The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-24
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The w. r. Stubs family, who went
! to Lawrence last week to open their
house for the marriage of Miss Lenora
Stubs and DIR. Robert Stewart. will
not return to Topeka until after the
/ Governors House a short time The
/ family will celebrate Christmas at
/ Wind Hill. and Dr. and Mrs. Robert
! Stewart, on their return from their
! wedding trip, will stop in Lawrence
! to attend the family dinner to be given
/ by Governor and Mrs. Stubbs.
The Alumnae Owls had their Christ
mas dance Monday night at Stein
| berg's hall. Among the guests from out
of town were: Miss Sophia Smithmeyer
| of Lawrence, Miss Dorothy Brigham
of Carthage, Mo. and Miss Clara Will
| Iiams of San Antonio. Tex.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Quinton will have
family dinner party Wednesday.
Their daughter, Mrs. Harley Reisman.
the first of the week to be guests at
i the Quinton home during the Christ
mas season, and Mr.. Alfred Quinton,
Jr.. who is in the engineering service
of the Santa Fe at Dodge City. is also
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A
b. (lulnCOn.
Friends of Mrs Barbour Walker, for
merly principal of Bethany college, To-
peka, will be interested to know that
she has resigned her position is prin-
cipaI of the National Cathedral school
of Washington. D. c.. and will go to
Manila, P l.. to take charge of a new
school for girls. This school is not in
tended for the natives, but for the
daughters of American residents in the
Philippines In the government service,
in private business. Mrs. Walker,
of the school. will leave for Manila the
first of next July. Two other teach
ers of the school will accompany her.
A paper published in Richmond, Va,
says: Through the influence ana
steady efforts of Mrs. Barbour Walker.
principal of the National Cathedral
school. and the speakers whom she
has given opportunity to address the
girls of the school. there has been
rapidly increasing interest in mission
work in the last four or five years. A
society has been organized in the
school. for the promotion of that cause,
and former secretary of the college
has taken up mission work in China"
The ElweH club will meet Tuesday,
January :, with Mrs. w. E. Davis at
her home on Fillmore street
A Kansas club woman whose in
fluence has reached nearly every club
in the state. Mrs. Kate A. Arlington.
of Council Grove. has written a book,
pilgrims of the Palms The story is
a romance of the old Santa Fe trail,
and many of the incidents of the nara
tive are taken wholesale from the lives
of those who travelled that route.
Council Grove outranks even Lawrence
in historic value. Its story goes back
beyond the Santa Fe trail and beyond
that Indian treaty of 1926 council in
the grove, that gave the place a locality
and name. and it has a, wealth of pio-
neer and Indian history and tradition
and prehistoric possessions.
Mrs Arlington was the founder of
the Travelling Art Gallery, which was
taken up by the Kansas Federation at
time when New York was the only
other state which possessed such an
institution. The collection of pictures
is called the Arlington Art Gallery. /
Mrs Arlington is known through the
state a s a lecturer on art, and has been
prominent as a speaker in Chautauqua
gatherings. She has many friends among
the club women of Topeka, and was a
guest of honor at a party given by the
city federation last season, when lee |
turer from Richmond, Indiana, spoke !
on the High School lecture course.
The book contains some quaint Old
ballads and it's characters are cleverly |
drawn. The author seems to have |
caught the spirit and atmosphere of
the time and place and impaired it /
with fidelity to the pages of her novel |
"
The following people were guests of /
Mrs George Hackney at luncheon at !
Mills tea room Monday: Mr.. and Mrs. /
C. D. Skinner. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Spencer. Mrs. Merrill Mills. Mrs. War
rick Updegraff Col. ]. c. Gordon, Miss |
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Cartilage.
The College Alumnae club will have /
a Christmas party Saturday for the
girls of the sewing school of the Provi- |
dent Association. Sixty guests will at
tend.
Miss Ethel Chase will give a 500 party |
Thursday night at her home on Polk |
street.
Notes and Personal Mention. /
Mr. ]. IIette. of Fort Madison, Iowa,
is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph |
Morgan. Mrs. Ilette will arrive this
afternoon to visit the Morgans-
Mr.. A. T. Winchell, of Lawrence, will |
spend Christmas with his niece, Mrs. !
c. G.. Foster and Miss Lillian Foster.
Mr. Dick Reed arrived this morning /
from Arizona. to spend Christmas with |
his parents. DIR. and Mrs. c. B. Reed.
Mr.. L. j. w ear, Oh hdHSdS lily, IDS |
returned after a short visit to his |
brother Mr.. Norman Wear.
Miss Marian Morrow, who is a stud
ent in the Fine Arts Academy, Chicago,
is spending the Christmas vacation |
with her parents. Rev. and Mrs. o. S. |
Morrow and her sister. Mrs Paul
Walker
Mrs w H. Kemper has returned /
from Lawrence where she was the /
guest of Mrs. f. T. Johnson
Miss Edna Corbet. of Eads, Colorado, |