The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-10
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Gertrude Reed, MISS Marguerite Mills,
Miss Helen Estey. Miss Alice Meade,
! and Miss Lenore Monroe.
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] Mrs. A. A. Weiskirch, 123 Greenwood
! avenue, will entertain next week for
| Miss Jetmore and her bridal party.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Merrick, 1901
Harrison street, will entertain their
card club next Saturday night.
| Mrs. J. r. Koontz 1914 Topeka ave-
nue., gave a party Monday in celebra-
ton of the sixth birthday of her daugh-
ter. Jean. About twenty of the neigh
borhood children We're guests.
| Miss Dorothea Mcknight of Law
| renee. who is known to a large num-
Der of Topeka people, is spending the
winter in New York. She has chosen
theatrical career and is about to close
an engagement with prominent theat-
rical manager. Miss Mcknight was
member of Paul GflmQre's company
that played here in 1.-The Boys of Com
pany b. and for some time past she
has shown marked dramatic ability
own townspeople, wish her the utmost
success.
Topeka dressmakers are earnest and
voluble in their praise of the perfected
sheath dresses. These new gowns are
MADE to fit closely below the hips, and
if the cut of the skirt doesn't make its
wearer look enough like a flag pole, it
may be drawn in more closely about
the knees with q sash or band of ribbon
Dresses of this style are made only in
soft materials with clinging tendency.
and the bodice part is usually princesse
1t is only the tall, slender, supple fig
ure that wears this dress to advantage.
But for those for whom Fate chose
a different style of architecture there
is fashion equally new which permits
a full skirt and long. pointed bodice.
The materials used are rich and heavy
velvet, satin, brocade. and often an
overskirt OF chiffon is added.
Another thing, women have to be
thankful for (and they should mention
II among their blessings on the last
Thursday in November) is that the
waist line may again appear to be
where it really is and not Just be-
meath the shoulder blades. The high
waist-line style was quaint and girlish
and becoming to a few people, but the
majority OF girls who got it on, didn't
even with it's help, look unco1nmonly
like Puritan saints. and its passing will
be cheerfully accepted.
Dresses with the fishwife decoration
on the skirts are being shown in the
Topeka stores. This adornment con-
sists OF a sort of overskirt gathered in
about the knees and fastened to the
skirt beneath or else turned back and
fastened below the hips like a large
pocket. This arrangement is undoubt-
eddy very convenient for peddling her
ring and cod. and for an inland peo-
PIE. it can probably be made equally
serviceable for carrying about beets and
cabbages, thus uniting utility and orna-
inents to marked degree
A great many dressy frocks are be-
ing made from broadcioth this season.
and the diagonal weayes are goor for
street wear. The shopkeepers say that
they find the greatest demand for the
w:saria. Atlantic blue, and cedar
shades.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr.. Amzi Lee Soner. of Atchison, and
Mr.. Louis Leach Parsons, of Wamego,
are visiting with friends in Topeka to-
day.
Mr. o. A. Simmons. of Atchison, spent
Tuesday in Topeka
The Rev. William Parsons, D. D., with !
his wife and two children of Beaver
Falls. Pa. will spend few days in
the guests of Mrs. Parsons
sister, Mrs. B. NJ Sullivan DIR. Par |
sons was brought up in Topeka and |
has a great many friends here. He is |
en- route to Portland, Ore, where he |
has accepted q large pastorate.
Mrs. Harry Carter arrived yesterday |
from Cottonwood Falls to visit her par
efts, Mr. and Mrs. C. w. Guild.
The Fortnightly club met Tuesday
evening in the manual training build
TN excellent paper on the subject of
public play grounds.
Miss Frances Field of Kansas City,
Mo-. arrived today to visit her uncle
and aunt. Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Guild: J
Miss Tresa Heck entertained they
of the Anti-Car't club Mon /
day evening.
Miss Emma Smith returned today
from Manhattan where she has been the
guest of Mrs. c. F. Anderson.
n Doy 1nf
Tuesday for trip to New York where
they will visit their son, Mr.. Hale
Hamilton. They will also go to An
dover, Mass, to visit their younger son.
Mr.. John Hamilton. who Is IN school
at the Yale preparatory.
Mrs. B. H. Lee has gone to Kansas
City to visit her daughter, Mrs. ]. A.
Trindle, for q few days.
Mrs. Mary Feakins has gone to Chi
>ago to spend the winter with her son,
Mr.. George Feakins.
Mrs M E. Morgan of Chicago. who
has ben the guest of her sister, Mrs. G:
P. Morhouse, left Tuesday and will
S. op in Kansas City on her return.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. J. Ross have gone |
TO Excelsior Springs for a week.
Mrs. w. A. L. Johnson has gone to
Kansas City for weeks visit.
Mr.; J. G; Kennedy. who was recently
Of the death of his mother, returned
tuesday.
Mr.. Harlan Brunt and Mr.. Paul
Wohler went to Kansas City Tuesday.
Mrs J. A. Cole and Mrs. Arthur
Mills, who have been visiting in En-
poria and Usage City, have returned to
Topeka, accompanied by Mrs. Frank
Edison, who was visiting in Usage City
while they were there.
Mr.. David A. Mulvane of Los An
s,eles, Cal, is visiting Mr.. John r. Null
yane.
Mrs. Clarence wolcott, who has been
in Louisville, Ky, has returned
Lome.
Miss FIossie Hats of Seneca is the
ruest of Mrs. ] T. Porter.
Mrs. Frank Cope is home from a six
weeks trip to California.
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