The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-05

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Lawrence and Miss johnson visits in
Topeka frequently. She expects to re-
turn home tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joel r. Burrow have
asked guests for dinner Thursday.
January 10, at Pinehurst, in compli-
.ment to the members of the new and
old state executive councils and their
wives.
Mrs. Reid posed for the very attrac-.
tive new Midwinter exposition poster
drawn by Mr.. Albert T. Reid 1t has
come to pass in Topeka that the Reid
poster advertising the Midwinter ex-
position is looked forward to with as
much interest the event itself. Last
year Miss Isabel Smith was Mr.. Reid's
model and the poster girl was very
good likeness of this charmingly- pref
ty young woman, the youngest of the
four. beautiful daughters of Mr..
Charles Blood Smith. This years
as likeness of Mrs. Reid. who has
merely suggested the type of the 1907
Midwinter girl.
Miss Permelia Curtis entertained in
formally at her home in North Topeka
last night for these guests: Miss Imo-
gene Wherritt of Kansas City, Miss
Lola McAfee, Miss Helen Haines, Miss
Hazel Haines, Miss Eleanor Lukens.
Miss Nellie Dolman, Miss Mabel Skin
ner, Mr.. Harold Forbes, Mr.. Ed James,
Mr.. Glen Bryan, Mr.. James McAfee,
Mr.. Grove Dolman. Mr.. JAG Camp
bell and Mr. Bob Thomas.
The new Foster Humane society
building on Kansas avenue between
Ninth and Tenth has on its second
floor an attractive suit of rooms suit
able for receptions, club meetings and
the like which the city federation of
clubs is considering leasing for its
during the year.
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A bride who has recently come to
Topeka from another town was mar
ried suddenly and had no trousseau.
The night after her wedding her faith
er'S house caught on fire and was
burned with most of it's contents. This
furnished her with good excuse for
the absence of new glad rags and she
is telling everybody about the $4,000 |
trousseau which was burned up al
though, as a matter of fact, she was |
away on her wedding journey with all |
her clothes when the fire occurred.
The Sigma Delta Psi sorority girls
Of Washburn will live at DR.. Fisk's
residence on the campus the rest of
he school year.
They say we don't have any ro-
nances in this work-a-day prosaic
world except the vulgar kind that get
nto the newspapers with big head
leroines.
But we do.
A romance or tragedy-it depends
Upon the point of view and upon the
way it turns out, which no man can
oresee-had a elimination in Topeka
,nly the other day in marriage
quietly chronicled in obscure notices
n the newspa pers. Just a plain, I'M
marriage had taken place-no big
headlines telling that the bride was
prominent society girl And she
wasn't. The groom also is to local I:
ashton and to fame unknown. They "A
re ordinary, plain folk and nothing &
n their appearance suggests either
omance or tragedy. F,
Parker was clerk in a railway Of
zee in Topeka. He came here from
smaller Kansas town and nobody ;
new him and he didn't know any Il
ody except the other fellows in his !
fice and the people at his boarding
ouse. After he had been here a year
r so a friend in Arkansas City or
ONE such place was married to girl Z
rom the same town and, the wedding
Quincy over they came to- Topeka, I
there the groom had accepted a po-
ition,' to live. The man-hiE name
night have been Brown-sought out /:
is old friend Parker and introduced /
i'm to his bride. very pretty girl,
nd Parker took them to his boarding ;
ouse, where they lived While they
1ere looking for house. Three days
fter Mrs. Browns arrival in Topeka |
nd Introduction to Parker, and less
han a. month after her marriage to
crown, she and Parker had discover
q that they were affinities and that ,
hey loved one another with an all
onsuming love, or words TO that eff
ect.
OF course, Brown didn't make the
isccvery at the same time they did.
was six months later. in fact, and .
fter they had been housekeeping, 1