The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-22
10000 WOMEN
CLUB DELEGATES
MOBILIZE IN N. Y.
Storm Gotham for National
Biennial Federation.
Regiment of Boy Scouts Guides
for Visitors.
PIQUED OVER STYLE EDIC1
Resent Inference of Ignorance
on How to Dress.
HOOsier Delegation of Hundred
Charter Special Train.
PIQUED OVER STYLE EDICT
Resent Inference of Ignorance
on How to Dress.
Hoosier Delegation of Hundred
Charter Special Train.

New York May 22.-An army OF
10000 women, modified from the
ranks of 100000 clubwomen in every
state and possession of the United
States. began the invasion of Mannat-
tan Isle today for the opening OF the
thirteenth biennial convention OF the
Federated Women's Clubs of America
in the Seventh Regiment armory mere
tomorrow.
As the squads. companies. regiments
and battalions of handsomely goWheo
femininity troop along the platforms
from the long trains pulling lilto
Grand Central, Pennsylvania stdeloiA
and Hudson terminal from CaliIoin NO
Florida. Maine and other part baDd nv
country, they are taken IN manu- ny
Boy Scouts in khaki, who see thehi
safely delivered to their appointed
places. other scouts go around aIter
ward and give them printed ana ORD,
instructions about getting mere anu
there in New York. Still otner scoueS
look after their luggage
Texas Woman to Preside
Thanks to these lads and the hard
working arrangements comnllttee IN
der the direction of Mrs North w
Lean of the New York FederaIoh' lie
20 600 will be comfortably settled IN
New York town and on their way 70
hear Mrs Percy V. Pennypacker oi
tTexas hang the big gavel on the steel
sounding board that will call the con-
VentiOn TO order. -, 49,
From that moment on until the
,,ioht of June the women leaders OF
the nation will make this old town
hum with speeches and SquabbleS anu
social affairs and all those other eA
citing events that women brlns ABOUT
when they get together They Will give
the world their official opinion on
government and goulash, 1000 anu
fighting. marriage and mllIlonalres'
babies and banting, health and nalr-
dressing, short skirts and SNORT pal
lots big wives and little husbands,
prizefights and teafights and many
other matters of general interest
IIoosiers Resent instructions"
There has been evidence of some
rather sharp feeling between the CITY
and country delegates, over the mat
ter of style, which may crop up IN
some form during the convention
The only open display of feeling on
the point thus far comes from the
Indiana delegation, whose members
have expressed themselves as being
quietly determined to ignore ADVICE
and instructions from New York, dis
tributed gratis through the fedora
tons magazines telling how to dress
while here.
one hundred wealthy Indiana
women are en- route here on a spe-
They are piqued by what they term
the absurd effrontery' of New York
women in seeking to dictate good
taste in dress and they are coming
equipped with means whereby to
uphold their reputation as one OF the
best dressed groups of women attend
ing the biennials.
For weeks preceding their depar-
ture, Indiana delegates held informal
indignation meetings, charging on a
Org nh nj Instructions l.
titled. Correct Dress at the Coming
Biennial" published unGer the name
of Miss Mary A. Peck. state Chair
man c. S. B.. and a New Yorker. u
in which she informed the delegates
from outlying states how they should
dress while in New York so as not
to appear in poor taste.
Fifth Avenue Tastes.
MANY delegates do not know that
New York women wear only strictly
tailored suits on the streets or al
business meetings and little or nc
jewelry," began the instructions.
That woman could never have seer
Fifth avenue" declared one of Indi-
anas most prominent club women
strictly tailored suits. indeed!'
Southern women were instructed by
Miss Peck to discard their spring
suits for their last winter ones because
their spring suits probably have ligh
colors. Preferably, choose black,
said Miss Peck
1T is also advisable to wear small
hats. Well dressed women avoid the
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