The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-11

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faculty of the Chicago university. Roy |
Crawford is attending Notre Dame uni |
versity, in Indiana.
year but the parties will warrant it,
under the direction of Mr.. Larry Huey.
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The distinguished women OF the
Democratic administration, it must De
admitted have been uncommonly ac-
tive in travelling about and allowing
themselves to be viewed by the non
official set who cast the ballots out in
| the west Whether the rather newly
acquired ballot privileges of the west
ern women has anything to do with
| these western trips, is quite beyond
my knowledge. I just wondered. The
presidents wife visited the west on
| the big circle" trip. That may have
been a honeymoon trip with no de-
| sign other than the natural wish Tor
the continued society of the just
| annexed husband.
| But today Topeka is honored by a
visit from the wife of the vice pres1-
| dent who accompanies her distin-
guished husband on tour of the
west This is no honeymoon trip, as
who's Who" says the couple have
been married fourteen years. The vice
president and his wife are to be enter
| tanned tonight at dinner at the Throop
| hotel, Just before the meeting at the
| auditorium. when Mr.. Marshall VIII
make a speech Inc train was met
in Lawrence this afternoon by COM
| mittee of local Democratic women. to
| welcome the wife of the vice presi-
dent. The committee is headed by
Mrs. w. A. Harris of Lawrence, the
| widow of the late Senator Harris, and
the other members are Mrs. w. O.
| Rigby, Mrs. Otis Allen, Mrs. w. F.
Logan, Mrs. David Overmyer, Mrs.
John Barrett, Mrs. A. D. Birch, Mrs.
Carl ]. Peterson. Mrs: Frank Britton,
Mrs. ]. 6. B. Pinney. Mrs. F. E. Whit
ney and DR.. Lillian Malone.
The people down in Washington
say very nice things about Mrs. Mar
shall. Mrs. Charles Curtis, of Topeka,
who has lived in Washington and min
J gled with the official set during a
part of the present administration has
met Mrs Marshall a few times. She
says that the vice presidents wife is
well liked and entertains beautifully,
tho not so very frequently as her
health is not robust.
1t seems that the vice president and
: his family are, by generations of
: custom, really at the head of Wash
ington's official social life. Whether
t they want to be or not makes no
difference. The place is made for
them, and whatever they do is a topic
of talk in Washington drawing rooms.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall may not care
to have their affairs discussed, but
custom has decreed that they shall be
observed.
When Vice President and Mrs. Mar
shall first entered Washington life,
fresh from the soft shade of the In
diana naples, they refrained from
ton society sighed. The Marshalls
went to a hotel, and Washington So
ciety found that there was lots of
fun in Mrs. Marshalls little hotel re-
moved to more elaborate quarters in
the Willard which has long been
known to be a center of social activ-
ity. 1t is in this hotel that the Grid
iron club has its famous feasts; where
the Daughters of the American Rev
olution hold sway for a week in gilt
tering jewels and costly gowns 1t is
told how Prince Henry of Prussia
on his only visit to this country, put
up at the Willard, and distributed sill
yer cigarette cases among the en-
ployes of the hotel, which was his
way of being a good fellow
Yet Mrs. Marshall, they say is a
believer in simplicity of life. Wash
ington is poor place to practice any
such theory, but at that it should be
The train will arrive from Law
renee tonight at $40, and the Vice
President and Mrs. Marshall, and tn,
members of the committee will dine
together. The dinner arrangements
Will be simple, as the time between
the arrival of the party and the meet.
ing at the auditorium is brief
At the close of the dinner Mrs Mar.
shall will be presented with a corsa "a
bouquet of orchids. and her room a.
the hotel will be decorated by the wo
men of the committee in roses The
colors of the decorations will be tn.
| patriotic red, white and blue In &
huge blue bowl will be placed a larg,
bouquet of red and white roses.
The vice president and his wife will
remain in Topeka until early tomor
row.
The marriage of Miss Margaret Per
kfns and Mr.. Charles Briggs, both o
Hutchinson, which was solemnizet
Tuesday, October 10, will be of inter
est to Miss Perkins's friends in Tope
ka. and thruout the state. Miss Per
kins often comes to this city, attend
ing meetings of the Kansas Author
club, of which she is an officer ant
she also visits her friends here She i
the author of a credita BILE collection o
poems. and tho not a prolific writer
she is recognized a poet of merit
Following is an account of the wed
ding from a Hutchinson paper:
Yellow and white were the color
chosen by Miss Margaret Perkins 70
the motif for the decorations for he
which was solemnized this Afternoon
at the home of her mother. Mrs. Jan
e Perkins, on First avenue east. In tn
living room where the ceremony wa
performed an archway of srnilax wa
arranged with a shower of yellos
roses falling down upon the brida
party. Miss Natalia Legett preceding
the ceremony sang A Bridal Song
the words of which were written b