The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

Several hundred people sat around
the long tables in the basement dining
room. The tables were adorned with
chrysanthemums and other fall flow
ers, arranged by Mrs. Sam Huston,
chairman of the decorating commit
tee.
Mrs. Howard N. Rhodes, president
of the club, presided at the meeting,
ment has an opportunity to cheer for
someone who knows how to be
prompt. The guests were seated ex-
actly at the hour appointed for the
as possible, considering the number
of the diners, and part of the pro-
gram was finishedsFb before the last
course was served.sE The record, SO
far as this writer's experience goes,
is distinctly unique.
Miss Maud Mary Kline had charge
and Mr.. Donald 9esnplin played a
piano duct from Trovatore Miss
Mary Hall, first violin, and Mrs B.
l. Northrllp,. second violin, and Miss
Kline, piano, gave a trio, Shepherdess
Song. Miss Mary Sands sang the
Kansas Song, and Q suffrage song,
with .-Sweet Miss Mary as an en-
core Mrs. Joseph Hicks gave two
readings.
Mrs Margaret Hill McCarter made
the first address of the evening. She
gave it as her opinion that when suf-
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be no more war, no more saloons and
their attendant evils. She believes
that the extension of the franchise
to women is a great boon, not only
to the women, but to the men as well.
That the men are ennObled and up
lifted no less than the women. "Suf-
frage,'' she said, may be defeated in
the campaign sta teS this year, but 1t
will come just the same, unless the
world is moving back to darkness in
stead of to the light. I know that
there are many honest, sincere men
opposed to suffra ge; there are many
intelligent men opposed to it. But it
is also true that the liquor men, the
white slavers, the lawless and enemies
to society in general are standing
united against it. l should not like to
be in that company"
Mrs. w. W. Kitchen was asked to
give a toast TO the husbands. She
responded with a short, humorous,
and complimentary speech to the men
of the party.
Justice Henry F. Mason. of the
of some length, in which he told of
his work as an editor in Wisconsin
years ago, wher he advocated the
extremely unpopular measures of pro-
hibition and equal suffrage. He ex-
pressed a doubt of the triumph of the
suffrage amendment in the eastern
states on account of the conservatism
of that part of the country.
Opponents of suffrage tell u.s. he
said that the extension of the fran
chise to women will destroy the spirit
of chivalry in men. A strange thing
about this so-called chivalry is that
its strongest hold appears to be in a
section of this country where the
women have the least liberty, the few
est privileges ard the least consid-
GRAFTON. Many years ago the COM
mon law of England gave a man the
right to cha stise his wife. In Missis-
Gil laSS "a hundred
was upheld law permitting a man
to beat his wife if he did it with
rod not thicker than the thumb. Less
than fifty years ago the law was
modified somewhat SO that the wife
beaten should not endaDger the life of
the offender nor punish her to an I'M
rca sonable degree. That IS the chiv-
airy that withholdS the ballot from
that women are too emotional to be
competent voters, Judge Mason read
an account of the conduct of the men
voters who rioted over the returns of
elections at the time he was editing
his Wisconsin paper
THE ordinary citizen Judge Ma
son continued, who is opposed to
equal suffrage has not given the sub
ject careful thought. 1t has been
matter of ridicule so long, and deeply
prejudice has not been
overcome by reason
Mrs. w. J. Curtis Will be hostess
at a meeting CT her bridge club
afternoon.
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Miss Louise McGoff entertained her
sewing club this afternoon. A guest
at the meeting was Mrs. Jay Franklin
Close, of Greenleaf, Kansas, who is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs NJ. |
F. Southwick.
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Mrs. Herbert Armstrong will en-
terrain a Few guests informally at
luncheon Thursday.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr. and Mrs Matt yVeiolatr1,ar, 1n-iI1-i