The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-27

ing ornamented by a little heavy lace
and rows of buttons. The bodice was
made with center panel back and
front and had a yoke upper portion.
Miss Alice Meade and Miss Virginia
Meade gave a bridge party this af-
ternoon for Miss Jeanette Lewis of
Knoxville, ILL.,, guest of Miss Mary
Chase Chamberlain and Miss Betty
Niles of Salt Lake City who is visiting
Miss Permelia Curtis.
A Topeka man, old enough to know
better. has the whooping cough and
the govt.
The Helianthus club will reorganize
next month for its fifteenth season.
The Helianthus dances will be given
at the Elks club this winter.
Misses Eva and Isabel Smith asked
few girl friends informally for
luncheon today to meet their guest.
Miss Margaret Wilson. of Milwaukee.
Joseph Medill Patterson. of Chicago,
grandson of the late Joseph Medill,
who made the Chicago Tribune one of
the best newspapers in the United
States, has written a novel The Little
have created a sensation in the smart
Chicago set into which the author was
born and with which he has been iden-
titled but which feels itself too sharp
ly criticized by some of his descriptions
of modern fashionable life. Here are
some of the definitions in the Little
Brother of the Rich:
Wife-"A woman who is willing to
buy position with money who refuses
TO be a mother for fear of missing a
season or spelling her figure"
Husband-'A combined pearl fishery
and diamond mine, married only for
his money"
Home-''A mable palace tenanted by
woman whose husband knows things
about her that would surprise her."
You will start three on your honey
moon," one of Mr. Patterson's men
characters says to the rival who has
SSRR'@"'S' him. you . she and ''''l'-
The dinner dance at the Country club
last night was attended by Mrs James
=. Rowley, Miss Floyd Robenson, Miss
Louise Kellam, Miss Edna Herbst, Miss
Miss Helen Otis. Miss Margaret Wilson
of Milwaukee, Miss Eva Smith. Miss
Isabel Smith, Mr.. Dana MacVicar, Mr..
Bert Reid, Mr.. Charles Guibor. Mr..
Kurtz Kellam, Mr. Mike Murray. Mr..
Edwin Curry, Mr.. Lew Graham, Mr.
Dan Hammatt, Mr.. David I.akin. Mr..
Joe Wilson, Mr.. Harold Copeland.
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There will be a subscription dance
at the National roof garden Friday
evening.
Miss Marguerite Kiene. who leaves
early in September for Leavenworth to
enter Mount Saint Marys academy for
the school term, was given a surprise
party Wednesday evening by the fol-
lowing friends at the home Mr. and
Mrs. w. H. Davis, 901 Western avenue:
Miss Mary COOper Miss Florapca nav
is. Miss Helen Casey. Miss Blanch
Wharton, Miss Isabel Dickman, Miss
Alice Etnyre. Miss Irene Carter, Miss
Dorothy Berry, Miss Odes Samuels.
Miss Matte Payne. Miss Ethel Cloud.
Mr.. Arthur Buff, Mr.. Walter Davis, Mr..
Chester Hamilton. Mr.. Fabian Dick
inson, Mr.. William Bailey Mr. Row
Johnston, Mr.. Charles McKittrick Mr..
VIM. Pierce, Mr.. Lee Samuels, Mr.. Ed
Hossfelt, Mr.. Allen Miller, Mr.. Lester
Davis.
Mrs. c. NJ. Hill gave a children's
party this afternoon to celebrate her
daughter Harriet's eleventh birthday.
The girls asked were: Berenice Peck.
Margaret Rust, Mohra Gatchell Ruth
Gladys Rogers. Pauline Mcvey, Lulu
Giles, Mary Clark, Antoinette Clark.
sSld Margaret Hill
A wedding of interest to many To-
peka people. is that OF Miss Nellie Sup
pie and Robert N. Downie, which will
take place at the home of the bride
near Scranton, September q Miss Sun
pie has but recently returned from a
two years stay in Spokane, Wash. Mr..
Downie is employed in the State Saw
ings bank.
The West Side Forestry club will be