The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
NORTH SIDE NEWS.
Organize Cooking Glass in ROch-
ester School.
Probably Only One of Its Kind
in Kansas.
AFTER SCHOOL HOURS.
Pupils Study Domestic Science
as Extra Course.
n
Gave Demonstration OF PrOgre ss
in AppetiZing Art.

Rochester school, two miles north of
Topeka, on the Rochester road The
instructor of the class is Miss Ethel
Neiswender, principal of the school. She
is also a writer for 1.-THE Earth" THE
South West magazine and other per-
iodicals. 1t is said that she has writ
ten a book which is soon to be pub
lished. She has attended the state nor
NAL at Emporia for three years. Her
home is south of Kiro. near Silver
Lake.
Miss Neiswender has taught her cook
ing class in the upper story OF the
school house. Her equipment is limit
ed, but the supper Saturday night show
ed that her pupils had grasped the
principles of cooking. Their ages range
from 10 to IA. The cooking class has
been meeting after the regular school
hours. A gasoline stove and Few
dishes has served the purposes, but the
class hope to add to this in the fu-
ture.
Altogether the enrolment at the
school is about so. The school build
the Oldest organized districts in the
country. Miss Wendall, of Rochester
is assistant teacher.
The bill of fare for Saturday night
follows: Eggs a Ia creme, eggs deviled,
SARATOGA chips, potato salad, coffee.
cocoa. peaches and cake. Bread and but
ter served with each order. Five cents
was the cost of each item. Nearly
hundred people were present 1nclud-
ing many from the Stricken business
college. Miss Mabel Neiswender, sister
of the teacher, is a student in %he col
lege.
Those in the cooking class follows:
Ester Snider, Crystal Campbell, Pearl
McNoun, Fern Andrew. Manila Stock,
Grace Lonergan, Ruth Gordon, Frances
Wendell, Mary Smith and Rosa Smith.
Il like to cook and enjoy giving
cooking lesson said Miss Neiswender.
81 think that an idea of cooking will
not hurt even little girls. Their parents
supplemented at home my instruction
at the school.
we have had little spreads among
ourselves, but this is the first public
demonstration. May more follow"
Miss Neiswender won a prize. a pass
to any place in Kansas offered by the
Santa Fe for the best essay on the
products of Kansas a few years ago.
She used the pass as far as the west
-ern limits of the state and then went
on to Colorado. Here she wrote the
society column and Manitou news for
the Colorado Springs Gazette and also
worked for the South West Magazine,
whose headquarters are in Denver.
In his sermon last night, Rev. w. c.
Meeker pastor of the Second Presby-
terrain church. referred to Emma Gold
man, the anarchist who IS to speak at
Lukens' opera house tonight.
"A person must have faith as a con-
dition of entrance to heaven, just as
a foreigner must swear allegiance to
the United States before he is admit
ted to America. No anarchist is al
lowed to locate in the United States
if his beliefs are known.
and yet, right in our city, a woman
anarchist is to speak. Since she comes
from a foreign country, ] wonder how
it was that she was permitted to land
here"
"The head of some municipalities
act as though they were the supreme
power" said Rev. David Lyons. pas
tor of the Central Avenue Christian
church, in his sermon last night. His
subject was Religion and Politics"
To-day, what is known as the National
Liberty league has organized to take
the Bible out of the court room, the
libraries and the public schools, I'M
der the name of separating the state
and church, because the union OF
church and state has been so much
abused in Europe.
America was born and Graded in
Christianity. When Columbus landed
on the island of San Salvador he
planted the cross and gave thanks to
the Almighty. The Declaration of In
dependence begins and enGS with a
recognition of Divine providence.
However, there is no reference in
the constitution to a higher power. 1t
has been thought that because France,
the then leading atheist nation of the
world had helped America free her
self from England, the influence of her
agnostic teachings was felt in the
framing of the constitution"
Notes and Personals.
A. B. Porter, who lives alone at 421
Grant street iS in Tocpinf Of a card
picture showing church which he
helped to build at Sandsfield, Mass, in
1852. The church was recently de-
stroyed by fire. Mr.. Porter has been
/ in Kansas for about thirty years. His
wife died several years. He has no
relatives in Topeka.
Mr.. and Mrs Irvine Shook of Belvue
are visiting relatives on the North side.
L. M. Foster of Munden is here on
business. He is contemplating locating
north of Topeka. He says that he came
TO Kansas from Ohio in 1876, and start
ed to practice medicine in Brown coun-
ty with only SO in his pockets, but six
months afterward was able to bring
his wife and three children to Kansas
and has prospered. ever since.
The Excelsior Bible class of the Cen
tral Avenue Christian church has in
creased from twelve to thirty-five men,
bers in two weeks
Joe Billings of Manhattan visited his
sister. Miss Elda Billings, over Sunday
Roy Boast and Paul Priddy will leave
tonight for an extended visit in Spokane
and Seattle, Wash
Miss Emma Goldman, noted woman
anarchist, will speak at Lukens' opera
mouse at o'clock tonight.
An opposition to the proposed damming
OF the Kaw on account of the fear of
causing floods on the North side is be-
ing manifested. 1t is believed that
Dam will cause the river to flow back
flood times
Fritz Kuehne, with the Kuehne Pre-
serving works, has gone on the road
ior the firm. His headquarters will be
IN wichita and his territory southwest
ern Kansas
A. NJ Kasson, of Eskridge, a war