The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-07
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Mrs. c I. Martin win give lunch
con at the Topeka club Saturday,
April Is. for the girls of the Sigma
Kappa sorority of the State university,
Lawrence. Her daughter. Miss Lii
liam Martin, who is a student in K U,
is popular member of that sorority,
and she and her sorority sisters Will
come to Topeka to be guests Of Mrs.
Martin a week from Saturday.
The music committee of the FEEDER
alton is planning some features Of spe-
ciaI interest for the luncheon to be
given next Wednesday at l o'clock at
Washburn college in the Thomas gym
nasium. The nature of the musical
part of that program is not disclosed,
as they are keeping it as a surprise for
their guests. There is a hint, how
ever, that it will be somewhat in the
nature of a cabaret entertainment.
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They say that a fire in dressmak-
ing shop the other day laid waste the
hopes in some of the women's hearts
for splurge of finery next week at
the various conventions to be held in
our town. Some handsome imported
materials that cost in sums that sound
almost like war figures were disfg-
ured or demolished. But, at that. the
women take it beautifully and prepare
BILE up something less magnificent in
short order.
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The plans for the luncheon to be
given Wednesday by the Congressional
Union of Kansas for the suffrage spe-
cial coming from New York through
the west on a visit to the enfranchised
states have been extended and the
company will be larger than was at
first expected. A good many women
from over the state, as well as local
women, are becoming interested in the
party and about $50 or 200 women
will sit down to the luncheon to be
given in honor of the New York dele
cation. A large company, also, will
attend the reception in the afternoon
at the governors official residence in
Buchanan street
News has been received of the mar
riage of Mr.. Eugene Smyth to Miss
Laya Machat at San Juan. Porto
Rico. March 9. The bride was prima
donna of the Italian Grand Opera
riage was filling an engagement in
Porto Rico. She is Russian by
birth, but has lived in the United
States since she was a little girl. She
studied in Rome and Milan and sang
in a Milan opera house. Mr.. Smyth
he was returning to Porto Rico from
Topeka, where he visited his mother,
Mrs B. B. Smyth, last January. Mr..
Smith is an entomologist in the employ
of the insular government Mrs.
Smyth is filing a concert engagement
in South America, and after her re-
turn she will sing for the Edison
company.
Newspaper people hear a good
many complains about the misstate-
ments made by newspapers. They
usually listen to them politely, but it
doesn't prevent them from rejecting
and from bordering on how some per-
sons get the impression they have
from what they read in the papers.
For example. it has been heralded
far and wide in the daily press that
Carrie Chapman Gait is coming to To-
peka next week. The name of Carrie
Chapman Gait is supposed to be ia
miliar to every newspaper reader in
the country Goodness knows it ought
to be. for it appears frequently
enough.
Now this is the conversation that
tured club women in this town.
You suffrage people are going to
have a great time at your convention.
are you nOt2"
yes. indeed, with our celebrated
guest from the east
'Oh, that's SO. L was reading in the
paper the other day that you were go
ing to have a really fine time. They
say you are going to have Charlie
Chaplin out here"
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The afternoon meeting at the Fed
Grafton Thursday was a sort of play
day for the members. 1t was the time
of the awarding of prizes to the small
boys who had made the best bird
houses in the contest conducted by the
forestry department of the federation.
The contest was given under the i'm
mediate supervision of Mrs. Charles