The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-09

dinner Sunday at their home on East
sherman street. Covers were laid for
MT and Mrs. J. A. Fontron Mr.. and
Mrs. L. A. Bigger. Mr.. and Mrs L. E.
Fontron. Mr.. and Mrs. John Fontron
OF McPherson. Miss Mabel Fontron,
Mr.. Eugene Ware of Topeka and Mr..
Harry Everetts of Topeka
a farewell party was given Monday
nIght at the ]. w. Currie home for
| Miss Mary Stout who left TODAY for
indianapolis. Ind. to remain per-
manently. Those present were: Miss
Stout, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Roddy.
MT MT ana Mrs. Carl Currie. Miss Maude
Currie. Miss Dorothy Overmyer. Miss
cara Currie, Miss Mayme Currie. Miss
Bessie Stout Miss Edna Jones, Mr.. Joe
Locke and Mr. Jay currie.
Mrs. w. F. Schoch planned a small
surprise party for Mr.. Schoch last
night in celebration of his birthday
anniversary The company was linn
tied to their particular friends and the
evening was devoted to cards.
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:. Stewart Drum will give 7. o'clock
| dlnner at the home of his parents, Mr.
ana MRS. w. l. Drum, tonight for the
members Of his Sunday school class in
and Mrs. Ralph N. McEntire, the lat
ter being the teacher of the class.
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Miss Emma Gordon and Miss Theo
Jewell will entertain the members of
the 1halea club Saturday afternoon
for Miss Daisy Wellman.
The Thalea club will give a dinner
this evening at the Wiley in compli-
ment to Miss Wellman. The company
will include Miss Wellman, Mrs VIII
liam Benson, Mrs. Harold Cartilage,
Mrs. Jesse Fletcher, Miss Emma
Borden, Miss Theo. Jewell, Miss Mary
Morton. Miss Lottie Kelly, Miss Alice
Fuller. Miss, Jessie Stewart
The members of the U. and I. club
Will have charge of the booths at the
Midwinter fair this year. They will
be assisted by some of the members of
the 1ngleside board.
Helene Davis entertained the Talk
1t Over club yesterday afternoon The
members are Louise Bell, Katherine
Keller, Violet Crumbine, Bertha Clay
Jean Lindsay. Marguerite Allen and
Helene Davis.
The Iolene club Will meet tomorroy
afternoon with Mrs. W. r. Carrie, at
the home of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs
d. o. Crane, the cemetery.
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In every Illustrated Sunday supple
ment you read a lot about the society
woman'-Does the Socity Woman
Smoke Cigarettes and Use Cuss Words?
How the Society Woman Cares for Her
Nails. Society Women Go Crazy About
the Teddy Bear. Gambling on the In
crease Among Society Women. Society
Women Declare in Favor of Titan Hair
and Peroxide Pasts. So the headlines
run. Nobody probably reads the stuff
but the headlines are unacceptable and
they suggest the question, What is a
society woman?" The Sunday supple
ments talk about her as if she were Il
distinct specie-anyway, a distinct class,
but while the latter may be true in for
eign cities it is certainly not true in
America. In this country nobody could
tell society woman even If any
body knew what a society woman"
was, from a working girl, and, indeed
the working girl regards herself, and
with an undeniable right, as a society
woman" The working girl certainly
has her own society" no matter where |
she works, nor what she does, which is
as good an imitation as she and her
associates can contrive of the society"
of the Sunday supplement.
All American women look alike, dress |
alike and act alike, at least as far as
ton go. In foreign countries they say |
1t is easy to classify a woman by her |
appearance. French girls of the work. |
ing class are quietly gowned. at least |
at their business, in black, and do not |
pretend to ape the clothes and man |
ners of woman of wealth. The sight of |
working women going to their business |
on early morning street cars dressed |
as If for a function, with plumed hats |
trailing skirts, elbow sleeves and long |
gloves is one of the wonders OF the |
American world to foreigners. They |
can't understand how they manage 1t on /
their modest salaries. But the truth of |
the matter is that an American woman |
can manage anything If it is the fash
ion from changing their figure in the |
twinkling of an eye and without the aid |
of an expensive corsetiere to keeping |
her feet under her on the unaccustom-
ed. treacherous surface of a highly pol
ished floor.
1t may be because we still cling to the
illusions created by the campaign ora
tor and believe that we are all as free
and equal as the Constitution says, but
the average American woman believes
that she is a society woman or lust
as good and to make other people be-
neve 1t she dresses and acts the part |
to the best of her ability and accord
ing to her lights. Others who take a
more conservative view of the situa-
ton still believe that If the national
ideal of perfect equality has not been
entirely realized, the United States is
still the Home of Opportunity and
since in our see-saw existence, nobody
can tell where lightning may strike, If |
they are not society women" 1t is a
case of not yet but soon." They feel
that they must be constantly ready for
the society career that awaits them. so
they peruse the Sunday supplements
and the fashion magazines, buy cos
metics. learn to play bridge, and study
French.
The fact is that every woman in
this country is a society woman" no