The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-21

by her daughter. Miss Elizabeth Hop
kins, and in New York city they will
meet Miss Edna Hopkins. Mrs. Hop
kinS will leave for the lake to attend
the conclave, and her daughters will
go to Lake Afford Camp, Maine, to
spend the summer. After the con-
ciave Mrs. Hopkins will visit her son
in Boston, and will spend the rest of
the summer in New England
The alumnae girls of the Sigma
Delta Psi sorority will have an in
formal afternoon Monday at the home
of Miss Daisy Monroe, complimentary
to Mrs. Ralph Johnston of La Junta.
Mrs. Johnston, formerly Miss Nellie
Kaster, is a member of the chapter,
and is in Topeka visiting her parents,
DR., and Mrs :; p kas!er-
Mrs George Crawford and Mrs.
Arthur Capper will give a dinner to-
night at the Country club for Mrs.
Walter Noble Of M !. = Mimi
Guests of Mrs. Eugene Quinton at
an informal afternoon party for Mrs.
Walter Noble of Minneapolis, Mimi,
Friday, were: Mrs. Noble, Mrs. Arthur
Capper, Mrs. Charles Brooks Thomas,
matt, Mrs. D. w. Mulvane, Mrs. w. N.
West, Mrs c. B. Merriam, Mrs.
Schuyler Nichols, Mrs. George Craw-
ford, Miss Nellie Clough. Miss Mary
Thompson and Miss Mamie Hambleton.
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Miss Elizbeth Mcclellan, the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. 7. Mcclellan, of
Potwin Place, has returned from st.
Louis where she was a student this
winter. Miss Mcclellan has been study
ing in an art school, and has been TAX
ing arts and crafts work, which in
cludes an interesting course in book
binding. The entire work of making
up a book, sewing and gliding, no less
than page and cover designing, is
taught in this course. Four years is
the term of study, and Miss Mcclellan
expects to go back in the autumn to
continue her work
The West Side Forestry club will meet
Thursday of next week with Mrs. ]. M.
Meade.
The touch of nature" as exhibited
in the small boy, was the subject Of
some amusement at a fashionable party
recently Everyone with social aspira-
lions that amounted to anything was
to be there, and as a function" 1t was
right at the top of the list for the
whole year. The decorations were in
place. the best people in the best
clothes were awaited, and the young
son of the hostess was in the trappings
and Announcements that fitted him to
help at the party. Presently some one
discovered splashes of water on the
floor of the hall. The servant was
called to dry and polish the surface.
Before long the drip was renewed, and
a search for the missing son revealed
him at the head of the stairs splitting
at the palms to test his craftsmanship.
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The Q. u. I. z. girls of the 1910 class
of the high school had a breakfast and
picnic in Central park Thursday morn
ing. Those who attended were: Miss
Beulah Shirley, Miss Katherine McCar-
ter, Miss Isabel Mills, Miss Margaret
Tillotson, Miss Marian Walp, Miss
Charlotte Mcclellan, Miss Ruth Holt,
Miss Ethel Everingham, Miss Ruth
Adams, Miss Helen Case. Miss Matte
Payne, Miss Nellie Field, Miss Lenora
Scrivner of Kansas City, Mo-, Miss
Mary Lannan and Miss Maude Ward.
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The West Side Reading club will hold
their annual picnic Friday evening,
June 81, in Gage park at Z o'clock.
This will be the last meeting until Oc-
tober. Mrs S. ]. Crumbine is chair
man of hostesses.
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Mrs. C. H. Samson will give an all
day picnic at her ranch Tuesday for
the U and 1 club, which will be the last
of the club affairs until fall.
The women of the Fourth division
of the First NJ. E. church will be en-
tertained at thimble party Wednes-
day, June 25, at the home of Mrs. w.
H. Rutter. 9O6 Fillmore street
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Regardless of the extreme heat Fri
day night, large and appreciative au-
dience listened with interest to Pro-
fessor E. D. Schonberger's excellent
reading of Jerome X Jerome's
drama, 1.-THE Passing of the Third