The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-15

bunch of conventionalized grapes 10
scarlet also. The heavy trimming ac-
head.
Mrs. Charles Curtis and Miss Dollie
Curtis will receive Informally Tuesday
afternoon at their home in Topeka
avenue. The wives of the legislators
who are in Topeka during the session.
as well as Topeka women, are cor
daily invited to call during the re-
ceiving hours Mrs. Curtis and Miss
Curtis are observing Tuesday of each
week during February as their at
home day.
Those who have been asked to as
sist tomorrow are Mrs. ]. D. McFar-
land. Mrs. w. E. Atchison, Mrs. Chas.
Bower, Mrs. J. A. Campbell, Mrs. E..
A. Campbell. Mrs. Ralph Squires. Mrs.
L. L. Kiene, Mrs. Matt Weightman,
Mrs. o. X. Swayze, Mrs. A. w. Dana.
Mrs. George Whitcomb. Mrs. John
Eby. Mrs. S. H. Haynes. Mrs. Hugh
Fisher. Mrs. J. c. Sinner, Mrs. F. E.
are women of the families of the
county officers Mrs. C. w. Kouns
will pour tea.
give a dancing party tonight at the
Country club.
Mrs. ]. c. Gafford was hostess at
a meeting of the Monday Whist club
today. Those who played for absent
mr. 10 Ire n a
and Miss Dollie Curtis.
The Monday Bridge club met this
afternoon with Mrs James 8. Sproat
at her home in Fillmore street.
Mrs. W. n. West will entertain the
Duplicate Whist club Tuesday after
noon.
The high school Y. w. c. A. girls
gave a valentine party Friday for the
girls of the sub-freshman class of the
high school, in the gymnasium of the
city Y. w. C. A. The party was in
charge of the social committee Of the
high school association, who are: Miss
Florence Fair. Miss Cicily Allison,
| Miss Hazel Thomas and Miss Ruth
Harbaugh.
A line party composed of sixteen
members of the All Star club will at
tend the Helen Keller lecture tonight
a. ehC AuuAtOL iuH.
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Fashion has decreed against bright
colOrs this season. and with good rea-
son. The neutral sombre tones of
grey drab and black and white, have
| a foundation cause in the shortage of
foreign dyes and the inferior quality
of our own. 1t is strange that the
made in S. A, dyes are not good
enough to dye garments when it has
been tried out with such success in
drinks and foodstuffs.
There is a tendency toward pOpu-
larity of black and white checks this
spring. The checkerboard designs are
used for trimming, and often for en-
tire garments. Shepherd plaid suits
are natty, built on trig, straight lines.
with little hip-length coats, with the
belt set well up under the arms, mark
ing the empire waist line.
A girl whose engagement has lately
been announced is affiliated with nine
| different organizations. AS liner
she is close on the heels of her dis
tinguished father, who, 1t is said, could
be unanimously elected to the presi-
dency of the United States If all the
societies and lodges he belongs to
would unite and = vote s9'id'y for him.
i In one of the current magazines.
Miriam Nicholson has written about
mems ideas Of women's gowning, as
follows:
1t is possible for that pitiably frail
Il and volatile thing-masculine virtue
TO be irnperiled by fashions precisely
contrary. The full skirt and the scant
skirt and the slit skirt affect it alike
disastrously At different periods
mars apprehension of his own sus-
Il ceptibility have been awakened by the
tight bodice. by the Mother Hubbard.
Il by the Simple Susan. He has become
II vocal and visuperative over the dan
ger-to himself-in high heels, no
heels. paniers. too many. petticoats,
and too few. One age thunders against
II cOrsets, another is shocked at the
natural figure. One shrieks with hys-
II teric fear of wells: another exclaims
at the uncovered face. One sounds
Il the alarm at clicked stockings: an
II other pales at the threat Of virtue in
white spats. One is panic-stricken al
the use of starch: another pants with
terror of the insidiOus corruption in
silk. And the waist line, as it rises or
falls. is the barometer of sex-morals
carrying with it mans uneasy sucepti-
bility: only it always registers the
same degree of pressure and whatever
it points to. it invariably threatens
4 storm!
What is modesty for women. so fai
| as clothes express it? Who invented
ions. or the men who cry out against
them? 1t certainly had its origin in
the sex that is still devout and decor
| GUS and chaste-by proxy.
1.-The fewer clothes women wear the
better for their health" says the Chi
cago woman who is almost reverenced
in irreverant America today. She who
has been called the Pope of American
Women declines to be shocked by sc
ephemeral and irrelevant a thing as
fashion.
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Mrs. III. f. seeds entertained the fol
lowing guests at dinner SATURDAY., il
honor of her daughter. Miss Adelaid,
Seeds. who celebrated her birthda!
anniversary. Miss Seeds Miss Heller