The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

vacation with Miss Irene Nye of the
Washburn academy faculty. Miss Dean
had only just returned from the burial
of her mother, Mrs. Lair Dean, at
Smith Center. Mrs. Dean who had
been in i'll health for some time died
Friday, the 18th, in a sanitarium in In
dependence. She left Topeka in the
early summer to visit her daughter,
Mrs. Winslow, in Oklahoma and was
taken from there to the sanitarium- She
with Miss Dean
The Cosmos club will meet with Mrs.
Desta Smith, 1881 West Fifteenth
street. tomorrow afternoon.
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At this season almost any mother
will admit that the idea of the vacation
school is a good one. Children become
restless, capricious and unmanageable
as the long hot summer wears on and
they tire of vacation diversions. Why
not have school for half a day the year
around? Let the summer work be most
ly play well directed, intelligent play,
but let the children be kept under the
duties. Say what you please, for the
average person there's nothing like i.
Remember how bored you used to be,
more than half of the time, as a child
1t seemed as if nothing would ever
happen. For hours you chung to your
busy mothers skirts begging her to tell
you what to do. Children need work a s
well as grown-ups and they need it in
summer as well as winter.
Mrs s. B. Signor entertained a few
guests Saturday evening at her home,
1106 Topeka avenue, in compliment to
Miss RoSamond Zimmerman who Is soon
to be married. The house was prettily
Daisy Hayes presided at the punch
bowl. The guests We're: Miss Ward,
Miss Ella Zimmerman Miss Daisy
Hayes. Miss Francis Sibley. Miss Kath-
ryn Miller. Miss Bertha Russum. Miss
Mamie Mcguire. Miss Mary Johnston,
Miss Mary Bradshaw, Miss Evelyn Cox.
Miss Stacy Burgess, Miss Minnie Duff.
Miss Davina Boyd. Miss Mabel Jones,
Miss Ethel Schlegel, Miss Mary Ward.
Mrs. Haggart-
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. i. Conrad and
their son, Mr.. Charles Conrad, have
gone to Wisconsin to spend a few
weeks
Mrs. Della Moreland of Hiawatha is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. A. A.
Hurd.
Mr.. James Jones of Temple. Texas.
whose marriage to Miss Leta Rice
taxes place September / will arrive in
Topeka Saturday.
Mrs Ben c. johnson is visiting in
Marysville.
were in the City of Mexico and the
interior of the republic a fortnight
ago, returned to Cheyenne, Wyo.,
where Mrs. MacIie and their children
spend their summers. They will be
home next month.
Mrs. c. H. Matthews with her chill
dren, Violet, Richard and Helen, left
yesterday for Chicago and other Illi-
nois points to visit her mother and
sisters.
: DR.. H. H. Keith is visiting in. Dan
Mrs. Philip B. Peyton. jr,.. of Fort
Logan. Ark, is visiting at the home
of her brother-in-law, w. w. Peyton,
1924 Garfield avenue.
Mrs. Tom Bean, Mrs. Herman Crow
and Mrs. Nellie Hunt, all of Seattle,
viii return by the Canadian Pacific.
visiting Canadian resorts en- route.
Miss Coda Klibansky and Miss
Esther Gershon of Kansas City are
guests of Miss May Hollcraft.
Mrs. John Ritchie has returned
from a visit in Excelsior Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncey Dewey of
Chicago were guests guests I II Sat OF MISS s
their way to Manhattan to spend a
few days.
DR.. A II. Thompson is at Espanola,
n. NJ, with Prof. Edgar L. Hewitt, di-
rector of the American Archaeological
society. and party from Washington.
D. c., who are excavating the ruins of
the Cliff Dwellers. DR.. Thompson will
be home the first week in September.
Mr.. w. L. Trump has returned from
a business trip to New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. George 0. Wilmarth,
who went to California for the benefit
of Mr.. Wilmarth's health. arrived in
Sacramento yesterday.
Mrs Harry Newcomer and her
daughter Barbara of Kansas City ar
rived yesterday to visit Mrs. A. J.
Mackey.
Senator Charles Curtis has gone to
Marysville for few days.
Miss Mary Moore returned today
from visit to relatives in Garrison
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Miss Hildegarde Klippel, who was
the guest of Miss Gertrude Reed. has
returned to her home in Hutchinson.