The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-14

Mr.. Charles Kouns. jr.. Mr.. Jack
Erickson and Mr.. Frank Fable viii
give a dance Thursday night at KEEL
lam hall. The affair is to be sub
scription party, and the Tivoi. college
and high school crowd are invited
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Miss Agnes Walsh and Mrs. w. c.
McDonough entertained a few guests
informally Monday afternoon, 1or
Mrs l. White, of Ration. y. NJ, who IS
visiting Mrs Ar hur Mills. The host
esses were assisted by their sister, Mrs
Roy Shoaf, and their sister-in-laW,
Mrs. Charles Walsh of Amarillo, Tex
The dining table was decorated with
spring flowers, jonquils and daffodils,
and lighted with yellow tapers set IN
candlesticks tied with yellow tulle. An
out of town guest. besides the guest
of honor. was Miss Florence Stickel Of
Springfield. HI, who is visiting her
cousin. Mrs. C. c. Bowman
Mrs. Charles McKirahan was hostess
at a meeting of her sewing club TINS
afternoon at her apartments in the
Baker flats Mrs. W. G. Shipe OF
Kansas CITY was a guest. Mrs. Shipe,
formerly Miss Corinne Coston, be
ionged to the club when she lived in
Topeka
A Topeka woman complained to her
husband about the number of men IN
their circle of acquaintance who were
simple. undisguised nuts" Said he
. in reply: "A good many men nuts
are needed 10 marry the women who
spend their time doing embroidery
Mrs. George ]. Barker of Lawrence,
chairman of the Civics committee of
the Kansas Federation of Women's
clubs. was in Topeka Monday She
has given out that the week of April
~ to % will be cleanup week for
Kansas.
About ten years ago the club women
OF this state promulgated the spring
Fcleaning idea fer the state. Previous
" a dav or two has been devoted to
the work. but this year it is to &C
cupy an entire week and IS expected
TO be more than usually thorough
Originally the club women merely
wished the alleys and streets cleaned,
but of late years the cleaning idea has
been utilized as a means of fire pre-
vention. The plan has been for the
| householders to clean the yards and
4 for the city to pay teamsters TO haul
away the trash that is dumped in the
alleys 1t has been customary for the
mayors of the cities TO issue a procla-
nation, and for the fire marshal to
I ask the people to observe the spring
/ cleanup.
/ A certain apartment house in town
/ has a ruling that no families with chill
/ dren can occupy the flats. The house
is now occupied by six families, nearly
all of them young married people
Four of these couples are bordering
whether the proprietor will turn them
/ out into the cold world soon and thus
nearly empty his flat or if he will
change the rule.
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The public nursing school which is
/ conducted every week in the offices of
the board of health, had a meeting
. Monday afternoon. The address of the
meeting was given by Mrs. Lee Mon
roe, who spoke on a plan for building
houses in which shall be incorporated
a hospital room.
Every house." Mrs. Monroe said,
should be built with a room that can
be instantly made into a sick room.
Such a room should be on the first
floor and should have an inside and
an outside entrance. In case of a
contagious disease, the outside door
could be used, thus isolating the pa
tient as thoroughly as it could be done
in a hospital The room should be
equipped with a cabinet in which
should be kept first aid articles