The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-29

and Mrs. F. L. Loveland, DR.. and Mrs
s. G. Stewart. DR.. and Mrs. W. A. Nc
Carter. Mrs. c. G. Foster. and Mr.. and
Mrs. Smyser.
Mrs. w. S. Hayslip will give two card
parties this week for Mrs. T. Ward
Chapburn of Atchison who is her guest
this week She will entertain Thursday
evening with four tables, and will give
an afternoon party Friday.
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A Chicago paper has a report of an
address made before a women's club by
Myrtle Reed Mccullough, intimating
that man is a cheap skate who supports
his servants better than he does his
wife. THE wife, she said. gets her
board and clothes, a few kind words,
perhaps, and berry kisses, while the
kichten maid gets her board and
clothes and 81 a week If the average
guage to his domestics that he does to
his wife, his skull would be corrugated
from collisions with the rolling pin"
She continues to tell how the modern
home life harks back to the cave-dwell-
ing age, and women toll all day in their
little caves while man roams the high
ways seeking whom he may devour, Ell
cetera. And this from Myrtle, vino
writes those fearful, iovie stories Law
ender and Old Lace and Love Let
terS of a Musician" with broken-heart
ed sobs echoing from every page. 1
have heard the said Love Letters read
with piano accompaniment at private
musicales, and 1 have seen unsenti-
mental, middle aged married women
weep as they listened until you would
think they We're peeling onions. But
now it seems that the real Myrtle
doesn't shine forth from those touching
passages, and that women are not the
objects of mems cherishing devotion.
but that they are wage slaves, all but
the wage. 1t doesn't seem to occur to
Myrtle that the wife might arrange a
bargain with the kitchen girl, by which
she (the wife) would get the 81 per, and
the girl receive the berry kisses
The West Side Forestry club will
meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. G..
H. Griffin. 404 Woodlawn avenue.
The Music Study club will hold their
regular meeting Thursday afternoon at
3 o'clock with Mrs. Ralph Cav, at her
home on Fillmore street.
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The wife of one of the candidates for
commissioner took her 3-year-old son
with her to the polls Monday, and
was handed a card asking her to
boost a booster" The distributor of the
cards then passed one to the little boy,
and recognizing the picture in the cor
ner, ne Sdiu NE vote IOf MIN. HIM S
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The women of the Kansas EQUAL
Suffrage league are preparing for the
convention to be held in Topeka May
16. Delegates are expected from towns
all over the state. and among the well
known suffrage workers who will at
tend are Mrs Sadie Grisham of Cot
tonwood Falls, and Mrs. Anna G. Wait
of Lincoln, Kan. A good many letters
have been received by the officers of
the association inquiring as to who is
entitled to a vote in the convention.
Any woman who is a member of the
league is entitled to a vote and any
woman may become a member by pay
ing 81 membership fee and signifying
her desire to join the organization.
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A business meeting of the Fedora
ton of Women's clubs will be held
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in
the Commercial club rooms.
X e.
The Informal club will meet with
, noon, March 80, instead of April 6.
Dr. Matt Hughes of Pasadena. Cal.
will give lecture on the Passion Play
at Oberammergau, Tuesday evening
April 4, at the First Methodist church
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The Jayhawker club held a banquet
| Tuesday night at the Mission Tea room
for the members and their wives. Cap
tain Clad Hamilton was the toastmas-
ter, and responses were made as fol-
| lows: ITO the Jayhawker Suffragettes,