The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02

afternoon at 8 o'clock and the other
IN the evening at 8 o'clock. Every
one interested is invited. 1t has been
arranged that between four and five
thousand school children will be
present at the afternon lecture the
sunJect OF which will be Birds and
AIlIilals- Mr. Baynes' address in the
evening will be on wild Birds and
How to Attract Them
some organ music will be furnished
at, poth meetings Preceding the aft
ernoon lecture, Mrs. Robert Carver
WIN give a snort organ. program and
IN the evening, before the lecture,
Dean Horace Whitehouse will play
some organ numbers
X
The Woman's club of Topeka. is re-
Jolced at the news that the Iegisla-
ture mas appropriated $500 for the
completion of the Lincoln monument
which is being made by Merreu Gage
and which will be placed in the state
house grounds when completed The
Dill Tor the grant was presented by the
Art Department of the club, and it
was was announced Thursday by Mrs.
Clement Smith, chairman of the de-
partment, before a Club meeting that
the bill had carried. with the proyi-
sion that no money be asked from the
state to assist in paying for cere-
monlals ~ef unwilling other details
women of Topeka, and the school
children have raised the rest of the
money to pay for the statue.
Other business presented to the club
at It's business session Thursday after
noon. was the matter of supporting
the, plan for municipal farm to be
brought up at the spring election The
club decided to give the movement it's
support. The club will also assist in
the promotion of the concerts for the
fund for the help of Belgian children.
me speaker for the afternoon was
Miss Josephine. Berry, chief of the di-
vision of home economics of the Min
nesota University. She empha sized
the Importance of home making as
one of the greatest branches of the
worlds work. She explained how men
were beginning to recognize it as a
business of economic Importance, and
that Congress had made federal ap-
preparation for the establishment of
a system of education in vocational
home economics
She took up the work in domestic
science as it is now taught in the
grade schools and in the high schoolst
I'm the schools she said, the girls
are taught cooking and sewing, which
is only a part of the education in
home making. l think girls in the
grades should be taught something of
the size of the job she is to prepare
for. She needs to know that woman
in the home is an economic, and not
merely a sentimental factor. Since
less than 3S per cent of the grade
school children go to high school,
there is much to be taught to these
young girls in the grades. They
should know something of sanitation,
public health, food values, honest
buying, clean markets, something of
first aid work, fabrics and textiles,
and other things that enter into the
making of a home.
I'm the high schools, one of the
great problems is to know how the
home economic students work is to
be related to other work of the school.
A cook needs to know first something
of chemistry. The work of the de-
partment can be united with the
drawing classes, so that the student
can make a plan for a first floor of
a house, for example. Physiology
and hygiene are essential to a proper
understanding of home work. Arith-
metic can be so taught that the girls
can learn something of a budget and
bookkeeping system that could be ap-
piled to household expenses.
1.-THE womens clubs that are inter
ested in education could have such
system arranged in the schools with
very little trouble. By investigating
and planning, they can get such inn
provements as they want adopted in
the schools, just as they were able co
the first place. There is advance to
be made in our methods of teaching
home-making and housekeeping. In
the first two years of the high school
the girls are started in cooking and
sewing, and the academies are re-
served for the later grades. 1t is my
theory that a study of art in matters
of line, color and fabrics should pre-
cede dressmaking. We can never
overcome the mad following of fash
ion until the young girls are taught
what is fundamentally beautiful in
dress
X X
Mr.. Edwin Tucker of Eureka, a
member of the senior class at Wash
burn college, will entertain a few of
his Eureka and college friends this
evening at the subscription dance at
Kellam hall. Mr.. Tucker is a nephew
of Senator Tucker of Eureka, Kan.
X X X
Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. johnson are
asking guests for five tables at bridge
Saturday evening.
X
A card party was given by Miss
Nellie Marie Ross Thursday night at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. K. Jones.
The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. E. D.