The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-28

that it be a state fund and not left
optional with county officers; that
sums for aid be not given for more
than six months at one time, and un-
der careful superviSion; that 10 chill
dren are to receive aid, except in sick
ness, who are old enough to contrib
ute to their support; that kindly,
efficient and economical dispensation
OF the funds be made.
Another subject discussed is the
prenuptial contract. The club looks
toward an arrangement that can be
made for settling a dowry on daugh-
ter in maria ge, and it wishes a revlv-
al of the old custom of publishing
banns before the wedding with a view
to preventing hasty marriages.
The club also will work for the eS-
tablishment of municipal and county
farms, and a .reformatory for women
and girls from Il to rs years of age.
Or, in lieu of the reformatory, an ex-
tension of the age limit at the Beloit
Industrial school. with separation of
the older and younger inmates thru
the cottage plan.
The pamphlet also explains the
work of registered lobbyists, making
plain the courtesy with which the wo-
men workers for bills are treated by
the Legislators.
The club is asking the women of the
state to consider a bill in the interests
of the illegitimate child, by giving its
mother the title of Mrs. The pamphlet
I also presents the matter of asking that
the matter of the legal ge for girls
be made q, or the majority age. The
club believes that a girl should not be
considered old enough to sign away
her property at an age three years
younger than she is considered COM
petent to cast a ballot
The club will also ask for widow s
texenaptf9H7 in vtf7es tax law. Perhaps
the most important law that the wom-
en- of Kansas will foster IS bill look
ing toward the care and confinement
! Of egenerates. All women who take
any interest in public affairs favor
some such bill and sucn bills as are
/ presented will be earnestly considered
by the women lobbyists.
/. The pamphlet contains an endorse
ment of women in legislative bodies
and the encoura cement of women in
! their interest in legislative questions.
I The club will present a blu on the
property rights of women, which the
/ pamphlet explains, as the co-partner-
ship of husband and wife, as affecting
the child, and there is a part of the
booklet devoted to the laws on divorce
and alimony that elucidates that SUBJ
ject for Kansas women.
The booklet also contains brief
history of the club. it's origin and the
/ things that it has worked for in the
past, and the ambitions realized.
There Is a short story of the origin
u,
which is apropos just now, as the clu b
| is soon to hold its annual session.
| In the back of the book is a com
/ plete roster of the state officers and
legislators, with their districts and the
party which elected them. This is
! published SO that any women in the
state who wish to write to their repre-
| sentatiVeS and senators can know at a
glance who represents them in the
! lawmaking body.
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The n. U. NJ. S. of the June. 1914
class of the high school will have a
spread and reunion Friday evening at
the home of Miss Hazel Olson, 413
West Third street.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Miss Helen Davis of Towanda, Pa,
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. James L. King.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Marshall
have returned from st. Joseph, Mo,
where they went for a holiday visit
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