The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-15

Invitations have been received in To-
peka for a reception and dance to be
given by Mr. and Mrs A ]. Ranney OF
Argansas City at the Fifth Avenue
hotel Friday night for Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Roy Ranpey. Mr. and Mrs. j.
M. Meade viii go to Arkansas City for
the occasion.
The subscription dance to be given at
Steinberg's tomorrow night by the
girls Of the Helianthus set will be in
formal. which is the polite way OF an
nouncing that the men aren't expected
to wear evening dress.
Mrs. Frank Scott Davis has asked
guests for a luncheon and bridge at the
Country club Thursday in compliment
to Miss Gertrude Cooper of Abilene.
''Why doesn't Fred go to the ball
games ." asked girl in the grandstand
yesterday of Fred's best friend We'll.
Fred's best friend, but I imagine it's
because the lady's husband does"
Mrs. Don Mulvane viii entertain the
Friday Whist club this week at the
Country club
A popular Topeka bachelor was
Obliged to sell his own horse and wagon
the other day because he never got a
chance to use them; he is such a favor
Of horses and an automobile.
Miss Gertrude Tracy gave a small
musicale and Welsh rabbit supper
last night for Prof. L. s. Burnett of
OskaIoOsa, Iowa, The others asked
were Mr. and Mrs. George Parkhurst,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alt Klingenberg, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Pribble Mrs. Florence Fox Thatcher,
Miss Nellie Lincoln and Mr. Ross
Tracy.
These anachronistic Leap Year dances
are a good deal Of joke. All the un-
married men get out Of paying is the
trifling expense of a subscription party:
they still have to come across for the
carriage and other details that make
parties expensive and the married men
get stuck, as usual, for everything.
Mrs. Ralph Skinner has asked guests
for Thursday afternoon for Miss Maud
Parker Of Kansas City. Cards and mu-
sic.
A young woman who is Interested in
a married MAJ was sent for the other
day by his wife and complied with the
request with some trepidation. But the
lady only wanted to invite her to take
care OF her husband at a picnic. the
other invitations to which included the
man in whom she is interested That
Beems to be the modern way.
Miss Jeanette Ware gave q. small
luncheon yesterday for her guest. Miss
Eleanor Eddy Of Fall River. Massa-
chusetts, her Invitations including Miss
Mildred Poindexter, Miss Dorothy vii
son, Miss Allabelle Troutman and Miss
Louise Kellam. Today Miss Ware cove
a second luncheon at which her eruest
shared the honors with Miss Margaret
dorehouse OF Danville. Illinois. who is
visiting Miss Hazel Fassler and who
was a classmate OF Miss Ware and Miss
Eddy at Vassar- The table decorations
were in yellow and the conpanv in
cluded Miss Eddy. Miss Bforehouse
Miss Dale Of Danvile Miss F.assleT
Miss Helen Smith. Miss Rossington
Miss Helen Thompson. Mrs. Fneane
Huntington Ware, Miss Ware ana Miss
Jeanette Ware
You may think the worlds grievance
against the society reporter is entirelv
one-sioed lat the feeling is realiyz
mutual IT is not that the S r 49,
me r. le OF the village pest but the & 2
must live, somehow. And the s. r has
troubles OF her own. It IS bad enoueh
70 be obliged to telephone dailv to neo-
pie to md cut what they want n11bIish-
ID but to hive to telephone to f7v,d ~
what they don't want published {s -rst
lively the limit. Moreover. the soeSet,-
department. Is the only department ~