The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-25


Mr.. r. p. Smith announces the en-
gagemeEt Of his daughter. Una ". and
Mr.. J. E. Euermonde Of Oklahoma City:
Okla. The wedding. attended by few
friends and relatives. will take place
August 70 at Miss Smiths home at 1l0l
Monroe street. Miss Smith II a niece
of Mrs. E. c. Dibble. 623 West Ninth
street. Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Clotz OF
wedding of their niece. Mrs. E. z.
Dibble will entertain for Mr.. Euermonde
this evening
Miss Polly Movers entertained the
Potwin sewing club this afternoon. The
Miss Gertrude Kitchell, Miss Bertha
Kitchell and Miss Susie Fay.
=
Miss Mildred Fuller will entertain in
formally this evening for Miss Ethel
Jones of Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis
Miss Jones will be in Topeka several
days.
Mrs. James Hayes will entertain her
sewing club Wednesday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford German of
Seattle announce the birth OF a
daughter. Dora Grace. born last week.
Mrs. German was formerly Miss Mer-
rill Parks of Topeka
American and French society wom-
en- in Paris have taken up the culti-
walton OF Cupid's bow lips and we'll
rounded Threats, which they have dis
covered can be obtained through con-
slant whistling.
The Duchess de Talleyrand, former
ly Anna Gould, and the Duchess de la
Rochefoucauld, formerly Matte Mitch
. ell. are leading the movement, other
prominent devotees being Anna Nor
Edmond Rothschild and Baroness Van
Zuylen.
The craze began when Mrs. Waldo
Dewey, cousin of Admiral Dewey, with
introductfons from the Duchess of
Marlborough, trilled like a nightingale
in Paris drawing rooms. Europe's
! foremost laryngologists say 1t is her
abnormal, birdlike throat which en-
ables her to whistle d fiat in altissimo
| with consummate ease.
| AS a result OF her continuous warb-
ling, to society women Mrs. Dewey
he's acquired perfect Greuze lips and
| throat muscles as firm as steel, and
during the present season hundreds of
hostesses are whistling three hours
daily, hoping to obtain the same re-
| suits.
At soiree given by Mrs. Dewey this
| week Edmond Rostand wrote a SON.
net celebrating her gift, wherein he
says: Your whfstling resembles the
love songs of countless nightingales on
a moonlit night
1T is all because I have a throat
just like the birds,'' she tells her
friends. Medical specialists are ask
| ing me to will it to them after death,
| because they say it is quite phenom-
email. / have whistled t. TetraZzini,
who declared that no human voice is
capable of producing the notes which
1 obtain without an effort. s
National Weekly.
Word has been received from Mrs.
Lila Day Monroe, who Is in London.
that one finds plenty Of excitement
and "oodles'' Of Americans there.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Foley Of Topeka
announce the engagement of their
daughter Helen Gertrude, to Mr.. James
F. Thompson of Des Moines la. The
wedding will take place at the Church
| Of the Assumption on September 9
Miss Teresa Foley. Miss Foley's sister
will be maid of honor. Mr.. Charles
| Thompson, a brother of the bridegroom
will be best man. Little Regina Foley
will be the ring girl and the wedding
thompson OF Des Moines. Many rela-
tives from out Of town will attend the
wedding.
Miss Marguerite Parkinson, Miss Alice
Andrews, Miss Marian Thompson. Miss
Marjorie Thompson and Doris Thomp-
son are enjoying a camping party in
ST. Adams, vt. They will leave st
Adams August q and go to Boston and
Montreal for a week, returning home
September 10.
The K. A. N. SIS of the class OF Jan.
uary IL will have a spread this evening
at the home of Miss Lydia Hardy OF
Lincoln street.
Mr.. P. H. Forbes returned Saturday
from a somewhat extended trip through
California. He visited his son. Mr.. Rob
ert Forbes. in Sacramento and stopped
at Cheyenne, Wyo., where he saw two
days of the Frontier Day celebration
a popular annual event of much in
terest.
Several Topeka girls are leaving
this fall to teach in Kansas and othe
schools Miss Gertrude Kitchell will
teach in the high school in Sioux Falls
N. D. Miss Bertha Kitchell will leav,
soon for Mills college, California
where she is a teacher. Miss Edn;
Reinbach will be in charge Of Lati1
and German in the high school q
Wakefield. Miss Olive White will
teach at Atlanta. Miss Fanny Steve
will he IN charge of the department
of oratory at bingham and will ais,
teach several English classes Mis-
| Allison Shaver. who is spending tn
summer in Colorado, will resume he
position in the Dickinson county higl
school. Miss Marguerite Thrapp, VIII
was graduated in June from the higl
school. will teach at Dover. Miss Fer