The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-29

ment has appropriated large sums of
money to help them, and yet with so
large a number to help, the great ma
Jorlty of them are still in deep dis
treSs, especially those who have newly
escaped from the clutches of the
Turks. Not long ago 1 visited several
villages where these new arrivals are
now located. They tell of hiding for
months in the caves of the mountains.
hunted like animals by Turkish SOL
diers Leaves, leather cats, dogs and
| even the flesh of human corpses serv-
ed as food.
We are now preparing the clothing
for 5000 of the needieSt of the refu-
gees, and hope to give bedding to about
$4,000. The distress of the women ap-
pealed to us from the first, as SO many
are widows with children. They
needed and still need employment to
occupy their hands and minds and to
help them forget past horrors and
present troubles. So we early opened
a wool shop in Erivan where 1900
women find employment in cording
and spinning wool and in knitting
stockings, which latter we give away
a very simple method of dispoSing of
the product
I have just opened a similar shop
in AleXandropol, and hope soon to get
the employees up to 1000. 1 have also
uiOSI my Inere a
nurse who is able to treat many SIM
pie cases. Two young women, one d
college graduate, visit and encourage
the people, bring a little bread or
clothing for the saddest cases, seek
out the sick and blind and lame to
whom special grants are made, report
newly arrived infants for whom a
blanket and other help are given. Now
they have begun to list orphans, to
some hundreds of whom we will give
81 per month.
I'VE have voted to thus support
1900 orphans in all our field, and If
we receive the funds we believe are
coming, we shall probably provide for
5000 or 5000. 1t is estimated that
there are about 10000 refugee orphans
and children without fathers in this
region, about 5000 only of whom are
cared for by local societies.
| Mrs. John Dadisman and her little
daughter. Virginia, are on their way
to the United States from China. They
are coming to make their home with
Mrs Dadisman's parents, Mr. and Mrs
G. H. Griggs.
| Mr.. Dadisman lost his life by drown
ing few weeks ago at Shanghai. Mr..
and Mrs. Dadisman went to the Orient
to engage in mission work immediate
| ly after their marriage a few years
ago, and Mrs. Dadisman and her lit
tie girl are now returning to the states
| to remain permanently.
X X x
| Well, quite one of the smartest af-
| fairs given in a private home in this
city in some time was the tea which
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Charles Phillips
gave last Sunday afternoon for Charles
Wakefield Cadman and the real In
dian Princess Tsianina. I presume
you have read the accounts of the con-
cert the two artists gave last week.
Well they spent the weekend at the
Phillips home and gracious Mrs.
Phillips, wishing to share their pleas
ant company with her friends, invited
them in Sunday for cup of tea
| The rooms were thronged with fash
| ionables. There were numerous dis
tinctly personable husbands and bach
elors in just the correct sprinkling;
| charming women in lovely gowns, and
| divine music.
oh. it was splendid We have no
more gracious hostess in the city than
| Mrs. Phillips There was a flutter OF
excitement when Mrs. Phillips an
nounced, after striking a few chords
on the piano to silence the 'gibble-
gabble," that the honor guests had
graciously consented to perform for
| the assembly.
| A Seattle woman who was present
who has recently returned from New
York, where she was when Cadman
and TSianina gave a concert there
| Iaughingly remarked to one of the
guests. THE princess is as good any
| cop on the busy streets of New York
| CITY She appears in costume out OF
doors as we'll as in. and when taking
her daily promenade, attracts so much
attention that traffic is almost stopped
until she passes by"
| The princess designs her own gowns
and makes her own headdresses- Sun
| day she wore a leather dress. in prin-
cess fashion, of maroon color, beaded
! with white and red beads. The lower
| part of the gown was heavily fringed
| the fringe also finished the sleeves
| which ended above the elbow Long
| strings of bright beads and a beaded
band around her shiny black hair, set
| off her lark, interesting face
| She is pretty. l think, with refined
features beautiful teeth and a most
pleasing smile. She doesn't really
| know her age, but thinks she is TWEEN
| ty-two She was born in tepee, and
! was raised in true Indian fashion
| Later she attended a government
| school at an Indian reservation, in
| Oklahoma. Three years ago she went
| to Denver and stayed with an Ameri-
can family, who discovered" her voice
and insisted on it's being cultivated.
| Since then she has been constantly
! under instruction taken along with
her tours.
She speaks English beautifully. II
| is rumored that she is to marry a fine
six-footer, a student now at Columbia
| university. who also has Indian blood
in his veins. 1 liked her best when she
was seated at the piano. playing her
| own Accomplishments. She was so al
home and so charming.
CadInan is an interesting person