The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

The regular all-day meeting of the
Topeka Federation of Women was
held Thursday at the Y. w. c. A. The
board of management, in its morning
session, discussed revision of parts
of the constitution. The changes were
accepted a reading of the constitution
before the general federation meeting.
Department meetings held in the
forenoon were a forestry department
session, a meeting of the art depart
ment and a meeting of the educa ton
al department.
The speakers for the forestry de-
partment We're: Mrs Bennett r.
Wheeler, whose subject was: Our
Trees and Worm and Insect Destroy
ers;" Mrs Hiram Price Dillon, who |
spoke on Trees and Shrubs and |
Mr.. E. F. A. Reinisch.
AT the meeting of the art depart |
ment, papers were read by Mrs. A. r. !
C. butcher, who told about the artist |
Winslow Homer; by Mrs. George No |
BILE, who spoke on Kaugh, marine !
painter, and by Mrs. c. B. Van Horn, |
who gave an interesting account of a |
collection of paintings by MargeSon, |
owned by Mr.. and Mrs J. w. Thurs |
ton of Topeka. The painter is well |
known New England artist, and many |
of the pictures in the Thurston co1lec-
ton are of scenes near the old home /
of Mrs. Thurston.
In the department of education, |
there was discussion of books that |
children should read, and the books
that should be in the Libraries for
J
schools. Then the old disturbing
question of supplementary text books
was brought up. Superintendent H. E.
! Wilson spoke on the subject for the
purpose of interesting the women of
the department in his idea of the need
! of supplementary books. A resolu
| ton was passed by the club, stating
that there was lamentable dearth
of reading matter for children in the
elementary schools, and that the Fed
GRAFTON petitioned a relief of the con-
a q M nj of /
ture authorizing the board of educa-
ton to- purchase such supplementary
books as are needed in the elementary
schools providing that a bona fide
use of such special books be made.
The afternoon meeting was in
charge of the art department, under
the direction of Mrs. F. w. Watson,
chairman. Mrs. Frank Whittemore
furnished music. She sang 1.-The
Birthday" by Huntington Woodman,
and THE Land of the Sky Blue
Water" by Cadman. She was accom-
panied on the piano by Miss Josephine
Mckee
The address of the afternoon was by
Mrs Waterman Stone, of Kansas City,
who at one time lived in Lawrence.
Mrs Stone is a delightful speaker, and
a careful and enthusiastic student of
various branches of art. She has trav-
eled in Europe and has made a critical
and intelligent study of the great pic
lures of the world. Her address was
on American art, and she traced the
history of art in this country, which
was but slightly developed until after
the Civil war. She told of the early
art schools and the various American
painters who had become famous. She
spoke particularly of Hunt. Inness and
John La Fargo, the latter being the
man who brought the art of making
stained glass to it's present stage of
excellence in this country. She told
of the work of Lowe and Chase, and
of Venner, the American with the
Oriental and classic leanings. Cecilia
Bow and the Emmett sisters were Civ
en- special mention, and of course, Sar- .
gent, Whistler and Winslow Homer.
Washburn college has asked the as
sistance of the Federation in giving a
pageant in its anniversary celebration.
The club will represent the Free Soil
period of Kansas history. The women
in charge of the arrangements for the
pageant will be: Mrs. Hiram Price
Dillon, Mrs. Bennett R. Wheeler. Mrs.
NJ. c. Hammatt, Mrs. NJ. A. Low, Mrs.
DeWitte c. Nellis and Mrs Noble
Prentis.
A description of the new fad in
gloves is written by Margaret Mason
of the United Press.
Gloves with buttonholed openings
in the finger tips just sufficient for
milady's rosy. highly polished finger
nails to show through are the very
latest freak of fashion for evening
wear. This out-at-the-finger mode
started on the Rivera and has been
snatched at with eager hands and
taken up or rather on by all the well
done lady fingers of Paris
That's what my friend, the war cor
writes me and he ought
to knew, for though he's over there to ..
watch the warfare he doesn't miss
much appertaining to the more fair.
He has weather eye on the sideline, /
twere. According to his expert opin-
ion the peck-a-be glove when it HI
reaches midst will bid fair to rival l
even the vogue of that erstwhile, the
Merry Widow hat.
ANYWAY it ought to boost business
for the busy little manicures, for with
an opening like that before it, every
finger nail will vie with
one another to make it's coming out
party a vision of pink polished perfec- .
ton.
After all, why shouldn't milady's
finger tips be put on view? With .
little of everything else exposed in the Z
present, all revealing, naught conceal
ng evening toilettes, why draw the
inc at ten poor little innocent fin
gers.
wedding will interest a good Ill
many Topeka people is that of Miss I'll
Daisy Pankey and Mr.. Francis Lee iii
Robinson, which took place Feb iii
ruary 8. iii
The bride is the daughter of Mr.. III
and Mrs. B. F. Pankey, now of New iii
Pankey is a wealthy ranchman of the I'LL
southwest, who has recently taken iii
some part in the political activities of Hi
his state. He organized and for some iii
years was manager of the Independent iii
system in Topeka. and had I'LL
good many property interests here, Hi
owning a large ranch near Valencia Vii
The family residence in Topeka was Ill
at 312 West Eighth avenue. The bride I'll
lived most of her life in Topeka, re- Ill