The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-22

party given this afternoon by Mrs
Cecil Howes. The other guests were
members of a bridge club to which
Miss Trapp belonged last winter.
Those present we're: Miss Trapp, Mrs
Malcolm Gray, Mrs. II. C. West, Miss
Carolyn Thomas, Miss Mary Murphey,
Miss F'e Waters, Miss Elizabeth Greg
DRY and Mrs. Howes
THERE Is A GIRL IN OUR TOWN
Who is on a visit to friend in an
eastern town. The friends husband
is away from his home on business.
and during his absence the wife is
entertaining her Topeka visitor after
the daring fashion that the small!
town, single woman, dotes on when
she is away from prying friends and
enemies. She writes home that she
and her hostess are motoring and din
ing at no end of neat little foursOmes
in the great town, and that champagne
and high hats are floating about her
till she is quite too dizzy to come
home.
The woman's committee of the ma
tiJnal council of defense is now being
given an opportunity to assist the gov
eminent in the work of increasing the
supply OF nurses for home and foreign
service. Mrs. David W. Mulvane,
chairman of the Kansas branch of the
national organization, has received a
plan of work for this line from the
committee on nursing of the general
medical board of the national council
of defense.
plan of the committee embracing
a survey of the present nursing re-
sources of the country, which will in
cIude trained and unframed and vol
unteer workers, has been authorized
by the council of national defense, and
will be conducted under the superVi-
of 10 a n
Nurses association. To be effective,
however, it must have the co-opera-
ton of all private agencies and public
boards and bureaus. The state divi-
sions and local units of the woman's
committee can be of great assistance
in securing authority to command this
information.
To stimulate the interest of educat-
ed young women in nursing as a war
service and as a permanently impor-
tant and satisfying profession, it is
proposed that a campaign of public
education be carried on thru extensive
circulation of personal letters. thru
ma gaZine campaign, and thru public
addresses before wOmen's clubs, col
leges, schools, churches and citizens
meetings.
The committee on nursing recog-
nizes that the success of their imme-
date work is conspicuously dependent
upon a widespread. local understand
ing and support, and it turns to the
women of the country for help. The
need for skilled nurses will be the
greatest the world has ever known.
and the utmost effort to fill this an
ticipated need should be made now.
The main purpose of the committee
on nursing is to keep as much nursing
care and of the same quality as be-
fore the war without interfering with
the future supply of nurses thru a
breaking down of the machinery of
nursing education.
Mrs. Mulyane has also received a
letter from Sister Katherine Voth of
Newton, Kan, who is president of the
Kansas Association of Graduate
Nurses. offering any assistance she
can give to the cause thru her organ
| ization.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. G. w. Colweu of Lawrence has
returned home after a visit to her
daughter, Mrs. Clyde Miller
The Rev. DR.. Bernard Kelly has re-
turned from Kansas City, where he
read the marriage service at the we'd
ding of Miss Lucille Pollock and Mr..
Fra NIX H. Jennings.
Judge A. II. Reid of Wausau, Wis.
Mr.. Frank Reid of Clyde, Kan. and
Mr.. w. G.. Reid of Concordia, Kan,
have returned to their homes, after a
| short visit to MIR. Albert T Reid.
| They attended the funeral of the late
J. A. Reid of Burlingame. judge Reid