The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01


Mrs Adelaide Smith of st. Louis,
who is visiting Mrs. ]. P. RowIey and
Miss Floyd Robertson, will be the
guest of honor at a bridge party
Thursday afternoon which Mrs. Row
ley will give at her home on Monroe
street The party will be informal
and guests have been asked for five
tables.
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The average player enters the room,
says Good evening-cold, isn't it?''
then sits down at the table. accepts
the deal and never says another word
until it is time to GO home The
Thenian club in Topeka is different.
The mem bers, who are young, married
and full of the joy-of-living theory
have inaugural ted a scheme to relieve
the tension after the games have been
played, and they have what is called
an after-refreshme nt-safety-valve of
literary productions. Not long ago
they wrote a novel-each one contrib
uting a chapter. And they say that
the heroine, whose name was Gwen
dolin Hangnails, was last heard from
safely closed up in a folding bed. Last
night at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
H. r. Cartilage, the club put on a
mock session of the senate, after they
had finished the bridge playing. The
mem bers of the Thenian Bridge club
say that the literary effusions after
the bridge playing do not hurt tfeir
ability one bit-and. oh. how it does
improve their appreciation of Itera-
ture.
Pickens have received their new
stock of tailored hats, and the styles
for street wear are certainly fetch
ing" A look at them makes you long
to take off your old gray bonnet and
get under a smart, new straw.
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A Wellesley college senior, Miss
Imogene Kelly, who is the editor of a
college paper. has been giving away
some secrets on the college girl she
says that if they were better looking
and more attractive, they would get
married and not go in search of intel
lectual pursuits, but that the majority
of college girls possess the quality of
looks which warns them that it is bet
ter to prepare for future self support
than to depend on the chances of mar
rying. It is her opinion also that The
habits of hurry that 4 girl forms in
college tend to make her SlipShod and
carelessly attired and hammered. How
ever it may be at Wellesley, the col
1ege girls of this town are spoken
for for wives long before they receive
their degrees, and it seems to require
all the firmness at their command to
induce the men in the case to postpone
the wedding day until after gradua-
ton. And that reminds me that one
of the sorority girls at Washburn has
been out of town to look over the new
house and lot that a former Wash
burn boy has selected as her cage as
soon as birdie MARBLES through the
"fnals" and can feather their nest with
the parchment.
The Duplicate Whist club met Tues
day with Mrs. Is. F. Akers. Those
who played for absent members were
Mrs. w. T. Crosby, Mrs. A. L. Nichols,
Mrs. Clifton Heaton. Miss Ruby Hea-
ton, Mrs. William Burden of Joliet,
ILL.,, and Mrs. Arthur Mills.
y %%
The women have begun to struggle
with the problem of spring millinery.
Middle-aged and elderly women find
the choice of a hat especially hard,
since a girls hat framing an elderly
face is ridiculous. and still no woman
wants to wear d hat that increases her
apparent age. The provision of
HAPPY medium has been made by
Pickens store. which has lately re-
ceived some good looking hats that
seem exactly to meet the difficulty
Mrs. Robert Carver entertained the
Wednesday Bridge club yesterday aft
ernoon. Guests and substitutes were
Mrs. Jack Dillon, Mrs. Dcrr Norton of
Kansas City, Mrs. George Thompson,
Mrs. Fred Davis. Mrs. Albert Jones,