The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-13
SOCIETY.


fContinued from Preceding Page.l
The fine arts department Of Wash !
burn college will give faculty recital
saturday morning. November IA, at 10
O'Clock, In the college chapel. Everyone
! interested IL invited to attend, and an
invitation Is given to the teachers who
stu remain in Topeka after the con-
yention to be present. The program
follows:
| Bach: Toccata and Fugue in. D.
iminor-Horace whitehouse, dean.
Cadman: (a) / Saw Thee First When
| cherries Rloom; (b) The Wild Dove
Cries on Fleeing Wing (from "Sayona-
| ra )-Miss Helen HogebOom.
! Reading: Selected-Prof, e. d. .Schon-
berger.
smetana: Two Gypsy Dances. (a)
Furiant, (b) Slepicka-W. D. Boughton.
| Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E
minor: II. andante; III. allegro-Miss
Helen Phipps.
i Rogers: The Star-Mfss HoReboom
/ Reading: Selected-Prof Schonberger.
Mendelssohn: Trio opus rs: /, allie
gro-Miss Helen Phipps. violin. Miss
Phebe Gaylord. cello, Miss Hazel Wing.
Il . . .
II The program for Professor d. HI. Sey-
mour's organ recital Saturday noon at
the Auditorium. will be as follows:
uDiiate Deo ............. .Frysinger
Lullaby ...-...............M acfarlane
Alpin rantasy ............. .Hagler
Rondo d'Amour ;. Westerhout
The recital is free. and all who wish
OF attend are invited to do so.
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The regular chapel services at the
College Of the Sisters Of Bethany are
held at o'clock in the evening. and
the school gives an invitation to visit
Ing teachers to attend.
A meeting Of the Good Government
club was held Thursday afternoon at
which the question Of needed legisla
ton Tor women and children, was dis
cussed. The club has decided on a
number of bills that they will ask the
legislature to enact at the approaching
session. They are particularly interest
ed in property law, by which a wife
may have in her actual possession her
half Of the property, without having to
be divorced or to die to realize on that
property. They want the bill to be
such that she, in case she dies before
her husband, can will to her children,
her share in the community property.
They will also ask for law providing
a child hygiene department In the state
government. a mothers relief fund bill,
and a tax exemption law for widows
who live alone. Mrs. c. B. Graves was
in charge Of the legislation discussion,
and Mrs. Lee Monroe made a short adj
dress.
The speech for the afternoon was by
Miss Katherine Devereux Blake of
New York. Miss Blake is a woman of.
much distinction. a well known lectur-
| er. and q worker for the good of wOm-
ankind. Her mother, Mrs. Lillian Dew
ereux Blake of New York, was one of
the pioneer workers for equal suffrage,
and the articles she wrote on the SUBJ
ject are still used AS among the ablest
IApP Nv.kz. fvN AH~nA u-l-
active In the work Of procuring equal
pay for women and men teachers in the
east. She is returning from a lecture
trip through Montana and North Da
i<ota. where she assisted in the cam
paign for equal suffrage. She is an
excellent and entertaining speaker.
Miss Blake told her audience yester-
day that the eastern men who are be-
ing asked to enfranchise the women.
are watching the women voters in the
suffrage states. You should try your
best to vote wisely, earnestly and to
take a continuous and keen interest
in public affairs for the sake of the
good 1t will do us in the east. We
owing to the size of our cities. and we
need the ballot there even more than
II you needed 1t here.
Miss Blake was asked what she
thought about women asking for Office
She replied that while women were en-
I titled to Offices as well as the men. she
/, thought it best for them to wait about
asking for them until they had "served
in the ranks a while.
In answer to the question as to what
she thought Of craftsmanship among
women, Miss Blake expressed the
thought that women were, and prob
ably would always be, more independ-
ent than men voters and would cling
less closely to party prejudices. but
that. on the other hand, the more ef-
fective way to carry out reform. was
through an established party.
Miss Blake is attending the teachers
convention in Topeka, and il q speaker
on one OF the programs.
The program was opened by two vo-
cal numbers, THE Four Leaf Clover"
BrownelD. and The Banjo Song"
(Homer), sung by Mrs. Frank p. Whit
more.
Miss Marguerite Koontz and Miss
Grace Koontz will give an informal
i party Monday afternoon. compliment
tary to Miss Marian Wear. a bride of
next week.
Mrs. Walter Wedding entertained a
few friends at thimbles Thursday after
noon. complimentary to her house
guests, Miss Yetta Conkling. of Lyons,
and Miss Lurene Irish, of lola. The
Miss Conkling, Mrs. David Ferguson.
of Colby, formerly Miss Clara Daniels
Mrs. Albert Searle. formerly Miss Edith
Thompson. Miss Madeline Whitney,
Miss Louise McNeal Miss Edna Thomp-
son, Miss Helen Estey, Miss Frederick
Berges, and Miss Marian Thompson.
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A meeting Of the former Sigma Delt
Alumnae will be held tonight at the
home Of Miss Louise McNeal. in honor
Of some of the visiting teachers who
N are members. The visitors who will be
II euests are: Miss Helen Edwards and
Miss Carrie Hughes, Of Jewell City, Miss