of the senior class of the school of
arts elected last week to the honorary
fraternity Phi Beta Kappa.
The story is that parental objection
has had the usual effect in the case Of
q Topeka girl whose people have OPP
posed her sutton, and that she has is
sued def and announced that she is
going to marry him and they may as
well make up their minds to it.
Hutchinson News: Five of the well
known clubs of the city, numbering
about one hundred and fifty members
altogether met this afternoon at the
home of Mrs. w Y. Morgan on East
Sherman street for the purpose of
organizing a city federation.
Washtub row is the scandal of a
Topeka neighborhood where there is a
domestic fconoclast who's opposed to
Monday as a washday and has argu-
ments to prove that by washing on
Saturday she can get ahead a whole
day on the weeks work The other
women say, however, that the basis of
her contention is that she has no
washtub of her own and that by wash
ing on Saturday, in defiance of all de-
cency and regularity, she is able to
borrow from her neighbors. She bor-
roWed not long ago from the woman
who lives next door but by the follow
ing Saturday had failed to return the
tub. AS that was the date for the tub
owners biweekly bath, she was nat
urally good bit annoyed and more SO
when she went after her property, but
found the borrower away from home
and the tub locked in the house ami
had to give Up her bath, and just wash
her feet and let it so at that. 1t would
be more interesting to say that the
people concerned are prominent in
society,"" but honest, I'm not trying to
fool you-they're not.
Wichita Beacon: The cabinet of the
Eighth District Federation of Kansas
cup women is in session today in the
parlor at the Carey hotel. Mrs John
T. Herring of Wellington, president;
Mrs. S. r. Peters of Newton, first vice
president; Mrs. I. N. Singer of Wich-
ita, second vice president; Mrs. Warren
Baker of Ell Dorado, treasurer, and
the corresponding secretary, Miss Ida
B. Hoge of Wellington are all in at
tendance at the meeting. The cabinet
Is in session to appoint the department
committees for the coming year and
to arrange for the federation work.
Committees are being appointed for
philanthropy. education, art, music,
district history, industrial and labor
and credentials.
1T seems early to be appointing
committees when the annual conven-
ton doesn't meet until October" re-
marked Mrs. Herring this morning.
But there is much work attached to
the convention and we expect most
successful convention at Wellington
this fall" Wichita is represented in
the cabinet by Mrs. I. N. Singer as
second vice president. She is one OF
the most experienced club women in
the city and has been a faithful work
er in Hypatia club for many years
Wichita was we'll represented at the
district convention held in Newton last
represented this year since the inter
est in federation work has been more
largely taken up by the clubs of this
city.
People are at a loss to account fol-
the popularity of Topeka girl who
has had a great many Suitors in her
day and is never without a Steady
By all the laws of the game she ought
to be Bad Risk, matrimonially, be-
cause she is neither pretty nor at
tractive, from an unprejudiced stand
point, and is absolutely lacking in the
gifts of coquetry. She tips her hand
Immediately. instead of keeping them
guessing, which, according to all the
authorities, is the right way to string
man, chases them openly doesn't
understand the value of competition
and never plays more than one at a
time. In spite of these things she is
always Somebody's Darling and could
have married a dozen times, perhaps
if it had not been for the opposition
of her parents who think nobody is
good enough for her. But the Man
Who Has-the-Do says these paren-
tai objections are the secret of he1
success. The capture of man. says
the Man Who Has-the-Dope, demands
both ardour and opposition. In this
case the girl furnishes the ardour and
her people the opposition and that
keeps the men going. If her parents
were as crazy about her beaux as she
There may be something in it for the
managing mammas to reflect upon.
The Eureka Luncheon club will have
an evening meeting Thursday at the
home of Mrs. Frank Petro. Mrs. Petrc
and Mrs. Nelson Petro will be hos
tesses.