The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-04
Society NeWS
q and Personal Mention
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Mrs @. D. Lyle Will entertain the
D. m, at her house in WestIawn-
The F'ortnightly club gave its tenth
annual dinner last night at Elmwood
| Place. the home OF Chief Justice and
Mrs. W. A. Johnston The company
was seated at one long table decor
ated in the national cOlOrS- Two glass
vases filed with red, white and blue
carnations rested at either end of the
table and the place cards bore the
club motto, Culture and Patriotism,
and 4. flag. The table was lighted by
| white candles set in four silver can
I delabra All the rooms were decor
/ tine, president of the club. acted as
| POSTMASTER and the post prandial
speeches were unusually good The
company included Judge and Mrs.
Mrs J. D. Mcfarland. Mr.. and Mrs.
A D. Gray. Mrs L D. Whittemore
and their guest. Mrs. Del w Forbes
of Marshall. Mimi Mr. and Mrs
H Loomfs. Dr. and Mrs A w
Thompson, Judge and Mrs Adrian l.
Greene, Mr. and Mrs Arthur NJ Hyde,
Mr.. and Mrs. D. L McEachron. DR..
and Mrs. Norman PIass. Dr. and Mrs
:. :. Estey. Rev. and Mrs Francis L
Hayes. Judge T F. Carver, Mrs Jona-
than Thomas, Mr.. John Macdonald.
Mr. and Mrs Scott Hopkins. Mr.
D. A Valentine, president of the
FortnightIy club. acted as toastmas-
ter The toasts were responded to as
follows: PLAY Ball" by the presi-
dent; a Few Pink Thoughts N H
LOOMS: Culture While You Wait
Mrs. :. S. Estey; Get Busy" Scott
Hopkins: Going Some" A D. Gray;
| There's Something Doing" Mrs Nc
Eachron; "A Spasm or Two" l. D.
! WhittemOre-
In memory of her husband, the late
Thomas E Dewey who was a mem
Der of the club, Mrs. Dewey sent
bouquet of beautiful flowers for the
dinner table decorations
Every so often every nousekeeper
gets disguised" as she expresses IT,
with her housemaid and lets her go
The fact probably is that the house
keeper becomes Disguised with her
own useIessness and listens to her
conscience which tells her that
strong. healthy woman who is married
10 a poor. or moderately poor. man
ought to do her own homework and
cooking. anyway But she pretends
that the girl has been getting more
and more worthless lately until she
simply can't stand her any longer
None of the rest of the family have
noticed that the girl was any different
the last weeks OF her service than be-
fore and the husband. knowing from
many uncomfortable experiences how
the experiment IS likely to turn out.
probably objects to the girls depar-
ture advising his wife to let well
enough alone But she won't listen
to him. She says she simply can't
stand IT any longer. The girl is no
earthly good She is slow and never
has the meals on time and nothing IS
fit to eat. She burned up a cake yes
terday and throws away more than
the family eats. She keeps the kitch-
en- in a constant mess and breaks
something every day The house
keeper AYERS that she wants to do her
own work anyway. for awhile She'll
enjoy having something decent to eat
once more. The work is not so hard
She doesn't know any reason why she
can't do it with woman to come in
and sweep thoroughly once a week
The husband reminds her that the re-
sponsibility of the Homework is con-
slant and monotonOus and that she
Will be tied down but she refuses to
consider that and after threatening it
for month or six weeks she lets the
servant go. The first day she has a
good time cleaning up the kitchen. and
the pleasure of discovering so much
dirt behind the range and so many
broken things hidden away in the pan
tries and telling about it, with many
gasps and ordinations, more than
atones for the difficulties Of the task
She talks enthusiastically about the
economies she will practice and an
nounces that the house bills under her
regime will be only about half as big
as they have been She cooks the
things she has been wanting to eat
and really enjoys it and her husbands
praise of her efforts cheers her won
derfulIy. The novelty lasts for two
or three days although she acknow-
lodges the first morning that she does
hate getting up to get breakfast and
task to the list of homework that she
disiikes. She says at first if IL were
not for getting breakfast and washing
the dishes she wouldn't mind doing
the work Later she discovers that II
is answering the telephone and door
bell when she is rushed to death, that
she hates" At the end of a week she
is willing to admit that even II a ser
want isn't much good it IS a comfort
to have her do things when you are
worn out She loathes rushing home
from an afternoon party and changing
her dress in order to go into the kitcF
en- to get dinner Her husband Ioathes
this. too. because the fact IS s-e US
consequence dinner is very late and
consists mainly of scraps left from
luncheon The first week she cooks a
great deal and gets up some mighty
wears off she slaps almost anything on
the table IN almost any old way. every
meal is late and she is cross as two
sticks half the time BY the third
week Stle Is OoluS MOST OF ner COOK
ing with a can-opeuer and is tele-
phoning every other day to the woman
who comes in" to sweep to see If she
can't wash her breakfast dishes to-
morrow and clean up the kitchen be
cause she is going out to luncheon or
TO a card party or something OF
course she can't always get this wo-
man and one day when she is unsuc-
cessfuI in the attempt and the house
is all in disorder and her husband has
a crouch on and she has a headache
and there is nothing TO eat and she
has made an engagement with some
friends to play bridge. she goes into
the kitchen to clear up the debris of