The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-04
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Mrs. Frank Patterson is entertaining
a house party of Topeka friends at her
home in Emporia this week. Mrs. Fred
Cole, Mrs. Ben Akers, Mrs. Frank
Crane and Miss Mary Thompson are
the guests. They went down Monday
and are being feted and fused over by
the hospitable Emporia people. Mrs.
Fred Bonebrake of Usage City is also
spending the week in Emporia.
The formal opening of the new tea
room at Mills yesterday assumed the
Importance of a society event for 1t
was an occasion of much interest to
women. There has been tiny tea
room at Mills occupying small bal
cony built in at the back of the first
floor for a number of years and it has
been faithfully patronized by women
shoppers business women and a num-
Der of men, but the new room on the
third floor is larger and perfectly
equipped and it promises to become
the most popular rendezvous in town.
The room is artistically furnished in
the Mission style and the finish, light
ing and other details are charming. An
attractive rest room adjoins it-some-
thing the Topeka shops have needed for
a long time.
A feature of the opening of the tea
room yesterday was Mrs. M. w. Van
Valkenburg's luncheon for twenty-eigh.
one long table decorated with red car
nations and lighted by red candles
Afterwards the guests were taken to
the Copeland where they played five
hundred Mrs. Carl W. Nellis and Mrs.
William T. Crosby winning the gifts for
the highest scores-dainty sewing bags
completely equipped. The card tables
were arranged in the Copeland parlors
which were prettily decorated with pink
roses and pink candles.
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The Mellins' Food crowd is crazy
about the barn dance and the enthus-
iasm is spreading to the older sets.
Floyd McRae has the dope on it now
and is teaching it to his dancing classes
and it threatens to invade the most dig
nified circles although it is very much
on the hop, skip and jump order.
One of the girls of the T1voH set has
been practicing the dance with her
mother who used to dance 1t in her
girlhood. After the Tivoi dance
the other night one of the chaps. VINO
had sat around looking on all evening
while the K. U. men danced the new
dance, went home and practiced it in
the kitchen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison s. Morgan
have asked guests for a dinner party
Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hale Eastman
will entertain their bridge club at din
ner followed by bridge next Tuesday
evening.
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Speaking of model husbands, a To-
peka man far from objecting to his
wifes millinery bills ragged at her for
wearing the same old hat so long and
finally tore 1t off her head when they
were out motoring and threw 1t into the
street. girl in the party suggested
that somebody might pick it up and re-
turn it to them, as is usually the case
when one is trying to get rid of any
thing, so he drove back after it, picked
it up and completely demolished it,
Then his wife went down and blew her
self for a big hat that will set him
back about forty plunks. Serves him
right
A man about town who was for
merly very attentive to an attrac-
tive young widow has ceased his at
tentions and people are wondering
why. 1t is said, by those in the know,
that they were crazy about each other
but that before the man made for
NAL proposal he went out of town to
be sure he was off with the old love
before he was on with the new But