The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-16

Mr. and Mrs. j. F. farrell at their
charming home, 1117 Fillmore, enter
tanned at dinner Thursday evening COM
plimentary to visiting out of town news
paper men. The table decorations con-
sisted Of daffodils and violets; the CEN
terpiece was an oriental affair en-
broidered in white and gold and at the
corners were violets and maiden hair
fern. On the table was high cut glass
vase of daffodils, set in a bowl of vio-
let's. The dinner was an elaborate af-
fair and served in several courses. At
each cover was boutonniere of vio-
let's.
The menu. a relish in ITSELF made the
hungry correspondents ravenous. 1t was
accomplished hnguist Translated by Mr..
Raftery, the scholarly Chicago RECORD
man, a gentleman graduated from Trim
ity college, Dublin, it reads:.
MENU:
Blue points Kruger to Butler
Irish potatoes, skinned and scalloped.
Consomme: Cronje Buttons.
South African QuaiI-Kitchener.
Asparagus tips, POpenoe, red pepper.
Real bread and butter, newspaper diet
Fruit cake-John Bright, 1883.
Frosted Jelly-rolls, Ia Sheldon bakery
East Indian Coffee.
johannesburg water-sheldon well, Free
town.
Kisses: Ladysmith at last
The guests were, Mr.. ellison Willets
of the Christian Herald, New York; Mr..
A. E. Babize of the Chicago Times
Herald; Mr.. T. L. Bertrand of the Chi
| cago Tribune; Mr. F. D. Nye. New York
World; Mr.. j. H. Raftery, Chicago Rec
ord; Gen. J. K. Hudson. Topeka Cap
ital; Mr.. Arthur Capper, Topeka Mail
and Breeze, and one of the society re-
porters of the State Journal.
Mr.. Nye of the World is a great lady S
man. He has charmed the fair sex in
Topeka. Mrs. Bowman dotes on hing
and is his sincere friend and well
wisher. He sat at Mrs. Jarrefs left,
soon finding that his charming hostess
had many Omaha friends which were on
his own list of good people. Mr. Nye
was formerly owner of the Omaha Re
publican. He and Mrs. farrell were busy
at every lull in the general converse
ton exchanging "reminiscences. Mrs
Jarrel writes many stories winch are
eagerly accepted by the Youths Com
panion and other eastern high grade
publications. She told several last
! evening which have never appeared in
print. One of them might be entitled
! How to ride in a passenger coach from
/ Colorado Springs to Manitou without
money, tickets or passes" Few women
could do ehis, but Mrs FARRELL was equal
to the occasion. Mrs; farrell had been
| diligent for several days studying ad-
! vance sheets of the names of the var
/ ious correspondents and endeavored to
/ locate them in her mind on their re-
/ spective papers.
Mrs. FARRELL was determined that she
| should not make the break Mrs. Mac
| Lehman did the evening before, when
| at another dinner party the latter adj
dressed Mr.. Turpin by saying in her
! sweetest manner, You are with the
| Christian Herald, Mr.. Turpin" Mr..
i Turpin, be it understood, is the Richard
! Turpin of the New York Journal and
| is regarded by his associates, whom he
/ has Scooped every day, as newspaper
pirate and highwayman entirely worthy
of his distinguished namesake, who
i piled another profession with the same
1,rar sfE1fN
in another field. Mr. Turpin, while here,
worked all night and filed his matter
about five o'clock in the morning, for
| the New York Evening Journal which
! goes to press with it's first edition at
/ eight a. m Mr.. Turpin would have been
! at the dinner last evening but that
morning was called to fresher fields
| than Topeka and left the city earlier in
the day.
The hardest work Mrs farrell found
was with the name Of the genial and
talented Irishman who is covering the
newspaper situation this week for the
! Chicago Record. 1t is told confidential
~ by Mr. farrell that his wife, by con-
slant practice during the afternoon,
made herself perfect: so when she adj
dressed the gentleman at the other end
of the table on the left of the host, her
enunciation was impressively distinct
as she said Mr. Raf-tery.
On Mrs JarrelPs right, adorned with
the bunch of sweet viOlets given each
! guest, sat General Hudson, Fighting
joe" Mr.. Hudson is probably the I'M
easiest man in Topeka this week. He
comes down town in the morning, or
ders a few potatoes, some corn bread
and beef steak for dinner, and then
| looks aimlessIy around on the street
corners for something to occupy his at
tention Finding little. he hangs around
| for a copy of the noon edition of the
| State Journal He is the victim of the
first newsboy who energies from the
| basement of the building occupied by
the NEWSPAPER of Topeka He walks
home to lunch, keeps Mrs. Hudson wait
ing until he has finished Mr.. Howe s
/ remarks He is so well pleased with
many of them that he is perfectly aim
able although the coffee is cold, ana
| the baked potatoes soggy, merely from
the waiting.
All of these things more or less Mr.
Hudson gave away at the dinner last
evening. He was pretty quiet in the
that everybody else was shut out and
! the conversation instead of being a
/ murmur all along the line, filed the air
/ of the coy dining room with a
vigorous dissertation on journalism
after Sheldon" We will have to CEN
sure some of his remarks in order to
keep on our present good relations this
week with the head of the concern
across the alley from this office.
Mr.. Babize of the Herald, which
has been a great promoter of the 'Shel-
don idea, occasionally interpolated a
| mild protest at some Of the general s
/ statements. Mr.. Babize, however, soon
! quieted down 1t might be remarked
here parentheticalIy, as a pointer for
Mr.. B.. that the Times-Herald proprie-