The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-11

sight and begin working out house
plans. This pastime has become the
most fashionable diversion of the
household. The designs are fearfully
and wonderfully made. and though the
houses are to be rented or sold for
modest sums, to build them according
a half of the kingdom of the car of
all the Russias. The master designer
of the family, one of the daughters,
has now reached the pinnacle of
has at last hit upon plan that puts
the chimney of the second story on
top of the chimney for the first floor.
The latest fad in fashions that has
struck New York is for white fur
trimming on summer frocks. Mar
garet Mason writes of the new style
from the metropolis:
Pretty pussy better not stray far
from home and hearth these days if
she be white as snow. I doubt if even
the gentle bunny ought to feel overly
safe in his cosy hutch now that the
dear fashionable girls are all demand
ing white fur boaS for the heated sea-
age any union thermomet the way
the damsels are all wrapped up in
these fur neck pieces. Why they're in
them up to their very ears.
Truth in this instance is indeed
stranger than fiction for what modern
author would ever have the nerve to
write, 'It was a close sultry afternoon
in June as Belinda, wrapping snowy
fur boa about her no less snowy throat
glided rapturously into Percy's waiting
arms" And yet we are in the midst
of June and in the midst of fur swath-
ed Belindas. Yea, verify, this is going
a bit too fur.
Even the gorgeous new silk sweaters
of Italian silk dyed in the most won
derous shades of green, rose, blue and
yellow are not quite the last word un-
less they be finished with a wide white
fur band around the hips and with a
similar pelt edging the abbreviated
sailor collar.
Many smart and fluffy little sum-
mer dance and evening frocks of chif-
fon, net or organdie are banded spar
ingly around the low cut out neck or
have as a heading for one of the null
titudinOuS flounceS of the skirt mar
row widths of unspotted ermine. An
ebon hued dance frock of net is stun
ming with a touch of the startingly
contrasting white fur banding. An all
white organdie crisp with many fluted
ruffies, is virginia. and yet chic with
the square cut out bodice outlined
with the snowy fur.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Miss Julia Larimer has returned
from New York, where she has been
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Montgomery
spent few days in Lawrence this
week attending commencement affairs
at the State university.
Miss Mary Wilson of Valencia, re-
turned home today, after visit to DR..
and Mrs Forrest KutZ.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Botkin have re-
turned from Lawrence, where they at
tended commencement at the State
university.
Miss Lurene Irish, of Sterling, who
is visiting in Topeka, will leave to-
night to be the guest of Mrs. Doug
lass Cain, of Atchison.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hanley re-
turned Thursday from three weeks
visit to relatives in Chicago, Mossis
and Woodstock, Ill. They expect to
go to the California exposition in a.
few days.
Miss Josephine Jolley and Miss
Lola Powell gave a dinner party at
six o'clock Thursday night, for some
of the students who have graduated
from the Kansas City Dental College,
and who attended a meeting of the
state board in Topeka. The guests of
honor were: DR.. A. J. Buff, Mr.. G.
J.. Cook, and DR.. G. NJ. Williams, all
of Topeka, DR.. A. L. Collins. of Kan
Kingman, Dr. r. r. May, of Min
neapolis, DR.. H. B. Smith, of Emporia,
and Dr. T. N. Stewart, of Dalhart.
Texas.
Cut flowers at ENTHUSIASTICALLY.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Kouns are
spending a week in Chicago.
Miss jeanette Ward, of Las Vegas,
n. M, is visiting at the J. M. Meade
home. She is on her way to Chicago
to spend a part of the summer with
relatives and friends
Miss Juliette Pettyjohn, of Dodge
City, is visiting Miss Isabel Mills.
Miss Carlotte Lyle, of Glen Elder is
visiting Mrs. Albert Searle.
Mrs. Geo. P. Stitt, of 1887 Tyler
street, is in St. Francis hospital,
where she underwent a serious oper-