The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-19

in huge bow. The simple tucker
of the material and short sleeves are
bordered with cream shadow lace.
The tunic is gathered into a ruffle
beneath a garland of half blown pink
roses and falls over a plain underskirt
finished on the bottom by a double
ruffIe of the material
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Miss Jessica Short and Miss Ethelyn
Harrison, who went to Lawrence Wed
nesday morning to attend the Stubbs-
Stewart wedding, returned today. Miss
Short was one of the bridesmaids, and
Miss Harrison played the wedding
music. Miss Short, Miss Helen Pen
delton, also a bridesmaid, and Miss
Harrison, each received as a gift from
the bride a solid silver picture frame,
bearing her monogram. The girls ex-
pect to place in the frames, a small
portrait of the giver. Instead of the
plain gold band wedding ring, the ring
for the ceremony yesterday was set
with a circlet of diamonds.
Miss Helen Fowler went to Kansas
City Wednesday night, and will return
to Topeka Friday. She went down in
response to an invitation to play in
concert with BoguslawslSi, F'elice Lyme,
and Mrs. Stuart Churchill Forbes.
BogusIawslzi is a world famous pianist,
and has an engagement to give a con-
cert in Topeka some time this season.
Felice Lyme is a Kansas City girl, who
has returned from Europe, where her
voice created distinct sensation in
an opera season in London, and her
concerts, since her return home, have
attracted much attention. Mrs. Forbes,
formerly Miss Margaret Fowler, is a
vioIinist of Kansas City. She and Miss
Helen Fowler are sisters.
A new book is out, "A Dozen Raw"
it is called, and the author is William
Smith, better known as Pick Smith
The book is made up of rhymes and
''plain prose"-as the author desig-
mates them Fits and spasms with
bunch of mavericks for good measure
Mr.. Smith was formerly a supreme
court reporter, and is the brother of
Mr. c. B. Smith and Mrs. w. A. Nor
ton. He is we'll known in Topeka and
his book contains rhymes of local in
terest. The opening verses were writ
ten as a letter of thanks to Mrs. w.
A Johnston, who, knowing his fond
ness for pie, sent him two of her own
manufacture. Farther on there is
poem to Corinne, who is the little
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Ash
ton Smith, of Greenwood avenue, and
a neighborhood favorite. Then there is
a limerick of which John Waters is the
hero. john cooper, VINO USED TO Ol-
vide his time between the marriage
license bureau and the divorce court,
comes in for his share of notice. Then
a poem, illustrated by the picture of
smiling baby, is dedicated to little
Polly Perkins, the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roland Perkins, the occasion be-
ing the receipt of a bunch of sweet
peas with little PolIy's name attached.
The illustrations in the book were done
nv Mr. Carl Bolmar.
The fun in the book is continued
through stories of general public in
terest The baseball fam the COVER
norship contest, and the "BootIegger's
Roar" are made the subjects Of COM
ment in rhyme.
The washburn College G1ee club
will leave in February for a trip to
the coast, giving concerts at the Santa
Fe reading rooms. The members of
the club are: Dean Horace White
house, director; Pericles Miller and
Sheriff. Smith, managers; Pericles Mil
Ter, Willis Lusby and Theodore Post,
first tenors; David Neiswanger, Sher-
Fill Smith, Willard Troxel1 and Earl
F'arris, second tenors; Herbert Blinn,
Milton Gugler, Edwin Seeley, Donald
Campbell, first BASES; Frank Ripley,
Carl Hathaway Willis Carney, Neil
Rogers and W. ]. Rosecrans, second
BASES.
The GIee club gave a concert in
washburn chapel Wednesday night
The first part of the program, ar
ranged for male voices by Dean
Whitehouse, consisted of the following
songs: All Through the Night, Brew
er; Mighty LAX a Rose, Nevin; Beau