The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
PhOnes-FOm M. $500; other hours 1850.

Mrs. L. H. Mum will have a special
table at the cafeteria luncheon of the
Woman's club Thursday at the Y. w.
c. A. IN compliment to Mrs. Massey
Holmes of Kansas City. Mrs. Holmes
is to make the talk of the afternoon
at the meeting, which is in charge of
the forestry department, of which Mrs
Mum is chairman.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Kurtz Kellam OF Kan
sas City are coming back to Topeka to
make their home. They formerly
lived here and are very popular among
the society people of the town, who
will be glad to receive them back into
the crowd once more, They will prob
ably move about the fifteenth of the
month Mrs. Kellam returned to her
home today after short visit to her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W. Haughey.
Mrs D. c. Tiilotson and her son,
Lieut.. Luther TiIlotsop, who arrived
yesterday from Camp Doniphan to
spend his furlough with his mother,
will ne at home informally Wednes-
day evening at their home in Fillmore
street. invitations will be issued
and all friends are asked to call.
Mrs. Edward F. Brown, of St
Louis, director of womens work of
the southwest division, gave a talk
yesterday before the women of Topeka
a Memorial hall. Mrs. Charles Brooks
Thomas presided. Miss Carolyn
Thomas, chairman of the packing,
gave report of the work shipped for
December. January and February
showing a steady increase. The heads
of the different departments of work,
Mrs. Jack Dillon, of the garment max
ing; Mrs Nat Black, of the surgical
dressings; Mrs Hal Hazlett, for Mrs
Charles Mitchell, who is in New York,
head of the knitting, and Miss Thomas,
of the packing, sat on the platform.
Mrs Brown said in part: My par
ticular work is supposed to be stimu-
doesn't need any stimulation, for they
were good and are getting 'gooder' all
the time She spoke of the wonder
full way in which the women of this
division responded to the emergency
call for surgical dressings a short time
ago. She said that every organization
in the southwest division had it's quota
finished and on the way five days be-
fore the time was up. Mrs. Brown
says that she doesn't believe in max
ing people think that the emergency
is greater than it is. She doesn't want
to call wolf, wolf" when there isn't
any WOLF because she wants response
when there is crisis. Red Cross
cpclIs truth. There is no camouflage
about Red Cross" she said.
Mrs. Brown says that she is &C
cused of harping on surgical dress
ings, but it is not because they are
any more needed than other phases
of the work. 1t is merely that every
one was ignorant of this work in the
beginning and it required more teach
ing. In speaking of the yarn. Mrs.
Brown said, Has anyone said that
there was not enough yarn or that
what there was was too thick or too
dirty? There is not enough wool
raised in this country to supply the
demand. The Canadian women have
let you have some of their yarn. They
have not had wool in their own or
their children's clothes for over three
years. but a Canadian woman knits a
sock every day and two every Sunday.
Have you seen any one in Topeka
with wool flowers on her hat? Or
any knitting bag with wool flowers ?'
Mrs. Brown then told Henry Aliens
wool story which he uses to point
the moral of service. but which may
, be used to point the moral of wool
This story is that of a British girl
who has spent three years alone with