The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-06
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By CRAC1A PoPE WOOD.
BY CRAClA PoPEW WOOD

help In the Y. w. e. A. financial cam
paign will lunch together Monday
noon at the Y. w. c. A. as the opening
event of their activity. Speakers al
this gathering will be Miss Mildred
Mcintosh, finance secretary for the
west central field; Mrs. w. ). Lindsey,
Mrs. Ethel Fisk Moore and Mrs. A
d. Gray.
The workers have been divided into
teams with leaders. Mrs. E. c. Seger,
Mrs. J. d. Freeman, Mrs. Silas Porter,
Mrs. W. E. Culver and Mrs. w. d.
Storrs are the women in charge of the
teams. The others are: Mrs Charles
Dillon. Mrs. H. l.. Shirer, Mrs. c. d.
skinner, Mrs. w. \. Mason, Mrs. w.
II. Rutter. Mrs. r. NJ. johnson, Mrs.
W. NJ. Amos. Mrs. L. c. Schnake,
Mrs. W. L. Stark, Mrs. Fred Morns. Mrs.
Charles Suit, Mrs. Ralph Campbell,
Miss Jessie Riach. Miss Theo Cobb,
Mrs. H. L. Alkire. Mrs. w. Z. Bulls,
Mrs. Ed Hindman. Mrs Hal Hazlett,
Mrs. ]. Z. Morgan, Mrs. Arthur Dillon,
Miss Ruth Caster. Mrs. j. E. Gossett,
Mrs. Harry Hobson. Mrs. l.. j. Petit
john, Mrs. Henry Mason, Mrs. J. 7.
Bell, Mrs. Frank Smith, Mrs. Henry
Stear1es, Mrs. W. f. Troxell, Mrs.
Frank Crane, Mrs Charles Sheldon
Miss Maude Bishop, Mrs. T. ]. Alden,
Mrs. w. S. Lindsay, Mrs. Charles Ell
lott, Mrs. L. H. Greenwood, Mrs. r. S.
MCGEE. Mrs. NJ. c. Quail, Mrs. L. r.
Wolf, Miss Mary Burnett, Miss Violet
Crumbine. Miss Helen Brigham. Mrs.
J. S. Close, Mrs. Matt Weightman,
Mrs. Will Eastman, Mrs. A B. Kirk
patrick, Mrs. Tinkham Veale. Mrs. Al
bert Neese. Mrs. w. L. Vest, Miss
Susie Sweet, Miss Arthur Shakeshaft
Mrs. C. W. Wagner, Mrs. r. G. Herb
rick, Mrs. Frank Beck, Mrs. Hinkle'
Guy. Mrs. Pope Allen.
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All you girls who have ambitions
to become interior decorators and go
and elaborate wall papers, putting in
their stead windsor rockers and soft
dull tones" listen to what Mrs. Grace
+. Wilmot of New York City, who adj
dressed the art department of the
Woman's club Thursday has to say.
The New York schools are turning out
so called interior decorators by the
hundreds every year and many of
them come to Mrs. Wilmot to get job
and then she finds they don't know
the first thing about their art. Two
years is not enough. she says in which
to study this subject. 1t should take
four years at least and should include
a practical course in architecture.
without that a home decorator can
never be fully successful. A course
should also include the history of in
terror decorating and of furniture and
teach the student how the art of the
past reflected the spirit of the times
and from that they would learn how
modern art should reflect modern
times. The broader and more general
the preparation, the better the interior
decorator. A general college educa-
ton a s a foundation is the best thing
in the world, according to Mrs. Will
mot.
For the typical American home let
there be simplicity, honesty and sim
Ta1n COtdnr1 a u
a mistake in having things simple.
And the less there is about a house to
make work the more time the keeper
of that house has to make something
of herself Color is the biggest con-
sideration in making a home beautiful
and color combinations can be OBJ
tanned by any one who knows how al
most regardless of cost. And when
the pocketbook is slim don't try to
make the home lie about it. Have
things inexpensive but beautiful.
Mrs. Wilmot herself was a charm
ing woman, of middle age. She spoke
informally and naturally and pos
sessed of. the qualities she advocated,
simplicity. honesty.
Altho she discouraged girls rushing
into her profession without adequate
preparation, she believes there is a
growing field for those who have con-
scientiously prepared for the work and
expect to make it a lifelong profess
sion and not passing lark
Speaking of men-and one can do it
with perfect safety in this place. for
men say again and again that they
never Citalic) read such a column
they are peculiar creatures, but some
times tremendously interesting. There
is one man who recently made a fly
ing trip to Topeka, flying from his out
of town home to "cover up his tracks, -
it was said. The tracks proved to be
a marriage license which is on record
down at the court house, but has not
been used. He besought the officials,
so the story goes, to blot out the rec
ord But the law is unreasonable in
some ways and they would not spill
ink on the entry.
Which reminds one of the story of
a woman, prominent and admired in
Topeka society. who years ago lived in
a small Kansas town and was engaged
to the hired man" of a wealthy farm
err. Her sweetheart was killed in a
drunken fight with a negro in a town
renowned for its wickedness and she
was broken hearted for a time. The
man was buried with proper cere-
mony and she erected a monument to
him. The inscription read. Here lies
-, the intended husband Of
and then the woman's name. The
Lord called him. and he went home -
To be sure it was a peculiar way of
calling. but the girl was greatly
grieved and wanted to say something
to comfort herself. A few years later