The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-03

Invitations have been received in To-
peka today as follows: Mr.. and Mrs.
Chester 1. long will give in marriage
Miss Vera Dorothy Clemes to Mr.. Rog-
Tuesday, the 22nd of December. 1914.
at half after eight O'Clock. 34Ol East
Second street, Wichita. Kan. The hon
or of your presence is requested.
Mr.. Long was formerly United states
senator. Miss Clemes is a niece of Mr.
and Mrs. Long. and made her home
with them about three years. MISS
Margaret Long and Miss Agnes Long
will be members Of the bridal party.
At home after the first of January
21S Fountain avenue w'eh''a' Aan'
Mrs w. A. Morton will entertain the
Monday Whist club at its meeting Mon
day of next week.
The active chapter of the Lambda
Alpha Lambda will give their annual
Christmas dancing party Friday eve
ming, December II. at Kellam hall. The
hostesses will be Miss Violet Crumbine.
Miss Margaret Shakeshaft. Miss Flor-
ence Bowman, Miss Helen Crawford.
Miss Marguerite Dolan. Miss Juliette
Brown and Miss Beth Thompson
Miss Florence Davis will give a din
ner party tonight at her home in West
ern avenue complimentary to Miss Ma
RE Cope, whose marriage to Mr.. Wal
ter I4aundon will take place Saturday.
The guests will be the Phi Sigma girls
including Miss Cope. Mrs. Major An
derson, Miss Jessie Ferrin. Miss Helen
Dwinnell, Miss Stella Ferrin. Miss Hell
en- Davis, Miss Winifred Emary, Miss
Hazel Rucker, Miss Lucille Grote. Miss
Frances Grote. Miss Ann Ballard. Miss
Elma Beal and Miss Isabel Dickinson.
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Miss Katherine Dolman entertained
afternoon.
honor of Miss Constance Pember of
GAINESVILLE Wis, who is visiting Miss
Mary M2cLennan.
The Christmas Red Cross stamp bus
mess. which comes into prominent no
tice at this time every year. Is again
engaging the attention Of those who
are interested in the fight against
tuberculosis in this state.
The sale Of stamps for Topeka is en-
tirely in the hands of the Public
Health Nursing association this week.
and the president. Mrs. Chester Wood
ward. has the sale in charge. The as
ISOLATION will receive 80 per cent Of the
season and the other 20 per cent will
he turned over to the state and national
Red Cross societies. The Public Health
Nursing association keeps one nurse
busy all the time with tubercular cases.
and is at work, not only in curing. but
stamps were placed with the church
bazaars, and a good many were sold
there, and letters to many Of the BUSH
ness firms have brought responses in
the way Of large orders for stamps.
The two weeks preceding Christmas.
the stamps will be placed in the post
Office Committees are being organized
for the sale, and the boy scouts will
undertake to dispose of some of the
stamps.
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A newspaper writer, Margaret Ma
son, holding forth on styles, says that
the most distinctive feature of FASH
ionable costume this season is the
presence of pockets. and that you can
not hope to be an edition de luxe Of a
perfectly apparelled woman this win
ter without pockets in your skirts and
coats. Most of them are giddy peck
cts. too. some unf1apped to reveal
gaily colored Innings of plaid, figured
or Roman striped silk.
Quite as essential and omnipresent
good point as the pocket is the use
of wide bands of fur on all the best
winter models. You fare worse the
further from fur you go this year.
All the more elegant velvet and silk
costumes are bounded on the north
east, south and west by broad bands
Of fur. or in other words their flarine
skirts are edged with it, their flaring
coats finished with it and their necks
and wrists encircled with a length OF
hirsute hide.
With some undiscerning persons fur
is fur but with the fashionable elect
the selection of the proper and smart
fur to combine with certain materials
Is a vital question. Skunk and fitch
make the most popular trimmings, err
mine is also a great favorite but is
smartest used in it's tailless state OF
unspotted whiteness.
q Monkey fur Is used as a fringe
banding with chic effect and particu-
larly In combination with other fur is
1t very good. Muffs and neckpieces
OF ermine frfnged with the monkey
FUR are stunning and voluminous cape
wraps Of Persian lamb, seal or the
tailless ermine finished with the stra9-
Cling lengths of the ebon monkey fun
are quite the last word in fur fashions
Beaver. SO long an outcast in the
fashionable fur world, as we'll as as.
trakhan has teen welcomed back with
joyous smiles and no longer sinks In
furtive oblivion OF fashionable ostra.
cism.
AS trimming fur landings are also
used with great effect, outlining the
large armholes Of the jumper-like
basques or the large sleeveless arm.
holes on the evening gowns No ful
banding is permissible less than three
inches in width and some finishing 6
HarlnS sklrt, russian coat or tuniS
aspire to the broadness of eigh
inches.
Many of the Moyen Age frocks arr
haunting wide loose belts Of fur. A,
a tummy warmer it certainly puts il
all over the bands Of flannel worn II
the same region by the we'll regulated
infant.
A Topeka woman who has a prom
is1ng young grandson in Kansas CITY
received letter from the little lat
which closed with the message. ''
send my love to you and Jerry ant
the other cat
me F1llmore Street Whist club me
WedpeSd2yr NTH -