The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-31


nue.. The guests were the members
of card club to which they belong.
X x X
Miss Olive Crane, Miss Freeda
Crane and Miss Elain Hudson enter
tanned the Elmhurst garden girls club
last night at the Crane home on Null
yane street.
1t seems that the idea that men and
women are created equal has been in
one Topeka family for generations.
The great, great, great grandfather of
DIR. Eva Harding refused to take pay
for the services which he rendered his
country by fighting in the war of the
Revolution, because the women and
old men had to remain at home with
out pay. He said that the women
were doing just as much for their
country by remaining at home as he
was by fighting. The due bills for his
services are still in the family and
TO cash them. Doctor Harding is also
eligible to membership in the Colonial
Danes.
The following fashion note was TAX
en- from the New York Evening Post
of 1890:
First Evening Dress-A gown COM
posed of "gros les Indes;'' the color
d new and beautiful shade between
lilac and lavender. Corsage uni, near
composed of white blond net, disposed
"a mile pills." and trimmed with a
triple frill of the richest Englisn
blond lace, so arranged as TO form a
point in the center at the bottom OF
the waist before and behind; it is set
on narrow. and with little fullness at
the bottom of the waist, but broader,
and with more fullness toward the
Shoulder. The "canezou is cut round
the upper part, so as to come nearly,
but not quite. to the throat. and the
fulIness is gathered into row or
blond letting-in lace. Sleeve la
Marie de Medicis," with blond man
chettes Headdress, a Grape hat trim
med on the inside of the brim with
gauze ribbon; the crowd is ornament
ed with "noeuds" of ribbon disposed
zen papillon,' With bouquet OF
white roses placed in the center.
X X X
Mrs q F. Coats. of 1926 Tyler
street, entertained yesterday afternoon
for her small son, Jay. Those present
were Dorothy Duncan and Dwight
Robb, of Wakarusa. Dorothy STAPLE
Olive Coblentz Eliza beth Coe, John B.
Coe, Pauline Elrod, Beva Bately. Ruth
Rosser. William Rosser; Georgia
clark. Robert Shook. Rex Northland,
! Kenneth Kane, Ruby May Wells, Ruth
Marjorie Atchison, Philip Beaudry,
George Fraser, Neil Overmyer, John
Snyder and Dorothy Snyder.
X X y
Mr.. and Mrs Otis Allen. of Potwin
Place. are entertaining Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry w. Jones and their daughters,
Harriet and Julia, of independence,
Kan. this week. Mr.. Jones is the
author of "A Man in the Making, put
out by Crane & Company two years
ago. He is a brother of Mrs. Allen.
x X x
A young man, whose engagement
was about to be announced, wrote to
his fiancee that while he knew 1t was
not customary to mention the name
of the bridegroom. he hoped his full
name would be put in the paper be-
cause he was mighty proud that he
was the guy.
Mr. and Mrs. J. w. Connors OF
Colby Kan. announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Phila Rhea, to
Mr. Raymond William Gunton, son of
Mr.. and Mrs William NJ. Gunton of
146 Lorel avenue, Chicago. Ill.
X
! Miss Gwen Shakeshaft entertained
informally yesterday afternoon for
Miss Ida Smith of Minneapolis. Mimi,
who was her house guest. Those
asked to spend the afternoon with
Miss Smith were her oldtime friends.
She formerly lived here.
X x X
Just what the most exclusive styles
in ready made gowns and suits is to
/ be this winter has not yet been firmly
established. On account of the gar
ment makers strike, which has been
4 on in the east since the tenth of last
/ April it is almost impossible to get
the models copied. A local merchant,
/ who has just returned from New York,
says that of course there aren't so
many models from Paris on account
of the war and those which have come