The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-19

club members were Mrs w. E. McVey,
Mrs. A. W. Bronson and her sister.
Mrs Brown of New York. Mrs. V. B.
<istler, Mrs. H. B. Hogeboom. Mrs!
Charles Sessions, Mrs. George Bow
man, Mrs. H. A. Berry, Mrs. Clement
Smith and Mrs. A. w. Parks.
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The Friday Bridge club met yester-
day at the home of Mrs. Charles Ell
lot to make plans for the year. They
and entertain their husbands at din
ner followed by bridge every two
weeks on Friday. The first meeting
will be on the evening of Decem-
Der 13.
Mrs. Glen Pratt will entertain the
alumnae of the Pi Beta Phi Wednes-
day afternoon at $3.50 at her home.
400 Greenwood avenue. Potwin Place.
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The women of the College Hill
neighborhood who will knit sweaters
for the soldiers may get the yarn
Wednesday afternoon from until s.
O'Clock at the home of Mrs. A. r.
Stimson, 1916 Boswell avenue.
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Mrs. B. C. Walker. chairman of the
Uniting. announced this morning that
the local Red Cross has five hundred
sweaters to get out in month and
that the yarn js being distributed now
from the Red Cross rooms of Crosby
Brothers store.
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Mrs. w. E. Atchison and Mrs.
Frank w. Thomas entertained the
Minerva club yesterday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. Atchison in Tyler
street. Mrs. John Karl Rankin, Mrs.
w. F. Axtell. Mrs. Charles Dillon and
Mrs. Atchison furnished the program.
Mrs. f. A. Rooster was a guest of the
club.
The old colored washerwoman in a
well known West side family has her
ideas .on the subject of the FLU" and
has worked in the household so long
that she feels perfectly free to ex-
press them. She said to the young
woman for whom she was washing this
week, "You-all won't get no flu. You
wear your dresses too short, you-all
won't get no germs
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The Alpha Phi girls of Washburn
college made cookies for the S. A. T. c.
boys of the college Saturday and de-
livered them Sunday at the canton
ment Each girl went into her moth
er's kitchen and made three dozen,
and made them herself too. When
they were ready to deliver there were
four half bushel baskets of delicious
looking cookies Just like mother used
to make" You should have seen the
smiles when the boys saw those crisp
brown cookies and they say they tast-
ed just as good as they looked, too.
SHERMAN WAS RIGHT.
L To get my name in electric lights,
had always been my tim. In vaude-
vile worked up, accommodating fame;
knew some day old Broadway would
echo with my art, my manager did
aVarVf hing T do orf
He wired me at Elmyria to come right
in to town. He had secured an OPEN
ing in a theater world renown, that
out in front the electric sign would
bear my name in lights. I would open
at the Palace week from Monday
night. I hoped train and fastened
on to rotten old New York; I felt so
grand and dignified, my joy would
not stay corked. I overlooked with
happiness. 1 knew I had been made
wasn't bit afraid. AS I rode along
I dreamed I saw that huge electric
sign, swinging in it's glory, blazing
that name of mine. I saw the people
flocking in, eager to see me act.
knew 1 was a great big star. that sign
made it a fact. At last I reached the
theater. got a shock that was a fright.
the sign had no name on it; cause 1t
was a lightless night.-N. S. A.
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The committee on the Father1ess
Children of France met yesterday aft
ernoon at the Y. w. c. A. A report
of the months work showed that
S1,323.70 had been sent to New York
during the past month for this cause
and during the eighteen months this
committee has been organized they
have sent s17,726.O3 to France to aid
these children.
A window card is being provided for
those who have adopted these or
phans. 1t has a picture of the Amer
lean and the French flag crossed and
bears the words. I'VE are helping to
support the fatherless children" A
special drive is being put on now to
get every school in the United States
to adopt one of these orphans. Mrs.
]. c. McClintock. chairman of the To-
cal committee, is organizing twenty
counties in Kansas. Mrs. S. s. Estey
has charge of the organizing of Shaw
this county which she will reach. Mrs.
Estey is secretary of the committee
and Mrs. Bennett r. Wheeler is treas
urer.
The members of the committee be-
sides the officers are: The advisory
Wise and DR.. s. S. Estey; associate
members are Miss Kate Thomen and
| Miss Bertha Hampstead; the board. of
directors are Mrs. H. o. Garvey. Mrs.
Jonathan Thomas, Mrs. Hiram P. Dill
lon, Mrs A. A. Robinson. Mr.. Walter
A. johnson, Mrs. John F. Dillon, Jr.,
| Mrs. David Bowie, Mr.. ]. B. Walker.
| Mrs. Chester Woodward. Mr.. Charles
| Mitchell, Mrs. George Stone, Mr.. D. j.
Hathaway, Miss Clara Francis, Mrs: H.
A. Auerbach, Mr.. C. B. Merriam. Mrs.
Charles Gleed. Mrs. w. F. Bowen. Mrs.
Roy Thompson. Mrs. Charles L. Mitch
| ell, Mr.. Glenwood Jones, Mrs. c. B.
| Merriam. Mr.. J. r. Burrow. Mrs. Kurtz
lKellam, Mrs. F. w. Watson, Mr.. w. A.
| Biby.
| Members of the committee who are
| away in war work are still considered
members and their names published
| as such, so the working committee al
present is not nearly SO large as the
list of names printed.
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| Mrs B. NJ. Davies entertained tn,
young woman's division of the foreign
missionary society of the First Meth
odist church at dinner last night a
her home in West Sixth street Cover