The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-07
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Mr.. and Mrs. David w. Mulvane
have asked guests for an informal
dinner this evening.
Mr.. Dorsey Cullen, U. S. A., who is
spending a four months leave in To-
peka, received word a few days ago
of his promotion to the rank of cap
tain. Captain Cullen's regiment is at
Fort Sam Houston. Tex but he is
on leave on account of eye-strain
which made a rest imperative.
Miss Bertha Lux, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel E. Lux and Mr.. Eos
evening at $50 o'clock at the Lux
residence, 1907 Western avenue.
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This is the season when you see
frenzied ladies rushing up and down
the avenue with shopping lists yard
long doing their final purchasing OF
small necessities before they leave
for their summer gaddfng trips. Let
me seei" they interrupt your polite
greetings to exclain, as with furroW-
ed brows they study their lists. "Hair-
pins, rats, dress shields, talcum pow
der, white and black pins-there! I
didn't put down toilet water! Would
MT it have been Awful if 1 had forgot
man whose wife was in this last wild
stage of preparation for a trip, that
Topeka was the only place where you
could buy the common necessities and
that if she forgot to take tooth pow
der she couldn't get it until she came
back. She went to New York once
to spend the winter and was making
a list of things to take with her for
months before she left. She even
carried a bottle of ink all the way to
New York running the risk of running
everything in her trunk. OF course,
it would have been impossible to buy
a bottle of ink in New York;"
man who belongs in the horse
and-buggy set, was honored by some
people in the automobile set with an
invitation to ride out to their farm
for the evening. And the horse-and
buggy man claims he earned the ride.
There were three gates TO be opened
going out and coming back. A rain
storm came up and he got out to raise
the top of the car. Afterwards he got
out again to light the lamps. Arrived
at the bungalow they spent a pleas
ant hour, but the guest had plenty of
exercise raising and lowering awnings
and Juggling hammocks and lawn
seats about from place to place. Just
as they were ready to start back to
town some body said: 80 we forgot to
shut the door of the bungalow" And
the willing worker ran back to close
it. Incidentally bee Seung him. The
wind came up on the hOmeWard drive
and he climbed out of the car again
to put up the glass shield, and after
they had reached town and when he
had been signing with relief to think
his labors were over, the engine died
He clambered out for the 'steenth
time to start the car, but it was dead
for keeps and he had to telephone
first to the garage, and then to the
barn for his despised horse and bug
20 %r,Ir I, - j.
course I am grateful for my ride he
told them as he babe them goodbye,
but it hasn't made me ambitious to
get into the automobile nd-country-
place-set. I think I shall stick to my
horse and buggy.
Mrs. Lila Day Monroe, the presi-
dent, has called a meeting of the en-
tire voting strength of the city fedora
ton of clubs and any others who are
interested in the club house movement
for tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
at the Commercial club. Business. of
Importance will be transacted and a
of applications for individual
on.
The grandfather of little girl in
Topeka comes often to visit the fam
mother received a letter from her
father saying he would be there the
next day to spend Sunday Ruth
said the mother. your grandfather is
claimed Ruth looking up from her
play Again %
Miss Julia Whitmer's guests at
porch party Tuesday evening were:
Miss Eda Smythe of Denver and Mrs.
A. W. Davis of Kansas City, guests of
honor, Mrs. Charles Decker of Law
renee, Mrs. George Mccoy, Mrs. Bert
Lucas. Mrs. Jules Snattinger, Mrs. w.
o. Rigby. Mrs. Charles Wolf. Mrs
Maurice Schlegel, Mrs. William Car
RE, Mrs. Herbert Harris, Mrs. Nelson
Petro, Mrs. w. E. Heatherly, Mrs
Courtney Flower and Miss Ned Crit
fit
A corkin, good lookin' army man
who is spending a leave in Topeka has
been attracting attention enough as a
mere leftenant but now that he has
been promoted to the rank of captain,
the excitement will amount to a
frenzy.
Women always were. are now, and
probably will remain extravagant, So
cially ambitious, INSCRIPTIONS and
generally responsible for a large part
Herbert L. Willett of the University
of Chicago divinity school. who lee
tured on 1.-The social teachings of the
prophets yesterday. The professor
alleged that women were as wicked
in the time of Amos and Hosea as
Professor WiIlett told the summer
students that of all woman's faults her
social climbing was the worst He
blamed the society germ for the op-
preston of the poor and the reckless
ness of the rich and drew analogies
between the state of affairs in ancient
Israel and contemporary life.
THE moral levels Of a nation can