The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-15

read the service. The bride wore her
travelling suit of dark brown velour
trimmed with seal. Her hat was of
taupe velvet and her shoes were brown
to match the suit.
Mrs Wolf is graduate of Wash
burn and attended the school of civics
and philanthropy in Chicago. She
taught French last year in the high
school at Twin Falls. Idaho. Mr.. Wolf
was a Washburn college man and took
special work in chemistry and metal
lurgy in the Denver university and the
School of Mines at Golden, Colo. He
is now chemical engineer for the
American Zinc company of ST. Louis
He and his bride have left for we'd
ding trip east.
DR.. Lydia DeVilbiss entertained a
few friends at a Turkish Coffee. Sun
day afternoon for her sister, Mrs Will
johnson of Fort Wayne, Ind. She was
assisted by DIR. Lillian Malone. She
will give a series of similar parties this
winter.
The Chancel chapter of Grace ca
thedraI will have a meeting Tuesday
afternoon at o'clock in the guild
parlors.
The Catholic Ladies' club will meet
Wednesday afternoon at the home of
Miss Katherine Reilly, COS Topeka
avenue.
The Spalding Reading circle will
meet tonight at o'clock in the
will be answered by quotations from
Riley. Music will be by Miss Mary
Moody and Miss Eugenia Aigner. The
story OF Riley will be told by Miss
Isabel Howe, and little Elizabeth Gan
non will recite from his poems. Mrs.
y 4 chr
'"Trawler." There will be a humorous
reading by Miss Katherine Bauerle.n.
X
The Kappa Alpha Theta girls had
an informal tea Saturday afternoon to
which the members of the active chap
ter were invited, at the home of Miss
Marguerite Kiene. Miss Frances
Perry, Miss Mary Van Vechten, Miss
Ruth Raster and Miss Mary Parkin-
son, assisted.
Mrs. Charles f. Spencer has been
askd to make an address before the
Athenaeum club of Kansas City, jan
uary "a, on the Buffalo Exhibit. Mrs.
Spencer is chairman of the art depart
ment of the Kansas State Federation
of Women's Clubs. She spent last
summer 1.-THE east and was in Buffalo
week attending an exhibition of
sculpture which is said to be the best
exhibition of that kind ever assembled
in this country. -f-r
Mrs. Spencer will make an address
on sculpture next Saturday evening at
the Art Guild in Topeka. She is Wis
ting her sister, Mrs. H. o. Carney for
a few days.
X ~
Mr.. ard Mrs. L. L. Kiene entertained
their dinner-bridge club. Guests be-
slices the members were Mrs. A. L.
Wilson of Los Angeles Cal, and Mrs.
A. 7 Lucas
Mrs Maurice SchlegeI entertained a
dozen guests at thimbles this afternoon
for Mrs Walter E Wilson of Washing
ton, kan, who is in Topeka with Sen
| ator Wilson during the legislative ses-
sion.
Word has been received from Wash
ington, D. c., of the appointment of
William Thompson, Jr. as cadet at the
United States naval academy at An
napolis. He is the son of Senator and
J Mrs. William H. Thompson of Kansas.
and is now a student in the George
Washington university of WASHINGTON
D. c. His appointment was received
thru the courtesy of Senator Charles
Curtis.
Senator and Mrs. Thompson were in
Topeka for a visit to their friends in
the late fall.
! A visiting musician who sang in To-
peka Sunday was Miss Irma Lewis of
Clay Center. who is the guest of rela-
I tiyes in this city. She gave a soprano
solo Sunday morning from the Mes
| siah, at Grace cathedral She has an
unusually well cultivated voice. p dra
matte soprano, clear in tone and sure
in its handling. Her voice is colorful
and flexible, and her pianissimo notes
superlat1ve in their distinctness and
carrying power. Miss Lewis received
a part of her musical education at
Llndsborg, and three years ago she
sang the soprano solo parts in the an
huat rendering of the oratoria Mes
SIAN; given at Bethany college of
Llnosoorg, the other soloists being
noted singers brought from the east.
Miss Lewis has studied and sung in
+ washington, D. c., and also in the
south.
| Elaborate preparations are being
made for the music at the dedication
| of the new cathedral
x \
A railroad official with headouar-
/ tiers in Chicago, formerly of this CITY,
who frequently comes back to Topek-
on business trips, has let himself in
Tor string of big bills for baby bug
1 Sles. Inasmuch as he is a confirmed
bachelor, it seems hardly fair that any
such items of expense should be
! found on his books. But there is no
! scandal about this.
! A few years ago Topeka newspa-
per man, who had been on very
friendly terms with the official, took
1 a wife Now the bachelor official has
( some fine spun theories on the old
/ Biblical exhortation about replenish-
ing the earth, and these theories of his
he urges very freely upon all the men
of his circle when he hears that they