The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-25


People knew Mrs. Porter. who had
done so well with the other girls, must
be worried about Marian, she was so
plain, quiet and unattractive. The
man business was always slow with
her. She was left out of everything
and stayed at home while her pretty,
popular sisters fitted about at parties
and picnics and other forms of gaiety.
She was bridesmaid to both Jean and
Lu and everybody said she would still
be clinging to the parent stem when
little Christine. who was still in short
skirts when Lu was married. stepped
off. Christine was very, very pretty
and really the belle of her set the year
she came out. She held her own for
a number of successive seasons but for
some reason she didn't marry prompt
ly and we'll as the other girls had done
This may have been because she was
spoiled by the adulation of an admir-
ing family, and it may have been be-
cause having had so much luck with
the other girls and christine pelng
prettier and more attractive than
either of them. Mrs. Porter had grown
careless and was trusting blindly, as
so many foolish mothers do, to a be-
lief that girl can marry herself with
out assistance from an old head. OF
course she wasn't at all worried about
Christine, because although she had
been out for a good many years, she
was still one of the most sought after
girls in town and had cavaliers galore.
It just happened. however, that none
of the eligible ones were serious, and
none of the serious ones ellglple.
Finally however, when Christine was
twenty-seVen she went out of town on
last desperate man-hunt and came
back engaged. They were married
that fall. The man was good looking,
was reported to be wealthy ana ms
kin who came on for the wedding
looked like the real thing. 1t was a
Perfectly grand wedding and poor
Marian was bridesmaid for the fatal
third time. But, what do you think!
1t wasn't fatal after all, for she mar
ried three months later a chap as
plain and quiet and unproin1slng IN
appearance as herself whom she met
at the wedding. People said he WASH I
much but Mrs. Porter must be re-
Ueved to get her off her hands and the
other girls had all done so we'll But
dear me! you know, you never can
tell That was ten years ago ana look
at the Porter girls today. The 1atner
Of that Young Heston whom Jean
married lost all his own money ana
some that wasn't his in speculatlons
and committed suicide and his son was
left penniless with neither the sense
nor the training to take care of him
self. much less a family Wh1ch hao
cultivated extravagant tastes. IN
spite of the brilliant expectations con-
corning LUIS husband ne mas Deen ull-
luckv and they have fallen rather than
risen in the scale of fortune AS TOT
pretty little Christine her fine eaten
turned out to be a drunken oegenel
ate and two years aLter her se.. 81 s,
she came home with her baby Tor an
extended visit to her parents, ana mas
never gone back. But what 40 you
think of that lanky, colorless, meek
looking chap that married FOOT Wal
lam? why, he's had all the luck in the
world has made bushels of money
and is already prominent Iactor III
the business and social life or MS cry
Poor Marian lives in Big Rouse,
in her own carriage with two men on
the hox. Indeed, her husbands ratlIls
in r. G. Dun's is so gooo anu sre
wear so many jewels that peoPle a.
everybody finds her at least olstln-
guished looking:
Mrs. w. A. Johnston' who is a mem I'M
General Federation of Women's clubs,
stoned off In Columbus, Ohio, on her
1Vav home from Norfolk and James
town. Va, where she attended tue
presidents council Of the y: +. w XVI, - |
and visited the state library OF ONO, |
one Of the largest and best IN the
United States. The state Librarian
the Kansas hpraLS; |
said it occupied a high place am0ns
the libraries of the country. Inc
travelling library was started py tne
kansas clubwomen and curing NJ
administrator as d p,5s. Nv
IF the state federation was ADOPTED py
the state and made an important poAe
of the state library.
Mrs. E. H Anderson has asked guests
for Friday afternoon in honor OF Mrs'
70. w. Poindexter.
Mrs. G. D. Lytle gave an afternoon
musicale yesterday for Miss Vera Ben
70 Kansas to spend the summer with
par narents. Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Ben
jan,in in Westlawn. The hostess was
oerjeted nv Mrs c. E. Foote, Mrs. A.
u Jeffrey and Mrs. F. L. Bergman.
Tha invited guests We're: Mrs. w. h
RoU1bv. Mrs. Charles Galbreath, MISS
Hazel Miller, Miss Eolah German,
Nc MiIdred Baird, Miss Sadie Baird,
Miss Hazel Shoemaker, Miss Gladys
Scott Miss Helen Otis, Miss Grace
oils Miss May Hull, Miss Corinne COS
Ton Miss Bertha Murphy, Miss Grace
XUeich Miss Edna Hoch, Miss Anna
Hoch. Miss Margaret K1ngsberry, MISS
Dessa Hooker. Miss 1rma Doster' MISS
Irons of Fargo, N. D., and Miss Flor
ence WEIGH.
Mrs William Rickenbacher and her
daughter. Mrs. Clifford Dodge OF Sa-
Ina rave a reception yesterday after
noon for Miss Frances Smith whose
nnarria ge to Mr.. William Rickenbacher
is to take place tomorrow evening
THOSE asked to assist were: Mrs. Theo-
6ore Rickenbacher, Miss Grace Ricken-
bacher, Miss Irna Haggart of Sa1na,
Mrs F. M. Charles, Miss Marie Grubb
and Miss Dorothy Weymouth
Master Armin Weiskirch was given