The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-19

BYNhrRANNtL1I JAMS ARRElL)

i : Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hayden en-
: tertained a fe friends charmingly at
~ buffet supper Sunday evening, COM
lplimentary to Mr.. and Mrs. Jay L.
! House, who leave soon for perma-
nent residence in Philadelphia.
4 The rooms were decorated with
Quantities of garden flowers and the
pats were said to be the best ever.
Mrs. Charles Mitchell poured the cot
Zee, and the guests ate either in the
Filming room or breakfast room as
suited them.
X Those present were Mr.. and Mrs.
House, MIR and Mrs. j. c. Mohler.
MIR. and Mrs. Robert Shoemaker. Mr.
and Mrs. W. ]. Curtis, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Gault. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
,COsgrove, Mr. and Mrs George Hay
den, and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mitch
: Miss Bailey and Miss Ella Bailey of
iS11 West street, and their sister. Mrs.
Thomas Carlyle Wood of Chicago,
who is their guest, will entertain Fri
day afternoon at their home in honor
of Miss Daisy Neil, whose marriage
70 Mr. Tinkham Veale will be an
event of early summer.
y = y
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Federation of Art held in Topeka Sat
urday afternoon and evening was one
of the most successful and enthusi-
astic meetings since the organization
of the federation four years ago. AS,
owing to the war, there was no an
nual meeting last year, this was the
third yearly meeting held by the fed
Grafton.
The afternoon session was held at
the Topeka Art Guild rooms, ia
West Eighth street at 3 o'clock. 1t
was almost exclusively a business ses-
sion. The affairs of the federation
are administered by a board of twelve
If
these directors expire every year. The
directors elected this year were Lyle
Brewer, Pittsburg; J. f.. Pinney. Hia-
watha: John f. Jenkins. Wichita, and
Carl P. Bolmar, Topeka. With the
exception of Mr.. Pinney, all of these
persons were merely reelected. AS
there was a vacancy among the num-
Der of directors whose terms expire
next year, caused by the decease of
Scott Hopkins, Miss Marian Peers of
Topeka was elected to fill the va
cancy. Miss Mary Jenny of Salina
was also elected to act as a director
during the absence from the state of
WA. Griffith of Lawrence.
Plans we're discussed at this session
for stimulating a more general inter
est in art thruout the state. particu-
larly in the smaller centers and IT
. was proposed that a competent per-
son be employed by the Federation to
travel about Kansas. explaining the
aims and objects of the Kansas Fed
GRAFTON of Art, and helping to organ
ize chapters in numerous localities.
f1At O'Clock the session was adj
journed and the company accepted
the invitation of Mrs. II. p. Dillon to
visit her home to inspect the many
fine paintings and art objects con-
tanned therein. In the Dillon colIec-
ton are several exceptionally fine
copies of Raphael, Carlo Dolci and
other old masters, as well as many
fine portraits in oil and pastel of
members of the Dillon family, past
and present. There are also several
handsome tapestries. and much genu-
ipe antique furniture of different pc
Rods. Among the last. a beautiful
French bedstead of the First Empire
and bishops throne of Florentine
design made in the late sixteenth or
early seventeenth century.
The evening session consisted of a
dinner at Pelletier's tea room at