The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-22


jointly Saturday evening of this week.
The chaperons will be Professor and
Mrs. Schonberger
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The Varsity party is set for Friday
night of this week and will be given
at Kellam hall. Prof. and Mrs F. D.
Schonberger have been asked to be
chaperons.
Mr.. Sam Stewart is in Leavenworth
preparing to take examinations for
West Point. He has obtained an APP
pointment, and has been taking spe
cial work at Leavenworth and under
Prof. w. A. Harshbarger at Wash
burn college
The Shawnee County Political Sci
snce club invites the wives of all the
legislators and other visiting women
in town to a meeting which they will
hold Friday afternoon at 2:3O o'clock,
in the assembly room of the National
hotel. The club is entirely non-par-
tlsan; its purpose being to study from
all angles the science of government
IN all public affairs. ranging from the
national policies to the local civic
phases. The program for tomorrow
will consist of two discussions, one
on why l Am a Republican" and
the other on why l Am Demo-
crat." A number of women from
each party who are members of the
club will lead the discussion, which
will be Joined in by others present.
During the season Mrs. J. w. Thurs
ton has conducted a series of parlia-
mentary lessons, which has been of
special interest to the members. en-
aiding them particularly to follow
legislative proceedings intelligently
The present officers of the club are:
Mrs Festus Foster president; Mrs
Lucy A. Milleken, first vice-president;
! Mrs w. A Johnston, second vice
president; Mrs. Frank L. Britton, re-
cording secretary; Mrs. Elizabeth D.
Lowry. corresponding secretary; Mrs.
I Charles o. Beal, treasurer; Mrs. C. H.
Curry, auditor, and Mrs, Thurston,
| parlia
If / had dollar for every time I
| have heard the bone dry law discussed
yesterday and today, I could buy an
automobile, a farm and a pig.
! 1t was chartered about at the tables
at the tea rooms and cafes, it was
| talked over the counters at the stores,
and it was the chief topic of CONVEX
Sation down on the street. That bill
is to go into effect on Saturday. and
| there is going to be a lively scramble
to get generous amount of the taboo
refreshment consumed before it's pos
session becomes a miSdemeanor, or a
! crime, whichever it is going to be. One
| hears talk of hurry up trips to Kansas
| City with loaded suit cases on return
! trips, with supplies to resist the in
definite drought. That is a mistake.
| The wise ones are hurrying in another
direction entirely Lights are burning
J late in the residences in the fashion
| able districts, well as in the modest
and humble streets, where prolonged
parties are held in an effort to get it
all consumed before Saturday. Men
who are out of town have wired home
to get the stuff on the ice taken care of
| haste post haste, without much regard
to the morning after effects. You see,
there is no end of an opportunity Tor
| the icemen to turn an honest penny
on the side in the capacity of spotter-
| After speaking of opportunities.
what a golden one for the gentle eX-
ercise of paying off Srudges. A Wo-
man of your set leaves you off of her
party list; you know what is kept in
| her cellar; the officers want to know,
and the telephone is handy. say
this bone dry law has possibilities and
| indications
Party giving may be a little drier
from now on, and instead of three
punch bowls, at which all appetites,
from the totally abstemious to the to-
tally thirsty, may be appeased, one
bowl will answer all purposes. Thus
does even the dry bone have its COM
! penSations.
A former Washburn college student
who is practicing medicine in Mis-
souri, town has sent to the Woman S
Rota club check to be applied to-
ward their Washburn college pledge
of $1,000. The club held a meeting
Wednesday evening and discussed
means of raising the money. No de-
cision was made, but the support of
! the members is pledged to whatever
project is undertaken.
| A program of speeches was ar
ranged by Miss Effie Graham. Miss
Lulu Kelly, druggist, made an ad-
dress telling of her business. She
said that every pharmacist was re-
| quired to have taken a course of in
struction in an acknowledged school
or to appear for examination before
the state board. She spoke of the
difficulties of obtaining competent and
| interested help in the business, and
of the benefit derived from the fed
eral laws on pure drugs. 1T may not
be good business she said, to speak
| against certain nostrums that drug
gists handle but when l am asked by
my customers. L tell them frankly
what l think of some patent prepara-
| tons"
Mrs. Adrian Greene, secretary of
the state travelling library, addressed
| the club on her work. She gave a
brief history of the founding of the
! library by a group of club women,
and she told of the increased business
! the institution was handling from year
to year. She read a number of let
tiers from people in remote parts of
the state, and even from out of the
state, asking for books. The appeals
so stirred the club members that they
! agreed to send a box of books to an
II Oklahoma man who was not entitled
under the law governing the library.
/ to books from the Kansas collection.
The books offered will be taken to
Mrs Greene by the club members, and
she will arrange for their shipment
to him. kansas has" Mrs. Greene
said, about the fourth largest travel
ing library in the United States, and
better than many with three times
its appropriation
Miss Mabel Adams, of the conf
Dental exchange. representing chart
ties, spoke of her work among the
poor in the city, outlining the object
and activities of the exchange since