The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-13

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fit for service in the trenches.
| Miss Rose Morgan spoke on aero
planes" saying that it was her wish
that the aircraft now used in hghtlng
dren to school in the rural districts.
| ssIn the old days" she said, the men
of Kansas built trenches on Mount
| Dread to protect them from invaders,
land still they are building trenches
| of another sort, for the intellectual
and moral protection of the youth of
the state Miss Morgan is a Kansas
| University woman
! Miss Sabin was asked to make a
short address, and told something of
the coming campaign for suffrage in
Wisconsin. She was one of the work
ers for the ballot in Chicago, and Will
engage in the Wisconsin campaign
Mrs Stewart spoke kindly of the hos
pitality of Kansas women. DR.. Wooley
declared that she would go back to
her own school, to tell her students OF
the women of Kansas, the things they
are doing and the things they stand
for 1--WE are working for better con-
ditions, not as women, but just as
human beings, without self conscious
ness, but earnestly, forcefully and nat
urally-
The Matinee Music club met Thurs
day afternoon with Miss Ida Tinker at
her home in Fillmore street The
piano numbers for the afternoon were
played by MIR Thomas Dewey, the
/ lows:
= : Miss Euphemia Page.
Prelude, c minor .Rachm1noH
If No One Ever Marries Me. Rogers
iDaddy's Sweetheart. Liza Lehman
Mrs. Warrick Updegraff
Ara besque .: NJ baslle so MTangen
Mr.. Dewey.
Ouvre ties 5eux blues Massenet
-legie Miss Lulu Mccabe. MaSSene'
80 Mr.. Dewey
Guests of the club were: Mrs T. F.
Dewey Mrs. Gooden and Mrs David
Beaudry.
Mrs. D. W. Stoddard of 307 West
Thirteenth street will entertain her
auction-bridge club Thursday after
noon.
Governor and Mrs. Capper opened
their house in Topeka avenue Friday
afternoon for the Kansas teachers,
who are attending the annual asso-
citation meeting. That the teachers
of the state were pleased with the
courtesy shown them by the governor
was evidenced by the numbers OF
them who responded to the invita-
ton. There were several thousand
callers during the afternoon. The
some ones of the state, and it is adj
mirably adapted to the entertainment
of many guests. An astonishing thlng
about the party was that the callers
crowding up the walk and having to
wait at the door, entered to find clear
spaces and plenty of room. 1t gave
the rather miraculous impression that
there was more space in the mouse
than outdoors!
Mr.. d. A. Ellsworth of the Kansas
Too oh stood
hall and presented the guests to Gov
ernor Capper. Those who stood in
line with Governor and Mrs. Capper
We're DR.. Mary Wooley, president of
Holyoke college, Massachusetts,; Mrs.
Cora W. Stewart, chairman OF the
state ilIiteracy committee of Ken
lucky; Miss Lillian Scott of Baldwin,
retiring president of the association,
and Mrs. D. L. McEachron, wife of
Dean McEachron of Washburn col
lege and president of the Topeka
Federation of Women.
Assisting Governor and Mrs. Cap
per were members of the social de-
partment of the federation, appointed
by the chairman, Mrs. w. A. John
ston, wife of the chief justice of the
Kansas supreme court.
In the hall there were vases of yell
low roses, and big yellow chrysanthe-
NUNS stood in the receiving room.
In the center of the dining table was
a large bouquet of Ophelia roses and
lilies of the valley. The breakfast
room, with its many wide windows,
was used as one of the rooms for
serving the guests. The beams in the
ceiling were festooned with autumn
leaves, and around the sides in all the
windows were hanging baskets of
ferns and poisoning flowers. On a
tapestry covered wicker table was a
bowl of red roses.
Mrs. Capper was gowned in white
lace. There was a green beaded or
nament at the front of the bodice, and
a touch of green was used at the col
lar and girdle. DR.. Wooley was
goWned in richly embroidered white
silk crepe combined with white lace,
caught at the throat with diamond
brooch. She wore corsage bouquet
of lavender orchids, white roses and
lilies of the valley, tied with a ribbon
of blue, the Holyoke college color.
Mrs. Stewart wore a gown of green
velvet with lace vest and green net
sleeves. A trimming of green and old
rose beaded butterfly ornamented the
bodice Miss Scott's gown was of
black satin heavily trimmed with jet.
Mrs. MeEachron wore green velvet
and chiffon, with a touch of white
lace.
Mrs. H. p. Dillon and Mrs. Bennett
R. Wheeler ushered the guests into
the dining room. Mrs. Dillon wore
purple velvet and chiffon, with "a
trimming of gold lace, and she carried
a handsome ermine fur. Her hat was
of gold lace, transparent brim,
trimmed with black wings Mrs.
Wheeler's gown was black velvet, and
she wore a close fitting ermine scarf.
Her hat was a wide black velvet
shape Mrs. George Crawford stood |
at the foot of the stairs to usher the
guests to the upper story. She was
gowned in white. Those who assist |
ed in the drawing room were Mrs. /
Johnston, Mrs. d. W. Mulvane, Mrs |
Margaret Hill McCarter, Miss Effie |
Graham and Mrs. -Albrecht Marburg. |
Miss Graham's gown was of grey silk, |
trimmed with Dresden silk and white |
lace Mrs McCarter wore blue silk !