The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-21
THEY HAD JOLLY TIME.
Harrison Street Young women Don


Brothers Clothes and Have Party.
A Dove Party was held Saturday
night at a Harrison street residence
Just why it was called a Dove" party
has not been explained. Webster's def
milton of dove does not reveal to
those who have made a systematic re-
search why the gentle sounding name
was chosen. 1t might have been called
a bifurcated gathering of congeniaI
spirits just as Well-perhapS with a
good deal more meaning to the name.
There We're sixteen young ladies there,
no matter what the party was called
1t is nothing unusual for sixteen young
ladies' or old ladies for that matter. to
gather for a little afternoon tea, a little
or perhaps a good deal, of gossip, and it
is nothing unusual for sixteen girls to
get together to decry the tendency of
the present generation OF young Amer
lea to tease them with mice and bugs.
These sixteen young ladies, however,
We're dressed in boys clothes. Perhaps
that's why it was called a Dove
Party. The little affair was pulled off
Saturday evening and nobody was sup
posed to know anything about it ex-
cept those who were in it. The neigh
borhood had been ransacked and every
big brothers wardrobe had been
touched for a full outfit.
The sixteen members of the Dove
Party punched up for the breakaWay
to the home of the sixteenth men Der
of the dOvecOte clad in the bifurcated
garments of their brothers. their papas
and their best fellows. but over all they
wore their usual everyday skirts.
Like a coterie of jockeys. they stepped
into the weigher's room at 7:45. weighed
in and dOnned their regalia, or, rather,
doffed their skirts. and just as the start
er's bell rang at o'clock they stepped
from the paddock like so many Johnny
Reiffs or Tod Sloans or Snapper Gar
TisOns ready for the starters flag. They
were a little shy at first and had to be
I1d 1.r1- 11r1~ T,r,,l =
how simply great and isn't Nellie's
outfit just grand - they commenced to
warm up a little and the fun COM
menced.
reader under her arm five days in the
week was attired in a suit of flannel
Two sisters were there. They both
wore suits of gray Another had a
striped trousers. and one was a shirt
waist man. They started in sliding
down the banister with screams and
glggleS and danger to their costumes.
Then they gathered round Just like so
many men folks. college men, leaned
on the mantel, lounged in big chairs.
hammered a few popular strains out Of
the piano and talked about foot ball
base ball. basket ball, hand ball and
things that We're not balls at all.
Tney We're having Just the best time
You ever heard Of along about IL p
when the alarm was Sounded that the
house was surrounded; not by the pO-
lice. but by the envious young men
who may have been part owners of
some of the wardrobes. Anyway. the
doors and windows were hurriedly lock-
ed and the shades drawn.
supper was announced and they all
tried a good story by a good fellow
They did not tackle cigarettes and wine,
but stuck to cheese straws and lemon
ade, with a few ham sandwiches as a
layer just in between
They kept it up until u o'clock and
quit the game singing 1--WE Won't Go
Home Until Morning" And not a. one
of them told anybody about it until
they woke up next morning and saw
someone.