The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-24

the whooping cough. Il WONDER said
the girl in a sympathetic voice, "can
you have this whooping cough on both
sides?''
The following will be the musical
numbers at the Vesper service at
Grace cathedral Sunday afternoon at
Professional, Saviour, Blessed
Saviour Coward
Nersicles and Responses .... Tails
Psalm 1917. Anglican Chants
Magnificent Gregorian
Greed and Nersicles .Stainer
Anthem. "Holiest Breathe an Even
ing BLESSING. Martyr
Vesper hymn, Sun of MY Soul
......-..... litter
ADDRESS. ;...-DL Dean Kaye
Great Jehovah. Spanish Melody
Offertory, ION High the Stars Are
Recessionai. Through the Night Of
Doubt and Sorrow" cambridge
The senior class of Washburn col
lege will have a party March 3 at
the Sigma Delta Psi chapter house.
The Nautilus club will have a social
meeting Tuesday at the home of Mrs.
j. E. Holland, 11O5 West Fifteenth
street The subject for discussion
will be Domestic Science" and those
who will have part in the discussion
are: Mrs. C. D. WaIp, Mrs. Ralph
Ward, Mrs. Holland and Mrs. J. H.
Rooms.
The West Side Forestry club will
meet Thursday with Mrs. d. .. Coe.
Mrs. Coe and Mrs. T. f. Dewey will
be hostesses. Mrs. S. L. Nelson and
Mrs. E. E. Ames will have the papers
Of the afternoon, and roll call will be
answered by Flowers in History"
Mrs. J. d. Mcfarland will entertain
the Good Government club March II.
The club is preparing to put out
leaflet telling why the suffrage
amendment should carry this fall, and
each member is requested to take to
the meeting of March IA concise
reason why she believes the amend
ment should pass, or if she prefers
she may send it directly to Mrs. Lee
Monroe, 900 Harrison street. The
club will select the best reasons pre-
scented and publish them.
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Mrs. T. J. Kimbrough has returned
from Nashville, Tenn, where she
spent the past six weeks with her peo-
leave Tuesday for Kansas City, where
they will make their home.
Mrs. H s. Gordon gave a children's
party 1nuTSQay afternoon Tor her son,
Robert, in celebration of his eleventh
birthday anniversary.
The recent decision of certain suffra-
gette leaders to abolish corsets has
aroused a lot of discussion. Some So
ciety leaders are suffragettes and are,
of course deeply interested in all things
that go to emancipate the female and
free her from bondage. Some of the
Topeka women think the eastern suf-
fra ettes are Going Too Far in the
matter. They believe that a corset is
necessary to sustain life. That it cor
reefs the mistakes of nature and i'm
proves on natures best work They
believe that a corset is a blessing next
in Importance to salvation.
It sounds funny to hear women talk
that way. But they do Now a cor
sets mission in life is to make a small
waistline But how about Venus,
whose waist curved only a triie from
the line of her hips2 And Diana. and
Pallas and Sleopatra, and Helen Of
Troy. These DANES would have as
sassinated a person who attempted to
girt them up in corsets. They were
so lovely that men died for them by the
thousand and their pictures and stat
ues remain to tell this degenerate age
of the lost beauty of antiquity. Venus
was strong and healthy She paid our
no money for doctor bills Her insdeS
had never been squeezed out Of place