The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-02

Edmund B. Rolfe, Catherine Watkins.
Also some pictures by Mrs. Fern L.
Coppedge of Topeka will be in the col
/ lection
] The federation meetings for Thurs
/ day will begin with a session of the
board of management at 10 o'clock il
| the forenoon The open department
meetings, except the art department
! meeting at the high school, will be
! held at the Y. W. c. A The depart
ment of civics and justice will meet at
| II o'clock, and at one o'clock in the
cafeteria luncheon will be served
Luncheon will be followed by a social
| hour, and at 2:30 o'clock the after
noon meeting of the entire federation
will begin. The general meeting is to
| be in charge of the department of
household economics, of which Mrs
w w. Kitchell is chairman and Mrs
H. E. Ray is vice chairman. The de-
partment had planned to have for the
speaker of the afternoon, Miss Eliza
beth Sprague of the State university.
She will be unable to come for this
meeting, however, and another pro-
gram has been arranged
A paper which was read at the
First District convention entitled,
Dust Under the Rug will be read
by Mrs. F. U. Henry of Tonganoxie.
DR.. Edith Twiss of Washburn college
will make an address on Home San
itation.'' Music for the afternoon will
be furnished by Miss Frances Walsh,
who will play the piano, and Miss
Helen Hogeboom, who will sing
Mr.. Walter Smith gave a surprise
party for Mrs. Smith Monday night,
in celebration of their tenth wedding
anniversary, at their home, Lilac
Farm People who motored from
town to be guests at the party were:
Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Lagerstrom, Mr..
and Mrs Frank Scott, Mr.. and Mrs
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Russell Lagerstrom and Charles
Lagerstrom, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Smith
and their daughter, Betty, completed
the party.
Ffeldon Dana and Dorothy Dana
entertained twenty guests at a Hal
loween party at their home in Van
Buren, street
The Music Study club will meet
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. W. ].
V. Deacon, 1854 Polk street
Mrs. Fraser Cole of Girard was hon
or guest at bridge party given this
afternoon in the sun parlor of the vir-
ginia by her mother, Mrs. Charles
Otis, and by Mrs. Walter Hayes.
Those who played were: Mrs. Cole,
Mrs. Don Mulvane, Mrs. Theodore
Mrs. Albert Patten, Mrs. Dana Davis,
Mrs. Kurtz Kellam, Mrs Charles
Skinner, Mrs Fred Davis, Mrs. Frank
Griggs. Mrs. Alice Phelps, Mrs. Late
Mrs. George Mitchell, Mrs Monte
Kistler, Mrs. Adelaide Smith, Mrs.
Harry Rigby of New York City, Mrs.
George Snyder. Mrs. George Hayden,
Mrs. George Staeb1er, Mrs. Hal Haz-
lett. Mrs. Merrill Lindsay. Mrs. Joe
Morgan, Miss Hazel Howe, Miss Ha-
gel Risteen and Miss Eva Smith.
Mrs. Cole was popular Topeka
girl. Miss Helen Otis, before her mar
riage.
Women card players, whose love of
charity, and incidentally of bridge, is
the incentive which makes them fire.
quent attendants at pay parties, are
devoted to the U and clubs birthday
anniversary party given regularly on
the first of November. The Z and I
club is getting close to the thirty mark
in age, but since the club is not
woman but a group of women, to
speak of its age is not Objectionable
was given Monday afternoon at KEEL
lam hall. and the diversion was auc-
The club has a membership limited
to thirty women, and there is usually
Il think I may say, always wait
ing list. AS earlier members leave the
city or for some other reason retire
from it, the waiting list is drawn upon |
for new members. A discussion entered !
into among a group of women at the !
party yesterday revealed the fact that |
L and I are the letters which stand for |
the motto of the club, Unity and In
dustry.''
The q and I organization devotes |
itself entirely to charity, and when it |
engages in social diversion, its ulti- |
mate purpose is to cnrfce the shining |
silver from Fashionable purses-or I'M |
ones, for that matter. The |
club is now especially interested in the |
Public Health Nursing association, |
and it was really through the efforts
of the club that the nurses of that or |
ganiZation were put to work in. To- |
peka- The club also assists in main !
tanning some old people who would /
have to go 10 the county /
farm and they take Christmas dinners 4
to some thirty families. The members
pay their yearly dues, and in addition /
they are fined twenty-five cents for |
absence and hardness on meeting /
days. This furnishes something of a |
fund, which is supplemented |
by the parties and various sorts of en-
given by the club
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