The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-06
Miss Mary MacLennan entertained


ardent.
Miss Mary MacLennan entertained
forty guests at Cedarcrest today for
her house party. Misses Helen Hack
ney.-AIice Brown and Mary Collett of
Atchison.~ Edith Raznbo= and Helen
Parker of Kansas City. THE tally
cards were adorned with photographs
of CedarcreSt and the prize was
brass loving cup.
Miss MacLennan's guests left for
their home today after very gay
week. Among those who gave parties
in their honor were Miss MacLennan,
dance and afternoon card party; Miss
Henrietta Alexander. luncheon and
evening card party; Miss Clyde Bone
brake. luncheon at the Country CLUB;
Country club; Misses Esther Rodgers
and Elizabeth Holiday, breakfast;
Mrs. Edward NJ. Jolley. dinner; Miss
Hazel Grimes. afternoon cards
A lecture bureau has heard about
the success of a Topeka chap who
plays the role of the fatherly advisor
with the girls and thus wins tn cir con-
f1dence and will sign him for next
season.
Miss Harriet Stanley gave
o'clock luncheon Tuesday at her home in
THOMPSON. a prospective bride. Among,
the guests was Miss Anna Hoch of To-
peka.
1t has reached the point where an in
offensive, tax-paying, God fearing news
paper reader gets numb below the knees
whenever he is tout in company for
fear somebody will ask him if he thinks
the Younger Set is as good as the right
ing Chance and wither him with scorn
when he has to admit that he has not
read either. The Younger Set is the new
Robert w. Chambers novel which the
women are quarrelling over at the book
stores and libraries. AS a matter. or
fact it is a good bit like the Fighting
Chance except that the problem involved
is divorce instead OF hereditary drunkan-
ness and maria ge-for-revenue-onl
Same noble hero struggling along under
an undeserved cloud and playing the
self-sacrificial and patient martyr to the
limit; same lovely heroine obliged to set
aside certain days at home for refusing
eligible suitors; same gentleman-bl black
guard, who needs the money, bullying
his wife and making his living by means
of q social influence which seems to
have been won by the kind Of stunts
credited by the yellow press to Mr..
Harry Lehr; same Nouveau Riches let
ting the impecunious smart set beat
them at bridge but evening up on Wall
street Mr. Chambers knows
how to make his books popular with wo-
men :all his villains are he-villians and
even his worst women are more sinned
not as much action in the Z. S. as in the
F. C.: the characters in the Y. S. don't
do much of anything except ring for tea.
The disagreeable woman who
runs a private lemon dispensary is a
character in the Y. S.. and somebody
asks why people endure her TO-" the
Disagreeable Woman replies, that is
what society is for. 1t is a protective as
sociation for the purpose of enduring
impossible people. 1t is said
that Mr.. Chambers like Mrs. Edith
Wharton is one of the sacred inner cir
Gle of the smart New York set of whom
he writes but his books sound very
much as If they were inspired
by Sunday supplement chronicles of
Good Society. Perhaps, though, Mr..
Chambers remembers that the majority
of novel readers upon whom an authors
royalties chiefly depends don't live on
Fifth avenue and prefers not to disturb
any of their tiIne-honored traditions
about the class to which they still sneer-
ingly refer as the Four Hundred.
y
Mrs. Earl Seymour of 1122 Kansas
avenue will entertain the Ceramic Art
club at the first meeting of the club
season Friday, September 13-
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The more the unobseryant unmarried
think about it the more they are in
clined to believe that there is something