The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01

and the amount of money spent the
club is arranging the dance as a means
of securing funds for the treasury.
Among the many things of interest
and vicinity during its organization
are: Pledging a thousand dollar
scholarship fund to Washburn, con-
tinuous weekly dances and entertain
ments for the thousands of soldiers
during the entire war period; a street
dance with MarshalPs band and two
hundred and fifty school children in
patriotic pantonime. The club raised
fourteen hundred dollors for the saw
ing of lives OF Belgian babies; they
bought and delivered in person one
hundred dozen carnations to wounded
soldiers at Fort Riley. The Y. w. c.
A. is given one hundred dollars a year
by the club; they furnished and main
tain a room in the new Salvation
Army building and the club also gave
the largest amateur entertainment
ever put on in Topeka-the communi-
ty circus.
All these things have been accom-
plished by the members in addition to
numerous other pledges, including Boy
Scouts, Red Cross, Provident associa-
ton and Individual charities.
The chaperonS at the dance will
include:
Mrs. Harry Forbes Mrs R. NJ johnson
Mrs. l.. D. White Miss Clara Sh1nn
more Mrs. r. o. Wales
Miss Pearl Cope Mrs. Edna Crow
Miss Mabel Conger Miss Josephine -
Miss May Malone Heron
Mrs. Grace Reese Miss Mabel Adams
Mrs L. ID. Wolfe Miss Frances Jones
Miss Gertrude DIR. Anna Foy
Burning Miss Virginia
Mrs. Margaret Campbell
Sullivan Mrs. Eleanor
Mrs June Chapman Davidson
Mrs. A. S. Thomas Miss Winifred
Mrs. Julia Kiene Meeker
Mrs. Ella Field Mrs Ohm Lord
Mrs Ida Migliario Miss Anna Speck
Miss Nanon Herren Mrs. @. z. Rigby
Mrs. r. r. Baer~
Miss Gracia Pope Wood, formerly
of the Society department Of the To-
peka State Journal, but who is now
connected with the National Child
Welfare League, is spending several
weeks at Chautauqua. n. Y, at the
biennial convention of the General
Federation of Women's clubs, where
she is in charge of an exhibit for the
National Child Labor committee
Miss Wood has written the follow
ing interesting, newsy letter concern
ing the happenings at the convention:
I'm up here at Chautauqua with all
the club women, and I've kept think
ing that ia like to write the Journal
a story about the convention so here
goes for a small one. Things are hap
pening here every minute. This
afternoon in spite of the rain about
one hundred D. A. R. women came to
Lne LdQ1eS rome tents 10 d
tea which they arranged in honor of
Mrs Guernsey, who is the national
president The L. H ]. serves tea
every afternoon to all of the visiting
women without expense" and they
have some really very good little cakes,
so we patronize them regularly.
Do you know that the Kansas dele
cation pledged $1,000 for the head
quarters at Washington And tonight
when the state presidents give their
report, Mrs. Bittman is going to tell
about the industrial farm at Lansing,
and about Governor Allen declaring
July Citizenship day.
The convention is really terribly in
teresting to me. have an exhibit for
the national child labor committee, so
I get to talk to a lot of the women
from all over the country, and the
are all so much alike. You can't even
see any difference in their dress You
can't tell from the shape of their hats
or the length of their skirts whether
they are from Oregon or Florida And
aitho they are all enthusiastic club
bodies first of all. You talk to any
one of them a minute and you get a
glimpse of their home and the people
they are most interested ina son or
daughter or grandchi1d-before you
hear about their club. Ninety-nine
per cent of them are overweight, white
haired. and kindly, the sort of folks
who are the salt of the land and
mighty nice to know-but at the same
time they'd be mighty unpleasant to
have disapprove of you There is so
much to do that they can't begin to
get everything in and they go hurry
ing from meeting to meeting Besides
the general assemblies. departmental
conferences committee meetings and