The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-09

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Miss Marian Magaw, the Topeka
girl who went to Boston to work with
the Congressional Union of Massa-
chusetts is now in Washington, to
join in the lobby work being done by
suffra gists.
In Boston Miss Magaw makes her
home with the Morey family. Miss
summer and fall, at the headquarters
established by the Congressional
Union for this state. Mr.. SMorey is
a member of fashionable walking
club of Boston. They call it the SOM
| merset club, and on one of their
recent hikes they took Miss Morey
and Miss Magaw with them. Walking
clubs, it seems, are much in vogue
in the east. The members plan their
walks of certain distances to be COW
cred in an allotted time. They go
thru fences and hedges and up hills
and down hill, and all those obstruc-
tionS are technically known to walkers
as obstacles" Every person of the
the obstacles he meets. Conversation
is a great point with these club MEM
| bers. An agreeable and congenial
| companion is chosen for special at
tention during the walk, and it is the
| business of both to see that the con-
versation is sparkling and entertain
ing. l tell you, these Bostonians are
after the thriIlsi On the walk in
| which Miss MaSaw Joined, were two
| old veterans of the Civil war, who are
! honored members Of the Somerset
club. Miss Magaw, in writing of the
| incident to a friend, said: When
those feeble old men started out 1
| thought how carefully we must all be
not to hurry them; how we must suit
our pace to them so as not to leave
| them behind to come on alone, for
they might. of course, give out any
minute. And what do you think!
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step of the way out and back, and
when we returned 1 was fairly ready
to drop with fatigue. 1 wanted a
: bracer more than l ever wanted any
| thing in my life, and the ancient sur
v1Vors of the War of the Rebellion
were complaining that the hike was
SO Short"
Mrs. Adelaide Smith had as her
luncheon guests Mt the Chocolate Shop
| Cal.s and Miss Helen Collins of Mey-
ersdale, Pa, and two or three of their
friends. Miss Graves and Miss Col
Inns are visiting Mrs. Frank Burrow.
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Mrs B. F. Akers entertained the D.
D. Whist club this afternoon at her
home in Fillmore street.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Davis will enter
tain ten or a dozen guests tonight at Il
and Mrs. Bruce Mcfarland, whose
marriage was solemnized about two
weeks ago. They have recently re-
| turned from their wedding trip. Mrs.
| Mcfarland was Miss Louise McGoff.
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The Monday Afternoon Bridge club
will meet next Monday with Mrs. ira
i Howe, instead of with Mrs. Clement
Smith.
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| state treasurer, who has come from
/ Burlingame to make her home in To-
/ peka, gave a luncheon today for some
| Burlingame friends, and a few Topeka
people She was assisted by Mrs. R.
| D. Payne. The decorations were
white and green, with sweet peas and
/ ferns as d centerpiece for the table.
! The guests were: Mrs. E. S. Beverly,
| Mrs. F. NJ Beverly, Mrs. E. T. Price,
Mrs. Max CarnavauX, Mrs. J. F. Dick
| ensheetS, Mrs. J. E. Haughey, Mrs. G.
I W. Warner, Mrs. L. L. Payne and Miss
Mabel Drew. of Burlingame, and Mrs
A. E. Van Petten and Mrs. T. M. Lii
lard, of Topeka.
| Miss Ernestine Kline will entertain
her bridge club tonight
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THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who prepares her husbands lun-
1 cheon when he comes home during
and pancakes. He says he likes that
diet and will have no other. But
then he is a bridegroom of just
few months.
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Miss Jennie Blinn will conclude her
musical culture course for the year
Wednesday evening, March IA. The
subject for her last program is THE
Opera" She will make a short ad-
dress, and she will be assisted on the
program by Miss Inez Tiffany, Miss
Allison Shaver. Mrs. L. G. Thorpe
Miss Jennie Stevens, Miss Mamie Ott
Miss Ethel Everingham, Mr.. Roy Nay
Tor, Mr.. Frank Ripley and Mr.. How
ard Searle.
Miss Blinn will welcome all who
wish to hear the program, at her
studio.
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The Topeka chapter of the D. A. R.
will meet Saturday with Mrs. H. Ward
Page, sol Lane street. The assisting
hOSteSSeS will be Mrs A r Jeffrev