The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29

for the Red Cross and about 400 of
knit. AS a result Of their diligence,
2S5 sweaters, SO muffiers. 5 helmets,
so pairs of socks and 70 pairs of wrist
lets have been completed"
The dinner conversation in q we'll
known family the other evening was
Letters From a Living Dead Man."
and young girl at the table said, "Oh.
no one believes that comeback after
you're dead stuff but Spiritualists and
second thoughters." suppose she
meant to say New Thoughters.
1.-THE cable containing news of Mrs.
RAYMOND Browns coming was q
happy surprise to u.s." is the word
headquarters CT the National Amer
lean Woman Suffrage Association,
which has sent Mrs. Brown to France
to look after its hospitals there. 1T
was the logical thing to do to send
some one of Mrs. Browns executive
ability"
Miss Kober is acting as photographer
and nurses aid in the Women's Over
sea Hospitals unit for French refu-
gees near Bordeaux, France. which is
supported by the suffragists. She re-
ports that the buildings, now under
prisoners.
There is not one doctor in . civil
ian group of twelve or fourteen thou
sand people," is another outstanding
statement in this letter. This DOCTOR
less town is Mont-de-Marsan. which
was first designated as the spot for
the Women's Oversee Hospitals to es-
tablish their new hospital building.
I'VE went to Mont-de-Marsan,"
says Miss Kober, but found 1t not a
suitable place. 1t is the capital city
OF the department of Landes, and no
refugees were to be CHARTERED there.
The prefet referred us to OAK and,
accordingly, we investigated that as a
site. Here we found, because it was
a fashionable hot springs resort, that
but a comparatively small number of
refugees would be quartered-not
enough to warrant the establishment
of a hospital, such as ou-s was to be.
Then the prefet suggested Labou-
beyre.
This latter place is the ono in
which we will permanently be estab-
lished, taking in the surrounding small
towns and the larger ones of Sabres.
Rocquefort, Mont de- Marsan Ono doc
tor in this city of $4,000 or $4,000
people) and OAK. as 'dispensary'
towns Laboubeyre is small-just a
village-but it is expected to place
several thousand refugees under our
care here.
The mayor. NJ. Bacon, is most cor
dial and interested and has given us
a site on his own property for the
houses of our personnel"
The Topeka committee, of which
Miss Helen Estey is chairman, has
raised in the neighborhood of $1,000
towards this overseas hospital fund.
The new letter just received from
he se,
National Defense announces that an
army school of nurses, under the di-
rection OF the army medical depart
ment. has been created, and branch
training schools will be established in
many of the military hospitals of the
United States. It is proposed to admit
young women between the ages of
twenty-one and thirty-five years, who
have advantage of a high school edu-
cation or its equivalent. The training
will be similar to that given in the
best hospital training schools. This
not only offers an excellent training,
but also the opportunity of service
which is so earnestly sought by the
women Of the country.
THE LETTER OF A DEBUTANrE.
Dear S. R.: Wasn't it just wonderful
the way the Topeka people respond
ed to the flower sale which the women
of canteen committe of the Red Cross
held last Saturday? To think of MAX
ing $2.150 clear money on a flower
sale. Jim Hayes certainly made a big
hit with the Red Cross workers by his
generosity. Had you heard that one
team sold $500 worth that day. One
man paid SIS for a single rose, and to
his wife, too.
The girls who sold flowers at one of
the stations spotted a widower who is
one of the best sports in Topeka, and
each Of the six girls pinned a rose on
him. When they had him decorated
to the limit, every one of them stood
with an extended palm. Yes, of course,
who could resist these pretty 1S-year-
old girls?
1t was something for the town to be
proud of the way some of our Topeka
men played golf last week in Kansas
City. Both Frank Griggs and Pat
Campbell defeated two of the cham
pions and Mr.. Griggs almost came out
the victor Of the whole tournament.
They say that the Rotary club MEM
bers had one big, hilarious time at
their convention in Kansas City last
week One, feature of the banquet
given for them was the order of six
thousand pots of beans, furnished by
the Rotarians of Boston. The people
who lived around the hotels down
town say that they didn't get one
nights sleep all the time they were in
Kansas City. The Rotarians from
three of the towns took bands and
these together with all other kinds Of
parades kept things lively until the
wee small hours" every night.
One night (of course no Topeka
man was in this) a number of the Ro-
tarians relieved the traffic policemen
of their duties and also of their uni