The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10

"Doogan," the gentleman crook of the
tplay. 1t is a crook play written by
Carlyle Moore, and has many humor-
Gus situations. Miss Schoonover.
teacher of dramatic art of the high
school, is directing the play.
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The Ceramic art exhibit which
| closes tonight at the What-Not Shop,
is one of the prettiest and most inter
esting ever held by the club, tho it is
not so large as on previous occasions
One set which attracts immediate at
tention is the tea wagon set painted
by Mrs. c. o. Knowles. in enamels, the
design being an intricate one of for
get-me- nots and conventionalized wild
roses. Mrs. Knowles also has tatting
bedspread of an original design, for
the use of which design the Priscilla
magazine paid her $40.
Mrs. w. p. Bishop has a lovely tea
set in the collection, and Mrs. G. Q.
Boone chocolate set worthy of spe-
cial mention. 1t is a conventional de-
sign in cherry red on a pearl gray
background.
Mrs NJ. NJ. Blinn has a breakfast
set, and Mrs w. H. Davis a dresser
set. Miss Winifred Hartley has pow
der box done in the enamels, and Miss
Gussie Fuller several lovely pitchers of
assorted sizes.
Mrs. J. K. Jones has a chocolate
pot in conventional design that is
| pleasing, and a Satsuma powder box.
Mrs. r. B. Hickox has a teapot and
Miss Marie Mayhem an enameled tray
| that is exquisitely done.
| Mrs w. C. McDonough has pretty
| bon-bon dish. and Miss Ethel Warner
| has a chocolate set with a convention
al design in lavender and green on a
cream ground, that is very effectively
worked out.
A dainty nut set in conventional de-
/ sign and a vase were contributed by
Mrs. T. S. Stevens, who is president of
J the club.
| Mrs. Katherine Lindsay Perkins has
a new salad bowl in the delicate laven-
der tints on a cream background, and
Miss Marie Witwer has some exqui-
site hand-painted glassware.
! Hot maple syrup served with slabs
of ice was the fitting climax to the
'sugaring Off party given last night
| by the Vermont association of Kansas
! at the Central Congregational church.
The dinner which preceded the maple
sugar dessert was a typical New Eng
\ land meal and included chicken pie
and crullers, and hot biscuits and
maple syrup, and cheese and apple pie
and doughnuts and more maple syrup.
| Burberry sprays, jack-in-the- pulpits,
and cakes of maple sugar were unique
| table decorations. Lieut.. Col. Frank
Travis was the speaker of the eve
| ming.
The Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon was
elected president for the coming year,
Mrs. Frank Thompson is the new vice
| president, and Mrs. Tom Brown will
act as secretary and treasurer.
! Those seated at the tables were Mr..
| r. L. Cofran, the Rev. Charles NJ.
| Sheldon, Miss Charlotte Leayitt. Mrs.
w. F. Leavitt, Colonel and Mrs. Travis,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank c. Thompson, DR..
$. NJ. Pratt. Judge and Mrs George
! Whitcomb. Mrs. Belle Wilder Hillyer,
| Justin Hillyer, Miss Harriet Booth,
Miss Clara Hoyt, Mrs. C. c. Bishop,
Mrs. Maude C. Lutz, Mrs. Rebecca
| Mooney. Mr.. and Mrs. L. D. White
more, Edwin A. Austin, A. B. Whiting,
Mrs. Katherine Hand, Mr.. and Mrs
Arthur Shakeshaft. Mr.. and Mrs. Tom
| Brown, J. H. Brinsmaid, Carolyn
| Brinsmaid, D. L. McEachron. D. E.
| Scott, Nellie Shepard Waynick, Mrs
| Daphne Shepard. Mrs. Arthur L.
! Adams, Robert G. Gill. Mrs n. ].