The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Pauline McVey, Miss Mildred Quin-
ton, Miss Ruth Thompson, Miss Mary.
Samson. Miss Isabelle Stewart. Miss
/ Helen Neese, Miss Esther Paxton, Miss
Irene Seery, Miss Beth Thompson, Miss
Joanna Gleed, Miss Jeanette Gleed,
Miss Esther Thomas. Miss Louise
Bell, Miss Katherine Knowles, Miss
/ Moran Gatchell, Miss Hazel Howe,
Miss Marguerite Dolan, Miss Dorothy
Nichols Miss Jessie Burnett Miss
Antoinette West. Miss Marian Will
Jams. Miss Dorothy Coe Miss An
toinette Clark Miss Charlotte West
Miss Ruth Wood. Miss Carol Thrall,
Miss Edith Connell Miss Alice Lyman.
Miss Irene Miller. Miss Maude McVey,
Miss Dorothy Crane, Miss Elisabeth
Edison. Miss Cynthia Monroe, Miss
Dorothy Sproat, Miss Katherine AL
I baugh. Miss Elizabeth Hopkins, Mr..
William McClintock, Mr.. Elrick Sharp
1 Mr.. Roger Savage, Mr.. Wellington
I Culver. Mr.. George Rourke. Mr.. John
Porter. Mr.. Randolph Adams Mr..
James Allison, Mr.. Willard Bowman,
Mr.. Victor Blakely. Mr.. John Parkin-
son, Mr.. Wendell Switzer, Mr.. Fred
/ RiSby, Mr.. Walter Kutrow, Mr.. Hugh
Nichols. Nj Mr. Maurice Dean, Mr.: Doug
las Bowman. Mr.. Harry Welty,; Mr..
i4ENin Olander. Mr.. Wilbur Cole, Mr..
Robert Biene. Mr.. Chester Wahle, Mr..
James Perry, Mr.. Dick Barton, Mr..
Edwin Tucker, Mr.. San farrell, Mr..
Gale Morgan, Mr.. John Marsh, Mr..
Lyman Rice, Mr.. John Elliott, Mr..
Seaton HamilI, Mr.. Clayton Kline, Mr..
Charles Kouns, Mr.. Louis Hoatson,
Mr.. Donald Heath, Mr.. Kenneth Ogil-
vie. Mr.. Merrill Rutter, Mr. Stanley
Copeland, Mr. Kenneth Adams Mr..
Frank Fable, Mr.. Alden Weightman,
Mr.. Donald Taliaferro, Mr.. Jack Erick-
son, Mr.. John Stewart. Mr. Russell
Swiller, Mr.. Larry Huey, Mr.. Charles
Harlow. Mr.. Earl Trobert, Mr.. Jake
Mertz, Mr.. Leonard Kline, Mr. Curtis
Porter and Mr.. Warren. Coolidge.
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The Duplicate Whist club met Fri
day with Mrs. Z. S. Quinton. Those
who played for absent members were:
Mrs. George w. Parkhurst. Mrs. w. It.
Crosby and Mrs. Ella Belcher.
Mrs F. w, Watson will entertain
the Monday Bridge club at her home,
421 Topeka avenue, Monday afternoon
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Shoaf had an in
formal party and housewarming Fri
day night. The guests were a few of
their friends who attended their mar
riage, which took place a few weeks
ago.
Miss Emma Cooper, of Ottumwa,
Iowa, is visiting her nephew, Mr..
Charles Cooper, and Mrs. Cooper. Be
fore coming to Topeka Miss Cooper
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Fits, of
New York, who formerly lived here.
Before returning to her home she will
spend week in Kansas City with her
sister, Mrs. w. NJ. Van Vaulkenberg.
The Music Study club will have a
line party to the concert Thursday
night, when the Messiah" will be
sung by the Topeka Musical Art So
ciety.
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The Lakota club will meet Monday
with Mrs. Charles S. Elliott, 1903 !
Topeka avenue.
Mr. and Mrs w. L. Brookens. of |
Holton, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. E.
E. Brookens. The visitors We're enter
tanned at dinner Thursday night and |
Friday night by Mr.: and Mrs. E. E.
Brookens. At the Thursday night af- |
fair covers were laid for Mr.. and Mrs /
w. l. Brookens, Adjutant General and |
Mrs. C. 1. Martin, Mr.. and Mrs. c. f. |
Brookens. The guests Friday night |
We're Mr.. and Mrs. Brookens Mr.. and |
Mrs. A. ]. Carruth, jr., and Mr.. and |
Mrs Willis Goldsmith;
One of the prettiest of the new
fashions in house furnishing is to be |
found in the silk lamp shades in
every color and tone, and varying
and you see the new lamp shades in
the elegant houses, you find pictures
of them in the magazines, and you go
into the homes of many of the young /
housewife planning her lamps as care !
fully rs she does her window dra-
peries,, with reference to harmony in
coloring. Some of the women have
bought lamp and shades in Kansas
City.
These new shades are made in vari-
GUS designs. One that is called the
Empire style is cylindrical in shape,
wider at the bottom than the top.
These shades are edged with fringe or
small double ruffles and open at the
top. Another style is the Tudor and
is in the shape of a canopy, with seal
loped lower edge. a rich silk fringe
edges the shade. The shades have
such infinite variety in color that they
can be obtained to fit in with any
color scheme used to finish and fur
nish tho rooms, and they are soften
ing in their decorative effect. Some
of them are in gold colored silk. with
rich gold colored fringe; others com
bine blue and gold in brocade effect.
Some of the attractive ones are in the
heaviest shades of red or blue or dull
green; others light up in old rose,
pink, old blue or bronze. At party
this week given by one of the recent
brides. 1 saw a. shade in pale blue,
edged with silver fringe.
In the Blackstone hotel in Chicago,
a returned traveller says, there is a
charming arrangement of lamps. For
the buffet are small electric lamps
with the open top silk shades in col
orS that harmonic with the decOra-
lions of the room. A large shade was
circular and shaped like a Japanese
oarasoI in straight lines from the CEN ]
ter Hanging from the edge was a
leep silk fringe. heavy enough to dim
he glare of the light. {
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The Good Government club will ,
meet Thursday, December 9, at the Y. {
W. c. A Mrs. Lillian Mitchner will /
speak on the subject Political and
Economic Status of Women in the
East" The department of medical s
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