The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

lected from American writers, in ac-
acknowledgement of the debt that liter
ature this side of the world owes to
that on the other side.
Mrs. Dorothy Garfield Fisher is
known thruout the world for the work
she has done in France in teaching
blind soldiers how to support them
selves. She also has distributed some
of the Authors Fund. Kansas takes
great pride in Mrs. Fisher. She is the
daughter of the late Doctor Garfield,
who was connected with the Kansas
State university, Lawrence, for years.
He went from here to be librarian at
Columbia university. New York. His
daughter was brought up in Kansas,
and was a K. U. girl. She is only one
of many Kansas university people to
win fame in the world outside
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Miss Marian Garretson was hostess
at a meeting of the Lakota club this
afternoon at her home in Harrison
street. Miss Florence Welcome read
the paper for the afternoon.
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The Helianthus club has chosen
Wednesday night, January %, as the
date of their next dancing party.
The Theta Sigma Phi Journalistic
sorority at Kansas university gave It's
annual banquet in the Kappa Kappa
Gamma sorority house, and two To-
peka women, Miss Effie Graham and
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, were on
the program.
tAs souvenirs of the party, the girls
of the sorority issued THE Editress,
an illustrated annual A clever pen
and ink sketch on the front of the
tiny ma game was the picture OF
a little girl perched on a stool, pick
ing out letters on the typewriter,
while her knitting work rested en- the
table and a ball of yarn rolled to
the farthest corner. The book con-
tanned list of the members, a poem
to the sorority by one of the honor
airy members, Mrs. Eliza Cook Don
Carlos of Lawrence, and some bur
lesque articles ION the war, advertis-
ing. news items, etc.
Miss Graham responded to a toast
on Kansas Highways" and Mrs. Nc
Carter, on ''Senset.' Other speeches
were as follows: General Solicitor,
Miss Alice Bowlby; "Everybodys,"
Miss Helen Hopes; THE Editor"
Miss Frances Davis; Life Miss
Mignon Schen: Cosmopolitan" Mrs.
Don Carlos; Human Engineering"
Miss Mary Smith; Living Age" Miss
Margaret Linn.
Members of the editorial staff of
the Editress are Miss Bowlby. Miss
Jessie Lea Messick, Miss Mary Smith6
Miss Marjorie Roby, Miss Viva II
Sturgeon, Miss Ruth Gardiner, Miss
Mary Roberts. Miss Ethel Munger,
Miss Emily Ferris. Miss Scheel, Miss
Edith Rowles and Miss Helen PETER
| Miss Winifred Wygal, director of Y.
| w. G. A. work at Camp Funston, will
| be in Topeka Thursday to address the
| meeting of the womans committee of
the Kansas council of defense. She
has charge of the Y. w. c. A. work
from junction City to Manhattan.
| Miss Wygal, a Springfield, Mo-, girl,
was educated at Drury college. In
June of 1917 she was sent to Junction
City by the national war work coun-
Gil of the Y. w. c. A, on request from
| the federal commission on training
camp activities for expert workers
| with girls of Junction City. The
Young Woman's league was organized
| in June in Junction City, which has
been of service to the school girls and
the employed girls of the town, as we'll
| as 20 women visitors Last summer
Miss Wygal opened hostess quarters
in Randolph hall on one days notice.
These quarters were closed at the end
of the officers training camp.
The Y. w. c. A. will soon complete
a small hostess house at Fort Riley
for visitors to patients in the base
hospital, and it will serve also as a
nurses club Mrs. Leonard Wood,
wife of Major General Wood, selected
the site for the hostess house at Camp
| Funston. She is a member of the
national war work council.
Miss Wyga1 has the supervision OF
a dorfnitory for sixty girls at Army
City. Next to this dormitory stands
the Army City hostess house, where
meals are served to these girls, and
also to visitors to the camp and town
In the evenings it forms sort OF
community center. Topeka girls who
are helping in the Y. w. c. A. work
around the fort and camp are: Miss
Ethel Dodge, business secretary for all
work from Junction City to Manhat-
tan, handling kilograms, contracts and
accounts; Miss Winifred Myers, secre-
tary of the Camp Funston hostess
house; Miss Carlotta Nellis, in charge