The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-28
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The engagement of Miss Helen B
ripley of Boston, Massachusetts, tt
Mr.. Frederick Malcolm Eaton of Berk-
ley, California, which will be announced
at Easter will be of much interest to
! Topeka friends of Miss Ripley who met
her when she visited Miss Louise KEEL
lam about two years ago and who re-
member her as a most attractive girl
| me date of the wedding will not be an
nounced and is quite indefinite. Miss
| Ripley is a sister of Mr.. Payson Ripley
OF New Mexico, formerly of Topeka,
and a niece of Mr.. E. P. Ripley of Chi
| cago, president of the Santa Fe Rail-
way company.
The New York gossips to the effect
that Mr.. Stuyvesant Fish was deposed
from his office of president of the Illi-
| nois Central, not on account of his atti-
tude in the insurance companies inves-
tigation, as was formerly claimed, but
because Mrs. Fish had refused to ask
Mr.. Z. H. Harriman's daughters, Misses
Mary and Cornelia Hartman, to her
entertainments, will not down. The
current Human Life publishes detail
ed account of this episode of the turn
ing down of the Hartman girls by Mrs.
Fish and the subsequent turning down
of Mr.. Fish by Mr.. Hartman. 1t is said
that Mrs. Fish talks not wisely and too
much-that she is one of those disagree
able persons who SAY just what they
think and that the many enemies such
a policy invariably makes and who wera
formerly afraid to resent anything the
powerful Mrs. Fish did are showing
their teeth now that, whether for bust
ness or other reasons, the more import
ant branches of the AStor and Wander
bilt families are allied against her and
the star of her social supremacy threat
ems to wane. 1t is said that at a large
dinner given by Mrs. Fish at her town
house shortly before Lent the list of
those present showed plainly the eff
fects of the social or business. or bust
ness and social feud in which the Fish
family have become entangled whether,
as some say, because of the SquarenesS
and integrity of Mr.. Fish which antag-
onized the less scrupulous financial
leaders of New York, or as others de-
clare, because of Mrs. Fish's lack of
diplomacy and short sightedness in OPP
posing the admission of the Hartman
girls to her exclusive set. The company
at Mrs. Fish's dinner, one critic declar-
ed was fashionable but not represen-
tative" and there followed a long list
of the names of important people who
were not present
The society outs" everywhere will
rather sympathize with and applaud
Mr. Hartman for his resentment OF
the alleged snub offered his daughters
by Mrs Fish, and whether the story is |
true or not it is characteristic or wo- |
men in her position. The woman who |
can dearly loves to hand a lemon to the |
woman who is a notch beneath her in |
the social scale. Mrs. Fish probably had |
no real objection to the Hartman |
girls" If as the story goes, she want |
ed to keep them out of the fashionable |
and exclusive set of which she is a lead |
ar. she was doubtless prompted bynoth-
ing more than the natural jealousy of
lne woman for other women. No wo-
nan welcomes new women to her circle.
Whenever possible she prevents their
admission and if, as in this CNss, she
has young, daughters of her own she Is
specially anxious to avoid any extra
for them
The E. o. w Whist club will meet
Friday afternoon with Mrs. Walter
Bates, Auburndale.
The Current Literature club wants
O make some money for the Critten-
on home, and will have a homemade
andy table at the April meeting of
he city federation of clubs next
'hursdav afternoon Club women are
equested to spread the tidings so that
-omen who attend the meeting may
e prepared for extra financial de-
hands and be able to buy a nickePs
7orth Of fudge without having 70 walk
ONE Except the P. w. G.'s, who
arm their money and often have as
1uch as 10 cents over and above ex- ,
enses, no woman ever has anything ,
L,
Mrs. E. W. Hoch gave a luncheon
at the governors house for ,
nese guests: Mrs. E. T Hutchinson
f Winfield. Kan; Mrs. S. c. South 7
f Burlington. Mrs. Lillian Mitchner }
f Baldwin, and Mrs Sadie Lewis of
7
The Rev and Mrs. Edwin Locke ,
ave a dinner Tuesday night at their :
Il11a N 11r,1i |
lent to their guests, DR.. and Mrs. J. {
: T. Main of Iowa college, Grinnell. !
,wa. The others asked were Cover !
or and Mrs. Hoch, Miss Edna Hoch, !
ad Mrs. P. ]. Clevenger and Miss 7
levenger :
Mrs Charles Gault will entertain :
Mrs. George Kelly of White Cloud,
an, who is the guest of Mrs. Robert |
errick.
Mr. and Mrs. A ] WolcOtt enter +
ined the Bohemians Tuesday night.
r and Mrs Willis Coston played for c
r. and Mrs. Edwin Knowles. The
ub will meet in a fortnight with Mr.. '
Id Mrs. George Eagle. A
A Topeka girl had an old hat, on 8
e tricorne order, with a brim that n
rned up sharply all around The n
her day she conceived the idea of
aking it over into a mushroom" a s.
ape that is popular this spring. She o
versed the rim, simply turned it ]
'wn all around. and it made a per- N
CT mushroom. Then she bought so
nts' worth of flowers at the F. c. +
and a girl friend put them on for +.
II, and she has P. G.. Easter hat
at looks as if it might have cost n
teen or twenty dollars n
y -
Mrs J. P. Raster gave a luncheon -
sterday for her mother, Mrs. L. NJ.
Her of Burlington, Iowa The table +
Is decorated with apple blossoms y
d the guests were Mrs Miller, Mrs.
liza beth Oliver Mrs. Emeline War