The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-29

| Spring, chairman of the telephone
committee, and Mr.. George w. Nc
| Clelland, chairman of the ticket COM
| mittee.
The cast will include the following:
| Jumping jacks-Robert Haig, Ger
aid Anderson. Harley Carswel. New
man Jeffrey. Charles Williams. George
Gardner, Wayne Brill. Ozwin Rut-
ledge and Charles Rehkopf
Letter blocks-Viola Hart, Mary
Esther Mitchell, Helen Harper, Hazel
Hepworth, Hazel Weeks, Leona Sta
| del, Jean Beverly. Ruth Knapp.
Paper sdolls-Muriel Lyman, Ruth
Souders. Venera Zuderman, Margaret
Lovewell. Vera Tamblyn. Marion
Ross. Elizabeth Shaw. Thelma Patton.
Dorothy Lonergan, Pearl Downer,
| Geraldine Monroe, Ruth Thoroman
Thelma Hobson. Edna Spokesman.
Katherine Wheeler.
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Miss Ethel FrizeH will give an in
formal party next Wednesday after
noon at her home in honor of Miss
Daisy Neil
Miss Annetta Nicoll and Miss Helen
| Brigham will entertain at luncheon at
the Country elg5 JHne : for Miss Neil
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who is in a nervous state verey eve
ming when the Journal comes out for
fear she will find her name in the
twenty-five year ago column. She has
given the impression to the newcom-
ers in the town that she was a mere
child that lone. ago;
Miss Mary Parkinson entertained
some of the senior Theta girls at din
ner last evening at the Chocolate shop.
| The table decorations were of pansies
the pansy being the Theta flower
in he
the table and each guest received
corsage of the same flower.
Covers were laid for Mrs. ]. P. Root,
Miss Marjorie Herrig. Miss Helen
Anne Hawley Miss Jane Alexander,
Miss Katherine Knowles. Miss Gather
Inc Conkling, Miss Esther Jensen, and
Miss Parkinson:
Mrs. J. E. Hurley has invited a few
friends for an informal dinner tonight
at the Country club. complimentary
to Lieut.. Governor and Mrs Chas
Huffman and their daughter. Miss
! Mona Clare Huffman. who will leave
Topeka Saturday for their home in Co.
lumbus.
The General Federation magazine
hands one to the American women in
the current number. regarding the ut
terly senseless styles blindly followed
by the devotees of fashion. In COM
menting particularly on the present
narrow skirt which hampers free
movement and endangers life, and con-
trasting 1t with the sensible styles of
last year. the article concludes: THAT
we can so quickly forget and become
seemingly useless again gives reason
for the criticism so often made of US
as a nation.
The hen doesn't know
That when she gives us her egg
She is giving us her best.
The hen thinks her looks,
The carriage of her head,
The color of her comb,
Are the things that are worth while,
And that mean more to the world
Than all the eggs.
Most of us are like hens"
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Miss Doris Thompson entertained
some of the Theta house girls in
formally Wednesday evening at her
home in Potwin, in celebration of her
birthday.
The National Woman's Farm and
Garden association, Kansas branch,
Mrs. Theodore Saxon, president, Mrs.
A. T. Modlin, chairman, met at lunch
at the Chamber of Commerce yester-
day. Many fine specimens of flowers
were displayed. The peony was voted
to stand at the head as most popular
| flower the next to cause most COM
ment was a very fine branch of fox
glove from Mrs. A. A. Robinson, the
long branch with eleven groups of
| three flowers like bells. about two
inches long, topped with a wide open
flower opening something like a hol-
lyhock. but not quite so large, all
| speckled and colored like the bells, it
| was conceded the most wonderful
| flower designed by nature. A large
bouquet of the finest mixed corn
| flowers. of all colors imagined. came
from Miss Margaret Weiss's garden.
Some fine flowers of Gaillardias from
| Roy Bones and some English daisies
| and pansies from Mrs. Saxon's gar
dens. At 2 O'Clock Miss Irene Taylor
gave canning demonstration of
| Strawberries, assisted by Miss Daisy
Osborn and Miss Alice Boyard of Ell
mont. Three different ways were
shown. The strawberries were Just
as red as before being put in the Jars
proving that the problem of having
fresh Strawberries all the year was
solved.
The members of the Native Sons
and Daughters will meet tomorrow
morning at 1880 at the auditorium
for the purpose of going to the ceme-
Il terry to decorate the graves of the gov
ernors of Kansas who are buried
there. All who have automobiles are
requested to bring them. Any native
of Kansas. and the members of any
other patriotic organization, will be
welcome.
The party at the Topeka club last
night was one of the most enjoyable
If the season, and brought out pos