The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-17

have monthly meetings the third Mon
day afternoon in every month, to take
in the pushing Of the Better Babies
contest that they mean to have in the
fall. and to take action toward q bet
ter sanitary condition Of tho city. Such
was the decision made yesterday at
the club gathering at the 7. n. c. A.
They will enlist as active aides Of the
city officers in the sanitation work. and
they will get ready to urge on the
club women the duty Of attending the
women's meeting at Topeka ON Kansas
day. The program yesterday included
an account by Secretary A. L. Sponsler
OF the state fair Of the system and sue
cess Of Better Babies contests: talk
by Mrs. T. J. Pugh on the recent meet
ing Of women in Topeka interested in
women's legislation, with $50 women
present to hear Of the ways and means
Of presenting such legislation; q most
impressive and earnest paper by Mrs.
r e. Leighty on the duties Of Fedora
ton women; q talk by Mrs. Hadley Of
Topeka on the work the Topeka Fed
GRAFTON accomplishes.
Mrs. Victor Martin, who IL visiting
her mother, Mrs. T. A. Beck. was the
guest of honor at an informal after
noon party given Tuesday by Mrs.
Ralph Squires. at her home in Quincy
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Gresser will give q
dinner party Christmas for their rela-
tives in Topeka.
Tho Pleasant Hour club will have its
last meeting of the year Thursday
I<aRk M 80 IL
Glover. The club, which has about q
dozen and q half members, is now In its
fifteenth year and five or six Of its char
ter members are still on the roll. While
it is chiefly a social club. it has given
a good deal Of its time to work of
the members will pack q Christmas
box for a needy family.
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The much despised social climber who
is snubbed again and again. and often.
in the end, accepted, has something to
say from her point Of view in re-
cent number of the Kansas City Star.
She tells how society owes most OF
its thrills TO the climber and how the
climber gets most of the thrills of So
ciety. She justifies social climbing. by
women as the parallel Of business push
in men. With q few changes in details
the story applies pretty well outside OF
Kansas City. Here are q few para
graphs from it:
OF course, there are lots Of people
who look down on a climber, but that
doesn't really matter unless they hap
pen to be In position to do so with
| cities in the east where have visited
they don't like climbers because society
has been handed down to them ready
made by their ancestors. The result IL
| their women are growing socially soft.
like English women or Hindus. and are
taking to art and politics and other
useful things that simply do not count,
and never become a social menace, In
communities where women have to &c
out ana work for their husbands and
children.
Yes, work. And II you haven't q
husband you will climb for him-not to
catch him. that's vulgar. but to make
| q place for him in society just a. he'a
making a place for you in business.
And as most women do start without
a husband let us begin by looking al
the walking exercise Of the debutante
at the foot Of the social hill.
OF course, many dehutantes have
their place in society reserved for them;
that's what makes them 80 uninterest-
ing. The girls who come back from
school with womanly ambition In thei1
hearts are the lifeblood Of society. ]
know several girls whose mothers
hadn't enough friends to form a sewing
club when their daughters went t.
school and didn't dream of doing any.
thing for them when they came home
Those girls had their own way to make
But they knew. perhaps instinctively
the value Of school friendships and
with them built social foundations firn
enough to hold the whole family.
OF course. nearly every girl wheI
she comes home from school has to de-
eide whether she will take up with tn.
old set again or climb into . better
one. But she has to remember that al
the other girls are choosing, too. and
probably choosing the upgrade. So i
often happens that q girl win =,
through all the mental agony O.
"frosting'' the old friends, only to NM
herself in the same company ON tn,
next rung.
had quite q struggle to ret m,
family to understand me ana my yer.
nrst heartache came when I had Il
choose between childhood ties AMI
my new society friends.
That's the time for alliances. know
two quite slicce1sful society women VII
kept meeting In this way. year afte
Il year. Az allies they could have trav
eled twice ~ last. but they Woco ennl
. aahasned q H. oel1sS AnAh1e -
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