The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-30

cago. These strange girls don't know
where to look for rooms in the first
place and whe they do find one they
have no way of knowing whittier it is
going to prove respectable and clean.
A few days ago the Y. w. c. A.
committee which is house hunting met
with a number of the prominent
business men of the city to discuss
the matter and the men urged them
to do all they could to open this bust
ness girls home, as they considered it
real necessity. They expressed a
wish that the club women of the city
would lend their assistance to the
project.
The Y. W. c. A. hopes to be able
to announce definite plans about their
home in a few more days.
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Perhaps you have heard this:
Young folks, old folks, everybody
come
Join our Sunday School and you'll
have lots of fun
Kindly check your chewing gum ard
razors at the door
And you'll hear some Bible stories
that you never heard before"
But have you heard the latest YER
sion of It:
To the Kansas Free Fair and you'll
have lots of fun.
Kindly check your autos and your
babies at the door
And you'll see a lot of wonders that
you never saw before"
And if you have heard it do you
understand?
Just inside the entrance gate of the
fair grounds at the right hand side
is little rise Of ground and a clump
Of trees. Right there a tent will be
pitched and temporary playground
with a sand pile. swings, etc, will be
built. For this year mothers of babies
and small children are going to have
a perfectly safe, wholesome place to
leave their children and they need
have no worry about them while they
visit the fair grounds. Everyone
knows how hard 1t is to trail around
to the various buildings with a tired
uninterested baby along and this year
the child hygiene department of the
state board of health, the Public
Health Nursing association, the Kin
dergarten Teachers association will
cooperate in establishing a day nur-
sery and playground for the children.
The nursery will be in a tent which
will be flyproof and clean. There will
be beds and cots and certified and
specially prepared milk will be on
sale. A public health nurse will be in
charge. The playground which is to
be surrounded with a wire fence will
I De Iull Ol the Things CnllQT6H love,
| blocks, swings, sand, etc, and will be
| in charge of Mrs. June CHAPMAN
/ Children under 10 years of age will
be admitted.
other states have had such a play
| ground at their fairs and have found
it indispensable. 1t simplifies the
problem of many women and gives the
children a good time, too.
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Further appointments of depart
/ ment heads of the Woman's club fol
this year have been made. Mrs. L. C
Hodge will be head of the art depart.
ment, Mrs. W. N. Mason of civics and
Justice. Mrs. J. D. Gossett of education
Mrs. A. r. Springer of forestry, Mrs
Frank w. Thomas of home economics
Mrs. L. D. McEachron of literature
Mrs. Norman Hay of music. Mrs. S. S
Estey of the social department. Tht
room and properties committee arr
Mrs Z. r. Taylor, Mrs. Pope Allen
Mrs. ]. T. Bell.
Mrs. James Fore entertained a
luncheon yesterday noon at her horn
for her guest Mrs. Charles S. Roehri:
of Denver. Covers were laid for eight
Lieut.. Read w. Morrison, who ar
rived in Hoboken July IS isn't gettint
because of being injured while il
swimming in the Potomac. He wa
struck by a motor boat and will no
be discharged until he has completed
recovered. He will probably arrive Il
Topeka early in September.
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: George NJ. Stone has been engage
; to paint two important pictures fc
: wyoming. One, THE TRANSPORTATION.
: to be hung in the chapel of the Ca
; thedral OF Wyoming at Laramie, whic
: Is said to be the most beautiful ca
} thedral interior in the west. and ar
= other. Christ Blessing Little Chi