The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-13

train, and held at the waist by a gird!e
of satin ribbon. Below a circular yoke
of tucked muslin falls an overdress of
the lace. This falls in points which
are weighted by white silk tassels. The
points at the front are short, barely
passing the waist line those on the
sides reach almost to the hem, while a
single point which occupies the center
back falls only a short way below the
hips.
The vacation season for the students
is rushing to it's close, and busy moth
ers are preparing the wardrobes of
their daughters for another school year.
OF course wnen the boys go away to
school the only fuss about it comes the
night before they leave, when a few
1.ecessaries are loaded at random into
IL trunk and then just before the train
leaves. the gooGby department rushes
it's business through as speedily as pos
sible. But for the girls there are d
hundred things to be thought Of There
are party gowns TO be planned and
made, and that is no small item in
these days of sorority rushing, when
the social life of a big school means
SO much to the students. The school
room dresses naturally have to have Il
little consideration, and it is not US
llally an easy task to meet in one
gown, the demands of simplicity, dur
ability and prettiness.
MOSL OF the students have already
made their plans for the school year
that opens in few weeks. Miss Leona
Curtis is intending to supplement her
washington high school education, by
a course at the Kansas university.
Miss Marian Wear who graduated last
spring from the Topeka high school,
will go to washington, D. -, to school
in September Miss Nellie Raster and
Miss Louise Raster, who attended Sim
mons college, Roston, last year, will
re-enter the school this fall. Miss
* atherine Kellam and Miss Nell Nc
F'arland also expect to enter Simmons
college; Miss Kellam to take the do
meStic science course. and Miss Nc
F'arland, the library course. Miss Sarah
Roark and Miss Martha Roark will be
students at Liberty college, Liberty,
Mo. Miss Annabel Carney will return
in the fall to Massachusetts to finish
her course at Wellesley. Miss Helen
Ames, Miss Julia Ames, ana Miss Anna
Keiser will attend Smith college, and
Miss Mildred Guild and Miss Edna
Hopkins, are planning to enter Byrn
Maiwr for postgraduate work. Miss
Hopkins finished at the university last
spring, and Miss Guild at Washburn.
Miss Annie Laurie. Hi4lyer will be a
student at Simmons college, Boston.
Miss Dorothy Porter and Miss Clyde
Bonebrake will go to LaSell, near Bos-
ton. Miss Jean Rodgers, Miss Marjorie
Rodgers and Miss Isabel Mills will be
students at Western college, Oxford,
Ohio Miss Mary MacLennan, who at
tended school last year in Washington,
j. c., will enter Washburn this fall.
Miss Bertha Hull will be a Washburn
student. Miss Mildred Guild, who was
q Junior at Washburn last year, will
take the senior year at the Kansas uF-
iversity, and is planning to take dra-
matte study as a special line of work
Miss Miriam Foster has aiso decided to
go to Lawrence to the university
The sorority girls at Washburn, who
are losing a good many of their girls
this year to other schools, are feeling
a little disappointed about the exodus
of attractive members The affiliation
of the Delta Phi fraternity with the Ma
tional Phi Delta ThetaS, will bring as
one of the girls expressed it, such a
lot of grand men" and there will be a
dearth CT girls for the said magnificent
chaps. Last year the difficulty was
reversed, and there were Is of the best
looking ard most attractive girls to be
found anywhere to every man in tn,