The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05

history. She is a tireless and energetic
worker, with fine qualities of courage
| and determination. She is also one
of the most beautiful girls in Topeka.
She was gowned last night in pale
pink net, yelled soft pink silk. The
skirt was made with wide tucks, edged
with silver beading. The bodice, with
/ round neck and short sleeves, was
draped with net, with an overbodice
! of net embroidered in silver and iri-
| descent sequins.
/ She was presented with quantities of
I flowers, including a big basket of
roses from her pupils.
X X X
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Stoddard will
/ entertain their evening club tonight
at their home. Ala West Sixteenth
/ street.
The department of education of the
Woman's club and the Topeka public
school teachers attended a lecture
given Monday afternoon at 4:3O
o'clock by DR.. Galloway, on the sub
ject of Social Health DR.. Gal
loway is a writer and lecturer on so
cial hygiene. and a member of the
faculty of Beloit college, Wisconsin.
He came to Topeka to speak before
the boys conference. Mr.. H. B. Will
son, superinte ndent of city schools, in
troduced the speaker.
as a moral issue, rather than medi-
cal one, and leaving out entirely the
religious aspect of it. He said in part:
with the dawn of consciousness on
the progressing race, came the rein
forcement of appetite, by memory,
, imagination and anticipation. For
that reason a man cannot live on the
brute level. When we say a man
makes a brute of himself, we owe an
apology to the brute Because man,
on account of his special endowments
of intelligence. and the consequent
strengthened appetites, lives below the
brute level, or else, by reason of the
exercise of self control, he lives way
above that level" DR.. Galloway ad-
vocates the teaching of social hygiene
in the schools, giving such instruction
in its highest and most ideal form.
X X X
The Topeka Cooperative club will
give its first annual dinner dance
Tuesday evening, December IL, at the
Elks hall, at Z o'clock.
X X X
The Woman's Rotary club will have
a meeting Wednesday evening at 6:15
o'clock, at the tea room. In order
that the regular meeting of the club
may not interfere with preparations
for Christmas, the two December
meetings have been merged into one,
]
stead of the regular meeting for
Wednesday at the noon hour.
/ The following persons will be voted
on for membership: Miss Leah Roark,
representing the business of selling
musical instruments; Mrs. George X.
DeMun, representing the grocery bust
ness, as an owner; Mrs Kate NJ. Pier
son, welfare work; Miss Ethel Grant,
piano instructor; Miss Josephine Her
rem, poStoffice
x X
There has been a great hue and cry
( raised about the extravaganza of high
school girls in matters of dress Num-
bers of well meaning people have
asked the newspapers not to tell about
the party costumes of high school
girls because that is supposed to en-
courage rivalry among the children to
wear the best looking costumes
Wen, l saw group of high school
girls yesterday before the lecture in
the nigh school auditorium. They
| were practicing for a concer- the glee
club will give. They represented the
average high school girl in the To-
peka school. When one hears so
much fuss about the way the girls
dress, one naturally observes them
rather carefully. Most of those girls
wore white MILDLY blouses with sal
| Tor collars of blue or red and with
/ ties of blue or red, and with the
/ Dlouses, SKIRTS OF heavy wool material
cut comfortably short and made with
patch pockets, which are extremely
convenient, even tho they make the
I mistake of being fashionable Nearly
all the girls who high top tanned
leather shoes, with medium low heels.
So comfortable did those girls look,
and so sensible, they might have been
llounging in the gymnasium after ex-
ercise. Two or three of the girls wore
silk waists. plainly ta:iored, and every
business woman knows that in the
long run. plain silk waists are eco
nomical because they save on laundry
J bills. Those who wore hats, had
plain ones. rather smart to be sure
but certainly not costly. OF course
this has nothing to do with the clothes
they wear to parties, but it is a cor
rect idea o. the garments they wear
to school, where they are reputed to