The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05

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for bridge party Tuesday afternoon ir
! honor of Miss Ann Troutman. Miss
Marguerite Mills and Miss Grace
Koontz will give a reception Tuesday
afternoon for Miss Troutman at the
home Of Miss Koontz, 1914 Topeka ave-
nue.. About 100 guests have been asked
/ to the tea. Miss Bernice Emahizer will
| give a dinner one evening next week
| but the date has not been decided yet,
= y
The senior class of the high school
is said to contain 60 girls and IL boys
with the result that when class parties
: are given, the escorts are severely over
| taxed. One of the popular girls Of the
class just previous to their last party,
| announced to her mother the name OF
her escort for the affair. With proper
maternal solicitude her mother asked
Are you sure he is a real nice boy?"
| What do 1 care what he is?" the girl
! answered, when there are five girls
| for one man, and l get beau all to
myself, no one needs to inquire into
his pedigree"
! The Monday Whist club will meet
| Monday afternoon with Mrs. George
| Parkhurst at her home, Ninth and Ty-
| Ter street.
! About a hundred guests attended a
tea given Friday afternoon by Miss
Mary Overholt at her home on Harrison
| street, in honor of Miss Ann Troutman,
the bride of November 16. Miss Over
| holt had the assistance of her mother,
Mrs. Anna Overholt, Mrs. James Trout
nan, Mrs. Merrill Mills Miss Emma
Bolmar Miss Rernice Emahizer, and
| Miss Alice Larimer. The serving was
done in the dining room at small tables
! decorated with pink roses. Bouquets
of roses were used throughout the
rooms, and the candles were shaded in
pink.
Miss Dorothy B. Mills, teacher of ex-
| preston in the College of the Sisters
of Bethany, will give a recital Monday
evening, November IA, at $50 o'clock
! IN Unity church. She will be assisted
| by Miss Dorinda Abbott, Miss Margaret
| Widenham, and Miss Pansy Bell. The
public is invited to attend the recital.
Miss Mills came to Topeka this fall to
take charge Of the department of ex-
preston at Bethany, and her recital
will be her first public appearance here.
! She is a graduate of the Columbia Col
| lege of Expression, Chicago, and was
prepared for teaching in Northwestern
university, Evanston, ILL.,, and the Iowa
: State Normal school. She has taught
in Drury college, Springfield, Mo-, the
Pueblo high school, Pueblo, Col, and in
ST. Johnsbury academy, st. Johnsbury.
VT. The following program has been
(a) March, OBJ Minuet. (c) Romance,
! Id Tarantelle, from Suite Rerthold
Tours. by Miss Margaret Widenham and
Miss Fancy Bell. Waitin' for the Cat
to Die, (Riley) and My Daughter Louise,
| (EIomer Greene) Miss Mills; A Cry from
the Cloister, (Anon) Miss Mills; When
the Old Man Smokes (Dunbar) and
Dorothy Q, (Holmes) Miss Mills; Thou
Dear One With Those Cheeks of Roses
and There was an Ancient King, by
Miss Abbott; A Water Logged Town,
(Smith) Miss Mills; The Sleeping Cupid,
(Blanden) Lovers Lane. eugene Field)
Miss Mills; Keziah Butterworth's En-
gagement, q. G. Holland) Miss Mills.
Hagar, (Eliza Nicholson) Miss Mills.
However true it may be that a
prophet is without honor in his own
country. it is not always true of a
prophecies, at least not with the wo-
men of the Western Sorosis club In
their meeting last Saturday afternoon,
at the home of Mrs. T. S. Lyon, on
College avenue, the president of Sorosis,
Mrs. A. A. GODDARD planned and had ex-
ecuted a complimentary recognition of
one of their members, Mrs. w. A Nc
Carter. A month ago the club listen
ed to a beautiful tribute to the mem
Der of Mrs. Olive l. Royce, a beloved
member, who died last June. This time
the tribute was for the living. Mrs.
McCarter was one of the founders of
Sorosis and it's president for the first
six years. Her novel, 1.-The Pride of
! the Prairie" has not been on the book
market quite month, but it has been
given such generous recognition in
Kansas and elsewhere that the publish
ers have already put the third edition
on their presses. This marked distinc-
ton for one of the members of the
club is a pleasure for the whole MEM
| bership. tribute to Mrs. McCarter E
work was written and read by Mrs. G.
A. Huron. one of the charter members,
and a close friend of Mrs. McCarter's.
A bouquet of red carnations (the club
COLOR was presented by the president,
and a discussion of the new book fol-
| lowed. The incident was so generous
and marked with such genuine affection
and pride in the work of one of their
members, that she must have. gone
away feeling, as she declared, rich in
the thought of an afternoon whose
memory neither moth nor rust can cor
rupt." 1t takes club women not only
to say We ought to send flowers to
the living but to go ahead and give
the flowers and the joy that goes with
Inc S''i"s" :
| The Mysotis club will meet Monday
afternoon with Mrs. W. f. Norris, 7S5
! Lincoln street.
church will give ~ublic reception for
Rev. F. L. Loveland and his family
Monday evening at o'clock at the
church. Mr.. JOab Mulvane will pre-
side. Short addresses of welcome will
be made. and afterwards DR.. Love
| land and his family will meet the
guests personally. The public is cor
daily invited to attend.
The Ramblers' club will meet Mon
day afternoon with Mrs. D. Holden, SO
East Ninth street.
Miss Zillah Mileham. who will give
| her certificate recital tonight. will be
! assisted by Miss Ruth Bauer, Miss Alma
Nelson, Mrs Neiswender, Miss Myrtle
Radcliffe, Mr.. Billiard, and Mr.. Glen
wood Jones.
Mrs. ]. n. Schaefer ANNOUNCES the
engagement of her daughter, Winnie
, Grace, to Mr.. Robert u McCIenahan