The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-16


with green grapes and black velvet.
While really fastening at the front,
the frock suggests back fastening.
This is a tailored trotteur costume.
not coat and skirt model.
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Topeka has no male leisure class
Except hoboes in dull times); so it is
rather a rare circumstance to find
men at afternoon parties, except Sun
day teas or New Years open house af-
fairs. But at nearly all the informal
afternoons at which Mrs. DeWitte G.
Nellis has been hostess this winter
some men have called. The lion of
the afternoon yesterday was Mr..
Charles Edwards of Kinsley, who is in
Topeka to visit his sister, Mrs. Jouett
Shouse, and Senator Shouse. Mr.. Ed
wards rather reluctantly consented to
entertain the guests with some read
ingS. He is an actor, rather than
reader, and for some years has been
interested in stagecraft in profess
Sional and near-profeSsional way,
without much regard to pecuniary adj
vantages or disadvantages. His faith
maintains handsome residence.
Trails End" out at Kinsley. So be-
ing a sort of gi1ded youth not under
the necessity of hammering a living
out of cold, practical, worldly bust
ness, the young man went in for clas-
sic literature and theatrica1s. He has
directed the performance of Shake
spearian plays in the western part OF
the state, and last season he super
vised the presentation of LAS You
Like It." with large cast, before
good sized audiences
Mr.. Edwards last week played an
engagement at the Auditorium in
Kansas City, in Madame k He is
M la o1,o,, Of
though a review of the play in Kan
sas City paper speaks of him as 1.-The
company's new member, who has
found a welcome in Kansas City"
The review speaks we'll of his reading
of his lines and of his manner A
Kansas City woman who knows all the
gossip of the town, tells US that this
rich young man, Charlie Edwards,
who has lately come to the Auditor
ium company, is exceedingly popular
with the ladies at the Broadlands
where he lives, and I heard that they
were all in a flutter of excitement over
his debut in Madame X and as evil
dence of his appreciation of their in
terest he gave them so many flowers
that the Broadlands looked like a
nosegay emporium
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Notes and Personal Mention
Mrs. Otis Benson, of Oberlin KAN
is visiting Mrs. Lucia o. Case. Mr.
Benton is Mrs. Cases brother.
Mr.. John p. ST. John. of Olathe,
KAN, former governor of Kansas, ar
rived today to join Mrs. st. John in a
visit to Judge and Mrs. DeWitte c.
Nellis.
Mr.. E. E. Ames, who underwent an
operation at Stormont hospital, is re-
covering, and has been taken to his
home in Potwin Place. His daughter,
Mrs Earl Fischer, of Hiawatha, who
is in Topeka, will leave the last of the
week for Wamego to visit Mr.. Fisch-
~ aT~er NJ II
er- Mrs. Carl Smiley, of Norton, will
spend the weekend with her father |
Mr.. Ames. Mrs. Ames is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Byron Curry, of Wy
0ming.
Mr. Charles Edwards, of Kinsley, |
Kan, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Jou- !
ett Shouse.
DR.. Malone. Osteopath. Mills Bldg. |
ADV.
Mr.. Gerald Forse, of Washington, |
D. G., who is on his way to California, |
S the guest of Senator and Mrs. |
Charles Curtis.
Mr. and Mrs. A: H. Brayden, of |
Sabetha, DR.. and Mrs. Bascom Rob
oins, of Emporia, and the Rev. Mr.. |
=. c. Bucker and Mrs. Bucker of /
Clay Center, will be guests of Mr.. |
md Mrs. T. r. Paxton during the /
Methodist conference.
Mrs. T. F. Carver is in Kansas
city visiting Mrs J. NJ. Stevenson.
Mrs. Jean Parkhurst Guettler is
ill at the home of her father,
Mr.. Frank Parkhurst.
Mr.. and Mrs T. c. Whitteker have
'eturned from a trip to California
Miss Mary Sands went to Newman
Monday TO sing at the funeral of Mrs. L
Sarah Quinlan.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. r. Nightingale and
Mr. and Mrs. r. K. Hinkson have re-
urned from a short trip to Kansas
City.
Miss Anice Reed of Kansas City is
he guest of Miss Olga House.
The Mothers C. E. society will meet
friday with Mrs. l.. L. Baker, 623
Western avenue.
The Woman's Society of the First
church will meet |
March / with Mrs H L. Shirer, 1157
Fillmore street, at 2:30 o'clock
Mr. and Mrs. H. Ward Page will
cave Thursday to spend a month in
Galveston, Tex. During their absence
heir house will be occupied by Judge
md Mrs A. w. Benson
Mrs E. NJ Cove, of Detroit, Mich,
s visiting Mrs. w. NJ. Crosby this
week
Mrs Albert Patten, who has been
n San Diego, Cal, visiting her par