The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26

A delightful spring tea to which /
good many of the girls and young
matrons of society were asked, was
given Wednesday afternoon by Miss
LenJre NJ. nroe, Miss Day Monroe and
Miss Cynthia Monroe.
In the front hall, in nook in the
stairway, was a huge basket of purple
Hlacs. Jonquils adorned Il e library,
and in the receiving room and the liv-
ing room were bouquets of pink and
white roses. Fringes of flowers and
ferns adorned the mantle places. The
rooms of the three hostesses upstairs
were open to the guests. In one of the
ooms was a tall, plain vase, of green
ware. filled with roses. The furniture
was of a pattern IN use a century and
half ago, and made of solid walnut.
In the room is an old bookcase. an
interesting piece of furniture with 4
history on the walls are some an
Gent prints and photographers ana
cid fashioned print curtains are at
the windows. Another of the rooms IS
done in pink, with ruffled white cur
tains, and the flowers used in dec
Grating were pink roses in a tall, silver
vase and boxes of pink hyacinths In
the receiving room downstairs was
a large vase of long-stemmed snap
dragons. In the dining room an cleo
trio fountain in the center of the taple,
was surmounted by pink and whlte
roses, and the crystal pond below
the fountain was edged with PINK
sweet peas.
The party. of course, was formal
tea, but about the social attalrs a.
the Monroe home there is never any
air of Formally and stiffness. me an
nounCement of the engagement OF MISS
Monroe and Mr.. Cliff Stratton had
Just been made, so that the a1talr was
practically an announcement party
Mrs. Lee Monroe, the mother or the
hostesses. stood ut the head OF the re
ceiving line to welcome the guests she
wore a gown of gold cloth and Solu
beaded net. Miss Monroe was gowneu
in deep blue satin, with sleeves, collar
and vest of white Georgette crepe,
embroidered in blue threads she
carried a bouquet of pink sweet peas
and roses, with long knotted streamers
of tulle. Miss Day Monroe wore plhk
taffeta, made on straight lines Win
an overdress in pleasant blouse erect
loosely belted, and adorned with Big
ruff pockets. Miss Cynthia Monroe
was dressed m gown OF WHIT
Georgette with the collar and sleeves
edged with bands of American Beauty
trimming. 49,,
table in the dining room and poured
tea She was gOwned in WHITE SILK
and Georgette with an embroidered
ornament in blue at the front OF the
bodice. Mrs James McIntire, OF
Wakefield, formerly Miss Helen Ing
ham. of Topeka, was one of the as
eistiug friends She wore her bridal
dress of white satin and GeorSette;
Miss Beatrice Shakeshaft. who helped
in the dining room, is one of the at
tractive young girls of Miss Cynthla
NIonroe's set She wore a frock OF
white with a wide girdle of pink
satin Miss Dorothy Nichols wore
charming frock of green crepe and
satin.
There were many attractive suits
worn at the party. Miss Hazel Rls-
teen wore suit of dark blue with a
pin stripe of white. Her bat was
dropping black straw. Mrs. James s.
Hayes was IN a brown cloth suit, and
Mrs. Grover Dunn of Westmoreland.
cuffs and collar of striped blue and
gold taffeta.
The opening day of the exhibit of
paintings by Mrs. Robert CoppedSe
was Wednesday afternoon, when
party of society women received call
ers to view the pictures hung in the
gallery of the Topeka Art guild.
The twenty pictures of the exhibit
are all new ones. having been painted
within the past nine months and
pedge was in the east during the sum
mer and fall and a part of the late
winter. In addition she has two or
three large canVaseS of her recent
work hanging in eastern exhibits.
one of the small pictures took
prize in the Kansas City exhibit. The
Millrace of Carrot Ford attracted 4
great deal of attention in the exhibit
1t shows the picture of an old sailing
boat, such as the New England fishers