The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-21

Well.
1t was at a Country club dance not
long ago. One of the members. just
req dy TO start home, went into the
office to buy cigar. A tall, slender
girl was standing at the counter
the young man. The girl kept on
writing and paid no attention to his
request The young man repeated his
demand-this time rather sternly, for
since he attained the distinction of be-
longing to a Country club and enjoy
ing the almost daily privilege of OBJ
serving the smart set at close range,
he has begun to develop notions about
the lines of social denarkation and the
responsibility of the Upper Class to
impress the Lower Glasses with a
sense of the exalted superiority of the
former So his tone was sufficiently
imperious to impress even a cigar
saieslady, and the girl who was writing
so busily at the counter with her head
bent low over the paper looked up.
| BUT SHE WASN'T THE CIGAR
GIRL, No, it was a visiting girl. very
attractive and distinguished looking,
and the guest of member of the
Smart Seti The young man had never
met her, but he recognized her now
and retreated, stumbling backward
from her presence, stammering apol-
ogies.s
But by the way. this was not the
mistaken for the lady who sells
cigars" and her friends have had a
good deal of fun with her about both
incidents. The first time was on a
railway train. She met a Kansas City
man, who had been introduced to her
only a few days before, but with whom
she had had only the most casual con-
versation- She bowed to him and he
returned the sign of recognition, pass
ing on down the aisle of the car.
! '.Who is that distinguished looking
girl ~ a companion asked him. ''Oh.
she" he replied, ''is the cigar girl
down at the Midland
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanton and Miss Lou
Stanton entertained Mr.. and Mrs.
/ Frank Cope at dinner at the Vine
wood cafe last night in compliment
to Mrs. ]. Will Buchanan, of Van
Buren. Ark, who is their guest.
From Frank JarreH's Holton Signal:
Topeka is nothing. if not up-to-date.
She gets her style direct from New
York, and If sometimes in transmission
| the spirit of the fashion is lost. it mat
ters not. if the letter is retained. And,
| unmindful that there is any deviation
| from the original, Topeka, blindly fol-
: lows the model happy in the belief
: | that it is the SWellest ever. Topeka s
newest fad. and the one on which it
| prides itself the most, is in funeral
style, post and ante The latest thing
is to send out engraved invitations
leaving blank spaces. with utilitarian
economy. that they may be used a sec
ond, or even a third time. A popular
form is:
Mrs. Strictly Init
requests the pleasure of your presence
at the funeral of her late husband,
(and here the blank is left to filed in.)
at 2:30 o'clock
From his late residence
Programme.
Hymns. abide With Ne. 20, Para
Sermon.
Prayer.
Music furnished
by
The Simolian Quartette
Assisted by
Mr.. Gushington Soully
Please present this card at the door.
Another very pleasing innovation is
the style in tombstones. The followers
of fashion, in Topeka, argue that it is
very bad form to keep the same old
tombstones from one century to the
next so they have 1naugurate ted 4 re-
form in that line. OF course 1t is not
to be expected that the styles in tomb
! stones would be as ephemeral as in
sleeves, for instance. But five years is
| considered long enough for any corpse
to use the same old one. The more
affluent of these stylish live ones buy
new tombStones out and out and hold
| long consultations with the makers of
| tom bStOnes over the latest cut and
design. But those of the imitators not
SO fortunate in worldly goods. have to
have their old ones done over. They
look so homemade one woman was
heard to declare. L don't agree with
you" her friend replied Properly
made over. no one would be able to de-
tect the difference between them and
brand new ones.''
Topeka can always be depended
upon to keep iff the foreground of
fashion.
Mrs. J. s. Warner is giving a hearts
party this afternoon for Miss Marie
Rickenbacher whose marriage to Mr.
Clifton Dodge of Salina takes place
July g. The house Is decorated with
festoons of paper hearts. the game is
dence in the refreshments The friends
asked were Mrs Theodore Ricken-
bacher, Mrs. Harold Warner Mrs
ROlla Cunningham, Mrs. Frank W
Mills. Mrs. Jacob Fleisch. Mrs. VIII
liam Qninon, Mrs. W. D. Tandy, Mrs
George Supple, Mrs. l. F. Wilson OF
Omaha. Mrs Mcdonald. Mrs. Drake,
Miss Bertha Lux, Miss Carlotta Nellis,
Miss Lola McAfee, Miss Rachel Nc
Grath, Miss Alice Potter Miss Gertrude
Potter, Miss Della Hughes. Miss Grace
Rickenbacher and Miss Florence Gus
tafson.
Miss Minna Bauer entertained infor-
mally this morning for Miss Berenice
OFT, whose marriage TO Mr.. J. 3.
/ WhaleTl takes place next Wednesday,
Next Monday Miss Jean Parkhurst will
give a small luncheon for Miss OFT.
Miss Nellie Lincoln has returned
from Manhattan where she spent the
past month directing. rehearsals for