The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-24

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Miss Ethel Lord of Boston. Mass,
will be honor guest at an informal tea
Tuesday morning, at which the girls
of the active chapter of the Beta So
rority of Washburn will be hostesses.
The party will be given at the home
of Miss Helen Neese. on Buchanan
street, between the hours of 10 and
~. Among the guests will be the
alumnae Betas and some of the girls
Of the high school and college sets
Miss Lord stopped in Topeka on
her way home from the Alpha Phi
convention in Berkeley, Cal, and is the
guest of her cousin, Mrs. Richard
Thomas, on Topeka avenue. She was
the delegate from Boston university at
the convention where Beta was grant
ed a chapter of Alpha Phi Miss Lord
has been the inspiration for a num-
Der of entertainments, most of which
were of an informal nature. She will
remain until the end of the week and
has every afternoon and evening filled
during her stay. Mrs. Harry Wolf
will entertain with a family luncheon
Thursday for her and Friday Mrs.
James Thomas will have an informal
luncheon in her honor. Miss Anne
Sweet gave a small dinner party for
neT L TlQdy evening at the country
club. Covers were laid for eight.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Don Mulvane enter
tanned with a dinner party at the
Country club Friday evening for the
members of their dancing club. The
table decorated in cannas, hav-
ing a large brown basket of these eff
fective garden flowers for center
piece. Covers were laid for Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Griggs, Mr.. and Mrs.
Theodore Snattinger. Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert T. Reid. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Mitchell, Mr.. and Mrs. Dana Davis,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wolff, Miss
Grace Koontz. Mr.. John Freshman,
Mr. Allen McNeal, Mr.. Richard Hall
and Mr.. and Mrs. Don Mulvane.
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Miss Winifred Green was hostess to
the members of her card club this
morning at her home in the Devon.
Miss Ethel Lord of Boston, Mass, and
Mrs. Francis Pribble were guests of
the club. The members are Miss
Green. Miss Elfe Dean. Miss Mary
Weightman, Miss Juliet Brown, Miss
Ruth Foster, Miss Winifred Burch,
Mrs. Chase and Miss Daisy Neil
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number of attractive midsummer
gowns appeared at the tea which Mrs.
Richard Thomas gave Saturday after
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in compliment to her cousin. Miss
Ethel Lord of Boston. Mass.
The rooms, which were already at
tractive with summer flowers were
enhanced in charm by the appearance
of many good locking young girls in
pretty summer frocks.
The hostess wore a becoming sum-
mer gown, which was a combination
of white voile and organdy. She wore
a corsage of daisies and pink roses. |
Miss Lords gown was a combination |
of rose-pink taffeta and thread lace |
Her corsage. was pink sweet peas and |
sunburst roses Miss Mary Weight |
man. who presented the guests to the
hostess, Wore a dress of white dotted |
voile with a corsage of lavender sweet
peas and white rosebuds. Mss Bertha
kitchell. an Alpha Phi from Wiscon-
sin university, who expects to remain
in Topeka with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. w Kitchell of Potwin Place, |
this winter, wore an effective gown o
hlue wolfe and white net. Mrs Harry
Wolf wore White net over pink taffeta. |
Miss Grace GaiEes. whose marriage to |
DIR. Carl Menninger has been an
1ounced for the early fall, was one of
the assisting girls. She wore white
point desprit trimmed in ruffles
edged in white satin ribbon. Miss
Helen Neese wore white oryandy made
with bertha and a ruffled skirt. Miss
Grace Dana's gown was cream dotted
net over taffota. Miss Marian Will |
and lavender silk. Miss Marian Dana
wore white net with hoop skirt. Miss
Ester Thomas, niece of the hostess, |
wore white embroidered net. Miss
Georgia Neese wore a combination of
rose and white jersey silk. Miss Ger
trude Kitchell, also an Alpha Phi from
Wisconsin university. was one of the
guests at the tea. She wore blue and
white striped wolfe. Miss Pansy Ben
ton of Oberlin. who is with her aunt |
Mrs. Lucia d. Case. on West Tenth
street while attending the summer ses-
sion of Washburn college, wore a
Tretty summer dress of pink and
white orsandy over pink. Mrs. Will
liam Collinson wore white silk crepe.
Miss Violet Crumbine wore yellow
wolfe with large hat faced with yell
low silk Miss Gwen shakeshaft wore
flowered organdy with the skirt made
in scallops and trimmed in ruffles.
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Women are funny creatures said
one of the men in this office today. 81
can't understand them-and I'm mar
ried. too. 1 guess if 1 were married
two it would make no difference.
Now, for instance. Today a woman
called up the State Journal She said
that she was reading the Ladies' Home
Journal Sunday and discovered that if
the reader sent a 2-cent stamp to that
magazine. they would send full gov
eminent report on how to keep ants
out of the house. She wanted to in
form the State Journal of this great
advantage in reading magazines and
asked why it wasn't possible for the
women of Topeka to find information
of this kind in the evening paper
here"
Then the office man grinned-one
of those wide open kinda regular
mere-nan variety
II called her challenge" he con-
tinued- Il told her to look on page
10 or the state Journal of July Is and
she would find the governments com