The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-16

kins, at Mrs. GreenYood's home. The
party was INFORMAL and the gueste
Mrs. Morris, who, before her marriage,
was Miss Mamie Hopkins. She il in
Topeka to visit her sisters. Mrs James
Sproat and Mrs. A~EH- Purdy. Christ
mas decorations were used to trim the
rooms open to the guests at the Green
wood home this afternoon
The Topeka. Avenue Bridge club
will meet Friday for bridge-luncheon
with Mrs. w. T. Davis.
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Mrs E G. Foster will entertain the
Portia club Thursday afternoon. Mrs
Charles Curtis will read the paper of
the afternoon on Italy,.
Mrs. DeWjtte c. Nenis and her
daughter, Mrs. Albert Phillips of Seat
tie. wash. received informally Tuesday
afternoon at Mrs. Nellis' home in West
Fifth avenue at the second of a series
of -.at homes Mrs. Phillips is spend
ing the winter with her parents, Judge
and Mrs. Nellis. and she and her moth
err expect to be at home to their
friends two afternoons each month
They received yesterday in compliment
to Miss Victoria Clibborn OF London,
who is in Topeka with her mother. Mrs
Katherine -Clibborn. She made
a short address to the guests yesterday:
She is a granddaughter of General
Booth, who founded the salvation
Army in England. and her mother in
troduced the society into France mrs;
Phillips has lived both In France ana
in England. and has. to an sxsent. q
Mrs. A. A. Robinson poured tea dur
ing the afternoon.
The old subject of dancing at 4 q.
which agitated many minds in varl-
Gus towns of Kansas some time ago, IS
not a dead one yet Now. however.
feelings wounded by the grave
charges of risuue dancing are being
salyed. The old injuries have been
put down in brine, and the gay stu
dents are receiving nothing but COM
mendation. In recent interview CIV
en- out by the dean OF women at the
university, she says. There is an i'm
provement in the dances OF TINS year
over those of last year. The young
women of K. e. are constantly stand
ing for the best things, and in the
way of dancing the difference is GER
tainly noticeable. The women have
put the ban on risQue dances before
others elsewhere did, and hope they
will continue to keep ahead OF the
times 1 have in mind a Catholic
priest who removed the ban on dane
ing that he ordered last year. on ac-
count of the change in the dance.
There are she continued, three
don'ts that have given the girls, and
these same don'ts were included in the
list that the National Dancing Mas
ters' association adopted at its last
meeting, and also among those of MIR.
and Mrs. Castle. They are, Don't
put your arms around the mans neck
so as to allow any bodily contact;
don't allow the man to bend you over
the floor: and don't dance all evening
with the same young man"
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| The wives of the members of the
Topeka Rotary club will be guests OF
| honor at a club banquet the evening
of December so. They will respond
| to roll call by presenting the New
| Years resolutions that in their opin-
ion their husbands should make.
E. W. Rankin will, preside John
kinkeI will respond TO the toast. Our
ent of city schools, @sl speak on THE
n fo9 f We're # Ff Topska Is e Mrs
| Arthur J. Carruth, Jr., will respond K
the toast. IF 1 Were Czarina of To-
peka." l.
The Square and Compass club hal
a dancing party Tuesday night at. kel
lam hall. Those present were: Mr.
and Mrs. c. H Porter, Mr.. and Mrs
John Wilton, Mr. and Mrs. James Mel
son, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Dyal, Mr. ant
Mrs Spencer Abbott, Mr.. and Mrs
w E Wilson. Mr.. and Mrs JOSEPH
Hoover, Mr. and Mrs. n G. Edelblufe
Mr.. and Mrs. W. F. Cuthbert. Mr.. ant
Mrs. B. A. Holland. Mr.. and Mrs Ott'
Kuehne. jr Mr. and Mrs. Rowland
Price, Mr. and Mrs. C. v. Gibson, MI
and Mrs H. c. Goodrich Mr.. ant
Mrs. H. E. Van Dorp, Mr.. and Mrs
GaiIlord Miller, Mr. and Mrs J. A
Steinmyer, Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie
Spreng Miss Mildred Here, Mis-
Emma Ruppel, Miss Mary Sharp, Mrs
H. F. Charles, Miss Ethel Miller, Mis-
Gertrude Anderson, Miss Harrie
Cherry. Miss Blanche Moore, Mis-
Marjorie Howe, Miss Dorothy Horn
Miss Julia Schmidt, Mr.. Fred Gades
| Mr.. H. H Clark, Mr.. F. B. Thompson
Mr. A. D. Schnacke, Mr.. vergil W
Boyer. Mr.. George E. Anderson. Mr
Bill Russell. Mr.. v. V. Short. Mr.. r
r. Short. Mr.. F. J. Finkham, Mr.. Jak
| Freedman.
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i Miss Rose Gilberg will give a con
cert at the Grand opera house in tn
latter part of February or the earl,
part of March. She will have the as
sistance of an orchestra made up Q
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Mrs Ernest. Parr will entertain he
sewing club Thursday afternoon a
her home, 726 Buchanan street
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