The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-20

members OF the west k5lOC = OICoeAy
club at one o'clock luncheon Thurs
/ day afternoon. March Is. After tho
luncheon there will be a business
meeting and election of officers. The
members are asked to respond to roll
call by an account of their expert
ences in home gardening.
Miss Leib Of Iowa, who is visiting
friends in Topeka, will be guest ana
will give some piano music. Miss
Violet Schlegel will sing. and Miss Ha-
! eel Hypes will play the piano.
Mrs. Festus Foster. president OF the
First District Federation. will be the
guest of honor at the party.
Miss Helen McClintock entertained
about q dozen guests at an tnformaI
compliment to Miss Isabel Smith. who
will be married to Lieutenant Arner
ROBINSON. Saturday evening" Mafcn
Mrs. Gray Adams will entertain her
Auction club Saturday night at her
home in Elmhurst.
The Varsity club will dance tonight
at Kellam hall.
Mr.. Don M. Neiswanger, who was
elected president OF the senior class
Of Harvard university at Cambridge,
according to a dispatch received In
popular men who ever graduated from
Washburn college. He Is a son of w.
A. Neiswanger who lives at Sixteenth
and Mulvane streets and is brother
in Washburn this year. While In
Washburn, Mr.. Neiswanger was
leader and power in the college life.
He is a member Of the Phi Delta Theta
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The Ladies' Music club met for the
annual business meeting and luncheon
Thursday afternoon. at the home OF
Mrs. r. p. MacLennan. MRS. Charles
Gleed, as president. and Mrs Mac
Lehman, vice president, conceived the
idea Of making the business meeting
more attractive by preceding 1t with
luncheon. and invited the twenty-five
active members Of the club to be
guests.
The living room was decorated with
American Beauty roses and potted
plants and ferns. In the dining room.
four Quartette tables were grouped
around the round table, at which sat
the officers and members Of the pro-
gram committee. The centerpiece for
the large table was a miniature lake
surrounded by a hedge of violets, and
in the lake were Lady HillingdOn
roses. Favors were corsage bouquets
of violets and roses, tied with ribbon
the color of the roses. Baskets OF
roses and violets decorated the quar-
tette tables.
The officers reelected for another
year were: Mrs. Charles Gleed. presi-
dent; Mrs. F. p. MacLennan, vice
president; Mrs. s. ]. Hodgins. treas
urer; Miss Irene Homer. secretary;
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Mrs. J. P. Raster was hostess at a
bridge-luncheon party today for the
Friday Bridge-Luncheon club. The
guests, besides the club members and
k1ro v1.ufif Mrs. Sfav.
ems Mrs. w. C. McDonough, Mrs.
Farnsworth, Miss Estella Luthy Of AL
buquerque, N. NJ, and Miss Louise
Raster.
The Fillmore Street Whist club will
meet with Mrs. Arthur Mills Thursday
Of next week.
The cast of the junior farce to be
given by the junior class of the State
| university In Lawrence. April II. has
been chosen, and among those who
will put on the sketch are Miss Dor
othy Parkhurst and Mr.. Wayne Win
CERT, both of Topeka, and Miss Gene
We've Herrick. who has relatives and
friends here.
AS one who has read with more or
less tolerance and patience the out
bursts Of Mere Men (and heard them)
over the fOibles of the clothes Of Wo-
mankind, these directions as to Mans
spring garments furnish a good bit of
amusement:
But the general effects remain,
that of being built into whatever you
are wearing. Some Of the costumes
on display would suggest that the
wearer must just sort OF inhale him
self into the outfit. Directions for
this process might be as follows:
On arising in the morning exercise
vigorously for forty-five minutes until
you have taken off fifteen pounds by
the inhalation route. Hang yourself
over the radiator until you become Of
the consistency of a Welsh rarebit-
then pour yourself gently. but firmly
into your clothes
Allow to cool for thirty minutes,
then be careful about bending sud
denly.
What looks like the decorative sash
OF some foreign ambassador, is really
only the latest in watch fobs. It
hangs across the front Of the vest
, westcoat, and a gold or polished CEN
trail buckle furnishes ample protec-
ton for the midriff In all cases of
.
A dinner party was given Thursday
night by Mrs. Rosseau A. Burch in
honor of her sister. Mrs. A. E. Wilson
of Los Angeles, Cal, who Is visiting
her, and who celebrated her birthday
were a few Of Mrs. wilson's friends.
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Mrs. John F. Switzer entertained a
few girls at s'umber party Wednes-
day night for her daughter. Ruth,
who celebrated her twelfth birthday
anniversary. The guests were asked
to dinner, and covers were laid fer:
Ruth Switzer. Katherine Sawyer, Mar
garet Stewart and Irene Seery.
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| Mrs. Robert Steele was at home in
! formally Thursday afternoon in hon
or of her sister, Mrs. Annie Adams
Baird, a mission worker In Pyeng
Pang, Korea, who is visiting her peo-
pie in the states. Friends of Mr..