The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20

contributed $40. Mrs. Howard Gould
subscribed $1,000 in honor of Dudley
Field Malone. while Mrs. BELMONT
PauPs work. OF more amusing tone
were gifts of IS from Sim Feiner,
IS from ''Bolshevikf' and % cents IN
remembrance of Occoquan.
But perhaps the most interesting
contribution was that of little yell
low-locked, Swear miss, who gave
SIS in the name of the girls of the
United States who are going to vote
some day"
Women who had been imprisoned
for picketing, marched down the aisles
of the theater, carrying the banners
of the party. These women ranged IN
age from eighteen years to seventy
three years. Mrs. Mary Nolan, OF
Florida, being the eldest of the pick
cts who have been sent to jail at &C
coquan One of the young women told
of her lecture trip thru Tennessee
She said that one Tennessee mayor
wired to a county official: Il believe
; in one country, one God and one Presl-
dent. For Gods sake, keep those suf-
fragettes away from here"
Prison pins" representing cell
door were distributed to the pickets
by Mrs VIM. Kent, wife of Congress
man Kent, of California. When Alice
PauFs Jail pin was affixed, storm OF
! cheering arose.
Nearly ali the sums subscribed were
given in memory or in honor OF some
person. Many gave in honor OF
their men in France, and there were
many subscriptions in honor of vari-
Gus radical leaders and organizations
But the climax was reached when one
woman subscribed SIS in honor Of
President woodrow Wilson.
Miss Marian Magaw, who spent the
past year in New York, Boston and
| Washington, as a secretary for the
Woman's party, has returned to To-
peka, and gives an account of the con-
vention, which has so studiously been
kept away from the public by the
eastern press.
The Womans party has brought the
idea of equal suffrage before the pub
lie more than any other agency, how
ever unp1easantIy that idea has been
received turnout the country. The
party came in to the work at a time
when other interests foreign difficult
ties and domestic labor troubles, ETC.,
were crowding the issue into the back
ground. These energetic young Wom-
en- had no notion of being pushed off
the boards, with their battle cry of
freedom" so they carried their ban
ners to the presidents gates, and the
news went from coast to coast that the
suffrage amendment still lived.
X X X
A good many Topeka people will be
I
notice from Lawrence paper, as the
bride has friends in this city:
Miss Louise Katherine Smith and
Lieut. Rodney S. Thomas, a former
resident of Kansas City, were mac
ried in st. PauIs Universalist church
/ in Chicago at 10 O'Clock on the morn
| ing of December 10. The ceremony
which was witnessed by only a few
relatives and intimate friends was per-
| formed by DR.. Effie McCollum Jones.
I n
Smith. The young couple went i'm
mediately to Charlotte, N. c., where
Lieutenant Thomas is one of the Of
| ficers in charge of a training camp
! On their way south they visited for
short time with the brides uncles,
reau of standards, and DR.. Elmer Nc
| Collum, who is a the head of the new
school of hygiene and public health,
which is connected with Johns Hop
kins Medical school in Baltimore.
| Mrs. Thomas is the only child of
the late Mrs. Cora McCollum Smith,
who taught in Kansas university for
several years, and she has spent
good deal of her life with her grand
mother, Mrs. Martha Kidweu Nc
CoIlum. on West Hill.
=
The Spalding Reading Circle, an
| organization of Catholic women which
| devotes itself chiefly to charity work,
is preparing TO make It's usual B1l VI
Christmas baskets to families of the
poor. The baskets will be packed
Saturday afternoon at Assumption
hall, and the committee in charge of
the work would like to receive gifts
from the members. which should be
left at the hall before noon on Sat
urday The articles that are especial
ly asked for are canned vegetables
and fruit and similar staple goods.
X X X
Mrs. Henry Ware Allen, who has
been spending the last four weeks
touring the south in interests of suf-
frage, will return to Wichita on Sat
urday. She is now in Washington,
D. c., and in one of her letters men
toned that the Kansas delegation
were guests of Senator Thompson at
! luncheon last Wednesday in the SEN
ate building. She said, I'VE had
most important meeting and I can as
sure you that 1 was more than proud
of our Kansas men."-Wichita Bea-
con-
Some of the Kansas suffrage women
have been in Washington attending a
meeting of the National American
Equal Suffrage association. Mrs AL
len is prominent in that society.
The girls of Bethany college were
entertained at the annual Christmas
cotillon given at the school Wednes-
day night in the college gymnasium.
Mrs. Alice Worswick. principal of the
college, was hostess. The parents and
some of the girls attended the party.
The hall was decorated with red rib
bon, holly and Christmas green. Miss
Helen Palmer Gray, head of the ex-