The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-20

try and shatter the high cost of living.
He proposes to introduced bill MAX
ing compulsory the. wearing of alum
! mum hats which would be supplied
without charge by the state to every
young woman when she atta1ns the
age of millinery discretion. These
hats says Mr.. Benyon, would be dura-
BILE, artistic and inexpensive. With a
simple turn of the wrist they could be
bent into the shape prescribed by the
latest dictates of fashion. They would
lifetime. The statute he proposes
would permit the owner to paint her
hat any color she fancied and tack on
any simple trimming that appealed to
her individual! tastes f.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. W. Knowles enter
tanned the following guests at dinner
Friday night: Mr.. and Mrs. j. r;
Mrs. B. F. Akers, Mr.. and Mrs. c: o.
Knowles, Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben
Knowles and Mr.. Joab Mulvane-
Mics Margazs+ Rrown entertained a.
few friends Informally Saturday after
noon at her home on Tyler street. Her
guests were some of her college
friends.
The musical which the women OF
Grace Cathedral guild planned to give
at the j. c. Harmon home, has been
given up until after Lent on account
of Mrs. Harmon's illness, MRS: Ha T..
mon has been i'll the past week or
two, but is improving, though she IS
not yet able to sit up
James Maurice and Henry Dewitt
Montgomery, together with their littl-
friends. will long remember their
eighth and eleventh birthdays which
were celebrated last Saturday after
noon. Mrs. H. S. Montgomery and
Mrs. R. Dewitt Hagar have fulfilled a
fI,a mis- a
real party this year. The birthdays
fan on the 18th and 18th days of
January and the 18th was originally
chosen but it was afterward decided
to celebrate on Saturday the 18th, so
that all the youngsters would be out or
school. The guests were called for
with automobiles and taken to the
Novelty where three lower boxes were
chartered Each guest was provided
with a white or pink carnatlon. After
enioying the matinee the guests Were
driven to the ladies' parlors OF the
Elks club where Gordon's orchestra
pleasing to the young folks. AFTER the
celebration at the EllSs club the entire
party was again driven to a show, this
time to the Best theater, where al
members of the party greatly enjoyed
, 1.-The Invaders, a three-reel war
drama of much merit and of no small
educational value to the party. Mrs.
Hagar was assisted by Mrs. j. e. Cos
setf' Miss Marguerite Dolan, Miss Nell
Montgomery and Miss Gladys Gardner.
Christmas decorations were used and
there were two large cakes, one at
each end of the table, bearing eight
and eleven candles burning brightly
on either side of a good sized Christ
mas tree which graced the center. The
guests at the party were: Janet
EdeIblute, Ruth Thompson, Florence
DoIan Louise Griest, Katherine Do
Ian, Helen Brown, Edith Griest,
Frances Dolan, Kenneth Macferran.
Ted Griest, John Brown. John Hoat-
son, John Griest, Sheldon Hogebooru,
Marvin Scott, Charles Gossett, Shep-
ard Price.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Kingsley of 1901
West Sixth avenue announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Ethel
Frances. to Mr.. Leo D. Jones of Coun-
sci Bluffs. Iowa, the wedding to take
place in lyme; Miss; k 1hs ey,h,i is
schools of Rosedale, Kansas. She is
| a graduate of the Topeka high school
and of Washburn college, where she
received her musical training. She
formerly sang in the choir of the
First Congregational church in To-
peka. Mr.. Jones is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. D. E. Jones of Rosedale. He
member of the Kappa Sigma frater-
| nifty, and played on the university
| baseball team, and was a member of
! the glee club. He is now a stockman
Council Bluffs.
u j. 4.
The Matinee Music club will meet
{ Thursday afternoon with Miss Helen
| Roehr at her home, 1905 Clay street
! j. j. =
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Williams of
| ToWanda, Pa, who have been visiting
Mrs. Williams aunt, Mrs. James l..
| King, and Mr.. King, have gone to
| Muskogee, Ok, to be the guests of
| another aunt of Mrs Williams Mrs.
Thomas Ryan, and Mr.. Ryan. From
| Muskogee they will go to Oklahoma
| City to visit Mr.. and Mrs. H. ". Hink-
| ley and from there they will go to
/ their home in Towanda.
Mr.. w. S. Weyant of Lincoln, Neb.,
| is visiting his daughter. Mrs. Fl. S.
| Montgomery, and Mr.. Montgomery.
! Mrs. 81. T1ce, Miss Josephine Tice