The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09

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Miss Nellis was educated in Europe
and has been there many times but
this was her first visit to the Orient
and she is enthusiastic about IT. "A
western girl can have the best time
in the Far East of any place in the
world" she says. when the man
business is dull at home American
girls should go to Manila where there
are dozens of Perfectly Good army
and naval officers and other interest
ing eligibles to every white woman
Restricted as are the liberties of the
native women of the Orient, the men
OF the upper or governing classes are
thoroughly Europeanized in education
and understand the status OF the
Occidental woman perfectly They
treat her with the most charming
courtesy and l was never SO delight
fully entertained as in the Oriental
countries 1 visited and where 1 was
treated like a princess of royal
blood"
Some people claim that a certain
chap in town encroaches on the pre-
negatives of the women and knocks
too much.
Miss Ella Davis has asked guests
for a tea Friday afternoon for Miss
Monroe Winn of Columbia. Mo-, and
Miss Berenice Johnson of Atchison
who are visiting her. The hours will
be from until 6 o'clock.
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The Kid Philosopher: "They say
the country is going to the dogs but
here in Topeka the dogs are going to
the country"
The announcement of the marriage
of Miss Agnes Fisk and Mr.. Glen Mil
lice which took place Wednesday was
a surprise to their friends and ac-
quaintances. Miss Fisk is the second
daughter of the Rev. DR.. D. NJ. Fisk
of the chair of sociology of Washburn
college and Mr.. Millice is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. George r. Millice. Their
engagement was an open secret but
the plans for the wedding We're made
very suddenly, owing to Miss Fisk's
health. She has been suffering with
nervous prostration and was ordered
by her physician to California for the
summer. Accordingly the plans for
the wedding were made hastily and
only their relatives and a very few in
innate friends were apprised of it. DR..
Fisk went to Chicago about month
ago to do some studying at the Uni
sversity summer school and he was
called home by telegraph to perform
HdTTldBe ceremony
which took place at their house on Col
lege avenue at eleven-thirty o'clock
Wednesday morning The wedding
guests were Mrs. George r. Millice,
Mrs. Charles Decker of Lawrence, Mrs.
Langdon, Miss La We're Langdon, Miss
Allabelle Troutman. Miss Louise KEEL
lam and Miss Edna Morrow. The
bride was married in her travelling
suit, three piece toilet of natural
color pongee with shoes, gloves and
hat to match. The members of her
sorority, the Sigma Delta Psi of
Washburn, who are in town were at
the train to bid her goodbye. Mrs.
Millice, who was graduated from
Washburn in 1905, was one of the
founders of Sigma Delta Psi. Since
her graduation she has studied music
in New York and last year she taught
harmony and voice at the college. Mr..
Millice is also Washburn graduate.
He took his Bachelor degree in 1906
and has since been a student In the
school of medicine. He is a member of
the Delta Phi fraternity and was the
famous half-back of the Washburn
football eleven, for two years cham
pions of the Kansas gridiron Mr.. Mil
lice has been a newspaper reporter and
for vacation work this summer had
taken the position of manager of the
Country club. He is an exceptionally
clever, capable and popular young
nesday afternoon for Coronado Beach
where they will join the Tent City
colony for the summer
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The modish separate coat for general
utility wear with any and all costumes
is of dark blue serge. A Topeka wo-
man who has just returned from New
York is wearing a particularly good
looking half length coat of this mater
ial with collar and cuffs of lighter
blue and big white pearl buttons. An
other smart looking separate coat worn
by a Topeka woman is of linen crash /
in natural color faultlessly tailored and
indescribably chic. 1t came from New
York, too. An attractive young widow
who always wears distinctive clothes |
and wears them mighty we'll has a full
length coat of pongee, natural color. |
with cuffs and collar of reseda green |
which makes people turn around and
take another look
The women who have been scrimp-
ing and saving and short-changing |
their husbands on the house bills in |
order to buy Turkish rug, fall back |
IN faint calling for the smelling salts |
when they hear about a former To- |
peka girl who has married a rich Chi |
cago man and who has Swell EIe- |