The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-11

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war activities since the old sdage
| bout all work and no play makes
4 lack A dull boy is also applicable TO
| women. tbs is perhaps peculiarly
! true at the present time with the AZ
mosphere Surcharged as 1t is WITH
gloom From this converse ton spranS
the idea of gising a big card party,
tho nroceeds to go to the Red Cross.
! The party will be given SATURDAY
lime g. at 2:30 p. m. at kellam nail.
| About 100 tables have already been en-
| gagged for the affair, which promises
to be the real social sensation OF the
season. besides swelling the Red Cross
funds. Individual tickets at so cents
apiece can be obtained from any of
the members. Reservations for tables
are made thru Mrs. It. ]. Myers,
| phone 1908.
| Besides several different games of
cards, there will be a knitting corner,
a smoking corner for men. a num-
Der of prominent men have signif1ed
their intention of going to the party.
They are not barred from the knitting
| corner should they desire to knit or
should they care to learn the art If
| they bring their needles and yarn they
will receive instructions; nor are they
barred from the card games. They
can mix with the women if they pre-
fer it and compete for one of the
| prizes or they can have an exclusive
card game of their own as they see fit.
The women have already sold
enough to necessitate their changing
| from the Elks where they first in
| tended giving 1t, to larger quarters,
| Kellam Hall. The prizes are all being
| dona ted-over a dozen have already
come in-which are being graded, the
highest score getting No. 1, and so on.
The one big prize, so delicious that
any one might be pleased to win it,
will probably be drawn by numbers,
giving every one a chance.
There is a mystery about the re-
freshments, surprise known only to
| the hostesses and they refuse to tell.
However. the guests are assured they
will conform to wartime menus.
The personnel of the club is: Mrs.
c. B. Reed, Mrs. Frank Bradley, Mrs.
A. A. Hurd, Mrs. Frank Hobart, Mrs.
Chas. Skinner. Mrs. Horace Hum
phrey, Mrs. Frank Squires, Mrs George
Jones, Mrs. Thomas Myers. Mrs.
George Crane. Mrs. Root will sub
| stitute for Mrs. Crane
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Mrs. Merrill Mills has invited about
twenty of the Potwin children to a
morning party for her little daughter,
Marcia, who is celebrating her sixth
birthday anniversary.
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The annual garden party in Central
| pdi N, W De given Dy the nlSn ScnOOl
| girls, will take place this year the lat
ter part of next week. A war work
pageant will be feature of the party
| The mothers and the girls of the
school will be guests.
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Mrs A. Marburg called a meeting
of committee chairmen for baby
| week at her home Friday afternoon.
Except for the omission of mental
! tests and of regulation scoring, the
baby week arrangements will be SINH
| lar to those of other years. The
! mothers who bring their babies for
examination. will be given their GER
t;flcates as they leave the hall. In
case any of them are forgotten, they
will be kept for the mothers at Pei
| letter s. The registration of the
! babies IS now in progress, under the
direction of Miss Griffith at Pelletier's
| store.
| The examinations will begin at 10
| o'clock in the morning and continue
! until Two in the afternoon. The
! work Will be done in two shifts, the
| FIRST SHIT being on duty from the be-
| ginning of the examinations until II
clock, and the second from 1 2 to ..
| A program will be given every day
| at $3.50 o'clock, which will consist of
| music, perhaps some dancing, an ad-
| dress by a physician and an address
by nurse, and a demonstration of
which the mothers will be especially
| interested. Mrs. w. E. Atchison is
| chairman of the program committee.
| Mrs j. D. Gossett is chairman of
the registration committee, and she
and her helpers will have a table
where the names will be checked
Upon the arrival of the mothers with
their babies.
DR.. Sara Greenfield is chairman of
the committee on examiners. She will
| 10 feAn Ir-A Il
Mrs. F. A. Rooster. The duty of this
| committee is to obtain the services of
! doctors and dentists for the eXamina-
| lions.
Miss Marian Garretson is chairman
of a committee for the distribution OF
literature to the mothers. Her help
ers will be: Mrs. Robert Carver. Mrs.
George H. Allen, Mrs. G. H. Sawyer.
Mrs. w. d. Storrs and Mrs. I. w. Way
nick.
Mrs. H. B. Wilson heads the COM
mittee on cards and certificates She
will be assisted by: Mrs. Lewis Green
| wood, Mrs. c. B. VanHorn. Mrs. John
| kinkel, Mrs. w. d. Ross. Mrs. w. H.
| Bowlby and Mrs. T. c. Tinkham.
| Mrs. ]. H Mcconnell is chairman
she is assisted by Mrs. Mouldy of the
Santa F'e hospital.
1 Mrs. = P. Moore is chairman of the
committee to obtain the services of
| = A.
M. Thoroman, Mrs. Norman E. Keller,
| Mrs. l.. c. Harbaugh, Mrs. w. w.
kitchell and Miss Carolyn Thomas.
| Mrs. Ralph Squires is chairman of
the committee on assistants. The
| helpers which she will have on the
| different days of the exa limitations
| are: Monday-Mrs. J. T. Bell. Mrs
j. r. Waddington. Mrs. Howard john
ston. Mrs. Walter Ashton Smith; Tues
day-Mrs- George Hoyes. Mrs. Frank
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