The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-21


ter To be sure, some of the clubs
are disbanding, and the dancing socle-
ties of the cradle crowd are talking OF
dreary dissolution. But the Helian-
thus the hardy, cOld-weather peren-
NAL, is to bloom again this winter
with all it's old time glow. Its presl-
dent, Capt. Joe Wilson, being in mill
tary service, will not be able to act,
but the secretary, Mr.. Clay Hamilton,
is calling a meeting of the members
for Monday night, September "A,
when arrangements will be made Tor
| the REORGANIZATION, and plans laid Tor
| the fall and winter dancing parties.
This will be pleasing news to the
society women, who are quite uncer-
tain as to what plans to make for their
seasons wardrobe. 1t is folly, of
course, to get ones self all dressed up
and have no place to go. Some OF the
card clubs are thinking of d1sbandlng
| for this year, but they will be replaced
! by knitting and sewing clubs ana SO
| there is nothing about that to weep
| over.
! The Ceramic Art club will have its
first meeting of the season Friday af-
| ternoon at the home of Miss Guss1e
Fuller, in West Sixth avenue. All
members are especially asked to be
present.
|
| State Agricultural college, Manhattan,
| has accepted the appointment as head
! of the Home Economics department
| of the woman's committee, Kansas
| council of defense. Mrs. D. w. Null
vane, state chairman. selected her as
person especially qualified by her
training and ability, and her connec-
| ton with the college, as the leader of
the home economics division. The
| chairman of the health and recreation
4 IL ~.
turn from Washington, D. c., of Mr..
| Barnes, of Fort Riley, who is at the
| head of a similar work for the army
| camp.
| Registration is continuing turnout
| the state, and it is expected that the
number of Kansas women registered
| before the close of the books
will be about 100000. Tabulation
| sheets have been sent in from all ever
! the state, by the separate county or
| CARNATIONS, to the state chairman.
| These tabulated results show that 50,-
| 600 women registered on September 5,
| and the indications are that subse-
quest registration will double that
number. Meanwhile the officers of
| the committee are working to
strengthen the weaker counties and
tbring up their force of workers to
carry on the future plans of the COM
mittee.
During the state fair, when the
!
| grounds, speeches were made by
prominent men and women in the
council of defense. Governor Capper,
who had just returned from Washing
ton, brought back word that the Kan
sas organization, with it's efficient
method of reaching down thru state,
county and precinct officers, to the in
dividu2S. was noticed and highly
4 praised by the officers in Washington,
even by Mr.. Hoover himself, who is
at the head of the whole food con-
servation plan. Mr. H j. Waters,
turaI college, also brought back from
i Washington the report that Kansas
had reached the national capital, and
that the Kansas woman's committee
organization was recognized by leaders
in Washington as the best in the
country.
The efforts of the Good Government
club library committee, of which Mrs.
]. D. Mcfarland is chairman, has re-
suited in the collection of 154 books
to be added to the soldiers library for
Kansas being made up under the di-
rection of Mrs. Adrian Greene. The
1 Good Government club collection con-
tains some of the best of newer novels
and especially those that have a for
eign flavor. There are a number OF
William Blacks books chosen because
of the touch of English scenery in
them. There are numbers of his
tories, written in brief, readable style
There are no "culls'' or "castoffs
from anybody's library, but all those
who contributed, gave books that are
of new or permanent interest, and vel
bound.
The fourth vesper service in the
series, THE Music of Our Allies Al
the First Christian church, Sunday
evening, September %, will feature
the music of Italy and Serbia. Carl
baldis WAR Hymn has been use6
by the Italian soldiers in all of the
battles their armies have fought from
that of Solferino in 1859 to Mont Sar
Gabrielle in 1917.
The choir, under the direction o.