The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-17
IN SOCIETY CIRCLES.
Married Peoples Dancing Club
Gives a 'sBowery Ball"
GENERAL NOTES OF SOCIETY.

| Personal Items OF Interest About To-
peka People and Visitors in Town.
If the recent readers of sChimmie
Fadden" could have stepped into City
hall last evening between the hours of nine
and midnight, they would probably have
! felt quite at home as regards the scene
| that presented itself but to the casual
| observer unacquainted with Bowery
/ characters it was most bawildering
spectacle and he would probably leave,
convinced that he had been under the
| influence of some wild nightmare, rather
than witnessing a social event among
some of the leading society people of
| Topeka.
1t was the occasion of the closing
dance given by the Married Peoples
dancing club, a circle of intimate &C.
quaintances, who having at the opening
! of the club last fall jokingly styled them
selves the "Bunglers," have become
! generally known to the public by this
/ appelIation.
The invitations issued were to stacky
party" and to the majority of the mem
bers, and their friends, this name was
evidently significant of the proverbial
Bowery character.
Others there were representing Turks,
HolIanders, dancing girls, etc.
From all appearances these were the
invited guests from the Bowery theatre.
Mr.. A. A Hurd, from the cut of his
clothes and popularity, is probably the
| Ward McAIIister of this social set
Judging from the richness of the ma
terial in their gowns and the general
style, Mrs. E. Fl. Crosby, Mrs George w.
Veale, Miss Franc Littlefield and others.
were supposed to have on the cast aside
garments belonging to the 'four hun
dred" fifteen years ago
Mrs W. w. Webb. Mrs. Schuyler
Nichols and Miss Glenna Cross were
typical cases of Glove in the alley"
Mr. George Seward wore black and
white striped trousers that decidedly
emphasized his height, and to Mr.. W.
7. Crosby was voted the honor of pos
sessing the "Trilby" foot.
Those who participated in this inform
al dance were M essers. and Mesdames A
A. Hurd, George Clark, Alfred Scott E.
II. Crosby. W. T. Crosby, W. W. Webb,
Schuyler Nichols, George Veale, Viii
Doolittle, G. R. Hudson, George Eagle,
]. F. Myers, ]. R. Hankla, Charlie Guild
George Seward, Cartilage, B. I. Lewis,
Prescott, White, Will Garvey, Edwin
Lang, Mrs. Geo. w. Crane, Clara Wig
gin, Misses Kate Adams. Glenna Cross,
Frank Littlefield, Maxwell, Raub, Bessie
Stewart, Minnie Lewis, Mamie Veale,
Louise Willis. Ethel Hinckley, Gale
CLARK, Jessie Myers and Messrs. Walter
Burgess. George Clark. Charlie Klein.
hans, Bernard Crosby, Eddie Guild and
Walter Myers
Mrs. Wear Entertains.
Mrs. Frank Wear entertained at lunch
con yesterday afternoon about fifty la
dies complimentary to her guests, Mrs.
Judge Usher of Lawrence and Mrs. S. c.
Deming of Terre Haute, Ind.
This elegant home, SO perfectly man.
age ed for all kinds of social gatherin qs,
was additionally beautiful Yesterday
with its floral decorations harmonizing
most pleasingly with the handsome fur
nishings of the various rooms. In the re-
ception hall were palms and jardinieres
of red roses. In the drawing rooms and
dining room roses of all varieties and col
ors formed the chief floral decorations.
About o'clock small tables were
placed through the rooms at which the
guests were served to an elaborate lunch
con.
Mrs. Wear entertained about the same
number of ladies at similar luncheon
this afternoon, complimentary to Miss
McCrea, who has been the guest of Mrs.
Wear all winter.
General Social Notes.
About two hundred people participated
in the dance given at Vinewood park
last evening by the Degree Team of the
Sunflower camp No $50. Several cars
were chartered to take the merry party
to Vinewood and brought them back to