The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-19

family, in the Maine woods. From
there she went to Boston, where she
was at one time a student in Simmons
college, and there received the offer
from the Traveller. She is now at
Oak Knoll. Winchester. Mass.
The small boy of the household had
listened to many conversations among
the womenfclk on the subject of their
wardrobe. and he had heard fashion
notes read aloud: he had listened to the
chatter of debutante visitors who al
ways know the latest way of expressing
the idea. One of the women of the
household was preparing for trip
away, ard came down ore morning in a
dress that had once been fairly pre-
sentable. Are you." inquired the young
hopeful. Are you going to take with
you that terribly good looking little
frOck?"
A new chart for use in the begin
ming grades of the public schools of
Kansas has been devised by Miss Jean
Koontz, Topeka woman and a teach
er in the grade schools. Miss Koontz's
work has been in the primary classes,
and she now has the first grade at
Harrison school. Some new methods
in the teaching Of reading lately put
in, force in Kansas schools made APP
parent to Miss Koontz the need of
such chart as she has devised. She
thereupon worked out a plan that she
has had in use for some time, by
which thu basic words of simple
before they should begin to try to
read. The plan appealed. by its sue
cess. to the principal Of her school,
who spoke of 1t to the textbook COM
mission. Miss Koontz was asked to
present her plan to the commission.
and she appeared before them to ex-
plain the system. which. as yet. has
not been committed to writing. 1t
seemed SO practical that Miss Koontz
was asked to draw up a written form
Of it. 1t was at once accepted as the
best offering Of it's kind that has been
presented.
Miss Koontz calls the chart the
Basic Reading Chart. 1t is we'll illus
trated with pictures and is simple in
design, folding into small space, and
can be hung above tie blackboard, or,
in country schools. it can be placed on
the blackboard ledge. l.,
Already the chart has attracted the
notice of teachers and superintendent
in other states. ind it bids fair to be-
come increasingly popular among pri-
mary instructors *s4'-'.-'" '-''
Mrs. Smith Hamil of Keokuk, Iowa,
who is visiting Mrs. Wallace Crutcher.
afternoon at thimbles today, at which
Miss Lillian McGoff was hostess. The
guests were members of Miss McGon's
sewing club. Mrs. Hamil, before her
marriage. was Miss Alice Noble.
Mrs. Warrick Updegraf will enter
tain her sewing club Thursday after
noon.
Miss Mary Weightman was hostess
at a meeting of her sewing club to-
day, and a guest, besides the members
was Miss Harriet Price. who has late
ly returned from a years residence in
the Orient
Mrs. A. S. Amber. Mrs. Roy B.
Guild, Miss Ellen Foberg, Miss Flora
Vesper, Miss Vivien Bernard. Miss
Jennie Maxwell and Miss Marguerite
Dice have gone from Topeka to Estes
Park. Colo, to attend the Y. w. C. A.
conference. Miss Katherine Dolman
| and Miss Mary MacLennan, who are
spending the summer at Cascade,
Colo. have gone to Estes Park for the
conference. The board of directors is
represented by Mrs. Amber, Miss
Foberg and Miss MacLennan.
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The program for the work of the
Good Government club in the coming
season. is now in the hands Of the men,
bers. 1t is unusually diversified in its
plan, including among the subjects to
be considered, the following: Child
hygiene. legislation for women and chill
dren. social service work and need of a
detention home. household economies
and report on the city market, what
women of the world are doing political
ly and industrially, and a meeting will
be held on the legal steps to secure an
elective office.
The officers this year are: Mrs ]. D.
Mcfarland, president; Mrs. E. E.
Roudebush. first vice president: Miss
Gertrude Barnes. second vice president
Mrs. Lola E. Replogle secretary; Mrs