The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-03

I The attention of welfare workers in
4 the state is conferred in the newly Gre
ated department and those who are
working in its interests are expecting
it to develop into one of the impor-
TAM branches of the states betLerm ent
efforts. At a meeting in the office of
| the board of health Friday, Dr. De
| Vilbiss outlined her plan for 81 perma-
nent baby clinic in Topeka. 1t is her
hope that the mothers of Kansas can
have a school conducted under the
health department, with lectures cal
culdted to educate women ill the care
of little children. Kansas is the sec
ond state in the Union, and the first
state west of the Mississippi. to estab-
lish a bureau of child hygiene.
DR.. De Vilbiss was formerly con-
nected with the Woman's Home Com
paniOn, and conducted the baby con-
tests in that ma gaZine. She left her
place on the staff to come to Kansas,
believing that this state is wide awake
in it's uplift work and will stand with
her in her effort to make the depart
ment valuable.
The course of lectures that will be
given in the department will be in
structive to young women of the state
who wish to engage in welfare work,
and it will fit them to take charge of
similar departments that will un-
doubtedly be esta blished in other
states.
DR.. De Nilbiss will make an address
at the party next Thursday concerning
her plan of work. Governor Cappcr
will make the address of welcome, and
DIR. S. J. Crumbine will speak on the
health department. Mrs. Lee Mon
roe will tell of the needs that the di-
vision of child hygiene is discovering.
The music for the afternoon will be in
charge of Miss Maud Mary Kline. The
hostesses, who are the women of the
Good Government club, Will be as
sisted by representative women from
over the state, who have been invited
to attend the party and to meet the
new worker for benefit OF children.
Some prominent women of Topeka
%s g :.
The first anniversary of the organ
lzation of the Shawnee County POliti-
cal Science club will be celebrated
Wednesday. July I, at the home of
Mrs. w. a. Johnston, at Elmwood
Place The society was founded at
registration party held at Mrs. John
ston's home last July, and at once be-
came affiliated with the Kansas Good
Citizenship league. The purpose of
the club is to study politics and va
rlous questions of public interest, and
1t aims to extend its work to the
women all over the country.
The guests of honor at the party
next Wednesday will be Mrs. Cen
ev1eve Cha1kley, of Lawrence, and
Mrs. Cora Wellhouse Billiard, of
president of the Kansas Good Citizen
ship league, and she has recently been
appointed member of the Kansas
State Welfare Commission, by Gov
ernor Capper she will come 20 To-
peka Tuesday to attend q meeting of
the commission, and will remain the
following day for the party Mrs
BQllard is the present president of
the Kansas Good Citizenship league
She has long been an active club
woman, and was a district president
of the Kansas Equal Suffrage league
during the campaign year.
The members of the clubs execu-
tive board and advisory council will
receive the guests
Mr. and Mrs J. Newell Abrahams
Miss Julia Whitmer and Miss LuGrace
Whitmer, at cards Friday night.
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Mrs H O. Garvey gave a luncheon
today at the Country club for Mrs. o.
l.. Clarke, OF Galveston, Texas, who
is visiting Mrs G.. c. Colburn. The
guests We're some of the members of
the Sorosis club, to which Mrs. Gar
vey belongs and of which Mrs. Clarke
was a member good many years
ago. the Garvey and Clarke families
have been close friends during the
summers that they have spent at Lud-
have a summer home, and where the |
Carney family have spent some |
seasons.
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The Faculty of Washburn college |
will have their annual Independence |
Day picnic MONDAY, July 5. on the |
Washburn campus. The party will |
be given at five O'Clock IN the after |
noon. and the picnic will be given |
whether the weather is good or not
If the day is bright, the party will |
be held out of doors; otherwise. the /
affair will be made ar indoor picnic /
and Will be given in the gymnasium.
The guests. will be the members