The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
Miss Margaret Ruffin.

F. w Watson are to make the ar
rangements. 1t is asked that the
women interested in art be present
that afternoon. A collection of ex-
being exhibited.
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Mrs J. c. Gustafson of 615 Topeka
avenue will entertain the Modern Lace
club Monday afternoon.
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Glasses in Red Cross and first aid
will be organized at the Y. w. c. A.
DR.. S. T. Willard will give lectures and
will help the class to take eXamina-
lions for Red Cross service in eff
cheney and first aid, by the American
Red Cross association. If you are
interested go to the Y. w. c. A. Tues
day at 1915 o'clock for a short or
ganization meeting. For further in
formation. telephone Miss Frances
Perry, 1852.
u Mrs. Norman Keller will be hostess
Tat the Art Guild exhibition Wednes-
day afternoon. She will be assisted
by Mrs. j. c. Harmon, Mrs. o. S.
Perkins, Mrs. Harry Gavitt, Mrs
Clarence Bowman and Mrs F. p
asked to make an address on the pic
lures. The Good Government club
members are especially invited to call
that afternoon.
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/ "A great many girls and women are
registering to attend the lectures to be
given by DR.. Mary Riggs Noble April
| 9, 10 and IL. There is no charge to at
J tend the lectures, but those who wish
to be present are asked to register.
| This can be done at the Y. w. c. A or
/ at the opening lecture of each series.
! DIR. Noble will speak on social NOR
ality, and her lectures will be ad-
dressed to three groups of women;
/ high school girls, the second group
to mothers, teachers, college and bust
ness women; the third group to young
employed girls.
The lectures for the high school
girls will be given April 8, 10 and II,
at 2:30 o'clock each afternoon in the
/ high school building Superintendent
/ H. B. Wilson and Miss Laura Ewing
have sent out letters to the girls asking
them to attend. Registration for
these lectures will be in charge of Miss
Ewing, Mrs. Newell Abrahams and
| Miss Frances Perry. Some of the
| high school Y. w. c. A. girls will
usher, and Miss Ewing will preside.
The second group of lectures will
be given in the high school auditorium
April 9, 10 and L at Ais O'Clock. Reg
| istration is in charge of Mrs. Hal
/ Hazlett. Mrs t D. Alden, Mrs Arthur
| G. Durham and Mrs. David Page. Mrs
| A. A. GODDARD will preside, and Mrs. J.
M. Cleveland will introduce DIR. Noble.
Some of the Washburn college girls
| will usher.
For the young employed girls the
lectures will be given at the Y. w. C.
A. building April 8, 10 and IL, begin
/ ming each evening at o'clock. Miss
! Clara Armstrong and Miss Mary Mac
/ Lehman will have charge of the regis
tration and will preside. Ushers will
be girls of the kresge club and the
L. L. L. club and the girls who live at
the Y. w. G. A. building.
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In these days of the gloom of
threatening war. it is a relief for the
women of the city to turn to the ac-
tivities of the members of the Baby
week demonstration. The interest is
growing, and those in charge of the
, registration at Pelletier's say that the
number of babies registered will reach
the 100 mark by tonight Up to date
seven towns. besides Topeka, are rep
resented, including Leavenworth, Ran
dali Maple Mill, Carbonate, Pauline,
Tecumseh and Eskridge. All these
neighborhoods have sent names of ba-
bies that they want examined during
| baby week
The Eskridge baby, John D. Knox,
is the son of Milton Helbert Knox, and
a great-grandson of the late Rev. John
D. Knox, a pioneer Methodist minis
ter of this city, who built the Knox
| home, known as Belvoir.
The largest per cent of babies reg
istered are between the ages of 1 and
2; after that, between the ages of
and 3, and thus up the scale The
only child registered between and 6
is Jean McEachron, the little daugh-
ter of Dean and Mrs. D. L. McEach-
ron. The children on the books com e
| from good homes in the best resident
| districts of the city
One of the children, Mary Eliza
beth Hart, laughter of Mrs. Cary Hart
| of 1900 Boswell avenue, has her pho
| tograph in the current number of the
| Ladies Home Journal, with the cap