The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30

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this simple coat of blue serge. In the
belt, the blue braid is run in and out
through strapp,ngs of black braid
The Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae
club will meet with Miss Anna Banks,
705 Fillmore street, Saturday, Novem-
Der 6, at three o'clock in the after
noon.
The Parent-Teachers' association of
Lowman school had a Halloween party
Friday night at the school building, If
the assembly hall.
The women of the association of
which Mrs. Frank Holt is president
decorated the room deliberately with
shocks of corn. pumpkins, jack-o'-
lanterns, and big boughs of autumn
leaves. The edges of the glass doors
were trimmed with leaves, and little
thickets of boughs were placed in the
corners. A key of cider was banked
with corn stocks and covered with
orange and black paper. Tie black
boards of the assembly room were
covered with white paper which was
pasted over with black cats, bats,
soII.
The men of the association fur
nished the 1s4ogram entirely. Mr.. Ray
Lattner sang some solos, and Mr..
Jones gave some req dings, one a de-
scription of the battle of Missionary
Ridge. written by a man of the Union
army who was in the char ge: news
paper story called Apologies and a
short poem of a Mississippi river in
cident. The Mandolin club played
some numbers and the male quartet
sang a number CT songs. The mem
berS of the quartet are DR.. c. w
Schwartz, DR.. F. E. Iserman, Mr.
French, DR.. L. V. Sans and DR.. Brown,
who played the acco mraniments. Mr.
David Gossett and Mr. H r. Downes
played the ,nandolins, accom- anied by
Mrs. Barnum.
Miss Lola Graham is principal of
the school.
A meeting of the Shawnee County
Polltlcal Science club was held Fri
day afternoon in the National hotel
After a parliamentary drill by Mrs. S.
A. Thurston, addresses were made by
Major A. NJ Harvey and Judge Hugh
MacFarland. jor Harvey assisted
in the campaign for equal suffrage in
the east. and told the audience yester-
day something of the method of cam
paignins in New York. He spoke of
the excellent organization, efficient
system of reaching all parts of the
state, and the opposition the suffrage
workers were meeting in New York.
Major Harvey spoke in cities between
Albany and Buffalo, part of the
state that Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
president of the New York suffrage or
Ganization, considered the backbone
of the opposition The anti -suffra-
gistS are active in New York, holding
meetings, organizing societies, and is
suing literature opposed to votes for
women. Major Marvey told many iE-
tereSting anecdotes of DIR. Anna How
ard Shaw, president of the National
Equal Suffrage League, who, though
now past 20 years of age, makes able
and convincing addresses day after
day throughout the campaign, in ad-
dlt1on to her duties as president He
also spoke of the respect in which the
memory of Susan B. Anthony is held
in her native town, Rochester, N. 7.
1--WE do not think" Major Harvey
said, that the work for a great de-
mocracy and an extension of the fran
chise is anywhere near won in the
United States. Prejudice is strong in
many parts of the country, and be-
cause Kansas is i'll the forefront of
progress, we of this state are not to
suppose that the same spirit prevails
throughout the country. Susan B. An
thony, with her far-seeing vision saw
that the struggle was to be long one
and that she could not hope TO see it
finished. They told me in Rochester
that she used to take the little girls
hem of the work for acknowledgements |
that they would be called upon to do
IN the years to come.
I'VE, too must realize that the plan
of education must be carried on.
Judge MacFarland's subject con-
cerned the process of settling estates !
in the probate court He insisted that |
the rights of men and women in Kan |
sas in property matters were Identical, |
and that the reason so many more wild |
ows than widowers had to go to -he |
court for the settlement of estates was /
from the fact that the property was /
usually in the name of the husband, /
but that the arrangement was due TO /
custom entirely and not to law IF 1
the wife thinks she should have tie /
property in her name, the law gives
her as much right to have it SO. as to