The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05

of the war work council, in which
were discussed the meeting of de-
mands in the increase of the regular
work of the assoc iation caused by war
conditions and the demand for new
work on regular lines in centers
where people have given to war work
and now want the Y. w. c. A. for
their own community.
The question of not holding indus
trial standards in war time was dis
cuSsed and also the need of race CO.
operation. John D. Adams brought to
the conference challenge to the Y.
w c. A to help prepare the women
and girls of America for new stand
ards CT success when the war is over.
success that will not be based on
what we get out of thing. The men
who have felt the spiritual interpre-
tation of life at the front will bring
this back and there must be woman
hood that will equal it,
Mrs. Robert E. Speer, president of
the national board of the Y. W. c. A,
told of the gold covered star on a
service flag in New Jersey. 1t was
fer 2 nurse who had been killed at
the front. A few years ago wom-
ans services to her country would not
have been recognized on a national
service flag. said Mrs. Speer. All
women's work is in a different light
now. The need and worth of it are
seen and it is placed at a higher value
than it ever has been.
X 4
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who doesn't stand very well at the
Red Cross rooms. She went down
there rot long ago where women are
working all day almost every day and
are a class of women, who altho most
of them have never had to work il
they didn't want to, would always
keep busy at something, and made the
remark that This war certainly did
one great good. 1t put the idle women
in this town to work.
X X X
Dean Low, the small son of Mrs
Dean Low, is staying with his grand
parents Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. A Low, and
going to school Mrs. Low and her
other son, Marcus, are in Chicago with
Mrs. Lows parents, Mr.. and Mrs. 1.
Mix.
The Masonic women will have an
all day meeting Wednesday at the
surgical dressing room at Warren NJ.
Crosby's store. Mrs. Frank Sturges
and Mrs. Charles Joslin will be in
charge.
The open department meeting of
the music department of the Woman's
club will occupy the hour between II
and 1 o'clock Thursday at the a1l-day
meeting of the club held at the Y. w.
-
been arranged by Mrs. Geo. H. Allen,
chairman of the department:
The Heart of Her ........-.. aCadman
lis apr" Mrs. Glen Deever, "a.
ecstasy Mrs. Charles Joslin ~
Mrs C. J. Wilson,
And Love Means You. Rogers
The Years at the Spring .-......... Beach
Mrs. r. Parks Bennett.
Mrs. W. H Bowlby.
The Sweetest Flower. Allen
The Valley of Laughter. .Sanderson
Mrs w. w Wikidal.
Musical reading-The Holy Cross.
Mrs Frank squires, Mrs. Norman Hay
Prelude Observation-Disclosures. Mcdowell
Mrs w A. Harshbarger.
The Pink Rose. Bono
Just Awearyin' for You. ..-......-.. Bond
y \ X
Mrs. Speed Hughes was hostess yes
terday afternoon at her home in To-
peka avenue at a social meeting of
the Nineteenth Century club. The
meeting yesterday was the first social
gathering of the club for almost
year. Guests were Mrs. M ]. Brent,
of Newcomerstown, Ohio; Mrs. l.. V.
Isnond and Mrs. Benjamin Harris,
of Evart Mich. The following officers
were elected for the coming year: