The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-02

scribes an ideal social service worker.
She says among many other things:
Good to look upon, always well
dressed, unchangingly good-tempered,
with a sense of fun that laughed with
the world and never at it, radiantly
cheerful, endowed with a brain that
grasped the whole significance of a
situation while other people were
glimpsing the edges, and blessed with
a smile that could evoke an answer
from a Ramesian mummy, Mrs. Bass
came into the arena of social service
advancement with no purpose beyond
doing the bit that she believed every
woman should do for her community.
She never lied, never failed to keep
an appointment, never renigged on a
story, never broke one OF the essen
tial commandments that Moses should
have handed down for the guidance
of all who enter public life
Mr.. and Mrs. John Atkinson an
nounce the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Sadie, to Mr.. George Amsbury of
New Castle, Colo. The marriage took
place August 81, in Colorado, where
Miss Atkinson has been spending the
summer.
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One Topeka woman says that when
their screen porch was new, she had
a hard time convincing her husband
that it was the proper place in which
to eat, but now that they have eaten
three meals a day out there this sum-
mer, she can't get any of her family
to move back into the dining room.
During one of those cool days last
week she ate breakfast wearing her
winter coat and fur collar. When
noon came she decided to have lunch
con served in the house, but when it
was put to the other members of the
family each voted in the negative So
she went and got the thermometer to
prove to them that it was too cool to
eat out, but even the thermome
voted with the majority. 1t was IS in
the house and Sc on the porch
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Miss Helen Rutledge of 1911 To-
peka avenue entertained this after
noon in compliment to her house
guests, Miss Helen Pendleton of Trini-
dad, Colo, and Miss Hazel Work of
| Ellsworth, Kan, and Miss Esther Dau-
| bensteck, who has recently moved to
Topeka from Denver. The guests were
! Miss Pendleton, Miss Work, Miss Dau-
! bensteck, Miss Gladys Organ, Miss
| Esther Brandon, Miss Ruth Tandy,
| Miss Florence Triton, Miss Violet
| Mathews, Miss Faith Young, Miss
Dorothy Bair, Miss Edna Anton, Miss
Marian Dana, Miss Mary Louise Nc
Kown, Miss Pauline Sanders, Miss
! Miss Esther Lindell, Miss Mayme Par
sons, Miss Thelma Houston, Miss
Grace Davis, Miss Blanch Battershill,
Miss Ruth Tomlinson, Miss Esther
Thomas. Miss Marian Squire, Miss
Dorothy Petit, Mrs. Alvin Lawson,
Miss Dorothy Bradbury. Miss Helen
Bennett, Miss Margaret Rust, Miss
/ Virginia kitchell. Miss Esther Joss.
Miss Ramona kirkpatrick, Miss Daisy
Tuckett, Miss Edna Becker, Miss Mil
dred Stanton and Miss Ernestine Biby.
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Mrs Robert Merrick was chairman
| of the committee which so successfully
got ninety automobiles together to
greet Governor and Mrs. Hughes yes
terday afternoon. She was assisted by
Mrs. Frank Campbell and Mrs. H. L.
| Peppmyer.
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! The Theta sorority of Washburn
will occupy the J. w. GIeed home at
I635 College avenue, this winter. Mr..
and Mrs. Gleed will be in Kansas City
and Miss Jeanette Gbeed will be in
| Washington, D. c.. in school.
This is not the first time that this
/ house has been occupied by a frater-
nifty. Before Mr.. j. w. Gleed bought
/ it. the Delta Phis,. now the Phi Delta