The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-09

turned from a year in the service, in
Guiding several months in the school
Of aviation at Princeton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Weaver are spending
a few days in Kansas City after which
they will be at home to their friends
in Lawrence.
The wedding was a complete sur
prise Saturday to the friends and rel
atives Of the young people. The
mother of the bride, Mrs. L. B. De-
Hart. of Galena, was present for the
ceremony.
Mrs. Frank r. Millspaugh has re-
ceived two cablegrams within the past
few days stating that her son. Lieut..
Clarkson Millspaugh, who has been
been released and is returning to
France. Saturday Mrs. Millspaugh re-
| ceived a message sent by her son from
Berne. Switzerland, s.cting that he
was on his way to Paris. Sunday a
cable came from a nephew of Mrs.
| Millspaugh, Col. Edward Hambleton,
war intelligence officer with general
headquarters in Paris, in which he
said Lieutenant Millspaugh had been
released and was in hospital No. &c,
| awaiting orders to be transferred to
his organization.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Forrest L. Rice will
where they have been since their mar
riage three weeks ago. Lieutenant
Rice has been released from Camp
Beauregard where he was stationed.
| They will be with Mrs Rice's parents,
DR.. and Mrs. w. n. West, and Lieuten-
ant Rices parents, Mr.. and Mrs. s. J.
| Rice, for a sasf1ort time. They will
make thier home in Topeka.
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Mrs Leonard Wood, Of Fort Riley,
| is personally conducting a campaign
| to bring cheer to the sick soldiers of
Christmas time. Anyone desiring to
| help with this work may do SO by
| sending checks, fruit, tobacco or deli
cacies to Mrs. Leonard Wood, Fort
Riley, Kan. There are 1000 sick sol
diers at the base hospital and a large
per cent of them are from Kansas
| homes.
Mrs. A. C. Barten has returned from
| New York and Boston, where she has
| been since Maior Bartell sailed fol
| France last fall. She has been with
her sister e., Mrs. Forrest doyeland II
Loveland has Joined Lieutenant Love
land at Allentown. Pa. and Mrs. Bar.
| tell will remain with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Blood Smith unit
Major BarteU returns from Europe.
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There seems to be some question a:
to whether the styles which are tt
| prevail this winter and spring are
going to be set by American or French
| designers. Some contend that the
| struggle is over between the long ant
| short skirts and that the American de
| signer with the long narrow skirt il
the faKoFed7 one. Still Miss Margare
| Robe, writing from Paris, says tina
they are shorter than ever. Concern
ing the boots which are to accompan!
| these short skirts she says:
ITS really amazing how well shoe
| every Partisan woman is, whether
| she's comtesse or cash girl. They al
| wear the cute little round toed shor
vamp high boots or slippers that WI
call the stage last but that over here
now they have dubbed the Partisan
| last. Altho you see many fancy strap
ped slippers and Colonial styles will
| bright buckles the oxford is the rea
favorite. Aside from the suede models
it wrinkles in lustrous patent kid will
picked out perforations of white kit
trimming it around the instep anf
across the tip or else with stitching
| of white. When the white trimming