The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-16

/ Il. ReeQ,
Bradley, Mrs. Horace HUMPHREYS, Mrs.
F. N. Risteen, Mrs Charles Skinner,
| Mrs Frank Hobart, Mrs. Adelaide
Smith, Mrs. Frank Squires and Mrs.
Myers.
Mrs. Gaunt, Mrs. Myers; Mrs. George
! Crawford and Mrs. Arthur Capper had
luncheon together today at the tea
room.
Mrs. A. NJ. Story, of Manhattan, has
announced the engagement of her
/ daughter Marcia to Professor Ray
Throcknnorten, of the state Agricul-
! turaI college, the marriage to be SOL
/ emnized June 10. Miss Story gradu-
| ated from the State Agricultural col
lege in 1912, and has since been
teaching domestic science in Abilene.
| The bridegroom is a graduate of the
| PennsyIvanias State college, and is now
assistant professor of agronorny in the
| soils department of K. S. A. C.
Both the young people have friends
| in Topeka
/ Mr.. Horner of the Redpath Bureau
will give his. annual dinner party at
the Coates House in Kansas City
| Wednesday evening. Miss Lima Bres-
| cite of Topeka will be one of the
guests.
= <-4s.s.-..s. + .sa.2 ~ 1s-t.-+-'--.
| Ever. so many of. the new dresses
are adorned lnlS SSdSOH
| This cunning little fixing of the ward
robe is suggestive of usefulness and
/ domestic servitude,. and yet it is wholly
| ornamental, and for effect only. 1t is
| a sort of product of the interest in
! Breton peasant styles that has thrived
| in the dressmaking art for some
months. These aprons have devel-
oped either as abbreviated tabliers or
extended pepIums. An idea breaks
into the world of fashion, and there
it waivers; first it is one thing, and
| then it is another. 1t is like theme
in a Wagnerian opera. So it is with
this apron notion. It has been every
thing but itself. and now it is that.
t. Now when little Miss Prim gets her
self into q tight bodice. with SLIM
| flat looking waist, skirt with
shirred bouffant pockets and outstand-
ing draperies at the sides, and a funny
little apron strea ming across the
| front she is as demure as she can be,
if not more SC.
The suffrage parade in Chicago
| during the great Republican National
convention, is absorbing the interest
of the Kansas women who are af-
filiated with the Kansas Equal Suf-
frage League. And the preparations
are making a great stir in Chicago,
i too.
! Not to be ~outdone by the suffrage
women, the Republican men are going
to give a big ball during convention
week; at least, that is supposed to be
one of the many secrets seething be-
meath the derby of some of the Chi
! cago men.
There is to be suffrage ball and
garden fete, which may take place at
the Harold Mccormick house, Lake
/ Shore drive But the place is not def
nitely settled. as Mrs. Mccormick does
not think her house there is suita BILE
Siy Ia
tenanted for three years and the rugs
and hangings have been removed. The
Saddle and Cycle club, the. Casino and
the South Shore club will all have
! gala nights for the visitors.
And the liberty bell, if you please.
] is to be brought to Chicago from
Philadelphia, to march in the suffrage
parade. The clapper of the bell is
tied and will not be unfastened, so
they say, until all the women are en-
/ franchised
/ Other news from the front, some
where. on Lake Michigan" is to the
J effect that lot of the marchers have
been trying on their hats and other
paraphernalia for parading. and word
has gone forth that. the outfits are
alluring.
The Kansas women are instructed
10 get their costumes ready, except
the hats and capes, which are to be
provided for the trifIing- sum of rs
|
| wear white dresses, black Shoes and
the hats that they buy in Chicago will
De white sailors, with a band of yell
low ribbon about the crown. Scarfs
| OF yellow are being made for the wom-
en- to wear. Yellow, you know, is the
suffrage color. The militants of Eng
land, weave a little purple into their
suffrage color combinations but the
old Equal Suffrage League in Amer
i lea, keep to the plain color that has
long been their emblem
Mrs. w. Y. Morgan, president of
the kansas Equal Suffrage League,
has been in New York recently. and
she declares that she has never known
OF more business-like planning than
the suffrage women use in Quoting
their work. Every man in important
Z places in politics is indexed., with a
!, record of his sentiments on the suf-
frage question, and if he is in con-
gress, of the way he has voted on mat
tiers pertaining to the federal amend
ment
# Mrs. AIbrecht Marburg is chairman
/ of the L