The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-26

sisted in entertaining by Mrs. Huston and
Miss Minnie Marks returned to her home
in Council Grove Monday after a two
weeks visit with Miss Olive Lewis.
The registration yesterday was 2,052 men
and $40 women.
rie, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Purdy, Mr..
and Mrs. w. G.. Dickie. Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Lagerstrom. Mrs. Luther Cop
peck of Albuquerque, n M.
The Minerva club will be entertain
Mrs. Charles A. Moore. 313 Greenwood
avenue. Mrs. F. R. Richards will be
assisting hostess.
The home economics department of
the Woman's club will have charge OF
the open meeting of the club, Thurs
day afternoon at the Y. w. c. A. The
program, which will open at 2:3o
! o'clock, has been named very fr1Vo-
| lous title, Cans and Can'ts of kan
sas Cannery' COMEDY or Tragedy
The scene of the affair will be laid in
a cafe, "Sign of the White Bear" with
Madam Carl Mallon, who is the chair
mar of the department, as chief own
err; Laura Jane Maffett, French maid,
and Mrs. w. H. Eastman, head of the
scl'llions. The solutions ana slaV v{
will include: Mrs. J. B. Walker, Mrs.
T.. E. Farr, Mrs. w. G. Dickie, Mrs.
| c. r. Guibor, Mrs. Fred Stewart, Mrs.
Otto B. Cutler.
A very interesting program of num-
bers arranged for two pianos by Mrs.
ARA J. Clark and Mrs. Charles Klein
hans and numbers by the Woman's
Civic chorus will be given during the
music department hour.
| The program is as follows: Son
alta G. major" Mozart; Second piano
part. Greig, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Klein
/ h
Burleigh, Woman's Civic chorus;
| Dance of the Gnomes,' Whelpley,
| ''Andante and Scherzettino." Chani-
made, Mrs. K1einf1ans and Mrs. Clark;
Burleigh, and Didn't 1t Rain?' Wo-
mans Civic chorus; "Andante, Sind
| ing. Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Kleinhans.
The civics department will unite
with the educational department and
| will listen to talk by Captain Mac
Several Of the boys of the Industrial
school will assist in the program.
| The art department will have the
, fourth and last of the series of illus
trated lectures. the one Thursday to be
| american illustrators"
| The forestry department will hear
a talk by Mr. William S. Wiedorn of
the State Agricultural college. Mr..
Wiedorn, who is a landscape artist
recently from Boston, will talk on
| Parks"
| In the literature department hour,
Dean Stearns of Washburn will give a
review of one of the great classical
novels, Jean Christophe," by Roman
ROLAND.
| Mrs. A. F. Cook entertained the
Ramblers' club Thursday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. Frank Lewis, 512
West Seventh street. New officers for
the year elected were: Mrs. NJ. E.
! Phelps. president, and Miss Katherine
Reilly. secretary and treasurer. Guests
! of the club included: Mrs. A. o. Ram
say of Fort Scott and Mrs. William
Cook.
Mrs. Don Thompson, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Marshall, and
| formerly of Topeka, has written an
interesting letter to her mother, tell
ing her how she spent New Years
| day. Mrs. Thompson, with her hus-
band, Don Thompson, the well known
photographer, is spending year Wis
/ iting points of interest making pic
lures for the Asia magazine. Mrs.
| Thompson writes the titles for the
various motion pictures and stills
which her husband photographs.
| Christmas day they spent in Manila
and New Years day Mrs. Thompson
was awakened by the bells and whis-
| ties blowing on a Leper Island in the
| Philippines They went from there
to Borneo and have'gone on to India.
A part of the letter follows: 1--WE
are on a trip to the southern islands
and to Borneo-have a boat given US
by the government and will be gone
l about three weeks and then return
| to Manila. There are no passengers
| except our party and the boat, the
Basilan is really a lighthouse
| boat and is supposed to make trips
every few months to the different
| lighthouses and take them oil and
| such supplies as are needed and to in
spect the lighthouses. We each have
a cabin. The upper deck is nice and
roomy and we eat up there and have
| lots of nice steamer chairs and a Vic
troIa that we rented. We stop at
various lighthouses and islands, Sleep
| ing and eating on our boat all the
while. Besides the captain and two
officers there is a crew of fifteen. 1t
is about like being on private yacht.
Our first stop was at the Island of
Cuilion at the Leper colony. We met
the director and were taken on a tour.
1 wish / could tell you all about it,
but that will have to wait. There are
1880 lepers there. A green fence di-
vided the real colony from the other
part of the island where the officers
and workers and untainted ones live
We walked all about into the hos
pitfalls. 1t is dreadful. people with
fingers. toes, noses and ears gone
their features just seem to drop off.
Most of the faces were dreadful to
look at. They have their shops and
homes, intermarry and very often the
children are found to be free from the
disease and then they are placed in a
building in the untainted side of the