The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-23

News has been received of the APP
preaching marriage of Miss Marian
Webster and Mr.. Travers ESweI, both
of North Attleboro, Mass. Miss Web
ster has been in Topeka a number OF
times as guest at the home of Sen
ator and Mrs. Charles Curtis. She
was a classmate of Mrs. Charles p.
George formerly Miss Permelia Cur
tbs, in Wellesley college, and was a
member of the wedding party of Lieu
tenant and Mrs. George. She was also
in Topeka for several months preced-
ing and following the marriage of
Miss Dolly Curtis and Mr.. E. E Gam.
Miss LeOna Curtis will go t. North
Attleboro TO he bridesmaid at Miss
Webster's wedding. and to attend
some of the pre-nuptial affairs given
III her honor. She ana her father,
Senator Charles Curtis, left Monday
for the east. Senator Curtis will go
direct to Washington, and Miss Curtis
will join her parents in Washington
after the Ewell-Webster wedding.
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Miss Sara Kouns entertained few
guests at an Informal five o'clock tea
this afternoon. Her guests We're the
women and girls who played golf at
the Country club last summer
Mrs. George Crawford and Mrs. A.
A. Rodgers will give small, informal
dancing party Friday afternoon at the
Elks hall The affair will be for Isl
belle Crawford and Mary Rodgers. the
young daughters of the hostesses-
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The following notice of a party in
Wichita, is from one of the Wichita
papers:
Mrs. Albert Patten of Topeka and
half dozen former Wichita residents
who are here visiting. were guests
of honor at the bridge tea given this
afternoon by Mrs. Will H. Stanley at
her home on North Lawrence avenue.
Those who shared honors during the
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ert Dennis of Chicago, Mrs. D. Benton
Golden of Bartlesville. Okla. Mrs.
Jesse Harper Of South Bend. Ind,
Mrs. Frank Holman of Salt Lake City,
Mrs. Charles Hyde of Buffalo and
Mrs. George T. Walker of Kansas
City.
Decorations for the rooms were of
yellow chrysanthemums. Mrs. Stan
ley was assisted by Mrs. Claude c.
Stanley, who poured tea, and by Mrs |
Floyd Tilford. Mrs. Marion Wheeler. |
Mrs. Gilbert Tucker and Mrs Fred |
Connor' in the dining room
There is a family in town that has |
a number of attractive daughters |
The father guards his daughters like |
a faithful old watch dog, and the |
mother, thinking her husbands dis |
cipline a bit severe. and remember
ing her own youth. rather aids and |
abets the girls in their schemes for |
entertainment Father insists that
the beauS jog on home at $50, but
Mother turns back the clock She
tells what she considers a rich Joke
on her husband. A smart-Aleck college
chappie had come a-calling on the
youngest of the girls, and Father
didn't like his looks nor his manners
The next morning he called his
daughter to one side and inquired
what time the young man had left the
evening before. She told him the
hour. Il heard the door OPEN" the
father said, ''and it was a good while
before it closed again. Did he kiss
you when he left?" Daughter blush
ingly acknowledged that he did. How
many times?'' the cross exa mination
continued. well, Father" fIared the
girl, Il am making a confession, but
I'm not going to brag."
A good looking street costume that
was worn by Mrs. John Romadka, of
Milwaukee, who has just left for her
home, was of blush purple cloth of
loose, diagonal weave, with short
skirt and semi-fitted jacket, the skirt
of which was made with points at the I
front and back, and edged with black I
fur. The hat was a small velvet
shape, closely fitting the head, and
with a long bow across the
back, tip-tilted at a sharp angle to
the crown of the hat. The pleatS in ]
the jacket were fastened at the waist
line with cloth buttons.
Another smart suit seen on the ave-