The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-08
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kind during the winter, and as their
/ first one was such success it Will be q
herald for the coming events OF like
nature.
! Miss Faith Warren entertained a few
OF her friends last Thursday evening at
whist Those present were: Miss Claude
| Redfeld, Miss Carrie Wood, Miss Belle
Redfeld, Miss Faith Warren. and Mr..
Mack D0bson, Mr.. Ben Warren, Mr.
| Claude Larimer and Mr.. Guy McCor-
mick.
The Select Knights of Rest will give
their opening ball on the evening of the
| 18th, and il is to be made memorable
event. The committee have taken great
pains to make this the finest affair held
SO far this season.
A number of the Kings Daughters
met with Miss Mary Sluss on Friday
afternoon, where they dressed dolls and
did fancy work for the fair, which is to
| be given in December.
Chautauqua program for November
8: Miss Clark, leader; Sunday reading;
roll call; current events; Chautauqua ar
ticle, Les Feenemes GSavantis," Miss
Spauiding: paper, English Diana in
Seventeenth Century," Miss Walker;
music Mrs. Imboden; essay, Robert of
Arstoi and His Share in Bringing on
the Hundred Years War" Miss Laid
table talk, Mrs. Ed Robertson; Histori-
cal study. 1.-The Battles of Cricy ard
Calais" Mrs. Myers; French traits, Miss
Potts. The Circle meets this month at
the home of Mrs. Imboden.
hrs. Homer CaIdwell's pretty home on
Lawrence avenue was beautifully pre-
pared last Wednesday afternoon for the
reception of a few hundred ladies. The
perfume of the flowers and the music
Of the orchestra were the first greet
fngs of the guests who were welcomed
in the drawing room by Mrs. Caldwell
and Ms. w. W. Johnson. Chrysan-
themums of all colors in immense bios
SONS and clusters bloomed on the man
tie and stands and throughout the
rooms graceful palms rounded out every
angle with a pleasing effect. The
young ladies assisting were: Misses
,lvie Walker, Myrtle Sluss, Jenevra
Jocelyn, Jessie Kendle, Fannie Lewis
The Cooking club met with Mrs Fred
Robertson last Thursday afternoon. The
next meeting win be with Mrs. B. II.
Campbell room 81, Fletcher block
Among all the hurry and activity
which exists at this time in business
circles, however great or small it may
be, II occurs to the majority at this time
of the year, how beautiful everything
seems. It is strange that a child is
never half so beautiful and dear as when
after q season of sickness the first
touches OF death appear. a beautiful
woman is never half 50 lovely as when
a about to depart from this earth to pass
to a better one The kindly heart Of the
dear old grandmother is never SO preci-
GUS, as when death with his firm, gen.
tie, sonlbre touch tells her to take the
next step in existence. The great hearts
of all men truely great. never seem so
kindly and dear to every one
as When death comes to them with his
first kiss so it is with the grass and
trees in the autumn, when upon the
wane Of the Indian summer frost begins
TO appear The leaves have been lux
Orant in their freshness all summer but
now as the first touch of death falls up
on them, and they begin to droop, the
first touch of spiritual loneliness ap-
pear. The froStS come more frequently,
the leaves turn red. then yellow and
soon loose their suppieness. They hang
almost motiOnIess from the boughs save
when stirred by some sad sigh of the
breeze as it passes on TO whisper TO the
OLnerS tnat Iney are called to depart.
One can only stand in mute admiration
among the giant oak and NAPLES, ard
see with what solemn stolidity they
frOwn as they patiently surrender what
it has taken them all the year to bring
forth. Later, they moan and groan as
they are mercilessly dashed by the
whistling, cutting gales of winter, but
they stand there still through it all as a
battle-scarred hero stands through the
fray unmoved though bearing its
share through it all. Such thoughts
come to a great many at this season,
when the leaves are being gathered into
heaps and burned, and when walking
through the fallen leaves, especially
when alone in the woods far from any
one. The trees viii soon be entirely
bare, and before long snow will be fall
ing among the naked limbs and cover
ing all that is left of the leaves with its
blanket of white. About the city every
quiet day brings with it the odor OF the
burning leaves and il win not be long
before they have all ben taken off from
the well-kept lawns of the city.