The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-29

Miss Altha Watson entertained at
cards this afternoon, in compliment to
Miss Louise Jacobs of Cincinnati,
Ohio, who spent the winter in Topeka,
and will return to her home, leaving
Topeka Thursday.
Miss Jacobs. during the time she
has been in the city, has made a great
many friends in the fashionable young
set. She has been asked to ever so
many of the dances and has been en-
tertained at a good many small par
ties. She is nice looking, attractive in
manner and wears good looking
gowns, and there has not been Wis
itor in Topeka for a long while who
has had more attentions and a better
time.
Those who were asked to the fare
well party for Miss Jacobs this after
noon were: Mrs. Roy Thompson. Mrs.
Warrick Updegraff, Mrs. Wendell Ly-
man, Mrs. Jack Campbell, Mrs. Allen
Sells, Mrs. Clarence Jordan. Mrs.
Monte Kistler Mrs. Edwin Kistler,
Mrs. Ivan Dibble. Mrs. James S. Hayes,
Mrs. Edwin Campbell Miss Clyde
Bonebrake. Miss Beth Thompson. Miss
Elizabeth Mills. Miss Ariel Nichols.
Miss Polly Movers, Miss Mildred Full
Ter. Miss Eva Smith. Miss Antoinette
West Miss Mary Van Nechtan, Miss
Marguerite Kiene. Miss Harriet Hill
Miss Hossford and Miss Margaret Bell
of Kansas City.
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There is no end of interest in the
leap year ball to be given tonight by
the Helianthus club, or rather, for the
Helianthus club. at Kellam hall. The
fair danes and damsels, who have al
ways leaned on the arms of their gal
liant escorts, are for this evening to
become the prop and stay for their
languishing menfolk. And let me tell
you. the men who are to go to that
party tonight are mighty uneasy lot.
They are even more anxious not to
appear unpopular than the women
ever are. A woman gets so accus
toned to going to dance and taking
chances on having offers for all the
numbers, that she takes it for granted
she will dance all she cares to and
she learns the arts that insure her
partners, but the poor, unframed, I'M
initiated men--how can they know
how to appear enticing? Unless the
compliments are pretty well distrib
uted. tears are going to fall from eyes
unused to weep. One man of the club
declared that if he was threatened
with being wall flower. he was sure
he would retire to the dressing room
and 'bawl his eyes out" Another
man is trembling for fear the women
will shun him and he won't know how
to turn the tide in his favor. He is so
afraid he will have to sit out all the
dances that he has started negOtia-
lions with his tailor to have his trou-
sers half-soled when the party is over.
But some of the men are asserting
their Independence. They reason
along the lines of the Congressional
Union, VINO expect to use their votes |
as leverage in getting what they want. |
These men remind themselves that
after leap year there are years to fol- |
low when the men do the asking and |
they will remember which ones treat
ed them kindly at the dance tonight |
ND hn
with a boycott in the years between
this and the next leap year.
Really, it seems that the women will |
have the most difficult time after all
in managing these lordly males in the
position of dependents.
Miss Louise Jacobs entertained a
few friends at bridge. in honor of Mrs /
Chester Klein of Cincinnati. at the
home of her aunt. Mrs. Frank Squires /
Mrs Klein is visiting her husbands
grandmother, Mrs. L. NJ. Thomas. !
Miss Jacobs. whose home is in Gin
cinnati will leave on her return |
Thursday. and she and Mrs. Klein |
who is also returning home, will make !
the trip together.
The annual dancing party for all the
students at the State university was
given Saturday night in the gymna-
SUM. Along the walls were boxes for |
the students and faculty members |
raised step or two above the dancing
floor and set off from the ball room
by low, white lattice fences. twined !
with smilaX. At the head of the hall
were hung framed pictures of George
and Martha Washington. At the open
ing of the party two dozen students
in Colonial costume, danced the min
uet.
Then tho orchestra played the new
dance music. and the remainder of !
the evening was spent with the fox
trot, the one-step. the Charlie Chap
lin walk, and the other new dances. !
Mrs. Eustace Brown. the adviser of
women at the university. attended the