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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-04

guests appeared in such costumes
many of the guests dressed as suited
their fancy or convenience, with the
result that the scene at the tea was
interesting and beautiful. Mrs. Charles
NJ. Rathburn wore a Canton suit. which
she bought while in China number of
years ago. It was complete from the
Chinese shoes to the arrangement of
apple blossoms worn in her hair Mrs.
James A. Spalding was dressed like a
Chinese bride. Her costume was sent
to her from China by her sister, Mrs.
c. H. Smith, and she wore red satin
coat. and gorgeous Mandarin coat, and
upon her head wore the head-dress
worn by Chinese brides. Mrs. B. p.
Waggener and Mrs. Lily Hetherington,
who presided at the refreshment table
in the dfningroom, looked as though
during the time of the French revolu-
ton. Their hair was powdered. and
they wore Powered satin brocade dress
es. Mrs. George w. Pencil wore a
white satin wedding dress 100 years
old. 1t was worn by Mrs. -Aziel Spald-
ing, who lived and died in Atchison
many, many years ago.
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The Informal Five Hundred club will
have an evening meeting Monday,
March g. at the home of Mrs. Charles
Hammond. 1922 Clay street. The hus-
bands of the members will be the
guests.
Y
The Elwell Bridge club will meet
next Monday with Mrs w. P. Hemp
hill, 817 Lincoln street.
4
Mrs w. w. Strickland gave a
bridge-luncheon Friday at the Throop
hotel for the Friday Bridge club.
Guests, besides the members, were:
Mrs. C. E. Foote. Mrs. w. e. Davis,
Mrs Clement Smith, Mrs T. J. Myers,
Mrs. c. L. Short and Mrs. F. H Ris-
teen
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Could anything be daintier or more
suitable for a young -irrs frock Of
Swiss or organdy than this little de-
sign? Entirely shorn of the rows Of
lace edging - Insertion, which have
seemed to be a part of all frocks of
this character, it has a smartness all
it's own and lacks none of the light,
airy effect desired in these frocks. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-04

The Girls Guild of the First Metho-
dist church will give a st. Patricks
day reception and musicale Friday
afternoon, March 10, at the home of
Mrs. E. S. Pettyjohn, 1913 West Sixth
avenue. The hours will be from three
to six, and two or three hundred guests
will attend. The emblems and colors
of the st. Patrick festival will be used
as decorations. Miss Gertrude eleven
ger is in charge of the program for
the musicale. Miss Hazel Loveland
and Miss Marie Vanderpool will sing:
the piano numbers Will be furnished
by Miss June Mitchell Miss Dorothy
Barber, Miss Mildred Carter and Miss
Ruth Bauer. Miss Gladys Cav and
Miss Jessie Waller will play the violin
The officers of the guild will receive
the guests. Those who will stand in
line are: Mrs. Pettyjohn Miss Joy
Paxton, Miss Myrtle Sproat, Miss Alice
Griffin, Miss Wilma Wright, Miss Ruth
Bauer, Miss Mildred Carter, Miss Ger
trude CIevenger, Miss Mildred Here,
Miss Helen Harmon and Miss Helen
Knox. The girls who will assist
through the rooms are: Miss AnnabeI
Wright, Miss Fern Ruff. Miss Grace
Vreeland, Miss Eva Bailey, Miss Mil
bred Bowman and Miss Florence Bow
man.
The Topeka chapter of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution will
meet Saturday, March IL. at the home
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back brim. faced with accordion
pleated taffeta in self-tone, scarf Of
chiffon under this brim, and ends OF
the same tie in small bow under the
chin. At the back are massed great
clusters of shaded pink roses.
The Topeka Avenue club will have
a banquet and evening meeting at the
National hotel, Friday evening
Mrs. F. ]. Colson gave a dinner par
ty at the Throop hotel for a number
OF the out-of-town women who are
here during the legislative session.
Jonquils were used for the table deco
rations, and the place cards were in
yellow, done in water colors. The
guests were: Mrs. Francis Price, of
Ashland, Mrs. G. H. Hunter of Well
ington, Mrs. ]. L. Brady of Lawrence,
Mrs. John T. Denton of Grenola, Mrs.
j. H. Stewart of Wichita. Mrs. A. F.
Smith of Winfield, Mrs. o. H. Worley
of Longton. Mrs. A. B. Carney of Con-
cordia, Mrs. w. NJ. Moore of Anthony,
Mrs. Frank Daugherty of Topeka, and
Miss Potter of Peabody. Cards fol-
lowed the dinner.
The following account is from the
Sanford Herald of Sanford, Florida:
Mrs. Walter B. Gust entertained in
formally twice last week at her bung-
allow on Cameron avenue, in honor of
Mrs. o. E. Walker of Topeka, Kan.
The rooms were artistically decorated
and an air of hospitality prevailed,
making the parties memorable occa-
sions to all the guests" Mrs. Walker
has been spending several weeks in
the south.
The date for the lecture to be given
by Miss Sylvia Pankhurst is Saturday
evening, March IS. She will speak in
the First Baptist church, and her sub
ject will be English Politics" She
is making a tour of the middle west.
and will come to Topeka under the
auspices OF the City Federation of
Women's clubs. The federation has
placed the price of the tickets at %
cents. thinking that the moderate
price will insure a large audience. The
lecture is for both men and women,
and is expected to be of equal inter-
est to all.
The Sigma Delta Psi girls of Wash
burn will have their annual st. Pat
rick's party March IT, at the home of
Miss Gertrude McClintock.
Mrs. Walter L. Bates. Mrs. George
G. Beach. Mrs. Adelbert kirkpatrick,
Mrs. F. w. Norris and Mrs. Frank
Klingaman will give reception We'd
, nesday March Is. at the home OF
Mrs. Walter L. Bates. 1882 Park ave-
nue., for the women of the First Con-
gregational church.
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A handsome dress of white linen,
whose style suggests u youthful wear
er, is sketched here. The blouse. which
it quite full at the waist line, has a
broad sailor collar of the linen and
broad fiat bands Of embroidery cross
ing at the front. The sleeves are of
the linen, with cuffs of embroidery.
The scant, closely fitting skirt has a
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For his friend is another self.
Aristotle
If you heard that a friend of yours
not an acquaintance, not speech
friend as one Of our cleverest word
coiners has SO aptly called that vast
outer circle of our associates, but a
real~FRI END with all that word ought
to convey-had said or done some
unkind thing against you which you
would have been incapable of, if the
case were reversed, what would you
do?
Would you say, my friend has done
this thing. Therefore he cannot be
what thought he was" Or would
you place your belief in your friends
character above your belief in ap-
pearances and say, '"The story must
be false. My friend is incapable of
such a thing?"
One of my young friends came to
me the other day wretched and I'M
happy and almost sick because she
had heard that a friend of hers whom
she loved almost as sister had tried
to prevent her election to a certain
club.
my dear" I said, after she had
poured out her tale of woe, TELL me
something. Would you have done this
to herr"
The little 1ady's big blue eyes opened
II.
why, you KNOW ] couldn't pos
sibly. Miss Cameron she retorted.
Very WELL" said. Then 1 think
you are insulting your friend. You
have SO little faith in her that you
believe she would do a mean thing
that you yourself are absolutely incap-
able off,
The little lady thought it over a
minute. THAT isn't a very fair thing
to do, is it ~ she asked.
And yet how many of us do that
same thing.
That is - suspect our friends of
meanness and unkindness of which we
believe ourselves quite incapable.
Seems to me that's conceit as well
as unfair.
Why should we think ourselves so
much better than the rest of the
world that we should be ready to be-
lieve our standard of conduct higher
than theirs?
1t seems to me that any fair minded
person owes i. to his sense of justice
to do two things in regard to any evil
report that he hears of his friend
First let him say. II will not believe
my friend guilty of anything that /
myself am incapable Of.
Secondly, instead of intrenchTng
himself in an atmosphere of eonstraint
and unexpected reproach as regards
that friend, let him go straight to him
and say, my friend. I have heard
something about you that 1 cannot
believe. VIII you confirm my belief
in you by denying this rum.or?'
IF people would follow these two
rules L have no doubt that nine out
of ten misunderstanding would be
| still-born.
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The Topeka Avenue club will have
a banquet and evening meeting at the
National hotel, Friday evening
March TO-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-04

short pleated f1ounce on the front and
sides headed by the crossed band of
embroidery, which repeats the lines of
the bodice. Crochet buttons trim
bodice sleeves and skirt.
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The Ideal History club will hold
their annual evening meeting next
Saturday night at the home of Mrs.
E. c. Fox, 1411 Fillmore street The
husbands of the members will be
guests of the club.
A meeting of the Good Government
club, the civic committee of the City
Federation, and the executive board
is called for o'clock Monday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Chas. Sam
son, 314 Topeka avenue.
X
The Atchison Globe gives the fol-
lowing account of a party given by
Mrs. Willis ]. Bailey, the wife of ex-
Governor Bailey:
Mrs. Willis j. Bailey gave one of
the most elegant parties ever given in
Atchison yesterday, when she enter
tanned in her new Colonial home with
a Colonial tea. Although the tea was
Colonial, and Mrs. Bailey received in
Colonial costume. and a number of
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of Mrs. Robert Stone, 1910 West
Eighth avenue. The subject for the
meeting will be 1.-The Discovery and
Exploration of the Mississippi River"
The members of the committee in
charge of the meeting are: Mrs Stone,
Mrs. z. B. Stotts. Mrs. H. w. McAfee,
Mrs. John Brunt, Mrs. T. w. Todd,
Miss Gertrude Boughton. Miss Bessie
Boughton and Miss Florence Kimball.
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In the hats for the coming spring,
the tendency seems to be toward plac-
ing the mass of the trimming at the
back. Many of the hats are also de-
signed on the lines of the poke shape
The sketch above is of a hat com
bining both of these features. 1t is OF
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material used should be lawn, organdy
or other thin stuff. There is a deep
yoke and elbow sleeves Of fine allover
lace and the other sole trimming is
ruching formed of the gown material.
The bretelles, narrow sash and ends
are of satin ribbon.
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The Minerva club held its regular
meeting Monday, February q, at the
home of Mrs. 7. S. Jackson. The fol-
| lowing program was given:
Paper-An Afternoon with Browning.
Miss Levitt of Washburn college.
Paper-Browning in Music. Mrs: w.
| D. Davis.
CNeidlinger) There's a Woman Like
| a Due Drop. Thy Face-Mrs.f Brown
| ing. Miss Walter.
(Caraccivla) Unless-Mrs. Browning.
| Mrs. Kimbrougf.
Violin-Selected. Miss Walter.
(Beach) The Years at the Spring
| Browning. Mrs. E. G. Hughes.
(HolIaender) March. OPP. SO, No. 1.
Mrs. Albaugh.
| Charles Gullbert Spross-Yesterday
and Today Since We Parted.
| Guests of the club were: Mrs. john
son. Mrs. Goddard, president state fed
Grafton, Mrs. Payne, Mrs. johnson, Miss
| Levitt, Miss Bass, Mrs. 'Dicky, Mrs
George Guild, Mrs. George Stitt, Miss
Floyd Baker, Mrs. Dyrly of st. Paul.
Miss Martha Storrer, Goshen, Ind,
Mrs. H. o. Garvey.
Y
Miss Meta May White and Mr.. Her
ron Williamson were married Wednes-
day evening, March I, at the home of
the brides. parents. Mr.. and Mrs. J. S.
White by Rev. L. w. Williamson, the
bridegroom's father. Miss Ethel Irwin
played the Lohengrin wedding march.
The bride was attended by her sister,
Miss Sadie White. and Mr.. William
sons best man was his brother, Mr..
Thomas Williamson. Mr.. and Mrs
Williamson will be at home after
April in Lamar. Colo.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. r. c. Wilson of Wakeeney and
her daughter, Helen, who is a stud ent
at the Presbyterian college of En-
poria. came to see Ben Hur and are
guests of Senator and Mrs E. F. Por-
ter at the National hotel.
Mrs. W. L. Brown of Kingman, who
has been here with Representative
Brown the past few weeks, returned
home Friday.
Miss Joy Paxton went to Lawrence
today to spend Sunday with Miss
Miriam Foster, who is a student at the
university.
Mrs. H. T. Laidlaw of Yates Center
arrived Friday to be with Representa-
tive Laidlaw during the rest of the
| Legislative session.
| Mrs. Noble Prentis, who is living at
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lace is applied give a slenderness to
the figure often lacking in gowns of this
style. The bodice is cut in kimono
style, with short, untrimmed sleeves,
piped with silk and a widepointed col
lar of silk or lace, as taste many die
tate. The fullneSs of tie skirt is pIeated
closely to the figure below the upper
band of insertion and held in place by
the lower The skirt falls full and un-
trimmed.
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EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

The friends thou hast an6 their adop-
ton tried
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops
of steel.
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The Beta girls of Washburn college
will give a dinner tonight at the
chapter house for the boys VINO ran
in the relay race last night. Those
present, besides the girls who live at
the sorority house. were: Miss Helen
Bridham. Miss Anneta Nichols, Mr.. T.
Karnes, Mr.. Sam Bradfeld. Mr.. Aus
tin Wallack, Mr.. Fred Chamberlain
and Mr.. Clarence McCafferty
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-22
Senator Frye's Largest Fee

After the commission had finished
It's work at Paris and the treaty OF
peace was signed, then the question
What compensation should be
paid to the members Of the commits
sion? Discussing hat point shortly
after the commission had returned
home the president said:
81 expect to nominate Judge Day
(now on the Supreme Court bench) as
United States circuit judge for the dis
trict of which Ohio is a part, / am go
ing to nominate Senator Gray OF Del
aware as United States Judge of the
circuit court of the district of which
his home state, Delaware, IL q part
l would gladly appoint Senator Frye
and Senator Cushman K. Davis of Min
nesota to any high Office within my
gift, but l know that neither Of them
desire to leave the senate"
Casting about in his mind for some
way to reward Senator Frye the pres
ident recalled that his friend had been
dependent ever since the friendship
began, almost wholly on his salary as
a member of congress. He knew of
several occasions when Senate Frye
had declined to accept fees for profess
sionaI services as a lawyer; he knew
that Senator Frye's standard OF con-
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-22
New News Of Yesterday

duct in that respect RAJ e He
also knew that the senator had very
little money. Therefore, President Nc
Kinley decided that out Of a contin-
gent fund owe which he had authority
to make such expenditure as he chose
he would authorize the payment to
senator Frye Of $4,000 and a like
amount to Senator Davis of Mime
sofa.
When Senator Frye received the
draft for $10,O 900 he held it in his hands
for a moment with almost q tender
touch. and then said:
Ten thousand dollars! That is the
largest amount of money I have ever
received at one time for any serv-
ice l have ever given. And I am very
glad to get It."
Yet Senator Frye. had he been will
ing to accept fees, or to give heed to
tempting propositions to become q
member OF promotion s~yndicates, could
many times have received much more
than $4,000 for lending his name or
giving his professional services.
It may be appropriate to add that
in recognition of the services of White
law Reid, who was the fifth member OF
the peace commission, ne was appoint
ed special representative of the presi,
dent at the coronation Of King Ed
ward VII.
Copyright. 1911. by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-22
Woman Swindles Rich Men

tocratic families Of the Bourbonnais
district of France.
An accomplice wrote her several
letters. making constant references to
her property and a~ristocratic rela-
tives. Finally the official became en-
gagged to Nine. Germot and presented
Ler with a splendid ring. valued at
5000 francs. The next day his fiancee
left VichJ and disappeared. She vent
to another pleasure resort. however.
and there pursued similar tactics with
an officer from a garrison station in
the vicinity Of Paris. Having again
received a handsome present Of Jew
elry she decamped and reappeared
IN Paris.
Here she made the conquest of q
wealthy Russian. As she was engag-
ed with him in attentively examining
a jewelers. window in the Rue de la
Paix yesterday morning two men ap-
preached and politely requested her to
step into an taxi-auto with them. They
were detectives. who arrested her on
the charge of swird)ing the colonial
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-22
Lincoln and Greeley In Houss

Colonel Bliss, whether Lincoln. at
tracted much attention as a repre-
sentative or enjoyed any noticeable
popularity?
mot that 1 observed replied Gree
ley He seemed to me about as quiet
and inconspicuous and serious-minded
a man as any one of the two hundred
members of the house at hat time.
There is one thing, however, that
1 do remember about Lincoln the con-
gresham which has always seemed
to me very strange. Ten ear later
we printed reports of Lincoln's de-
bates with Douglas, and 1 particularly
noticed hat Lincoln interpolated his
speeches with a great many anec-
dotes. I inquired about this and
friends of Lincoln told me that in ill.,
nois it was his ~invariable custom to
illustrate or point an argument by a
story. OF course, when he became
president thu country became speed
lily familiar with Lincoln's habit of
using stories in this manner. But
here is a strange thing. l had a great
many chats with Lincoln in the last
two months or six weeks of the SEES
sion Of congress Of which we were
both members. We found ourselves
very nearly in agreement on most po-
litical questions: we were strongly in
agreement on protection. And Lincoln
got in the habit Of coming almost
every day to my seat and talking with
me. Yet in all our conversations Lin
coin did not once tell one story or re-
late a single anecdote or indulge in
any humor except occasionally a dry,
trifing scintillation Of humor. l
thought him as serious-minded and
serious-manenred a man as l had ever
met I have often wondered whether
he refrained from telling stories to me
because he thought I was a man who
would not appreciate a story. or
whether he began to indulge in that
sort Of thing generally after he be-
came popular as a stump speaker in
Illinois. I rave never been able to
decide which explanation is the cor
rect one"
Copyright. 1911. by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights ReServed.1
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-22
Scheme to Make Physical Unfitness Z
Legal Bar to Marriage-WW
Better Race.

Londor.-New Zealand has started
q movement which is expected to maxi
physical unfitness a legal disability
for marriage, just as In England n
America 2 man Is 10Y deprived of his
privileges as a citizen If he Is men
tally unsound.
The movement had its inception BY
case ventilated in the press OF q
man who had been eight times in an
asylum, being the father OF ten chill
dren. all Of whom were public
charges, and therefore a handicap to
the Common welfare But the move
ment had scarcely gained headway
before there arose a conflict between
the old principle Of individual liberty
and the new principle OF tie healthy
development OF the race.
Students OF eugenics all over the
world will watch with interest thu de.
ye1upmeuts II New z1aland. for there
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-22
In Making His Generous Contributions
to Political Campaign Funds He
lever Took Chances. Even
With His Friends.

The late William C. Whitney, secre-
tary of the navy during Cleveland's
first term as president. and before
end after hat period in his career one
of the leading Democratic politicians
Of the nation, was one of the o
generous distributors of campaign
funds the country has ever known,
and he was as successful in collect
ing funds for campaign purposes as
any man of his generation in either
party, with the possible exception OF
Governor Marshall Jewell OF Connecti-
cut, who was chairman of the Repub-
lican national committee during the
presidential campaign of 1880. Yet, de-
spite his lavishness Of distribution,
Mr.. Whitney knew what he was about
every time he distributed campaign
funds. He was not one of those who
disbursed campaign subscriptions Law
ishly and then was Indifferent as to
the uses to which they were put He
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-22

All Of these children we're born sipgIv
Mrs. Dickey. who il forty-fve years
old. became a mother at fifteen. Mr..
Dickey is ifty-threc years old.
The Dickcys live on a sixty acre
farm and fourteen Of the children live
at home. The eldest son is a clergy.
man in California. Mr.. Dicke, raises
nearly everything the family eats and
what he has to buy be always pays
for in cash.
To maintain his family require,
fourteen Oarrels of -four. lis bushels
of potatoes and other things In pro-
portion every year. To keep them
warm In winter twenty-three cords
OF rock maple wood are burned. Mrs
Dickey says the big family does not
bother her ut all.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-22
He Was Glad to Receive FER Thou
sand Dollars for His Work as Men,
Der Of Peace Commission
After Spanish War.

The late Senator William P. Frye
OF Maine a The second selection
made by President Mckinley for mem
bership on the commission nominated
by Mckinley to negotiate the treaty
OF peace with Spain al Paris in the
late fall of 1898.
Mckfnley's first selection was nat
'urally John Hay, who, as secretary OF
state at he time of the Spanish war.
had had charge under Mckinley of all
the diplomatic matters which arose out
of our difficulty with Spain. 1t was
therefore not only highly appropriate
but essential that Secretary Hay
should be appointed a member Of this
commission and made it's chairman.
But there came into the mind of Nc
kinney as soon as he knew that it de-
:volved upon him to appoint a treaty
making commission the selection of
Senator Frye as the second member o.
that commission.
Mckinley and Frye became intimate
political and personal friends soon aft
ier Mckinley entered congress-. Frye
had then been a member Of congress
three terms, and he once told me that
Mckinley was the first Of the new
members whom he greeted on the day
that the new congress of which Nc
:kfnley was a member was organized.
Their seats in the house were within
easy reach. They used frequently to
sit side by side, chatting sometimes
for an hour Of more. They were in per-
;fect agreement on the question of pro-
lection. and it would. nave been i'm
possible to have found In the house
two men who were so thoroughly alike
in the simplicity of their personal
life. in the integrity of their standards.
both of public and of private life, an
were Mckinley and Frye. Their init
macy was maintained after Frye quit
ted the house for the senate; it was
continued after Mckinley entered the
white House. And it was because Of
this intimacy. and McKinley's high re-
gard for Senator Frye's integrity of
purpose. that the president decided to
make his longtime friend the second
of the peace commission. Be-
sides. Mckinley knew that Frye was
OF the opinion that there was not only
a moral obligation on the part of the
United States to take over the SOW
'ereignty of the Philippines, but. fur
tthermore. that the peace of the world
made that step essential.