The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-22

Mrs. Dewitt C. Nellis will leave To-
peka about August l for a permanent
residence in the west. Her two daugh-
tiers and only son are all living on the
Pacific coast. Her son. Mr.. Luther
Nellis, who came to attend the fu-
Dewitt C. Nellis, left the last of the
week for his home in Los Angeles, Cal.
Mrs. Charles Albert Phillips is here
with her mother and will remain until
the first of August, when Mrs. Nellis
will accompany her to Portland, where
she makes her home.
MrL Nellis will be very much miss
ed in the club and social life of To-
peka, which has always been her home
and where she has been active in every
movement for the betterment of the
city.
Lieut.. Wallace Hogarth Pettyjohn is
the guest of his parents. DIR. and Mrs.
E. S. Pettyjohn, in West Sixth street
Lieutenant Pettyjohn is a graduate of
Washburn college. of Yale university
and of Yale art school. He has for
the past year been in Honolulu, H.
l.. where he went to teach. He opened
up a studio on the island where he
gave instruction in art and also did
painting. A number of Lieutenant
Pettyjohn's pictures have been ex-
hibited at different times in the studio
at w aShDurn college,.
Lieutenant Pettyjohn Joined the
regular army at Honolulu and entered
officers training camp over there
from which he received his commits
sion. His company has been trans
ferred to Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Wash,
and after a few days visit with his
parents. he will leave for his camp in
the west.
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Miss Eula Fleming will be hostess
to the members of the Alpha Phi
sorority. who are in town for the sum-
mer. tomorrow afternoon at her home,
1872 Mulvane street.
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Women's dress is becoming more
and more discussed in connection With
thrift and economy. The growing OPP
ularity of uniforms and the question
of the practicabilitv of standardized
dress for women in business bring for
warn the questi III whether clothing in
W. ~-'me SHOULD he cheerful or austere
"Woman's dress may be the exrres-
sion of an instinct for display and va
riety. but man n his attire is the slave
of a standardized past said DR. Jessf-
ca. Peixotto, executive chairman of the
department of child welfare of the
woman's committee. council of nation
a defense. Certainly women's dress
should be cheerful. I see no reason
why thrift should sound the doom of
the decorative. 1t has been said that
in the midst of the most severe tor
ments woman should keep her lie
and that fer EIr-~' a~tS and her ma
ments are part of her smile. TT is
necessary to LAUGH in order not to cry
and clothing can greatly aid in giving
the feeling of cheer. It need not how
ever. express flippancy.
Butterfly clothing is very differe 1t
from fresh. simple. useful dress such
as sports clothing represents. Austere
garments do not necessarily clothe
courage; witness the gay military uni
foi ms of the past. 1t is perfectly pos
sible to be thrifty and cheerful, to
wear clothing Of simple lines AMI in
expensive material. so as to liberate
labor now engaged in creating empty
superfluities. and thus to add to the
general efficiency of the woman pow
er of the. country."-From The Var
Worl; of Women"
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Mrs. Charles F. Spencer is spending
the summer in New York City, and
has given a number of art lectures il.
Illustrated with her fine collection Of
patriotic posters in number OF
places for the benefit of the Red eros.
and for the women's clubs. Mrs
Spencer is chairman of art for the
state federation of clubs and also o.
the Woman's club of Topeka.
Lady Fitzgerald Hamilton. whose