The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-13
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Mr. Justice and Mrs Rousseau A z
Burch will entertain at bridge-din- +
ner party Thursday evening of this I
week, at their home in Tyler street
Mrs. w c McDonough and Miss
Agnes Walsh invited a few friends
very informally this afternoon to meet
Mrs Lem White, Of Ration, n M, who
is visiting Mr.. Whites sister. Mrs
Arthur Mills. The guests were a few
friends OF Mrs White, and were enter
tanned at the Walsh home between 3
and this afternoon
The Monday Bridge club was enter
Guthrie. The guests and substitutes
at the meeting were: Mrs A. w
Bronson, Mrs. Frank Beck, Mrs. A. T.
Lucas and Mrs: A O. Rosser.
Mr.. and Mrs. George StaebIer had
as guests at bridge Saturday night the
members of their evening club.
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The Pi Beta Phis will meet Tuesday
afternoon at O'Clock with Mrs.
Crichton Miller. SIG Fillmore street.
The Topeka Musical Art society viii
have a rehearsal tonight at 1880
E o'clock at the First Baptist church
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Along near the first of March you
know how you get a vague feeling that
your furniture isn't worth a nickeI2
/ There is one lone instance when the
fmplacabIe assessor agreed with the
housewife on that very point Friend
Housewife has a really remarkable
collection of costly Oriental rugs. The
Z rugs are rather small and are taste
fully distributed about her highly
polished floor Our common enemy,
the assessor, called and began the
usual questioning about furniture He
ran down the list till he came to
rugs, carpets, ETC. The woman told
him that she did not have carpets in
her house. He gave a searching look
around, peered over his spectacles into
all the rooms open to his vision All
hem-a-are these little mats all you
have?'' And the figure he put down
as their value was entirely satisfactory
I TO the owner Of the said little mats.
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Mrs. y. B. Uric will entertain the
members Of the Wednesday auction
bridge club Wednesday afternoon at
her home. 1915 West Sixth avenue.
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A group of school girls in the upper
grades formed the habit of going off
/ every evening to the movies. IN
I chaperoned, and lighting 'hap-hazzard
on any show that happened to be on
+ the screens. They had been to see the
story developed from Kipling's famous
poem about "a rag. bone and a hank
] OF n1iT- 6N-anO-DN the mothers OF
the girls objected to their nightly trips
down town Two of the girls threat
ened TO run away from home rather
than submit to such tyranny And
what viii you do when you get away
from home? % one of the small girls
was asked. Il shall be a moving pic
ture actress she Hsped-
And l. said the other thoughtful
". Il shall prepare to be a vampire"
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Mrs. Silas Porter was hostess at a
meeting Of the Monday Whist club to-
day. at her apartments in the Asbury.
Those who played for absent EN- bers
were Mrs John Z. Lord, Mrs B. f
Akers. Mrs. Frank Merriam, Mrs J.
r. Shelton and Mrs. H. L Armstrong.
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The Kansas Beta alumni chapter OF
Phi Delta Theta will observe found
ers' days Wednesday, March Is, It i
dinner and smoker. The active mem
bers will be present. and there will be
orchestra music.
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| The season in Washington. D. c.
has been more than usually gay this
year, they say, ard the Kansas peo-
pie down at the national capital Lave
had their share of good times. Mrs
W A Ayers, the wife of Congressman