The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-08

uhls, Miss Maude stonehin. Miss Hazel
Senior, Miss Laura Armstrong, Miss
Helen Haughey, Miss Alice Meade.
Miss Stella Bowman
The CaIidorean club will meet next
Monday with Mrs. G. C. Foss.
The Minerva club met Monday,
FEBRUARY 3, with Mrs. George H.
Mays, 712 Buchanan street Answers
to roll call were travel anecdotes The
programme follows:
Bayard Taylor-Mrs. A. H. Lieh-
man.
Discussion-Miss Walter and Mr..
Charles Moon
Is chivalry Declining Mrs. Geo.
G.. Moon
Mrs. w. P. Hemphin.
Sonata for piano Haydn
Mrs. H. L. Peppmyer.
Aria from the Creation Haydn
~s Mrs. E. G. Foster
Andante with Variations
Miss Maud Mary Kline.
With Verdure Clad, (the Creation.)
The Sweetest Flower That
Blooms ........ .... Seiber
Miss Walter.
The guests of the club were: Mrs.
F. w. Watson, Mrs. H .. Garvey,
Mrs. H ]. Lane and Miss Guen God
ard The club was voted into the
city federation Thursday at the Feb
ruary meeting. Mrs. Garvey pre-
scented its application for member
ship.
A staid respectable spinster against
whom a breath Of scandal has never
been spoken was walking home in the
rain the other night just before din
ner time when a strange man came up
behind her. seized her by the arm and
leaning over whispered in her ear,
I'D know those legs any wherei'
For one wild second she hesitated be-
tween swooning or shrieking for the
police but in that interval she saw the
mans face and it was as full of
CONSERVATION as her own. Dropping
her arm he backed off with stam-
mered apologies which he stopped
abruptly and breaking into a run he
beat it down the street as fast as a
fat middle-aged man can go. OF
course you guess the answer; he had
come UP behind the spinster who was
carrying an umbrella and holding her
skirts carefully raised out of the
slush of the streets, and had mistaken
her for his wife. But he stayed in
the house for three days after the
afraid of meeting that severe. spec
tacled Spin face to face again.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. M. Crow gave a
pleasant party at the their home on
Wednesday evening. The following
guests were present: The Rev. DR..
Lynch and Mrs. Lynch, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. M. Forbes. Mr.. and Mrs. D. H.
Branaman, Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Stan
ton and Miss Lou Stanton. Mr.. and
Mrs. J. H. Castor. Mr.. and Mrs. w. E
Smythe. Mr.. and Mrs. W. F. Greer
Mrs. n. ]. Gillett. Mr.. and Mrs. G. E.
Shick, Mr.. and Mrs. I. B. Brown. Mr.
and Mrs. E. c. Evans, Mr.. and Mrs
H. J. Crow, Mrs Alternately, Mrs
Stout. DR.. and Mrs. Brockett.
Miss Vida Estelle Busch enter
tanned for the following guests at he1
| home, 222 Polk street last night: Mr.
and Mrs. J. w. Arts of Chicago, Mr.
and Mrs. F. M. Rynerson and Mrs
| Edith Vanderlip of Burlngame. The
other guests were: Mr.. and Mrs. A
| c. Klingman, Mr.. and Mrs. w. F.
Lake. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Arts Of
Chicago, Mr. and Mrs F. NJ Ryner.
son of Seattle. Wash. Mrs. Edit
Van Derlip, Mr.. Otto Nelson, Mr.
Gutfred Nelson. Mr.. Harold Cham
berlain, Mr.. George Beardsley.
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Miss Sara M. Stickney entertained
| the young girls of her Sunday school,
class in Grace Cathedral this after
noon from to O'Clock at her home
on West Tenth avenue.
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The West Side Reading club had a
very enjoyable meeting at the home
of Mrs. A. A. Rodgers last Wednes-
day evening. It was a social session
and the husbands Of the members
were the guests of the club. A three
course supper was served and the hos
tesses were MeSdames Rodgers
Andrews, Sparks, Lane and WEIGH
The next meeting of the club will be
with Mrs. Fred Snow. 706 Polk street
next Tuesday afternoon and the sub
ject will be 1.-THE Future of the Rus
sian Empire
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The Ceramic Art club met Friday
with Miss Lindsay. Mrs. Shattuc ok
rea da paper on Ceramic Decorations
The club will entertain the Mothers
club at the Provident asso ciation
Tuesday afternoon.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Judge and Mrs. John c. Pollock
and Miss Pollock will shortly go tc
Kansas City, Kan, for a permanent