The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-13

all things and to be able to do all
things. You may see one taking cash
in the dining room and a few min
utes later she is teaching some one
how to swim, hunting a job for a girl.
making a poster, getting coal from
strict manager. or addressing an i'm
portant meeting Their days seem
very full of many things. And yet
they must have a spare moment some
time, for the the Association of En-
pIoyed Officers of the Y. w. c. A. has
suggested they read the following
books. OF part of them before April
!, 1920:
The Mount of Vision-Brent.
The Christian Idea in the Modern World
Calkins.
In. Dav of SOCIAL Rebuilding-Coffin.
The Church and the Crowd-Hogue.
Religious Experience of Israel-Hutchins-
The Doctrine of the Person of Jesus Christ
Democratic ristianity-McConnel.
Christian ernationalism-Merrill.
Theology for Social Gospel-Rausch-
enbusch-
Concerning Prayer-streeter;
The Opportunity for Religion-Ward.
Principles of Labor Legislation-Commons
& Andrews.
Progressive Democracy-Croly.
Democracy and Education-Dewey.
The Little Town-Douglass.
Rural Life-Calpin.
Cooperation, the Hope of the Consumer
Harris.
The Science of Power-Kidd
The Creative Impulse in lndustry-Marot.
Proposed Roads to Freedom-Russell
China, an Interpretation-Bash shford.
Out Of the Shadow-Cohen.
Understanding South America-Cooper.
Intervention in Mexixco-Inman.
Memoirs of a olutionist-Kropotkin.
An American Idyll-Parker.
The Rise of the Spanish American Re
publics-Robertson.
Story of a Pioneer-Shaw.
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story-Morgen-
thau.
Theodore Roosevelt-Thayer.
They also suggest secretaries keep
in touch with the following peri
odicals: Atlantic Monthly, Independ-
ent. Life and Labor, Literary Digest,
Nation. New Republic, Outlook. Sur
vey, Manchester Guardian (weekly).
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In Betty AIMS Title Tattle in the
Kansas City Independent is the fol-
lowing paragraph which is of interest
here as the girl of the story is the
guest of Mrs. Darlington Lodge in
Tyler street and was in the receiving
line at Miss Mary Paxton's party yes
terday afternoon:
'Inez Bachelor, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. T. P. Bachelor of Jansen
E. Ferguson of Topeka, and is very
sensibly going to have only a small
wedding, 1 hear Inez is a mighty
| sweet, pretty girl She has the love
liest trousseau, all made by hand and
mostly by herself; you never saw such
pretty. dainty things. They are to go
to Topeka to live. Mr.. Ferguson is in
the banking business, I believe. Inez' S
brother, Harold, has just come back
from overseas, and surely looks fine
| and handsome in his majors uni
form"
Each team OF the Woman's club
seems to have a different idea of the
was to raise it's club house quota.
1t is surprising to see how many
= hi he Iii cillx
| stocking dolls to conducting picture
shows and entertainments. They are
ever watchfuI and no opportunity
escapes them. When they heard that
Miss LoDesca Loveland would spend
Christmas with her parents in To-
| peka, they began making arrange
ments for a concert which she will
give December % at the Grand thea
| ter.
Mrs. F. w. Thomas is chairman of
| the team which will manage this con-
| cert. Tha members: Mrs. Thomas,
Hoyes. Mrs. T. F. Doran, Mrs. w. w.
| Strickland, Mrs. Robert Merrick Mrs.
w. A. F1oersch, Mrs. w. F. WillSer-
son, Mrs. E. D. Schoenberger, Mrs.
Grace King MS, !. z T G; : Fable
The Minerva club will meet at 2:3O
| Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Fred Munson. 220 The Drive. Mrs
Leland McAfee will be the assisting
| hostess.
The Junior Atlantean club will meet
Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs
Il. L. Hillyer, 308 West Eighth street
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CONFIDENTIAL:
You better sit down and take of
| your coat for this is going to be good
Part of it was heard in the back seat
of a big closed car. And you know
people who own back seats of big
glassed in cars know something and
will tell it occasionally, even if they
do realize they are in glass house
as it were.
First there's the story about The
little bride of a few weeks who called
her husband at his office franticaily
one day. She was weeping, so he
couldn't understand what was the
matter, except that she wanted him
to come home. He summoned tax
cab and rushed to her. And then he
sent for the plumber who after hours
it seemed arrived and took the lava
tory pipe apart and found the cause
of the disturbance and made the lit
tie bride breathe easy again. 1t was
her little platinum wedding ring SCI
round with diamonds that she had
lost down the drain pipe. oh" she
breatned, II feel safe and married
again.
I Another young married woman. the
bride of more than a year. wanted a
pair of shoes which her husband
Iusing his authority, said she oughtn't
to think of having. She tried to for
get her desire for them and to realize
that $50 is a lot of money. But il
was in vain. At last she went to the
store and purchased the shoes and
charged them ITO her father. reasoning
thus: "If 1 weren't married, he'd have
tn hnv me- lots of nairS of shoes. SO
this just ought to make him grateful
and not sorei"
A group of society people are won
| dering what is going to develop in a
certain case. The wife of d well
| known Topeka man, who is more or
| less in the public eye, has an affinity
it is said, in the husband of another
woman. Everyone knows it, and this
is what they're wondering: When
the wife of the involved man gets