The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-08

try will be in Topeka next May, on
their way to England.
Mrs Don is national president of the
New Zealand w. c. T. u. Her home is
at 81 Cannon Gate, Dunedin, Otago,
South Island, n. u. Mrs. Lee-CoWie
of Amethyst Hall, Invercargill, n. H.,
is the worlds peace director for the
w. G. T. u. she is noted author
and is said to be the best known wo-
man lecturer of the Southern hemis-
phere She has twice gone to England
in response to an invitation direct
from the Crown, and she is making
the trip on this occasion by the same
request.
The two women are stopping in the
United States to collect material on
the effects of prohibition in parts of
the country where prohibitory laws
have been worked out for some time.
For that reason they are making Kan
sas one of their principal stopping
places in this country They will
probably lecture also while they are
in the state. They will spend some
time in Chicago with Miss Anna Cor
don, national president of the Ameri-
can w. c. T. u, who is a personal
friend of Mrs. Lee-Cowie. They will
be in New York for some time, and
will sail from there to England.
The recital to have been given Fri
day night in the studios of Miss Jen-
ME Blinn and Miss Ethel Everingham,
will be omitted this week. The affair
was one of the series of musical Gull
ture evenings which are given this
season complim entary to the public
by Miss Blinn and her students. The
meeting to have been held this week
is omitted on account of the Messiah
concert next Tuesday, for which many
of the local musicians are preparing.
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Miss Esther Clark of Lawrence, has
gone to Chicago, and plans to make
that her home. She is one of the best
known women of Kansas, with liter
airy ability and poetic gifts that the
state regrets to lose. Her home is in
Chanute, but she has been at the State
University for some time. During the
last two years she has been taking
some special work in literary criti
cism, French and Greek, and some
other lines of study. In Chicago she
expects to engage in literary work,
known poem is 1.-The Call of Kansas"
which is now used as one of thet class
les in the Kansas school books.
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Miss Alice Hughes entertained her
sewing club Wednesday afternoon.
ILL.,, was a guest. Miss Macleod is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. E. w. Thomp-
son.
Mrs. John Green and Mrs. j. c..
Leopold will entertain at Valentine
party Wednesday afternoon at Mrs.
Green's home in Clay street. There
will be guests for eleven tables.
One of the guests at the tea yester-
costume, with a pair of spats that
varied from the ordinary black,
white or pearl gray. They were Of
diagonal black and white, pin stripes.
fastened with big white buttons.
The regular noon meeting of the
Women's Rotary club was held at the
tea room Wednesday. Mrs. P. P.
Womer presided. The business of the
meeting concerned the establishment
of the Woman's Exchange, a new
business enterprise in Topeka, which
is being foStered by the civic depart
ment of the club. Mrs. p H. Adams
is chairman of that department, and
is directing the exchange. A short
time before Christmas an exchange
was opened in one of the millinery
shops, with a view to offering a mar
ket for Christmas goods to Topeka
women workers. So successful was
the enterprise, that it seemed practi-
cal to make the establishment per-
manent and to enlarge its scope. Miss
Roxie Vancil has been employed to
have charge of the exchange. The
articles offered for sale are cooked
foods of various kinds, pies, cookies,
cakes, etc, fancy work, hand painted
china, and other articles of women's
work. A feature of the exchange VIII
be the work of filling orders for fur
refreshments for parties, and
it is also planned 10 have some tables
in the exchange quarters for the serv-
ing of light lunches.
The business will be handled on Il
liberal percentage basis, SO that those
who contribute articles for sale will
have an opportunity to make a good
profit. while those buying will receive
first class goods at a reasonable price.
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Mrs. Ralph Moore and Mrs. Daniel
Haggart gave party for about twenty