The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-15

Myrtle Radcliffe, including two selec-
/ tionS, Cacoucha Caprice by Raft and
Kamennoi Ostroy by Rubinstein, on
the piano by Miss Radcliffe, and Miss
! Helen Phipps will play on the violin:
Andantino by Kreisler. Indian Lament
/ by Kreisler. Cbanson Louis XIII by
Kreisler and zigeunerweisen by
Sarasate.
! Mrs Alonzo Thomas will make a
report of the Y W. c. A. conference
( which she attended in Denver.
| Announcement is made i'll a Louis
vile paper of the marriage of Miss
Aieen Bower of that city and Mr..
Robert Allan Maxwell, of Topeka, on
/ Thursday. October 30, at the home of
the brides parents.
The wedding took place in the eve
ming, before the members of the fam
/ lily. The bride wore gown of white
crepe meteor and georgette embroi-
dered in pearls. She wore a tulle veil
held in place with orange blossoms
and carried a shower bouquet of white
! roses and boulvardia. Her brides
maids wore gowns in delicate shades
of pink and blue. Mr.. and Mrs. Max
well left Louisville for Topeka soon
after the ceremony. They are living
at 1927 Western avenue.
Mr.. Maxwell is the son of Mrs. Will
liam A. Maxwell and has lived in To I
peka a number OF years. He is 4
ing the war he W. lieutenant in the
5th infantry. He is now associated In
business with his brother. Mr.. w. II.
Maxwell, in the automobile business
here. -
Mrs. Maxwell is a graduate of tAe
University of Louisville and of the
Louisville Normal school She was la
member of the Isaac Shelby faculty In
that same city and was tie instruct4 4r
in the city Fairgrounds. She is a moft
attractive southern girl of the brd-
nette type of beauty
An interesting girl who will visit in
Topeka next week is Miss kathleen
Dewey, of Chicago. who will visit her
aunt, Mrs. Phil Eastman, She has
Mrs. George Shultz, since the Julian
Eltinge company, of which she was
member. visited that city. Miss
Dewey was in the show when it was
here. but owing to her youth her
family was unwilling for her to make
the long tSlr with the company. She
does dancing and singing ! tn in her
act, but dancing is her specially. Be-
fore joining the company she danced
in one of the important hotels in Chi
cago- She will come to Topeka Mon
Gay.
:. >. :.
Miss Choming Tsai. a native Chi
nese woman, who has studied in
China. Japan, and the United States,
and is one of the official speakers for
the National Y. VIC. AS, viii be in
Topeka Monday evening, November
II, and will speak in the assembly hall
at the y. w c. A. at O'clock The
women of Topeka are invited to come
and hear Miss Tsai tell of her people
and of the settlement work which she
is planning to open in China upon her.
return in the spring. Miss Tsai should
especially appeal to American girls as
she worked her way thru college and
obtained masters degree in this
country.
AS straws show the direction OF the
wind. so hose show the way to the
zephyrs of fashion. If any one had
said, Girls, let US wear nice warm
sensible woOlen stockings" say, three
years ago. some one would have
laughed Today the best dressed feet
on the avenue are snug inside nice
comfy woOlen hose. Three years ago
was when the necks were\ the lowest
and openeststo the wind, the skirts the
fullest, or narrowest. low shoes in cold
winter the smartest.
But to go back to the old days. ten
or twenty years ago when women had
fewer and less costly clothes-When
one silk dress was all most wardrobes
boasted. there were many women of
the best families" who did not even
IAHO" lic 4eSI VI Sllh SlOchIHSS- MANY
n woman has taken her first silken
step in daughters darned glory. Those
were the frugal days when silk lingerie
was told of in New York papers and
working girls did not have furs fit for
a queen.
Then came a sudden realization
that even common folks could have
the things that make any woman glad
she is alive and willing to sacrifice
her freedom and vote and privilege to
smoke cigars if she wanted to for the
privilege of being a woman and having
the pleasure of clothes. The feel of a
soft. warm, silk lined. fur collared