The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-07

Harve for $1,000. The passengers had
to take their own supplies with them,
as no meals were served on the boat.
They crossed the channel at the wild
est point into England and a journey
that usually occupies few hours was
made in four days.
Mrs. Wilson told of a man who had
/! his room across the hall from hers in
| a hotel in Paris. HE was constantly
pounding typewriter and looking
through stacks of newspapers. One
| day a French officer came to his room
| to arrest him. The man refused to be
! arrested, but after some subduing
! thumps on his head, he consented. His
room was searched, he was taken out
/, and tried, and within an hour or two
was shot as German spy.'
! Mrs. wilson's daughter was unable
to reach England to sail with her
| mother for America, and is still in
Eerlin. She has not been heard from
poets to come home at the first oppor-
tunity. The Wilson's have been in Eu-
rope before SO that the shortening of
| their stay this time was disappointing
chiefly because it interfered with Miss
| Wilson's plans in continuing her musi-
cal education abroad. I'm Bayreauth.'
Mrs. Wilson says, "a grand opera COM
pany was singing an opera when the
news of war reached the theater. The
announcement was made to the audi
/ ence, and fourteen of the actors left
the stage Immediately and went off
to join regiment. The performance
! of that play is still unfinished
Tht members of the bridge club who
| will be guests at the Burch home to-
| night are: Mr.. and Mrs. J. s. Dean,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bowman, Mr. and
Mrs. L. l.. Kiene, Mr.. and Mrs. T. J.
Myers, Mr. and Mrs. Clement Smith, and
Judge and Mrs. Burch.
The date of the wedding of Miss
Edith Thompson and Mr.. Albert
Sc8cle will be Wednesday, October 81
The marriage will be solemnized by
DIR. S. S. Estey at eight o'clock in the
evening, at the home of the brides
mother, Mrs. r. F. Thompson, 1875
Topeka avenue.
Miss Edna Thompson will attend
her sister as maid of honor, and Mr.
Searle has chosen his brother, Mr.
Howard Searle, as his best man.
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Mrs. David Page and Miss Marguerite
Dice were the speakers at an Afternoon
tea Tuesday at which Miss Mary Mac.
Lehman was hostess. Mrs. Page, wht
was secretary of the local Y. w. c. A
before her marriage. and who, at one
time, was connected with Y. w. c. A
work in Toxic. Japan, told the guest:
at the party of the work of the genera
association with its headquarters il
New. York, the field organizations int
which the country is divided each fielt
comprising group of states, the coun
ty organizations and the student socfe
ties. There are about a thousand 0rgani
cations in the country, with a member
ship of some $4,000 women. The or
ganization is international and inter
racial and has been established il
many foreign countries. In the shor
time since the work of establishing
county organizations has been going on
eleven of them have been planted. Thel
are for the benefit of country girls an
women. and their aim is to help tn
rural women in study, reading, music
etc, thus making them more conten
with rural life and less anxious to g
+ into the cities.
Miss Dice told Of the work of the 10
! cal 7. W. c. A.. especially emphasixinl
the protection It gives to girls who ar
strangers IN the city and living q