The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-16
A COLOR. SYMPHONY.
Yellow, purple, ecru, green
My color words do lag
Saffron, turquoise, amethyst:
Mifady's knitting bag

Miiady's knitting bag.
The regular January meetingfof the
Vignette club was held Tuesday after
noon at the home of Mrs. William
Macferran, 305 Greenwood avenue.
The meeting, being near to Kansas
Day, was in honor of the states birth
day. Miss Lulu Elliott was asked to
speak on kansas Fifty Years Ago
and instead of reading a paper, she
introduced a Kansan who was born
in the state territorial time, Mrs De-
White c. Nellis, who told something
of the state a half a century ago. as
she remembered it from her girlhood
days She was dressed in the cos
tune of a young woman of the six
ties, with hoop skirt, lace tichu, poke
bonnet and curls. That feature of the
program was a surprise to the MEM
bers of the club.
Roll call was. answered by quota
tons from Kansas authors. Miss
Gussie Fuller, whose. father, Capt. A.
NJ Fuller, is Civil war veteran,
Mrs. j. T. CLANCY read paper on
Origin of Kansas Day." in which
she reviewed briefly the history of the
societies that have been organized and
which hold annual celebrations on
January 20. Mrs. j. w. F. Hughes
told the story of the Kansas seal, and
Mrs. c. D. Skinner read a newspaper
article which was written in the form
of interviews with some pioneer Kan
SaS women.
Mrs. John Redden, of Winnipeg,
Canada, and Mrs f. w. Watson,
former members of the club, and Mrs.
Nellis, Miss Nanon Herren and Miss
Bertha Hampstead.
The club will pay its, annual contri-
button to the state federation scholar
ship fund. Every year the Vignette
club has assisted in maintaining the
fund which is educating many Kansas
girls.
The alumnae chapter of the Kappa
Alpha Theta sorority will celebrate
founders day, January %, at <the
home of Mrs. S. S. Estey and Miss
Helen Estey. The girls of the active
chapter will be guests at the party.
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The Varsity club will have a dane
ing party Friday night at Kellam hall.
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The home economics department of
the Womans club has postponed its
meeting set for Thursday January II,
at the Y. w. c. A. The postponement
us made to give an opportunity for the
members of the department to attend
the meeting of the woman's commit
tee, Kansas council of defense.
The home economics department
had a meeting Tuesday morning of
ton for the spring. The department
has a plan by which the boys and
girls of Topeka may raise garden and
poultry under the direction of a COM
petent supervisor, who is to be fur
nished by the school board. The State
Agricultural college will cooperate in
the work. Every, back yard in the city
is expected to have a garden next
spring.
In addition to the gardens, there
will be a small market in each school
district, to which boys and girls can
bring their product to be sold. The
markets will be conducted probably
three mornings of the week, and what
| ever is not sold in the morning will
be canned in the afternoon in the
school kitchens Thus will all good
materials be utilized while they are
flesh.
To advance interest in food work
and to increase the public knowledge
| or Such matters, the department has
arranged to have moving picture films
prepared and shown in the local thea
tiers. These pictures will be made at
the K. S. A. c. laboratories at Man
haitian.
Mrs. John Redden, of Winnipeg,
Canada, is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs Thomas Page. She expects
to be in Topeka another month
| MIS- Redden is a member of the
American club of Winnipeg, an organ
ization of about 200 women who have