The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

So we sweltered and sizzled in heavy
coats and worried over the extra
laundry bills like the bloomin' idiots
we are. This summer a coat is not
demanded, the Dutch neck frock is
prevalent one may wear short sleeves
without danger of arrest. and life Is,
| altogether more like living this sum-
mer than for a number Of summers
past.
Mrs. A. T. Lucas will give lunch
con next Thursday for Mrs A. w
Davis of Kansas City and Miss Eda
smythe of Denver.
Many Topeka people will be inter
ested in the announcement of the
marriage of Miss Alice Harriet
Tucker of Manhattan and Mr.. Dean
Collier Arnold of Boise City. Idaho,
which took place Tuesday, June %,
in Denver. Miss Grace Tucker &C
companied her sister to Denver where
Mr.. Arnold met them. The bride has
often visited Mrs. F. G.. W. Travis,
1885 Park. avenue. and Mr.. Arnold
who is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. w.
Arnold of Westmoreland. was for
merly student at Washburn. They
will be at home in Boise where Mr..
Arnold is in the automobile business.
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A visiting girl tells this story: I'm
our family the one meek and COM
Jack. He never has a word to say
in defense of his own ideas or prefer
ences about domestic affairs. He
never complains, never suggests, new
er grunbles. But because he rarely
speaks, and the rest of us chatter all
the time, and we have found that 81
lence has a power to impress even the
supplemented, we make OF his mag
mary displeasure, an instrument of
awe and terror to the cook. In our
conferences with her we speak of Mr..
Jacks extraordinary fastidiousalesS
and throw out dark hints of the re-
suits of his displeasures. Mr.. Jack
never Says much we tell Aunty and
then pause impressively But he likes
his coffee so-and-so.' 'Yaz' M she an
swers hastily and seriously and the
coffee is always to Mistah Jacks Xix
ing after that. When we want to
complain about something and are
afraid to. for fear the cook. will leave,
we say to her, Mr.. Jack was grum-
bling about the way the living room
was kept today. He said very book he
picked up had dust on it Or Mr..
Jack didn't Say much but he didn't
like the steak tonight A woman
just naturally recognizes her master,
man, and look from the man of the
house has more weight with the cook
than a lecture from her mistress.
Mrs. w. r. Carrie gave a luncheon
for twenty-four today at the home OF
her mother, Mrs. D. .. Crane in honor
of her sister, Mrs. A. W. Davis of
Kansas City and of Miss Eda Smythe
of Denver. The guests were seated
at two tables decorated with bowls of
nasturtiums and a victorola concert
followed the luncheon
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Miss Bertha Cheney of Jewell City,
a Washburn graduate well known in
Topeka, and Mr.. Pete Crandall, a
Jewell City business man, were mar
ried Wednesday evening and have
gone to Colorado for their honey
moon AT home in Jewell City. Miss
1904 and Mr.. Cranden is a graduate
of the University of Kansas and is a
Phi Delt.
Miss Alice Huntington gave a
luncheon followed by whist Thursday
for Miss Irene Carter. The others
asked were Miss Florence Davis, Miss
Freda Belts. Miss Helen Casey, Miss
Kathleen Middaugh, Miss Marguerite
Kiene, Miss Mary Cooper, Miss
err, Miss Rose Lovitt, Miss Pauline
Pettyjohn, Miss Katharine Carter,
Miss Molly Sipes, Miss Isabel Dicken-
son, Miss Miriam Foster. Miss Ethel
Parf1tt, Miss Josephine Doran, Miss
Matte Benedict.
Miss Lula Healv was guest of honor
at picnic given at Vinewood Thurs
Gay by the following girls: MISS Louise
McNeal, Miss Nellie Raster, Miss Vivien
futile, Miss Margaret Better, Miss
Daisy Neil. Miss Daisy Monroe, Miss
Ethel Frizzell, Miss Marcia Williams,
Miss Winnie Williams. Miss Louise
Raster, Miss Elizabeth Manspeaker and
Miss Stacey Burgess.
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The Sunset hour at the Chautauqua
tonight will be devoted to the Wom-
ans Kansas Day club. The discussion
will be led by Mrs. A. H. Horton and
Miss Lucy Kingman.
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Miss Ethel Ellis will entertain in
formally this evening for Miss Bertha
Lux and Mr.. Foster Richenbacher,
whose marriage will take place the 7th.
The guests will be: Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Small, Mr.. and Mrs. James Cottrell,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Peyton, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Stewart. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Forbes, Miss Bertha Lux, Miss Laura
Lux, Miss Alba Van Vechten, Miss
Clara Mitchell, Miss Myrta We1lman,
Miss Myrta Dillon. Miss Mamie Sage,
Mr. Foster Richenbacher. Mr.. L, Ellis,
Mr.. Emmett Craver. Mr.. Ralph Camp