The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-29

April Is is selected as mems night,
when the mems clubs, the Rotary,
Chamber of Commerce and other or
CARNATIONS. will be welcomed. April
IA, the exhibit will be in charge of
Miss Lydia Barnes, Miss Matte
Barnes, Miss Kendrick. Miss Winifred
McKirahan and Miss Howard. Mrs.
Katherine Hand will conduct the ex-
hibit April IT, and Mrs. w. A. Nc
Carter, April Is.
The Woman's club day at the exhibit
is April 16, and the president, Mrs.
S. S. Beggs will have the supervision
of the affair.
The local Art Guild night is Sat
urday evening, when every member of
the club is asked to be present. Some
matters of interest to the organization
will be presented. Also Mrs. Helen l.
Francis will talk on her collection of
pictures of Kansas wild flowers
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The Shawnee County Political
Science club will meet Friday after
noon at the National hotel. The dis
cussion of the various political parties
will be continued. At this meeting
The Why of the Progressive Party
will be explained by Mrs E. D. Lowry,
Mrs. j. S. Cecil, Mrs. C. H. Curry and
Mrs. Virginia Whitteker. The Prohi-
bition party will be discussed by Mrs
Lottie A. Case, and the Socialist party
by Mrs. Effie Main. The parliament
tary drill will be conducted by Mrs
S. J. Thurston.
The active chapter of the Alpha Phi
sorority will give a spread at the chap
ter house Monday night. Those in at
tendance will be the alumnae Alpha
Phis, the salumnae Betas, the pledges
and the hostesses.
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Miss Lois Lindsay, who conducts a
MonteSSori kindergarten in Topeka.
will go to California this summer to
take the course offered by Madame
Montessori for her American students.
The local kindergarten closed this
week, so that the children could enjoy
the weather of the early spring, when
it is warm enough for them to be out
of doors. Miss Lindsay took a course
in preparation for Montessori work in
California two years ago. Her pupils
this winter were: Billy Kirkpatrick,
Alfred Van Petten, Lawrence Jackson,
Katherine Ley, Cecil Forter, Louise
jackson, Peggy Robbins, Ruth McVey,
Robert Uplinger, Arthur Carruth, III,
Elizabeth Schonberger. Josephine
jackson, Bobby Swan, Rayburn Bond
Elizabeth Congdon.
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Miss Elizabeth Bert of Quincy, Ill.,
who. occa sionally visits her aunt, Mrs
]. F. farrell, of this city, has offered
her services as stenographer to the
United States Navy. She Joined from
the Kansas City recruiting office, and
was the first woman to offer from
that city. She was formerly a re-
porter on the Quincy, Ill. Wing
A letter has been received in To-
peka, addressed to the editor of the
Washburn Review, from Harrison
Maynard, who, with his family, are
on their return to the mission field in
Bitlis, Turkey. They spent several
months in the United States, being in
Topeka most of that time with Mrs.
Maynard's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. O..
H White.
The letter was dated from Erivan,
Russia, and was written in January.
Mr.. Maynard describes the life in that
town, its conveniences and privileges
as compared with those of Turkey.
He tells of his work in Armenian re-
lief. After leaving Petrograd and
Moscow, they went to the great plains
of the Caspian sea, then to the eau
casus mountains to the plain of Ara
rat. He says:
'Ararat is a magnificent pile tower
ing more than $4,000 feet above the
plain. never losing but always grow
ing in interest. Noah would feel at
home in many parts of the plain to-
day, for there seems to have been no
change in methods of living in such
places. And yet our city has electric
lights. telephones, daily postal delivery
and down the plain go telegraph lines
and railways.
| This is the center of the district
from Turkey. The Russian govern