The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-21
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The Weather Man must have been
thinking about the Debts, who give a
dance at Hudson's tonight, when. he
sent this cold wave. The Debts had
first arranged to have their party a.
the new National roof garden but 1t
couldn't be completed in time so they
changed to Hudson's and it's lucky
they did, otherwise some of the buds"
might have been nipped. This is no
weather for al fresco diddings. Only
the Topeka members Of the Delta
Omicron Omicron fraternity. their Std
dies and about ten additional couples
have been asked for the dance. Among
the out of town guests will be Misses
Fay Chisham and Alice Noble and Mr.
Orlan Weede of Atchison.
Mrs. Albert w Knowles has issued
invitations for Thursday afternoon,
May %.
The Rev. and Mrs. Charles NJ Shell
don received informal calls yesterday
in celebration of their seventeenth
wedding anniversary.
Dr. and Mrs. Norman Plass who
leave in June to spend the summer in
the east and will go to their new home
in Vancouver in the fall were guests of
honor at an informal evening by the
Washburn faculty last night at the
home of Professor and Mrs. Wilbur j.
Mrs. Plass, Mr.. and Mrs. D. L. Nc
Eachron, DR.. and Mrs Charles M. Shell
don, Mr.. and Mrs. ALI Klingenberg, Mr..
Frank T. Lee, DR.. D. NJ. Fisk, Miss
Agnes Fisk, Miss Charlotte Leavitt,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Clark, DR.. and
Mrs. H. I. Woods, Mr.. and Mrs. T. w.
Todd. DR.. and Mrs. Frank B. Dams,
Miss Dora Mclaughlin. Miss Mary
Haight, Miss Helen Dodge. Mr.. and
Mrs. A. M. Hyde, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
ATrS Shat
tuck, Mr.. and Mrs. e. c. Wilm, Mr.;
and Mrs William Aitkenhead, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. H. Lane, Mr.. Edmondson, MRS.
Edmondson, Mrs. Dean, Miss Jessie
Dean, Miss Irene Nye, Miss Gertrude
Longdon, Miss Ruby Kirk, Mrs. Theo-
dore Mason, Mrs. Small, Madam Lunde
Souther. Mrs. Florence Fox Thacher,
Mr. and Mrs. Cacy Wilson. Miss Clara
Bass, Mr.. Henry Fay Locke, Miss Ala
belle Troutman. Mr.. and Mrs: George
NJ. Stone, Mrs. B. j. Dills OF FLORENCE
and Mr. and Mrs. Greer.
Mr.. Carroll B. Merriam gave dinner
last night to celebrate Mrs. Merriam's
birthday anniversary at their house on
Fillmore street.
Mrs George Port Ashton gave an in
formal Kaffee Klatsch for few neigh
borhod friends today in compliment to
her guest, Mrs. Armand Madden, OF
Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs S. Williamson, APT
Monroe street, announce the engage
ment of their daughter. Belle, to Mr..
Victor Check of New York city. The
wedding will take place in the
autumn.
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A Topeka girl who treats the men
with scorn and contumely (is that the
right expression) and spends most OF
her time standing on their necks. is
nevertheless very popular and seems
to make 'em like it. It's not bad
system. If the men stand for it, all
well and good, and if they don't
girl can at least have the satisfaction
of knowing she never made fuss
over them. -, . $3.50
On a moving van all furniture looks
disreputable. A Topeka family re-
Gently moved into a new neighbOr-
hood and when the wagons with their
goods and chattels arrived and the
neighbors were hanging out of their
windows and over their porches rub
bering, the newcomers We're SO
ashamed of their property that they
had notion to disown it and scorn-
fully command the wagons to drive
on. "Who would have thought" ex-
claimed one of the girls tragically.
chat we could ever blush for the
he1rlOOmS we nave Dragged ABOUT 1Or
years because they were handed down
from our great-grandmoth Pey-
ton of Virginia.
X X
Miss Brown and Mr.. Smith know
each other casually and may be said
to belong to the same set. But they
rarely meet and he has never called
at her house. If the party is small
and he can't fill his programme with
out her name he asks her to dance.
At large party he doesn't see her
and she is thoroughly reconciled to his