The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-09
Topeka SOCIETY.
Week Closes With Two Brilliant
Afternoon Receptions.
One at McClintOck Home, the
Other at Mrs. Goes.
WERE MANY GUESTS.
We're Last Receptions of the
Social Season.
Items of Social and Personal
Nature.

Two large receptions Friday afternoon
closed gay week in society and doubt
less constituted the last receptions of
the season. They were given by Mrs. j.
c. McClintock and her daughter, Miss
Ruth McCEntock, at their home on Fill
more street, and the other by Mrs. Jas.
S. COe and Mrs. Albert Watkins at the
home of Mrs. COe on Buchanan street.
The floor of the broad porch of the
McClintock home was covered with rugs
and Navajo blankets. while the palms
and bowls of flowers, chairs and couches
added an air of ease and comfort.
Mrs McClintock and her daughter
were assisted in receiving by Miss Flor
ence Rockwell of Junction City. The
three ladies were handsomely gowned,
Mrs. McClintock, in green and laven-
der tissue, with garniture of Renaissance
lace and accordion plated chiffon. Miss
McCintock wore a dainty white silk
null with lace yoke and fichu, while
Miss Rockwell wore pink silk null.
The decorations in the parlor were in
yellow, white and green, consisting of
sweet hOneySuckle, yellow and white
carnations. Great bowls of daisies, sup
plemented with palms and ferns decked
the sitting room, and the library beyond
where punch was served by Miss Helen
McClintock, Miss Eva and Isabel Smith,
Miss Ethel Morton and Miss Nellie
Millspaugh.
sweet in pink and white; on the polish
ed table was a large centerpiece Of ex-
quisite Oriental embroidery. The chan
deller overhead was wound with aSpar-
agus fern, caught with a big bow of
broad pink satin ribbon, the ends ex-
tending to the corners of the table
where they ended in bows. In the center
was high cut glass vase of delicate
pink carnations.
The ladies who assisted during the af-
ternoon We're Mrs. F. r. Ndillspaugh, Mrs
D. W. Nellis, Mrs. Willard Hail. Mrs
" H Eastman, Mrs. A. T. Daniels.
Mrs. J. D. Mcfarland, Mrs. John Z.
FrlttS, Mrs. Alice Clugston, Mrs. Chas
| McClintock, Mrs. w A Morton, Mrs
! John E Lord. Miss Vera Low, Miss
Mary Hambleton, Miss Louise Smith,
| Miss Hazel Fassler, Miss Emile King,
/ Miss Helen Smith, Miss Neal Hough
| Miss Lucretia GrosVenor, Miss RATHER
| inc Allen, Miss Anna Harrison, Miss Ida
1 Shanklin, Miss Lucille Mulvane and Miss
Henrietta Mayo. The assisting ladies
! were entertained at dinner in the ev-
| ening. Four hundred invitations were
issued and nearly all of that number
called during the afternoon.
A Charming Affair.
Fully as complete in all Of the details
| was the reception given by MIS-. Coe
| and Mrs. Albert Watkins. At one end
| of the porch which was shut off from
| view OF the street by Japanese screens
and a network of evergreen was a
punch bowl presided over by Miss Belle
Stagg and Miss Ellie Smith. The re-
malnder of the porch was comfortably
furnished with rugs and easy chairs
The large reception hall and parlor
| were decorated with daisies palms and
| ferns. In front Of the mantle was a
| bank of palms, topped with two i'm
mense shower bouquets of yellow-eyed
! daisies tied with broad satin ribbon OF
a corresponding hue. Curtains of as
| oaragus dotted with daisies were be-
| tween the doors and bowls of daisies
were in every nook and corner
The color scheme in the dining room
was pink and white; the table was COW
cred with snowy damask and in the
| center was a beautiful piece Of Battan-
| burg holding mirror plateau IN which
| was high glass vase of pink and white
| carnations. The cha delier was drapea
| with sriilax and broad pink and white
satin ribbons extended from it - tae
| corners IF the table. On tha sid S "a "a
| was fa n Huf@ nv ard bowls II
pink and white earua .5ons
A sHeel-. OAK p9ge3 IL
the hall during the afternoon TIE -