The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-28

Southampton, Long Island. studying
with Marshall Frye, the famous teach
er of ceramics. Her work was pr1ncl-
pally in design and outdoor sketching-
Mrs. John Huntington entertained the
Ideal club at the Country club this
afternoon. 1t was the first meeting OF
the club this season and Mrs. Dorsey
Hunnell Of Des Moines, Iowa, was
guest.
Mrs. c. NJ. Hill and her sister Mrs.
Dorsey Hunnell, of Des Moines, Iowa,
Mrs. 81. B. Hogeboom and Mrs. Harry
Nichols had box party at the Novelty
yesterday
Adventures of substitute society re-
porter: MY second day on the job a
Mrs. Oliver gave a party which I duly
reported. I Judge that when the item
was published her name appeared as
Oliver and that this had happened q
number of times before. Anyway. the
next day / received note addressed,
Society Reporter. Important and Spe-
cial and which read: My name is not
Oliver. 1t has never been Oliver. 1t
will never be Oliver and if my husband
had been named Oliver I should not
have married him. oliver doesn't seem
a bad sort of name to me, but l found
While was reporter that people have
prejudice in favor of their own
names. also had good deal of trou-
BILE with visiting girl named Nellie
Now, Of course, although 1 wrote her
name Nellie, the compositorS, proof
readers and others naturally thought l
had made a mistake and changed it
either to Nellie or Mile. The visiting
girl didn't like it. But Heavings!
what right has a girl to a name like
Nellie, anyway? One Day l
met an enraged woman on the avenue
For goodness sake she screamed, don't
put my name in the lists of Those Pres
ent. Don't you know my father is lying
at deaths door, oh, then you weren't
at the party?' I enquired innocently
enough. We'll, yes. was at the party,
she answered, but don't think, under
the circumstances my name looks very
nice in the paper. OF course fathers
very old and will have to die some
harm in going. but I don't want it adj
Vert1sed. Another woman
was indignant because her name had
been published among those assist
ing Hogoa at aaonia reception given given by 3yy
her set. I do know Them she said,
because I lived next door to them once
and they asked me to assist, but I re-
| GREETED and went out of town on pur-
| pose to avoid their entertainment.
| Imagine, then, my humiliation, when
read in the paper that I had assisted.
Why, never call on them or have
anything to do with them. I don't
know what my friends will think. OF
well-meaning people but they are not in
through one of the shops one
morning I overheard a girl saying
to some of her companions: There
comes one of those reporters. I
do hope she won't see me and ask about
/ my party I had never seen her be-
fore. had no idea who she was, had had
| no suspicion that she was going to give
| a party, and if she felt that way about
| 1t, goodness knows. I had no wish to
| 1ntrude upon her. So I walked on
around the shop and out again,
| and little later some one came run
ming after me and I turned to see this
same girl, who stood looking up at me
with silly smile and saying in a little
squeaking voice. You can put in the
| paper, if you want to, that I enter
| tanned few friends Informally last
night The final blow how
ever, was when a woman walked up to
me one day and said, I think the things
you put in the paper are perfectly dis
graceful! You're getting to be as bad
| as Florence Johnstoner"