The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-12

the various organizations. Miss Sweet
of Topeka was a member of the To-
cal 7. W. c. A. in attendance
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One of the lovely gardens of Topeka
belongs to Mrs. Thomas Page, whose
house in the West Sixth road is sur
cultivated garden plot. The Canter-
bury Bells in her garden are now
blooming, and there is a mass of them
in beautiful shades of lavender, pink
and white. The cup-and-saucer va
riety are especially large and hand
some.
DR.. Eva Harding's garden in front
of her stucco house in West Tenth
avenue, presented peculiar feature
this morning. The yard was a mass
of color all in the patriotic shades of
red, white and blue. Not another col
or appeared. The white was in the
lilies that are in bloom, the blue, in
the larkspur, and the red in the pop
pies.
Miss Ruth Rooster and Miss Louise
Bell gave a dinner party for the senior
girls of the Theta sorority, at Miss
Koester's home. Covers were laid
for Miss Marjorie Lyle. Miss Erna
Zutavern, Miss Frances Perry, Miss
Katherine Conkling, Miss Violet
Crumbine, Miss Catherine Harrison,
Miss Bell and Miss Rooster.
Miss Marguerite Kiene has been
chosen delegate to the Theta district
convention in Kansas City.
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Miss Alice Winston of Lawrence,
ppresident of the Kansas branch of the
Association of Collegiate Alumnae,
will come to Topeka Wednesday, and
will be a guest at an informal tea to
be given at the home of Miss Helen
Estey, for the college women of To-
peka. 1t is Miss Winston's purpose to
explain the purposes of the Collegl-
ate Alumnae association, looking to-
ward the organization of a chapter in
Topeka Graduates of accredited
schools can become active members,
and graduates of some other schools
can become associate members. The
State university is the only Kansas
school accredited by the A c. A,
which is a national organization Tor
college women. Mrs. w. F. Bowen
and Mrs. D. T. Esterly are members
of the Lawrence branch.
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Mrs. f. NJ. Thompson announces
the engagement of her daughter,
Edith Williams. to Mr.. Burwel L.
Spurlock. the wedding to take place
June 2S.
A certain sport editor was recently
retailing a bit of gossip to a s. r., and
coined this little bon mot: zone
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world chin
| Percy, the poet, has sent to this desk
/ a number of rhymes that deal with
women's participation in public af-
fairs Percy is not hysterica1 on the
subject at all. and protests that he
| favors votes for women. Apparently,
then, he wants Women's political tc-
tivities to end at the voting booth.
Here is his latest poetic effusion:
o the hand that rocks the cradle rules the
world, they used to say,
But what was spoke in Grandma's time is
For now it is the Hubby who the restless
babe must tend,
/ While whey. still the ruler, at cluD the
law doth mend.
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! Dean and Mrs. J. P Deb. Kaye gave
a party Saturday night for the mem
bers of the choir of Grace cathedral.
The musical program for the evening
| included solos by Mr.. Herman Spring
| er, Miss Marguerite Gohlke, Dean
Kaye, and other members of the choir.
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Mr.. and Mrs. J. Kaul of Paxico,
Kan, announce the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Edith Elizabeth, to Mr..
! Rudolph Louis MolZ, of 1107 Huntoon
street, now employed at the Santa Fe
offices. The wedding is to take place
some time in June. They will leave
on trip to California Immediately
after.
Mrs. Lillian Mitchners will begin her
annual chautauqua tour soon. She
will spend two weeks lecturing in
South Dakota, and the remainder OF
the summer will be occupied in max
| ing chautauQua addresses in Kansas.
She intends to present to her audi
ences a plea for municipal farms to
replace jails. She has made trip to
Kansas City to visit the municipal
farm of that place. and is preparing
her addresses to include remarks on
that Subject. Mrs. Mitchner is presi-
dent of the Kansas w. C. T. U.
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I By the request of many Topeka peo-
pie, the play Satan Came Also viii
be repeated Wednesday night of this
| week. The show will be put on at the