The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-28

audiences of Topeka people Her
number last night was the Russian
Nightengale Song, by Alabieff.
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Miss Franklin Wilson, super1ntend-
ent of the Girls Industrial school of
Beloit, has returned, after spending a
few days. IN Topeka attending the
meetings of the state board of control.
She stopped here on her return from
Indianapolis. where she attended a
convention of the heads of charity and
penal institutions of the United States
During her absence she visited about
a dozen state institutions of correction.
I'm many ways" she declares, "our
Kansas Industrial school is superior
to others that 1 have visited We
have, L think. a better class of girls
less hardened in their appearance. 1
attribute this to the operation of the
prohibitory law in Kansas. Our girls
are not usually children of drunken
parents, and that gives US an immense
advantage on the start.
Il find that in some of the schools
the girls are all kept behind locked
doors and barred windows. We have
at Beloit system of credits, whereby
a girl can earn the right TO the I'M
locked door, and the privilege of oc-
casional visits to town. We now have
nlnety-ore girls who have earned these
privileges, and others are making an
effort to earn them. We have the
largest class in domestic science of any
of the schools have seen. We have
slXty-six girls in the classes each term,
and the largest number 1 found in any
other school was fifteen. We have
also basket weaving ard hat making,
sewing and fancy work classes. The
girls are given an opportunity to learn
music, and we have a good choir
the only vested choir that know of in
an institution of that sort. Our choir
sometimes sings in the churches down
town.
We have lot of gymnasium work,
and the girls are permitted to dance,
under the supervision of the house
mothers. We have tennis, basket ball,
Yolley ball and other outdoor sports
for them. The girls respond well to
the appeal we make to them to use
their privileges wisely, in order to con-
serve them for themselves and the
others. They are unseIfish enough as
rule, to forego any escapades on
their own account that would deprive
the others of their privileges who had
not offended.
I'VE have just created the office of
diatician in the school, and every meal
that the girls eat will be planned with
a view to obtaining a properly bal
anced and nourishing diet; for we
believe that the physical welfare of
our girls is important in their mental
and moral development
Miss Wilson left the first of the
week for Beloit
One hundred of the employees of
the Warren M Crosby store had
car ride Tuesday night, leaving the
store at $50. They had a picnic din
ner at Gage park. and took a trolley
ride for the rest of the evening.
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The Shawnee Golf club will hold its
annual ladies' day Saturday afternoon,
July /, 1916, at 2 %. m. The sched-
| driving and a three-hole handicap
contest. Twenty have qualified for
| the handicap event. Pairings and
handicaps will be found on the sport
ing page. Entries for the putting and
driving contests will be accepted and
announced on the links. 1t will be
appreciated by the tournament COM
mittee if all male members will assist
| in making the event a grand success,
acting as caddies, etc.
In addition to the regular sched-
uled events, the tourna ment commit
tee extends the hospitality of the
| Shawnee Golf club to all women golf
lists to participate in a free for all go
yard mashie approach contest. Mem
| berS and their families are requested
to invite their women friends, as
guests of the club, to take part in
this event.
Miss Enid Stricken and Miss Bertha
Mix have left for Chicago, where they
will spend a few days with Miss
| Strick1er's mother and sister, Mrs. L.
H. Stricken and Miss Lois Stricken.
From Chicago they will go to Massa-
chusetts, where Miss Stricken will
study voice in the New England con-
servatory. Miss Mix will graduate this
summer from the physical training
school of Harvard university. She has
attended the summer school at Har-
ward for three seasons, and last year
she was at the head of the training
department of the schools of Hastings,
Neb. At the close of the summer ses-