The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-28

world. and saying them with more
enthusiasm, if that were possible. For
distance lends enchantment and in
Shanghai, China. it is easy to remem-
Der only the beautiful things about
Kansas Mrs. John Dadisman writes
of the celebration that the forty or
more Kansans in Shanghai were going
to have at the home of Doctor Nc
Cracker. Miss Roxanna Oldroyd. OF
Ottawa, was to read Kansas literature
and a Mrs. Benjamin, also from OF
tawa, VINO came to Kansas in 1868,
was going to tell of the early days in
this state.
Mrs. F. L. Benjamin will entertain
the members of her club house team
at a luncheon at her home in Lane
street Tuesday noon. Members of this
team are: Mrs. w. E. Atchison, Mrs.
IC G. Colburn, Mrs. Charles Dillon,
Mrs. s. W. MeGarrah, Mrs. Howard
johnson, Mrs. w. A Johnston, Mrs.
Henry Mason, DR.. Dorothy Nicoll,
Mrs. c. A. Scott, Mrs o. E. Walker,
Mrs. ]. B. Larimer. Mrs. T. E. Dewey.
Mrs. r. T. Herrick. Mrs Fred Jack
son. Mrs c. A Wolf will also be a
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To many of the children of Topeka
March means first of all that the
children's picture shows are going to
DeSln again. Already t1ley are DcSAH-
ming to call members of the Social
Service club and ask when Mary Pick
ford and Marguerite Clark will begin
to perform for their especial benefit.
And the good news for them is that
on next Saturday morning there Will
be show especially for them with
Marguerite Clark in "Bab's Diary"
The Social Service club knows more
about booking pictures than they did
when they undertook these shows last
year and they are sure they will sue
coed in getting only the best and most
satisfactory films this spring. They
have booked some of the pictures in
which Madge Evans is the star.
There will be educational films and
each week besides the pictures an
nouhced there will be one special sur
prise The show Saturday will begin
at 10 O'Clock.
The members of Mrs. w E Nc
Vey's club house team will meet for
their regular fortnightly luncheon at
/ O'Clock on Wednesday, March 3. The
hostess for the day will be Mrs. War
rem E. Jeffrey, 1880 Fillmore street.
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In several Of the largest eastern
papers have appeared pictures of a
young woman from Topeka who is
doing intensely interesting things in
r
Julia Larimer, the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. J. B. Larimer. OF Pot
win, who is director of the Welles-
ley unit which is engaged in recon-
struction work. This unit of forty
young women works under the French
government and has charge of the So
cial welfare work of twenty-five viii
lagos There are a doctor. nurse,
kindergarten teacher and other special
workers among them. The unit main
tains a store where dress goods, woods
for knitting, and utensils for working
indoors and out may be procured at
cost and less than cost. The girls live
in barracks and here they have a sort
of community center where the peo-
pie can come for meetings and par
ties. Their barracks are perfectly
comfortable with good heating stoves
and plenty of furniture. Miss Larimer
says that as the boys left that part of
the country, they would bring to them
the little desirable things they had
gathered up to use during their stay
in France but could not take home to
America with them. They were left
many desirable comforts in this way.
Four German prisoners help to care
for the barracks. They arrive every
morning with guards on either side
and until their work is done they are
watched. The unit has four automo-
biles for their use and as they are not
far from Paris, they are in almost
every week.
The members of the wellesley unit
wear gray uniforms with the letters
w. r. L. on them in the Wellesley
blue.
Miss Larimer and her party will
come home this spring and be at
Wellesley in time for commencement
Like most sojourners in France they
are not counting the hours until that
eventful day.
This week end Miss Larimer ex-
pected to spend in Spain. A few
weeks ago she attended a luncheon for
the members of the Kappa Alpha
Theta sorority who are in or near
Paris. There were eight at the lun-
cheon, three of them from Topeka
were Miss Larimer, Miss Day Monroe
and Mrs. Minna Bauer Ramsey.
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THEY DO SAY.
They do say it." and so It must be
true, that poker is becoming a seri-
Gus rival of "jazzing'' among the
various frivolous sets of our city"
Then the game one plays with wicked
little dicei -eely. Both are
the main amusements at gatherings
where dancing was formerly the chief
indoor sport.
1t isn't because of the epidemic re-
strictions and resulting elimination of
dancing parties that poker playing
seems to be claiming a large part of
the recreation hours of the socially in
clined. The game was gaining vice
favor before influenza began to have
its second spasm.
I've nearly forgotten how to play a
decent game of bridge" a Topeka
matron confessed. for poker is all the
fashion and is so much more exciting
than a bridge game It's being
done" in all sets, old and married.
young and frivolous. One middle