The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-09

An informal dinner was given at the
Country club last night to celebrate
the birthday anniversaries, which IAN
within the same week, of Miss Florence
Rossington, Mr.. Dan Hammatt and Mr.
Henry Scandrett. The others asked
were Mrs. Jack Firth and Mrs. Dorr
Norton of Kansas City, Mrs; ). ;: BUT
Miss Scandrett. Miss Louise Keham'
Miss Hazel Fassler, Miss Helen Thomp-
son, Miss Helen Smith, Miss Eva smith,
Miss Isabel Smith, Miss Katharine
Sneve of St Paul, MI. Arml f .EaS 1ld
Mr.. Ben Scandrett, Mr.. Guilford DUO
ley. Mr.. Paul Walker and Mr. Henry
Donaldson.
The Easter Helianthus dance VIII be
given at Steinberg's tonight.
new diversion has been discovered
in the form of the indoor or wormless
picnic. The worthless picnic has many
advantages over the common or garden
variety. To begin with 1t is always
seasonable and is as popular with It's
devorees in the winter as in the sum-
mer and in the summer as in the VIM
ter In the second place 1t Is less trou-
Bile than the outdoor picnic and not
attended by SO many uncertainties.
Then the weather makes no difference;
IF after a woman has cooked and baked
and worn herself to a fragile getting
ready for it, the picnic day arrives &C
companied by deluge, the picnic pIc
ceeds just advertised and she ism
left with a lot of hard boiled eggs po-
tato salad and fried chicken on her
hands.
Mrs. W. A Morton gave an infor-
NAL musicale this afternoon in honor
of Mrs. Herbert Hodge OF Apllene-
These si.o contributed to the pro
Hurst. Mrs. William w. Wikidal. Mrs
Frank S. Thomas, Mrs. Hodge and MISS
Lillian Foster, vocalists, and Mrs. Don
MuIvane and Mrs. Hal Hazlett, plan
lists
Mrs. c. G. Foster has asked guests
for tomorrow afternoon in compl1ment
to Mrs Herbert Hodge of Abilene and
Mrs. Charles L. Mitchell will give
bridge in her honor Friday afternoon
A Topeka man of intellectual tastes
claims that he would be a great poet
If he could manage to complete the
verses he begins. He has brilliant ideas
but they are usually fragmentary-ne
can't write more than two lines on any
one subject. 1t has been suggested, now
ever that his lines would make 1ne
Fluctuations" and he is about to pub
lish a volume of Quotations from ms
own pen. trusting to luck that nopooy
will demand permission TO read the
whole of any of the poems" from
which he prints excerpts
Mr.. and Mrs. George w Martin VIII
give a dinner tonight for these guests:
Mr. and Mrs. N B. Burge, MI ana
Mrs Cornelius Burge. Mr.. and Mrs.
n g Rurge Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln
Martin and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mar
tin of Kansas City, Miss Beatrice
Burge, Miss Ruth Burge, Miss Fanny
Burge, Miss Zu Adams. Miss Lucie
Greene Mr.. William Bacon. Mr.. and
Mrs. George Root. Mrs. ]. p Griswold,
Miss Gertrude Coburn. Mrs J. NJ.
Sullivan. Miss Villa Rodgers, Mr..
I,oring Cox of Junction CITY, Mr.-and
Mrs. w H Mackey of Junction City,
Miss Clara Francis. Mr.. A. Greene and
Mrs. z. a. Orr. ---.-----
The lambda Alpha lambda girls
gave a card party at the Country club
this afternoon in honor of Miss Meryl
Parks who leaves soon for a per-
manent residence in Kansas City. Only
the sorority members were asked.
tanned her bridge club this afternoon
for her guest. Mrs. Jack Firth of Kan
sas City.
The Delta Phis of Washburn COLLEGE
will give their annual dinner at the
Throop Friday evening April H.
There is so much talk about the
young man of independent means who
composes the Leisure Glass in Topeka,
among the people who are tearing
their hair in mad endeavor to make
money enough to be able to be as idle
as he is that the Leisure Glass has de-
cided to pose as a worker. With the
aid of some of his friends he will
have a rumor started that he is an
Author busily engaged upon a monu-
mental work on philosophy. In or