The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22

Perp. sallie Lillard. Alice Van Petten.
Helen Washburn. JOY Meyer. Susan
Snyder, George Kistler, Katharine Da-
Wis. Jane Akers. Jane Griggs, Made
line Daniel. Adair Macfarlane, Mary
Beth Forbes, Roger Timms, Catherine
catlin and Lois s Fs & <
Miss Orpha Baughman will be
hostess to her card club Saturday aft
ertoon at her home 1901 Lincoln
street.
The Langstaff class of the Central
Congregational church will have it's
annual picnic, Thursday evening at
Chesney park. Supper will be served
at $3.50 O'Clock. In case of rain the
affair will be held b < at ( the church
Announcement has been made of
the marriage of Miss Marguerite lambs
of San Francisco and Mr.. Fred y.
Jones. formerly of Topeka, June II.
Mr.. Jones served as chief electri-
clan on the U. S. S. Pueblo during a
period of the war, and is now an cleo
trical instructor in the United States
naval training school at San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Jones is a brother of Mrs.
E. I. Swearingen and Mrs. H M
Starr.
The active and alumnae members
meeting Thursday evening at 7:1o
O'Clock at the home of Mrs. Frank
Ripley. in Topeka boulevard
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Mrs. N. B. Burge will entertain the
women of the Missionary society of
the First Presbyterian church at 4
O'Clock next Wednesday at her home
800 Topeka boulevard.
The girls of the Wandamere Music
club will give their first dance this
evening in the pavilion at Garfield
park, the funds from which viii be
used to purchase a piano for the
woman's club house. They Will also
sell ice cream and punch, and there
will be barrels of ice water to quench
the thirst of the dancers. During the
intermission Miss Maxine Mitchell will
give several dances and Miss Lillian
Malstrom will sing;
THERE'S A MAN IN OUR TOWN
Who has just returned from trip
to New York and who says that &C
tually they make the wax figures In
the shop windows so realistic looking
that the only way he could tell them
from real women was by waiting to
see whether or not they powdered
their noses.
Ir the slang of the modern day,
Marguerite sylvia, prominent actress,
has said "a mouthfuf' when she COM
ments on a speech given a character
in a play written by woman in which
she declares that the younger set of
men call women who wear corsets
"old ironsides.'
This sort of rifles the prima donna.
according to the Independent, which
quotes her as saying: Nero burned
Rome that he might get thrill.
Perhaps he got his thrill, but was it
worth the price? Girls who discard
their corsets may crafty their silly
escorts. but they are defying the law
of nature. The body, to be safeguard
ed, must be protected, and until we
find something better, the corset is
the natural protector. The body
changes with maturity, and that
which, in youth, was 1.-the and will
lowy, becomes heavy and ungraceful.
BY this time Rome has been burned
and the thrill has worn off. Regard
less of what people say, 1 say, and all
prominent professional women of the
stage say, protect the body with cor
sets. Treat them considerably and
the reward will be well worth it. OF
course, no one advises the misuse of
the corset any more than the misuse
of anything else. But the woman who
wears a corset will look good to the
eye until old age, while the corsetless
fiapper will have her day and night,
but it will be short lived"
Mrs. w. ]. Dixon. 1928 Harrison
street, who celebrated her birthday
anniversary Monday, was gwen a sur
prise party that evening by the MEM
bers of the Dorcas and the Over
comer's class of the Euclid Avenue
Methodist church. There were twenty
| five guests.
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The first division of the Ladies' Aid
society of the First Methodist church
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