The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-16

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1t has not been many years since
the men graduates of Washburn were
making bitter omplaints-that is,
some of them-I wouldn't implicate
them all-were complaining, I say, be-
lcause the girls were being placed in
high Offices in the class organization
1t was quite all right that a girl should
serve as secretary of the freshman
class (since most of the work goes to
the secretary, providing she didn't
think the Office gave her too much of
a boSs1ng privilege. Poor men or
those by-gone days, who were holding
al, the important offices in the col
lege six or seven years ago, when they
were the lords of creation and the
lions of the campus, what must they
think of this sinful, topsy-turvy-tips
college world that admits two girls to
office in SO important an organization
as the dramatic club: Miss Bell is
vice president, and Miss Grace Dana,
secretary, and now over at the high
school, and at some of the larger
schools, the girls are even taking the
heavy jobs in athletic associations, and
are, otherwise shouldering honors OF
various kinds.
Miss Bells sister, who used to be
Miss Josephine Bell, but who is now
artist with special interest in CONNER
cial and illustrative work. in which
she has been successful.
Miss Bell is an attractive looking
of manner that gives an individual
flavor to her conversation.
j. j.
Mr.. w. Y. Morgan of Hutchinson,
lieutenant governor of Kansas, in
the east working in the interests OF
the suffrage campaign in some of the
eastern states. Mrs. w. A. Johnston
of Topeka has received letter from
him that contains suggestion of a
way for Kansas women to help also in
that campaign. He writes from the
Vanderbilt hotel, New York:
AT campaign headquarters I sug-
gested a scheme which was strongly
approved as sure to make more votes
than speeches will make: namely: Get
the women and men of Kansas Who
have friends or kinsfolk in New York,
New Jersey, Massachusetts and Penn
sylvania, to write to them and say that
suffrage is a success in Kansas and
has proven every anti argument a
fallacy. Not only the people who re-
ceive these letters will be helped, but
they will naturally tell their neigh
borS, who will thus become advocates.
The great problem, of course. is to
get popular interest aroused. You and
other Kansas people can do more for
suffrage in the east in this way than
many speakers. Can't you organize
a flood of letters to the campaign
states by personal and newspaper APP
peals. We had three street meetings
here last night
Letters to New Jersey would be too
late now, the election will be held
next Tuesday, but they ought to nave
effect in the other campaign states.
Mrs. Johnston asks that all women in
terested call UP on the telephone some
friends and ask them to write letters
to their friends in the east thus estab-
fishing a chain of telephone requests
throughout the. state.
j. = j.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Williams gave
dinner party Friday night. at their
home in Mulvane street. Covers were
laid for DIR. A E. Billings, Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Cope, Mr. and Mrs A. J.
Garr9th. jri DR.; and Mrs. Waiter
Mr.. and Mrs William Kercher. Mr..
and Mrs. Gray Adams. Miss Marian
McGaw, Miss Lulu Lower. Mr.. Robert
Steele. Mr.. J. Lower and Mr.. and Mrs.
Williams.
Just as the styles are going back to
the civil war days, and hoop skirts,
tight bodices and poke bonnets, are in
vogue, are the thought and inter-
pioneer times, and the good old
days" This interest has lately been
manifested in the organization of a
society of Native Daughters, and the
annals the members collect of the
deeds of their fathers and mothers.
One of the Kansas pioneers was in
Topeka this week a charming little,
old motherly woman she is, Mrs. AL
lyn, New York, to visit son up in
Wabaunsee county, and friends in To-
peka Mrs. Gray visited Col. and Mrs.
George w. Veale, and some other
friends in Topeka She is eighty-one
years of age, in good health, alert,
simple, kindly and gentle of manner,
and modestIy reluctant to talk to a
reporter.
Mrs. Gray is the widow of the late
Alfred Gray, and they were among
the early settlers who came to Kansas
about the time the Veales arrived, in
1857, I believe.
MY husband" Mrs. Gray told me,
was a graduate from an eastern col
lege, and came out to Kansas from
Buffalo, n. Y. He had been taken