The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-10

Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. GODDARD will take
a Mediterranean trip this winter, sail
ing from New York February IS. Mrs.
GODDARD will leave for the east Tues
day, and will stop in Ashton, ILL.,. to
visit her daughter, Miss Guenn God
ard, who is teaching in the high school
there this winter. and she will then
90 to Troy, N. Y, for visit to her
son, Mr.. Valentine GODDARD, who is a
student at the Van Rensselaer, Poly
technical institute. Mr.. GODDARD will
meet her in New York city, and they
will go for a cruise of the Mediter-
ranean Sea, and will visit various
places in Italy and Egypt. They will
be away three months, and during
their absence their house on Boswell
avenue will be closed.
Mrs. H. Ward Page entertained about
30 guests at an informal party this
afternoon, complimentary to Miss Har-
riet Forbes, of ottawa, who is visit
ing her, at her home on Lane street.
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Miss Welcome Aver will give a VAL
entine party Saturday afternoon of this
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Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Payne, who are
visiting Mrs. Payne'S sister, Mrs.
Monte Kistler, and Mr.. Kistler, will
leave the last OF the week to make
their home in Kansas City. number
of informal affairs have been given for
Mrs. Payne while she has been here,
including a luncheon which Miss Doro-
thy Porter gave for her at Mills, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Pierce entertain
ed for her at dinner. Mr.. and Mrs.
Kistler will entertain their evening
bridge club tonight for Mr.. and Mrs.
Payne.
Governor and Mrs. George H. Hodges
will be guests of honor at a reception
fn no friV ar
tian church by the members. The leg
1SlatorS and their wives are invited,
all the members of the church, and
other friends will be welcome. The
church will be decorated for the party,
and the seats will be moved out of the
audience room, where the party will
be held.
The party of Topeka people who
went to New Orleans to attend the
Fruit Jobbers' association of America,
have returned home. The delegation
from Kansas City and Denver met the
company from Topeka, and they made
the trip together. They were enter |
tanned at the Country club in Dallas, |
Texas, where they stopped on their |
way to New Orleans. After the ses- |
sions of the convention in New Or |
leans. the delegates and their wives
We're entertained at a banquet at the
Athenaeum club, and afterwards Mr.. |
and Mrs Allyn Stone. Mr.. and Mrs. |
George Whiteker and Mr.. and Mrs |
IT. c. Whiteker together with some |
people from Wisconsin, and a couple |
from Great Bend, were entertained by |
the Vaccaro family, who are the own |
ers of the Vaccaro company of New |
Orleans, whose business is valued at
three hundred million dollars. Joseph /
Vaccaro, the founder of the firm, who |
is an Italian who came to New Or |
leans a penniless lad of nine years of |
age, took the party in his steamship |
and showed them his plantations in |
Honduras. They landed at Seba at |
the wharf owned by the firm and !
made the railroad journey on the !
firms line of railway. They were !
shown the $4,000 acres of bananas in !
bearing and thousands of acres of new
plants, besides the groves of oranges
and lemons and other tropical fruits |
And in addition to the products of |
their own land, these people, who are
SO impressively rich, buy up fifty per
cent of the fruit from surrounding
plantations. They load their coin into
great sacks and transport them on flat |
cars like so many bags of beans or po-
tatoes. They maintain schools and !
churches on their lands for their ma
tive servants, and they have an cleo |
trio light and water plant in the midst |
of the crudeneSS of the native life |
around them, and the next step will !
be to teach the naked children to
make themselves wretched in civilized |
garments.
Returning from South America. the
party stopped in New Orleans to at
tend the Mardi Gras, the great car
nival to which all America turns it's
eyes every year, and crowding into
the city, force up the price of a cot
to So a night. This year the carnival
was a display of Times Mysteries"
and they say that the man who reign
ed as king paid thousands of dollars
for the privilege.
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The Topeka chapter of the d. A r.
will have a thimble party February % |
at the home of Mrs. Albert Neese, 914 |
Fillmore street.
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