The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-04
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The young society people are already
planning their dances to be given i'm
media @mediately ely, after Easter. The Tivoli
II, at Steinberg's hall. The date is
safely outside the season of repentance,
1,but not much more than over the bor-
der. The Varsity club will give bor-
after-Easter dancing party Friday ev-
ening, April q, at Steinbergs.
Mrs. E. S. Pettyjohn gave an infor-
NAL dinner party Saturday evening
for Mr. and Mrs Justin Brown. Cow
ers We're laid for Mr.. and Mrs. Brown,
Mrs. F. Lynch of Omaha, formerly of
Topeka, Miss Laura Townsley, Mr..
John Abrahams, and DR.. and Mrs Pet
tyjohn.
Some of the ver-conscientious keep
ers of Lent this year are going only to
afternoon parties or only to evening
parties, but never both afternoon and
evening of the same day. This seems
like tremendous piece of self-sacrifice.
especially this week when parties of
any kind are about as plentiful as July
frosts.
Mrs. H. A. Auerbach entertained II
guests at luncheon and bridge today at
her home. on Buchanan street.
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Mrs. George NJ. Noble. Mrs. George
Noble, Jr., Mrs. J. NJ. French, and Mrs.
Shellebarger will entertain the ladies'
society of the First Methodist church
Wednesday afternoon, April 5, at the
home of Mrs. Noble. 915 Harrison street.
All the women of the church are urged
to be present.
The following guests attended a party
given Monday night by Mrs. J. w. F.
Hughes, for her niece Miss Jessie
Mrs. Warrick Updegraff, Mr. and Mrs.
James Hughes. Miss Mary Dallas Gage,
Miss Berenice Emahizer, Miss Marian
Thompson, Miss Emma Bolmar. Miss
Helen McClintock Miss Gertrude Nc
Clintock, Miss Josephine Keizer of
Kansas City. Miss Annabel Carver,
Miss Julia Larimer, Miss Esther Rodg-
ers, Miss Alice Larirner, Miss Elizabeth
Holiday. Miss Bess Renwiek, Miss
Grace Koontz, Miss Helen Lindsay,
Miss Elizabeth Mcclellan, Miss LYDIA
Macferran, Miss Bernice Fuller, Miss
Gussie Fuller, Miss Alice Hughes, Mr..
Jay Close, Mr.. Richard Hail. Mr.. Arth-
ur Gray, Mr.. Cyrus Monroe, Mr.. Roy
George, Mr.. Tinkham Veale, Mr.. Rich
ard Fritz, Mr.. Shoemaker, Mr.. Robert
Pierce, Mr.. Herbert Lininger, Mr.. AL
fred Bartell. Mr. Edwin Campbell Mr..
Joe Risteen. Mr.. Philip Movers, Mr..
Mr.. James Hayes and Mr.. Gilbert Wor-
lev
For those who crave personal items
/ about celebrities: Myron Whitney dyes
his hair. Three years ago when he
Il gave a recital in New York his hair
was noticeably gray; when he sang in
Topeka last week, it was brown There
fore, the conclusion is reasonable tha>
he dyes it.
n IicI, 1 I1a
way Americans are .dazzled by a great
name, and it is funny to note how We
lose all sense of proportion in judging
the Importance of the common Incl
i dents in every day life of the world 5
s famous ones. All the scandals about
& | a great composer are unearthed by his
4 worshipers and then excused on the
q ground of his artistic temperament
. When a carpenter or a shoemaker, a
. business man, a preacher, or a bridge
builder deserts his wife and trails
around after other affinitieS, he Is
Il called a blackguard, brute, hypo-
crite, and other unpleasant names, bu
| when Elbert Hubbard goes back on hi
4 marriage bargain and plays the Brig
ham Young part, lot of sentimental
d women will tell you, 1--WE can't criti
1T cize Fra E1burtus after reading White
is Hyacinths.'' And there was Fran
Liszt, a regular shark at the soul
business and the father of a who'll
Is colony of nameleSS children, and St1il
because he could play the piano divine
II ly and wrote some epoch-makinI
e music, We are told that he cannot In
. judged by the standards that govern
=. ordinary people. And why not? 1
these people are endowed with thos'
- fine sensibilities and perceptions tha
= enable them to express themselves II
T. an immortal language. does not tina
# same lofty power argue even greate
K moral responsibility than belongs K
d the ordinary mortal? 1t appears to us
Il like the attitude of a toady and d
a sycophant to be overly concerned with
the length of a great actors eyebrows
II or the number of pepsin tablets Rookie
: feller consumes daily, or that any great
man, even if he has no more backbone
n than the spinal column of string
t bean, buys immunity from reproach bS
his fame, just as u. D. Morganheim'
lodges his taxes by means of his mils
o lions.
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II Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. J. NJ. Connell and Miss Frances
II ConneIl went to Chicago Sunday t.
spend week.
n Mr.. and Mrs. A. Zahner and Mis-
~ Mamie Zahner, who went to Californi;