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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28

ing held at the home of Mrs. w. p.
Bishop. The china used for the din
ner service was. with the exception of
the service plates. in a raised paste
conventional rose design in a Dresden
rose pattern. The set was designed
by Mrs. Boone and was sold to her
niece, Mrs. Hiram Wilmington of Hot
Springs, Ark, formerly Miss Carolyn
Westcott of Topeka. Those who paint
ed the china, assisting Mrs. Boone.
were Mrs. j. X. Jones. Mrs. j. s.
Ensminger, Mrs. T. A. Lipman, Mrs.
w. H. Davis, Miss May Hull, Mrs.
Cleveland Lopez. and Mrs. A. o. Well
man.
Mrs. Oscar Perkins read a paper at
the meeting, and a burlesque entitled
"A Breakfast Conversation" was Civ
en- by a group of the members A
dinner menu was acted out in cha
rades by some of the members.
Guests, besides the members were:
Mrs. Stanley Levy, Mrs. Scipione Gut
di, Mrs. L. D. Whittemore, Mrs. p.
P. Womer. Mrs. L. e. Spray, Miss
Katherine Hornett, Miss Nancy Boone,
Mrs. c. w. Schwartz and Mrs. f. e.
Vest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28

Bonebrake, who was one of her at
tendants at her marriage some months
ago in Kansas City. The Hornbuckle-
Spencer wedding was a fashionable
event of the season in which it took
place, and was interesting to Topeka
friends as well as to the brides i'm
mediate circle in her own city. Dur
ing her visit here recently, Mrs. Horn
buckle was the inspiration of a num-
Der of social affairs of an Informal
nature.
Mrs. C. B. Merriam will entertain
the Art club Monday afternoon, April
80. Papers will be read by Mrs. Ches-
ter Woodward, Mrs. Harrison S. Nor
gan, Mrs. Charles Kleinhans and Mrs.
Merriam.
The Topeka Art Guild will give its
April meeting tonight at the Guild
rooms.
Miss Cynthia Monroe gave a lunch
con today for a group of her girl
friends. The table was decorated in
pink. Covers were laid for twelve
| X X X
| The Child Conservation league will
meet Tuesday at 2:30 with Mrs. B. T.
Johnson, 432 Clay street. The pro-
gram will be as follows:
Paper, Mrs Frank Burns, do We
| Nourish Our Children, or Just Feed
Them2
Paper, Mrs. H. NJ. Conner, What
Do Our Children Drink %
| Book reviews 3y the club librarian.
Miss Frances Ulamperl, a pupil of
Miss Helen Griffin. will give a reading.
| A feature of the afternoon will be
the address by Miss Louise Krigbaum,
on the timely topic: The High Cost
of Living from the Farmers View
point"
Miss Krigbaum is well qualified to
speak on this subject, as she manages
/ She is a member of the board of di-
rectors of the National Conservation
| league.
One of the rather pretty young
widows of Topeka is being trailed by
| a pleasant faced chap who has a po-
sition in a business office not far from
I the transfer station. The two are
seen together so much that one nat
/ urally wonders if it isn't becoming a
serious case. The girl was rather re-
Gently released. Her beau is a for
mer college and fraternity man.
x X x
+ The Cycle of the Seasons''-''A Pa
geant of Life"-will be presented by
500 singers from the elementary
schools and the junior high schools OF
Topeka at the city auditorium next
Tuesday evening. May 1. The con-
cert is Topeka's courtesy to the visit
| ing delegates Of the State Sunday
School association Miss Mildred
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A deep purple flower is called Wou-
verman, and a brick red variety that
is uncommonly lovely, is called the
Prince of Austria. In the groups of
beds is one of pink and white striped
tulips, called the Silver Standard, not
we'll known in this part of the country.
A deep crimson variety is called the
Couleur Cardinal. A beautiful pink
tulip is called the Rose Liusante. The
dean has all kinds of the Darwin tul
ip. They grow on tall stems. about
two feet high and are developed in
what is known as self shades
is, they are not striped, but are shaded
in various colors. They vary from
white, shading into all the colors, to
black-there being a family of really
black tulips. They are in lavenders,
pinks, and lovely suffused shades.
The dean keeps a rotation of flow
ers in his garden, so that thruout the
season there are plants in blossom,
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by Winchell Smith, and she will be
assisted by Miss Uarda Baird, soprano.
No invitations are issued to the re-
cital, but all who are interested, are
asked to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles M. Harger of
Abilene announce the engagement of
their daughter, Ruth, to Mr.. Giles San
ford Maxwell of Schenectady, N. Y
The news is of interest to many To-
peka people, as the Harger family are
we'll known thruout the state, and they
have many friends in Topeka. Miss
Harger is a graduate of the University
of Kansas, having finished in the class
of IA. She is head of the English de-
partment of the Abilene high School.
She is a member of the Kappa Alpha
Theta sorority.
Mr.. Maxwell, who was formerly a
Kansas man, is a graduate of Kansas
university. He is now assistant man
ager of the foreign railway department
of the General Electric company, of
which his older brother is one of the
officers.
The marriage will be solemnized in
June, and Mr.. Maxwell and his bride
will make their home in Schenectady.
Mrs. William Hornbuckle, of Kan
SaS City, was visitor in To-
peka for a week or two recently. Mrs.
Hornbuckle, before her marriage, was
Miss Louise Spencer. and she is
thought to be one of the most attrac-
tive young women who visit in this
town She is a cousin of Miss Clyde
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One of the finest small gardens of
the middle-west, according to those
who know gardening from the scienti-
fic as well as the purely aesthetic
standpoint, has been created in To-
peka by the parson-florist, Dean ]. P.
Deb. Kaye. The garden is large for
a city lot, but small, of course, COM
pared to the gardens of suburban
and country places.
During the week just past the tulip
beds have been at the height of their
glory. In this garden are five thousand
tulip plants, all of them imported and
brought to the highest state of perfec-
ton and beauty in the deans gar
den'' as it is Familiarity known about
town.
One of the rare varieties in the tulip
beds is the President Lincoln tulip,
which is of a delicate lavender shade.
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Miss Rooster is the attractive
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. F. A.
Rooster. She is a pretty young wo-
man, a popular coed and sorority girl.
She has done student work in ora
MATES and music and has appeared
in some local talent plays. She had
the leading part in the musical drama,
Miss Nancy" staged in Topeka last
year.
Mr.. Raster is the son of Dr. J. P.
Raster chief surgeon of the Santa Fe
railway company, and Mrs. Raster.
The family is one of p Commence in a
professional and social way. Mr.. Kas-
ter attended military school at Howe,
Ind, and after finishing there, he
enrolled in Washburn college. He is
taking a course in law, and is also
captain of a squad in the military
training work at the college. He is
Phi Delta Theta fraternity man.
Miss Rooster and Mr. Raster were
students together in the high school.
and their romance dates from Those
days.
x x x
The second of a series of dances will
be given Monday night of next weelA at
the Country club. The entertainment
committee arranged for three dancins
parties at the club previous to the for
mai opening.
The Ideal Bridge club will be en-
tertained Tuesday at the home of Mrs
G. E. Lagerstrom. The hostesses will
be Mrs. LagerstroHl, Mrs. John Green
and Mrs. J. G. Leopold.
X X x
The war relief room in Crosby
Brothers store will be opened Tuesday,
May 3, from 8 in the morning until /
in the evening, for the making of hos
pital supplies. 1t is open to everv-
one who will join the Red Cross and
come to the room to sew. 1t will be
opened at noon so that the girls who
are employed and have a few minutes
that they wish to use in sewing on the
supplies, can find the place ready for
them.
To date the society has 372 members
in Topeka. In order to make the So
ciety efficient, it should have 1000
members at least and that is the num-
Der the membership committee hopes
to have by the end of next week. Ev-
eryone who wishes to help is invited tc
join.
Mrs. Lee Monroe. who is a member
of the National Child Labor commit.
tee. has Just received a letter and
pamphlet from the committee head
quarters. The subject of the pam.
phlet is the protection of children in
war relief work. A plan that is very
much talked about now is to take the
boys out of the schools and put them
onto farms. This provision, as a wal
measure, sets aside the compulsory
education laws and the child labor
laws. Those laws were placed upor
the books at a tremendous cost OF
time and effort and money and the
committee does not think they should
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28

from the first crocuses to the last
flowers of autumn. The next flowers
that will be out are the iris, and there
are in the garden about seventy-five
varieties of that plant. There are
forty or fifty kinds of peonies that
will soon be in bloom, and the group
of Annunciation lilies. which bloom
early, are among the loveliest flowers
of the garden.
The dean is preparing to beautify
the cathedral grounds around the
newly completed building. A mass of
shrubs have already been set, and
vines have been planted.
The accompanying photograph
shows a small section of the garden.
with the dean and his little daugh-
ter, Barbara. At the head of the pic
ture is the deanery, and at one side
is the greenhouse. and on the other.
the vine covered wall of the old Guild
hall.
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1t is her plan that the club take up a
stated course of study for it's regular
meetings. and then at special>mee tings,
weekly or fortnightly, to make the
meeting open to all who wished to
conduct 4 discussion of affairs of the
day. She suggested also that different
members of the club preside, in order
to give them a working command of
the parliamentary procedure that the
club is studying.
All the members favored a continu-
ance of the course in parliamentary
drill which has been successfully con-
Quoted by Mrs. Thurston, an acknowl-
edged authority on that subject.
The May meeting of the Woman's
club will be held at the Y. w. c. A.
next Thursday. The department of
literature will meet at IL o'clock. Mrs.
W. A. McCarter, chairman. will pre-
side. She has requested all the club
members to bring a book for gifts to
hospitals, schools. or other institutions
needing them. Good books of poetry.
fiction or children's books would be
especially acceptable
The Educational department, Mrs.
C. j. Evans, chairman, will meet at
twelve o'clock. Addresses of from
three to ten minutes will be made.
Mrs. l.. c. -Schnacke will talk on the
American National question; Mrs. w.
ID. ROSS on ScnOOl Legislation Enact
ed by the Last Legislature, and Mrs.
R. c. Marsh, on Junior Schools of
Topeka.
Following the cafeteria luncheon, a
social hour will be held. The mem
bers of the committee for the day are
Mrs. H. o. Garvey, Mrs. B. G. Kline
and Mrs L. r. Booth, who will be
assisted by Mrs. Arthur Capper. Mrs.
w. A. Johnston, Mrs. George w. Park
hurst, Mrs. David w. Mulvane. Mrs.
DeWitte c. Nellis, Mrs. John T.
CLANCY, Mrs. S. s. Estey, Mrs. Will
liam Macferran, Mrs. s. J. Crawford
and Mrs. Noble Prentis.
The afternoon meeting will begin
at 2:30 o'clock. The annual election
of officers will be held, and action will
be taken on the new bylaws.
The program will be furnished by
the department of music. Mrs. c. j.
Wilson, chairman, has arranged for
Professor C. S. Skilton of Lawrence,
to make an address on Peterboro.
Professor Skilton spent last summer
at the Mcdowell colony. 1t is con-
sidered an honor to be invited to the
Mcdowell place and only musicians
of recognized ability receive that in
vitation. His address will be on the
people he met there and the music
composed. He has written a good
deal of music that is pronounced good
by the critics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28

The Kappa Alpha Theta girls out
at Washburn college have received a
token, which, in Greek letter circles,
stands for a betrothal. The engage
ment signified by the gift of a big box
of candy, with two cards enclosed, is
not to be eliminated in a marriage for
a good while, but the story is out in
college circles.
Recently the girls at the sorority
house received a box of candy. and in
it were the cards of Miss Ruth
Rooster and Mr.. John Raster, signi-
Tying that they wished their friends
at the chapter house to know of the
engagement The affair was very we'll
understood among the friends of the
two young people anyhow, but the
formaltty of announcement had not
previously been observed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28

done something like this: Lifting her
laughing lips, lisping the language of
love. and looking into the light of her
luminous lamps, he launches a long,
lazy, lingering, lasting. lavishing, Ian
gushing lovely kiss.
Help!
X X
Miss Margaret Ray will give her
graduating recital Thursday evening
of next week at Washburn college.
She will read THE Fortune Hunter, -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28
RED CROSS BALL BLUE.

That's the idea. A pure blue. true
blue, no dope. Gives to clothes a clear
white. whittier than snow. Be careful.
use the best. Large package, sold by
good grocers only, S cents. Ask for 1t
today.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES

Aliens Foot Ease, the antiseptic powder to
be shaken into the shoes and sprinkled in
the foot-bath. 1t relieves painful. swollen,
smarting feet and takes the sting out OF
corns and bunions. Use IL when you put on
rubbers or heavy stockings. Aliens Foot
Ease is a certain relief for sweating, cal
everywhere, 25c Always use 1t to Break
in new shoes. Trial package FREE. Adj
dress, Allen s. Olmsted, LIE Roy. N. y
Adv.
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The happiest set of children in To-
Reka are the little people left every
morning at the Provident association
under the care of the Day Nursery,
and taken home every evening by their
mothers who are away all day work
ing for a living. The Day Nursery
OF the association cares for about fiji
teen or twenty children year in and
year out, not the same children, al
ways, but little people who have to be
looked after while their homes are
empty and the bread winners away at
their tasks
Mrs. McNamee is in charge of the
nursery, and she wins from the chill
dren both affection and obedience. A
visit to the nursery one day in the
rain this week, revealed a rollicking
good tempered group amusing them
selves with such substitutes for toys
as came TO their hand. The children
are provided with toys, but they were
packed away for a little while until
the little folks decided to take a, bit
better care of them. Meanwhile, thew
made life grand sweet song for them
selves by bestriding the headless, tail
less, rockerless remnant of two rock
ing horses, and by riding, tandemwise
on string of backless chairs, drawn
or pushed over the floor by voIun-
teers. One little boy, not old enough
to read, found his consolation from
the worlds woes in a tool catalog This
he displayed with childish eagerness
to the visitors but kept it like a sacred
trust from the vandaI hands of the
other children.
A peculiar trait that these little peo-
pie nave in common is their spirit of
''gameness," as we say. They get no
end of bumps and knocks in the course
OF their play. but they never whimper
me girls take pot luck with the
boys and If they get a bit of rough
tumblinS on a hard floor or an I'M
cushioned bench, they are the best Of
sports and never whine.
IN ADDITION to the washing and tend
ing that the children receive thew are
slVen their noon meal Some of the
boys and girls of school age who are
le1t In care of the nursery have rnade
that place their week day home for
many months One little girl of about
mas been taken care of there since
she was fodder, and it is more her
nome than any other place The babv
ol the group is just beginning to walk.
/ ana ne was first brought when he was
months old " W '-9
ms nursery is partly maintained by
the Day Nursery club of Toneka an
organization of women who raise mon
ey TOT their project by dues and By sill
yer teas. The club plans a tea for the
| benefit of their work Tnesda1 Nc,
~, at the Elks' club 1t is 70 he q
card and thimble party. with a, nusi-
cal program in addition. Among tbe
GIuos who have reserved tables are tbe
WestlaWn Bridge club, the Tuesday
Afternoon club and the T. q r c1,1b
Mr. and Mrs. F. P. MacI,Annan and
MISS Mary MacLennan. who arc IL
the East will return Tuesday M
MacLennan attended the Associated
Press meeting and a meeting of The
american Publishers association in
New ork- From there he went to
attended a banquet of the Amarica n
Publishers association Thursday night
and was seated at the table with the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28

The Ceramic Art club gave a dem
onstration of a perfectly appointed
dinner Friday afternoon at a meet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28
CLUB NOTES.

The West Side Reading club will
meet next Tuesday with Mrs. Clement
Smith at her home in Polk street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28

The Minerva club will meet Monday
afternoon with Mrs. E. G. Foster, of
West Sixth avenue. The assisting
hostesses will be Mrs. B. H. Pugh and
Miss Lulu McCabe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28

The n. n. S. club will meet Tues
day afternoon with Mrs. Charles z,
Sutherland, 1411 Harrison street
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he lightly or unnecessarily set aside,
with the result that there will later
be- either a generation of men Ia
menting their lack of education, or all
that work to be done over again. TAX
ing years of time. The committee
considers such a move i'll advised and
hasty and dangerous, and it asks that
the women of this state cooperate
with the committee to work against
legislation that may prove unwiSe. 1t
goes on to say that the handling of
foodstuffs is not sufficiently under con-
troll right now to warrant the send
ing of children from the school to
produce more food to be wasted in the
handling.
Moreover, the housing of the chill
dren even tho they did prove of any
use in the food production work,
would be a big problem, to say moth
ing of their associations in farm
camps.
England" the pamphlet concludes,
lis already regretting her reckless
waste of her children in the early part
of the war. and we should not be
hasty, but profit by her experience"
X X X
I A group of high school girls have
organized class for Red Cross work.
They take a course in first aid, going
every Saturday morning to the office
of Doctor Willard. who instructs them
Miss Barbara farrell is president of
the society, and Miss Ann Walbridge is
secretary. Miss Louise Heath is ad-
wiser. The other members are: Miss
Martha George, Miss Alice Young,
Miss Marjorie Thompson, Miss Marian
Thompson, Miss Marian Squire. Miss
Josephine Kennedy, Miss Marian Bar
tel. Miss Esther Kresie, Miss Alice
Durfey. Miss Patricia Evans, Miss Dor
othy Cole, Miss Alberta Shepherd,
Miss Mary shepherd, Miss Dorothy
Kinney and Miss Rachel Garrett.
x X
A spread was given Friday night at
the home of Miss Anna Horning, 1243
Topeka avenue. At 8 O'Clock the
young men were invited, and the re-
mainder of the evening was spent in
la ncinrr The
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The literature department of the
Woman's club will have an open
meeting Thursday forenoon, at II
o'clock. in connection with the regu-
lar April meeting of the club. The
chairman, Mrs. w. A. McCarter
asks that each member of the Wom-
ans club bring a book to be con-
tributed to the library for the tuber-
culosis hospital. The books do not
need to be new, but they should be
sucn books as the giver would like to
have in her own library. They should
be interesting, and not such books as
people Gull from their own book
shelves because nobody around the
place reads them" Any woman who
wishes to bring more than one book is
very welcome to do so, but one book
from each member of the club is all
that is asked for, There are 800 mem
bers in the Womans club, and 800
books would be a very creditable start
for the library of the tuberculosis
hospital
The Crochet club will meet Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. ]. P. Glare.
The meeting of Western Sorosis to
have been held today, is postponed
until next Saturday, when the club
will meet with Mrs. H. w Roby.
Mrs NJ. L. Chamberlain will read a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28

The Crochet club will meet Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. ]. P. Glare.
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paper on Assets and Liabilities" and
the discussion will be conducted by
Mrs Lee Monroe, Miss Lola Graham
and Mrs A. Marburg.
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There will be an open meeting of
the Spalding Reading circle Monday
evening, April so, for members only.
There will be cards and light refresh
mentS will be served
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The Monday Tourist club will meet
Monday with Mrs. c. J. Rosen, 100
Quincy street. DIR. ]. E. kirkpatrick
will give an address on Modern Cities
and Their Problems" Papers will be
read by Mrs. A. A. Sharp and Mrs.
w 2. SNYDER.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-07-21
Commissioners Sale.

Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suance OF the authority and directions
contained in the decretal order of the
Chancery Court of Little River County,
made and entered on the goth day Of
July, A. d. 1917, in certain cause (No.
1929 then pending therein between
Clara Moot, ct al compliments, and
Pearl Anderson and s. l.. Anderson
defendants, the undersigned, as Com
missioner of said Court. will offer for
sale at public vendue to- the highest
bidder, at the front door or entrance
of the County Courthouse, in which
said Court is held, in the County of
Little River, within the hours pre-
scribed by law for judicial sales. on
Wednesday the 18th day of August A.
ID. 1917, the following described real
estate to-wit: The W. of the NW4 of
SectiGn 20 Twp. IL South, Range 80
West, in Little River County. Arkansas.
Terms of sale: On credit of three
months, the purchaser being re-
quired to execute a bond as required
by law and the order and decree Of
said court in said cause, with approved
security, bearing interest at the rate of
10 per cent per annum from date until
paid, and a lien being retained on the
premises sold to secure the payment of
the purchase money. Given under my
hand this 18th day of July, A. d. 1917.
-Chas. H. Park, Commissioner In
Chancery. s SO
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-07-21

Bert Johnson is a farmer who
farms with science and system. Last
year he made a half mi lion dollars.
His success is the greatest example
in Arkansas of what can be dcne by
intelligent, persistent effort in the
use of Arkansas soil. Here's hoping
Mr.. Johnson does as we'll this year at
his big orchard over at Highland.-De
Queen Bee.
Mr.. Johnson is the largest fruit
grower in the world and his orchard
consists OF several thousand acres
OF land. It's pleasure tc drive
through this orchard and see the
nice fruit and vegetables growing.
Several car loads daily being ship
ped out to eastern markets. Can
ming factories running day and
night 1t is wonderful place and
brings thousands of dollars to that
section. Good houses are provided
for many Of his laborers.-Gazette.
label Okla
And best of all is the fact that the
energy and talent of Bert johnson are
directed in such a way as to be of
lasting benefit to the community in
which he lives. May his kind increase.
Star of Hope.