The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-27
IN SOCIETY CIRCLES.
Recent Social Events in Topeka
and Vicinity.
GENERAL NOTES OF SOCIETY.
Personal Items OF Interest AbOnt To-
peIxa People and Visitors ia Town.

Personal Items OF Interest AbOut To-
pelxa People and Visitors ia Town.
Mrs. A. n. Littlefield arrived in the
city last week to visit her son, ". Little
field for month or two.
The dress suit Of Il prominent member
Of the Oxford club did solemn duty for
the groom at the mock marriage cere-
mony, which took place one night last
week at Bethany college.
A number of the leading society men
of town are now and then holding indig-
nation meetings provoked by the fact
that though they have done their utmost
towards keeping up the hall parties all
winter, and giving theater parties etc.
the ladies will persist in conhuing their
entertainments to afternoon teas, recep-
tions, thimhle parties and so forth to
which they, the gentlemen are not in
vited
\ bachelor dinner is being talked of
among the bachelor girls of the town.
Neranda parties are among the late in
novatiOns that have not yet been intro
duced in Topeka.
A number of the city boys who have
been attending Washbu college are
making great preparations for camp
ing party as soon as the college closes.
They intend camping week at Mill
creek, near Maple Hill. The boys are
Leslie Guild, Everett Dallas. Guilford
Dudley, Albert Patten, Tom Frost, Kurtz
Kellam and Dan Hammatt
The W hist club will meet with Miss
Olivia O'Brien next Saturday afternoon.
This will be the last meeting of the sea
son.
Ben Snattinger, who has been in Mex
leo for the past two years, returned home
Saturday.
MrS amino of ~, NEo;o, T
is visiting her parents in this city, Mr.
and Mrs. John Sheehan.
Mr. John Frey returned to Denver
Saturday.
Miss Bessie Van Amburg is visiting
her sister at Emporia.
Miss Helen Kelso of Belleville, Cana
da, who has been spending several
months with her uncle, Judge Kelso. of
Atchison, arrived in the city this after
noon and will be the guest this week Of
the Misses Roberts on West Tenth street
Mr.. and Mrs. B. T. Lewis returned
from Plalnfield, Ill, Saturday afternoon.
The lecture that was to have been de-
livered by Professor James Black at In
stitute hall next Wednesday evening
has been postponed till the following
Wednesday on account Of the TorAka
high school commencement exercises.
The Amphion club give their con-
Guiding concert at the Methodist church
this evening
The May party that was postponed last
Wednesday evening will occur this
evening in the Bethany grounds.
Miss May Hutton of PendIeton. Ind.
is visiting her brother, c. S. Hutton
A dramatic entertainment will be
given by the young people OF the Church
of the Assumption this evening at Ii.
brary hall
Mrs. James L. Kings reception Satur-
day afternoon at her home on Topeka
avenue was an unusually pleasant and
social event. From to the rooms of
this pretty home were comfortably filled
with the coming and departing guests.
The parlors, dining room and hallway
we're extensively decorated in every
variety of the summer rose, quantities OF
daisies and gorgeous boquets of honey
suckle and iris Palms and ferns lent
their charms to the cool and inviting
hallway, and great branches of syringa
twined themselves into pretty archways
leading from one room to the other. II
the back parlor the fern-like leaves
of the honey locust formed
delicate framing to the
mantel mirror rejecting not only its own
banking of white and pink roses, but
also the varied colored decorations of
both parlors. In this room Miss Ellie
Smith, in a dainty gown of white dotted
swiss, dispensed lemonade from d we'll
filed punch bowl. in which on a huge
block of ice had been frozen a long
stemmed American Beauty.
The rose hue was prevalent throughout
the dining room. Nothing could have
been richer or more simply elegant than
the highly polished mahogany table
with its centerpiece and doileys of honi-
ton braid. the tall rose of "American
Beauties" and the cut glass bowls al
either end of the toble. from which was