The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-23
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! Miss Mildred Lobdell and Mr.. c. E.
| Fairchild Of Benton Harbor, Michigan,
on Christmas day and will leave i'm
mediately for Omaha. They will return
here in February for short visit be-
fore taking southern trip. Miss Lob
dell is a department manager at Berk-
son Brothers Topeka shop and is the
sister of Mrs. A. Berkson of Kansas
City. She has lived in Topeka about a
year and has made many friends here
to whom the announcement of her ap=
preaching marriage is of much interest.
Mr.. Fairbanks is travelling salesman
for Chicago house.
"
An old girl, who is almost in her
dotage, was asked to the Owl dance
last night, and as her sisters helped to
get her ready they said: Now, granny,
don't forget your foot-warmer and
your shoulder shawl, because the young
things flying by SO fast make 1t
draughty in the dowager's row" So
the Old Girl tottered away to the party
and the first persons she met in the
dressing room were girls whom she had
hitherto regarded merely as bellies of
the dim and distant future, like Miss
Edith Updegraff, Miss Ruth Wilson,
Miss Mildred Morton, Miss May Kelly,
Miss Isabel Mills and Miss Marguerite
KOOntz. Now you know that was no
place for a nervous woman and she
would have turned around and walked
right out again, but she saw, hiding
their withered charms in a corner,
some of last years buds, and in COM
parison with the youngest members of
the youngest set they seemed so staid
and seasoned that she could almost re-
gard them as contemporaries. Every
time one is fortunate enough to draw
for a dance in the Mellins' Food crowd
one sees beautiful young sub-de-
butantes in short frocks with their hair
in braids who are at their first real
party. No need to ask if there are any
of hon
it, there are, and the next high school
parties will prove it. You may think
all the girls in Topeka are married or
engaged on account of the number of
weddings in the Helianthus set this
season. Nothing to it. There were
girls enough at the Owl dance to in
sure the local peach crop for the next
fifteen seasons. And as for beauty and
have neither looks nor gowns nor
enthusiasm to compare with the show
ing the Owls and their guests made.
OF course they had 'em once, II
that is any consolation to them, but
it was hard for the innocent bystander
to believe last night, that there was
ever before in all the world so beau
tiful a girl as, say. Miss Cornelia
Gleed. Miss Gleed, who is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles S. Gleed
is new to the dances, this being her
first season at even the high school
sets parties, and she was incompar-
ably lovely last night in an Empire
gown of pale blue satin trimmed with
gold lace with shoes and hose and
gloves to match. Another girl who
was much admired was Miss Aileen
Horton of Kansas City, guest of Miss
Dorothy Porter, a blonde of an eth
ereal and exquisite type who was
gowned in pink and whose beauty was
one of the sensations of the evening
Then there was Miss Katharine KEEL
lam in pink satin, Miss Helen Haugh-
ey in rose satin, Miss Grace Koontz
in lavendar satin, Miss Elizabeth Hol-
liday in white satin, Miss Marie Lag
erstrom, Miss Gladys Scott, Miss Alice
Larimer, Miss Mary Gleed, Miss Ann
Troutman, Miss Edna Hopkins, Miss
Helen Spielman, Miss Madeline Whit
ney, Miss isabel Heath and Miss Mil
bred Guild bellies and beauties Of the
college crowd, who looked good
enough to eat elf you could only eat
your cake and have it tool and the
still younger enchantresses of the high
school set like Miss Rachel Coston,
Miss Leona Curtis, Miss Marian Wear
Miss Alice Larimer, Miss Dorothy
Porter, Miss Esther Rodgers Miss
Clyde Bonebrake and Miss Bertha
Hull There was not young girl at
the party who couldn't have taken a |
beauty prize and there were more |
pretty gowns made by real gown |
builders. instead of being dome in |
the house." than you will see at a |
grown-up party
The hostesses to whom credit for