The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-27
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Lieut. Governor and Mrs. Chas S.
Huffman and their daughter. Miss
Mona Claire Huffman. will leave Sat
urday for their home in Columbus,
Kan. For many years Topeka people
have felt that they had a personal
claim on the Huffman family. since
Doctor Huffman's service as state SEN
ator brought them to Topeka during
| Legislative years.
During the time that Doctor Huff
man filled the position of adjutant-
general of the state. while General
| Martin was at Doniphan and later, in
France. the Huffman family made To-
peka their home. They have come to
| be part of the social life of Topeka,
and their going would be deeply re-
GREETED but that Miss Huffman's mar
riage to Mr. William ]. Miller will
connect them indissolubly with the
town.
Mrs. Huffman, who has been prom
inently identified with the Woman's
Kansas Day club. even before coming
| to Topeka, was president of that or
ganiZation last year. and served with
| dignity and grace. She is woman of
| charming personality, and of SINGER
| ity. and has won a place for herself
among the women of the state, as
well as of Topeka.
The members of the Pi Phi alumnae
will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock with Mrs. T. F. Doran, 125
Western avenue.
Mrs. Clay Hamilton will entertain a
few friends at luncheon at the Choco-
| late shop tomorrow noon in honor of
Miss Mona Claire Huffman.
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The Woman's Farm and Garden as
ISOLATION will meet for luncheon to-
morrow at noon at the Chamber of
Commerce. Miss Irene Taylor, the
county demonstration. will give dem
onstration of canning strawberries at
2:30 o'clock, assisted by her class of
girls from Elmont. Mrs. A. T. Modlin
is county chairman of the Farm and
Garden association: Mrs. E. j. Hadley
is secretary, and Mrs. Theodore Saxon
is president All who are interested
are invited to attend the demonstra-
ton.
Mrs. Henry j. Allen, who accom-
panied Mrs. Noble Prentis to Fort
Riley and Funston. Sunday. to learn
what is particularly needed in service
to the sick and wounded soldiers in
the hospitals at those places, returned
with the conviction that what the boys
most need, is companionship.
The same thought has been ad-
vanced before by everybody who has
looked into the matter-that they are
lonely. They see other soldiers COM
ing to the camp. being demobilized,
are obliged to stay on.
Mrs. Allen said that several boys
said to her, please sit down and talk
to me-
iting would. or should be allowed.
Also, 1t would seem that it would be a
problem as to the effect that indis-
eliminating visiting might have on the
patients. Mrs. Prentis states that she
has seen boys who have been SUBJ
jected to the moist-eyed sort of SYM
pathy which could have only a bad
effect upon them. That is thing
which must be worked out. probably, |
by the hospital authorities
But there is one very great need
which can be met by the women of
the state without any effort to speak |
of, and that is in hemming pieces of /,
muslin for handkerchiefs. Mrs. Allen |
was told by one of the nurses that
they could not supply the need of
handkerchiefs, since such quantities |
were required.
One of the things in the way of food |
that the boys crave, Mrs. Allen found. |
is fresh vegeta bles. But that again, |
is one of the things yet to be worked |
out. Even if vegetables were donated. |
the question arises as to whether or |
not they could be cooked or prepared |
for the soldiers. All of the people who |
lying awake nights trying to devise |
ways and means, SO that some solu- |
ton will surely be found.
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One of the popular Washburn girls I
has been suffering self-imposed seclu-
sion. due to a case of poison ivy |
which robbed her of her beauty for |
the time being. Two of the returned |
soldiers, being denied the pleasure of |
calling on her, sent her a 10-cent |
store mask. nicely done up in a flower /
box with all the trimmings. In her |
reply. she told of her expectation |
when the florists package was re-
ceived, and ended her epistle in this |
wise:
Was it iris for friendship, or the dear |
old fox-glove,
lily for sympathy. or the ivy love? |
But when face to face in the box |
did stare.
beheld nothing less than a new face |
in there.
So with most grateful thanks, with |
rapture and glee,
Twill be worn in the future, by P. |
Ivy T.
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