The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-20

Mr.. Duncan Campbell, the young laird
ofInverneill and Ross, Argyleshire, Scot
land, and Mrs. Campbell who have been
guests of his uncle, Mr.. J. A Camp
bell, SIC Lincoln street, left today for
the Grand Canon Mr.. Duncan Camp
bell Is the young laird" of 1nvernelll
and Ross, one of the most famous
estates of Scotland. Mrs. Camppeh
was before her marriage Miss water
bury Of New York City.
Mrs. A1verado NJ. Fuller has asked
guests for afternoon cards at the
Copeland Wednesday in comphlnent 10
Miss Jean Kassuba of Milwaukee, MISS
Frances ConnelPs guest
y
The women of the Assembly club and
others OF their set will give masquer-
ade Leap Year dance at HUDSON
Thursday night.
People who can't talk to you five min
utes without referring casually to the
fact that they have been abroad
should meet a woman who is visiting
in Topeka now and who has crossed
fifteen times.
Mrs. James Frederick Scott will en-
terrain the Friday Luncheon-Bridge
this week.
Mrs. Lille Stevenson will entertain
Mrs. George Stevenson of Turon.
Mrs. Silas R. Porter and Mrs H A
Heath will entertain the Wednesday
evening whist club at supper followed
by cards at the home of the formeV
wednesday evening
q A Topeka family (and they don't live
z In Big House either) is entertaining
a young woman who travels with a
French maid and the quiet neighbor
hood where she is visiting is all wrought
up over the event. Any old ladies' maid
would create more than ripple in
Topeka society and the mere rumor of
a maid who never materialized. once
set the town agog. But now there is a
real French maid actually Here! not
just announced and telegraphing daily
to POSTPONE her arrival but here in the
flesh She is believed to be the first
French maid who ever came to Topeka
except with singer or actress and the
unassumipg people who are related to
her mistress ought to be able to read
their title clear to the leadership of the
smart set all the rest of their lives.
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Mr.. George F. Nicholson, Mr.. w j.
Black and Mr.. J. E German of Chi
cago who have been making an official
tour of the southern lines of the Santa
Fe will be in Topeka Wednesday. They
are accompanied by Mrs. Nicholson,
Mrs. Black and Mrs. German. Mrs.
Will SpeIu the Gay With MIS-
Eugene S. Quinton and Mrs. Nicholson
and Mrs. German. accompanied by Mrs.
Scott Hopkins will go to Lawrence to
spend the day with Mrs. Nicholson's
sister, Miss Caroline Watson.
When you have heard the same piece
of scandal told by three or four differ
ent people all claiming to Have 1t
Straight and note the variations. dis
crepancies and inconsistencies you
OIIRhf hf Wi n hat
story we probably largely manufac-s
tured out of not more than a grain of
truth.
Mrs. Dumont Smith of Kins1ey who
is in Topeka with Senator Smith for
the special session of the legislature
has an exquisite mandarin cloak which
she bought in Japan last summer. 1t is
the wonder and envy of all the women
who see it and is even credited with
starting a new fashion for men. A well
known Topeka man who lives at the
Copeland was seen parading through
the halls in his black and gray striped
bathrobe and being ''spoofed" about it
he announced that since the precedent
had been established he proposed wear
ing his mandarin cloak in public when
Mrs. Smiths and Mark Twain's ex-
ample and wear it on the street
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Greenwood en-
tertained their 500 club Saturday
night.
Mr.. A. A. GODDARD will be the hostess
of the Sorosis club Saturday.
Mrs. H. E. Lyman, 1892 Polk street,
entertained the Monday 500 club to-
day.
The Wichita Beacon has figured up
the cost of prizes given by card clubs
in that town to amount to more than
$500 a month. Chez! But Wichita is
a wicked town.
The following New York correspond
ence in the Kansas City Star:
Letters from Paris tell of a charm
ing little tea given by Mrs. Waterman
Stone at her apartments there. Mrs
Stones daughters, Miss Marguerite and
Miss Elizabeth Stone, are in school i'll
Paris, and by some special arrange
ment their mother is able to have i
small apartment practically in the
school, so that they really live with
her and at the same time have the adj
vantage of the atmosphere of a French
boarding school. Among Mrs stones
guests were. Mrs. \. L. Forsha Of
Hutchinson, Mrs. Underwood, formerly
of Hutchinson and now of Sandwich
Mass, and Miss Sarah Wilder of Hia-
watha. Mrs. Forsha and Mrs Under
wood spent the holidays in Paris and
now are in the south of France Miss