The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-18

Miss Daisy Monroe has asked guests
for a luncheon which she will give
Thursday complimentary to two brides
to-be, Miss Nellie Raster, whose
wedding to Dr. Ralph Johnston will
take place March 90. and Miss Mildred
Guild. who will be married April to
DR.. Walter Wedding.
Mrs. J. A. Austin will entertain the
Wednesday Afternoon Bridge club to-
street
The alumnae Sigma Debts of Wash
burn college gave a dinner party Mon
p day night at the home of Mrs. James
Hughes, and after the dinner the COM
ps.ny went to the home of Miss Made
line Whitney for the performance of a
farce which the hostesses wrote and
acted for the entertainment of their
guests the girls of the active chapter.
The play was called "Beaned on the
Bugle" or 1.-The Mystery of the Forty
False Teeth and the cast contained
four villains. Soupee Sam, the profane
Chinese cook, Lefty Lou, the butler,
Shuvelin Kole, the furnace man, and
Turnada Cranko, the musical organ
grinder, whose parts were taken by
Miss Louise McNeal, Miss Grace
Koontz Miss Madeline Whitney, and
Miss Jean Rodgers. Miss Gertrude Nc
Clintock was the hero, Rupert O'Byron;
Miss Rebecca Welty acted the part of
the beautiful heroine, GrGpefruitta
Beane and Hamanda Beane, her
mother was impersonated by Miss
Mary Alexander. Stryng Beane the
husband of Hamanda, was the part as
signed to Miss Daisy Monroe, and : RS.
Hughes had two roles. Analgesique
Beane, a kidnapped child. and Snoop-
ing Sleuth. Mrs. Paul Walker had the
part of st. Pat. The personnel of the
Happy Hooligan chorus, was as fol-
lows: Miss Alice Andrews. Miss Alice
Larimer, Mrs. Merrill Mills, Miss Mar
guerite Parkinson. Miss Henrietta
Alexander Miss Clara Daniels, Mrs.
George Badders. and Miss Helen Spiel
man. Miss Bess Renwick was Tsum
Noizi
After the program the hostesses pre-
scented to the active chapter a set of
dinner forks engraved with the sorority
monogram
The Vespuccian club will give its an
nual banquet tonight at the home of
Mrs. ]. E. Ensminger. 1874 Topeka
avenue.
The Nineteenth Century club held its
regular meeting Monday afternoon
with Mrs. w. H. Fighter.
The club will give luncheon party
d. P. Paxton. 315 West Tenth avenue.
The club entertains at a luncheon
every year before closing its sessions
for the summer.
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An event of a good deal of interest
for tonight. and particularly in college
circles, is the play The Man From
Indiana" to be given at the Grand
theater by the Washburn Dramatic
club. Line parties to the show will be
given by the Sigma Delta Psi and Beta
sororities. by the Phi Debts and the
Kappa Sigma men. The members of
the faculty will have a line party. also
the Glee club, the law school, and the
academy.
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The women of the Minerva club gave
a banquet and after-dinner program
Monday night at the First Methodist
church. This club party is an annual
affair. Mrs. Morton AIbaugh the pres
ident of the club. acted as toaStTnis-
tress and in introducing the men on
the program she called to remem-
brance the wit of which the women
were subjects. INDUCED in by the hus-
bands of the members who We're hosts
at the banquet last year. and she paid
them back, with interest. Included in
the program was a clever French
sketch-a dialogue farce. THE Silent
System" which was given by Professor
Schoenberger. of the Oratorical depart