The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-14

Mrs Thomas COrwin, Mrs. n. J. Petro,
Mrs +. w. Norris, Mrs. w. e. Heath
erly. Mrs. Ernest VOorhis. Mrs. NJ F.
Rigby, Mrs ". o. Rigby, Mrs. NJ. NJ.
Miller, Mrs. Morris Schlegel Mrs
Harry Nichols Mrs. Herbert Harris.
Mrs. Frank LagerstrOm. Miss Julia
Whitmer, Mrs. 2. E. Carpenter, Mrs
J. {. Burnett. Mrs. Charles Joslin, Mrs
James Pulley and Miss Mary Clauser
OF Kansas City, Mrs. G. F. Maxwell OF
Dallas, Texas, and Miss Anna
O'Rourke of Concordia The rooms
We're decorated with asparagus fern
and saliva, the latter arranged III
baskets.
When man goes to a dance with
out girl, says the Front Porch
Philosopher hes like a man travel
ing on railway pass: he can't make
any reservations uqtfi he gets to the
station and then there's nothing left
but uppers.''
The Washburn Girls literary society
gave a watermelon picnic on the
campus last night.
One of the buds who is domesticalIy
inclined reconciles her family to the
hordes of men who hang around her
house every evening by making them
help her wash the dinner dishes.
The Atchison Globe says: The $50
ciety'' girls seem to have as hard a
time getting enough men together for
social functions as the grocers do in
getting fresh eggs in the winter time.
An AtchlsOn woman spent the summer
at fashionable hotel on the Atlantic
coast, and says that she heard the
same plaintive wall there that we all
hear at home from the Society girls:
NO men, The Atchison woman SAYS
that pretty girls in stunning costumes
I WnlTfd Hoaf nc
unattended by men: there were no
men there; that when the girls talked
to her they would say: did YOU ever
know anything like it? There are no
men at all here It's no use to give
dances: No men, Some of the girls
and their mothers packed up and left
for other places, but letters coming
back told the same story: No men.
No trouble of that sort in Topeka.
Men enough to go round here and
some to spare-though the girls would
hate to spare them. That's what
makes this town a paradise for visit
/ ing girIs-so many men and all win
ners. OF course there are some here
who complain that there are mo men,
/ but they really shouldn't do it; it
doesn't speak we'll for them when 9TH
er girls have two or three suitors a
/ piece. In other towns 1t Is said that
I the men are spoiled; that hostesses
run after them and offer prizes IN or
I IEI 10 get 4A4Cil 10 aLtCAAu L4GlI DtLTIlES.
1 In London, the society news letters
/ say, the men simply can't be induced
to dance and there are wall flowers at
every party. because there aren't men
enough to keep all the girls dancing.
Nothing of that here. Stays at every
party. In Topeka it is the girls rather
than the men who are spoiled. In 9TH
er towns you hear about girls chasing
men and nobody thinks anything of it.
/ Here the instances are so rare that they
/ cause a great deal of comment. The
men do the chasing In Topeka, and
everyone who wins a girl has to get
her away from a bunch of his rivals.
I Topeka is old-fashioned in number
! of respects but in none more than this.
/ That girls and women here occupy the
/ position appointed for them by senti-
mental and romantic traditions and
are courted instead Of doing the court
ing which is the modern way in other
towns.
The Good Government club viii
meet tomorrow with Mrs S. A. Swend-
son, 1927 Morris avenue.
y
Miss Carrie e Wilcox entertained
/ very Informally Wednesday evening at
her home. 433 Fillmore, street her
I guests were: Miss Helen Walker. Miss
Bertha House, Miss Pansy Johnston,
i Miss Grace Wilcox. Mr.. z. p Daniels.
Mr.. Geo. Russell. Mr.. Ed. Teeman, Mr..
Roilo McCord. Miss Walker leaves