The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22

.COGZy
Mrs. Harry W. Seery, of 500 Tope-
ka avenue. has invited a few guests
for an Informal afternoon at Thin
bleS Friday, for her sister, Mrs. H. L.
Baker, of Wichita Falls, Tex, who is
visiting at the seery home
Mrs. Julia Farnsworth Soper will
entertain few friends Friday after
noon in compliment to Mrs. j. t.
Furry, of Muskcgee, OKLA, who In
visiting ner mother, Mrs. Anna j. VIII
sen
A picnic party will be given at the
home of Mr. and Mrs Warrick Up
degraff by a company of young mar
ricd people for Mr.. and Mrs. Adrian
Sherman, of Chicago, who are visit
ing at the J. NJ. Council home. Those
who are planning the picnic are about
ten couples of the close friends of the
Shermans. Mr. and Mrs sherman
are now visiting friends in. Wichita
and the picnic will be given soon after
their return to Topeka
thimbIe club, which was organ
lied a few weeks ago to sew during
the summer, had a meeting this morn
ing with Miss Katherine Mcfarland,
100 Harrison street. The club Will
meet Thursday of next week with
Miss Margaret Ewers.
The members are: Miss Grace Dana,
Miss Emile Seery, Miss Helen Cook,
Miss Bertha Clay, Miss Helen Rein
BACH Miss Mildred Agard, Miss Marie
VanciI, Miss Roxy Vancil, Miss Ger
trude Gray. Miss Katherine McFar-
land. and Miss Margaret Ewers.
The little girls of Topeka had a doll
parade, AND some of She small boys
Joined it with peanut dolls and corn
cob dolls That parade was big al
fair for the little people and their
ma-4mas, and so important an event
did it prove to be that five out OF
seven or eight judges chosen were
men.
If anyone on earth is qualified to
Judge of the eVenneSS and fineneSS OF
the stitches If a dolls dress, of tn
sawdust stuffing of the trunk and
limbs and the sweetness or the 1aclai
expression of a little bisque or china
dollie, that person is a learned ed1tcr1-
al writer, the superintendent of our
vast and sacred public school system
and other men of affairs. A doll made
of peanuts or one carved out OF a
toothpick is a work of art that re-
o1lre five brainy men in consultation
to Judge adequately of its merits as a
toy.
The pet joke of the public for
long time has been the old maid at a
mothers meeting. but the jokesm1th
who forged a picture of that
situation, could not foTesee the
time when five business men
able bodied and of sound mind,
would accept in all seriousness, the
grave responsibility of picking out the
prettieSt. best attired, neateSt, sweet
est dollie out of two or three nun
dred of them, wheeled along in tiny
doll buggies by dozens of fluffy-ruf-
fled little girlieS.
This business of emancipating the
women is bound to turn over TO the
men some of the spirit-breaking bur-
dens of the world and to force upon
the stalwart sons of Kansas decisions
in great questions, first and most I'M
portant Of which was the JudSeshp Oh
the doll parade.
Mrs. r. w. Coppedge, who is in
the east for the summer. is with the
She and Mr.. Coppedge are occupying
an old Dutch cottage in the village OF
Woodstock, back of which is noun
tain stream. The village OF wood
stock is situated in the Catskill noun
tains. and is one of the picturesque
spots of that part of the country. Mrs.
Coppedge has been studying ana
painting in New York during the sum
Iner season of the past few years. Mr..
and Mrs. Coppedge will return to To-
peka in the fall.
The Topeka Grade Teachers club is
arranging for lecture to be gwen in
Topeka next fall, at which one OF the
distinguished public speakers of Amer
lea will give the address. Mary An
tin is the author of THE Promised
Land" a book that has been widely
read. and some of the subjects on
which she lectures are: Ancestral
Films and the Spirit of the Past, The
Public School as a Test of American
Faith America in the Light of the
European War; and the address she
will probably give in Topeka is THE
Responsibility of American Citizen
Ship
Mary Antin came to America TWEEN
ty years ago when she was a little girl,
with no word of English and no ex-
perience outside the Jewish Pale, and
within sixteen years she has produced
one of the great books of the time
Here is a story that man is tell
ing and he insists that it is true.
A girl in town had a proposal of
marriage one Sunday night this sum-
mer, and asked a week to consider
before filing her answer. She then or
ganized herself into an investigating
committee. and began g herring tes-
timony from the married women she
knew. The first one she called on had
been something of a belle in her girl
hood days. She was married about six
years ago, has number of children,
does all her own work, including her
washing, has not been down town in
four weeks. Another woman she
called on told her that her husband
had given her So since she was mar
ried and that he had borrowed from
her $40 that her brother once gave
her for Christmas. The ten dollars
have not been returned 20 her, and
husband trotS out in new palm
beach suit. while she wears a dimity
she bought and charged to him three
wears ago. Another one, the inquirer
noticed. never expressed an opinion
without first learning if hubby
thought the same way, though that
girl used to write lovely essays in
school on 'fWoman's Emancipation.