The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-05


of hanging down a heavy court train.
In the White House we just wear
decollete with a little longer skirt,
something like a Japanese long kimo-
no. and this style is in fashion nova
days To hang down a heavy court train
from the shoulders is a custom in
France and in England. 1 am told our
quarters of military attaches are pro-
vided in Fushimi, ! wonder if | can
go such a distance from Fushimi and
Kyoto in this dress land her bright
eyes again casted front"
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Invitations are out for a masque
dance to be given by Mr.: and Mrs;
Charles w. Barnes at Kellam hall
Wedne sday night. January IL About
hundred people have been asked.
Those who will assist at the party are:
Mr. and Mrs. $. ]. Bear. Mr.. and Mrs.
T. Reid, Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Miller,
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Walker. Mr.. and
Mrs j. A. Cole, Mr.. and Mrs Frank
Scott Davis. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Mitchell. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Carver,
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Quinton, Mr.. and
Mrs B. F. Akers. Mr.. and Mrs. Dick
Alden. DR.. and Mrs. Hal Hazlett, Mr..
and Hrs. Alfred Frost and Miss Kate
Clough.
Everyone is interested. of course. in
the initial event of Washington society
under the regime of the new first lady
of the land. Invitations have been is
sued for a musicale to be given at the
White House Tuesday evening, Janu-
airy II, and behold. a Kansas woman,
once Topeka girl, has been chosen
to entertain the guests. The concert
will be given by Miss Louise Llewellyn,
the daughter of former governor of
this state. During the lifetime of the
first Mrs. Wilson, Miss Ilewellyn was
invited to appear at the White House,
and at that time the president was so
delighted with her performance, that
he told her she must surely sing for
him again. Miss Llewellyn's interpre
tation of folk songs has made her
famous on the concert stage. She APP
peared in concert in Topeka last sea-
son on the Radcliffe concert series,
and awakened a deep interest among
Topeka people, both those who had
known her when she was young girl,
and others who were impressed by her
artistic success. She has spent much
time abroad and studied the folk
songs from every angle, knowing their
histories and the emotions that in
spired them.
Nobody could guess in a hundred
years what was the favOrite Christmas
present from the English belle to her
hero in the trenches on the western
or any of the other numerous battle
fronts. 1t was not cigaretteS-there is
heavy duty on them in France, and
it was not knitted mittens nor scarfs-
1t was insect powder. | have this IN
formation from a Topeka girl who
corresponds with a worker in an Eng
fish hospital for the wounded. Thus
does realism and romance go hand in
hand.
Mrs Holmes Meade was hostess at
meeting of her sewing club this aft
ernoon. Mrs. Meade is with her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. A Scott, and
will spend the rest of the month with
them. after which she will go to st.
Louis to join Mr.. Meade in a perma-
nent residence.
Miss Helen McClintock will enter
tain her bridge club Thursday after
noon.
Miss Bernice Fuller and Miss Gus
sic Fuller have returned to Indianapo-
lis, Ind, after a holiday visit to their
parents. Captain and Mrs. A. NJ. Full
Ter. Miss Bernice Fuller has charge
of the music department of the In
dianapoHs Y. w. C. A, and Miss Gus
sic Fuller is director of the associa-
ton lunch room.
The Vespuccian club will meet with
Mrs. Sam Cunningham, 1908 East
Eighth street, Thursday afternoon at
nounced.
The Amaranth club will meet
Thursday afternoon with Mrs A. v.
Lindell, 1884 Fillmore street.
Mrs. J. A. Campbell will entertain
her sewing club Friday afternoon, at
her home, $40 Clay street.
Mrs Arthur Springer was hostess at
meeting of her bridge club this
afternoon, at her mime. 1917 Polk
street.
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The Topeka City Association of
Graduate Nurses will have their regu-
lar meeting tonight at the Y. w. G. A.
The program will be as follows Music,
by Miss Marjorie Petro; a paper on
THE Pulse" by DR.. w. E. McVey;
paper, Public Health Work in To-
peka," Miss Lillian Davis.
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OF all the bad luck stories 1 have
heard this week, the worst one con-
Germs a home in West Tenth street-a
good looking, big. white house it is.
The owner and her daughter decided
to have some of the rooms redeco-
rated The daughters room was all
done over in white, enameled and pa
pered till it was the pink of dainty
perfection. The painters and paper
hangers loaded up their parapher-
MALTA and moved OFF. and the house
was cleaned throughout and set in or
der. The day the last. finishing touches
were given something went wrong
with the furnace. The lining went
down in a heap, like the one-hoss
chaise, and the outside gave way I'M
der the heat and weight of the Goals
inside. The department was called to
put out the fire. but the smoke and
dust and ashes left their devastating
marks all over the house. The white
room of heavenly wilderness took on a
look like the title of Elizabeth n
Bars most widely read book. Then
besides the disappointment and an
noyance of the situation, there is the
cost, and you know how the prices are
all up so high that they sound like
war figures these days.