The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-04
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II Ism the fact that you're licked that
It's how did you highland why?
Oh, I'm willing to work, but wish I could
Or last in liow- msrf d :or Tag
Ihere IS only one spot where I haven't a
Nobody. will try to be crowting me out
AND that Is under the CEDAR
And even In that place will Gabriers
Come. nagging along and be making me
| I wonder?
Edmund Vance Cooke in Move
No event of the season has ex-
ceeded in interest the reception and
dance to be given tonight at Stein
berg's by Mr.. and Mrs Norman S.
Wear for Major and Mrs. c. r.
krauthof of San Francisco. who are
stopping in Topeka on their way
home from New York where the ma
jor was detailed for a month just be-
fore the holidays. Mrs. Krauthoff,
who before her marriage was Miss
Blanche Dienst and is the sister of
Mrs. Wear, was a Topeka belle and
beauty in her girlhood and is gem
orally conceded to be the most beau
tiful woman in the army. Major
Krauthoff is the purchasing commits
sary of the general staff of the army.
A number of entertainments have
been given in their honor during
their brief stay in Topeka which will
end next week when they leave for
San Francisco, where Major Krauth-
off is stationed About three hundred
invitations have been extended for the
reception and dance tonight and the
friends asked to assist are DR.. and
L. H. Mum, the Lieutenant Governor
and Mrs. w. J. Fitzgerald Mr.. and
Mrs. Albrecht Marburg, Mr.. and Mrs.
George W. Parkhurst. Mr.. and Mrs.
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Augustus Zahner, Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
rison S. Morgan, Mr.. and Mrs. J. E.
Morgan, Mr.. and Mrs. David E. Pal
mer, Mr.. and Mrs. John Clark Har-
mon, Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Trump, Mr..
and Mrs. J. G. Mohler, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. B. Quinton, Mr.. and Mrs. William
r. Crosby, Mr.. and Mrs. Don Null
vane, Mrs. P. G. Noel, Mrs. Nathan
Price, Miss Helen McClintock and
Miss Mary B. Moore. The young girls
Marian Wear, Miss Leona Curtis, Miss
Laura Hall, Miss Marguerite Koontz,
Miss Mary Alexander and Miss
Frances McClintock.
Mrs. S. J. Bear gave today the first
of a series of luncheons. Her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Charles Barnes, was up from
Usage City for the occasion and will
to be given tonight by Mr.. and Mrs.
Norman S. Wear.
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The annual celebration of Wash
burn day, February 8, will take place
tomorrow, and will be marked by un-
usually elaborate chapel exercises at
the college and a vacation for the
rest of the day. A dinner will be
Masonic hall for the faculty and
students.
There was much curiosity in the
audience at the Grand last night
about the identity of the occupants
three young women and two men.
They were members of the "Under
Southern Skies company, "just pass
ing through our beautiful little city"
and were extended the courtesies of
the house. In the opposite box were
two other women of the company.
One of them wore long squirrel
cloak of which she seemed eager to
display, for she took 1t off and put it
on half dozen times during the per-
Torrance and paraded out to the
foyer after every act But as she
was very young-really didn't look
over sixteen-and pretty her innocent
pride in her Perfectly Good fur cloak
was pardonable. The young
woman who played Violet Lansdowne
in Girls last night is ringer" for
Miss Helen Haughey belle of the
debutante set and one of the prettiest
girls in Topeka.
Mrs. H G. Martin entertained the
T. G. F. club yesterday and the fol-
lowing additional guests: Mrs. H. A.
Woods, Mrs. W. J. Lewis, Miss Marian
Kenderdine, Mrs. H. L. Larsh, Mrs. F.
L. Benjamin, Mrs. NJ. j. Sharp, Mrs.
Jack Andes, Mrs. G. D. Stephenson.
Mrs. O. p Dugan, Mrs. H. F. Clay,
Miss Annie Cunningham.
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A little Topeka boy who has been
brought up in an automobile, prefers
the street cars. His idea of a treat is
Tickets for the Edmund Vance Cooke
reading to be given next Tuesday night
under the auspices of the city fedora
ton of women's clubs. are on sale at
40 cents until tomorrow, when they
will be so cents.
At dinner in Topeka the other night
a. man and a girl who live thousands
of miles apart and will probably never
see each other again, met for the first
time But before the dinner was over
a piece of gossip about the man had
at am never surprised to hear scandal
about my dinner partners the next
day." said the girl, but this is the
frst time I ever heard it before the
end of the salad course. 1 think the
limit has been reached when your
neighbor on the right whispers gossip
in one ear about the man Who is spiel |
ing compliments into the other
A silk kimona is supposed to be SO
exclusively a luxury for brides that
attaches to any unmarried
girl who acquires one;
General and Mrs. J. w. F. Hughes |
gave a dinner Wednesday night in |
compliment to Mr.. E. P. Dunlap, a |
Presbyterian missionary to Siam who |
is here for a visit to his brother. Mr.. |
A. A Dunlap The guests were: Mr..
e p Dunlap. Mr. and Mrs. A. A.