The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-13

Miss Mary Sawyer has chosen
Wednesday. Oct. l. as the date of her
marriage to Mr.. Cyrus Monroe. The
wedding will be held at the home of
tne brides parents Mr.. and Mrs.
Ihomas =. Sawyer. of Mcpherson,
Ran, at eight O'Clock in the evening.
Inc wedding is one of wide interest
IN Topeka and elsewhere in the state.
Miss Sawyer has many friends in To-
peka, for she has frequently visited
mere and she was educated in Wash
burn college. where she was a member
of the Sigma Delta Psi sorority. Mr..
Monroe is the son of Judge and Mrs
Lee Monroe and the family is wen
Known throughout the state: Judge
Monroe as a prominent lawyer and
Mrs Monroe as a club woman ana
leader in various movements in the in
terests of women. Mr. Monroe is Il
lawyer and is a member of the fra
OF observation-disclosures & Monroe.
A number of Topeka people VIII
proba bly, go to Mcpherson to attend the
wedding, including the Monroe family.
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Miss Helen McClintock, who spent
the summer on the Pacific coast, and
Miss Gertrude McClintock, who has re-
Gently returned from few months
European travel. visited the Montessori
kindergartenS in many cities during
their absence and WILL if their plan
meets with sufficient encouragement.
establish a MOntessori school for chill
dren from two and half to six years
of age in Topeka. There has been 50
much about Doctor MonteSsOri and her
remarkable experiments and successes
in the field OF education in the maya
zines and newspapers that every one
knows something of the new kinder
garten methods. Some Topeka moth
ers who are eager to have their chill
dren trained in this the newest and
most wonderful method of primary ed
ucation, have been urging the Misses
McClintock to start the school ana
they are making preparations to do SO
if there are enough available pupils u
warrant the expense and trouble. The
kindergarten will be held, if their plans
meet with encOura cement, at their
home. 1913 Fillmore street, where there
is a beautiful big garden where the
children would spend much of their
time in favorable weather and a large
third floor suite. suitable for the indoo.
work. Parents who are interested in
the Montessori Kindergarten. or Wlo
wish information about it are asked to
telephone the Misses McClintock about
their plans.
Kansas people have an especial in
terest in the Montessori movement, be-
cause one of its most enthusiastic
apostles in America is Mrs. Dorothy
Garfield Fisher. novelist and magazine
writer. and author of the widely read
A Montessori Mother one of the most
readable and interesting books ex-
planning MOntessOri theory and prac-
tie Mrs. Fisher lived in Lawrence,
where her father. the late DR.. James
II. Garfield was chancellor of the State
university and has many friends n
Kansas. Mrs. Fisher during a recent
winter in Rome made a thorough study |
of the Montessori schools in that city,
met Doctor Maria Montessori and
came home an earnest convert to the
new system of child training. She in
trOduced the MontesSori didactic APP
paratuS in her own nursery, and has
been working for the establishment of
MonteSsori kindergartens as part of the
public school system.
Another famous Montessori enthusi-
asst is Miss Anne George, who was j
Kansas City girl. was graduated from
the Kansas CITY high school, went into
educational work, became interested III
the Montessori movement and has
since become very prominent in it.
Miss George is the American transld-
tor of Doctor Montessori's book on Ter
system of education, established Mon
teSsori kindergartenS- in New York
and Washington, and is now at the
head of the American training school
for Montessori teachers in Washington.
Miss Georges series of lectures in Kan
sas City last winter created much Il
terest in that town. with the result THAI
there are at least two Montessori kim
dersartens there this year. one in con
nection with Miss Barstow's school and
another in the fashionable Country
club residence district.
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Mr.. Daniel s Craishead, of Carlisle.
Pa. announces the marriage of his
daughter Augusta Louise. to Mr.. Rich
ard Wood Sharp. which took place
Thursday. Sept. (. in Carlisle
The announcement is one of interest
to Topeka people. for Mr.. Sharp for
merly lived here. and is the son of DR..
and Mrs. A. a. Sharp. He is a gradC-
ate of the Kansas State university and
is member of the Sigma Chi frater-
nifty. The bride is a PENNSYLVANIA girl
and a graduate of the Medscar acad-
envy of Carlisle
Mr.. and Mrs Sharp will be at home
TO their friends after Oct in Kansas
City. Mo
Miss Lillian Martin is giving a house
party at her home, 1907 Tyler street for
a number of out of town girls. This
morning she entertained at a 500 party
in their honor. and tonight she Will give
a second card party. The out of town
guests, who are high school and uni
versity girls. are: Miss Marian Order,
Miss Grace Thomas. and Miss Lillian
Bacon, of Fort Scott, Miss Elizabeth
Bass of EIDorad~ Miss Rose Haworth,
Miss Helen Gallagher. Miss Elsie Bales,
and Miss Florence DUNCAN of Law