The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-08

mrS. >. j. Bra0QenDurB OF ONlOIu'
Ohio, was guest of honor at an attrac-
tive bridge party today given by Mrs
w. c. McDonough at her home IN
Tyler street. The rooms open to the
guests were decorated with flowers
from Mrs. McDonough's garden.
Those invited were; Mrs. Brandon
burg, Mrs. W. A Johnston, Mrs. Monte
Kistler, Mrs. ]. A. Campbell, jr Mrs
Frank Southwick, Mrs. George NC
Dermott Mrs. Albert Patten, MRS.
Edwin Kistler, Mrs. w. F. Bowen,
Mrs Merrill Mills, Mrs. Glenwood
Jones. Mrs. Roy Shoaf, Mrs. Patrick
Walsh, Miss Bernice EInahizer, Miss
Carolyn Thomas, Miss Alice Meade
Miss Virginia Meade Miss Ann Ruder,
of Leavenworth, and Miss Agnes
Walsh.
DR.. and Mrs. II. w. Putnam are IN
viting guests for an informal garden
musicale to be given Wednesday eve
ming, August 6, on the lawn of their
country place. The guests will be
seated on the lawn, and the piano
placed in the porch. The program
will / furnished by Miss Marguerite
Gohlke. soprano and Miss Myrtle
Radcliffe, pianist. They will be as
sisted by Mrs. Putnam, who VIII give
some readings and contralto SOLOS.
Mrs Putnam. Miss Radcliffe and MISS
Gohlke were together on concert
trip to California through the south
west last spring.
Miriam Van Horn, the daughter of
DIR. and Mrs. c. b. Van Horn, gave
a slumber party Monday night, her
guests being Olive Crane, Ruth Thoro-
man, Dorothy Souders, Dorothy Fes-
sender, and Blaine Hudson.
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There is a world of worry over the
exact correctness of various forms of
parlor etiquette. but all women are
agreed on certain forms of kitchen
etiquette The Atchisnn Globe tells
what it means in that town, and it is
just the same elsewhere. Says the
Globe: 1t is back door etiquette Tor
a woman to send back the dish, in
which her neighbor has sent her
something to eat, full. As result OF
trying to observe this rule two Atch1-
son women are on the verge of nervous
collapse. Sunday morning one of the
women sent her netghbor pan OF
string beans Promptly the women re-
Ceiving the beans returned the pan fill
ed with plum butter. The other woman
returned the pan filled with fresh
doughnuts. Her neighbor sent the
pan back with some raisin bread in it.
The other woman fired the pan back
filled with tomatoes. The neighbor
quickly stirred up cake, and it was
no time until that pan was sent back
filled with little hot cakes. The other
woman was ready for the pan and sent
it over filled with picked beets. The
other neighbor flew to her pantry,
and jerked up some sliced ham and
sent the pan back, but the other wom-
ans men folks met that pan before it
reached its destination; there is not
enough of it left for the junk man.
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Out at Fort Lawton near Seattle,
Wash, there has been a Red Cross
camp, the first Red Cross training
raar for on in try
Other camps for women have been ar
ranged by the Navy league and out of
private funds, but the one at Lawton
was the first under the auspices of the
Red Cross. Connected with the camp
was a former Topeka woman, Mrs. AL
bert Charles Phillips, formerly Miss
Anna Marie Nellis, and the daughter
of Judge and Mrs DeWitte c. Nellis.
Che Post-Intelligencer of Seattle says
Of her:
The camp at Fort Lawton, while
receiving financial backing from Mrs.
Hugh Rood, had its inception in the
brain of Mrs. Albert Charles Phillips,
president of the Seattle branch of the
American Red Cross society. She
made all the preliminary plans. waited
snXiously for the approval of Miss
Sophia Rutley, who was in charge of
the camp at Preside in San Francisco,
and was relieved to find that what had
been planned was along the proper
lines Then Mrs. Phillips made the
fort her headquarters and saw that all
the plans were carried out.
She's the ideal adjutant. said DR..
FRA C. Brown. camp adviser, yesterday
noon when he presented a swagger
stick to Mrs. Phillips I never saw
before woman who could be in three
or four places at one time
MRS. Philips's ability to be in three
or four places at one time has been
an, important factor in making the
camp successful
The sticks presented to some of the
workers in the camp were made of
iron wood from the Philippine Islands,
The ssoldierettes also gave Mrs. Phil
lips handsome Tiffany vase. The
evening the camp broke up a ball was
given for the benefit of the dependent
families OF guardsmen.
The Seattle Times carries a half
page of pictures of the camp women
at drill, and a photograph of Mrs
Phillips. The Times says of Mrs
Phillips:
Great credit for the camp is given
Mrs. Phillips, president of the Seattle
Red Cross. She has been the brains
and the genius behind it all, assert the
soldierettes.
Mrs. Phillips studied the programs
and procedure that had been used at
Chevy Chase. the women's camp in