The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-15

dumb to think that I should be the only
person in my station of life who has al
ways been poor folks have to admit
that it has always been a struggle with
me to make both ends meet and while
I don't believe that it is any more of a
struggle for me now than 1t is for some
of my friends I have no memories of
former splendor, or consultations in the
thought of Grand kin to furnish talk
calculated to impress other people. Not
only am 1 poor and have always been
poor but have no connections of blood
or friendship with anybody particularly
rich or stylish in the Best Society in
New York and think it is pretty mean
that Fate should have picked me out
for the one person so bereft of near
swell elegance
When the Sousa band played Wait
ing at the Church yesterday every girl
in the audience crossed her fingers,
touched on wood and hummed mo
wedding bells for me-"
NJ -,
The Pow Wow club, a new high
school organization, gave its first dance
attended were: Miss Julia Wellhouse.
Miss Marie Eagerstrom, Miss Helen
Haughey, Miss Lillian Parfitt, Miss
Mary Sutherland, Miss Hazel Howe.
Miss Dorothy Scott. Miss Alice Noble
of Atchison, Miss Ruth Hamlin, Miss
Marjorie Whitney, Miss Louise Heath.
Miss Helen Mitchell, Miss Bertha Hull.
ers. Miss Mildred Mills, Mr.. Quinton
Adams, Mr.. Dick Reed, Mr.. William
Wellhouse. Mr.. Alfred Quinton, Mr..
Chapel Foote, Mr.. Robert McGiffert.
Mr.. Allen McNeal Mr.. Russell Grimes.
Mr.. Malcolm Copeland, Mr.. Warwick
Brown, Mr. Paul Moneypenny, Mr..
Leslie Rowles, Mr.. Bruce Mcfarland.
Mr.. Herbert Heym, Mr.. Harry Gaunt,
~ T4I,
son.
Mrs. Ernest Matthews will entertain
four tables at 500 tonight. Her guests
will be: Mr.. and Mrs Walter Bates,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Mccoy, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Green, Mr.. and Mrs Norman
Jury, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred w. Norris,
Miss Sadie Kelly, Miss Gladys Norris,
Mrs. Carlton Sawin of Salina Miss
Myrtle Jones, Mr.. William Bates, Mr.
Alec Campbell.
The Duplicate Whist club met this
afternoon with Mrs. Eugene S. Quin-
ton.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. 6. H. Cope and Mrs. Ben Doran
of Wichita Falls. Texas, arrived today
to visit Mrs. c. H. Burger.
Mr.. r. NJ. Chilcott of Guthrie, Ok, was
in town today on his way home from
a visit in Wamego. Mrs. Chileott 40
COmpan1ed MIN TO IODeka ana went
from here to Council Grove to visit her
niece, Mrs. NJ. F. Amrine.
Kansas City Journal: Miss Norma
Wheeler, 221 South Jackson avenue, has
sent out invitations for a card party
Friday afternoon, November %. in hon
or CT her sister Mrs. Charles Hatfield
Mrs. Alice Ebert has returned from
Kansas City where she was the guest
for two weeks of Mrs. D. A. Downing.
Mrs Downing, Mrs. Bert Henry and
Mrs. RnUrnan formerly
Topeka, entertained for Mrs. Ebert dur
ing her visit
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Bowlby and Mr.
and Mrs T. V. Coddington left today
for California to spend a few weeks.
Kansas City Star: Mrs. Alice Ebert
guest fer the past two weeks of Mrs.
d. A. Downing, 3040 East Thirty-first
street, will return today to her home in
Topeka. Mrs. Downing entertained in
formally for Mrs. Ebert Tuesday after
noon.
The o. D. It's of the Westminster
church will give a masquerade tonight
at the home of Miss Daisy Peart 1916
Garfield avenue.
Mrs. Curtis Gephart of Kenosha, Wis.
who is the guest of her mother, Mrs. A.
o. Holcomb, will go to Valley Falls
next week.
Miss Helen Ecker of Delphos is the
guest of Mrs. Levi Hawkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dunkelburg have re-
turned to Fort Wayne, Ind, after visit
to Mr.. and Mrs! N. M. Rice.
Mrs. ]. D. Mcfarland is Spending to-
day in Hclton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Jury, of Kansas
City, are the parents OF a son born No
vember IL, to whom they have given the
name of Ellis Howard. Mrs. Jury was
before her marriage Miss Blanch Ellis
of Topeka.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Beetle have re-
turned from short stay at the Nichol-
SON ranch, Valley Falls. 49,
The Us will meet with Miss Grace