The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-15

will be held Wednesday of next week
with Mrs. Bernard Crosby in Topeka
avenue. The program is to be a mis-
cellaneous one, and will be furnished
by Program Division No of the club
the members of which are Mrs.
Charles Gleed, Mrs. E. C. Winters,
Mrs Clay McKibben, Mrs. W. w. WIKI
idal, Mrs. w. B. Swan, Mrs Karl Ran
kin, Miss Helen Hogeboom, Miss Sara
Kouns, Miss Helen Phipps, Miss Mary
Harrison and Miss Myrtle Radcliffe.
A lenten program, arranged by Mrs
ARA Clark, was given last week.
One of the programs for April will
be given April IL, and will be the
songs of the nations, given by singers
in costume.
On April 26. there will be a guest
meeting, at which the program will be
furnished by Mrs. Stuart Forbes of
Kansas City, formerly Miss Margaret
Fowler. Mrs. Forbes is a violinist of
much ability. and is a great favorite
with Topeka people. She has also
many personal friends in this city.
Mrs. Arthur Nichols will be hostess
at a meeting of the Duplicate Whist
club Friday of next week.
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The D. D. Whist club has decided to
discontinue its meetings through Lent.
After Easter the club will continue to
meet until the end of the season.
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The Junior Atlantean club had
guest day meeting Tuesday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. Lewis Green
wood, 1921 Western avenue. Miss
Florence Willard, of the faculty of
Washburn college, gave an address, il
Illustrated by lantern slides. Miss Will
lard was abroad two or three years
ago, and spent a good deal of time in
Germany Instead of showing views
of the large cities, art galleries, and
main travelled ways of the country,
she chose some pictures of the re-
moter places of the country, less fire.
quently visited by travellers.
An especially interesting set of
views were of the ancient city of Mar
burg; established centuries ago by a
family of that name, and a descendant
of the founder of the city is Mr.. AL
brecht Marburg, who lives in Topeka.
Marburg is said to be the only city of
Germany named for a Christian fam
lily.
The town is the site of one of the
great universities of Germany. In the
highest place of the city is a great,
old castle. The costumes of the peo-
pie are extremely picturesque, and the
town has retained many of its me-
diaeval chara cteristics.
Miss Willard also showed some pic
lures of the towns of Nuremberg and
Roterberg, in Southern Germany, and
Miss Willard is an interesting
speaker and has travelled understand
ingly. She teaches German in Wash
burn college. Her father is dean of
Knox college, and a sister of hers,
Miss Mary Willard, formerly taught
in Washburn.
The music or-the afternoon was
furnished by Miss Augusta Taylor,
pianist.
The members of the club are: Mrs.
IDT. NJ
Greenwood. secretary; Mrs. S. w Ly-
man, Mrs. W. d. Storrs, Mrs. Ralph
Moore, Mrs. Matt Macferran, Mrs
Charles J. Cooper, Mrs. Lee Forbes,
Mrs. Frank Trip, Mrs. H. L. P. Hill
yer, Miss Grace Frost, Miss Nellie
Lescher, Miss Santa Waters, Miss May
Short, Miss Florence Willard, Miss Fe
Waters, Miss Carolyn Thomas, Miss
Edna Haywood, Miss Grace Whiting
and Miss Helen Curry.
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| Separate coats are going to be wore
a great deal this spring, according to
advance agents for the new STYLES.
This means continued faithfulness to
the one-piece dress. A suit, of course.
calls for blouse, which is often not
/ only expensive, but it makes it neceS-
sary to wrestle with three garments
instead of two. The cloaks are long
or of three-quarters length, and they
are made in basket-weave cheviot, un-
cut cotton velvet, and duvetyn. Taf-
fetas and brocades are also used for
coats.
On some of the Redfern coats are
! immense pockets, and belts are still
used, though they are not as snowy as
they have been the past season. Some
of these astonishing pockets are made
of leather and wonderfully embroid-
cred in wool, and sometimes even in
grasses, such as the Indians use for
| decorating moccasinS. Besides these
immense pockets for cloaks, there are
the little puffed pockets that are
called birds nests.
The big pockets are similar to the
baldrics of the period of Louis XIII
The baldric is a military belt designed
after the fashion of the Roman cingu-
lum. 1t passes over one shoulder
crosses the body diagonally, and ends
in a pocket. You remember the an
cient poem that contains the lines:
A palmer's amice wrapt him round
With a wrought Spanish baldric
bound.
Well. that is the baldric that the
American woman is going to be wear
ing this spring, and it doesn't matter
in the least that the article was orig
inally a part of masculine attire.
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The classes taught by Miss Leah
McEntire and Mr.. John Crawford OF
the Central Congregational church
had party at the home of George
Greenwood. Those who attended
were: Dorothy Thoroman, Inc;
Horner. Thelma Perry, Nancy Boone
Agnes Williams, Nellie Larson, George
Harger Finley Neal, Edward Kline
Phil Shaler, Lewis Kingman, VIII
Rinner, Lewis Taylor, George Green
wood, George Crawford, Cranston Vim.
cent, Alfred Mitchell, Robert Emble
ton, Bernard Kenny. Torrance Curry
William Beasley. Charles Thompson