The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-13

NetsWanger was goWned In 9rey-blue
crepe. and Miss Barnes wore blue
charmeuse made with bodice Of lace.
The girls who assisted and served
ices were: Miss Katherine McFAr-
land. Miss Ruth Raster. Miss Lillian
Martin. Miss Helen Foley. Miss Gym
thia Monroe, Miss Leah AcEntyre.
Miss Lillian Moser. Miss Gladys Addy.
Miss Lucille Bomgardner. Miss Louise
Bell and Miss Bertha Clay. Miss Nc
Farland wore . modish white dress
with trimming on the skirt and bod
Ice Of pink lowered bands and frtlis-
Miss Kaster's gown was pale blue
crepe de chine. with q wide frill on
the bOuf1ant skirt Of shadow lace ana
the same trimming on the bodice.
Miss Martin wore a red crepe meteor
gown. with Oriental bodice and SASH
During the serving Samuels or
chestra furnished music. and the pro-
gram. arranged by Miss Kline. con-
tained two interesting addresses MISS
Marie Goodman Of Kansas City, past
president Ofsthe Athenaeum club, and
at present vice president of the Mis-
souri, State Federation OF Clubs. toio
the company OF the work the Missouri
club women are trying to do.
About ten years ago.. she sa1o.
''the Athenaeum club began to inter-
est the school board in kindergartens
and in a summer playground We do
not have the ballot in Missouri, and
we find that politics are mixed up IN
every branch Of civic and welfare
work, and our only weapon is the IN
direct influence. We have procured
censorship of moving pictures and
have been able to put out of the town
a large number of undesirable and
immoral pictures. We have under
taken to clean up different parts Of
the city. with. the help of the school
children, and our latest undertaking
in the civics department has been to
ally ourselves with organizations for
the suppression of cOmmercialized
vice. Our council of clubs has been
able to get from the city politicians
superintendent for the woman's re-
formatory under the board of public
welfare. and we have a house for de-
linquent girls. whose inmates are sent
through the juvenile court.
I'VE are working on an organiza-
ton of Civic league We are plac-
ing the membership dues at Is cents.
SO that all women may come into it.
and it will work for the Improvement
of conditions in the city. We have
also been able to build a club house.
raising the money by entertainments
and by taking what amounts could be
spared from the dues. We have half
Of the money in hand and we have
been able to borrow the rest
Mrs. Emma Sells Marshall, parole
officer of the Girls Industrial school
Of Beloit and a member Of the Good
Government club, made an address,
in which she answered many ques-
tons that have been put to her since
she accepted the position as the first
parole officer Of the institution.
THE movement for the home was
started by the w. C. T. U. and the
need for it is shown by the fact that
the number of inmates has increased
in the first year from 3 to 81. In
1911, the number of girls in the school
was PA, and in 1913, 165, showing
that the increase in delinquency
far below the increase in population.
At the end of two months after taking
the Office, had located all the girls
on the books who had been paroled
and who had not reported but had
| been lost to sight of the Institution.
Many of them were married. and ac-
cording to q newly established rule,
they are therefore discharged. OF the
III girls sent out since July 1, only
two have been returned. The parole
| officer has travelled $1,000 miles in
| ten months, in the work Of investi-
girls are taken, and looking up suit
able homes to which they may be sent
after their release. I have found that
| out Of 14S cases. there were only 81
| in which the parents of the delfn-
Quent girls were living together. In
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in others one OF both parents were
dead, or the family had been deserted
| by the father.
My study of the cases that have
come to my attention has led me to
ask this club to work for the passing
| of certain laws that I think are need
ed to prevent the downfall of so many
girls. wish the club would work for
the establishment of a reformatory for
girls over 1S; for a minimum wage
law for women; for mental and ply
steal test for candidates for marriage:
pensions for widowed mothers or
mothers deserted by the husbands; a
stricter enforcement OF the law
against deserting fathers: . law for
bidding the remarriage of mer and
| women who have deserted former
family, and q law compelling parents
who are financially able, to contribute
toward the support Of daughters that
| are in the school"
/ A feature of the musical program
was the singing of a song by a resi-
dent author, Mrs. Isabel Macarthur
Her new popular song, when the
Bloom Is on the Cherry at Sardou.'
was sung as a solo by Mrs. b. B
Smythe. The music for the piece was
written by Mrs. McArthur's nephew
who lives in Kansas City and il a stu
dent of Cal Busch. The music is good
| and the lines have the "go' to them
that is making the song popular. Il
has been sung at some of the picture
4 shows, and 1t was played by the or
chestra at the high school play.
Mrs. Macarthur gave a clever read.
ing, Their First Baby" an origina
sketch. The complete program was
as follows:
Piano duet, II Trovatore. .verd
Miss Kline and Miss Florence Craven
Reading. Their First Baby:
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