The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
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soon for a trip to the Massa ,husetts
coast, will give dinner party tonight
at the Country club: Covers Will be
laid for eight
DR. and Mrs. c. B. Reed have asked
guests for a dinner tonight at tho
Country club Covers Will be laid for
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. 5. Bauer, Miss Ger
trude Bauer. Miss Ruth Bauer, Miss
May Graham, Miss Phil Reed, and DR..
and Mrs Reed.
Miss Leila James gave a thimbIe
party today in compliment to Miss
Margaret Brown. whose marriage TO
Professor Charles Howard Edmond
son will take place August Is.
Miss Margaret Russell. of the Devon.
will entertain for Miss Brown one day
next week. and a number of other
parties have been planned for her TO
be given the following week
Mr.. and Mrs. George Godfrey Moore
will give a dinner party tonight at the
Country club. and those who will ct
tend are: Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Stone.
Miss Edith Rice of New Jersey, who
is a guest at the Robert Stone home,
Miss Lillian Stone, Mr.. Lewis Hanson.
of New York and Mr.. James Wood, CT
Kansas City, who are spending few
days in Topeka on business, and Mr.
and Mrs. Moore
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Since the esta bliShment of a swim
ming pool for women in Topeka at the
Y. w. c. A. and with the addition of
the ability to swim to the accomplish
ments of Topeka women, the question
OF correct fashions in bathing suits
has its place at last in public interest
Besides, such numbers of our people
go TO sea or the lakes during the
warm weather, that bathing costumes
must be seriously considered even by
those who can only wade. burrOw in
the beach sand or conduct a shore
filtration. And so the question is,
what is to be the prescribed, conven-
tional. legaliZed, orthodox and un-
questionable swimming suit? Here is
the story of a Chicago woman. DR..
Resale NJ. La6ova, who wants to
know:
Not only that, but she wants the
city council and the south park COM
miSsiOnerS to reply so that the beach
bathing portion of the city may for
good and all understand just what it
must wear when disporting itself upon
tho lake front.
Ideas as to the nodesty of bathing
suits are widely divergent, says DIR.
I-adova. At Palm Beach or Atlantic
City, she says. it would be a social
blunder for a woman to appear in pub
lie in the sort of costume designed for
a man. However, she states, such ap-
pearance at European resorts, such as
Brighton. Ostend, or Dover excites no
adverse criticism whatever. At BorneO
and Madagascar resorts feminine bath
ers don't consider the question of cos
tunes at all So what is Chicago go
ing to do2
The following letter. copies of
which were sent to the two bodies. ex-
plains itself:
Dear Sirs: 1 beg to call your at
tentiOn to the fact that on the 21th
inst Park Policeman Straight saw fit
to place me under arrest and take me
in a patrol wagon to the Hyde Park
police station for wearing boomers
while swimming on the Jackson park
beach 1 was booked on a charge of
dISOrderly conduct
The trial took place on the follow
day at the Hyde Park court before !
Judge Gemill. The court held: First, !
that there were no rules nor regula- !
tiOns in writing specifying the kind of 4
bathing suit that people are expected /
TO wear on the Chicago beaches, and |
that person could not be held for
violating rules that did not exist in !
writing. Second. that the bloomer suit !
I wore was far more decent than the !
suits worn by men on the beach.
He also agreed with me that men
should have more clothes on while at /
the beaches than is now the case. and ,
that he had personally noticed men
on the beach half naked, also putting
on their trousers in automobiles in /
plain sight of paSSersby.
I have seen half naked men visiting
with young girls in street dress on the
benches at the women's side of the /
Il therefore request your honorable |
body to pass an ordinance regulating !
the bathing costumes for both men 1
and women that would cover (the |
bathing suit. not the ordinance) their |
persons sufficiently to make them pre-
sentable to the public gaze. and at the !
same time would not interfere with !
freedom of movement in swimming so /
that person may go in bathing with |
out taking the risk of being moIested, |
as l was last Sunday
I sincerely believe that swimming |
is the ideal exercise, and that women /
would take il up more than they do ;
now were they not burdened by skirts |
If can be of service in suggesting the =
material. weight, and style of bathing
suit that would be hygienic, comforta- /
bic. and proper, you may command /
me-
The Monday Whist club and the
Fillmore Street Whist club will be en-
tertained Tuesday morning by Mrs.
George Clark and Mrs A L. Nichols
at Mrs Clarks home S35 Fillmore
street. /,
The girls Of tho Sigma Delta Psi
sorority will be entertained at an in /
formal party Monday evening by Mrs |
James Hughes at her home in Taylor |
street.
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members of her bridge club and a few /
other friends to an informal afternoon