The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-13
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children to attend parry at his home
this afternoon. Master Albert Phil
! lips. the son of Mrs. Albert Charles
Phillips of Seattle, Wash. is a guest
l Of honor.
The seventeenth annual banquet of
Western SorOsis was held Friday night
in the dining hall of the Methodist
building
The decorations were little green
baskets of red roses and metal leaves
set at intervals down the center of the
tables, and stretched from one basket
to the next were strands of red satin
ribbon. Candelabra set with red
candles lighted the tables. The place
cards were adorned with tiny Ameri-
can flags.
The members Of the club were asked
to appear at the party wearing cos
tunes Of the fashion Of the immediate
ante-bellum. days, and q number OF the
/ women wore the old time tight bodices
and full. fiaring skirts (not SO far on
/ from the present day style), and their
hair decorously parted and drawn over
the ears. Mrs. F. w. Watson, presi-
dent of the club, was tOastmistress.
Her gown Of yellow satin, which Is in
the height Of fashion. was quantity
suggestive of the Victorian period of
dress. Her introductions were partic-
| uIaIly ClCVCI.
The principal address of the even
ling was made by Governor Arthur
Capper, his subject being Abraham
Lincoln" and there was an ample dish
of nonsense served on the side by the
members of the club.
Governor Capper spoke of the pc
culiarity of a political situation which
brought to the head of the nation an
awkward country lawyer, who had had
less than ordinary advantages ana
Door and obscure antecedeDts, while
such men as Seward and Douglas were
defeated 1t was LincOlne calm and
judicial mind, his charity and large
his faith in the ultimate good judE-
ment of the people that made him pre-
eminently fit for his task.
His work was concerned, not only
with keeping the American republic
undivided and freeing the black man.
ment by the people. Democracy was
on trial for its life.
1.-The time will never come when
there win be no more problems to
solve. The time of danger for any
state Is not it's pioneer time and Its
day of poverty, but 1t is when the
state wakes rich that 1t is threatened
with the dangers that attend luxury
and the love OF money. We are not to
think that because our state has grown
rich that our poverty has decreased.
| 1t has never been SO, and one of our
greatest problems is the wretchedness
and the luxury that are existing side
by side. Nevertheless, there is no evil
that does not have a remedy, and the
conscience of the people was never so
/ alive as 1t is now. There has never
yet been devised a plan of government
or social life that would make for the
betterment Of all classes that was not
/ e.. ~x~~ "a H.
hood and faith in each other-the
principles that Lincoln believed in"
Mr.. Capper spoke of Henry Ford's
l action in turning back millions to the
hands OF his workman, and expressed
his belief that such an act was of i'm
mensely greater benefit than endow-
| ing colleges or building libraries.
The club liked Governor Eapper's
speech and voted to make him an hon.
orary member.
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter was
called upon by the name of Minerva
Hill to read the minutes of the pre-
IviOus meeting. Her toast was a bur-
lesue of the work of the secretary.
and at its close various members of
the club rose to offer objections, be-
cause their gowns had not been de-
scribed in the minutes. Other men,
beers thereupon rose to quell the OBJ
jectors. Mrs. Lee Monroe, under the
name Lilladay Moore, spoke on behalf
of the department of art. Her speech
included some photograph records
from coffee mill. purporting to be
the poems of different members Of
the club. She also proposed an amend
ment to a bill in the legislature, pre-
scribing the style of costume to be
worn by men and women. Ida Walker
Mrs. o. l.. Moore) responded to roll
call in the department of education.
Her speech was made up of stories as
far as possible from the subject. Sally
Collier Mrs. III. w. Roby) was asked
to talk on literature. The speech was
supposed to be impromptu. but as it
was written out, rolled up and tied
with a ribbon before her arrival at the
dinner, it turned out to be a series of
pleasant anecdotes about the election
of Lincoln to the presidency. Mrs.
ROby was living in Springfield at the
time Of the campaign and was the
daughter of lone of the seven Repub-
Leans in the county,"
Mary Emma Miner (Mrs Frank
Montgomery responded to a toast on
Civil Government in which she
spoke of the difficulty of preserving
the neutrality of the United States by
the national government, and COM
pairing the savagery of the present
conflict in Europe with the primitive
inhabitants in this country, who weak
ened their own forces by fighting
among themselves. She spoke. of a
held of bones dug up on an ancient
battlefield in Doniphan county.
The department OF domestic science
was represented by. Minnie Shepherd
Mrs. w. E. Atchison). Her toast was
in rhyme and gave the views of the