The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-11
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Some beautiful toilets were worn at
the reception given by Mr.. and Mrs.
Joab MulVane to celebrate their hft1eth
wedding anniversary Wednesday night,
and the bride of so years sustained the
principal role at her golden wedding
with elegance and distinction.
She was a notable figure, handsome
and dignified in a lovely gown of white
crepe combined with some exquisite old
point lace, with touches of gold on the
bodice and with her bridal bouquet of
white roses. Mrs. David w. MulVane
wore a charming gown of coral crepe
trimmed with DucheSse lace and elab-
crate imported band embroidery. Mrs.
John r. Mulvane wore a pompadour
silk. Mrs. Speed F. Hughes was in
white embroidered chiffon and Mrs
caded chiffon. Mrs. Mulvane's sister,
Mrs Casebier of Des Moines, was in
white lace. and her other sisters, Mrs
Moore and Mrs. Matson of Princeton,
Ill, were in black, the former in jetted
tulIe and the latter in satin. Mrs. J.
w. Ehrsam of Enterprise, Mrs. John
Baird Nicholson and Mrs. Don Null
Vane the three young matrons of the
Mulvane connection, were an attractive
trio. Mrs. Ehrsam, who is always eff
fectiVely gOWned, was in brown satin,
Mrs. Nicholson wore white lingerie
gown over pink taffeta and Mrs. Don
Mulvane was in pale blue silk. Mrs.
G. J. Mulvane wore pale blue crepe.
Mrs Jonathan Thomas, who is one of
the most distinguished looking women
in Topeka, was particularly beaut1fuI
on this occasion in wonderful gown
of silver gauze spangled with silver
sequinS and trimmed with point lace.
Mrs. Frederick Dumont Smith of Kins-
ley was in Paris gown in Empire
mode of pale blue mousseline combined
with gray lace.
The gifts were exquisite and varied
and included a beautiful lamp, plates,
vases, and bowls of gold, innumerable
spoons and other small pieces in gold.
and much Austrian glass and crystal
with decorations in gold.
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Miss Nadine Lytle. whose marriage
to Mr.. Joseph Henry Bowers of Phila-
delphia, will take place April II, was
given by Miss Mary Sutherland this af-
ternoon. Other prospective hostesses
who will entertain for Miss Lytle be-
fore her marriage are Miss Eugenia
week, Miss Hazel Howe. who will give
a card party after Lent, Miss Helen
Sharitt, dinner after Mr.. Bowers ar
rival, Mrs. Carl Erickson and Miss
Margaret Garvey, who are planning
card parties.
Christian Science has done this much
for humanity, anyway: it has made ill
ness unfashionable. Time was when it
was every girls ambition to faint
swoon was the word. then, however
at a dance, and a girl who was fail
ure in every other respect could attract
some attention by this method. But
Christian Science has changed III this,
and the New Thought movement has
so affected the public consciousness
that a delicate, anaeTnic, unhealthy, wO-
man is as unattractive and as demOde
as a puny, sickly man. Girls used to
be ashamed of a normal appetite and
would lie persistently about their
weight, but the modern girl brags about
her health and strength and endurance
and is ashamed to own to sickness or
fatigue. The fashionable disorders
classed at nerves which furnish wo-
men an excuse for the society of their
pet doctors, are about the only kind of
illness which have not gone out COM
pletely, and the cause ascribed for
them, is not a frail constitution, but
OVERRIDING rush and struggle of
the strenuous life of the modern wo-
man of many interests and activities.
The fashionable woman goes to her
physician, the famous specialist, now
than for drugs. He tells her to eat
and sleep regularly. to cut out the tel
ephone and to get busy with some use
full regular, absorbing occupation. The
world certainly moves and the new idea
is that women who are busy are well
and women who are we'll are happy.
Mr.. Alexander Butts, of the Kansas
City Star, Who came to Topeka for Mr.
and Mrs. Joab Mulvane's golden we'd
ding reception last night, is the guest
today of Mr.. and MrS David w. Null