The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-01

The March meeting of the Topeka
Federation of Women will be held
Thursday of this week at the Y. w.
c. A. The board of management will
meet at ten o'clock.
At eleven o'clock the departments of
civics and justice will have an open
meeting. The lecture will be on the
Guardianship Of Children and Prop
erty Rights of Women" and will be
given by Mr.. r. Fl. Cav.
A meeting of the education depart
raent win be held at twelve o'clock.
Mrs +. =. Whitmore VIII sing. The
addresses will be by Mr.. II. b. Wilson,
superintendent of schools and DIR.
Lydia DeVilbiss. head of the state de-
partment of child hygiene. DR.. Devil
biss's address is to be given in response
10 call by the State Federation of
Clubs to observe March 4 to II as
baby week. The federation will OBJ
serve part of that time, but not the
entire week.
Luncheon and social hour will be
held from 1 to $3.50 O'Clock. At the
afternoon meeting Miss Helen Phipps
will give a violin solo. and Dean Hor-
ace Whitehouse of Washburn college
will sing. The afternoon meeting is
to be in charge of the civics depart
mcnt, and an address will be made by
Prof. Clarence Dykstra of the history
department of the State university.
Lawrence. His subject will be The
form who will speak informally are
Prof. J. +. kirkpatrick of the history
and civics departments of Washburn
college; Arthur NJ. Hyde of the high
school. and some other high school
teachers. Miss Jessie Oden will sing
"Haymalsins" by Needham.
The educational department for the
baby week campaign in Kansas City
has issued invitations to a lecture to
be given by DR.. Lydia Allen DeVilbiss
of aft
g. at the Hotel Meuhlebach.
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"A loan collection of pictures is be-
ing exhibited in Manhattan under the
The group includes pictures from the
brushes of twelve representative
American artists. such as Chase. Dam
serfield, Kenyon and Cox, and hanging
in the exhibit with them are some
canvases by George Stone of Topeka
and William Griffith of the art de-
partment of the State university at
lawrence. The collection was valued
upwards of $4,000.
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The College of the Sisters of Beth
any will give their annual French play
Friday evening, March 8, at SIS.
They will present MA Taute ct Mon
Cure comedy in three acts.
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The Glee clubs, orchestra chorus
and jubilee singers of the high school
will give their second annual spring
concert Saturday evening. The high
school is trying to buy a grand piano
FOR the assembly hall, and their con-
cert is the first Of a series of entertain
ments by which they hope to raise
enough money to pay for it. Those
who are interested in the project con-
slider that inasmuch as the piano will
be used for organization meetings and
local concerts that viii be held in the
high school auditorium, the plan is
one of general community interest and
benefit
The leap year ball for 1916 has
passed into Helianthus club history 1t
was a big night at Kellam hall and
When l o'clock came no one could
think of going home; so the orchestra
was re-engaged for another hour. The
diffident, conservative women who
went to the party expecting to have
their way made easy in asking for
dances and keeping count of their
dates. soon discovered that they had
to look out for themselves and they
threw aside their natural reserve and
took the initiative of the leap year
role very creditably.
The envy of all the men, who were
really "catty' about it. was the cor
sage bouquet Worl1 oy Mr.. Charlie
Mitchell, and presented him by his
thoughtful wife OF course he couldn't
wear Ine bouquet IN It's proper place.
since his style of architecture would
make it impractical for him to reach
beyond the bouquet to a dancing
proximity to his partner; SO he pinned
it to his shoulder and sereneIy tainted
the other men less favored
There were absolutely no wall flow
ers- The women were most generous
in distributing their attentions, and
they managed to remember their
dance engagements pretty well, even
if it did cost them some worry to do
so. Mr.. Charles Barnes had dances
taken so far ahead that he lost count
and cut dances with two of the women
scorts. He found himself the objective
point of a near-riot, and was barely
able to square himself before the end
of the party.
The women took their guests to the
party in carriages or automobiles. The
men sat gamely along the wall and