The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
by DAISY NEIL.


the ElkS' hall. The patrons and pat
| ronesses will be Mr.. and Mrs. David
Neiswanger, Mr.. and Mrs. James Nc
| Clure, Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Carruth. Jr.,
| and Mr.. and Mrs. Irnri Zunwalt.
Guests will be members of the frater-
nifty and their girl friends
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| Miss Nellie Kouns and Miss Sarah
/ Kouns, formerly of Topeka, are finish
| ing their fourth week at the Palace
theater in New York City, where they
have been most enthusiastically re-
ceived. They have appeared on the
same program with victor moore our
| ing the past week. -
The Good Government club met
yesterday afternoon at the T. w Z.
| A. An important guest was Private
Peat, altho he had only time to enter
| and sayshow much the club women
were doing to help out in the war, now
greatly this work was appreciated ana
to urge the women to keep it up. He
then hurried on to his next engage
ment.
The club took up the subject of the
new so called comfort station" They
decided to ask the city officials to
either build an addition over the AFFAIR
or to tear down the structure which
they have built. They passed upon
the following resolution:
| Whereas the Good Government
! club. several years ago was the first
orga nization to declare for and work
for the esta blishment of a rest room
and public comfort station, in the
parks and in the city, and since it was
made the basis of campaign work and
campaign pledges, year after year, and
| since many women had expressed
| themselves in favor of such improve
ments, and for that reason had lent
their help to us in electing city, off
GERS, and since a committee of women
have inspected the so-cal1ed comfort
| station at the corner of Eighth and
| Kansas avenues, therefore be it
| Resolved, BY the club in session,
| that we do not think the structure
could in any way be called comfort
station, and that we are justly disap-
pointed in it and feel that it in no way
| Justifies the expenditure of public
funds for many reasons too numerous
| to mention.
| Resolved, therefore, that we most
| respectfully ask that the work be con-
tinued and shelter be put over the
present so-called comfort station, or if
| that cannot be done, that for the ap-
| pearance of Topeka this little struc-
ture be torn down until such time as
| the work may be completed to the
| honor and self-respect of the city and
a real comfort station be substituted"
| The club has decided to devote
most of it's time the coming year to
Red Cross work. Instead of having
printed programs this year they will
Il give AnG-sff7Cf1SS TO. WdE -WOTk- 1He
club viii undertake to snip one hum
! bred pounds of cotton feathers for
fractui e pillows. They will also in
vest in liberty bonds.
Mr.. w. A. Biby attended the. meet
ing yesterday afternoon to make a
speech for the liberty bonds. He
| found such a speech unnecessary and
| made a general patriotic talk instead.
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The Portia club met yesterday aft
ernoon at the Red Cross rooms at
Crosby Brothers.
THERE'S a GIRL IN OUR TOWN
| Who has worked out the system
/ of reading and knitting at the same
time. This girl is a freshman in
| high school and is a great reader and
also an industrious knitter. She says
| knitting has become SO automatic that
she puts her book up on a. music
| rack " HIGH she has and reads as she
knits. Did anyone say anything about
efficiency?
THE Piper" which is to be given
by the literature department of the
| Womans club, of which Mrs. kath-
| crime Hand is chairman, at the high
school auditorium on the evening OF
April %, is very beautiful little
play. A very substantial prize was
offered in England for a play which
would be more attractive than THE
Blue Bird which was then at the
height of it's popularity. An Ameri-
can woman. Josephine Preston Pea
body, Won this prize with The
| Piper Members of the Woman S
club will be admitted to the per-
Torrance by their membership tick
cts. An admission price of Is cents
will be charged to those not belong
ing to the club to defray expenses,
Tho oil MIXERS Of the Sigma
Alpha Iota sorority of Washburn col
lege will give a japanese cantata this
evening at the home of Mrs. Eli G.
Foster in West Sixth street. All the
alumnae under the direction of Miss
Helen Hogeboon will take part The
members of the active chapter will
be guests.
The ladies of the Masonic Red Cross
unit are requested to meet Saturday
evening at Z o'clock at the Masonic
temple. to take part in the liberty 1oar
parade. The ladies are asked to wear
their Red Cross caps. Automobile
will be furnished.
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The Music Study club entertained
with an informal tea this afternoon, a
the home of Miss Ethel Grant in Poll
street in honor of three members OF
the club who are leaving Topeka fol
permanent residence elsewhere Mrs
w. ]. V. Deacon will join her hus
band in southern. Texas, where they
will make their home; Mrs. w. H
Bowlby, with Mr.. Bowlby and theil
family are leaving soon for Trinidad
Colo; and Mrs. Harry Tasker, who
will move 70 Emporia, Kan.
The guests this afternoon were
members of the club, in which
i these three members will be greatly
4 missed They are all well known in
music circles of the city, where the,