The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20

read by Dean ]. P. Deb. Kaye of Grace
cathedral. Mrs. Charles Joslin will sing
before the ceremony and Mrs. E. d.
Clithero will play the wedding marches.
Miss Margaret Pettyjohn and Miss
Harriet Eagles will be ribbon girls,
and the brides little niece, Lorraine
Reed, will carry the ring.
The wedding will be interesting to
good many Topeka people, for the Reed
family are old settlers, and Mr.. Price
also has lived here all his life, is a
thoroughly likeable young man and has
many friends in Topeka.
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What about the half-hose craze
Topeka girls wear slit skirts and the
city doesn't bat an eyelash. Wash
high school girl owns an anklet. And
not long ago an exceedingly attrac-
tive young lady tripped across Kan
sas avenue in silken socks.
The world wags on. Clothes come
and go-just now they seem to be
going. Modistes wax excited over the
possibilities of the peg-top skirt. And
the latest cry of the modern maid is a
yearning to bow to the half-hose
craze.
The heroine of the silk sock episode
now wears long hose and skirts Sc
curely stitched at the sides This is
what happened.
dare 1t was cool and comfortable.
She was doing some fall shopping
She wore a trim little hat, dark suit
which buttoned neatly over her right
ankle She crossed a blustery cor
ner The wind whipped across the
skirt and widened the buttonholes-
The result was disaster The width
of the slit was no wider than the grins
of all beholders. The girl made
moral resolution. She dropped a veil
from the brim of her hat, slipped
down a side street, went homeland
cried.
When you hear a girls father in
sisting that the man she marries must
be a money maker, her mother insist
ing that he must be moral and the girl
insisting that he must be fascinating
for a man or a miracle.-St. Louis
Post-Dispatch:
Mrs. Charles O'Neil gave a party
Friday afternoon for her little son.
Charles, in celebration of his eighth
birthday anniversary. The children
who attended were: Peggy Sallee.
Helen SalIee, Gertrude Coolidge, Edna
Octavia O'Neil, Thelma Huston, Made
line Stewart, Ivan Willis, Charles
Pullman, Milo Willis. Thomas O'Neil,
Ralph Shocks, Richard O'Neil, Paul
Britain, Robert Merrick, Frank
Thomas and Lee Britain.
Dr. and Mrs. S. S. Estey and the
Washburn college students and alum
nj who are members of the First Pres
byterian church will give a reception
Monday evening at the church for all
the college students and alumni of
Washburn who are in Topeka.
A special service, arranged by DR..
Estey. will be held Sunday evening at
the church for college people.
Mr.. and MIS- A. s. Booth of Pueblo,
Colo, and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Roe
buck of Kansas City, will arrive to-
night to attend an Anniversary celebra-
ton of the marriage of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Booth. Mr.. and Mrs. Booth
have been married 60 years, and Al
years of that time they have spent in
Topeka. Mr.. Booth is SO years of age
and Mrs Booth 80. A family party
will be given Sunday at the home of
FIR. and Mrs. Booths daughter, Mrs.
F. H. Roebuck.
DR.. J. NJ. Westerfield and sister of
San Diego, Cal, Mrs. Norman Agard
of Chicago and Mrs. Frank Snyder of
Topeka were entertained last night for
dinner at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. F. Mattingly, ITO Lincoln street
The people from out of Topeka are
we'll known here, having lived here a
number of years.
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Club Notes.
The annual meeting of the First
District Federation of Women'S clubs
will be held October Z and in Leav-
worth, Kan Topeka is in the First
district, and a number of club women
are planning to go from here to attend
the convention. The president of the
First district, Mrs. Harry DeCourcy,
has moved from Leavenworth to Kan
saS City, and the first vice president,
Mrs Best. of Centralia, is spending the
fall and winter in California, so the
presiding officer at the First district
will be Mrs. Festus Foster of
Valley Falls, the second vice president.
Mrs. Foster was in Topeka few days
worth. She is preparing an excellent
program, which is not yet complete.
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The last few months have seen a
marked revival of interest in club ac
tivities among the women of Kansas,
and the new season is expected to be
one of the best years in club history.
Locally, many of the individual
clubs are already at work and the To-
peka Federation is making plans for
an active year. The social depart
ment of the federation will open the
club season with a luncheon for the
m EN- bers of the federation, which will
be given october 2. and the different
begun their plans for their particular
work.
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The Saturday club of Howard will
celebrate its twentyfffth anniversary
Monday, September %. They have
sent out handsome invitations printed
in silver, for the anniversary party,
and Mrs. w. A. McCarter of Topeka
has been asked to make an address. !
1t being their silver anniversary, they
have asked her to speak on the subject
Free Silver
A club at Bucklin. Kan, will OBJ |
serve "McCarter Day during the year.
when the meeting will be given to the |
Carter.
The Monday Tourist club will have
its first meeting for the year Monday |
of next week at the home of Mrs. c. |