The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-17
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People sendins items % sn1s departments
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ey giving the tu3L first uama or two
aust be accompanied ny she name ana
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Mr and Mrs. d. L. McEaehron are
giving a tea this afternoon between
the hours OF and 6 O'Clock at their
house on Boswell avenue in honor OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Silver who leave
soon for Cambridge. where Mr. Sill
yer VIII do some special work at Har-
ward this winter.
A new singer with an unusually fine
voice who has recently come to town
attended one of the churches yester-
day and her singing in one of the
hymns almost put the choir out OF
business.
Miss Lucy Kingman viii entertain
Informally tomorrow evening IN honor
OF the officers CT the First District
Federation of Women's clubs. who
will be in town to confer with cCn1-
mittees from the city federation IN
preparation for the annual meeting of
the First District in Topeka, Novenl-
Der and 10. The conference will
take place tomorrow afternoon at the
home of Mrs. H. O. Carney, who is
president of the First district. The
other officers are Miss Martha Beck,
Holton, first vice president; Mrs. G.
W welcome of Hiawatha, second
vice president; Mrs. DeWitte c. Mel
lis Topeka, secretary. Mrs. A. e.
Best. Centralia, treasurer, and Mrs
W II. Smith, Seneca, auditor. Miss
Kingman has asked to meet them the
executive board Of the city fedora
ton, including the officers and chair
men of standing committees, ana the
chairmen OF the subcommittee ap-
pointed to arrange for the First dis
trict meeting
a Topeka woman has a collection
of Punk Literature by Home Made
authors-mostly autograph collec-
tions.
f. So
If a man is very good-natured and
polite the women impose on him and
he sometimes finds himself in a po-
sition from which it IS no simple mat
ter to extricate himself gracefully A
man who had been slipping along the
line OF least resistance for a number
Of months awolze to the fact that he
was deVoting himself almost -exelu-
sively to a young woman-Or rather
submitting to her attentions to such
degree that he was almost constantly
in her society. He decided to put
stop to it and the next time he went
to see her assumed q melancholy air
and sat about peHsivei1 until she ask
ed him what was the matter. He told
her that he had discovered that she
no longer cared for him, that she was
bored and unhappy IN his society and
not Ike herself. He said he knew It
was HIS own fauft-tfat he had been
with her too much, had monopolized
all her time, and she. had grown tired
of him. He proposed, he. said, to give
her q vacation hoping to. revive her
interest. The girl was greatly aston
ished and fattered, hut when she ate
tempted to reassufe. him, he inter-
rupted with: II know you viii deny
It. because it is your sweet, kind and
cORsiderate. way. You can't bear TO
give anybody pain and 4Or that reason
you have played a part and pretended
to an interest in me- which you no
longer feel But I would be blind as
a bat i'll did not see through your
pretense and. understanding at last,
my pride will not. allow me to impose
longer upon your kindness. Do not
try TO dissuade me. I may never win
a warmer regard. but by giving you a
rest I may at least keep your respect.
Should I persist in boring you with
nay constant company you would
learn to lOathe me. I want to save
myself that. I shall not come to see
you again for three weeks and here
after 7 shall confne myself always to
occasional calls only. There is no
use in you trying to talk me out Of
this. 7 know you would If you could,
in order to spare my feelings, but I
VIII not allow you to martyrize your
self for me. I will prove that I am a
man and end everything now The
scheme worked He made his get
away gracefully and at the same time
spread a net to break her fail. She
was sorry to lose him but was partly
satisfied by the role Of heroine in
what She felt to be an uncommonly
romantic situation.
Kansas City star: DR.. and Mrs Isaac
NJ. Ridge of Castle Ridge announce the
engagement Of their niece, Miss May
Ridge campbell to Mr.. James William
McCutcheon of Cincinnati. Q. The mar
riage viii take place early In October.
Miss Campbell is one OF the most
beautiful girls in Kansas city and very
popular She has visited in Topeka.
The success of the summer girls out
ing IS measured by the number of Greek 4
letter fraternity pins she wears home.
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Mr.. William Green will give a line
party at The Grand tonight to see Mr.
james O'Neil i'll Monte Christie. HIS
guests will be Mr.. Henry Gage and Mr.
Orran OF Moscow, Ohio. Miss Mabel
Green OF Allc8cur WISCONSIN MI ana
Mrs. Bert Green and Mr.. and Mrs john
J. Green.
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he had been out through the jungles
for trip in his motor car and was tell
ing some of his experiences with. people
of the backwoods who had never seen
an automobile before. zone thing
noticed, he said, whenever they heard
The horn instead Of looking in the direc-
ton from which the sound came they
would all look right straight up in the
Dir" We'll" said the girl to whom he
was talking, Isn't it Gabriel horn 2''
Mrs. K F King Of 1l5 East Gordon