The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-19

members of the class will take lunch
con together and the teacher will
speak to them in French. The sub
Stitute for the first Thursday lesson
will be held the Wednesday preced-
ing the regular meeting day at 1880
o'clock.
The home economies department
had a meeting just following the edu-
cational department meeting. Miss
Mary Ward, food expert for Topeka,
gave a demonstration of the process
of making bread with flour substitutes
combined with flour. About a dozen
loaves of bread were brought to the
meeting to show the quality of the
product and Miss Ward explained the
process of handling the ingredients.
The loaVeS varied in weight from a
pound and a quarter to two pounds,
Agricultural domestic science rooms
at a cost of little more than cents
each. The loaves of wheat bread sold
in the stores for Is cents weigh from
tcl to sixteen ounces.
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The home economics department of
the Woman's club, which is giving I'M
usually helpful and practical work this
year, under the direction of Mrs.
George Crawford. chairman, has ar
ranged a sort of extension depart
ment in its program. Che plan is for
department to go to the Provident as
ISOLATION, with Miss Mary Ward, food
expert, to give course of lessons in
food economy and flour and meat sub
stitutes. Miss Ward will prepare a
series of recipes which will be dem
onstrated for the class. The sessions
will be held Friday afternoons from
to o'clock, beginning November Q.
The course in food economics will in
clude eight lessons, and the class will
consist of from fifteen to twenty
members. At the close of the first
series of lessons, another class will be
organized, and a second series of in
Structions begun for a different group
of women. The committee who are
to give the instruction will be made
up of volunteers from the department
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The following Washburn students
will go to Lawrence for the K. u
Washburn football game Saturday.
and some of them will attend the Phi
Delt dancing party in the evening:
Miss Marian Williams, Miss Helen
Lucas, Miss Edna Anton, Miss Georgia
Nees, Miss Mary Paxton, Miss Rather
inc Conkling, Miss Katherine Knowles,
Miss Lydia Suydam, Miss Esther Jen-
sen, Miss Margaret Suydam, Mr.. Ned
Fleming, Mr.. Duane VanHorn, Mr..
John F. JONES' Mr.. Percy Paxton, Mr..
Harry Champeny, Mr.. Charles Calvert,
Mr.. Ronald Finney, Mr.. John Troxell.
Mr.. John Parkinson. Mr.. Ray Callihan,
Mr.. Ralph Pettis. Mr.. Pettis and Mr..
Callihan are Phi Delts and members of
the washburn football team.
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The pledges of the Sigma Alpha Iota
sorority gave a line party at the
Orpheum theater, followed by a sup
per at the Pelletier tea room Thurs
day in honor of the girls of the active
chapter. The decorations and ices
f1rr of
red roses were given. Those present
were: Miss Edna Smith, Miss Imogene
SNYDER, Miss Goldie Asher, Miss Jessie
Hennery, Miss Uarda Baird, Miss Ruth
Tandy Miss Gladys Heath and Miss
Frances Cav. The pledges were; Miss
Bernice Heath, Miss Margaret Wor
den, Miss Marion Uunder. Miss Saydee
Lihdenmeyer and Miss Gladys Elledge.
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| The working quarters of the Topeka
Red Cross at Crosby Brothers store
are divided into two departments In
a room at the south end of the third
floor is located the surgical dressing
room, in charge. of Mrs. Nat Black
at the north end is the room devoted
to the making of hospital supplies and
patients clothing, and knitting. Wom-
en- workers are needed Immediately at
both places. The call from the battle
front for supplies is daily growing
greater.
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THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who is likely to become the object
of some unpleasant attentions by
group of club women who have decid-
ed that she has went too fur" 1t
seems that she has been giving out
thru the country some statements
that have Jared a lot of the old,
established club arrangements that
have become a part of the traditions
!
ours it ought to be a right spectacu-
lar one. The curious part of the story
is that the person whose scalp this
woman has been after for ten years
is not concerned in the combine.
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THE MODESTO.
(By Arthur Guiterman)
What Dame do Men esteem the least?
The IneXpressible Modiste
Who designs each Foolish Fashion
That Faddists make their Transient Pas
sion
'Tis she bids Ladies dress in drolI
Green boots that lace along the Sole,
Abbreviated Skirts with Caters
That edify Spectators,
Or Evening Gowns devoid of sleeves
And otherwise resembling Ewes.
And Women slavishly obey her,
| What's stranger still, they sometimes pay
heri
/ About fifty friends of Mrs A. ].
( Ross gave a surprise party for her
Thursday night at the Ross home, 514
1 West Fifth street, in celebration of
/ her birthday anniversary. Mrs. Ross
/ is the wife the Rev. Mr.. Ross, pastor