The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-18

effect. with narrow bias bands of ma
terial. The edges of the jumper were
finished with little frills of Valen-
ciennes lace.
DR.. Lyman Abbott of Boston, who is
in Lawrence this week for a series of
lectures at the University of Kansas
and who will come to Topeka the
thirtieth. to be the guest of the Fort
nightly club at dinner at Mills tea
room, is accompanied by his daugh-
ter, and their visit is creating a stir in
university society," The Kappa Alpha
Theta sorority entertained them at
dinner at their chapter house Monday
night and Professor Boodin and Pro-
fessor Sayre gave luncheon in their
honor at the Eldridge house Tues
day. Last night Professor and Mrs.
Arthur T. Walker gave a dinner for
them which was followed by a recep-
ton by the university Y. M. C. A. at
Myers hall. The Pi Phis will enter
tain Miss Abbott at dinner and they
will visit the Robinson farm, as DR..
Abbott has expressed a desire to see
Governor Robinson's former home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Duncan and Mr..
Norman Duncan were also among the
hosts and hostesses. giving a lunch
con today for the Abbotts and the Y.
w. c. A. of the university will give a
dinner and a reception for them.
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Topeka claims the smartest two
year-old baby on record-little Bobbie
Akers, Mr.. and Mrs Everett B. Akers'
son, who lives on West Eighth avenue,
eight blocks from Kansas avenue.
Tuesday Mrs. Akers brought him
down town with her and while she
was shopping at Mills he became
separated from her. When she was
ready to start home he wasn't to be
found in the store. Thoroughly
alarmed she looked and inquired for
him up and down the avenue, but
falling to find him she sought her
husband in tears and told him that
the baby was lost After further
fruftiess search they notified their
relatives and the police and a frantic
securing of the town was begun. The
father and mother were persuaded to
go home and leave the search to
others and when they approached the
house, there on the door step sat the
ton which some one had given him,
for them to see and which was
promptly crushed by their wild en-
braces. The precocious youngster
when he could not find his mothe
in the shop. had walked the eight
and contented1y waited until his par
entS returned.
Mr.. George M. Stone will give his
annual art exhibition Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday afternoons of this
week from half after two to five
o'clock in his studio in the Crawford
building. Assisting him will be Mrs.
Stone, Mrs. Jonathan Thomas, Mrs.
F. W. Watson. Mrs. Hammatt, Mrs.
J. C. McClintock, Miss Crosby, Mrs.
J. R. Burrow, Mrs. H. o. Garvey,
Mrs Charles F. Spencer. Mrs. Nor
man S. Wear. Mrs. Albert T. Reid.
Mrs. Norman Plass and Mrs J. w
Going.
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Henry Woodruff's appearance in To-
peka in Brown of Harvard recalls the
old gossip, new a decade ago, of love
affair between him and Miss Anna
Gould, afterwards Countess de Castel-
lane, now Madame Gould. The Gould
family all showed a decided penchant
for people of the theatrical profession
George Gould and Howard Gould both
married actresses and Anna Gould was
said to be head over heels in love with
handsome young Woodruff, then a
member of stock company in New
York. But the rest Of her family OBJ