The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-10

- VI inc Driodi party TINS even
Mrs William Redwood Smith will
give a luncheon Wednesday in honor of
Mrs. H. p. Dillon.
Mrs James Belcher entertained her
whist club this afternoon.
Misses Katharine and Theo BidweIl
VIII give dinner tonight in honor OF
MISS Anna Bolster of Spokane, Wash,
VINO is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. G.
+. Worley. The others asked are Miss
Louise Allison, Miss Mary Pickett,
Miss Marie Jones. Miss Roze thinner
man, Miss Ethel Frizzell Miss Bartha
Bowies. Miss Sarah Houston, Miss
Ethel Kaler.
Mrs Augustus Mackey gave a baby
party Friday for her daughter, Eliza
and their children We're asked: Mrs
Thomas Costello, Mrs. H. E. Lyman
Mrs Joseph Longshore, Mrs. Roland
Medlieott, Mrs. Thomas Mackey, Mrs.
J. g. Fleisch, Mrs. r. l.. Bone, Mrs.
Nelson.
Mrs. Brinton D. Woodward will en-
terrain Mrs. Dorr Norton of Kansas
Citys Miss Helen Thompson. Miss Hazel
Fasler and Miss Helen Smith at a.
house party at her home. Brynwood,
Among the hostesses who will give
parties in honor of Miss Winifred Had
ley before her marriage to Mr.. Walter
Davis. June 81. are Mrs. Thomas Cor
win. Miss Ruth and Helen Walker,
Mrs. w E. McVey, Mrs. William F.
Bowen. Mrs. E. E. wardin. Misses
Pearl and Ruby Owens. Mrs. ]. P.
wahle and Mrs. H. M. Hadiey.
A Topeka bachelor, who had not hith-
erto been suspected of such reprehensi-
Bile tendencies, has been proposed for
president of the Handholders' union.
The marriage of Miss Minnie L.
Chamberlain. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. L. Chamberlain, and Mr. Harry
Wright. will take place this evening
at the home of the brides parents, 1116
Monroe street.
Leavenworth Times Sunday: Mr.. |
and Mrs Dell Keller. Mrs. Smith of
Topeka. Mr.. and Mrs. John Lee of
Kansas City, DR.. Ewing of Chicago. Mr.. |
Barnes of Chicago and Mr.. Mason Has
ken of Kansas City will be the guests
today of Warden and Mrs. Haskell at
Lansing.
Mrs. Nellie Daniels and son James, |
will leave Monday for Upper Alton. Ill. |
to attend the graduating exercises of
Mr.. Morris Daniels on Wednesday.
Atchison Globe: L. A. Bigger and
wife, of Hutchinson, will be in Atchi- |
son next Saturday afternoon. When |
the editor of the Globe went around |
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on the P. & o. steamship Persia on |
the Arabian ocean. He was walking |
the decks one afternoon, soon after
leaving Bombay. and felt. particu-
larly lonesome. He came to the con-
clusion that he was the only Ameri-
can on the ship. but soon learned that |
Mr.. and Mrs. Bigger were passengers
The Atchtson man Travelled with the |
Biggers in Egypt and the Holy Land, /
and greatly enjoyed their company. In
the trip through the Holy Land the
behicle drawn by three horses. Ac-
cOmpanying the Kansas party was an
Arab horseman, to protect them from
Arab thieves, and dragoman, or guide
and interpreter, supplied by Thos. Cook
& Son. Mr.. Bigger is a great scholar,
and at Jerusalem. Jaffa, Jericho, and
other places in Palestine, he hunted up
a Bible, and commented on the Biblical
history associated with the places Wis
tied. Mr.. and Mrs. Bigger will go to
Troy Saturday night to see their pic
lures. The Atchison man will lecture
there that night, and many of the
stereopticon pictures show Mr.. and Mrs.
Bigger. Mrs. Bigger was noted shop
per. This writer has spent many an
hour in strange cities watching her
price things, and look them over. We
once spent an entire forenoon with her,
in Cairo, looking" at things in the
shops, and the party did not spend a
her. showing her all sorts of rugs. but
they could not satisfy her taste. Doz-
ems of Arab tradeSmen were SWarming
about. Many of them had been at the
expeditions at st. Louis and Chicago,
and talked a little English We would
have been helpless in their hands, had
not Mrs. Bigger been present. But
Mrs. Bigger would adjust her glasses
and critically look at whatever was
offered, and then pick the article to
pieces We finally told the tradesmen1
that whatever they sold Mrs. Bigger
we would pay for, knowing they could
not satisfy her; that she was simply
looking" Mr.. Bigger and this repor-
ter often laughed at the experience in
Cairo, which was enjoyable to idle men J.
who had never "shopped," and Mrs +
Bigger once replied: Il don't care;
as we could make out. Mrs. Bigger
had only one mission during her shop
ping in Cairo; her daughter in Hutch
inson had once purchased an imported
out whether her daughter had paid too
much. She also looked at tents; she
wanted a tent for her summer home
in Colorado. The Arabs set up dozens :
of tents in queer courts, but Mrs. Big :
ger found nothing that met with her
approval If she is not the cleverest {
shopper in America, we are mistaken {
In our estimate of her. She also has a :
longing for lace, and we once saw her
looking" at lace in the barber shopI 7
Of a ship. The barber had a little of +
everything to sell. including lace, and.
much to our surprise, the barber act
lally made a sale. She would also I
look" at lace at stations along the :
way, when peddlers fiocked about the :
railway carriages. !
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Mrs. ]. A. Howes of 41O East Eighth
street entertained in honor of Mrs T
Gus Weber of Lexington. Mo-. Friday \
evening. The house was decorated n
With carnations and jasmine. The c
yuests were entertained with vocal t
music by Mrs. Russ Stockton. accom-
panied by Miss Esther Stockton. is
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