The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-18

lated her with evident Sincerity-also
kissed her.
Welfare of the Club Will be enhanced
by your election" she said. You are
more prominent Socially than am and
can preside with more Grace and have
better Executive Ability, SO 1 am de-
lighted with the Result"
But at the end of the story Alice
wakes up.
Mrs A A. Rodgers will ask guests
for luncheon Wednesday.
The people who afraid to say it to
your face and who sends anonymous
''comic'' valentines instead caused
row in the exclusive circles of Musko-
the smart set there. The local chapter
of the Goat club was busy in this d.
rection, too, but it is not believed that
the shoe pinched hard enough in any
instance to start row.
The Gae Lang club will be entertain
ed by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Klingaman
on Tuesday evening instead of Monday
evening.
A French statistician recently ad
dressed the question, Why do you
wish to marry?" to more than 200 sin
replies. A Topeka woman says the
reason she wishes to marry is in order
to have somebody to button her waists
in the back.
There is said to be another row in the
Mutual Admiration society which has
dominated the smart set for the past
FIVE or six years OF course it will pro-
gested an alarming contingency: would
the dissolution of the NJ. A. leave US
without a smart set?
The Lotus club Will meet February
q with Mrs. F. H. Vaughn, 1915 Blu
chanan street.
A new gentleman's club is to be or
ganized in Topeka to be known as the
Perfect Ladies' Tight Wad club.
A curious bachelor who has a mania
for looking through the shopping bags
and purses of his girl friends, examined
three the other afternoon belonging to
a group of debutantes with whom he
was drinking chocolate at the soda
fountain. One girl had six cents, one
three cents and the third, one lone
penny. The average girl has a pocket
book that cost from five to thirty dol
lars and in it a sample of silk or lace,
a pocket mirror, a dirty powder rag"
cards and car fare enough to get home
on.
A man who is going to New York
next week on business will pay excess
baggage charges on account of pack
ages sent to their eastern kin by his
acQuaintances who want to save express
rates or fear that the things they have
to send would be broken unless sent by
a trustworthy messenger. Not only Will
he have to go to Brooklyn, Hoboken,
upper Harlem and New Rochelle, to de-
liver packages but he has been asked to
take a day off from business and run
down to Long Island with jar of to-
mato- preserves and up to Irvington
with a boarding school girls spring un-
derwear.
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MIR. A. is carrying his mourning to
extremes, isn't hep
Il should say so. Why I haven't even
seen him with an off-color woman
since his wife died. 81
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs r. E. Edwards and Mrs. F. B.
Hine of KinsIey, Who were guests of
land, returned home yesterday. Mrs.
Smith and her guests and Mrs
t. Kelly spent Friday. and
Saturday in Kansas City and saw
Nance O'Neil at the Willis Wood and
Madame Bertha Kalich at the Schu-
bert's.
Miss Susan Gay Of Kansas City left
cousins. Mrs Edward Epps and Mrs.
Roy Allen, for the remainder of the
winter.
Kansas City Journal: Mrs. James
K. tombstone and her daughter, Jane,
are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
T. Herrick. 1880 Prospect avenue.
Mr. Charles Magaw will go to New
York on a business trip next week and