The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-08

Miss Pansy West of Springfield, Mo-,
was the guest of honor at thlmple
party given this morning by Miss Mat
tie Payne, at her home in Clay street
The following friends were asked:
Miss West, Miss Lois Lindsay, Miss
Bessie Lagerstrom, Miss Mary Cooper,
Miss Frances Walsh, Miss Mildred
Mills and her guest, Miss Renbert
Harshbareer of Manhattan, Miss
AnnabeI Garvey, Miss Marian Walp,
Miss Katherine McCarter, Miss Louise
Culver, Miss Alta Lux, Miss Katherine
Lux Miss Margaret Tillotson, Miss
Ethel Everingham, Miss Marguerite
Kiene, Miss Marjorie Rodgers, Miss
Ellen Irwin, Miss Annie Laurie Hillyer
and Mrs. Carl Fowler.
A number of informal picnic parties
have been planned for Miss West.
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Miss Genevieve Herrick and Miss
Serella Herrick of Kansas City, who
are visiting relatives in Topeka, will
he guests Of honor at an informal sat
urday morning given by their aunt,
Mrs. Tom Frost, at her home in West
Tenth avenue.
Word has been received from the
w r. Stubs family and DR.. and Mrs.
Robert Stewart, who are travelling IN
Europe this summer. They have visit
ed the important cities of Italy, and
have gone to Switzerland. DR.. Stewart
VIII attend lectures in. Switzerland.
The party expects 20 return home in
October.
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Miss Florence White will give an
informal supper party Saturday night
for her guest, Miss Lily Mason of
Seneca, Kan. Miss White has asked
few of her musical friends to meet
Miss Mason, who is a talented must
clan. She is a teacher of piano in
Seneca and studied in the University
OF Toronto, Canada.
The last number of The Delineator
contains as its leading article, the story
of the progress of women in the west
entitled Miss Senator, Mrs. Commits
sioner. and Ladies of the Jury" The
article was written by Mary Holland
Kincaid. and in it are three pictures of
Kansas women who We're officers in the
State Suffrage League last year, Mrs.
w. A. Johnston. president; Miss Helen
Eacher, of Lawrence. secretary; and
Mrs. Genevieve Chalkley, of Lawrence,
president of the First district.
The story gives an account of the
work of Mrs. Helen Ring Robinson, of
Colorado, the first woman state senator
in the country. AS Mrs. Robinson is
to come to Topeka in the early fall, to
make an address under the auspices of
the Good Government club, her story is
of special interest. Quoting from Mary
kincaid:
Naturally, more or less uncertainty
a member from mountain district re-
ferred as the 'senatoress,' but Mrs.
Helen Ring Robinson had as one of her
notices. when you have good
speech on the end of your tongue keep
it there" and she soon won the con-
hdence of even the least optimistic
man. Senator Robinson was chosen
chairman of the committee on educa-
ton and educational institutions, and
was placed on the judiciary and other
important committees. She worked
early and late never missing a Gay
and remaining until adjournment, even
when all-night session were held
And after it was all over Senator
Robinson went home to superintend the
spring cleaning,
Following is from the magazines ac-
count of the Kansas victory:
When the thinking women of Kansas
decided that they wanted full suffrage
they carried on what the men called A
whirlwind campaign. For more than
fifty years they had voted at school
elections and for more than TWENTY-FIVE