The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-12

The reception that society has been
anticipating for the past few weeks Is
over now, but society will not imme-
diately cease talking about it. Since
Mrs. Charles Curtis and Miss Dolly
Curtis issued invitations for their tea
given at the Curtis home Friday after
noon, people have looked forward to
the event with more eagerness than a
pink tea usually inspires. Six hundred
invitations were sent out, and very
nearly six hundred people responded,
and the large, handsome rooms of the
house were well filled from to 6
o'clock. Palms, ferns and chrysan-
themums were used in the decoration
of the house. The dining room was
particularly attractive in yellow and
white. Bouquets of chrysanthemums
stood on the table and the plate rail
and sideboard were decorated in ferns,
flowers and candles. An orchestra was
stationed in a bower of palms and
flowers on the first landing of the
stairway and played throughout the
afternoon. The reception was more
elaborate and more formal, both in its
appointments and the number in at
tendance, than the teas Topeka women
are accustomed to giving. AS the
guests approached the receiving line,
their cards were taken by a servant in
to Mrs. Curtis who stood at the head
of the line. 1t was an entirely neces-
sary conventionality, in consideration
of the number of guests.
Mrs. Curtis gown was a brocaded
satin of a shell pink shade, trimmed
in duchesse lace on the bodice and
sleeves and reaching to the floor on the
front of the skirt. Miss Dolly Curtis
was dressed in a clOse-fitting princess
of emerald green satin with an over
II .Tr
sleeves were hand run net and bands
of jet were used on the bodice and
skirt. A brooch of diamonds with an
emerald center Ornamented the yoke.
a costume more suited to the tall
dignified type of good looks that be-
longs to Miss Curtis, could scarcely
have been designed. Mrs. Bristow, who
stood next in line. wore black satin
draped in black chiffon, with a yoke of
white net. Mrs. Scott's gown was gray
net, glittering with silver spangles,
over white satin. The gown was made
on simple lines and worn with wide
girdle of Oriental beads. Miss Calder
head wore black net over satin. with a
green beaded trimming. Mrs. Rome
COlvin was also dressed in black. Her
gown was satin with white lace yoke
Senator Curtis stood between the re-
ception hall and the library and greet
ed the guests as they passed from the
receiving line toward the dining room.
Punch was served in the library by
Miss Permelia Curtis and number Of
her girl friends In the dining room
Mrs. David Mulvane poured tea, and
Mrs. Eugene Hagan served the ice.
They were assisted by Miss Leona
Curtis and Miss Floyd Robertson
The gowns worn by the receiving
women, by the assisting friends. and
the guests, were bewildering for their
number and beauty. Mrs. D. w. Null
Vane's dress was black chiffon over
old blue, finished with inserts of lace.
and an iridscent Oriental trimming
over the blue background made it one
Of the most striking costumes worn by
any of the society women this season.
Her hat was cream-cOlored lace on top
and faced with black velvet. Thu
plumes that trimmed it were a banana
shade. Mrs. Eugene Hagan's gown
was white satin richly embroidered in
floral design. She wore a black hat
trimmed in white plumes. Miss FyoId
Robenson wore rose colored satin.
,irs- W. r. Stubs appeared in a
matchless blue gown, draped in chiffon
heavily embroidered and beaded Mrs.
CLYDE Miller's dress was black satin
with an overdress of black net bodice
and skirt trimmed in jet. Mrs. J. R.
koontZ wore a white cloth suit trim
med in black satin and Persian bands
Her hat was black velvet with white
nlumes. Mrs. Josephine Webb wore Il
gown of gray velvet and black velvet
turhan. Mrs. J. c. McClintock's dress
was striking creation in black and
white, net over satin. and her hat was
black with white plumes Miss Alice
Lakin wore a lavender gown with the
bodice draDped in black chiffon. Mrs
:. s. Estev wore lavender also. A
white chiffon with lavender figure
was draped over a plain lavender back
ground and her hat was a lavender vel
vet turban with plumes of a lighter
shade Mrs. Julian Sydnor of Bridge
port. Conn. wore a gown of WHIT
corded material trimmed in bands Of
black fur around the skirt. sleeves ana
woke. Her cloak and furs We're whit
ana her hat with a white top and
black facing, was trimmed in white
willow plumes. Mrs. GuiIford DudIe,,
was dressed In a lavender silk gown
with hat to match. Mrs. H. o. Car
Vey wore a pink satin princess. with an