The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17

E W. Hoch, The Rev. DIR. and Mrs
Frank H Lynch, Mr.. and Mrs. E. H.
Anderson, Mr.. and Mrs. P. J. eleven
ger, Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Snow, Pro-
fessor and Mrs. Ellenberger, Miss JOS
ephine Lynch and Mr. Harry Lewis.
Some of the high school students will
have a reception at a hall down town
tonight and as the faculty frowns upon
dancing they will be nice and sit
around primly and talk to their dear
teachers like little ladies and gentle
men until almost ten o'clock and then
go across the street to the Fluffy Ruff
fies dance and have a good time.
The Conseure club will give tacky
party tonight for the members and
their husbands at Mr. and Mrs. c. e.
Morton's apartment at the Heinz.
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'T Think man told the s. R. this
morning, that you ought to put Adv.
after some Of the items you have in
your department otherwise they may
mislead the innocent" Now what did
he mean by that?
The Fleur de Lis club met yesterday
with Mrs. Elmer Beynon. Mrs. M. N.
Schlegel, Mrs. Sutherland, Mrs. Wal
lace, Mrs. Harold Cartilage, Mrs. Fred
/ were substitutes. The next meeting
will be with Mrs. E. L. Fowler.
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Once during a dull season a few years
ago-an unusually strictly observed
Lent, perhaps-the Topeka S. RS union
had a meeting and decided that some
thing must be done. Nobody was COM
ing, nobody was going, nobody was
giving parties or getting married and
yet the insatiate city editor called for
copy. So they invented a Grand Lady
and named her Mrs. Wentworth Far
quhar Van Eyre regardless of the
probabilities Of nomenclature) and ev-
cry now and then they published an
item about her. They had her stopping
temporarily at a certain hotel while she
| looked for house, and contemplating
a residence of few months in Topeka.
They had her going to Paris to bring
| home a daughter who had been in
convent school there. They had her
running to New York for a few days
| shopping. People became interested in
| Mrs. Van Eyre and asked the s. r. s
| about her and there were even cards
left for her at the hotel where she was
| supposed to be stopping and the hotel
clerks called on the s. RS to come
| through and explain something about
/ her. Mrs. Wentworth FarQuhar Van
Eyre enlivened many a dull day for the
| S. RS union in the few weeks of her
imaginary residence in Topeka.
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The class of June, '0S, of the high
| school will give a reception tonight at
McRaes in honor of the class of jan
| uary, '0S.
| The girls of the Junior Auxiliary of
| Grace cathedral gave a tea at the home
| of Miss Katherine Kellam this after
noon from to o'clock. A program
/ was given by Miss Grace Terry, Miss
| ell nxrrn
| Miss Alice Meade, Miss Grace Wilcox
and Miss Helen Morrow. The officers
of the auxiliary are; Miss Marion
! Thompson, Miss Katharine Kellam,
Miss Emily Coye, Miss Helen Sharitt
and Miss Elizabeth Holiday.
Rich folks who live in real homes
| and have never tried lodging hous3 life
! ought to go Summing and learn some
thing about the submerged tenth in
rooming and boarding houses. A girl
| who had a position in Topeka but
whose family lives in another town
had a room at an apartment house.
| 1t was not a model of sybaritic luxury,
was on the third floor, Ono lift and
she had to go down flight to reach
| a bath, SO it would seem that the rent
she paid, sixteen dollars, was enough.
| But although it was not magnificent II
| was the only home she had in Topeka
| and the only place she could entertain
| leT LFfenuS, SO Sne maze II as dItrdc-
| tive as she could and was as particu-
lar about keeping it nice as if the
| room itself and all it contained were
| her own property. AS she was n
| model young woman whose behaviour
| would stand even the test of lodging
house criticism, paid her rent prompt
ly, was out all day and in all night,
you would think she must have been
| an ideal roomer and that the people
| who owned the house would have been
| delighted with her. But one Saturday
| night when a party of young women
| who lived in the house were in her
! room, bemoaning the fact that they
had to choose between breakfast and
their Sunday morning sleep. in a mo-
| ment of reckless dare-deviltry, she
asked them all for chatting dis :,
breakfast in her room next morning
| They went out and bought "eats" and
the next morning they had a perfectly
| lovely breakfast party, with scram bIed
eggs In the chatting dish and coffee and
rolls and grape fruit. BUT That
afternoon the reckless hostess was
called good and plenty by the land
lady who said she couldn't have any
thing Of That Sort going on in her