The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-25

-. H41I9 t1ahtOfd Ford or KAN
Sas city will begin her series of IL
lustrated lectures on the chateaux of
FRANCE at the high school auditorium
tomorrow afternoon at half after 2
O'CLOCK One lecture Thursday after
noon one Friday afternoon and the
third Friday evening Seventy-five
cents Tor ticket for the series which
may pc used by one, two or three per-
SONS. Inc lectures are under the aus
plces of the city federation of wo-
men CLUBS and are attracting unus-
circles.
A Topeka man has a long distance
correspondence filtration with Helen
Green. the clever author of At the
Actors Boarding House. which is one
OF the seasons best sellers and
among the most entertaining and
original books of the year.
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Little Isabel Smith, who with her
mother Mrs. William Smith of st.
Louis have been the guests of rsand
Mrs. James P. Rowley for a number
or months, was years old yesterday
ana the anniversary was made the
occasion of a lovely birthday party at
the Rowley residence, 826 Monroe
street. The children We're asked for
. O'Clock and played games until 8,
When they had pink and white
luncheon served in the dining room.
smilax, pink hyacinths, pink carna-
tons and pink candles. The center
piece was a pink and white birthday
cake wreathed in smilax and with
three blazing pink candles. and this
was fanked by vases filled with hya-
ctnths- At each cover was a car
nation boutonniere, a big Easter egg
or Easter bunny filed with candy,
and snapper containing a cap of
colored tissue paper. When the birth
III aJIt tnn nron al
found a silver thimble in her piece
and Billy Drechsel a whistle and this
elected them king and queen of the
party. The guests were Hila Van
Hook, Marian Williams, Anna Furry.
Dacotah Drechsel, Eleanor Hayes,
Ruth Thompson, Billy Drechsef,
Walker Kirk Johnston, alias BUS
ter" Scholer Bangs and George Sny-
der.
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A little boy who was inclined to be
shy and reticent was asked to a chill
drens party and his mother insisted
upon his going although he was very
reluctant. But she persuaded him,
dressed him UP in his best and sent him
off. About an hour later he came
sneaking home. why, dear!" the
mother exclaimed. sis the party over so
soon?" 'N-n-no,'' he sobbed digging
his fists in his eye. but when they
passed the lemonade in a p-p-pitcher
just IKE the one we use at nome. L
was $50 homesick I couldn't stand it
and I ran away and came h-h-home."
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What is your idea of the dullest day |
You could spend? A party of men and |
women were discussing the question |
the other night. MY idea of the
most boresome way of spending time,'' |
said one girl, lis sight seeing at |
worlds fair 10, that's because
you've never been abroad" exclaim-
ed girl who had. Never say you |
are bored until you have spent day af- |
ter day dragging YEARLY through ca
thedrals and art galleries, your tired |
statuary and gothic arches and your
poor feet biistered and sore'' 1.-The |
dullest day 1 remember said the |
Married Man, 81 went shopping with
my wife and her sisters in New
York" Just imagined" shrieked all |
the women in concert, "being bored |
shopping in New York" MY dullest
day." said another member of the |
party" was at a Chautauqua listen
Ing to lectures and concerts with |
some friends who thought they were
giving me a rare treat 1.-THE dullest
day." insisted a man whose business
compels him to travel great deal,
sis spent at a little old railway juno
tton where you wait from morning
until night for train you had expect
ed to get away on within ten minutes
after your arrival Nothing is so
tiresome in my recollection said the
Widow, "as a day some remote kin of
my husbands spent with us soon af-
ter we were married. We had alb
selutely nothing in common, 1 had
never seen them before and hoped
sincerely never to see them again and
knew they were thinking the same
things about me-" you talk about