University club Christmas play delights with royal pageantry
An original Christmas play served as the centerpiece of last night’s university club party noted for its wit and originality. The event featured a royal throne room theme, a betrothal plot, a large cast led by Mrs Prentice, and elaborate costumes by Mrs Atkinson and Harold Constant. Dancing, a two course supper, and 175 attendees capped the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University Club
Alreagy
J. D. Prentice
Thomas Atkinson
Henry Werner
E. E. Bayles
M. W. Sterling
Richard Wagstaff
Karl’ Klooz
Robert Warner
O. C. Stoland
Dorothy Werner
Barbara Koenig
Peggy Wheeler
Betty Raymond
Alice Kinney
Betty Kester
Barbara Owen
Harold Constant
Social Calendar Highlights Busy Friday Through Monday
A jammed social week features Mrs. L S Lewis chapter DAR events, auctions, Dims, and bridge clubs at various homes, plus Rotary and church gatherings. Notable items include Plymouth Congregational church appreciation supper for Rev and Mrs Grey, L D club gift to Lutheran Home, and numerous Christmas parties hosted by Masons, PEO, Phi Kappa Psi, and local clubs with performances by Bet ty Raymond and Haskell group. Guests include Rev and Mrs Grey, Mr and Mrs John Selig, Mrs W Summers, and many club members across Topeka venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Selig
M. N. Bridge Club
W. C. Simons
la Corie Club
the Manor
Monady
LeRoy Fierce
M.T. Coolidge
Arthur
S. Anderson
Finesse
Eldridge
M. L. Club
Smith
Co Operelles
J. W- Hartley
A. D. Grey
Toledo
Plymouth Congregational Church
Plymouth
WC. Summers
Ledrue Carter
PF. H. Smithmeyer
Charles Sterling
W. E. Spalding
Mrs. Grey
L. D. Club
Robert Berger
A. W. Berger
Mabel “Miller
A. M. Hughes
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity
Hills. Wilson
Corlett Cotton
Harold Hauser
Ben Bubb
Drew Hartnett
Topeka
Delph Simons
Lawrence
Personal notes on holiday travel and visits
Mrs W L Woods of Greensburg visits Greensburg over weekend with Mrs J W Greenleaf and Miss Margaret Kane. Miss Susan Friend, supervisor of elementary education, leaves for Emporia for vacation. Mrs W T Jenkins goes to Lees Summit to stay through Christmas. Miss Sophia Kirkpatrick returns to Easton for vacation. Miss Evelyn Worden goes to La Crosse for holidays. Mrs Harry Brown spends the day in Topeka. Mrs Emma Fagan leaves for Chicago for holidays. Catherine Williams of Junior high to spend Kodar at Tulsa. Mrs Grace Musick and Miss Edna Musick of Eudora travel via Lawrence to Topeka. Miss Lewida Richards goes home to Manhattan for holiday recess. Miss Alberta Corbin visits Kansas City for the day. Miss Eleanor Smith returns to Seneca for a couple weeks. Miss Helen Staubus travels to Sabetha for vacation. Dr M S Ballard and daughter Suzanne of Baldwin City depart for New York to spend holidays with Mr and Mrs Walter James Halliday. Dr Ballard to attend clinics in NYC hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Woods
Greensburg
Margaret Kane
Susan Friend
Emporia
W. T. Jenkins
Lees Summit
Sophia Kirkpatrick
Easton
Evelyn Worden
la Crosse
Harry Brown
Topeka
Emma. Fagan
Chicago
Catherine Williams
Tulsa
Grace Musick
Edna Musick
Eudora
Lawrence
Lewida Richards
Manhattan
Two Lawrence Clubs Make Memorial Gifts to City Library
The Merry Matron's club presents Raggedy Ann in Cookie Land by Johnny Gruelle and Really So Stories by Elizabeth Gordon to the city library children's department as a memorial for Mary Elizabeth Smith. The Round Table adds six books in memory of former members Mrs. F. D. Culver, Mrs. W. A. Stewart, Miss Lula Dunn, Miss Winifred Luther, Mrs. F. A. Wood, and Mrs. J. S. Corley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Children’s Department
City Library
Merry Matron’s Club
Mary Elizabeth
C. W.) Smith
Raggedy Ann
Cookie Land
Johnny Gruelle
Elizabeth Gordon
The
Round Table
Forgotten Isles
Jesse Metcalf
Philip, N. Youtz
Winners Named in Weaver's Yarn Contest
Winners announced for a yarn contest sponsored by Weavers. First prize went to Mrs. P. P. Lester for a hooked rug entry, second to Mrs. Byron Cooke for a crocheted afghan, and third to Mrs. Louise Broeker for a crocheted baby jacket. Judges were Mrs. Raymond Crow Miss Elizabeth Meguiar and Mrs. J. S. Daniels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weaver’s
P. .P. Lester
Byron Cooke
Louise Broeker
Raymond Crow
Elizabeth Meguiar
University Home Economics Department
J. 5. Daniels
Mildred Saunders
Disarmament Tops Theme at International Meeting
Mrs. A Rosa Hill of Kansas City Missouri spoke to the local A A A W group about the International Association of University Women meeting in Edinburgh last summer. She said disarmament focused on moral education for international goodwill and noted the conference had 600 women from 36 nations with Greece Palestine and Egypt added as members. The next meeting is planned for Berlin in 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Association of University Women
Edinburgh
A. Rosa Hill
Kansas City
E. Lindley
Europe
United States
London
Crosby Hall
University Women’s Club
Mrs. Hill
Baileys
Berlin
First Lady to Be Teaches Moderation in Drink Teaching
Prohibition era tone rails at youth alcohol use as Mrs. Roosevelt advocates restraint and education. She argues drinking can be a fine art and warns that unrestrained youth would crowd streets and highways, shaping political effects and public behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rooseveltian
Liquor Administration
Mrs. Roosevelt
Prohibition Debate Warns of Liquor's Growing Hold
The piece critiques Mrs. Roosevelt's stance on prohibition and warns that casual drinking habits become stronger over time. It laments educated women shaping youth toward moderation while cautioning that alcohol's patterns evolve, risking moral decline and personal ruin. It calls for wiser restraint and current denouncement of excessive drinking.
Housekeeping Tips and Food Prep Practices
Household tips cover using vinegar and salt on cloth to remove water stains, avoiding sifting bran for foods, and storing leftovers properly. Cooking advice includes using wooden spoons for cranberries, enamelled pans, draining sausage fat for browning, and saving bacon fat. It also notes how to remove water spots from silks and wools with more water, dampening and pressing, plus a soda-based burn treatment for quick relief.
Frances Perkins Seen as Roosevelt Labor Secretary Pick
New York's Frances Perkins, industrial commissioner, emerges as a likely choice for secretary of labor in Roosevelt's administration. Known for labor statistics work and social welfare advocacy, Perkins is described as energetic, alert, and liberal, with strong figures on employment in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Misa Frances Perkins
New York State
Roosevelt
Miss Perkins
Frances Perkins Aims for New Deal Labor Reforms
Frances Perkins advocates unemployment relief and worker care in New York, cites statistics, and led investigations that spurred social legislation. A Mount Holyoke and Columbia alumna, she formerly led the Consumers' League in New York, lectured on sociology, and was named as a potential Rooseveltcabinet member by Massachusetts progressives. She is married to Paul C. Wilson and has a daughter Susanna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Perkins
New York State
New York
Miss Perkins
Massachusetts
Felix Frankfurter
Harvard
Roosevelt
Paul C. Wilson
Susanna
Wnder
Christmas Confections and Homemade Treats for Gift Baskets
Christmas confections offer old fashioned festivity for family feasts and gifts. The piece lists economical homemade options and provides recipe fragments for German Almond Cookies Date Bars and Chocolate Brownies with steps and baking hints.
Small Jellies Gifts Arranged In Christmas Baskets
Small jars of jellies preserves relishes or jams make individual Christmas gifts arranged in a basket and tied with Christmas wrappings for a festive display and thoughtful present.
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G. J. Perkins
FH. Guild
Herbert G. Ailphin
Vivian Skilton
C. J. Perkins
Jp. C. Jackson, Jr
J. D. Stranathan
Sie
William Pilcher
Philip Readie
Ray O' Wright
W. R. Maddox
H. C. Taylor
George M. Beal
Mr. Pilchen
Alfred D.,grey
J. W. Greenleaf
Feot
George Hedrick
W. Sparr
Earnest Boyce
R. C. Miller
Frances Goodell
Fred. Koch
Ames
Rachel Butler
Lucy White
John Selig, Jr
M. No Bridge Club
Aid Society
Ed Hone
Gvests
W. A. Courtney
J. Ro Ulrich
H. G. van Neste
Will Johns
J.J. Krum
D. Krum
Courtney
van Neste
Nazarene Church
Herman Anderson
Louisiana Street
Maxine Briece
Nadine Briece
Martha Fiscus
Cristina Worley
Rachel Edson
O’connell Moore
John Hubble
Anderson
Betty
Harold McNeil
Fifth
California Street
Luther Gustafson
Entre Nous
Ralph Achnings
E. W. Parsons
Oak Ridge Birthday Club
F. L. Hartman
Carol Miller
F. H. Johns
C. T.powell
H.C. Nunemaker
F. B. McColloch
Georgia Wolf
Chapter CV
P.E.O
MacCulloch
Edna. Teeter
R.L. Robinson
Kate Caldwell
Sun
Ada Katherine Kirchhoff
Iota Ny Club
J.G. McKlhinny
Vermont Street
John Snow
North Eighth Street
Ottawa
Mary. Johns
Abs
I. W. Hartely
Alabama Street
A. R. Hults
Kansas Electric Power Company
Lee Roy Pierce
Tennessee
Short Bridge Club
Missionary Society of Plymouth Congregational Church
A. L. Carey
Tennessee Street
Haskell
Eula Marie James
South Side Reading Club
C C. Krumpee
Miss James
Idita Donovant
Exie Fritz
Gorena Abraham
Minnetonka
Solo
Sioux Tribal Chant, Misses James, Donovant
Fritz
Abraham
Corona Abraham
T. G. Fitch
Aunt Het
Robert Quillen
Mother
Molyneux
Hill
W.C.T.U
Mrs. O. Jacqmain
Housekeeping
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Mondex
H. W. Keene
Mase
Furniture Crawford-Veatch Company
Lawrence Steam Laundry
Phone
USA
Hermie
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