The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-19

sons of Chanute, and Miss Alice
Lakin.
The marriage os Miss Bessie Bates,
/ second daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs A. H.
/ Bates, to Mr.. Earl Boardway of Wor-
/ cestefs Massachusetts, takes place We'd
I nesday evening at the Bates residence
on western avenue. Miss Maud Bates
viii be her sisters maid of honor and
/ viii be the only attendant. A limited
number of relatives and close friends
/ have been asked for the ceremony and
/ a few other friends informally after
wards to meet the bride and groom.
Miss Anna Marie Nellis gives an even
1 ing entertainment for Miss Bates and
Mr.. Boardway Monday and Miss Kate
4 Gunther will entertain for Miss Bates
Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Maud Thomson and Mr.. Harry
! Price of Kansas City and Miss Mary
/ COpley of Lawrence viii be in town for
j the wedding and will be guests of the
] De Witt Q. Nellis family. Some of Miss
/ Bates sorority sisters, the Pi Phis from
the Kansas university chapter at Law
/ renee viii also attend the wedding and
viii be guests of Miss Mary Chamber
I lain and Miss Jeanette Ware.
You know they do something besides
/ play whist at these whist club meetings
/ and the session after the game when the
/ girls who aren't there and the men get
/ theirs is really the most interesting part
of the afternoon. Sometimes, when they
/ have no dinner engagements the mem
4 bers 1nger as late as seven o'clock
/ each one is afraid to 60 and give the
/ others a chance to talk about her.
The other day after the meeting Of
/ a club the members Of which are
number of seasons removed from the
/ debutante stage q mass indignation
meeting was held because one of the
men had been quoted as saying that he
i liked to talk to the buds-he found them
/ so refreshing Why exclaimed one
/ of the girls ''he was frisking around
here in society when I was a baby IN
/ armst"
Never mind" said a young matron,
/ 1--WE had our turn. He found US all so
refreshing four or five years ago and
/ he'll be saying the same thing about
/ the seasons buds for generations to
/ come. I fully expect him to take my
daughter to her first dance"
Later they got to telling conundrums
and one wanted to know why a kiss was
! like the creation. OF course everybody
gave I'D and she told them you've
/ doubtless heard it that there's nothing
/ in it, but God knows it is good"
/ Piped up a blonde from the depths
| of the davenport: well, God hasn't got
any the best of me!'
They were all awfully shocked.
Mrs. s. S. Estey who will return to-
I morrow from visit to Mrs. A. Q. Stitch
| of independence, was one OF the
! guests of honor at an elaborate recep-
ton given by Mrs. Stitch who was en-
/ tertaining a house party last week and
! asked her Independence friends TO
meet her house guests. These in
/ cluded beside Mrs. Estey, Mrs. G. e.
/ Lehman of Wichita, Mrs. May Belle
vile Brown of Salina and Mrs Charles
f. Scott of lola
A Topeka girl who went out of
town for a day or two last week, IN
that time received letters from two
/ Topeka men, and made new con-
quest.
Miss Abby Ware and Miss Jeanette
Ware have asked guests for buffet
! luncheon from half after eleven to half
+ after one o'clock Thursday to meet
their guests, Mrs. Rudolph Best of
/ Fort Scott and Miss Mary Gentry of
Kansas City.
At the new rink the other day a
i man who was taking his first lesson
in skating and thought he was going
some asked girl who is an excep-
tionaIly good skater to try it with him.
/ They skated once and a half around
| when Miss Foxey said, You skate
perfectly dandy, Mr.. Blank. Let's see
how you skate alone" And the man
was so elated by her praise and his
own success that he had gone half
way around alone before he realized
that he had been shaken again.
Mr.. and Mrs A D. Gray will give a
dinner Monday evening for DIR. and
Mrs. Linus Blakesley of Ell Paso, Tex
who are visiting them, the others
asked being the Rev. and Mrs. Charles
NJ. Sheldon. the Rev. and Mrs. Francis
L. Hayes the Rev. and Mrs. Thayer,
DR. and Mrs. Norman Plass and the
Rev. W. c. Fisk.
The test of true friendship is will
I Iingness and resourcefulness in getting
a friend out of a scrape. The other
night a Topeka bachelor called for the
first time on a young woman who had
Il been recommended to him but of
whom he knew little. His best friend
knew more and bethinking himself
when the evening was half spent of