The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-15

are guests of Mr.. and Mrs Hiram Price
Dillon and will go east with them next
month to spend the summer at Far
Hills, New Jersey.
Mrs. Otis Allen and Miss Nellie Allen
have asked guests for Thursday after
noon in compliment to Miss Edna Guy
whose, marriage to Mr.. Joseph w.
Schaefer will take place this month.
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Mrs J. F. Daniels will give an in
formal dinner tonight for the people
who live at her house. Mrs. Daniels
has hired the Freshman house, 1920
Van Buren, street, for year and has a
number of dodgers: She viii leave the
18th for Chicago and New York and
will sail from the latter place to spend
two months with relatives in Germany.
The lilies are in bloom at Ragged
Robin DR.. Eva Harding's beautiful
place on College Hill, and are a sight
well worth while.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. H. White, 2021 West
street, have issued invitations for the
marriage of their daughter lone to Mr..
John Francis Hughes, Wednesday,
June 80, in the evening. At home after
August Is at Fort Scott.
Miss Ruth Leonard gave an informal
porch party at her home Monday night
Louis. The other guests were: Miss
Nealle Harbaugh, Miss Ella Waldron,
Miss Clara Parmalee, Mr.. Arthur Wood,
Mr.. Walter Haywood, Mr.. Charles
Youngreen. Mr.. Bee Smith and Mr.. Sey-
mour Organ.
Miss Helen Ames gave a dinner Mon
day night at her home for these guests:
Miss Queena Beauchamp of Holton,
Miss Grace Irwin of Kinsley, Miss Mary
Chase Chamberlain and Miss Gladys
Scott.
$ A Boston man who had never been
off the Atlantic coast came to Kansas
last week on a business trip, went to
the western part of the state and ran
into a tornado. He rode for miles in
an automobile, which ran into mud
out and returned to Topeka plaStered
with clay. WONT he talk when he
gets back to dear old Boston? A To-
peka acquaintance told him he had
lived % years in Kansas and had never
been in a tornado, but do you imagine
for a minute you could disabuse his
mind of the belief that Kansas cy-
clone is at least a weekly occurrence?
The average New Highlander of av-
erase means, never gets farther away
from home than New York. In To-
peka the Man from Boston had bust
ness dealings with a crude Westerner
who emphasizes his RS and says eether
and neither but who has been all over
this country and Canada and spent
one summer abroad. He has been in
New York oftener than the Boston man
and even knows Boston slightly. The
Man from Boston supposed he was I'M
dertaking a perilous journey into the
wilds when he left Massachusetts. He
had no idear we had any cities like
Topekar, Kan, west of Chicago. He
had expected to see our main street
composed of a few Chinese laundries
and many saloons. Nevertheless when
he tried to order cigarettes and a
highball he exclaimed Indignantly:
Talk about the New England Blue
Lawsi" A friend came to his relief and
procured him some cigarettes and
whisky % yesi such things still be,
they say), and he decided that the
west was not so hopeless if only the
people would drop their Abs"
This story is not exaggerated in the
least. The Man from Boston, Mass.
was fully as ignorant of the west as
has been stated and quite as impressed
by it's progress and development. This
does not mean that he liked it or that
one trip could overcome his prejudices.
Nor does it mean that Kansas has
nothing to learn from New England.
The West has all the defects of its
virtues and a westerner can admit it
and still be loyal. The West is Wig
orous, valiant vital, vainglorious
youth and all the strength. The East