The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26

matches the blue stripe in the wolfe.
| Like most of the summer frocks of
| whatever material, this one has long
| sleeves, but the lace chemisette, high
collared at the back, opens in front in
| cool V effect.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. f. Foley will have
| guests to dinner tonight as a farewell
| party for Mr.. and Mrs. James Cable,
| who will leave soon for their former
| home in Kansas City. Mr.. Cable IS
| the retiring member of the state util-
| tiles commission, and in the two years
| that he and Mrs. Cable have been in
| Topeka, they have made a good many
| friends.
Covers will be laid for Mr.. and Mrs.
Cable, Mr. and Mrs. III. c. Mulroy,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kinkel, and Mr..
and Mrs Foley
| The Elwell club will be entertained
at a bridge=luncheon Tuesday by Mrs.
| A. E. Sweet, 709 Taylor street.
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Professor Margaret J. Blair of Min
nesota is giving series of lectures
| at the Warren M. Crosby store. The
room the third floor of the store.
and there is no charge for admission.
Professor Blair belongs to the home
economics department of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota. Her lecture today
is Home Furnishings and Textiles
Shopping Lesson. Thursday after
noon she spoke on The Table and Its
Appointments and her third lecture
will be on Health and Beauty"
Mrs. Blair believes that the table
should be made attractive for the fam
lily as well as for guests 1T is well
to have on the table a centerpiece of
flowers to add to the cheerfulness of
the meal. The memory of a pleasant
table at home helps the children of
the family in later years. Have good
cheer, laughing and talking at the ia
ble.''
She spoke at length on the proper
way of setting a table. THE plates
edge of the table and the pieces of
silver should be half an inch apart.
The order of the silver should be
from the outside toward the plate.
The knife is placed on the right with
the front of the blade toward the
plate; the cocktail fork next, as it is
more graceful to take it from that
side. On the left is placed the dessert,
salad and dinner forks. Bread and
butter plates are put at the top of
the fork tines, and glasses at the tip
the left of the forks if the dinner
plates are set Dishes to be passed |
are served, of course. from the left
Dishes are placed at the right
Mrs. Blair considers a round table |
the better shape, as it gives more
room, and makes serving easier. |
Plain tables are proper. The Jaco-
bean style is good because of the |
always be served first
Mrs. Blair says that people should |
take pains in the performance of even |
the smallest duties and learn to do |
things easily anything you can do |
well is an art, she says. She gave I
her audience a hint on buying glass
ware She says that the blue tinged !
glass is best. The yellow and pinkish /
casts have been fired too long and
are brittle.
Don't criticize the family at ia
hle-' she added hurt diOaStinn
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Miniatures, they say. are coming in
again, in spite of the hard times One
can get lot of prestige out of a row
OF family miniatures. and it is really
the duty of this generation to provide
for the eclat of the next. The minia-
ture of oneself as bride, for example,
is no end of help later on to show
that ones family was in financial SOL
vency at that far date.
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The Mothers c. z. society of the
First Congregational church. and n
few other friends will give a thimble
party Saturday afternoon at three |
o'clock at the home of Mrs. Louis Van
Dorp, Ills Polk street. in honor of
Mrs Louise Daniels, whose marriage
to Mr. Fred Woodbury. of Olivet,
KAN will take place soon
Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ. Drake entertain
ed at dinner at their home in Harrison
street Thursday evening. The dining
room was decorated in pink and white,
the centerpiece for the table being a
bouquet of pink roses. Covers were
and Mrs. N E. Uric. Mr. and Mrs. W.
D. McKinstry, Mr.. and Mrs w. G..
Agard, Miss Mildred Agard and Mr.
and Mrs Drake