The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-03

Peppmyer also took her own subject
for the day. Contrasting Anglo-Saxon
and French Women" The rest OF the
program was as follows:
The Mad Dog. Lehman
Miss Bartel.
Romanza ......:........ Chaminade
Miss Clark.
Contrasting Anglo-Saxon and French
Women-Mrs. Peppmyer
I Hid My Love. ..d'E1ardelot
Mrs. Wellman.
Autumn Observation-Disclosures. Chaminade
Mira. Wilson.
WinlLin, x5linlkin and Nod Lehman
Mesdames MorehOuse, Gordon, Paxton
Guests of the club were: Mrs. Ralph
Skinner. Mrs. A. B., C. butcher. Mrs.
George Port Ashton. Mrs. w. w. Bow
man. Mrs. Frank Whitmore, Mrs.
Charles wore. Mrs. Luther Coppock.
Mrs e. E. Marshall, Mrs. w. T. Cool
idge. Mrs. Edwin Kistler. Miss Wolf
and Miss Helen Hogeboom.
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The Monday Tourist club met Mon
day with Mrs. J. p. Carnahan. Mrs. A.
and Mrs. W. p. Snyder on 1.-The Great
est Geographical Undertaking" Mrs.
Roy B. Guild spoke on the subject,
Religious Strife Promoting Emigra-
tion.'
A notable event in the fashionab BILE
world in the east this season will be q
fashion show OF American made goods
and American invented styles. to be
held In New York the afternoon and
evenings Of November 4. 5 and 6. The
project is Of interest to women all over
the country, for it will mean that
American women will wear garments
, that are the product of home industries
, and home ingenuity.
Maybe 1t isn't SO much patriotism.
according to Margaret Mason, a writer
on fashions. as it is desperation now
that the Partisan road to fashion is
closed, that has caused women to start
this agitation. All the little Yankee
Doodle milliners and dressmakers are
too busy getting ready to prove their
long established contention that they
can produce az good models as the
Parisians can, to bother about the
motive. -
A fee of IS is to be charged for en-
trance to the exhibition. There will be
manikins dressed up in the creations Of
the most exclusive and expensive mil
liners, tatlors and gown makers of New
York
They will undulate slowly about Ii
genus m9nilktn before the adniirine
gaze Of the smart set, the stage ia
vorites. the general public and those
Of the hoi poiloi who have had the =
price Of ticket Of general admission
They will promenade to the sweet and
gratis strains of the smartest and best
orchestras in town. Other divertisse-
ments in the way of entertainment arr
promised but the manikins in all theil
glory and the American made sartoria
creations are the big show.
/ This is the first time in America that
anything of the sort on such an elab'
crate scale has been attempted. o.
! course, the several large department
stores have had their season fashion
shows, where manikins walked ane
money talked but those We're to dis.
play the ''dernier cri'' of the courtiers
anything but cheap Paris while THU
coming event in the fashionable work
will bear the stamp OF American ap
prevail, the seal OF the United States
and the labels Of New York firms only
Best of all. the proceeds are to go T.
the Committee of Mercy which Is or
ganixed for the relief of all those pool
women and little children of every ma
ton left destitute by the European
war-not only OF fashion but OF every
thing that makes life worth living o.
! even possible. 1t isn't often that thu
in such ultimate good.
i With the two laudable and humane
| Intentions CT benefiting the destitute o.
war and encouraging our own trades
people. the fate of the fashion fett
should be assured.
The Shawnee County Political Sci
ence club will have q meeting Frida!
afternoon at 2:a0 o'clock In the Ma
tional hotel assem- oily room. All WON
en- interested in the work of the clul
are cordially invited to attend.
! A feature of the program will be al
Minimum Wage" Miss Bresette i
deputy factory inspector for Kansas
and knows. perhaps better than an.
other woman in the state, the situation
OF its factory people. both owners AM
operatives.
! The XIV. club will meet with Mrs. 7
8. Morrison Wednesday at her home
1414 Buchanan street. for luncheon.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. Adrian. Greene and Miss Glars
Francis have returned from Burling
ton, where they visited Mrs. e. w
| Barclay. Mrs. Barclay was formerl,
Mrs. Olive Wood. who was librarian a
Baker University. after the death O
her husband who was at one time in
structor in mathematics in Baker.
DIR. Elnoa Whitmore left today TO
Nowata. Okla. to attend q distric
lodge convention
Miss Thomasine Jackson has returnes
from Kansas City. where she spent tn
weekend with friends and attended tn
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