The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20
c)OCETY

Mrs. Eugene S. Quinton will give
an afternoon bridge Thursday OF
next week for her niece. Miss Fay
Quinton, whose marriage to Mr.. Fred
Davis of Amarillo, Texas, takes place
early in June.
A Topeka woman who knows Rob
ert T. Herrick, the Chicago university
professor who wrote Together, ana
Mrs. Herrick says that the novel1sts
wife was the model, In some trait or
characteristic, of every woman in the
book, which is a study OF many
typical phases of the irratonai
knot" Whether consciously or I'M
each of his principal feminine
characters reflect some prominent
side of his wife's nature. was inns
done deliberately or did 1t happen pc
cause all modern women in the same
station in life have characteristics III
common? Something of what victor
Hugo meant when he said, Il nave IN
me the capacity for every crime Is
suggested by this problem Given
say, six women in the same soclal
one of them and, emphasizing tne
different phases of her complex ma
ture, draw a vivid picture OF SIX
widely different types? Every nor
NAL woman of the more or less IN
Discriminate origin of the American
the characteristics of the FIVE or six
wives in Mr.. Herrick's study OF moo-
ern marriage.
An informal hop at the Country
club last night was attended by Mr.;
and Mrs. Julian Sydnor, Miss Nell
Osborn of Coffeyville, Mr. Bernard
Crosby, Miss Polly Nelson OF IRON
wood, Mich, Mr.. Harry Eagle MISE
Louise Kellam, Mr.. Bert Reid, Miss
Nellie Millspaugh, Mr.. Harold Cope
land, Miss Edna Herbst, Mr.. Charles
Guibor, Miss Mary Moore, Mr.. K. u.
Perkins, Miss Eva Smith, Mr.: Monte
Kistler Mr.. Roy Thompson, MT Joe
Wilson, Mr.. Harry Curtis
Mother" said the twelve-yeaT-old
son of grass widow. 81 wish you
would find some nice man with
money and marry him. Dream a. on on
boyi Dream on! You talk as If nice
men with money grew on Jimpson
weeds
A party of Kansas City women who
came to town today for the luncheon
and tea which Mrs. d. P. Paxton
gave in their honor included MRS
Albert Parker, Mrs. Ross b. Glllu!y'
Mrs ]. w. McMurry. Mrs. Frank +.
Walsh, Mrs. w. M. Henson, Mrs +.
A. Benson, Mrs. L. S Woolverton' MIS-
George B. Strother, Mrs. SCION l.
Gilmore, Mrs w. T. Campbell, mrs.
w NJ Pickard, Mrs. P. L. Mcdonald
Mrs Fields, Miss Bess McMurry, MISS
Bess Strother Mrs. Tinsley Brown OF
Hamilton, Mo, who will be Mrs. FAX
tons guest for q week is also or the
party Mrs Paxton had the party for
luncheon and asked about one nun
bred Topeka friends to meet them al
forwards at tea. Her house was
charmingly decorated with k1llarny
roses and garden flowers and palms
The luncheon table had centerp1ece
of Killarny roses on a round mirror
plateau and the place cards, done in
water colors had bits of the score ana
words of Aud Lang Syne. A num-
Der of the Kansas City women for
merIy lived in Topeka or have rela-
tives here and they will stay the rest
of the week and be guests of honor at
a number of other entertainments,
among them a luncheon which Mrs.
9. o. Knowles will give tomorrow
and a card party which Mrs. G. B.
Kirk will give Saturday.
Miss Mary Meade entertained the
Tell club this afternoon for her sis
ter, Mrs, Walter Roy Ranney of
Arkansas City.
Little Phil Gault Is a stickler for the
conventions and when his mother gives
him suggestions in etiquette he will fol
low them or die. Among other rules he
has been taught, and observes most
strictly is to stand back and let the
ladies pass into the dining room first
One night when dinner was announced