The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24

styIes-kicking the houn' dawg never
was half so popular as kicking the
fashions. Here is what Mr.. White says
about them:
The men and women who design the
fashions seem to be in combine to
deprive the mothers of this town of
their daughters help about the home.
Each year there is some quip or turn
in the styles that furnishes perfectly
excellent reason for keeping mother
at the grind of the homework. First
it was tight skirts, and a short step
ping expedition downtown lasted all
afternoon and well into the supper
hour. Then it was thin ones, and by
the time daughter reached home on a
sunny summer afternoon and got
through with her sunburn RENE dies it
was well past supper time. Now it is
white kid shoes. which begin at a point
fourteen to sixteen inches up, accord
ing to the figures and statistics fur
nished by the shoe men, and extend
to the ground or at least as far in
that direction as a pretty girl ever
gets. 1t is an unusually capable
daughter that has time to attend per-
sonally to the upkeep of a pair of
white kid shoes fourteen inches deep
and help her mother with the house
work.
And she can't neglect her shoes!
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rive line parties were given TOT
children to the Iris theater Saturday
afternoon by the Good Government
club. About forty little people were
guests of the club to see the pictures
in the special matinee for children
provided by the club women, with the
cooperation of Mr. Montgomery, of
the Iris. The money for the line par
ties was contributed by Mrs. A. H.
Horton, Mrs. r. L. Cofran and Mrs.
Lee Monroe, and the line parties were
arranged by the women of the Good
Government club committee on chill
dren's moving picture shows. who are
Mrs. r. F. DeArmond, Mrs. Emma
Sells Marshall and Mrs. E. Main.
The state convention of P. E. o. will
be held in Topeka on May 8, 4, 5.
Over two hundred out-of-town P. E.
o. members will attend. Wednesday,
May 8. there will be a meeting of the
executive board, and enrolment of
delegates, in the afternoon. Wednesday
evening. the presidents address of
welcome, followed by a reading by
Mrs. Minnie Carver of Pratt KAN and
music by Miss Enid Stricken of the
local chapter. An informal reception
in the parlors of the Y. w. c. A. will
follow
Thursday will be occupied with a
business session. music by Mrs. F. P.
Whitmore, of the local chapter, and
readings by Mrs. Carver of Pratt. A
memorial hour, in charge of Mrs. Lii
liam Abel will follow. Music for this
meeting will be given by Mrs. F. 1.
Richards, violinist, member of the
local chapter. At = o'clock, an auto
ride over the city for the visiting P.
E. o. members. Thursday evenings
meeting will be in charge of the su-
preme president, Mrs. Helen NJ. Drake.
Music for this meeting will be given
by some of the local chapter MEM
bers.
Friday morning will be given over
to business session. with chapter re-
ports. Mrs. F. P. Whitmore will sing.
Friday afternoon, election of state Of
ficers. Friday evening, a reception at
the J. P Slaughter home in Potwin
Place. to which invitations have been
issued to all P. E. o. delegates, visiting
p. E. o. members, and members of the
local chapter and their friends.
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The following little girls had a lawn
picnic party Saturday at the home of
Marian Reid, in Fillmore street: Isa-
bel Smith, Baby Gault. Jean Koontz,
Katherine Mullin, Katherine Cole, Vir-
inia Miller, Octavia O'Neil Edna
Peppmeyer, Eleanor Campbell and
The College Alumnae club will give
May party Saturday. May 20. The
place for the party gas not yet been
chosen, but 1t is to be an outdoor
party, and a dancing class of Miss
Marguerite Koontz will give some
aesthetic dances on the lawn. The af-
fair is to be a benefit for the College
AIumnae scholarship fund.
Mrs. Pendleton Miller gave a lunch
con Saturday for some of her college