The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-13

QUAINT is versatile young fellow, and
turns from the larder to the piano,
and is equally at home at both. he
also sings we'll, and is a prime favor
lite with the company.
Another Topeka man in the COM
pary is Mr.. Don Heath, son of MIR. and
Mrs. H A. Heath. and former Topeka
newspaper man. He was also Wash
burn student, and was affiliated with
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
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Chief Justice and Mrs. w. A. Johns
ton have moved from their home.
Elmwood Place, to spend the winter
in town. They are at 500 West Tenth
street. Their son, Lieut.. John Johns
ton, is i'll in hospital, and his wife is
with Justice and Mrs Johnston dur
ing the time of his illness.
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Announcement has been made by
avenue, of the engagement of her
daughter, Marie, to Lieut.. L. Spencer
Davis, of Ross, Calf, the wedding to
take place December 81.
Miss Porter, daughter of the late
DR.. Porter, was student in WASH
burn college two years and a member
of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
For two years succeeding her attend
ance at Washburn, she was a student
in the University of California, at
Berkeley. Lieutenant Davis is a son
of Mr.. and Mrs. r. J. Davis of Ross
Calf. He was a student in the Cal
/ ifornia University, and it was there
that he and Miss Porter became ac-
quainted. He is member of the
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He is
now stationed with the marine corps
at Quantico, Va. He and his bride
will go to Quantico to remain as long
| as he is stationed there.
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Christmas guests of DR.. and Mrs
i Willis Coston will be their daughter,
Mrs. Frank Theis and her children,
Mary Louise and Billie, and Mr.. Theis,
| daughter of DR.. and Mrs. Coston, Mrs.
Walter Shipe. and Mr.. Shipe of Kan
sas City; Mrs. Coston's niece, Mrs.
Robert Air, and Mr.. Air, also of Kan
| Springfield. Ill, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A.
Theis, Mr.. Raymond Theis and Miss
Louise Shipe, all of Kansas City.
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! Mrs. William Collinson was hostess
at meeting of her sewing club We'd
nesday afternoon. Her sister, Mrs.
| Joseph Bowers, of Lansdowne, Pa,
was guest of the club. Mrs. Frank
] E. Miller of st. Louis, who is visit
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F.
Mitchell, was also, guest.
:
Whose uncertainty about her hus-
bands faithfulness at last developed
into a certainty that he didn't know
| the first syllable of constancy The
two have been, they say, on the verge
/ of a separation a number of times,
but once again affairs are said to be
patched up. The man declares that
he didn't mean to cause so much I'M
happiness but that a vamp got him
when he wasn't watching his step as
carefully as man may when he
threads the tangled mazes of a forbid
den filtration. He insists that it was
his one lapse from grace, and was not
his fault anyhow. The vamp has left
the city, and now that temptation is
| out of sight and mind this modern
Adams tells Friend Wife that Eve
done it, and he wasn't to blame.
The good wife sees the affair in the
light of innocence which the husband
sheds about it, and is overlooking the
episode. At least she appears to dc
SO, but you never can tell about a
woman.
The kindergarten children of Beth
any college had a pleasant surprise
this morning in a visit from the Santa
Claus and the big Polar bear that
have been seen in Topeka lately. The
troupe was taken out to the school oy
Mr. McKowen of Pelletier's in his
car. The party was arranged by Miss
AdDeI bartholomew, head of the
Bethany kindergarten. The bear
danced for the children and Santa
Claus made short speech. He then
received the children, one by one, who
whispered to him their special wishes
concerning the articles to be left in
their Christmas stockings They also
presented for the VISITORS the little
play, The Night Before Christmas >
which they are to give during the hol-
tday season. Mr.. McKowen ther
brought in a pack for Santa Claus
filled with bags of candy. which the
new St. Nicholas distributed to the
children.
Miss Ruth Foster has returned from
shawnee. Okla. where she visited Mrs
T. w Slagle and Mrs SIagIe's daurh-
ter, Mrs. Wallace Estell She was en-.
tertained at a series of parties siyer
py her hostesses ana their friends
on her return home she stopped 70,
Two days at Norman, Okla. where she
was a guest at the Kappa kappa
Gamma house of the Oklahoma. mi.
-versity. Miss Foster is a Kappa. beine
AFFILIATED with the K U chapter
The newest fad to strike the tow
in the card playing section is a sud
den prediction for a poker game
This fad has struck the fems as wei
as the male portion of the commun
ity. The rule is for penny ante will
a five limit And, say, these womer
can play real game-some of them