The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-03


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A Fourth of July dinner and even
ing party at the Country club tomor-
row night will include Mr. and Mrs
Robert Pierce, Mr.. and Mrs. Willard
n. Hall. Mr.. Horace Hail. Mr.. Louis
Hail, Mr. and Mrs Schuyler c.
Nichols, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick w.
Freeman and M. and Mrs. John 5.
Parks
Miss Nellie a1inspaugh and Miss
Edna Herbst will entertain the Chat
ing Dish club girls and correspond
ing number of men at children's
party in the gymnasium of the College
OF the Sisters of Bethany tonight.
Juvenile costumes will be in order and
juvenile games with dancing and ham
Of the evening. The party Is in COM
pliment to Miss Katharine Sneve of St.
Paul, guest of Misses Eva and Isabel
Smith
Mrs. Charles I. Mitchell entertained
this morning a her house 1918 Clay
street. in honor of Miss Sneve. The
guests. asked for from ten TO twelve,
were limited to the members of the
hostess sorority the Owls of which
q g q r,T11V a Misses
Isabel Smith and Helen McCHntock as
sisted Mrs. Mitchell
The Delts will hold an initiation
Friday night when Mr.. Harry Curtis
and Mr.. Fred Crossley Will be taken
into the frat.
Children's games and kissing games
are in vogue in the Newport smart set
this summer It has often occurred
to some of US that a game of drop the
handkerchief woaid be better sport
than the average advertisements of the
average party" and 1t seems Harry
Iiehr thought of the same thing. An
extract from letter from Ne'V York
descriptive of some OF these exciting
diversions follows:
saw some OF them played with
guests at a lawn party. married folks
as well as unmarried joining ia tnem.
They began with a trick that Harry
L4ehr taught them. He called it 1.-The
King Of Bumps" Try it, and you viii
md that it amuses both those who
play the trick and those on whom II is
played. All leave the room, except
three operators. who place two chairs
sufficiently apart to allow Of a seat be-
tween them. A cloth IS stretched OYER
these two chairs, on which two persons
Sit so that the empty space between
appears to be a seat. Care should be
taken to place several cushions or pill
lows on the floor below this pseudo
seat. The players enter one by one.
and are received by the King Of
Bumps, who stands and holds some in
strument or other, such as pair of
tweezers. He represents, let US say.
dentist and feigns that he is about to
pull out the subjects teeth. He re-
quests the subject to take q seat be-
tween his two assistants These rise
as the subjects seats himself plump
down with a bump. amid laughter and
cheers. until another customer reminds
all Of the grave nature of their func-
tions.
one of the droIlest pastimes that can
be played in drawing room or gar
den is 1.-THE Single Eye The players
form two sides. one for guessing and
one for operating. After the guessing
side has gone into an adjoining room
any one who is willing lets himself or
herself be enveloped in a cloak or
shawl all butt the head; this is then
inclosed in a casque of paper-a news
lust one orihce for the right or left
eye. Then the operators hide them
selves also. so that the guessing SIDE
NAV not know who is not III sight
Who is looking out Of the hole in the
paper7 1t may seem easy to guess. hut
IS not.
There is more movement In the
s'Short Route" Each player takes the
name OF a city or other place \ circle
SIS formed and one person. bllnn1Olded.
stands in The midst. Then tire leader
calls out: short route between tfor
instance) Chicago and New York, ana
the persons bearing those names
change places, while the bindfOlded
person tries to catch them. Should he
de So another takes his place
Another pasItme necessltatlng for
Peits IS called Fluff" The players
stretch a tabIecfoth out. holding it up
Is the chin, 50 that only their heads are
visible. A little ball Of waddins or
feathers Is to be kept constantly in the
middle Of the cloth by the blowing OF
the players. If 1t strikes against a
nIaver a forfeit is due. In the open air
1he breeze complicates matters
Lawrence Journal: Miss Gertrude
Fsouehton viii entertain at cards next
FRIDAY morning in honor Of Mrs Alfred
Frost and Miss Lena Beard.
The marriage of Miss Marie Ricken-
racher daughter of Mr.. and Mrs VIII
liam RickenbacheT, and Mr.. Clifton
blair Dodge Of Salina, viii be solemn
ICED at eight O'Clock tonight at the home
OF the brides parents. 1925 Polk street,
and will be followed by a reception
from half after eight to ten o'clock.
Fifty invitations were extendeH for the
ceremony and one hundred and fifty for
the reception The Rev. D. r. Shields
of salfna viii perform the ceremony and
the attendants win be Miss Grace
Rickenbacher. the brides sister, and
Mr.. Wayne Dodge of Salina brother Of
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