The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26

! city ones. L mean Mrs. Margaret
Wiggin, who not only was born and
bred to good clothes, but also is in
profession that requires them, the
moving picture business. l saw her in
the tea room one evening, and she.
was wearing a most fetching costume
her mass of lovely white hair. was
pure white satin. Her dress was
mixed black and white, and her wrap
was black with the collar lined with
white fur I adore those little ear
rings of hers-pear1, trimmed with
narrow bands of ebony.
That reminds me of the newly deco
rated house Sof the George Eagles,
where Mrs. Wiggin has been visiting.
The walls of the parlor are done in a
tapestry paper that is a delicate blend
of dawn gray and rose. The rug is
as different as it can be. 1t has a
gray background, with pale rose fig
ures, and a stunning black stripe-al-
most futurist in effect In the dining
room a similar plan of rose and gray
is carried out, and the colorS are pre-
served in the electric light shades of
Austrian glass. The woodwork is in
ivory white enamel.
Someone says that no one misses the
friendly old punch bowl at the Helian-
thus dances, since the refreshments
are made delicious enough to make
up for the lost sparkle in the liquid.
Mamie Zahner Reynolds, who is liv-
ing in Atlanta, Ga, is having VISIT
from he. parents. and from her friend,
Helen Louise Crosby. The travelling
party on their way to the south, met
all the difficulties that attend the
wandering FOOT in these days of dis
turbed transportation. There were no
diners on the trains, and the only
ting to do at eating time was to get
out of the coach and hunt up some
buns and anything else that could be
eaten without the usual implements
that go with our astronomical pro-
cesses Never could they get more
than one grape fruit at a counter, but
that had it's advantages, suppose, I'M
less they dressed for their meals in
gum shoes and raincoats. But after
thier arrival, all was well. One hears
that Mamie has a charming home in
the south and is as happy as so sweet
a girl ought to be.
Capt. johnson Strickler has arrived
in France, according to dispatches
from abroad. Captain Stricken is re-.
menbered as one of the ornaments"
of local society in the days that are
gone, Maggie" His devotion to a GER
tain popular and good looking society
girl was much commented on at the
time, but the tumult and the shouting
died when the girl moved away, and
the man went to the army
Work for the soldiers goes gaily on.
One woman has just finished a pair
of gorgeous white socks with a red,
white and blue border. 1t was her
ambition to create something that
would draw the fire of the German
army to the foot and divert it from
the vital spots.
/ The automobile business appears
not to be suffering greatly, inasmuch
as some of the larger companies have
put in new agencies. bringing some
perfectly nice new people to town. L
see that the J. c. McClintocks are
dril
Mrs. Guilford Dudley is out in hand
some mahogany colored roadster.
Gazing at such evidences of comfort
is what makes us cross-eyed when
foot-pathway.
I heard some stork news yesterday
that l ache to tell. They say that a
little boy of the College hill neighbor
hood, who is now somewhat less than
a year old. is to have new playmate
in his family along about the middle
of the summer time ahead.
Some interesting engagement news
is more than whispered in fashionable
circles. The woman is widow from
the east, who has a young son. She is
so pretty and tiny and young looking.
one hardly believes her statement that
she is the mother of the child. The
doomed man is a Topeka chap~who
has been living in the east for some
years. where he met the girl. and who
I am told by one of our Topeka
matrons who has friends in Kansas
City. that the people of that town
consider their own smart set. tame
compared to the corresponding crowd
in Topeka. They say down there that
our gay ones are far more reckless
than theirs; that Chicago is a Puritan
town; Kay See a countrified burg, but
Topeka, if you please, is the petite
flirt. The next thing we know our
village fashiona bles will be compared
with the historic London clique who
wore the green carna ton as an en-
blen of an exquisite life of SIM the
green blending with the absinthe in
which they lived. Part of the gospel
of these effete loungers was that moth
ing wholesome agreed with them I'M
less taken at the wrong time. They
retired as the milkn1an, went on his
rounds and rose when the night
Waterman came on duty. Are our
smart people hanging the night with
scarlet embroideries like that, do you
think? If that is so. 1 suppose we
shall all forget our consuming de-
sire to get down to Kansas City every
few weeks. SO can stay by the
scenes of genuine wickedness Such.
at least, is the depravity of the heart
of AGATHA
Cards have been received in To-
peka from Mrs. Henry Lee Gilbert of
Philadelphia, Pa. announcing the
marriage of her daughter. Sylvia Ma
kin. to Mr.. Samuel Reed Hutton. Tues