The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-31

country at various city associations
They were given last fall in Denver
DR.. Noble has been engaged as
head of q hospital and training school
in Northern India, for native students.
Her work is carried on under the
Presbyterian board of foreign mis-
sions. She is in this country on fur
| Tough, and later she will return to the
far east.
DR.. Noble is anxious that all who
register will attend all the lectures for
| her group, as her subject is not COM
plete until all three addresses are
given.
The new spring suits are beginning
, to appear on bright days on Kansas
avenue, whereas in the past few
weeks they have had to be viewed on
the wax figures in the store windows.
You never can tell what the feminine
public will take to; so you may as
well save your eyesight as to gaze at
the models displayed for the sake of
| finding out what your neighbours turn
out is going to look like.
In the good old days the women
never thought of wearing their new
spring clothes until Easter, and then
they splurged them in a perfectly riot
! bloom burst on the sight in a per-
| fectly dazzling fashion. Now the
women buy their new suits and hats
in February, or as soon thereafter as
father and hubby consent to having
| them charged on his bill, which means
that his winter debts are about paid
up.
Many of the new suits are in checks
| this spring, and they are very attrac-
tive with their trimmings of plain
| materials. I noticed one yesterday of
a small green and white check with
| he of MI
green silk. A good looking costume
on the street yesterday was of plain
dove grey, with hat of grey straw, tur-
| ban fashion, with a simple trimming
of an old rose wing. A fashionable
suit was of checked material in deep
cream and brown The cuffs and col
| lar were of canary colored broad
cloth.
The skirts are still pretty short, to
| the top of the high boots for the best
| looking costumes, and a bit shorter
for the less smart and expensive ap-
pearing suits.
The Alumnae chapter of the Sigma
Alpha Iota sorority entertained at a
twilight musical and buffet supper
Friday evening at the home of Mrs
! F. A. Derby, S35 Western avenue
The guests included the patronesses,
the associate and active members and
/ the pledges. The house was decorat-
! ed in spring flowers, and the even
ings program was as follows:
'Lemminkaines' Home Faring" Sibelius
! Mrs. Leland McAfee and
Miss Elsie Chapman
Miss Helen Coe
~ Miss dorothy Sims ''0uaru
| ''Reflets Dams reau". .Debussy
49, Miss Chapman
..a Mrs. Eli G. Foster . 'fonuan'
N'SOle''' Mrs. Leland McAfee 'efui- AiS'1
1.-THE Shepherd Boy. .MacDowell
Mrs. F. A. Derby, harpist.
-Naf'H Miss fHo~ Gertrude Huckeli 0'oin'
spring song Miss Effie Page Rogers
Sonata-C major (Allegro) 49,. Brahms
..r,o Mrs Mrs: Raymond Stewart ou Aoou.
-He Mrs. Alfred Spicy 10
Mrs. Roy Taibert
The program are prettily decorated
folders hand painted in pastel shades,
lettered in black in the Greek name,
and adorned in gold with a cluster of
organ pipes. the sorority emblem.
The company included: Mrs. Ar
thur Capper, Mrs. F. A. Derby, Mrs.
E. G.. Foster. Mrs. Leland McAfee, Mrs.
Raymond Stewart, Miss Dorothy Sims,
Miss Ethel Grant. Miss Gladys Cav,
Miss Carolyn Lovewel1, Miss Corinne
McSpadden, Miss Hazel Bruce, Miss
Elsie Hobson, Miss Frances Cav, Miss
BerniAe Goudy, Miss Imogene Snyder,
Miss Helen Coe, Miss Grace Ricken-
bacher. Miss Gertrude Hucke1, Miss
Effie Page, Miss Uarda Baird, Miss
Margaret Gilmore, Miss Edna Smith,
Miss Mamie Mayer, Mrs. Roy Talbert
Miss Elsie Chapman, Mrs. Alfred
Spicy of Abilene; Mrs. ]. J. Jensen,
Miss Jessie Eenery, Miss Mildred Ram
seye. Miss Freda Marsh, Miss Gladys
Heath, Miss Ruth Scott, Miss Goldie
Asher, Mrs. j. II, Hobson.
Miss Jean Swan entertained at din
ner Friday night. Covers were placed
. for Miss Mary Schneider. Miss Bertha
Hotze, Miss Carrie Kendrick, Mrs
Richard Ahlstrom. Mrs. Allen Lowe
Miss Lucille Gates, Miss Martha
Moser Miss Stella Kendrick. Mrs
Hamilton Swan and Miss Hattibel
Swan.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Rickenba chez
have announced the engagement OF
their daughter, Grace Louise. to Mr.
Manifold Peck. Jr.. of Salina; the mar
riase to be solemnized Saturday morn
ing, April IA Invite tions to the we'd
ding were issued today. The couple
will make their home in Salina.
Down in one of the oil towns OF
Oklahoma, from which a Topeka char
has just returned. there is, for diver
sion, the public dance, where about g
dozen cowgirls remain on duty from
early evening to morning, to supply
the feminine half of the towns So
ciety crowd and to act as the bellies
of the ball. The charge is fifteer
for his dance. takes his choice of this
bellies who are not already tripping the
light fantastic with some other swain