The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-12

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Mrs. EIne Van Tuyl, of Leavenwortii,
Hostess for Kansas, at the Fair III
San Francisco.
! Mrs Van Tuyl, of the Kansas build
ing, is a hostess who is naturally
among the first mentioned as one OF
| great affability and remarkable apti-
! tude for meeting and making people
| feel perfectly at home, always givin &
each guest the impression that she is
personally delighted to have made
their acquaintance.
That she is a woman of residence
and ability is demonstrated by the
manner in which she has brought the
Kansas State building into prominence
in the Jewel city in the short time
since the gates of the great EXPOSE
! ton at San Francisco were thrown
open to the world.
Personally Mrs. Van Tuyl is tall
and stately with a marked dignity of
manner well adapted to the position
she occupies in the building erected
by Kansas among not only the other
states of the Union, but also among
those of the nations of the earth.
She is member of all the promi-
nent colonial orders through a long
line of illustrious southern and New
England ancestors and is delegate
to the Genealogical congress that
meets in San Francisco's civic center
auditorium. That she is popular in
the official set is attested by the fact
that she was recently elected first
vice president of the International Of
ficial Hostesses association of the Pan
ama-Pacific International exposition
The widow of DR.. William Russell
Van Tuyl, captain and surgeon in the
United States army, she is the daugh-
ter of the late Oliver S. Hiatt, finan-
cier and pioneer of Kansas.
During Mrs. Van TuyPs army life
she lived in, or. visited all the coun-
tries of the Orient, but since her
husbands death she has made her
home in Leavenworth, Kansas, where
she has devoted much of her time
and energy to welfare and civic work
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Two paintings have recently been
received from London by Mrs. Lee
Monroe. The canvaseS were sent by
Alice Clay of London, the copyiSt for
the Tate gallery, the famous art col
lection of Great Britain. The paint
ingS are copies of two pictures that
Mrs. Monroe especially admired when
she visited the Tate gallery last year.
One is landscape of a scene in Wales,
the early home of Mrs. Monroes great
grandfather The original was done
by Leader, of the National Academy.
The other picture is portrait of
Beatrice, the original of which was
done by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A
number of Topeka people have copies
In a letter to Mrs. Monroe, Miss Clay
tells something of the feeling in Eng
land that is brought about by the war.
She says that the nights there are a
constant terror on account of the fear
OF the "ZebS, as they call the air
ship raiders. The people have been
ordered to keep buckets of soda water
always at hand at night. In case of
bomb explosion, the poison of the
gases that the bomb gives off, can be
neutrallzed by the soda water satur-
ating clothes laid over the face. A
bomb was dropped from an airship
not long ago and exploded in the yard
of the house where Miss Clay lives.
She says that the government has had
many of the valuable pictures of the
Tate gallery buried to prevent their
destruction in case of a raid.
The letter goes on to tell of the de-
pressing effect on the English mind
produced by the return of disabled l.
diers. Wounded men who are not fit
to return to the front, have been sent
back to England, and they are con-
stantly before the people. A short
time ago, Miss Clay tells of looking
into the garden at the back of the gal
lery and seeing a dozen wounded men
who had been taken out to get the
air. The women in the building served
tea to the crippled men in their vary
ing stages of legless, armlesS and eye
less disability, and they sat down to
tea with them. She says that all over
England the women are showing
spirit of helpfulness and of willingness
to serve the government in any large
or small ways that they can.
Among the shoppers down town
yesterday afternoon was young
woman dressed in a street suit of
rather individual style. The skirt was
of figured material, with a back
ground OF a very fine black and white
check The figure was a convention
allied one having a touch of pale rose
color. The skirt was made with high
waist line, fitted closely about the
waist and hips, with a flare tSward
the hem. A short Elton in.c-set of
bright green was worn over the blouse
The hat was black and white with a
touch of green in the trimming. Green
silk hose with black pumps were Wis
able below the hem of the medium
short skirt. A parasol of green COM
pleted the costume.
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The approach of circus day for To-
peka revives the story that was told
last season of a certain Kansas state
officers wife. There was a party a
few days after the circus struck town
one day last summer. Among a group
of women the conversation turned up
on some of the late theatrical news
Mrs. State Officers Wife Joined the
group in time to hear someone tell
something she had lately been read
ing about Maude Adams. rs she
1.-the one?" asked the wife of our dis
tinSuished official. rs she the Fir,