The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-12

tion to the suffrage parade in chi
cago have returned home. They
marched with the parade for several
hours in a pouring rain, and while
outrage demonstration under those
circumstances has its unpleasant 1ea-
tures. the women are almost glad thal
It did rain, as it gave them a chanct
to prove that they actually 90 van ~
the ballot, and want IL Dao enouSn ~
90 to all that inconvenience to prove
10 the male population that they are
in earnest. The parade formed IN
wedge shape, headed by represents
tives from suffrage states, in the oroer
in which the states were emanclpateo.
Kansas women who marched IN the
Kansas section were Mrs. w. A Johh-
ston, Mrs. Arthur Capper, MIS-, Ge aolrs,
Crawford. Mrs. Albrecht Marpu II=,
Mrs r. B. Jewett of Wichita, MRS.
Nob1e Prentis of Chicago, Mrs. Henry
Ware Allen of Wichita, MRS. 1ene
We've ChalkIey of Lawrence, ana M MT
CYRUS Hall Mccormick III OF w lcIaIe--
Mrs. Johnston was one of the spear
a~s of the Mccormick dinner parry
given the night previous 10 tne "ie
rade She sat at the speakers I9,r
with Mrs Mccormick, Dr. Anna - -
"a shaw. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Cate,
ana other leading suffraglsts %
America. Mrs. Marburg was -
and was seated Immediately laciLs ,s .r.S
--4,Lars' table With her was MIS-
JOIN ,l 1aye Vic, were in Chicago for
the suffrage demonstration dli , we're
convention The Kansas Wo-ueK =, a
e,,ests at a reception given Ut 49, hS
SS,Ia hotel by Mr.. Fishback, preSl ll' ~
tic Kansas club of Ch1caSo, .ara
d,v rIcht AT the dinner pa1 - ,c1r,
three generations of McCo i- 1,,oo is
- Mrs. cyrus Mccormick, z1at-or-
-i++ S5 years of age; MIS- 49,
Ill II whose home Is IN ii,rer
md who was hostess al m 1iI-es in
nd Mrs. Mccormick III, Mho - she
Gicbita- Before her marrla .5r- So
W. norothv Linn, prominent
Getty girl of Chicago. .at,,rned from
r,ticapo Saturday, in speakln99 shall
parade, said: "One Inns chicago in
SSo+ion with this suffrage oeii ~
tratjon. is the police torce, oo,oDe-
it, I have never seen SUN so1,tsIv
tent policemen anyWhertvi. "a in con-
nDIeasantness was alloWeu - -. m
no ~ 1,1itI the parade. We Were ulis
oIaotad and the policemen snoM N,tt,
ne every courtesy in connec'io"
their office" ,rrS Marburg
MI ni . s,,,ests of Mr. and Mrs. Freoerick
q in the rnezZanine balcony -
- tba convention. Among the Opliltl
s,,es+s were the Myron Merrlcks' ~ D
ITIvsses Grant. Mrs. Potter "
NJ carter Harrison, MI ana VI
S1ichoIas Longworth, Mr.. and Mrs.
5 Mlcn9ias Roosevelt, Jr, and other
notables. ,a Of missing,
something, and they were an ~
1Ex,ar so many women wore thelf VIM III,
~ clothes. for it poured down ram an
tba time-sInart women at that' anu
one hardly saw vivid color OF any a.
tempt at modishness- .,, moro
Sorne of the Kansas women We're
;r,,ited to the parties given for the
Progressive delegates and their lam
rho weather man took hand in the
suffrage ball and garden party az ~
Harold Mccormick residence AT Id
shore and turned it into water car
DivaI The reception was held ,nooors
instead of out. and program u
music and dances were gwen III d sieo1
tent in the garden. rms hau peeu
transforned into bit of INDIA with
Oriental rugs and odd decorations OF
Features and lacquered fruit, ana
pampas grass and palm branches ueo
in clusters to the tent poles. ReIresh,
ment tables were hung in green ana
goId and decorated with lacquered
fr,,it and peoples. 1t was all truly
'.Dunbar-ish,'' with the draperies of
dull blue and terra Gotta The erect
was quite lovely, they say put tne ram ram
made pools on the rare old rugs and
melted the glowing colors- me
musicians and walters were in white
suits and wore turbans of yellow, the
suffrage color.
June IA is to be observed as flag
day. request has been received
from the national society of the sons
of the American Revolution, OF WaSh-
ington, d. c., that automobiles dlsPiay
the American flag on that date. Mr.
]. NJ. Meade, president of the Kansas
chapter of the Sons of the American
Revolution. asks that Topeka automo-
blles may be decorated with the ma
tional colors. June IA. and he hopes
for a general response.
A recently published article con-
corning the family of the Republican
presidential nominee. c. E. Hughes,
informes the public that Helen
Hughes is leader at the Y. W. c. A
camp at Canton, Pa. This calls to
the mind of a Topeka woman interest
ed in Y. w work, Miss Annie Sweet
that the daughters of numbers of the
leaders in every party are specially in
terested in the Y. w. c. A.
Miss Hughes is executive for the
East Central School Girls conference
which meets at Camp Nepahwin, Can
ton, Pa, June Is to 21. Miss Dorothy
Perkins. the daughter of George w
Perkins, the great Progressive cham
pion, will be the executive of the
Eastern School Girls conference at
Makonikey camp, Vineyard Haven,
Mass, June 1e to Fl. These are con-
ferences for girls from private schools
Later the high school Y. W. C. A. girls
will meet at these camps
Mrs. Francis B. Sayre, President
Wilson's second daughter, is a mem
Der of the national board of the Y. w
c. A. Mrs. Elihu Root. jr., is an asso-
citation worker. being a member of the
household employment commission OF
the national board. She has made
some interesting discoveries in adver-
Using for household workers fol
friends in and near New York. She
has been taking courses at Teachers
college this year to prepare herself fol
efficient work on this committee.
Miss Henrietta Roelops, who is sec
rotary of the commission on household