The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-20

The largest and most elaborate recep-
ton of the autumn season was given at
the Governors House this afternoon by
Mrs. William Eugene Stanley and Miss
Stanley in compliment to 30 visiting
women and girls who are their guests
at a house party for the remainder of
the week. The hour were from 3 to 6
o'clock and several hundred invitations
We're issued Mrs. Stanley and Miss
Stanley received alone in the front
drawing room and the visitors were sta
toned in supplementary receiving par
ties in the back drawing ROOM the tow
er room and the governors study. The
beautiful interior of the executive man
sion was subjected to a striking and
artistic decorative treatment in which
quantities of Alabama and California
smilax, innumerable palms and ferns
and a prOfuSiOn of gorgeous chrySanthe-
NUNS, potted and cut, were utilized in
adding to the loneliness of picture to
which a distinguished company contrib
uted much. In the reception hall the
Alabama smilax screened the stairway,
and was arranged over doorways and
windows, the palms and ferns were
banked on the landings of the stairway
and about the fireplace, and the yellow
chrysanthemums which maSsed upon
the mantel and filled tall vases and jar
dinieres in other parts of the room were
supplemented by two enormous clusters
of Marechal Neil roses a t either end of
a square table near the entrance The
drawing rooms had in addition to the
palms and ferns and SmilaX which
formed the foundation of the 1ecora tive
scheme everywhere. pink chrysanthe-
NUNS, and the governors study and
dining room repeated the color note of
the han and were in yellow The dining
table was set with Battenburg and the
centerpiece was a. basket full of splend-
id chrysanthemums. Candelabra on
table, buffet and mantel were fitted
with yellow candles under yellow
petaled blossoms. and in all the -oo-as
the lights were shaded in colors in har-
mony with the decorations.
The house party guests include Mrs.
Samuel McRoberts of Chicago, Mrs.
Henry Geissler of Muscatine. Iowa. Mrs
A. w. Thomas of ST. Louis. Mrs. H. J.
Hill, Mrs Findlay Ross. Mrs. r.. p.
Murdoch, Mrs. w. A. Reed. Mrs. M. c.
Campbell Mrs. J. a. Black. Mrs. A. S.
Parks, Mrs. Joseph Houston, Mrs. Chas.
Cohn. Mrs. c. L. Davidson. Mrs. Chas.
Smythe, Mrs. Frank Oliver, Mrs. F. w.
Cooper. Mrs. r. NJ. Plat. Mrs. Hiram
ImbOden, Mrs. VIM. -nnes, Mrs. l.. w.
Clapp, Mrs. H. c. Fluff, Mrs. Charles
Luling. Mrs. John Adams. Mrs. Husev.
Mrs. Nermillion. Mrs. l. W.-LeWelling.
Mrs. James Tapp. Miss Blanch Imboden
and Miss Bess Innes of Wichita and
Miss Winifred Whitsett of Carthage.
Mo.
The assisting women are Mrs A. A.
Robinson, Mrs. M =. Low, Mrs. A II.
Thompson, Mrs De White c. Nei!is
Mrs. H. o. GaFvey, Mrs. John CLANCY.
Mrs. H. l. p. HiHyer. Mrs. w A. John
sion. Mrs. Joab Mulvane. Mrs. T. B.
Sweet, Mrs. F. P, MacLennan. Mrs.
James A Troutman, Mrs. George Craw-
ford, Mrs. Dell Keizer. Mrs. A. a. Cod
ard, Mrs. George A Clark. Mrs. Frank
Grimes, Mrs. G. E. Cole. Mrs. T. T.
Kelly Mrs. Frank Nelson. Mrs. Murray
Myers, Mrs. T. c. Biddle. Mrs. Luther
Burns, Mrs. Chappelle Foote, Mrs. Hen
ry H. Allen, Mrs. Walter Metcalf. Mrs
E. B. Jewett, Miss Freshman, Miss Ag-
mes Gunther, Miss Berenice Fuller, Miss
Ethel Davis, Miss Troutman, Miss Mary
MacLennan, Miss Hazel Criswell Miss
Hazel Grimes and Miss Hazel Kelly
A dinner for the house -art.r guests,
and the assisting women and girls will
be served in the ball room on the -1ird
floor at o'clock this evening. Here the
DECORATIONS VIII BE-, as below. of yellow
chrYsa nthomums and the color scheme
viii be carried out in all the details.
Miss Louise Willis of the City of Mex
leo whose visit in Topeka has been
made the occasion of a number of en-
tertainmerts was the guest of honor
al very pretty / O'Clock luncheon at
which Miss Helen Wilson was the host
ess today. It was a rose luncheon,
charmingly appropriate to the veritable