The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-01
SOCIETY.
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The Helianthrs holiday party was was
one of the fashionable affairs OF M
season in which the older peopie n
dancing set have participated. Inc
ball was given Thursday night AT Ael-
lam hall The party was large oa.,
the list of guests including the NAMES ,.s
of some out-of-tOwn people VINO ~
popular in Topeka's exclusive circies.
and the women wore their prettlese
balls gowns. Ch;-
MT. and Mrs. Burton Nudge, Of chi
cago, were among the guests, anu win
them was their young son, Burto1' ~
who was the youngest dancer anu ot 4e
of the best. He has been golns ~
dances for a number of years, anu az
tended the charity ball in IoPeAa no
three or four years ago. ne oo
last night with the women OF the C Sl.
pany, from the youngest TO tue eAu. 80
and was quite the beau ideal oA '"e
crowd. Ne
The Sebastians. who are visitins m.
and Mrs. E. s. Quinton, were anlons
the guests. Mrs. Sebastian woio
gown of white charmeuse maoe VIZ
full skirt and surplice bodice. a. onF
side of the throat was uecorn.aun eut
two little red roses, and the orna Nh.
was repeated at the slrole. :S
Nudge wore pink charmeuse emoro.u
cred in silver. Miss Ritter. OF moe
pendence, who is visiting MIS-. 1v ,nn
Mohler, was gowned III cha',nN
cey Dewey of Manhattan. wore gown
of black lace draped over olue SAUL
Her sister. Mrs. Harold Copeland, OF
Junction City, wore a toilette OF 1ianle
colored crepe de chine complheu WI. -.
white and made with cape ei11 -,
the back Of the poolce. Saoa IN ST.
wore rose chiffon embroidered III BIZ
YER. , nra+tv
gown of pompadour silk; Miss Jessica
Short wore white satin, ,. anu nawna Si
IN white. Miss Eva Smith wore PINK
satin and white tulle. MIS- Norn.ai
Wears gown was of black lace ana
net embroidered with jet, MIS-. Joe
Morgan wore black net with trl1iiilaue
of gold lace. Mrs. Charles F. george,
jr., of Fort Riley, and her sister, MISS
Leona Curtis, both wore wnlte SAUL II:
Mrs. George Crawford's gown was Oh
white satin and net, with golo slIoie.
Mrs. Arthur Capper was goWheu ~
hlue trimmed with white lace. MRS.
n w. Mulvane wore a gown OF white
satin with crystal trimming. MIS-.
Carol Merriam's costume was OF Dlue
velvet and embroidered chlIIoh. MIS-
p. F. Akers wore pink chiffon trlnl-
med with marte en- h fnr: MT Mtss with thu let
trimming. Mrs. Fred Freeman wore
black tulle trimmed with gold lace.
Miss Clyde Bonebrake's costume was
green with Oriental trimmlng. Mrs.
Merrill Lindsay wore red crepe os
gowned in nigre brown crepe meteor.
The club includes some OF the pest
dancers in Topeka, and the soclety
folk this year are right up to the m1n
ute on their dancing. Inc dances OF
the present season have great deal
more dignity than the discarded ones
of the year past. The dip is alto
xether passe, and the rOwdyism OF the
wriggling and bending and bowling is
no more.
One often hears it remarked that
no set of girls that have grown up in
topeka are as pretty Of face, intellec-
tually accomplished and metropolitan
in manner as the debutantes OF the
present season. The set of girls OF
the first families who are the towns
buds was represented at party
given Thursday afternoon by Miss AL
tina Watson, the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. w. Watson. She entertained
in honor of Miss Margaret Melick of
GAINESVILLE. Ohio. who is visiting Miss
Ruth Wilson, and sharing hOnOrs with
her was Miss Alice Hughes, a Welles-
ley student who Is spending the hOli-
days with her parents. Col and Mrs.
j. w. F. Hughes. Standing in line
with the hostess and the guests OF
honor was Miss Wilson and the assist
ing girls were chosen from the circle
Of Miss Watson's AR friends. Near
ly all the girls of that set are yet in
school. They are most of them about
a minute past nineteen or twenty;
some of them are educated in schools
away from home or in our own best
colleges, and they have the poise that
IN m M fr1ichod 0n11oCo eviv. NJ
the day.
The tea yesterday was not large in
point of numbers, or at least the ample
house of the WatsOn's had no appear
ance of being crowded during the at
ternoon. The receiving line stood in
the drawing room, which is furnished
and adorned with Japanese works of
art. The Watson's have a remarkable
and costly collection of Japanese curiOs.
This room was decorated for the party
with Japanese flowers. There was
Japanese basket of white narcissus tied
with lavender tulle with Japanese en-
brOidery. In the living room was a tall
vase filled with Killarney roses. The
dining room was in yellow, and a basket
of yellow roses stood in the center of
the table. and at the corners were yell
low candles.
The door was opened by Master Fred
erick Watson, the young brother of the
hostess. Miss Watson, who stood at tho
head of the receiving line. was gowned
in yellow chiffon. trimmed with fur,
and worn with a lace Jacket. She wore
corsage bouquet of violets and red
roses. Miss Watson has been a student
in the Colonial School in Washington,
d. c., where she met Miss Melick, then
a student in the Martha Washington
seminary, and she was a student for a
time in the Illinois university, Cham
paign, ILL.,, and she also attended a
fashionable school in the east.
Miss Melick, a school friend Of Miss
wilson's has been one of the most pop
ular visiting girls in Topeka this sea-
son. She was attractively gowned YES
terday in a violet shade of velvet with
gold embroidered chiffon, and wore a
corsage bouquet of narcissus and white