The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04

A social event of today was the
wedding of Miss Bess Murphy, daugh-
! ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Philip 1. Murphy
to Mr.. John Francis Eden. Jr., of Los
Angeles. California, which took place
at the home of the brides parents at
o'clock. The cerem 0ny was per-
formed by DIR. Stephen S. Estey of the
First Presbyterian church with only
relatives present.
! The bride who was given in mar
riage by her father, wore a summer
suit of oyster white silk with a Jap
anese collar. Her hat was a white
panama with ostrich quilts and her
shoes and gloves were white. She
wore a corsage bouquet of pink Killar-
ney roses and sweet peas.
Before the ceremony, Mr.. Lewis
Jones of Kansas City. a cousin of the
bride, sang, AT Dawning," and 20
Promise Me-" The Mendelssohn we'd
/ ding march was played by the brides
before her marriage Miss Loretta Muir
! ply. An altar of palms, ferns and
sweet peas was arranged N the large
living room, where the service was
read.
After the ceremony. a bridal din
ner was served. The dining room was
decorated in pink sweet peas and ferns
with garlands of smilax.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eden left Immediately
afterward for trip thru the middle
!
| headquarters at Topeka until the first
of the year, after which they will
make their home in Los Angeles,
where Mr.. Elden will be connected
with a law firm.
| The bride lived in Topeka most of
her life, except for five years resi-
dence in California. She was a stu
dent in the Topeka high school and
| graduated from the Los Angeles Poly
| technic high school She attended the
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three years. and this year she took her
degree from the Kansas university.
| She is a member of the Alpha Chi
! Omega sorority
| Mr.. Eden is a graduate of the Lee
| land Stanford university and a MEM
Der of the Phi Alpha Delta fraternity.
He took honors in public speaking and
was member of the Delta Sigma Rho
honorary forensic fraternity. He was
a winner Of the Cornot gold medal.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Akers will en-
| terrain a dozen guests at the dinner
dance at the Country club tonight.
They will give a dinner for another
group of friends later.
| X x X
| Mr.. and Mrs. Guilford Dudley will
| be guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Guild
at dinner tonight, for the Country
club dinner-dance.
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theater reviews, an account of the
show at the Palace, and among the
performers there this week who are
receiving a great deal of attention, are
Miss nellie kouns and Miss Sara
Kouns of Topeka.
The Misses Kouns sang in Balti-
more and had a most successful week
in Washington, d. C., where the re-
views of their work We're full of
praise. From Washington they went
! to New York. The Misses Kouns are
filling engagements in which they are
booked ahead to the first of August.
| X X X
| Miss Alma Krauthoff of Kansas
| City, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Norman
S. Wear for few days. She will be
their guest at dinner tonight at the
Country club.
They say that gingnam dresses,
down in New York, are wonderfully
fashionable this year 1t is all a part
! of the plan to economize-this rush
for simple clothing. The Topeka
shops are showing bingham dresses
that are attractive, and some of the
women are buying them. One of the
| Topeka brides told me recently that
she went down town with the inten-
ton of getting a nice, simple gown
for her trousseau, and was advised to
| buy bingham. She chose the prettiest
piece she could find, took it to her
designer who was making all her
wedding clothes, and when she footed
up her bills, she discovered that her
simple, inexpensive froek of Bingham
| ranged right next to her travelling suit
in price.
Mrs. S. E. Barber, of New York,
formerly of Topeka, in a letter to a
friend, declares that one sees more
Bingham dresses on the streets in New
! York than any other frocks. They
are made up so attractively that the
women are quite mad over them. Mrs
! Stokes, of Chicago, the daughter of
Mr.. George Findlay, when she was in
| Topeka a few months ago, had her