Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-10-06
GLORIOUS YOUNG MAIDS.
Kansas and Mfssouri Womanhood
Represented by a Score OF
Beautiful Girls.

The maids of honor who will attend
Queen Carnation in the Flower parade to-
day arrived in the city yesterday morning
and were right royalty welcomed. They
were met at the Union depot by a commit
corted them to their hotels. the Coates and
the Midland, where committees of ladies re-
ceived them in the warmest manner. The
committee Of young men who formed
guard OF honor to the maids in their prog
ress from depot to hotel were: Mr.. Hugh
c. Ward, DR.. J. N. Jackson, Mr.. Robert
Keith. Jr.. Mr.. VIII Webb. Mr.. Walter
Brown, Mr.. Frank Lott, DIR. s. G. Cant,
Mr.. Byrd McGarvey, Mr.. Harry Beekman,
Mr.. Harvey Salmon, Mr.. w. o. Cox, Jr.,
Mr.. Jay Marty, Mr.. w. F. Comstock, Mr..
John Meredith, Captain H. H. Anderson
and Mr.. Holden Hurt.
At the Coates the receiving ladies were:
Mrs. Walter S. Halliwell, Mrs. Charles
| Dayton, Mrs. ]. X. Cravens, Mrs. ]. C.
| Whittier and Mrs. C. A. Ritter.
+ Those of the committee at the Midland
we're: Mrs. c. F. Holmes, Mrs. Fred Hut
tig. Mrs. W. F. Slime, Mrs. E. H. Phelps
and Mrs. Charles charpiot. =:
Each maid found in her apartment upon
| her arrival box of American Beauty
roses, the gift of Probst Bros. Miss Allie
| Locke. of Mexico arrived Monday and Miss
| Hattie Williams. of Cameron, Mo-; Miss
| Julia G. Bolton. of Clinton, Mo-; Miss Lulu
I Yale, of Joplin, and Miss Nettie Hum
phrey, of PIeasanton, Kas., came IN last
| evening aud were welcomed with the same
| ceremony.
en-, these Representatives of thriving Mis-.
souri, and Kansas towns, bright, beautiful
| and winning, with the grace OF manner
that has made American women famous;
indisputable proofs that neither of these
| states need yield the palm to any rival for
| the superiority of its womanhood.
Miss Bertha EaSterday. Of Of piattsnurg; s,n S Is
sunny brown hair. ripping back from a
| broad, low forehead, and possessed OF the
| notable of each of the maids.
| Miss Allie Locke, of Mexico, is rather
| above the medium height, extremely styl-
ish and handsome. She has pretty brown
| hair, laughing blue eyes and very ex-
pressive features.
A brunette belle is Miss Bertha Ringo Of
Richmond. slender and graceful. with fine
| black eyes and dusky hair.
| Jefferson City's representative. Miss Olive
| Ewing, is a tall and stately maiden. dark
of eye and hair, with an aristocratic nose
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| plexon.
| Miss Emily Jane Newell is the delight
fully quaint name that is borne by a
! petite, blue-eyed young girl. the representa-
i tive of Carthage, Mo. Her hair is golden
and she has charming dimples in her rosy
| chtaln.
| Miss Edith Burney. of Harrisonville, Mo-,
| is pure blonde, tall and picturesque, with
large blue eyes. beautiful mouth and n
perfect complexion. Her manner is very
Trenton's maid of honor, Miss Carrie
| Walker, Is a splendid type of the girl-of-
the-period, being divinely tall. and having
| the dark beauty that is the fashionable
| type.
Independence. Mo-, Kansas City's aristo-
cratic suburb, Is represented by Miss Julia
young woman, with fair hair, large blue
eyes and regular features. She is of
| medium height and graceful carriage, and
| has most winning manner.
Miss Elizabeth Lingard. of Ottawa, Kas..
is also very fair, with pretty blue eyes
and beautiful ripping blonde hair.
A young lady with clear-cut, cameo-like
| features is Miss Helen Mann, of Gallatin,
| Mo. She Is small and slender. with fash
ing dark eyes and dark hair. pale clear COM
| plexion and vivacious manner,
From Neosho. Mo-, comes Miss Marie Nc
| Elheney, handsome brown-eyed and
brown-haired young girl, slender and
lissome of figure, and an interesting con-
| .versationalist.
Miss Evaline Mason. of Independence,
kas:, is stately Of carriage, with beautiful
| ing teeth as white and even as pearls.
| Miss Mauda Mason, of Marshall. Is also q
brunette, but Is petite of figure. charmingly
| modest in demeanor, with a sweet express
sion and winsome smile.
Miss Edith Willike who represents
Springfield. Mo-, is yet another brunette of
the vivacious and sparkling type, witty and
| thoroughly charming.
| Leavenworth is represented by Miss Dora
| Lang, dark-eyed, with curling tendriIs of
| very dark brown hair about her face and
| the rich color of the damask rose in her
| cheeks.
Miss Viola v. Jones, of Plattsburg. Mo,
| is of medium height, with golden hair blue
| eyes, a slender figure and pretty, delicate
| face.
From Carrollton, No. comes Miss Matte
White. who has quantities of fair hair,
She is decidedly chic and stylish
Miss Gertrude zimmerman. of Columbia
| Is distinguished and aristocratic in appear
ance. with fine features of the intellectual
type.
Paola, Kas., has a charming representa-
the red-gold type immortalized by Titan,
| by the poet as ''tip-tilted." She has lovely
blue eyes and Is delightfully."- frank and
unassuming in manner.
After an Introduction to these lovely
guests OF the karnival Krewe, 1t is plain
mat one must go far to find a more beau
tiful sight than will be presented this aft
ernoon by the fair Queen Carnation and
her attendant maids.
The reception to Queen Carnation and
her maids of honor at the rooms Of the
commercial Club in the Board of Trade
ouiidlng, yesterday afternoon, was a brill
liant affair. attended by a throng of rep
resentative Kansas Cttyans The lofty and
| spacious rooms were Handsomely decorated
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