The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-16

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Mrs. Rousseau A. Burch will enter
tain her bridge-luncheon club Friday.
Guests of honor will be Mrs. A E. Will
son, of Los Angeles, Cal, who is Mrs.
Burch's sister; Mrs. E. w. Ober, also
of Los Angeles, a daughter of Mrs
Wilson, and Mrs. F. c. Kaths, who has
recently moved to Topeka from Hutch
inson.
The Tuesday Bridge Luncheon club
met this week with Mrs. George Crane
Those who played for absent members
were Mrs. 1. S. Lauck and Mrs.
Cranes sister, Mrs: Clark.
Miss Edith Updegraff has gone to
Conway Springs, Kan, where she has
accepted a position as teacher of do
mestic science in the high school. She
graduated last June from the State
Agricultural college. at, Manhattan,
where she specialized in domestic sci
ence and journalism. During her last
year in college she was society report
er for one of the Manhattan daliles-
She is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
o. P. Updegraff.
Thus is another of the society girls
recruited in the great army of the
employed" which is beginning to look
like the fashionable set.
Mrs William Redwood Smith enter
tanned guests at bridge Wednesday for
Mrs. James Hurley, of Washington,
d. c., and for Mrs. Rollo j. Parker,
who has just returned from french
Lick Springs, Ind. and will remain in
Topeka until she leaves for Amarillo
Texas, her future home.
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Mrs. Thomas Creary gave lunch
con Wednesday at her home IN Har-
reaT-elI ai
7 w. Mowers, Mrs w. G. McDonough,
Mrs. Frank Squires, Mrs. Louise Tauer
Brandt, Mrs. ]. Vincent, Mrs. y. L.
Hazen, Miss Polly Movers, Miss Ber-
tina Hampstead and Mrs Creary'
Miss Nanon Herren gave a New
England dinner Wednesday night for
the Woman's Rotary club of which she
is president. She expects to leave soon
for Boston, Mass, to become an IN
structor in the Curry School of Elk
preston, and her party last night was
a farewell affair to her club.
After dinner a brief business ses-
sion was held, at which changes in
the constitution were adopted. 1t was
! decided also that the treasurer of the
club should be the chairman of the
budget committee. Mrs. P. H. Adams,
head of the civic committee, reported
that the clubs sale, to be conducted
for the benefit of women workers who
have hand work to dispose of, would
be held the week beginning Monday,
December 4. The sale will probably
| be held in the new Chocolate shop to
| be opened on Kansas avenue. and if
! that building is not ready, space will
| be rented elsewhere. Mrs. Adams re-
/ ported that Mr.. E. H. Crosby gener-
ously offered some space in his store.
The sale will include some solid brass
articles that have been sent from
x "a h n 0eaT hn Of eaf
an uncommonly low price. Miss Mabel
Adams, representing charities, was
voted in as a member of the club.
A musical program was given by
Mrs. Mildred Leeper Hoatson, who
sang "A June Morning" by Charles
Willeby; 80 Sleep. Why Dost Thou
Leave Me-" by Handel; "a Dutch
Lullaby" by Stu1t, and Invocation to
the Sun Cod" by Troyer. The piano
accompaniment were played by Miss
Ethel Grant.
Miss Herren was asked to give some
Little Brown Baby" a short dialect
story, and a chapter from Miss Effie
Graham's book, Aunt Liza,s Praisin'
Gate" Miss Graham is a member of
the club.
Miss Herren was assisted by her
mother, Mrs. Herren. and her sisters
Miss Josephine Hesren and Miss Molly
Herren, and by Mrs. DeWitte C. Nellis
and Mrs. E. S. Bissell. The guests in
GUIDED:
Mrs. Herren and her two sisters
Miss Josephine Herren and Miss Molly
Herren. Mrs E. S. Bissell and Mrs.
DeWitte C. Nellis.
The dinner guests were: DR.. Har-
riet Adams, Mrs. P. H. Adams, Mrs
Adrian Greene. Mrs. Harry Forbes
Mrs. Helen I. Francis, Miss May Ma
lone, Miss Glen Davis, Miss Ida Pat
Mv.e-
James Hayes, Miss Mary Harrison,
DR.. Anna Foy, Miss Marie Witwer
Mrs. Mildred Leeper Hoatson, Miss
Ethel Grant, Mrs. E. Reese, Mrs. June
! Chapman, miss Rosa Furlet, Mrs L.
D. Whittemore, Mrs. Wolf Mounday
Thomas. Mrs. D. Peak, Miss Kate
Thomen and Miss Bertha Hampstead
Topeka seems to have some point OF
contact with every celebrity in the
world. Evan Williams, the singer
who gives concert here next week
is not a total stranger to everyone II
the town. A Topeka woman, Mrs
Julia Farnsworth Soper, was one Of
| the passengers on the same boat m
who h Mr.. and Mrs. Williams saileu
to South America a year or two ago
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A story is told of one of the high
school boys who very much wanted t.
so to a dance recently. His mother
ordered him to stay at home for one
evening of the week to do some study
ing. and to make sure that he did so
sac took his overcoat and kept it neal
her close to the front hall door. Tlls
lad went to his room, found an ole
ov@rcoat, and slid down the back
perch post, and went to the dance
When he got back the house was
locked up and the family was in bed
The only way to get in was to go up t.
his room the way he went down. But
a patrolman happened to be passing
he oil ea,r nj -e,1- 1,ft h,