The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-02

The wives of the state officers are
planning a party to be given for the
wives of the legislators before they re-
turn to their homes. The arrange
ments for the affair are not complete,
but the reception will probably be
given Friday afternoon. Special
guests of honor will be Mrs. Arthur
| Capper, Mrs. w. Y. Morgan and Mrs.
ators and representatives. their
| friends and friends of the hostesses
will be asked to call
Mrs. J. w. F. Hughes gave a tea
| this afternoon at four O'Clock, to
which about fifty guests We're invited.
The party was entirely informal and
there was no receiving line assist
! ing people.
Colonel and Mrs. Hughes will enter
tain tonight number of their Pot
win friends.
Yellow jonqu1ls were used in decor
aung the ROOMS = open ). to ;. the guests
The Monday Whist club will meet
March L with Mrs. George Park
hurst.
Mrs. Arthur Capper will be at home
at the Capper residence. 1893 Topeka
avenue, from until o'clock
| Wednesday afternoons during the ses-
sion of the legislature. No invitations
| will be issued, but out-Cf-town wO
men as well as Topeka women are in
vited to call during the receiving
hours. The affairs are planned to
give the Topeka women an opportun-
! ity to meet the out-of-tOWn women
who are here for the legislative ses-
sion. Mrs. Capper will be assisted to-
| morrow afternoon by Mrs. James a.
Troutman, Mrs. F. c. Price, Mrs. w.
| Y Morgan, Mrs. George Crawford and
Mrs. Robert Stone.
i = +
La Huite Bridge club met today
with Mrs. Forrest Kutz. Those who
played for absent members were: Mrs.
D w Stoddard and Mrs. Howard
Jordan of Kansas City.
-, The Music Study club will meet
Thursday morning at $50 o'clock
with Mrs. T. w. Peers, 1924 Topeka
Avenue.
- The date set for the wedding of
Miss Portia PenweIl, the daughter of
| Mr.. l.. NJ. Penwell, and Mr.. John c.
Stapel. of Rockport, Mo, is Tuesday,
June s.
Mr.. Stapel, who has been in Topeka
to visit his fiancee, has returned to
| Rockport.
Mrs. Tom Lillard issued invitations
today for two card parties, of
| them Tuesday and the other Wednes-
day of next week. Miss Lucy Hawk,
of Battle Creek, Mich, who will ar
rive early in the week to visit Mrs.
Lillard. will be the guest of honor.
Mrs. Lillard is planning to give a
party in April which will complete the
series at which she. is entertaining.
f. - f.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Auerbach will
entertain their bridge club at dinner
Monday evening of next week.
Mrs. B. F. Akers will be hostess at
3. meeting of the Duplicate Whist club
Tuesday afternoon next week
Ss
of the Beta sorority will have spread
tonight at the chapter house
The Lakota club held a meeting at
the home of Mrs. Roy Bone Monday.
Mrs. George Staebler. of Potwin. who
has lately returned from Kansas
City to make her home in Topeka, was
one of the guests. Mrs. Shirley Joce-
Ign, of Wichita, who is in Topeka
with Mr. Jocelyn during the Iegisla-
tive session. was "a also ]. a guest
The club women of Kansas and the
many Topeka friends of Mrs. Kate
Arlington, formerly of Council Grove,
Kansas, will be interested to know
that she is continuing her club work
in her new home, Miami, Florida. She
is an officer of the Florida Federation
of Women's clubs, and is the fedora
ton editor for the Miami Herald. The
The Woman's club of Miami, which
has a mem bership of about $50, has
her in its service on the fine arts COM
mittee, and she made an address be-
fore it. on art before a meeting of the
club recently.
Mrs. Arlington is remembered with
a good deal of gratitude by the club
women of Kansas for her activities i'm
the club work of the state, and par
ticularIy for her efforts in procuring
an art gallery for the Kansas Travel
ing library. She had travelled in
Europe and was much interested in
pictures and in the work of making
them better understood by the public
in general Her efforts in procuring
an art gallery for the library were
entirely gratuitous, involving the
work of selecting the pictures, obtain