The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-10

MT. ana MRS. y. M. Nation, corner
OF Sixteenth and West streets, gave a
dinner last night for the following
guests. Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Denton,
Mr.. and Mrs F. S. Jackson, Mr.. and
Mrs. L.. L. Kiene and Mr.. w. E. Davis.
You hear, sometimes, that women
are greatly handicapped in love and
matrimony because custom forbids
that they take the initiative. Well, a
Topeka girl, once upon a time made up
her mind to be married, selected her
man, and went out of town and bought
her trousseau without even so much
as giving him hint. OF course every
body else understood her intentions
but the man remained in blissful
ignorance of the fact that he had been
elected" until she came home and an
nounced the engagement.
Another girl had two cavaliers, one
who wanted to marry her and one who
didn't. OF course in the aggravating
way that such things usually happen,
she would have preferred to marry the
one who didn't want to marry her
But in any case, as she was twenty
seven years old. she decided to marry
somebody so she started her trouSSeau
and let it be generally understood (by
everyone except the man himself) that
she was engaged to the adoring one
who was matrimonially inclined. Him
she still kept guessing and as he lived
out of town, it was easy to be engaged
to him without his knowledge. Mean
whole she rather hoped that the other
man hearing the rumors of her ap>
preaching marriage to his rival would
come across, so she dawdled along
months. Still the man she wanted
showed no disposition to want her for
keeps and the other man was so
willing that it really gave no zest to
thoroughly Disguised when a third
man, whom she had known in years
gone by appeared on the scene, re-
newed the old Irritation and as her
trousseau was now about finished she
ended her difficulties by marrying him.
And as luck would have it, such is the
natural contrariness of the brutes,
after the wedding arrangements were
made the man she had wanted all the
time, decided he couldn't afford to lose
her entirely and proposed. But the
wedding invitations were engraved
with the other mans name on them
and she really couldn't make change
at that late hour, besides, when she
learned she could have him. she found
she didn't want him SO awfully after
all, so she decided to let the bet 81
as it lay. The man doesn't make so
much difference, anyway. The trous-
seau's the thing:
Mr.. Walter Burgess gave a dinner
for six at the Elks club last night.
The girls Of the domestic science
classes of the manual training high
school will give a dinner tonight in
their department at the manual for
| the members Of the board of education
and their wives. Professor and Mrs.
H L. Miller, Professor and Mrs. ]. H.
Mcbride and Miss Bechtel. eacher OF
| domestic science. The pupils will cook
| and serve four course dinner.
| x r.
| A Topeka High school girl who was
going to New York with her par
ents to spend a fortnight wanted to
take two trunks. Two trunks" her
mother expostulated gently. 'Why
| your father and usually go with two
| suit cases." yes" replied Daughter
with. fine scorn. "And HOW do you
go?"
Miss Maude Scheerer of Chicago
will present Bernard Shaw's delight.
full comedy. Captain Brassbound's
Conversion" at the High school audi
torium next Wednesday evening
April Is. This play was written fol
! Ellen Terry who was most successful
in its presentation It makes a de
lightful reading. with its genial wit
it's true dramatic scenes, its beautiful
Moroccan setting, the fascinating
Sheiks and Arabs. Drinkwater the
cockney, the pompous English judge
a gentle souled Scotch missionary, the
pirate captain and his d1sreputaDlt
crew, and in the midst the true
woman, the center Of interest and In
f1uence.
Miss Scheerer spent her childhood
in Topeka and was at one time {
teacher in the public schools. Sh.
has since made a study of dramati,
art, in which she is highly gifted
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says of her
Miss Scheerer has beautiful voice
strength and physique, rare Titia1
coloring, an Intelligent grasp Of litera
ture, and, above all, the power t.
sway the human soul in all classes
and conditions
X X X
The Senior Leaders club of thu
Central Y. M. C. A. were entertained
at the home of Mr. Arthur McKinstry
last night.
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