The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-22


Mrs. w. s. lindsay. Mrs. Harold T.
Chase. Mrs w A McCarter, Mrs. c. ].
Evans Mrs w. A Biby, Mrs. D. o. Coe,
Mrs. H. H. Welty. Mrs. JAS: West. Mrs.
/. G. G. Moore, Miss Audrie Myers. Mrs.
w. d. Ross, Miss Emma Wallace, Mrs
w. G. Dickie, Mrs. w. w. Strickland,
Mrs. George M. Stone, Mrs H. A.
Heath, Mrs. E. L. Copeland. Miss
Grace Overmyer, Miss Kate Ihomen
| and Miss Bertha Hampstead.
| THE music department of the Wo-
mans club had party Thursday aft
ernoon at the home of Mrs. E.sG. Eos
tier of West Sixth, street. musical
program was given by members of the
| department, and each member was
privileged to ASA, one guest. More
/ than sixty women were present.
The Foster home, with its large
drawing room and library, makes an
| ideal setting for a musical afternoon.
and is adapted to the entertainment OF
| large companies. The serving was
decorated with hyacinths. On the
piano was basket of pink and white
roses. sf aH
Mrs w H Bowlby had charge of
| the program, and musical numbers
were given by Mrs w. w. Wikfdal,
! L.
| son, Mrs. J. p. Wahle, Mrs. w. A.
tHarshbarger and Mrs. r. Parks Ben
nett. Some piano numbers also were
given by Miss Elizabeth Schwinn. who
is instructor in piano at the College of
1.-The Sisters of Bethany. Miss Schwinn
many of the audience heard her yes
terday for the first time. She gave
three Brahms-Gluck numbers, and
ployed numbers from Chopin and List
as encores. She is said to be a brill
liant pianist.
Mrs. George H. Allen is chairman
of the 1,usic department this year. and
she has arranged a number of pleasant
affairs that have served to enliven the
local musical world in a season other
wise unusually devoid of such enter
tainment
Those who assisted Mrs. Foster in
receiving the guests were: Mrs
Frank P. MacLennan. Mrs. B. III.
Pugh,. Mrs. Fernley Ginger. Mrs. w
E., Bulls and Mrs. J. H. O'Conner.
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Alpha Phi sorority announces the
pledging of Miss Forestine Blank of
Topeka, Miss Mabel Howerton of
Rossville.' Miss Mildred Lewis of To-
pcka, Miss Daisy Neil of Topeka and
Mrs. Airline Dietrich Snyder of To-
peka.
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initiation services last Thursday night
for the following girls: Miss Saydee
Lin denmeyer of RusSelly Kan, Miss
Rebecca Adams of Topeka, Miss
Gladys Elledge of Sabetha, Miss Mar
garet worden of klamath Falls, Ore,
and Miss Dorothy Shove of Winches-
tern
Mr.. Harlow Price of Topeka has
been attending the school of aviation
at Lake Charles. La. He has received
a lieutenant's commission and will be
stationed at Gerstner field in Louis
lana.
The Washburn College Faculty club
will be entertained tonight at the
home of President and Mrs. P. P.
Womer. Members of the faculty will
follows:
Violin-"Morecean de SALON.. .Vieuxtemps
Mr. Theodore Gundry..
Vocal Am Thy Harp. Woodman
Love 'o NJ. Hugh c. Dickerson
Piano-"Liebestod" Wagner List
Mr.. Willoughby Boughton-
Dean Horace Whitehouse.
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Guests will be the college trustees
and their wives and faculty members
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The Art Guild will have a meeting
Saturday evening at their rooms in
the What-Not Shop. There will be an
exhibit of photograph of the Statuary
of dorado Taft. These pictures are
sent to the Guild from Kansas City,
where they have been on exhibit.
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THERE'S A,wOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who is visiting from a distant city.
She was presented to a group of To-
peka people at party not long ago,
when the population of the sticks OF
this remote habitation were prepared
to be suitably awed. And they were,
until they noticed her hat and saw that
she had her modish veil fastened on
with big, competent looking safety
pin.
The federal children's bureau has
requested the Council of National De-
tense to inaugurate in the several
states it's wartime program for a chill
dren's year beginning April 6. 1918
The majority OF the state divisions of
the woman's committee have already
established departm ents of child well
fare and this subject is of vital inter-
est to women. The responsibility of
forming state committees on child
welfare and giving impetus to activi-
ties which shall ma Ike the program of
the children's bureau a reality has ac-
cordingly been given to state divi-
sions of the woman's committee.
The woman's committee in Kansas
has organized it's department of child
welfare and has planned to direct a
ca mpaign for mothers of young chill
dren and expectant mothers. j
In Des Moines, Iowa, the organi-
zation of the city for woman's com
mittee work has been completed, and