The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

During the week ending August
2S, orders were received for 2.40O
pounds of wool valued at $3.50. On
August %, $50 pounds of wool, valued
at 81 900 was shipped to the Mississip-
pi coast section of the Navy league:
500 pounds were ordered August "a
from Sumpter, s. c.; 100 pounds were
shipped September l to Riverside,
Cal, and other large shipments were
made to Dallas. Tex; Hot Springs,
Ark, and Portland, Me.
Figures on the production and
shipment of comfort articles given out
by the comforts committee show that
there was decided slump in supplies
sent to the navy for one week, from
August 16 to %, after which the work
again became normal A total of
$500 garment sets were shipped dur
ing the week of August % to % with
a steady daily gain shown, both in
the receipts and shipments of garments
since that date"
X
Katherine Stinson, the woman avi-
ator, who made "call to knit flight
from New York to Chicago, dropped
along the way Red Cross cards,
which was printed a message to all
the women who should find these
cards. The message is addressed to
Women of America, and reads as fol-
lows:
'I am flying from Chicago to New
Cross message. May it, in turn, fly
straight to your hearts.
"One million and half each of
knitted sweaters, mufflers, socks and
wristlets are needed by the American
Red Cross. You are asked to make
them at once. Knit for our soldiers
knit for the soldiers of our allies
knit for the destitute of Belgium and
France.
The Red Cross calls you to act
q TIXV TUryf h
fiji this order before our boys, their
allies and the destitute civilians suf-
fer from the cold. Get in touch with
the nearest Red Cross chapter and
knit, knit, knit
The card bears also a picture of
Miss Stinson in her aerial car.
X
The Columbus Dispatch gives the
women of this country the reassuring
information that the beauty and
charm of French women is over adj
vertised, and that American girls have
no real rivalry there; that their very
ownest own soldier boys are not really
in danger of being ensnared by the re-
puted superior fascination of the
French girls. Here is where the Dis
patch says about these under-size
French women:
The average height of the women of
France is 5 feet l inch. Our American
girls average feet 3 inches, and they
are half an inch shorter than the
average English girl. But our girls
in weight, whereas, the English won-
ans weight is only lis pounds, and
the French woman maintains an av-
erage weight of only 112 pounds.
But regardless of weight or height
height, the American boy is
not going to find in France as
beautiful women as he left at home
The grace and beauty of the daughters
of France have received a great deal
of favorable publicity, while modesty
has prevented the American woman
from receiving the publicity that is her
due. For the truth is, the American
woman is more beautiful than the
woman of any other country-and we
can prove it by every fellow who has
a sweetheart.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Justice and Mrs. w. A Johnston,
who have been at Battle Creek, Mich,
have gone to Oxford, Ohio, to visit
their daughter, Mrs. J. S. Branden-
burg, and her family. They will re-
turn home about the middle of this
month.
Miss Elizabeth Hopkins has re-
turned from the Hopkins summer
camp in Maine. Miss Edna Hopkins,
who is returning also, stopped in In
L, L.
Scott Hopkins, who is ill in hospital
in that city. Mr.. Hopkins is much
improved
Mrs. lief Felix and her family have
returned from Manitou, Colo, where
they spent a part of the summer
Mrs. Oscar Perkins has returned
from visit to relatives and friends in
Chicago.
DR.. and Mrs. o. F. Narcotic. who
have been spending their vacation on
Lake Michigan, are stopp.ng in Chi
cago for a few days before they return
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus Pasqueth
who are now making their home in
Los Angeles, Cal. are visiting in the
Yosemite Valley. They are accom-
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Miller will re-
turn the last of the week from Bay
View, Mich.
Henry H. Hall. New York Life
Adv.
Mrs. Frank C. Thompson and her
daughter, Miss Ruth Thompson, have
returned from Bay View. Mich, and
Jackson. ILL.,, where they visited rel
atives.
Mrs. S. S. Beggs, who has been in
the west all summer, has returned to
Topeka. She is district supervisor of
Indian missions. and visited the mis-
sions at Pennington, N. NJ. Later
she went to Seattle to join her son,
Mr.. Percy Beggs, who has been at
Ferncliff, cambridge Island, across
the sound from Seattle, and who is
| now at the Preside to enter the sec
ond training school for army officers.
Miss Sierra Beggs has returned from
an outing in Colorado
Mrs. L. w. Stricken and Miss Lois
Stricken are visiting relatives in Chi
| cago. Mrs. Stricken will go on to
Boston, Mass, to visit another
daughter, Mrs. E. B. Botsford and
| Miss Stricken will return to Topeka
| and be a guest at the James Bell
/ home until her mother returns.
| DR.. Eva Harding is moving from
| her home in West Tenth street, to
College avenue. Her down town
! house will be occupied by the Cary
Hart family
Miss Emily Seery, Miss Marguerite