The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-20

The Tivon club will give a dance
" ~ eunesday evening, November 29, at
The ri Alumnae chapter of KAPPA
Alpha Theta were entertained at
luncheon Saturday by Mrs. F. W. Wat
son, at her home on Topeka avenue
Ihe chapter meets once in two months,
ana Mrs. Watson Will entertain them
at luncheon each meeting this year.
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Dropping shoulders, hoop skirts. and a
dependent attitude for women have all
gone out Of style, and the woman who
goes about making q noise like
eiinging VINE" is now the one who
straight front, clear-thinkirg, free
speaking women. A visitor of the new
order from Down East spent Saturday
and Sunday in Topeka, and Saturday
afternoon she made an address to about
a hundred women who were guests of
Mrs ". A Johnston in the sun par
lor of the Virginia Mrs. Helen Brew
ster Owens Csed to live in Kansas She
was born in Lynn county, and WAS ed
ucated at the state university at Law
renee. After her graduation she
taught IN the Lawrence high school,
and later went to Chicago where she
took her doctors degree. She married
q Kansas man, who WAS also gradu-
ate of K. y. and the Chicago univer-
sity, and they went to Ithaca, N Y
to live. Professor Owens is a member
and Mrs. Owens, a few years after the
birth of her two daughters, entered the
university and took her Pm d. degree
She is the second woman, and the last
SO far, to take a degree from the mathe-
mates depaI trcent of Cornell and the
second and last woman to finish the
course after marriage. When she heard
that the amendment for the enfFan-
chisement CT the women of Kansas
would be voted next fall. she offered
her help in the campaign, and she mas
come to spend six or eight weeks in
the work without charge in this state.
She left Sunday night for Kingman,
and will spend a large part of her time
in the vest and south parts of the
state. In her address to the women
at Mrs. oJhnstcn's party Saturday, she
spoke of the justice and expediency
of the measure granting the ballot to
women, and emphasized the fact that /!
the men of Kansas were committed to /
suffrage by former acts granting wo- |
municipal affairs. She explained how I
Kansas women had camped in tents +
near the Convention hall where the /
men of the state were considering the /!
and how later the bill giving them the |
b23lot in school affairs was misinter- !
preted so as to exclude them from vot- /
ing for county and state school officers. (
Mrs. Owens is quite 4 pretty @o- /
man, with a pleasing grace and charm I
Of manner. She wore at the party Sat (
urday a gown Of mode colored silk the I
bodice draIed. and the skirt was made ,
with a short train, and opening at one :
side, was attached to u band Of satin (
from the waist to the hem of the !
skirt.
The Mysutis club will meet Tuesday |
afternoon with Mrs. George Beach, 1888 |
West street.
The Atlantean club met this after
noon with Mrs Cook, on Western ave-
rue.
Mrs Emaline Pankhurst Of Eng
land will be in Kansas City Wednes-
day and Will make an address in the /
ellis building afternoon and evening
of that day. The women of Kansas
who are interested in the suffrage
women and others will entertain for
her Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Lee
Monroe has been invited to receive (
with them and she will go to Kansas
City Wednesday to be there for the
reception and the afternoon and even /
president of the Kansas Equal Suf-
frage league and Mrs. w. r. Stubs,
first vice president, also expect to go
to Kansas City to hear Mrs. Pank-
hurst. Mrs E. S. Marshall. who will
leave tonight for St Joseph, will go
to Kansas City Wednesday for the
event. Other women will probably go
from Topeka, as well as those from
other Kansas towns
Mrs w. r. Smith has asked the fol-
lowing friends to assist at her party
sister, Mrs. Harriet McEntire of Wich-
tia and Mrs. w. G.. Holt of Kansas
City: Mrs. w. A. Johnston Mrs. Ben
nett r. Wheeler, Mrs. D. w. Mulvane.