The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-13

| mentary to Mrs n. X. Baker and Mrs
Mrs. c. r. Hudson, Mrs. C. c. Baker, and
MIS- George NJ Eagle. Mrs C. C Baker
4 Will entertain the party at dinner tonight
Mr. and Mrs Frank Manspeaker gave
small dinner Thursday evening. the guests
Mrs c. w. Jewell, Mr. and Mrs. George
Bates.
ter. Miss Sara Hazel Slaughter. Miss
Lucille Smith, Miss Bertha Hemp
stead. Miss Kate Thomen, Miss Dora
Foshay, Miss Louise McKown, Miss
Gertrude Anderson, Miss Marjorie An
derson. Miss Edith Barker, Miss Daisy
Neil. Mr.. ]. C. EnahiZer, Mr.. Harry
E Barker, Mr. Wellington Brink Mr..
Tinkham VeaIe, Mr.. H. j. Corwine,.
Mr.. A. H. Hubbard Mr.. John South
ern, Mr.. F. C. Paynter, Mr.. and Mrs
Frederick C. Lang, Mr.. and Mrs Geo:
D. Kenyon, Mr.. n. S. Hinshaw of
B. Innis of st. Joseph. Mr.. r. w. Es-
tep, Jr., Mr.. E. B. Kellam, Mr.. Paul
B. Van Ness, Mr.. Theodore Mueller,
Judge J. G. S1onecker. Col L. NJ Pen
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The Music Study club will meet
Thursday afternoon at 2:3o O'Clock at
the home of Mrs Morton Albaugh.
1881 Harrison street.
The Thursday Study club will meet
Thursday at the home of Mrs. c. E.
st. John, 1131 Tyler street. A Christ
mas program will be given. Mrs
Frank Harrison will tell of Christmas
dinners in other countries; Mrs E. F.
Dean will read an original story. The
music will be given by Miss Josephine
Mckee. pianist, and Mrs. Frank P.
Whitmore, soprano
X X X
Mrs. Fred Johns of 400 Polk street
will entertain the t. G. F. Card club
Friday afternoon of this week.
X X X
The students of the Washburn law
school will have a morning reception
Friday, from to Il, in the rooms of
the law school, in West Sixth avenue.
: The faculty will attend, and the law
school graduates are specially asked
, to attend. The reception at the school
is an annual affair of the midwinter
season
The Pi Beta Phi AIumnae club of
Topeka had a meeting Tuesday at the
/, home of Mrs. Silas Porter At the
meeting a letter was read from Mrs.
Eli Helmick. chairman of the settle
ment school committee of the Pi
Beta Phi sorority; which supports a
school at Gatlinburg, Tenn During
the past summer Mrs. Helmick spent
several months in Gatlinburg, superin-
/ tending the work of the institution,
and making a personal study of the
needs of the people, looking into con-
ditions of hygiene, and giving lessons
> and advice upon the care of the sick.
: The plan for the settlement school
/ was originated by the Pi Phi Alumnae
| club of Washington, D. c., of which
Miss Lulu McCabe of Topeka, was a
| member for two years Miss McCabe
| also knows Mrs. Helmick personally
! and other Pi Phi's active in the work,
and her interest in the southern insti-
tuition is keen.
Mrs. Lee Monroe was at home to her
friends Tuesday afternoon, the affair
| being the second of a series of after
| moons at which Mrs Monroe is receiv-
ing informally this winter. She has
chosen the second Tuesday of each
month as her at home day.
II In the library We're bitter sweet and
| pepper berries, and tall silver vase
of narcisSus and ferns adorned the
parlor. As a part of the afternoons
entertainment, the guests were asked
TO write verses from the subject Eggs
| What to Do
| Burlingame, Mrs. Albrecht Marburg
| Mrs. J. B. Larimer, Mrs. S. S. Estey
Mrs. A H. Horton, DR.. Deborah
L Longshore and Mrs. w A McCarter
II A number of the callers came from
a committee meeting called to decide
II on something to be done about high
II prices and all the conversation wa,
| directed to the menace of threatened
Il famine for those who have inadequate
II incomes. The subject suggested to tn,
II hostess the verse writing contest 4
II prize for the best verse was awarded
to DR.. Lydia DeVilbliss, no cwomposeC
Il a regular epic, off-hand, a la Long
| fellows Hiawatha. The prize was al
4 egg beater- There was no small di
/ version in watching the women, will
| the far-away look in their eyes Will,
| they invoked the poetic muse and in
| dicted lines to the elusive egg. Mrs
Il W. W. kitcheIl. who is quick at rhym
| ing. produced a little poem about but
| ter. 1t reads:
| Mary had a pound of butter:
Il She kept it in the zen,
| And brought it out to show her friends
Il Every now and then.
1t was too dear to eat-that stuff;
Il So she put it in frame.
| And gave that block of Meadow Gold
Il A highfalutfn' name.
II Mrs. Monroe's lines were:
What was that noise, dear Mrs. Beggs?
II Twas just the crash of falling eggs
They coming down like hail and rail-
Il Because We women can refrain
II The Research club will meet Friday
| December IS, with DR.. Anna Foy, a
II the C H! Hepworth home, 1921 Null
II yane street Subjects for the meeting
are: How the World Is Fed" anC
! Immigration.
II
II Miss Effie Graham went to Kansa:
/ City today to speak before the Athe
| naeum club, the principal woman's or.
II ganization of Kansas City. and one o.
II the largest clubs in the west The SEES
Il sion is a mass meeting called to dis
Il cuss prices of food. Miss Graham.
| subject is Blind Spots in House
| keeping"
Il While Miss Graham is in Kansa.
IL (,ity. she Will visit Mrs Edwin c
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