The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
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I of the Phi Delta Kappa honorary
fraternity. Professor and Mrs. Schon-
berger entertain for the fraternity an
nually. Mr.. Sheriff. Smith is presi-
dent of the Phi Kappas.
Miss Edith Ingham, who has been
attending Columbia university, New
York is not entering the university for
the second semester this year; for she
has accepted u position offered her in
Texas. She expects to go south soon
to begin her new work. Miss Ingham
is the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs.
]. E. Ingham OF Topeka. She has been
taking a course in Domestic Science
IN Columbia, and doing special re-
search work in the science of cookery.
Before going to Columbia she held an
excellent teaching position in Cali
fornia.
A story of Miss Kate Adams of Chi
caso, who used to live in Topeka, and
who has a large circle of friends here.
tells of her being imprisoned. at her
own request, in the New York re-
formatory for women at Bedford Hills,
New York Miss Adams is connected
with the Coulter House in Chicago,
and much interested in settlement
work and social problems. The other
prisoners at Bedford Hills think that
the new arrival has been convicted of
a crime at the end of a thirty days
trial. She has made no report of her
experiences yet, nor has she written
to any Of her friends. Before she
left. she announced her intention of
becoming an actual though innocent
prisoner. She said thai she wanted to
study tho character of the unfortu-
nate women she should meet there.
Miss Adams believes that vocational
training and total change of environ
ment will do much to help the girls
when they are dismissed from the re-
formatory Last year she helped to
get the Kate Adams bill through the
Illinois legislature.
Miss Adams is a GRANDDAUGHTER of
the late "Chet" Thomas, a well known
character in politics in the early days
of Kansas.
In the matter of heirlooms and fine.
oldtime furniture, some Topeka homes
are rich. and few of them can boast of
more antiques than that of Mrs. n.
F. Handy and her daughter. Mrs. John
r. Shelton. Mrs. Shelton, who be-
longs to a number of national societies
founded on ancestral distinctions. was
hostess at a meeting of the Topeka
chapter of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution Saturday afternoon.
The roll call at the meeting was an
swered by names of Colonial ancestors
of the members present, with brief
incidents in their lives. The music
was furnished by Mrs. Carey Wilson,
who played the piano, and by Mrs. H.
o. Carney, who sang charming group
of old songs. She wore a Colonial cos
tune. with close fitting bodice. PAN
nier skirt, poke bonnet, and slippers
Mrs. Shelton read the paper of the
day on Colonial China She is some
thing of an authority on antiques and
has given special attention to the sub
] ject of old china and other tableware.
A display of rare old china supple
mented the paper on the subject.
Among those who contributed pieces
to the exhibit were Mrs. Shelton. Mrs.
/ H. A. Perry, Mrs. J. NJ. Bell, and Miss
Belle Ward.
] Among the china pieces shown was
an old patch box, a daintily decorated
bit of china, with a mirror on the in
ried about by the women, to enable
them to renew the little court plaster
patches that they wore on their faces
| in those days, just as women of today
| carry their vanity boxes with the
/ powders and puff The box belonged
to Mrs. Shelton's Sreatgrandmother.
| There was also lacquer snuff box in
| the display that is an heirloom in
Mrs. Skeletons family. One of the old
| a tea canister LOweStoft make. owned
by Mrs. H. A. Perry Mrs. Bell has a
| lovely collection of old lustre. incIud-
| ing a copper lustre plate of the oldest
make. She has a pitcher and some
| other pieces made by a process a
trifIe more refined, that was super
seeded by the silver plating process.
The lustre pieces are very handsome
and rare. Miss Ward showed also an
old Clews platter, in blue. 1t is a rare