The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-28

many friends here. They will come to
Topeka in a few days and will make
their home, temporarily, at 1874 Null
Vane street.
Miss Gertrude Gray was hostess at
a meeting of her sewing club today, at
her home in Potwin. Miss Polly
Mowers, a member of the club, was
honor guest, as she celebrates her
birthday anniversary today. The club
is made up of a group of Potwin girls,
the membership including Miss Gray,
Miss Mowers, Miss Mary Weightman,
Miss Juliette Brown, Miss Alice
Hughes. Miss Marguerite Dolan, and
Miss Winifred Hartley.
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The Beta girls had an informal af
ternoon party today for the Topeka
alumnae Kappa Kappa Gammas, at
the chapter house, in College avneue
The event of the month among the
literary people of the state is the pub
LEGATION of Mrs. Margaret Hill McCar-
ter's newest book, THE Corner
Stone" which has recently gone on
sale.
The work is one of the authors
shorter books, having some ten chap
ters, and is bound like one of her
early stories, 1.-The Peace of the Solo
mon Valley" in a long, narrow, flexi-
BILE cover in the sunflower colors. 1t
is handsomely illustrated and adorned.
The story is one of present day life
in the Kansas wheat belt, with remi-
niscent touch of the pioneer life so
dear to the authors heart. The rO-
nance concerns an orphan girl and a
we'll to do ranchman, and the setting
chosen for the enactment of the prin-
cipal love scenes is Pawnee Rock.
An uncle of the girl in the case,
Samson Grannell, affords the compli-
cations for the plot The moral teach
ing of the story centers in this man
who gives his life to the accumulation
of riches. 1t pictures him as outside
the touch of human sympathy, over
riding the rights of others, hungry for
more land, and finally reaching the
stage in his greed for money when
he cannot recognize nor understand
generous impulses in the people about
him. The book takes it's name from
the sentiment expressed by one of its
characters, Love is the cornerstone
of the home
A share of the interest in the book,
as in her other writings, lies in the
authors estimate of the value of local
coloring. She knows the scenes of
her stories as she knows her own door
yard, and she knows a thousand de-
tails about the early history of every
section of the state Her power of
description is good, and she uses it to
advantage. at times with telling clev-
erness, and at times with rare beauty
of diction. Some random quotations
chosen here and there from the
pages of this new story to illustrate:
THE winding foolishness of the Ar
kansas river, forever pushing its way
aimlessly about which is distinctly
good as a brief description of that
river: in a sketch of the heroine, the
eyes the color of cloud shadows on
brown prairie grasses" is both vivid
and charming; description of early
morning says: ut was yet too dark
to see the road when Edith and Homer
started cut and all the miracle of a
new made day, miracle as old as the
Tuesday morning of creation week,
unrolled before them. Black, shape
form, turned grey, then came to their
rlghtful selves and purposes.
All of Mrs. McCarter's books have
attained wide popularity, and it is
quite likely that the latest one will
follow its predecessors 1 i II public favor
The high school Y. w c. A girls
class had meeting this afternoon to
elect vice president. and to hear re-
ports from Miss Marian Dana, Miss
Fowler and Miss Esther Thomas, who
We're delegates to the Estes Park con-
20 the high school girls conference TO
be held in Newton o ober 16 and II.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. NJ. P. Hillyer will go to Brat
tleboro, Vt, TO accompany the body
of her mother, Mrs. A. K. Wilder,
whose death occurred in Kansas City.
Before Mrs. HiIlyer returns she will
visit her daughter Miss Annie Laura
Hillyer of Boston. During her moth
er's absence. Mary FIillyer will be the
guest of Mrs. Warren NJ. Crosby.
Mr.. Howard E. Everett of Kansas
City, formerly OF the State Journal
staff. is visiting relatives in Topeka.
Mrs. B. L. Ferris of Springfield,