The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-14

Mrs. Harry Wright was guest OF
honor at an informal luncheon given
today by Miss Corinne Coston. at her
home in buchanan street The color
for the decoration was violet. and the
cenferptece for the table was bowl
Of pansies.
Covers were placed for Mrs. Wright.
Mrs. Roland Medlicott. Mrs Paul
walker. Mr. Frank Griggs. Mrs. Rus
sell Frost Mrs. Kurtz Kellam. Mrs.
Albert Patten. Miss Eugenia Quinton.
Miss Margaret Carney and Miss Cos
ton.
| Mrs. Wright. whose home is in San
Diego. Cal. is in Topeka visiting her
mother, Mrs. George Sharitt, and her
sister, Mrs Medlicott-
j A Topeka traveller just returned
| from the Orient, is Mrs. p. g. Noel.
! who arrived home a short time ago,
! from q three months trip to the Far
East.
Mrs. Noel and her cousin, Mrs.
| Keys. of Beloit, made the trip togeth-
| cr. They took the Manchuria, one OF
| the two largest Pacific steamers, SAIL
ing from San Francisco. They stop
from. there to the Philippines. Dur
ing the time the steamer was in Ma
| Mia, Henderson Martin, formerly OF
Topeka. boarded the boat. but the two
Kansas travellers just missed seeing
him. as they were out on a sightseeing
trip that day.
After leaving the Philippines they
went to Japan and China. With worse
| luck than befell the Siberia" about
which Topeka was in a turmoil a short
| time ago, the Manchuria went on the
rocks on the coast Of China during a
ltypho0n gale. The boat got to Hong
Kong, taking water all the way, and
there went into dry dock for eleven
days for repairs
Mrs. Noel and Mrs. Keys made the
trip to interesting points in Japan and
China, going into the interior to the
| large cities. On their return they
stopped In California and at the Grand
Canyon. Mrs Noel has taken a tenn
pOrary residence at the National hotel.
and will be in Topeka for an indefinite
time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Frost will en-
terrain a few friends this evening in
celebration of their first wedding an
niversary. Mrs. Frost, before her
marriage. was Miss Gladys Scott.
Miss Dorothy Brown entertained her
sewing club Wednesday afternoon. The
guests were: Mrs Jack Campbell, Mrs.
Harry Wolf, Mrs. Walter Canaan, Mrs.
Russell Frost. Miss Lillian McGoff.
Southwick. Miss Corinne Coston. Miss
Dorothy Scott, Miss Marian Wear, Miss
Una Lytle. Miss Helen Mitchell. Miss
June Mitchell.
Miss Southwick will entertain the
club and a few other friends next
Tuesday.
The Topeka alumnae chapter of the
Pi hi sorority will have a meeting
Saturday afternoon at three o'clock,
at the home Of Mrs. Silas Porter in
Western avenue. :
A coterie Of Topeka women devoted
to culture attended the second social
salon of a series of three this morning
at the governors house. for further
acquaintance with the women of the
French salon.
The receiving women this morning
were: Mrs. James L. King. Mrs. jose
phine webb and Mrs. Harrison Nor
Garvey, Miss Bernice Emahizer and
Miss Jessica- Short. The music for
the opening OF the program and for
it's close, and for the intermission be-
tween the two parts of the lecture,
| was furnished by Miss Ruth Miller.
who played the violin: Mrs Warric.s
Updegrah, who. sang, and by Mrs.
| Merrill Mills, at the piano.
Mrs. Morgan was gOwned in a grey
blue silk. figured in a mahogany col
ored design, and trimmed with white
net and lace. Mrs. King wore a tail
ored suit of grey with a fine stripe and
an embroidered bodice. Mrs. Webb's
gown was yellow ratine. with a panel
| in the bodice and skirt of brocaded
yellow rAtine. The ushers were pref
tily gowned. Miss Carney wore a
green taffeta suit, with ruffled skirt
and lace bodice. Miss Shorts gown
was q dull blue charmeuse with a
| wide Roman girdle. and the white
lace bodice made over a foundation of
Oriental silk. Miss Emahixer wore q
gown Of white lace.
Miss Harriet Bogardus, the lecturer.
was eowned In rose colOred satin with
vest and collar Of white lace, and q
trimming at the sleeves and corsage
of black velvet Her hat was black
trimmed with white plumes. She was
thoroughly at home in discussing the
brilliant French women whom she ar
| IDENTIFY admires. She traced the rise
of the salon and it's development until
1t was a power in the literary. artistic
! and political life OF France. Nine. dc
| Sevigne, the famous letter writer of
the seventeenth century. she described
| as presiding over the salon of friend
| ship. Nine. du Defiant. described by
Horace Walpole as the most interest
| ing women in France when she was
| eighty, and blind, was graphically
portrayed in all her eccentricities IS
well as her marvellous gifts.
| To the salon OF the wonderful Nine.
de Stael, Miss Borgardus gave the
name of the political hospital. where
the wounded of all parties were
healed. and a political college where
undergraduates were trained for the
great struggles of the day.
Throughout the lecture, the speaker
stopped from time to time to inter-
| polate some anecdotes that threw in
tereSting lights on the characters Of
the women she told of. Answering
some question as to the domestic life
of de Sevigne, she said: Madame
and her husband were the best OF
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