The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-14

| her home in Fillmore street. Mrs
Josephine Webb substituted for Mrs
B. F. Akers.
Mrs. George Eagle will entertain thu
| Tuesday Bridge club next Tuesday Al
her home in Quincy street.
Mrs. C. G. Colburn will entertain thu
| Nineteenth Century club Monday after
noon; at her home. 1924 Topeka ave-
nue..
The Topeka Alumni club Of Phi Delta
Theta will give a smoker at the Frat
house Friday evening November Il
The November meeting Of the West
Side Forestry club will be held Thurs
day, November 20, with Mrs. J. c. Ema-
hizer, at her home in Potwin Place
Mrs. w. A. Johnston will be assistant
hostess. The answer to roll call is
| Nuts. Berries; and Pressed Leaves. Mrs.
J. F. Close will read paper on Trees
and Forests in Literature"
=
When it comes to appreciating
genius. little old Topeka is there in
| the front row. So when the great
violinist Of the day played at the
Grand yesterday the fashionable peo-
pie streamed into the parQuet, making
the affair both a musicale and q
"dressicle," as one Topeka woman
aptly puts it, and all the true lovers
of art were there, bubbling with en-
thusiasm over the performance. But
the truly true lovers were bevy OF
girls who felt that they must tell
Kreisler how well he could play. Be-
| tween the numbers of the program
| they swarmed into the wings, they
i clamored for his autograph, they as
| sured him that they enjoyed his art.
because they (sorne OF them being
students), were themselves artists.
One pretty young woman sank Imply
| that the programS was i SO PERFECTLY
grand that it made her weak. How
ever, the great man had disappeared
! too soon to see the havoc his genius
| had wrought, and there was no man
present to support the limp figure but
an untemperamental married person
| who overlooked the need OF his SER
| vices. a.
Any great musician who came to
Topeka without enjoying the privilege
of visiting with few dozen women
| whom he never saw before and never
expected to see again, after two or
three hours Of exhausting work, might
feel that he had performed for a most
| unresponsive audience.
/
! A party was given Thursday evening
| at the home of Miss Bertha Clay, in
| compliment to Miss Katherine Nc
Farland, who has lately returned from
| a trip to Canada and New York, and
other eastern points. In New York.
Miss Mcfarland visited her brother,
| Captain Earl Mcfarland, of the ord
nance department., West Point, and
| in Illinois, she was the guest of an
other brother, Mr. Bruce Mcfarland.
who Is q student at the state univer-
| sity, Champaign. Illinois.
! The guests, who were members OF
the high school and college crowds,
included: Miss Mcfarland, Miss Helen
Marsh, Miss Grace Dana, Miss Mildred
Agard, Miss Marguerite Thrapp. Miss
Helen Cook, Miss Ruth Rooster, Miss
Helen Neese. Miss Margaret Ewers,
Miss Emily Seery, Miss Mildred STAN
ton, Mr.. Charles Nettles, Mr.. Ralph
Kingsley, Mr.. Harold Lyle, Mr.. Fred
Beerbohm, Mr.. Bob Ward, Mr.. Sidney
buckingham, Mr.. Edwin Olander, Mr..
Clyde Mills, Mr.. Sam Lux, Mr.. Lloyd
Wardin. Mr.. Eustis Clay and Miss
Clay.
II you notice a chirkiness about al
the little vaudeville artists, actorines
| and ''squabettes," it is owing to a new
i kind of bath that everybody's taking
The new bath, guaranteed to make
cream and velvet out of the most
hopeless complexion, warranted tC
(. rest a tired body like a seven-houI
| nap on a bed of roses, is-starch!
Here is a recipe: Buy pacage
Of ordinary starch at the gr0cers;
dissolve it in O saucepan full of COO
water and pour the solution into you
bathtub. half filled with water at 9
| temperature of from 95 to 80 degrees
| not exceeding blood heat.
To take the cure properly lie flat
| in the tub with only the face above
water. Stay for at least twenty min
utes. No more hot water must be
added or the beneficial effects will be
marred.
You will come out feeling as
stimulated as if you had ridden in
an aeroplane. The sense of exhilara-
ton will stay for several hours. The
bath is best taken before breakfast OF
before dressing for dinner. 1t cures
fatigue soothes the nerves, tones uT
the skin and boosts the mind like q
observation-disclosures City Star.
The members CT the College
this afternoon at the 7. w. C. A
rooms, from $3.50 to 4:30, followed by
| the regular meeting of the club in the
audience room OF the building, al
which an address was made by Mrs
Jessie Wright Whitcomb.
The Kappa Kappa Chi sorority cele-
brated their annual founders day al
a dinner Thursday evening at the +