The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-16

to enter the gateway to the alley at
Fifth avenue below Eighth street and
spend your little so cents admission
like a man.
You will not enter an alley, of
course, for the narrow street known
by this ignominious name has been
beautifully and marveliouSly trans.
formed by Mr.. Paul Chalfin into an
Italian street in festival time.
The first studio on the right as you
enter Macdougal alley belongs to Mrs
Harry Payne Whitney. Today it is a
French restaurant called Aux Amsi de
France, and the money taken In at
tea and dinner, which will be served
at reasonable prices, will go to the
| American Field ambulance. Mrs. w.
K. Vanderbilt, jr, will run the res
taurant. Yesterday, while nails were
being driven, electric lights strung and
posters hung, Mrs. Whitney told me
just what the fiesta will be like.
Our IDEA is to reconstruct an
Italian street in New York." she said.
mo open-air festival of the kind has
ever been given in the city before
| and the artists who have their stu
dos in Macdougal Alley have gener-
ously turned them over 10 US, and
they have been transferred by Mr..
Chalfin into Italian shops, booths,
| cabarets, etc.
1.-The entertainment will not be, ex-
! clusively Italian, however. We want
/ to convey an actual picture of the life
of the allied nations and so bring
l them nearer to the every day life of
| New YORK. My own studio will be
/ French restaurant in an Italian town
Each stndio will be held by some one
of the many societies organized for
relief work in the allied countries,
and the proceeds will be turned over
to them.
/ The fiesta is simply the result of
desire On the Part of the artists OF
Macdougal Alley to do whatever they
can at a time when it goes without
saying The patriotism of all Ameri-
cans is deeply reused. AS nation
we have gene to the aid of the allied
cause, AMI we as individuals want to
| give the most effective help we cam
Mayor Mitchell will open the Fest
with a speech from a balcony
| Wednesday will be American night,
Thursday French night, Friday Brit
ish night, Saturday Italian night, and
the three afternoons will be dedicated
to Belgium, Russia and Serbia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hardistv have
announced the engagement of their
daughter, Nora Frances, to Mr. Ar
mold Honegger of Omaha, Neb., the
marriage to take place June % at
Grace cathedral The service will be
| read by Dean j. P. Deb. Kaye.
Miss Hardisty was graduated from
Bethany college June 4 The girls OF
| the graduat ting class will be her
bridesmaids. They are: Miss Helen
Lucas, Miss Georgia Neese, Miss Mil
dred Lusk, Miss Lucille Kersey, Miss
Gretchen Vof1and, Miss Virginia
Leach Miss Helen Silver, Miss Eliza
beth Campbell, Miss Marjorie Sheldon
and Miss Arta Heinzman. The maid
of honor will be Miss Parry Eliza beth
Miller, head of the English depart
ment in Bethany. The matron OF
honor will be Miss Hardisty's sister.
Mrs Emma Dyal, and her brother,
Mr.. Lud Hardisty, will give her in
marriage. Alice Voiland and Peggy
Robbins will be flower girls.
Miss Gertrude Mutton, head or the
piano department at Bethany college,
will play the wedding march, and Miss
Clara Watson, who graduated with
the bride, will sing II Love You Truly
and AT Dawning."
Mr. Honegger's home is in St Calls
Switzerland. He was educated at a
college in Germany, and since finish
ing his education he has lived in
America. At the time the war broke
out in Europe, he was visiting rela,
| tives in Germany. He is an electrical
engineer and is connected with the
Nebraska Electric company, with his
office in Omaha. He has chosen Mr.
Fred Kraft of Chicago, as his best
man.
After the wedding Mr.. Honegger
and his bride will go to Omaha to ar
! range for an apartment, and will then
leave for a honeymoon trip on the Pa
cific coast
She is a pretty Topeka stenograph-
err He has been interested ever since
he saw her. She loves to flirt but
she's scared to death because she's
. | engaged so rumor says, and after per
) hitting him to call two or three times
had to make him quit.
She'll still flirt, providing meet;
ing can be explained satisfactorily to
her conscience as an accident She:
following an old axiom about biro
in the hand being worth two in the
bush. That's the way his conceit
translates it, anyway.
| In recent weeks he's exhausted his
supply of excuses for running err
rands to the office in which shs
works. The other fellow usually
meets her in the evening and walks tC
a car with her
A few days ago he saw her at moor
going north on Kansas avenue in from
of the Topeka State bank. He was
2 half block away. a bright idea as
t sailed him. He would drop into tbs
l same place she did and eat lunch
S with her. He lost sight of her tenn
' porarily.
He rushed into Brunt-Martin's ant
l peered into the booths with such in
. tentness that the proprietors won
. dered if he had escaped the asylum
I She wasn't there and he walked out
y He hurried into the Banner lunch
D walked the full length, couldn't fin
: her and started out. The casf1ie
asked him for check. He had los