The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-13

Mr.. Bert Reid, OF Kansas CITY Is q
guest at the National hotel for few
days last night Mr. Harlow Hurley
was host at a dinner in compliment TO
Mr. Reid. The dinner was given at
the Topeka club house. Covers were
laid for Mr.. Reid, Mr.. and Mrs. T. A
Campbell. Mr.. and Mrs Allen Sells
and Miss Clyde Bonebrake.
Mrs. Paul Walker. Mrs. Jack Camp
bell. Mrs. Warwick Updegra1t, MIS-
James Hayes. Mrs. Clarence JORDAN
Miss Helen Spielman, Miss Grace
Koontz. Miss clyde Bonebrake, who
are members of a club which has beeh
meeting every two weeks this winter,
will have luncheon together tomorrow
at Pelletier's tea room.
Mrs c. J. Martin will give a lunch-
con Saturday at the Topeka cluo
house. Covers will be laid for twenty
four.
The flving squadron that was in
Topeka Wednesday afternoon IN lne
interests of the Congressional Unloh'
made real stir in the quiet village.
Those women are bubbhng with en-
thusiasm. They have none OF the
coIdness and reserve of the older
women of the older and more con-
earx,ati1e organizations. 1t was as
though YOU pressed button, and the
English language and the Union arSu-
ments fairly gushed from the mouths
of the women, so eager We're they 10
tell the world about their way Tor
wrestling their Acknowledgement from
cold and Indifferent world.
The luncheon that was prepared Tor
them at the Ielletier tea room. was
fashionable one. There were rose
trees around the walls of the tea
room. The speakers table was deco
rated with jonquils, lilies. sweet peas
and snapdragon. on either end OF the
table were plants with yellow plos-
SONS The center basket was tied
with lavender tulle.
To be sure, Mrs. Belmont ana MRS.
Boissevain were not present, and there
were many loud lamentations over
that. but a closer observation of the
women who did come proved that
thev were themselves people OF IN
terest and achievement.
At the reception at the Governors
house, there We're two receiving lines
The one at the door was headed by
Mrs. Lee Monroe, and the second IN
the drawing room. by Mrs Dan Dlllon
Easement, chairman of the Kansas
branch of the Union. Mrs. Ar
thur Capper and Mrs. George Craw-
ford assisted in receiving the guests
Miss Ethel AIdrich introduced, the
callers TO the people of the second re-
ceiving line. Mrs. Monroe wore a
gown of tete nigre brown Georgette
crepe draped over tan taffeta. The
collar was of pink satin, and the
trimming of grey silver beads She
wore a cOrSage bouquet OF Ophela
roses pansies and sweet peas. Mrs.
Easement wore blue taffeta and chif-
fon. Miss Aldrich was gowned in
pink silk. yelled in black lace, and
worn with a black girdle with sash
ends.
one of the attractive visitors was
Miss Lucy Burns, of Brooklyn, n. Y.
She is a graduate of Nassar college,
took special work in romance Ian
esuages at Yale and at Bonn University
in Germany. She is national vice
chairman of the Congressional Union.
She has a wealth of red hair, and she
wore a white gown of taffeta yelled in
white chiffon. Mrs Florence Bayard
Hilles, of Delaware. is the daughter of
Thomas Bayard, secretary of state un-
der Cleveland, and ambassador to
Great Britain. She is a versatile
woman, has won number of golf
championships. and is devoted to
athletics, as well as to civics and
politics.
Miss Julia Hurlbut. of New York,
one of the members Jf the squadron,
is a great-great granddaughter of De-
bOrah Sampson. WIN was a soldier in
the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Samp-
son went through two campaigns be-
fore her sex was discovered, and by
that time the war was over and she
had won the rank Of colonel. Helen
Todd. who was one of the speakers
last night, worked in the California
campaign. She is a regular spellbind-
er, and speaks on behalf of the chill
dren in the factories, whom she ex-
poets to be bettered in condition by
women's enfranchisement. She was
the first factory inspector of Illinois.
Miss Todd is slender girl who wears
stunning clothes, and talks with great
effect. Mrs. Mowery was one of the
speakers Yesterday afternoon. She is
a descendent of Abner Hosner, who
was the second soldier killed in the
Revolutionary war on the Colonial
side Miss Anna Constable another