The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-19
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Topeka people who have met Miss
Lucia Hunting of Leayenworth on her
frequent visits here in the past three
years will be much interested in the
announcement of her engagement to
Lieutenant Lee Peterson of the engineer
IcorpS. U. s. A. The wedding will take
place Thursday evening, June 3, at
O'Clock at st. Paups church, Leaven-
worth Miss Hunting is the daughter
of Mrs Nancy Hunting of LeaVen-.
worth and Is one of the bellies OF her
town and exceedingly popular at
fthe Post where she attends all the hops
and is much admired. She is only 20
years old, an exceptionally chic and
lpretty blonde and has always been ire
mendously rushed when she has visited
In Topeka Mr.. Peterson is also young,
having been graduated from West Point
il '08 with class honors. He is
southerner, big and handsome and thor
| cughly Hkable, already marked as man
who Will count in the engineering pro-
fession and in the army. He is as
dark as Miss Hunting is blonde, so
the match is all in the interests of
romance. and pulchritude. It is not
What some people call a good match
for neither is rich. Mr.. Peterson is just
second lieutenant and they have moth
| ing except such trif1es as youth, sp1end-
| i'd health, enthusiasm, good breeding,
brains and extraordinary good looks. 1t
| is gossiped among her friends that
Miss Hunting had better chances,
| that is, could have married more mon
| ey, and the fact that. Instead of waiting
until fall, as they had first planned,
| they are hurrying up the wedding and
Will have it in June regardless that this
haste will necessitate a ready-made
trousseau, is further proof that a fac
tor in this engagement is that old-fash-
Toned consideration, love. Hurrah.
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| DR.. and Mrs. William F. Bowen have
asked the following friends informally
for dinner tonight: Mr.. and Mrs. J. c.
Mohler, Miss Allabelle Troutman, DR..
Merrill Mills of New York, Miss Helen
McClintock and Mr.. Clay Hamilton.
Mr. and Mrs. ALT Kingenberg, Miss
Meta Legler and Miss Florence WEIGH
will leave June for a tour of the Santa
Fe reading rooms between Topeka and
the Pacific coast. Mrs. Klingenberg,
assisted by Miss WEIGH, will give a
Scandinavian lecture, illustrated by
piano numbers by Mr.. Klingenberg and
songs by Miss Legler. Miss Legler ex-
poets to stay at least a year in Cali
fornia and will probably open studio
Mrs. Erastus Bennett in Los Angeles
and will go boat from Los Angeles
TIC Seattle to attend the exposition. Mr..
and Mrs. Klingenberg will spend the
tie and Montana and will go to New
York in the fall, where Mr.. Klingen-
berg will open a studio under the pat
ronage of some influential friends and
where they will join an artists settle
ment.
A few years ago a woman who is
much interested in humanitarian edu
cation approached the Powers That Be
in the public schools of Topeka with
plan for introducing humane instruc-
ton as a part of the curriculum. The
scheme did not find favor, the objec-
ton being made that there was no time
for it, that the movement was odd
fashioned and there was no popular
need or demand for it. But there are
II states in the Union which have laws
prescribing instruction in humane ed
Iucation and with Topeka setting the
pace Kansas would be promptly added
to this list of the enlightened. Humane
education, far from being old-fashioned
lis a comparatively new movement in
this country, which is far behind Eur
ope in this respect. No work is more
important than the humane education
of the children. And before any appre-
ciable progress can be made in this d.
rection this important study must be
placed upon an equal footing with the
other studies in the public schools. It
is evident that all children must have
moral training. The majority of them
will go entirely without it unless the
public schools supply it. And the de-
mand for moral training is not met by
chapel exercises consisting of the read
ing of a chapter from the Bible and
the Lords Prayer. Many a person who
can repeat chapters of the Bible and
| is familiar with all the platitudes of
religion and morality is lacking in a
real moral sense. Their moral train
ing has been so deficient that they are
needless of the simple and apparent
obligation of mercy and kindness to
the lower animals.
Bishop Millspaugh will make his an
nual visitation at the College of the
Sisters of Bethany tomorrow which Is
Ascension Day. Confirmation services
| will be held at 10 a. m. in the college
| chapel and Grace Cathedral has aban-
doned it's Ascension Day services so
| that the parishioners may attend the
service at Bethany.
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| The Stratford Shakespeare club
| closed it's seasons meetings with a
dinner at the Mission tea room Tues
day evening. The Stratford club meets
weekly and Mr.. Harry G. Larirner con-
ducts its Shakespearian studies. Last
night the club presented Mr.. Larimer
with a handsome silver toilet set in
recognition of his services and the din
ner was attended by Mr. and Mrs
I4arimer, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. johnson.
| Dr. and Mrs. w. E. McVey, Mr.. and
Ralph N. McEntire, Mr.. and Mrs. L.
Van Hook, Mr.. and Mrs. B. H. Pugh.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A Heath, DR.. and
Mrs. C. B. Van Horn, Mr.. and Mrs.
| George H. Mays.
| A Topeka woman who has observed
| how disagreeable people are feared and
| respected, how everybody stands back
! for them, hesitates to offend or cross
them, invites them to their parties, not
because they want them but because
| they are afraid of being Talked About
| otherwise, has decided that It pays to
| be nasty and will go to some pains to
get a reputation in that direction her.