The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23


Peka avenue, in honor of Mrs. Ida K
Lane of Washington, D. c., who is
visiting her. Mrs. Mills had hoped 10
receive a larger number of friends FOR
ner guest, but the extreme warm
weather and the unexpected briefness
or Mrs Lanes stay have made 1t I'M
possible for her to do so. Mrs. Lane
= VIII return the early part of next week.
Mrs. viii Kercher will give an in
formal party Wednesday afternoon at
1851 Topeka avenue, for Miss Leona
Forrest Of Carrollton, Mo-, who Is her
guest. and for Miss Hazel Grimes, VINO
win leave within week to make her
home at Fort Stockton, Tex.
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The Monday Bridge club will meet
Monday afternoon at the Country cluo'
Mrs. John Pullman of Bridgeport.
Conn, formerly Miss Mary Lakin OF
Topeka, will give a house party at her
home next week, and Miss Virginia
Meade, who is attending summer
school at Columbia university will go
to Bridgeport to be a guest at the
party.
There will be the regular Saturday
night dinner. followed by dancing, at
the Country club tonight.
Not even the ownership of a yacht
and money enough to spend the sum-
mer on the lakes in a house boat, can
save man from worry and annoy
ance The W. L. Bates family leIt
about six weeks ago for Cincinnati to
spend the summer aboard their new
boat touring eastern and northern wa
tiers. The delights of summer sailing,
the lake breeze, and boat racing, were TO
have been half over by this time. But
the mills of the gods grind slowly, ana
the divinities were in no hurry Tor the
Bates family to get down to business
and enjoy the bounding main in dead
earnest The result is that they have
spent all the summer thus FAR IN en-
cinnati in hotel, all because an engine
of Inadequate power was installed on
the vessel. The machinery had to be
removed and a new set put in. Mr.. and
Mrs. George Bates of Denver had
month to spend with their parents
passed, and they rave gone back
home, after making by rail the
trip they had planned to make by
boat. The rest of the family are MAX
ing the best of the delay and accept
ing the annoyance with all the cheer
fitness possible. They have just left
Cincinnati within the last day or two
however, and adding to the pleasures
of realization, the accumulated antlcl-
patory joys, they ought to De eX-
periencing some thrills that are worth
waiting for.
Mrs H B. Hogaboom has asked
twenty-five guests for bridge party
which she will give Tuesday morning
at her home on Taylor street, compli-
mentary to Mrs. Frank Robinson OF
Chicago, who is the guest OF her par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Roser, and to |
Mrs. John Green, who will leave Frloay
to make her home in Carthage, MO
new idea of modesty is brought
out in a story told by returned mis-
sionary from the South Sea lslahos. |
The man was much distressed because
cided to try to get them to wear
little clothing. He left about his house !
pieces of bright colored calico IN |
shades of yellow and green and scar
dav to ask his spiritual advice. and
looked with envy at the bright colored |
drv goods on the floor. Her pastor
promised he would give it to her II |
she would wear it. She draped II ABOUT |
her in great glee and started forth to |
make her neighbors envious. The
next day she returned to the minister
carrying his gift to return 1t to him.
saying in such English as he had been
able to teach her, me no can wear it. |
Me too shy"
Mrs. W. G. Dickie gave a children's
party at her home on Lane street for
her daughter Margaret and her guest,
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twenty-five children attended.
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Miss Mildred Here entertained the
following guests Thursday evening for
her cousin, Mr. Harry Ardery, OF Ricn-
mond. Cal: Miss Ada Waggoner, Miss
Fay Clemens, Miss Nina Nicholas, Miss
Margaret Pettyjohn, Miss Marguerite !
Nicholas, Miss Helen Harmon, Miss
Mary Van Vechten, Miss Fay Heck,
Mr.. Bert woodward, Mr.. Conrad
Here, Mr.. Burgis Van VechtenI Mr..
Ronald Craven. Mr.. John Mayer, Mr.. |
Harry Ardery, Mr.. Charles Lewis and
Mr.. Emmons McKinstry.
Mrs. George Walker and her daugh- |
ter, Mrs. Perry Daniels, gave thin |
BILE party Thursday afternoon for Miss |
Lola Westbrooke and Miss Maude
Westbrooke of Sayre, Pa. who are
The guests were: The Misses West |
brooke, Miss Belle Evarts, Miss Matte |
Holyoke, Miss Mary Sharp, Miss Edith |
Van Dorp. Mrs. Ernest Voorhees, of |
Kansas City, Miss Pearl Boam. Mrs.
Rollo White, Mrs. Owen Galbreath. !
Miss Pearl Snyder. Miss Alice stephen |
SON. Miss Eva Speers, Miss Bertha |
Rightmire, Miss Jessie Travis, Miss
Ethel Kingsley. Miss Esther Klein
hans and Miss Helen Wells of Kansas
City.
The members of the Bflliken club |
will leave Monday for Wakarusa to |
spend a week at the Y. w. c. A. camp. !
The party. which will be chaperoned !
by Miss Lena Davis, will include: Miss
Marguerite Thrapp. Miss Mabel Nc !
Knight. Miss Marguerite Allen. Miss |
Frances Morrow. Miss Emma Crabb, !
Miss Ellen Anderson and Miss Ermin? |
ME Plat.
The international convention of the |
Christian church. which is to be held |
in Topeka, will be attended by about |
10000 delegates. It is evident that the /
hotels and boarding houses will be /
unable to care for all of them. and it |
is expected that a good many families I
will help by taking dodgers during the |
week the visitors are here. The sug-
gestion has been made that friends of /
the Y. w. G. A., who can give enter
tainment to the delegates, give the i
money so earned to the association |