The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-20

coats Some handsome dresses are
trimmed with bits of it, and by select
ing the best parts of the shawl, 1t $
not so much matter if the old gar
ment is a bit motheaten- The shawls
have lovely, dull soft solors, and that
is why they are so well liked 1 have
noticed the colors used in many ways
in trimming, now that the worsted
thread embroidery has come into
vo rue. One of the handsomest new
dresses worn in Topeka this fall had
a collar trimming in the paisley eoiors-
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There has been no fashion lately in
household furniture that has taken the
lamp shade style that has recently be-
come popular. The shades are so at
tractive because they can be made to
suit the draperies and wall and floor
decoration of any room. These days,
matching your lamp shade with your
furniture is as natural and desira bic
as matching the trimming to a gown
l noticed at Mrs. Horace Halls tea,
where the decorative arrangements
were noteworthy for their beauty and
taste, the dining table was lighted with
little lamps shaded in silk to harmon
ize with the colors in the decorations A
feature in the decorative scheme at
Mrs L H. Munn's two parties recent
Iy, was the tall lamp with its big silk
shade in a color especially attractive
in the room in which it stood.
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The Athenaeum club of Kansas City
will give musicale tea Tuesday from
2:30 to o'clock at the club house.
The program will be furnished by
Miss Ona May Miller of Topeka, harp
ist. and by Miss May Kelly. soprano,
and Miss Frances Kelly. pianist, both
of Kansas City.
Society of MayfIower Descendants will
be held in Topeka Tuesday A feature
of the meeting will be presentation
of a bronze tablet to the historical
department in the Memorial building
in honor of the Mayflower ancestors,
whose memory the society members
wish to .perpetuate- Mrs F. A George
of Wichita will unv.Hf the tablet
Mr. Arthur Henry Bennett of To-
peka is the society's governor for
Kansas; Mrs. John r.. Shelton, also Of
Topeka. deputy governor; Mrs. Ed
ward n McGresor OF Wichita. secre-
tary; Mrs. William H Johnson, treas
urer. and Mr.. Edwin NJ Hopkins of
Lawrence. historian.
The annual meeting of the society
will be held Tuesday, and the banquet
will be given Tuesday evening at the
tea room in the Mills building
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Mrs Thomas L. King entertained
her bridge club today at her apart
ments in the Baker.
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Miss Helen Estey gave a small tea
Saturday afternoon for the following
Washburn college girls: Miss Maurine
Stevenson, Miss Grace Dana, Miss
Ruth Koester, Miss Helen Neese, Miss
Elizabeth Culver, Miss Bertha Clay,
Miss Emma Lyman, Miss Nina Nichols
Miss Marguerite Nicholas Miss
Alice Hughes. Miss Violet Crumbine
Miss Bula Fleming. Miss Juliette
Brown, Miss Hazel Hess. Miss Mar
guerite Dunning Miss Ethel McCIem-
ents, Miss Lois Murphy. Miss Eta Nc
Leod. Miss Sabra Eppler. Miss Anita
Weiskirch and Miss Margaret Gill
more.
The Junior class at Washburn col
lege had a party at the home of Miss
Ruth Rooster. attended by about
thirty-six guests Among them were
President and Mrs P. P Womer, Prof.
and Mrs ]. Riser and Dean and Mrs.
T. W. Hughes, of the faculty
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Helen Beas1ey gave a party to ceIe-
brate her sixteenth birthday annfver-
sary Saturday. The guests we're: Mar
gret Bair. Inez Horner, Ethel Kresie,
Esther Kresie. Helen Kresie, Anne
Walbridge. Josephine Wingart, TheIma
Perry, George Greenwood, Terrence
Curry, Lewis Taylor. Victor Barber,
Alfred Mitchell, Donald Mitchell. Ken
meth Sutherland, Leo Ewell and Will