The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-02

lege Alumnae club are Mrs. David
| . . .
Mrs Guilford Dudley entertained the
Art club at its meeting Monday of this
| week.
Miss Marie Cope. whose marriage to
Mr.. Walter Laundon will take place
Saturday of this week. will be the
guest of honor at a dinner party at
which Miss Florence Davis will be
hostess Thursday night, at her home in
Western avenue.
Miss Jessie Ferrin will have guests
at dinner party tonight at Mills Tea
room for Miss Cope.
Among the out of town people who
will arrive Friday and Saturday to at
tend the Laundon-Cope wedding are:
Miss Cope's brother. Mr.. r. r. Cope.
| Mrs Cope and their little daughter,
Betty Jane. Of Moline. ILL.,; Mr.. and
Mrs. T. Y. Lynch of Holton, Mrs. M.
Schneider of HiaWatha Mr.. and Mrs.
John w. Bush of Kansas City, Mrs. F.
J. Close and Miss Mary Close Of Kan
sas City and Mrs. S. J. Altswager Of
Hutchinson.
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recital Saturday evening. December II,
at Central Congregational church. be-
ginning at $3.50 o'clock. The event will
be of interest to the musical people.
among whom Miss Cav occupies a
prominent place.
] The Sigma Alpha IOta sorority of
lWashburn college had a spread Tues
day evening at the home of Miss Mi
Iriam Foster, in West Sixth avenue, for
the pledges, who are: Miss Elizabeth
Daume, Miss Beatrice Clifton, Miss
Ruth Washburn, Miss Fayeben Will
liams, Miss Virginia Taliaferro and
Miss Hazel Bruce.
}, The Topeka Avenue club will meet
Friday with Mrs. Luther Coppock, in
:, stead Of with Mrs. w. r. Davis, as for
!, merly planned.
Among Kansas women who have
won places Of more or less distinction
in the east is Miss Frances Garside,
who was for years on the staff of the
Atchison Globe. She went to New
} York from Atchison a little more than
three years ago and became a men,
Der of the editorial staff of the New
York Journal. For three years she
wrote the Beatrix Fairfax column on
that paper. Last spring she became
a member of the staff of the Mcclure
Syndicate.
Miss Garside has some friends in
Topeka. She is now visiting her sis
VeT, MIS-. y. -. OOIc OF Kansas City,
Mo-, and a Kansas City paper prints
the following interview with her:
IF there is such a thing as rein
lcarnation. 1 want to be a butterfly If
have to live another life," Miss
Frances L. Garside, former Kansas
newspaper woman. now a writer for
the Mcclure Syndicate Of New York,
declared yesterday. Butterflies. you
know. have brief but pleasant exist
ences," she continued. II have al
ways been an ant-and people are al
ways stepping on ants-but never on
butterflies. My life has been one of
lwOrk-just plain work. Like the ant,
I have always been busy-and for that
reason 1 have never had much time to
cultivate hobbies.
Il suppose am old fashioned in my
notions and I have found since Left
the Atchison Globe to take up my resi-
dence in New York that do not fit in
very we'll with the new woman move
ment 1 have encountered there. It is
the fad among the majority of the
women Of New York to hate men. ]
don't. for 1 have been doing a mans
work all my life and think under
stand a mans viewpoint of things in
general better than the average
woman. Yes, 1 know better how tc
earn a dollar than fry a beefsteak.
had my early lessons in a schooling OF
twenty-three and a half years under
Mr.. Howe in Atchison.
Just now I am engaged in writing
serial story which will express my
opinion Of the new woman and the
conditions which have produced her
1t will have as a title, According te
john Written into it will be some
pen pictures of the things have seer
in New York and elsewhere The
women's clubs Of New York. for in
stance, where they meet to gossip
smoke and do other things which, te
my mind, are unwomanly.
Il don't like the great big city. Ny
ideal of life would be home down II
the heart of the Ozarks in reach Of 8
city with its advantages of operas, the
alters and lectures. I like freedom
But 1t has been nothing but just plaiY
work for me all my LIFE. 1 am like {
calf tied to short rope. 1 would liks
to have longer rope and a little mort
real freedom
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Miss Katherine Dolman will enter
tain Informally at thimtles Thursda,
at her home in Potwin Place. Mis-
Constance Pember Of GAINESVILLE Wis.
will be an honor guest at the party.
Mrs. Harold Rankin entertainet
/ her bridGo club 1T . bridga-luncheoa