The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-20

ence will attend the evening meeting.
Among the Topeka women who at
tended the house party of Mrs. Bull
lard WERE Mrs. w. A. Johnston. Mrs.
Festus Foster, Mrs DeWitte C. Nellis,
Mrs. H. 0. Carney. Mrs. Elizabeth
S. West, Mrs John CLANCY, Mrs A
Marburg, Mrs. ]. w. Thurston, Mrs.
C. ]. Evans, Mrs. l.. L. Kiene and Mrs.
C. w. Smith.
Mrs. Festus Foster, president of the
Political Science club, the hostess or
ganization, is chairman of committee
on general arrangements. and Mrs
DeWitte c. NelIis is chairman of the
city entertainment committee.
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Mrs L. H. Mum was hostess at a
meeting of the Department of For
estry and Horticulture held this morn
ing at her home in Topeka avenue.
Plans for the prize gardening contest
were continued, and a number of rep
resentatives of Sunday schools met
with the department
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Justice and Mrs. Rousseau A. Burch
will entertain the members of the su-
mally at dinner Thursday night.
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Carolyn Wells has written for Har-
per's Weekly some verse that she calls
DTeSSceSSlOndl, dIIoE h1Dnng S
famous "Recessional." The lines are
Girl of the Future, feared of all,
Chasing the far-flung Fashion line,
What awful thing may yet appal,
Hung on your human form divineI
Girl of Today, stay with us yet
Lest we regret Lest we regret,
The tunic and the peplum dies.
The plating and the flare depart;
Oh, what must we next sacrifice
To future of a fearful art?
Girl of Today, stay with us ALL
Lest worse befall! Lest worse befalI,
The blouse and bodice melt away,
For ever fads the silhouette;
Lo! all the mode of yesterday
Is one with puff and pantalette,
Girl of Today, stay with us, do!
Lest worse ensue! Lest worse ensuet
For foolish maid who puts her trust
In French tailleur or smart modiste,
In valiant men of mien august,
without discernment in the least
For frantic fads of Fashions whirl,
Have mercy on us. Future Girl!
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the fashion show at Pe1letier's store
tonight will be an event of interest to
great many women. The fashions
Ior the little people will be DISPLAYED
by number of small boys and girls.
who will be models The exhibit lasts
from 1880 to O'clock
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me Woman's Journal has pub-
lished list of the states in which the
state Federation of Women's Clubs
nave endorsed equal suffrage This
nst or thirty states includes Texas, in
us convention representing 10000.
equal suffrage through it's federation
conventions are: Arizona, Arkansas.
california, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois,
indiana, Iowa, Kansas Kentucky.
M!chlgan, Massachusetts. Minnesota.
missouri. Montana. Nebraska. Nevada.
New Mexico, New York, North Dako-
va Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania. south
Oak ta, Utah. Washington. West Vir-
sinia' Wyoming and Texas
At least one Topeka woman has in
finite confidence in the powers of her
husband All winter long when the
gas got low, she hustled to the tele-
phone and called her spouse to tell
ne please arrange to get her enough
gas to keep the house warm and the
meals cooked. 1t was useless for him
to protest that he could do nothing
about it. 1t was simply up to him
And the gas always did come up after
while, and that was sign enough that
he had looked after it as she knew he
would if she insisted upon it
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Convention season is near at hand.
and Kansas club women have many
things to engage their interest The
first in point of time. is the D. A. R.
convention in Wichita, beginning
March 20 and continuing through the
thirty-first. Miss Eliza A Denniston.
of Washington, D. C. is the principal
speaker. and will lecture to the con
venc,on on Memorial Continental hall.
which was built by the Daughters of