The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-09

Mrs. Al1C0 v. CIuRSIOn
the following young friends SATURDAY
evening in compliment to her son. Mr..
John Clugston: Miss Edith Morton.
Miss Nadine Lytle. Miss Katharine
Kellan, Miss Clara Fleishman. Miss
Alice Willard, Miss Marian Thompson,
Mr.. Robert Pierce, Mr.. Carl Trapp.
Mr.. Wilson Hobart, Mr.. Stanley Reed
and Mr.. Holmes Meade.
New York correspondence in the
Kansas City Star: Mrs. John Pond
Fritts, formerly of Topeka, is slowly
recovering from a severe illness at her
home in Edgewater, N. ]. After she
came here about three years ago Mrs.
herself in magazine work. She was
just beginning to enjoy the results of
her efforts when she broke down. AS
soon as she is sufficiently recovered
she will go to Topeka for long rest.
Mr.. F'ritts is employed by the Smith
Publishing company, which publishes
Ainslee's magazine, Smiths magazine
and others. They have a charming lit
tie home in Edgewater, a suburb
just across the river from New York.
Mrs. Fritts' mother, Mrs. Garwood.
makes her home with them.
Mrs. P. G. Noel of Topeka, who is
here for the winter, is very pleasantly
situated only a block from Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Holiday, old Topeka
friends. The Holidays have an apart
ment in F'ifty-irst street, while Mrs.
Noel is in Fifty-second. Mrs. Noel is
especially interested in art nettterS,
and there have been SO many exh1bi-
tions this winter and they have been
so uniformly excellent, that she has
found her time well occupied in keep
ing up with them. Mr.. Frank Holli-
day is at the head of the National AS
sociation of Retail Druggists. His son.
Ted Holiday, is quite musical, and has
published much of his work. His
daughter, Miss Frances Holiday, is in
school here in the city.
Mr.. Hale Hamilton, who is in Nat
Goodwin's company playing the new
Broadhurst piece, "The Easterner,"
has grown so stout since his college
days at Lawrence that his friends
there would scarcely recognize him.
Mr.. Hamilton is a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. D. M Hamilton of Topeka, and was
prominent in college. affairs and So
ciety when he attended the university
at Lawrence. Mr.. Hamiltons part in
the new play is not a large one. but
he was one of the few members of the
cast who escaped from the general
roasting the company received at the
hands of the critics. One paper said:
''Mr. Hale Hamilton was jolly and
beaming, and the most interesting
actor in the play. But he was killed
off at the end of the first act, nd
wouldn't even come to life for q cur
tain call" Mr.. Hamilton's wife, known
on the stage as Miss Jane Oaker, has
Silver Girl in which she was featured
early in the season, and is now visiting
her relatives in st. Louis.
Mrs. Mary Vance Humphrey is here
to spend the remainder of the winter
with her daughter. Miss Adele Hum
phrey, at her, apartment in One Hun
dred and Thirty-ninth street. Mrs.
Humphrey is in deep mourning for
her husband, and is not going about at
all, not even to club meetings. She
has been invited to participate in sew
eral such meetings, and to tell of the
work of western club women, but has
declined.
Mrs. J. B. Billiard gave a very de-
1ightful musicale to some of her
friends last Saturday night. Piano
solos, duos and trios, vocal solos,
readings and approximations were
features of the programme. After the
programme an elaborate supper was
served. Carnations We're used on the
table and the place cards were in har-
mony with the musicale, being cards
upon which were written strains of
music. The guests included Mr.. ana
Mrs. J. B. Marshall, Mrs. Lucia o.