The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-09

Topeka is to have one of the draw
ing room" meetings which are so
pop llar thruout the country, and at
which speakers present to small
groups of women guests. specially in
vitcd for the occasion. the subject of
true patriotism for women.
Mrs. Paul Walker will be hostess
at the first drawing room meeting in
our city Friday afternoon at o'clock
One section of the Y. w c. A. war
work council is sending out over the
country a force of fourteen of the
most prominent women physicians of
the United States and they are lectur-
ing to groups of teachers, mothers,
and girls, on the subject, True Pa
triotism Thru the Highest Moral
Standards" The addresses are made
to select groups of women, who are
invited to the homes of the hostesses,
for these drawing room meetings. 1t
is the plan of the local committee, of
which Mrs. Walker is chairman, to
give a series of the meetings inviting
different groups of women each time.
in order to reach different groups of
women from all over the city.
The speaker next Friday will be DR..
Mary Riggs Noble, of Colorado
Springs, Colo. who is in Topeka to
make addresses on behalf of the Y.
W. A. c. She has been speaking to
high school girls, and she will have
beginning tonight at Z oclocK. She
will speak also Thursday night and
Friday night at the Y w. c. A. to the
business girls of Topeka. Doctor
Noble is an exceptionally good speak
err. ano she has a subject in which all
women o. America arr deeply in
terested.
The Tuesday Bridge-Luncheon club
was entertained yesterday by Mrs.
George Eagle. Guests who were
asked, besides the members of the
club. were: Mrs. Margaret Wiggin, of
Chicago; Mrs. Edwin Lange, of Dem
Yer. Colo; Mrs. Horace Chase. Mrs.
J.. H. Mum, Mrs. A. A. Weiskirch,
Mrs. A. w. Lacey, Mrs. A. w. Bron-
son, Mrs Lee Redden Gordon and Mrs
Herbert West.
Mrs. Wiggin is visiting her sister,
Mrs. George Eagle, and Mrs. Lange
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Carl w.
Nellis.
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Mrs. ]. +. Stanton gave a party this
afternoon for her daughter, Mrs. c. L.
Schwartz, of Wichita. The guests
We're Mrs. James Mcfarland. Mrs F.
P. Mahood, Miss Gatwood Wagner,
Miss Elstey Schwartz, Miss Bernice
Bullock. Miss Alvina Hults, Miss
Dorothy Souders, Miss Florence Jas
person. Miss Marian Squires, Miss
Margaret Marshall. Miss Renna Rosen-
thai. Miss Miriam Van Horn, Miss
Grace Davis. Miss Sylvia Silverthorne,
Miss Inez Horner, Miss Mayanna
Bridge. Miss Helen Travis, Miss Mar
jorie Fulton, Miss Alta LUX, Miss
Marie Ferrin and Miss Elizabeth Nor
rison. Mrs. Schwartz will leave for
her home in Wichita Thursday Be
fore her marriage a few weeks ago,
she was miss Mildred Stanton
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I'VE have been led to think that the
French nation is in tears and poverty.
The January number of Vogue tells
another story of Paris life and inter-
ests. This is the news from the front
Paris does not care for white lin
gerie as much it did. There is a
pronounced tendency toward colored
linen, embroidered silk, chiffon and
mousseline de sole. Sometimes the
embroidery is done in heavy silver
which is a surprise. but is naturally
not meant for the chemises of every
day. When lingerie is trimmed at all.