The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-28
Topeka SOCIETY.
Season of June Weddings is
Over.
July is Always a Dull Mont h
Socially.
ENTER PORCH PARTIES.
Current Events Discussed in
NeighbOrhOOd Meetings.
Notes of q Personal and Social
ENTER PORCH PARTIES.
Notes of a Personal and Social
Mention.

The time has come the Walrus said,
ITO talk of many things"
With the last of the fashionable June
weddings which took place this week
society, which was only prevented by
this event from lapsing into the mid
summer lethargy a fortnight ago, is
now threatened with a period of rest
and recuperation comparable only to
Lenten conditions. There Is absolutely
nothing on the social calendar for next
week and unless a visiting girl-that
unfailing social elixir vitae-is import
ed there probably will be nothing of
sufficient moment to be called a function
during the coming fortnight. There are,
to be sure, a platform dance and one or
two garden parties talked of, but the
plans for them are still indefinite and
there seems no reason to anticipate with
any confidence their concerted event
uality.
But although July will bring an end
to all the more formal entertainments
society Will still keep something going
on" in a small and quiet way. The in
formal and impromptu is, after all, per-
haps, the most enjoyable socially, and
there will be small dinners and picnic
parties and even cards all during the
heated term. This last is rather an un-
usual feature, the card season being
supposed to end with the passing of
Lent but some Of the clubs which show
ed only a languid and intermittent in
tereSt in bridge and euchre during the
fall, winter and spring have now re-
turned to those pastimes with a new
and unexpected zest- It is getting to
be quite the fad for hOStesSes to ask in
two or three tables for an afternoon, or,
even more popular, q morning, and the
game is given new interest by the
unaccustOmed environments of the
porch or the lawn and such accOmpani-
ments as summer gowns and summer
refreshments. On the warmer days 1--WE
have. not, fortunately. had any that
could be called hOt) an imitation water
TALL IS 1InprOVlSed by lngenluS hOSteSSeS
with the service of the garden hose and
the delightful combination of running
water, vine-shaded piazzas. fragrant
summer flowers cooling drinks and re-
freshing breezeS from the electric fan
makes for a pastoral effect oddly orig
| inal in connection with whist scores.
| Then when there is a wee stake, just
sufficient to sustain interest and not
enough to frighten even the UncO GUIDE,
the piquancy and charm of the enter
tainment is insured.
With summer comes a return to the
fraternity and neighborliness of print
tive social conditions and so really the
most popular form of recreation during
July and August among the stay at
homes" is the porch party where two or
three are gathered together every night
on the front stoop" to discuss the lat
est events in the circle of their ac-
quaintanee. It all happens quite natur-
ally and without generalization but in
every neighbOrhood there is a piazza
which Is the regular rendezvous for all
the people in the block who have not
chased off for the summer. and the re-
suit is the formation of innumera BILE
little gossip clubs" which having no
formal organization and no exalted pur-
/ poses never break up in rows. 4 de-
Hghtful intimacy springs up between
| the members thereof and friction is al
! most unheard Of It is a natural union
! of congenial people. Nor is the gossip
of malicious character. It is merely
! a good natured exchange of legitiIna te
| information and friendly criticism of
! people and things Not especially ele-
waiting, perhaps, but not degrading Ger
| tainly. Enga gements, marriages, lovers
! QuarrelS, the latest movements of the
/ stork, social rivalries and conflicts are
4 all duly reported and discussed by the
! gossip clubs but not in spirit of I'M
! kindness Gossip was a very good word
originally, but has been sadly perver-
ted. It is now used in its original sense
the pleasant exchange Of the light tat
! tie of the moment. A gossip club that
| devoted itself to scandal wouldn't last
| as long as the proverbial SNOWFALL III a
4 place that SHALL in this chaste column,
be forever nameless.
The annual meeting of the Ottawa
( Chautauqua assembly in Forest Park,
Ottawa, from Monday. July T. to Fri
I day. July 49, promises to be of unusual
/ interest to club women this year. A
| very large representation of the Kansas
! Social Science Federation is expected to
/ be in attendance. As usual. Mrs. Noble
Prentis has been doing a great deal Of
| the work in preparation for a success
full assembly and she is very enthusiast
tic about it. 7 want all the club wo-
men in the state to go. if only for Wo-
! mans day. July TO- she said. 1T is a.
good place for them to get together and
forget their differences and bury fac
tionalism and rivalry and jealousy"
Te tnA hat OH an vii
] derive much enjoyment and benefit
from the daily Woman's Councils. Mrs.
Prentis will address the first one on
How to Live in Camp" Another will
be an open meeting of the city fedora
| ton of ottawa. with Mrs. Horace J.
Smith president Mrs. A H. Thomp-
son will be in charge of one council
meeting and will give her paper which
! wa $50 well received Al the biennial at
Los Angeles, 1.-The Value of the Subor-