The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-22

found in the Bible on the subject Of
peace. They searched thru all the
ma gaines, powder puffs and station
cry that the rest room provided, but
never Bible could they find. Doctor
Harding thinks the Gideons are loafing
on their job.
The Fillmore Street Whist club will
meet Thursday with Mrs. ]. c. Har-
mon of 915 Buchanan street.
Y
The annual spring luncheon given
by the Saturday club of LeaVenWorth
was held at the home of Mrs. J. X
Codding at Lansing. Mrs. Ward
Burlingame of Topeka was a guest of
honor. The Leavenworth Post gives
the following account of the party:
The annual spring luncheon given
yesterday by Mrs. j. K. Codding OF
Lansing to the members of the Sat
urday club was an affair of excep-
tional beauty and was perfect in all
of it's details. The rooms of the adj
ministration building were deliberately
decorated with spirea. roses and sweet
peas and for the luncheon the guests
were seated at one long table eX-
, quisitely decorated with purple iris
and spirea in large baskets placed at
intervals the length of the board. The
guests of honor were Mrs. Ward Bur-
lingame of Topeka who came to Leav-
enwortn for a residence in 1858 and
was married here in 1862 and is now
en- route to visit her bridesmaid in
Kansas City, Mo, and also Mrs. Det-
weller of Kansas City, Kan. The place
| cards were especially attractive. being
/ in book form with a picture of the
| Kansas penitentiary on the front page
| with the following motto. THE Gold
] en- age is not in the past, but in the
! future; not in the origin of human
! experience, but in its consummate
! Eden. q
| Gethsemane."
The inside pages contained the
| toasts which were follows:
Patriotism Leavenworth contributed
/ in the early days-Mrs. c. S. Har-
/ tough.
Leavenworth offering in '5o-Mrs
| Anthony.
Patriotism and Kansas pioneers
Mrs. Ward Burlingame
Our bit in the present war crisis
| Mrs. D. R. Phillips.
| X x
The members of the Sigma Kappa
| sorority of Lawrence gave a breakfast
| for their senior members and some
out of town guests. Covers were laid
for forty guests The honor guests
were: Miss Mona Clare Huffman
Miss Josephine Lamborn, Miss Arte-
mesia Powell, Miss Floss Irene Lucas,
Miss Lois Hunt of Conway Springs,
/ Miss Elsie Calhoun and Miss Davis of
kansas City, Miss Roman Kirkpatrick
| Miss Edna Anton, Miss Lillian Gleis-
ser, Miss Lucille Kersey and Miss
Tressa Tucker all of Topeka.
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
| Who is thinking of economies in
war times, and has decided that her
young baby can just as well use a
second hand buggy ds new one She
cast her eye about and remembered d.
very handsome and expensive buggy
belonging to a neighbor. The neigh
boris child had long ago outgrown the
carriage, so she opened negotiations
with the owner for Its purchase But
the owner refused to sell it on the
ground that she didn't care to buy a
use,
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs John Arner Robenson has gone
to Fort Riley to join Captain Roben-
son, who has been stationed there
with the Thirteenth cavalry. Mrs
Robenson has been visiting her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Blood
Smith.
Mrs. Leslie Guild, who is visiting
her parents in Holland, Mich. will re-
turn home the last of this week She
has been with them the past two
weeks Mr.. Guild left today to join
her. and they will return home to-
gether.
Miss Eildegarde Hurley of Wash
ington, D. c., who is visiting friends
| in Topeka, will leave FRIDAY night for