The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09

Mary Moore. Mrs. Harry Rigby, Miss
Hazel Risteen, Miss Reita Updegraff,
Mrs. Joe Morgan, Mrs. Ilif Felix. Miss
Alice Lakin. Miss Mary Meade and
guests here for the wedding are Mrs.
NJ. W. Van Valkenburg. Mrs. Roland
Histed and her daughter Betty, Mrs.
Anna Murphy and her daughter Mary,
Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Davis, Miss Ce-
ella Greer, all OF Kansas City, Mr..
and Mrs. r. A. Allen and Miss Hazel
Allen of st. Louis, Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
ley Reisman of Chicago and Mrs. "A.
F. Craig of St. Joseph.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis will leave to-
night for Amarillo, Texas. where Mr..
Davis, who is an accountant for the
Santa Fe railway, has his headquar-
ters, and where they will be at home.
How people lie and exaggerate in
their desire to gossip about one an
other! A Topeka man and woman
We're divorced because, having been
married fifteen years. they were tired
of looking at one another across the
table. They had no children and the
wife had nothing to do but look for
trouble. OF course she found it. The
divorce under the circumstances was
just as natural as the marriage. just
as inevitable. 1t is all very well to
say that the woman should have
found something better to interest
herself in than silly and dangerous
Irritation. There was nothing in her
moral or mental training to make her
seek higher object than amusement
and diversion. She was following the
traditions of her class and sex, who
live only for pleasure and ease on the
principle of getting as much and Civ
ing as little as they can. The husband
had his work TO dot furnished him
sane and sensible. He didn't need to
| firt in order to escape from the mon
otony of his existence. And he de-
served no more credit for his be-
havior than the wife did for hers
Both were following out destiny
made for them by inherited and ac-
quired tendencies, individual anc
class. following the lines of least re-
sistance. The woman was severely
punished for her folly, bitterly CEN
sured and harshly treated. Not con
/ tent with spreading the scandal which
| had some foundation. her loving
| friends, no less than her natural enc
mics. the people who had envied her
! exaggerated every trivial indiscretioI
! of her life. distorted every blameles:
action until, if one believed half tina
was sid about her. not by people whC
knew but by people who had heard.
she would not have been credited will
one innocent and proper friendship
with man in her whole life. Fortu
nately people of sense and experience
do not believe all they hear Even wheI
thre is some fire there is an undu'
amount of smoke. Half the yarns tolC
about people. especially people o
prominence, social or otherwise, ar
untrue. If a married woman has
mild Irritation with one man the wors
is not only reported about that affair
but she is unfairly suspected in TIL
case of every man she so much a
bows to on the street.
y
investigation will prove that no goo
ever came of entertaining" One c
the Witherspoon girls gave party
the other night and although the societ
column might refer to it as lone of tn
gaieties of the week. take it from a
old head, it was a sad and dolorou
occasion. Originally the hostess ha
INTENDED giving a bridge party but i
her whole list of acquaintances sh
could ind only two men. who woul
stand for that. The chaps who coul
play refused to be bored with brids
party partners and the others decline
lon any conditions. OF course the
didn't say so in plain words, and som
Iof the excuses were really worth Will