The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-06

scope is to be enlarged under the
patronage of the governm ent. 1t is
only in the matter of birth registra-
ton that Kansas falls behind many of
the other states. 1t is the wish of the
national womna's committee that all
the states bring up that department
of their child welfare divisions And
Kansas, as well as other states, can
work toward a place on the honor
roll achieved by some of the leaders
among the states in that regard.
In connection with the child well
fare drive, literature will be distrib
uted to eXpectant mothers. A plan
in this department which has been put
| into operation in Kansas by Doctor
DeVilbiss, has been borrowed by the
state of Massachusetts. The mothers
confidential bureau, by which women
who do not have ready access to med
zeal advice and treatment, write for
advice and information to Doctor De-
Vilbiss, and she sends them literature
and personal advice regarding their
condition. This work is carried on in
confidential manner and is of i'm
mense help to mothers in remote com
munities where medical help is hard
/ to get. MaSSa chuSettS is the first state
that has adopted the measure, tho a
number of cities have done so. Doc
tor DeVilbiss is credited with the orig
mating of the plan by the Massachu-
sets board of health.
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Mrs. 0. L. Moore, president of the
Woman's club, has appointed Mrs.
I Margaret Hill McCarter as chairman
of the committee for the liberty \loan
I fund within the club. The plan is to
raise in the club $500 which will be
invested in United States bonds of the
present issue. and when the bonds are
| called in, to use the money for the
! club house fund.
I Mrs. F. w. Watson has been made
! treasurer of the fund. Mrs. McCarter
| is planning the campaign. and is
choosing thirty women as members of
| her committee to assist in collecting
/ the dollar from each member of the
| club that will make up the final sum-
| Not all of the members of her com
mittee have yet been chosen but when
she has her list complete. instructions
/ will be given them on the work of the
campaign.
Mrs. J. F. JarrelTs play. "Out Goes
Jennie" will be repeated tonight at
meeting of the Eastern Star. just fol-
I lowing the regular session of the club
The performance is repeated partly
4 for the benefit of the women of the
| Masonic Red Cross unit who were at
work the afternoon the play was orig
inally given. The play tonight is free
I both to men and women of the club.
Mrs. T. S. Morrison, who has an i'm
/ portant part in the play. is matron of
. the Eastern Star. and the play is given
, also 70 celebrate loyalty day. Mrs.
Jarrells primary purpose in writin g
it was to Offer something cheerful for
the people who are wearing service
buttons and flags in token of their
men in the army
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! A Topeka artist who has come into
prominence in eastern art circles, is
! Mrs. Fern L Coppedge, who has just
returned from Pennsylvania. where
she spent the past few months pre-
pairing group of new canvases that
! have taken honors in various exhibit
tons. Orc of her pictures. Winter
! Morning, has received the first prize.
500, in the Kansas City display of
pictures. and received the second
prize of $50 for winter scene. and
the year before she also received hon
ors ia that exhibit.
H Some oe the pictures that Mrs.
| Coppedge hung in the Kansas City
exhibit had been hung in the Phila-
delphia Art club exhibit, by invitation
of tn club This club has been an
exclusive orga nizatio of men artists,
and It is only within the past two
years that women's work has been
given place in it. The Philadelphia
papers gave high praise to Mrs. Cop
t.e landscape artist whose work has
taken thousa dollar prizes within
the past six months. in New York and
Paris, spoke of Mrs. Coppedge as an
artist with "a marvellous, inherent