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

sas City and DR.. and Mrs. George Port |
+ Ashton. The table was set with Cluny /
lace and decorated with red carna- |
lions. Mr.. Mcclellan has been one of
/ the best known passenger officials in
Kansas City during the past three or
/ four years of his connection with the
/ Wabash. He is personally very popu-
lar and his remarkable business ca |
pacity has given him much promin-
ence in railway circles He has been
married once before and was divorced
/ last month in Kansas City.
Mrs. Mcclellan, who is known
! throughout Kansas as Emma Kelly of
: klondike fame is a very unusual
young woman and has had a most in
I teresting career, as far as possible
from the hackneyed and conventional. /
! All the customary compliments may
( be truthfully paid her for she is strik- /
\ ing in appearance and more than or
/ dlnar1ly clever and accomplished. Be
{ fore she won fame in other directions
( she was known as a pianist of brilliant
talent and might have had a success
ful artistic career had she devoted her
/ self to music. and she is otherwise
4 especially equipped by natural and ac-
CURED gifts and graces for social pre-
ferment What. however, gives mark
ed distinction to her personality is a
fearlessness, a taste for adventure and
a business ability rare indeed in a wO-
were first opened Miss Kelly made
known her intention of visiting them
and she made the trip four times.
penetrating the interior of the region
to twenty miles north Of the Arctic
( circle and enduring all the hardships
and difficulties of the expedition that
could be experienced by the hardest
mining adVenturer. Besides her Alaska
mines she owns and manages a. large
ranch in Dakota, has conducted a min
ing stock brokerage business in Kan
sas City and is reputed to have made
a considerable fortune by her own IN
aided efforts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcclellan left this
afternoon for New York and will visit
in Pittsburg, Pa, and other eastern
cities before they return. They will
live in Kansas City.
The usual spring lassitude and the
debilitating effects of spring remedies,
coming simultaneously with Lent are
too often mistaken for newly awaken
ed piety.
The Vignette club will have its even
ing educational meeting Friday, March
g, with Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ. Bonebrake.
Governor HOch and Dr. and Mrs. S. S.
: Estey will be the guests of honor. Mrs.
Estey will read her paper on ideals
in Education" and Governor HOch will
give an address along educational
lines.
If you want to hear the truth about
Bernhard in Convention hall don't
read the Kansas City papers or listen
to the women, but ask some helpless
husband who was dragged along in
r spite of his screams by an intellectual
, ~ ambitious wife. A woman is a nat
. ural fOur-husheF. She can rave in a
! way that sounds intelligent to one who
! knows no more about it than she does,
: about anything that she believes to be
r correct and she is never SO happy
as when she is a martyr to classic Art
The men are on the level in their COM
ments, but the women who went to
r Kansas City to see Bernhard are using
= all the usual adjectives about the per
Torrance, although the sat so far
from the stage that they couldn't hear
a line of the play or distinguish one
actor from another. and even if they
: could have heard their KNOWLEDGE of
. French is limited to Oui, Out and Je
y ne sails pas The only intelHgfbIe
d words in the play, to the average mem
= Der of the audience, were spoken when
4 the Divine Sara stretched her long
arms and exclaimed, Armand Ar
mandt" with gurglinR. tubercular
t gasp If the actress had chosen to
/, / throw off on the jays who crowded to
s see her and had recited q French YER
5 sion of the Declare ton of Independ-
\ / ence during the highly emotional third
e act nobody would have been the wiser
l. and there wouldn't have been a dry
= glove in the house.
- The Wintelotta's dance at Stein
q berg's Friday evening was attended by
> DR. and Mrs. H 3. Hogeboom, Mr.. and
g Mrs. Jules Snattinger, Mr.. Irwin Snat-
! finger, Mr.. and Mrs. T. b GatcheI. Mr..
- and Mrs Frank Lagerstrom. Mr.. and
= Mrs. Harry Nichols. Mr.. and Mrs. A. o.
= Rosser, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Erickson
"a Ar. and Mrs. H. F. Peppmyer. Mr.. c.
= K. Myers, Mr. and Mrs. Burt Maxwell,
a Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Smith Kansas
u City, Mr.. and Mrs. John J. Green. Mr..
& and Mrs F. A. Robinson. DR.. and Mrs
n E. 2. Carpenter, Mr.. Harry H. Hamil-
y ton, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Lager
g strom Mr.. and Mrs. Harry F. Guthrie
ID Mr.. and Mrs. F. 2. Parr, Mr.. and Mrs
e Frederick Dreisbach. Mr.. and Mrs. Geo
e. W. Hart, Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Cor
g win, Mrs. Harry Williams Mr. and
r. Mrs. William Marshall, Mr. and Mrs
st Frank Heyden.
ID If Lent didn't serve any other useful
r purpose it would still have noble
r. mission in giving some of our over
lie worked little Marys' a much needed
i rest.
IS The subscribers Of the high school
D. viii meet tonight with Miss Nellie Lin