The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

audience with their hair hanging
loose. Their locks were beautifully
thick and long, and it really is a
pity they ever need to wear them
confined in braids and coils The au-
dience guessed the names of the sis
tiers, and Mrs. F. L. Sherman was
awarded the prize of a bottle of tonic
for the correct list. Mrs. Lenore
Doster Cook was recognized as the
central figure, but the wise ones re-
fuse to divulge the names of the
others. The funds procured by the
sale of the tonic will be used to spread
gospel in and around Topeka.
After the guessing contest, the club
began it's serious business, and the
president explained why the members
must make up their minds that they
must do the things they had at first
decided they would not do-ride in
parades, speak on street corners, per-
SOnally solicit the interest of voters,
go to the voting places and distribute
the official ballots IF we are go
ing to win she said, I'VE must take
the measures that mean success. Par
lor meetings will not do. The voters
must be reached some other way
Automobile parades and addresses
will be given every Saturday.
Mrs. E. S. Marshall, who has been
in Colorado this summer, has kept a
column of suffrage news in a news
paper and has talked suffrage at the
meetings of Kansas people held reg
ularly this summer in the mountains.
Mrs. E. E. Roudebush, Mrs. Frank
Doster, Mrs. G. J. Evans, Mrs Whit
ticker and others made reports of their
work and explained their views of
the hopefulness of victory at the No
vem Der election. Mrs. Doster spoke
of the parlor meetings that have been
held. They are attended, she said,
by people who are already convert
ed to the cause-people of the first
n iS a
largely a matter of intelligence, for
we find that those who have arrived
at that point of experience and men
tai culture where they view human
ity somewhat in perspective, admit
the justice of the Women's claim
Miss Mabel c. Pond and Rev. Frank
Babcock of Macon, Ill, were married
Friday evening at the home of the
brides father, 1921 Clay street. DR..
Frank Lee, assisted by DR.. D. M
Fisk, both of Washburn college, per-
formed the ceremony. Both Rev. and
Mrs. Babcock are graduates of Wash
burn college, having finished in the
class of 1903. Mr.. Babcock later
completed a course in the Chicago
Theological school. He is at present
pastor of the Congregational church
at Macon, Ill Mr.. and Mrs. Bah
cock will leave Topeka Monday and
after spending a week or two with
Macon, Ill, to live. Mr.. Pond, the
brides father, will go to Macon TO
make his home with Mr.. and Mrs.
Babcock.
A Sunday vesper service will be held !
at the Y. w. c. A. Sunday afternoon
at AIS o'clock and a social tea in the
breakfast room at 5:15, to which all
women and girls are invited.
Mr.
chorus class of the Y. w. c. A. at the |
association rooms this evening from |
6 to o'clock. The class is open to |
all women and girls who are mem
bers of the association.
Mrs B. Z. Russell and Miss Julia |
G. Price of st. Louis, Mo-, will arrive |
Monday to visit Mrs. John Thomas
Price. and Mrs. Price will give a slum-
Der party for them at her bungalow
week. Mr.. Price has returned from a |
business trip west, and they will close
their house in the country the middle |
of October and will be at home in
their apartments, sos Kansas avenue.
A surprise party was given Friday |
night for Mr.. J. p. Wilson in celebra- |
ton of his birthday anniversary at his
home, 1410 West Sixth avenue. The
pension office clerks were the hosts, !
and those present were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilson, Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Smith, |
Mr.. and Mrs. o. B. Martin, General |
and Mrs. C. P. Drew. Mr.. and Mrs. /
Mark P. Miller and their two daugh- |
tiers, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Miller, Mr.. |
and Mrs. Leonard Fortune, Mr.. and |
Mrs. James McClary, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Campbell, Mr.. and Mrs. H. |
L. Willard, Mr.. Larry Mcdonald and |
Mr.. John Hoviden, Mr.. and Mrs. J. B.
Doncyson, Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Taylor
and Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Oswald.
A local author who is receiving |
statewide attention, is Miss Eme
Graham, whose book, 1.-The Passin' |
On Party" has had a two column re-
view in the Hutchinson News and a |
review in the Manhattan Mercury |
this week. In McClurg & Company's |
list of new books Miss
Graham's was at the top. all of which |
is a matter of some local pride.
The Monday Tourist club will hold |
its first regular meeting October at
the home of Mrs. A. J. Carruth, jr.,
Alaska, and the program will be:
A Native Alaskan at Home. 49,.
Mrs. I. S. Davis
Industries Of Alaska ........
Mrs E. E. BrookenS
Side Lights on the Life of the
Tchuktchi Mrs. Charles Makepiece
y
The popular Lyceum Course which |
is being brought to Topeka under the
auspices of the grade teachers of the
city schools promises to be one of the