The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-03

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of honor, covers were placed for Mrs.
Wheldon Morris, Mrs. Jack Campbell.
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Following is the list of those who
will be guests tonight at the dinner and
ball to be given by the men OF the
Kansas Beta chapter of Phi Delta
Theta: Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D. M. Ham
tice and Mrs. Henry F. Mason, Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur J. Carruth. jr., Miss Helen
Mitchell, Miss Mary Wickwire, Miss
Sierra Beggs. Miss Rebecca Welty.
Miss Beulah Searle. Miss Esther Clark.
Miss Ruth Bauer, Miss Marie Cope,
Miss Beth Thompson, Miss E1rna Zu-
tavern, Miss Lois Murphy, Miss Mar
garet Ewers, Miss Marjorie Rodgers.
Miss Martha Logan. Miss Ruth Ora
ham, Miss Louise McNeal. Miss Winl-
Marjorie Lyle. Miss Julia PettyJohn.
| Miss Marguerite Thrapp. Miss Mar
garet Shakeshaft, Miss Helen Craw-
ford. Miss Irma Larrick. Miss
Carolyn McNutt, Miss Mary Balch. Miss
Mildred Gephart. Miss Isabel Mills.
Miss Esther Chaplin, Miss Helen Guild,
Miss Helen Shaver. Miss Ruth Foster.
Miss Josephine Ellis, Miss Marguerite
Kiene. Miss Miriam Ring, Miss Sue
Louise Bell. Miss Lucy vawter OF
Oberlin, Miss Fern Larrick Of Lenora'
Mr.. Frederick Cowles of Lawrence. Mr..
Lee johnson. Mr.. Omer D. Smith. Mr..
w. w. Dunaway of Newport Ark, Mr..
Warren ]. Crumbine. Mr.. Herbert
Heym. Mr.. p. William Beggs. Mr..
Junius Dyche of Lawrence. Mr.. Wal
ter Laundon. Mr.. N. Ault. Mr.. Her.
bert Guild. Mr.. Arthur Champeny, Mr..
Glenn Elble. Mr.. Ray Beaver, Mr.. Her
man Ewers, Mr.. Lewis Hasty. Mr..
George Hogeboom. Mr.. Louis Larrick.
wanger. Mr.. George O'Brien. Mr.. Frank
Ripley. Mr. Morris Sanders, Mr.. How
ard Searle, Mr.. Edwin Seeley. Mr.. DON
aid Welty, Mr.. Raymond Wolfe. Mr..
Ralph Kingsley. Mr.. Harwood Benton,
Haynes, MI. Donald Heath. Mr. Elmer
Henry. Mr.. Erwin Sager, Mr.. Walter
/ S1agle. Mr.. Cecil Lowe of st. John, Mr..
Roy George of -Lenox, Ia, Mr.. Robert
Steele.
A nominating committee was ap-
| pointed by the president of the To-
peka Federation Of Women at the April
| meeting held Thursday afternoon at
! the Y. w. c. A. The members of the
committee are: Mrs. Clement Smith.
/; chairman. Miss Lucy Kingman and
Miss Helen Curry, and they will pre-
ton to be held in June.
At the business session. the fedora
ton voted to have the board Of man
| agement appoint delegates to the con-
! vention Of the State Federation of
clubs to be held in Wichita in May.
| A social hour was held after the pro-
! gram, and the serving was in charge of
Mrs. T. r.. Paxton, chairman of the
! social committee. She was assisted by
Mrs. F. w. Watson. Mrs. D. o. Coe,
| Mrs. T. B. Reynolds, Mrs. ]. c. Ema-
| hizer, Mrs. w. A. Johnston, Mrs. Will
I liam Macferran, Mrs. w. A. Smith and
Mrs. ]. NJ. Brown.
| The program was in charge Of the
! department of forestry, and Mrs. D. o.
Coe, chairman of that department, in
troduced the speakers. Mr.. Arthur
| Capper read a paper on "Beautifying
| some healthful employment for school
! children during the vacation and hours
| out of school, to keep them on from
the street Flower growing by the
children helps, not only to make To-
peka a more beautiful city, but every
attempt to adorn a city lot has far
reaching influence on the community.
Flower growing has a spiritual value
that goes to the very roots of the
inner life which is the best shield
II against evil influences. More than half
the back yards in Topeka are unculti-
waited.
There are 5000 children in Topeka
who remain out of school, and only
half of those who enter remain until
the end of the elementary grades
Many of them cannot go to school be-
cause they cannot buy the books. We
will not have free schools in Kansas
until We have free textbook
Mr.. Capper spoke of the desirabflity
of a censorship of moving picture
houses and vaudeville shows. He dwelt
at some length on the need OF a more
practical course of study in the
schools, by which the young people
at the end of the eighth grade could
leave the school with training that
would enable them to make a living. He
urged the need of teaching that work
with the hands is not degrading but
necessary and honorable. He spoke Of
the problem of the unemployed, sug-
costing some reasons and remedies.
ii Miss Helen Hogeboom furnished mu-
II sic for the afternoon. Sh<
sang "Du Bist VIE Zine BIume.'
by Schumann; What is Lover" By
Grant. and "Daddy's Sweetheart.'' By
ii Itlli Lehman. Miss Efne Page playet
the piano accompaniment.
iii Mrs. Eva Morley Murphy. of Good.
land. chairman of the conservation