The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-02


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Miss Irene Moore, engaged for in
genue roles by Mr.. James K. Hack
EFT, Is a Missouri girl. Her father was
| Crawford Moore, one of the prominent
| bankers of Kansas City before his
death few years ago. Miss Moore is
a graduate of Bethany college, To-
peka, and was the class valedictorian
| of her year.
| Mrs. j. B. Furry will entertain the
Monday Whist club at the Topeka
| club next Monday.
A Topeka man goes about wherever
| he is asked but frankly admits to
| his friends that he doesn't enjoy it.
| Then why do you go he was asked.
| Because he replied, 81 like to be in
vited and know I won't be if I stop
i going. Lord Houghton's ambition is
mine-'to be asked everywhere and
go nowhere
The Tell club will meet Wednes-
day with Miss Mary Meade. The club
| Mrs. Robert Carver, Mrs. Charles l..
| Mitchell and Miss Reita Updegraff.
y
A Washburn college girl who has
steady in her own town recently
quarreled with him and for about two
months they discontinued their cor
respondence. Last week he decided to
come up to Topeka to spend Thanks
giving and see if he couldn't make 1t
up with her. But when he arrived he
found that she had gone home with
a college chum to spend the vacation
and as he had only three days to
stay he had to go home before she got
back. Hard luck!
Miss Emma Smith, who is studying
domestic science at K. S. A. c. this
winter, and is spending the Thanks
giving recess with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. G. o. Smith. gave theater
party Friday night at the Grand for
1.-THE Blue Moon" her guests includ-
ing Mrs. J. w. Going, Mrs. G. O..
Smith, Miss Margaret Going, Miss
Hazel Jones and Miss Laura South
wick.
The next meeting Of the D. A. r.
will be held Thursday, December 5,
instead of on Saturday, the usual
meeting day, at the home of Mrs.
The other hostesses will be Mrs. Way
land Chapman, Mrs. r. A. Burch, Miss
Anna Speck and Miss Mary Barley.
The subject of the afternoon will be
Life on an Old Virginia Plantation
and the programme and entertain
tereSt.
Kansas City Star: A reception of
unusual brilliancy was given Saturday
afternoon by Mrs. James H. Harkless,
when she formally introduced to So
ciety her daughter, Miss Fay HAIRLESS.
The spacious living room was trans
formed into a bower of flowers. Here
pink and white chrysanthemums pre-
vailed against a background of ferns,
palms and trailing vines. The hall
was bright with huge fambeau
punches of American Beauty roses,
while the stairway was twined with
ropes of Southern smilax and vinca
vines The dining room table held an
exquisite basket of yellow chrysanthe-
NUNS and ferns tied with a butter
fly bow of yellow tulle. The buffet and
mantel were banked with the same
flowers. More than three hundred
guests were entertained during the
afternoon. Miss IIarkless carried an
armful of American Beauty. roses. An
orchestra was stationed in the lower
hall behind a lattice work of Southern
smilax.
week by Mrs. Edward G.. Blair for
series of afternoon teas to meet her
mother. Mrs. ]. j. Ingalls,. and her
sister, Mrs. j. e. Hunt
eff I wear this party dress another
dance the other night. 81 shall expect
to get anonymous letters about it,
Emporia Gazette: The Rev. and
Mrs. r. H. Mize entertained Wednes-
day with an evening party for Charles
Price.
The West Side Reading club will
meet tomorrow with Mrs. Irving Well
man, HOO Western avenue.
The December number of the Club
Member is out with an announcement
of change in the editorial staff. Mrs.
Margaret Hill McCarter, who started
the magazine and has been its editor
for three years, has been obliged, on
account of many conflicting duties. to
put some of her work in other hands.
and Mrs. Lila Day Monroe is the new
editor-in-chief. She will be assis ted
women. Mrs. Monroe is the new
president of the Kansas Equal Suf-
frage association and is well known
over the state. Mrs. McCarter's edi-
of the magazine in which she left as
final message to her readers of
three years the text GAS your days so
shall your strength be-" was her fare
we'll although many of her readers did
not SO understand it. Mrs. McCarter
will be missed from the magazine to
which she has given SO much of her
personality. Her editorials have been
invariably notable and the general
character of the magazine has been of
a high order. Under Mrs. Monroe's
guidance it will doubtless continue to
be helpful and successful and to rep
resent the best in the women's club
m ovement.
A pretty but quiet home wedding took