The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-07

Maude Adams has been called the
little gray mouse" of the stage, be-
cause she has steadfastly kept to her
purpose of refraining from appearing
in public at any sort of function, out
side of her stage life. Her managers
have used up yards of good advertis-
ing space to tell the world Of this
modest, violetiike stage woman, whose
entire life was devoted to her art, and
whom even sophisticated New York
cafes or in. any of the fashionable
watering places or other meeting
places of the artistic elite.
At last Maude Adams is more to
the world than a gifted actress. She
has been known for years wherever
pies lives however lightly, but her
service in the Y. w. c. A. is her first
appearance in the public eye on the
layman's side of the footlights.
She is serving in the cafeteria of
the hostess house without, in most
eases, revealing her identity. Most OF
the soldiers she has served who came
| and went in the stream of humanity
passing thru the house on the way to
| the great fight did not know who
| filled their trays and took their thin
dimes, and who it. was that talked
| quietly-and Interestingly to them.
| Her work is varied, as is that of all
IlOSt6SS mouse workers. Sn6 nolpS at
the cafeteria; she talks with soldiers
| who appear lonesome or homesick,
and helps with the entertainment of
| the relatives and friends who come to
| the house on visiting days, and with
| all the strangers within the gates
| X X
There will be a meeting of the
Womens Foreign Missionary society
! of the First M. E. church Wednesday,
of ~ I,
| of Mrs. d. M. Dibble, 615 West Ninth
| street. Assisting hostesses will be
Mrs. E. D. Clithero, Mrs. J. E. Clark,
Mrs. w. w. Garfield, Mrs. W. ]. Drum,
Mrs. H. w. Davis, Mrs E. M. Cockrell.
Mrs. M. Weightman, Mrs. A. E. Van
Petten. Mrs. NJ: D. Van Petten. Mrs.
| w. II. Gillian. Mrs. w. G. Gillian, Mrs.
S. S. Stanton, Mrs. R. A. Dibble and
Miss Lou Stanton.
| 4 X X
| Mrs. w. A. Harshbarger, assisted by
| Miss Thelma Day and Mss Hazel Hep
WORTH gave a piano recital at the Y.
W. G. A. on Friday morning for her
| The following pupils played: Ivah
| Raines, Mrs. Webster. Wilma Perry
Jeanette Dooley. Marian Ross, Mar
! garet Whittemore, Ruth Platt, Alma
| Mildred Boggs, Eleanor Shaffer, Thel-
INA Day. Margaret Boggs, Geraldine
Lindblade. Juniata Kendrick, Belva
| Webster, Marie Mapes, Dorothy Long
| shore. Helen Brehm, Ruth Romig
Sarah Mason, Virginia Stimson, Mary
| Longshore, Idalene Ferguson, Helen
| Boggs, Lola MoIz, Helen Laird.
| X X X
The next meeting of the Ceramic
Art club will be held Friday, Septem-
Der Z. with Miss Gussie Fuller in Wesi
Sixth street.
The vice chairmen of the city ward
| units of the woman's committed
1 Council of Defense, and the township
committee and Military Sisterhooi
tent on fair grounds next week. Mrs
Harrison Morgan, vice chairman fol
the Third ward, will be hostess Mon
day and she will assisted by two OF
1 her precinct captains.
i Mrs. c. N. Morrow, vice chairman
for the First ward, with three assist
ing captains, will be hostess Tuesday
Mrs. H. w. Roby of the Second ward
with two precinct captains. will be II
the tent Wednesday. Mrs. H. L. Al
kire and Mrs. Wendall Lyman, will
their precinct captains, will b,
hostesses Thursday. and Mrs. w. w
will have charge of the tent Friday
Mrs. C. j. Evans. chairman of tn,
Shawnee county unit of the commit
tee. will be in charge of the tent Sat
urday.
The chairmen of the township di.
visions will be hostesses with the cit.
, ward chairman on such days as they
chose, arranging the time of theil
service as best suits their convenience
These women are. Mrs. Leroy Hart
zell of Rossville, Mrs. I. H. Mitchell
OF Silver Lake: Miss Isabelle Hutch