The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23

Mrs A w. Bronson will be hostess
at a bridge party Wednesday after
noon at her home in Harrison street
She has invited guests for eight tables
william Allen White of Emporia
is in Topeka today for the Progressive
convention. He is the house guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. D. A. Ellsworth of 1913
Topeka avenue.
Mr. and Mrs Ellsworth gave a
breakfast party this morning at the
Virginia for Mr.. White, the guests be-
ing some of the newspaper men who
are in town for the convention. Covers
were placed for Mr.. White, Mr. Fred
Trigg of the Kansas City Star, Mr..
Rodney Edward of Hutchinson, Sena-
tor Bristow of Salina, Mr. Clifford
Stratton of Topeka and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ellsworth.
Mrs Holmes Meade has asked
guests for a thimble party Thursday
afternoon.
Mrs. Jonathan Thomas and her
niece, Miss Carolyn Thomas, have is
sued invitations for a musicale al
which they will be hostesses Friday
afternoon, June 2, at 2;30 o'clock, at
the Country club.
Kansas suffragists are going to be
rather lucky in Chicago parade af-
fairs, because of the fortuitous cir
cumstance that Cyrus Mccormick Ill
was sent to Wichita in connection
with the business of the interests of
the McCormicks of Chicago he
brought with him his young bride,
who belonged to distinguished Chi
cago family, and she also happens TO
be an advocate of political rights for
women. She not only is suffrag1st,
but she works at it. The McCormlck
women of Chicago are numbered
among the influential suffragists OF
their state So, when it is announced
that Mrs. Cyrus Hall Mccormick, of
Chicago, the mother-in-law of the
Wichita woman, would give garden
party and ball at her palatial home on
the lake shore, for some of the parade
women, a liberal supply of tickets
were sent out for distribution among
the Kansas women. The party is to
be an invitation affair, and while
there will be hundreds in attendance,
not nearly all of those who will be in
Chicago, can expect a place at the
party.
arranged to go from Wichita, and
others will probably decide on taking
the trip. A special car from Wichita
will meet the special from Topeka, at
Kansas City, there to join the suf-
frage special on to Chicago. A dele
cation from Hutchinson will come to
Topeka to make the trip with the To-
peka women. All of the officers of
the Wichita Equal Suffrage associa-
ton, except one, will go to Chicago.
Mrs. Dunlap, of Emporia, and Mrs.
Fannie Cooper Atkinson are among
the women of the state who will join
the party going from Topeka. Mrs.
w. Y. Morgan, of Hutchinson, preSi-
dent of the Kansas Equal Suffrage
association, is arranging for the dele
cation from Hutchinson.
The delegation will leave Topeka
Monday afternoon, June 5. The ball
and the garden party at the McCor-
mick place will be held the evening of
at four o'clock in the afternoon OF
June Z.
Mrs. Jack Campbell will entertain
her sewing club Wednesday, The
thimble club has become a luncheon
club, and hereafter will meet in the
morning. to spend the day and take
luncheon with the hostess.
Mrs. James S. Hayes entertained her |
luncheon club today.
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The Delta Delta Delta sorority of
Manhattan, gave a dinner party for
Mrs. J. d. Mcfarland, of Topeka, who
IS visiting her daughter, Miss Rather
inc Mcfarland at the Agricultural col
lege, Dean Mary Pierce Van Zile and
Professor and Mrs. E. H. Reisner.
The Zelta Delta sorority, which was
organized at Manhattan last year,
gave its spring formal party in cele-
bration of the first anniversary of its
installation. Mrs. z. T. Hadley was
a guest at the party. Mrs Hadley's
daughter, Miss Dorothy Hadley, a stu
dent in K. S. A. c., is a member of
the sorority.
A new plan for presenting music,
or rather, opera, to the public has
been devised by Havrat Hubbard, and
he appeared in Topeka for the first
time Monday afternoon and evening
at the high school auditorium. He
came here under the auspices of the
music department of the Topeka Fed
GRAFTON of Women.
He gave what he calls an opera
logue, which means that he reads the
in, here anu there, with explanations,
matte passages he is accompanied by
piano music, from the score of the
opera.
sonatton by some remarks on the
American and English way of having
their opera in a foreign tongue He
handled his subject without gloves
and he minced it not a bit why
should we have opera in a language
we cannot understand ?" he asked
The Germans and the French and
the Austrians and Bohemians have
their opera in their own tongue, but
we and our equally stupid English
cousins must take our opera in Ger
man and Italian and French-any-
tnlns put English. l grant that our
Iranslatlons are not good, but they