The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-31

Miss Marian Dana will give an in
formal thimble party Tuesday after
noon at 4 o'clock, followed by buff
fet super, for about fifteen OF the
girls of the senior class of the high
school, of which Miss Marian is
member.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Donaldson eX-
cect to leave in August for CANADIAN
"trip They will take the steamer trlp
on the st. Lawrence, and Will Visit
Montreal and Quebec, St John ana
Halifax, and Will also sail the
Sagusnay river
Mrs Thomas L. King entertained
her card club this afternoon. Mrs
Charles Mitchell played as substl-
tuse.
The Kappa Kappa Gamma girls OF
Kansas City will have party Wednes-
day afternoon, and Miss Ruth roster
who Is a member of the Kansas uni
v-ts,ty chapter of the sorority, will go
to Kansas City and attend the party,
and to be the house guest of Miss
Dorothy McCamish.
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Miss Maude McVey entertained her
bridge club this afternoon at her home
in Buchanan street.
Another new car that purrs COM
fortably along over the hot pavements
this summer is being driven by its
owner, Mrs. Floyd Baker. who re-
ceived it as a birthday gift from her
husband. She has already learned to
drive. and her invalid mother gets an
outing in the car in the cool of the
morning every day.
Miss Corinne Ripley will leave Fri
day of this week for Chicago, and
from there she will go to Northport,
boat from Chicago. She will join
party which will be conducted by Miss
Jennie Blinn. Miss Blinn will leave
Wednesday for Chicago to be with
friends until the last of the week,
when Miss Ripley and other members
OF the party will join her on the trip
to Northport.
Miss Louise Craighead. who is Miss
Ripley's guest, will leave Tuesday
night for her home in Omaha. Neb.
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Mrs Lee Monroe will leave about
the middle of next week for Colorado
Springs. Colo, where she will attend
a conference of the Woman'S Party. IT
is the purpose of the members of the
party to outline plan for the fail
campaign, and they will decide wheth-
er they will go in as a party or exert
their influence in one of the parties
now existing. Inc national executive
committee of the party, the members
Of which will be present, is made up
of the following prominent women;
Miss Ann Martin, of Nebraska: Mrs
Phoebe Hearst. of California; Mrs
Mary A Bartelma, judge of the WON
ems and children's court of Chicago;
Miss Mabel Vernon, who has taken up
her residence in Nevada, an enfran-
chised state; Miss Lena K Brow, OF
Colora do Miss Alice Paul of.Newz Jer-
sey: Mrs Frances Axtel. of Utah;
Mrs. c. S, HARE, of Montanas Mrs.
Gail Laughlin, of California; Mrs. "
H. Sawtelle, of Arizona; Mrs Bertrarn.
Sippy. of Illinois: Mrs. F. Walker, Of
Idaho. and other representative woIn-
en- of the enfranchised states.
The convention is expected to be
large one, as good many members Of
the party will be in Colorado Springs
tend the meetings, which are to be
held August 10, IL and IL. Mrs. Hiliies,
of Delaware. who spoke in Topeka last
spring will be one of the speakers at
quarters will be at the Antlers hotel.
Mrs O, H. P. Belmont has agreed to
raise 100000 to be used in the cam
paign that the convention shall decide
upon.
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Mrs p. A. McNamee of s34 West
street has announced the engage
nnent of her daughter, Catherine, to
Mr.. Eugene Vincent Pryor. of Bloom
ington, Ill. The wedding will lake
place in the fall.
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group of girls were talking-talk-
ing of the husbands they expected to
have. "The man l we'd" said one,
must be tall and commanding He
must have long, black hair he must
quietly. and he must be considerable
and genrlemanly." The other girls
nodded their approval A few hours
later a freckle-faced kid with red
hair, red hands. a colored hat band
ana striped flannel trousers passed the
home OF the one who had outlined
her requirements in man. and when
he whistled she upset two chairs and a
fern getting out on the front porch
Emporia Gazette.
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recent number of the Woman's
Journal argues the case of Miss Mabel
Vernon's interruption of n speech by
the president to ask him question
relative to equal suffrage. Miss Yer
non spent some time in Topeka a
few months ago and has a wide ac-
quaintance among local suffragists
The article says Just now the anti
suffra gists are raising a great outcry
against Mabel Vernon. declaring that
her action in interrupting the presi-
dent proves the unfitness OF women to
vote. The anti-suffra gists are the last
people who can afford to challenge
comparison as to manners. How about
the anti-suffrage employees in Wall
street who threw wet sponges and
rolls of ticker-tape from upper windows
upon the heads of Mrs Blatch and her
friends while they spoke from auto
mobilcs2 How about the ruffians in
Harlan who knocked down and brut
ally Kicked woman who was making
a suffrage speech? When contra sted
with the outro geous misbehayior of
extremists on the anti-suffrage side.
the worst offcnses against good man
ners ever committed by suffrage en-
thusiasts are nothing. Among men
the agitation for self-g government has
been accompanied by all sorts Of vio-
lence and disorder