The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-01

Ic)OHTY
The Sigma Delta girls of the fresh
man and sophomore classes of Wash
burn college gave dinner last night
at Mills tea room for the alumnae; the
active members, and the pledges. The
decorations were pink roses and fern.
and faTor ME f RHtP Fhe guests @a
toast mistress. and responses were
made by Miss Louise McNeal and Miss
Katherine Kellam for the alumnae
seniors. Miss Corinne Irish for the
juniors, Miss Louise Heath for the
sophomores and Miss Ella Lyle for the
freshman class. The dinner was an
elaborate affair, attended by about 80
guests.
Mrs. A. K. Wilson will give an in
formal afternoon Thursday at her home
IN West Eighth avenue. for Mrs. w. E.
Sterne, who will leave in a short time
/ for her home in San Diego. Mrs. Will
/ sons guests will be: Mrs. Sterne, Mrs.
Y. B. Kistler. Mrs: Ira Howe, Mrs.
i George Eagle, Mrs F. w. Watson, Mrs.
Frank Thomas, Mrs. W. 1. Miller, Mrs
Fred H. Wilson, Mrs. Charles Sessions,
Mrs. L. A Ryder, Mrs. Clement Smith,
Mrs. Frank Parr, Mrs. William Schoch,
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Mrs. Hall, Mrs. T. r. Paxton and her
sister Mrs. Burgson, Mrs. D. p. Paxton,
Mrs. A. w. Bronson and her guest, Miss
Kittie Bridenstine.
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| Mrs A. w. Bronson will entertain to-
| morrow afternoon at five hundred in
| honor of her sister, Miss Kittie Briden-
slime, who is visiting her 1t will be an
| informal afternoon for about twenty
guests. The drawing room will be
| decorated In pink roses, and tulips will
| be used in the living room. Suggestions
| OF the new season will prevail in the
dining room arrangements, and tiny
white Easter ducks will be given as
faVorS.
The following Bethany. girls went in
| a line party to the Grand Saturday
night to see Lillian Russell in "The
First Night" Miss Helen Claire Lang,
Miss Della May Ulrich. Miss Margaret
Carr and Miss Ruth E Foster. Mrs.
Emily A. Foster of Oklahoma, who is
visiting Miss Ruth Foster at the Hall,
and Mrs. F. G. Corbin were chaperones.
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Mrs. NJ. r. Rigby will give luncheon
Friday afternoon at her home, 719 Har-
rison street, for Mrs. Frank Strawn,
who will leave soon to make her home
in Kansas City. She will be assisted
by -Mrs. w o. Rigby and Mrs. G. E.
Rigby. Fifteen guests are asked.
Mrs. L. H. Mum entertained the
Duplicate Whist club this afternoon
at her home, 315 Topeka avenue. Mrs.
Soper played for Mrs. H. p. Dillon, and
Mrs. w. I. Crosby played for Mrs.
Mum.
The ''Washburn kindergarten" will
hold an all day meeting tomorrow at
the home Of Mrs. Ralph H Cav, 1921
Fillmore street. This meeting is an
annual affair which is usually held
later in the year, but one of the MEM |
bers, Mrs. Arthur McCabe. leaves |
Thursday to make her home in Wash
ington, and for that reason the date of |
the meeting was changed. After 4 |
O'Clock Mrs. McCabe will be glad to |
meet informally any of her friends who |
wish to call.
small brown-eyed Topeka girl re- |
Gently went to Kansas City to visit her |
uncle and aunt, and on her return she |
brought narrowing accounts of the |
desperate character of the men down |
there. She says that her uncle always |
watched her closely when they went |
such a cute little thing somebody |
might steal her. One can not but draw |
the fiattering inference that the only |
attractive girls to be seen in Kansas |
and it would be only measure of pru- !
dence for our village bellies, when they |
make the sixty-nile journey to that !
Sodom of the west, to carry a dagger |
or W pIOI0CI any cor
rupting influences thier rustic sim
plicity.
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Mrs. Arthur Hargis of Salina, Miss
BERTHE Ryus of Los Angeles and Mr..
John Waters were guests of Mr.. w.
w. Webb at dinner Sunday night at
the Manspeaker. Mrs. Hargis has re-
turned to Saiina after a short visit
here.
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The Portia club, which was to have
met Thursday, March 8, with Mrs. S.
J. Crumbine, has postponed the meet
ing until Tuesday, March s.
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The Senoras and their husbands
were entertained at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred w. Knapp, SIS Lincoln
street. The members and guests pres
ent were: Mr.. and Mrs. George Han
cock, Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Sinner, Mr..
and Mrs. George Hoyes, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Tucker. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
T. Martin, Mr.. and Mrs. o. S. Jones,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Hemphill Mr.. and
Mrs. N. J. Petro, Mr.. and Mrs J. w.
Knapp and Master Gerald Sinner.
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The Delta Alpha club of the First
Baptist church gave a surprise shower
Monday evening at the home of Miss