The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-11


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+ Mss Eleanor Wheeler is entertain
+ ing the debutantes at cards this after
noon for Miss Katharine Sneye, or 81
Paul The others asked were MIS-,
Charles L Mitchell Misses Iva ana
Isabel Smith Miss Maud Crimes
Mss Edna Herbst. Miss Helen
NcCIintock. Miss Dorothy Wilson,
Miss Alice Meade Miss Virginia
Meade, Miss Mary B. Moore, Miss
Anna Ruder, Miss Jeanette Ware,
Miss Margaret Johnston. Miss Katha-
rine KeiIam. Miss Marian Thompson,
Miss julia Iarimer, Miss Sarah NC
Leilsn, Miss Alice ROssingtOns Miss
Mabel Andrews
The commOnest of vanities is
evinced in the fuss most OF US MAKE
about our nsmes-their spelling, pro-
mn citation or both Although we
have It on high authority that there
IS nothing In name, mighty rev
human roses think that they would
small anywhere near as sweet If they
were called otherwise than as the
family tradition or their own caprice
DEGREES The S R has large oppor-
Ftunities TO observe the vanity of peo-
pie In this respect A Topeka woman
who belongs to q mutual admiration
organization whose members have
succeeded by sheer audacity and per
l8isfency in impressing all the rest OF
us with their idea that they are the
cream cheeses of local society. and
who, of course, ''hates to have her
name in the paper, nevertheless
wants It in right and calls UP the
the different nPuSna neTg
xoRn to correct them as to the spell
ing OF her husbands first name, in
which, it seems, people habitually put
too many RS and LIS, or not enough
no s r. has time to remember
which
Another woman who used to live
here and has now moved away had
the same name, for the society col
umn's purposes. that is, her husband
name was the same, as another wo-
man who moved in a set which the
first woman believed was on a lower
plane than her own She was greatly
mortified when her friends read in the
papers that certain people, whom
don't know at all" as she used to ex-
plain Indignantly had entertained
her Eat. thimbles-' There was. of
course nothing TO do TO distinguish
her from this common, though prob
ably respectable person, who had the
impertinence to have her name, but
TO use her husbands middle name,
and this she afterwards always did
and insisted that the S. r. record her
as Mrs Roger Peter Brown. instead
OF Mrs. Roger Brown, as always be-
fore
Then there are some people who
are very particular about the middle
initial please put the e. in my
name if you're going to put it in the
paper, one woman says. Il hate
Mrs John Smith Say Mrs. John e.
Smith" There are a number of this
kind In town. Two or three object
because the papers ordinarily call
them Mrs A. J. Jones'" They want
to be known as MRS. Aaron ]. Jones"
or Mrs Andrew James Jones'
There has been such a fad Of recent
years for the use of the whole name
that many women now object to it, but
they almost always insist upon the
second initial If q mans first name
Is very ugly, like Zachariah, his wife
usually makes him use the second.
and she asks the s. r. to announce
her when among those present" as
Mrs. T. Weldon Hildreth And such
IS the far-reaching and powerful in
if1uence of the s. r. that in a years
thine nobody will speak of her as Mrs
Zachariah but she viii be known
wherever she is known as Mrs T.
Weldon.
One girl in town always wants her
name to appear as simply Miss Crisp,
because the best her parents could do
for her in the way of a name was
Mamie, and she thinks. with some
Justice. that that looks so silly" On
the other hand there are a number Of
girls who object to being published as
merely Miss Blank. Sometimes this
IS because there are others Of the
came name In town outside their i'm
mediate household, but oftener it is
because it sounds too much like an
old maid This was the objection of
one very young girl whom the s. r.
had usually designated as Miss
Clinton because there were a num-
Der Of girls in the family Another
girl wants her first name used be