The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01
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tie social season at the Governor S
House with q musicale for the official
End residential sets sometime this month
at which Mr.. Harold Henry of Law
renee will furnish the pro-
eramme. Mr.. Henry is a
concert pianist of unusual attainment
He began his musical education in Law
renee but studied i'll Europe for num-
Der of years and has achieved a con-
siderable success on the concert stage.
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Mrs. ]. c. Holland gave a luncheon
at the Mission Tea room Thursday fol-
for her sister. Mrs. Kerr of Ada, Ohio.
The other guests were Mrs. w. E
Trautman. Mrs. c. L. Fuller Mrs. E.
W. Whitsett. Mrs. c. H. Wolff, Mrs.
The U and 1 club will conduct do
nestle science classes as usual at the
Provident Association this winter The
lessons have already commenced un-
der the direction of Mrs. Justice. who
is a graduate of the domestic science
&c partment at K. S. a. c., Manhattan.
Free afternoon and evening classes are
paying pupils. whose fees help to pay
the expenses of the institution. No de-
partment of local philanthropical en-
deavor is more worthy or has met with
greater success than the L and 1 club
cooking school, which was organized
first four years ago and which has
trained many young women from fash
ionable as we'll as from humble homes
in the important subjects OF food val
Ites, nutrition, and the preparation
OF food. The domestic science schools
will finally solve the servant problem.
Girls IF the classes which formerly
taught their daughters only parlorl
tricks are now studying domestic sci
ence with the result that the kitchen
has taken a position of new import
arce i'll everybody's respect. Not only
is a knowledge of domestic science,
with the modern improvements and in
ventions which tend to make housework
simpler, making many women indie
pendent of cooks and housemaids, but
it has earned greater respect and con
sideration for domestic service. The
day will come when girl who holds
the position Of a house servant will be
as well educated. of as good family anu
as thoroughly trained for her position
as many other wage earning woman
Ir consequence of which her position
will carry equal advantages and will
be as desirable in every way.
The high school juniors will have a
hayrack ride tonight with a camp fire
picnic at the foot of the mound. Miss
Lillian Stone is president of the class
The sophomore class of Washburn
will have a campfire this evening on
the Shunganunga south of the CAM
pus. The sophcnores and freshmen of
Washbnrn are agitating the subject OF
a canerush
A harvest home concert by the choir
of the First Baptist church will be
given Friday evening. October 29. The
choir will be assisted by Mrs. E. G.
program will consist of Carrots Har
vest Cantata and miscellaneous num-
bers.
Mrs, Alfred B. Quinton gave an after |
noon bridge today for Mrs. Charles NJ. |
Morton and Mrs. j. p. Stewart of |
Geneseo. Illinois, who are guests of |
Mrs. w. A. Morton.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles NJ. Morton and
Mrs J. P. Stewart of Geneseo, Illinois. /
are guests of Mr.. Morton's and Mrs |
Stewards brother, Mr.. w. A. Morton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morton will take their |
guests to Lawrence and Lake View in |
their motor car tomorrow and they will
spend Sunday at their cottage at Lake
View.
Mrs George NJ. Crawford and her son
have gone to Chicago to spend
a week.
Dr. A. s. Embree is i'll and threaten
ed with pneumonia
Mrs. A L. Redden and Mrs. Lee Cor
don have returned from Europe and
will spend a week with Mrs. Charles
at 1164 Clay street. Miss Miriam Muir
ply of Tulsa, Oklahoma. is also the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. Smith.
Mr.. Harry Better has gone to Bald
win to enter Baker university
Mr.. c. ]. Brown of Blue Rapids was
In Topeka yesterday to see his daugh
ter. Mrs. j. w. Gleed, who is i'll with
typhoid fever.
Mr.. Marco Morrow is in Chicago on
a business trip.
Miss Mildred Poindexter has returned
to her home in Kansas City after
spending a few days with Miss Mabel
Andrews.
Mr. and Mrs James William Jones
have returned from their wedding trip
and are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. n. NJ.
Rice.
Mr. and Mrs George West of San Ar
tonic, Texas, arrived in Topeka yester
lay. called by the serious illness of Mr..
Vests sister, Miss Bess West, whose
Heath occurred last night.
Mrs Charles O'Nei1 and son Charles
Of Kansas City are guests of Mr.. and
Silxer Lake. Mrs. O'Neil will come to
Topeka later and will be the guest OF
Mrs. Edwin O'Neil.
Mr. and Mrs Edward Warner of
Sheffield. Illinois, guests of Mr. and
Mrs A. C. Smith, left Tuesday evening
'or California, where they will spend d
month.
Mrs. Charles F.. Spencer will leave to-
light for Seattle, Washington. where
she will visit the exposition and be the
guest of Mrs. Albert Charles Phillips.
Mrs. Phillips and her parents, Judge
md Mrs De Witt c. Nellis, will join
Ter at Hays City. where they have been
Tisiting for a few days.
Mrs Pliny L. Soper who spent the ,
summer at some of the northern lake
escorts and was in a sanitarium in
Michigan for a while, has returned to
Topeka to spend the winter with her
ather Mr.. j. w. Farnsworth.
Mrs. e. C. Wikidal has returned from {
AXE Canandaigua, New York. where
he spends her summers. /;
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