The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-22

sister. Miss Eva Miller, who is at home
nom National Park seminary, Wash
inston, D. c.. to spend the holidays.
VIII be maid of honor; Mrs. Win ].
Miller will be matron OF honor. and
MISS Mary Paxton, Miss Georgia Neese.
Mason will be bridesmaids.
4 tomorrow evening Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph O'Neii, the Delodes. will enter
tam with small informal dinner at
o:3O O'Clock for Miss Miller and Mr..
hnne, concluding the affairs to be
Imas.
The first after Christmas event in
nonor or Miss Miller will be a tea to
De given by Miss Mary Burnett on Fri
day afternoon. December 26. Satur-
Gay evening. December 27, DR.. Milton
I,o,1a.. D Ia.iie, mas asked guests to dinner at
ieiietier's Tea Room, honoring Miss
Miller and Mr.. Kline. Guests will be
members of the bridal party. Follow
ing the dinner. a dance at the EIks
club IN compliment to Miss Miller and
mr. Kline Will be given by Miss Mary
Burnett, Miss Alice Lyman, Miss Ruth
| Wood, Miss Ethel Chase and Miss
Edith ConneI.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Kline parents
OF the bridegroom-to-b win enter
tam at dinner on Monday evening of
| next week at their home in Buchanan
street, following the afternoon tea TO
De given on that day in compliment
TO Miss Miller by Miss Helen Lucas at
ner nome in Fillmore street Guests
at the dinner party will be only mem
bers OF the bridal party.
Tuesday evening of next week Mr..
and Mrs. WIN ]. Miller will entertain
| at dinner for Miss Miller and her
| rance. Wednesday evening, New
Years eve, Miss Mary Paxton will
nave an informal house dance in their
| me Shining child eyes proving the
| great COY the "Inasmuch Tree" had
| brought to 125 little guests of honor
| at the Christmas party at the Y. w.
c. A. Saturday afternoon, more than
compensated the Y. w. girls who had
labored SO faithfully to make their
| first party of this kind a success. 1t
was SO thoroiy successful that the
Inasmuch Tree" will be an annual
event at the Y. W. C. A.
Bobbing heads and dancing feet Of
the children made it difficult to ar
range them in orderly fashion for the
joyful procession to the assembly
room of the association building,
where the "beyew-tifuF' Christmas
tree was awaiting them. Each was
registered, and given a gray cretonne
bag to hold the gifts which were to
be theirs. By common consent a lit
tie lame boy was allowed to head the
troop have never seen happier
children in life," one of those in
charge exclaimed.
Each one chose one particular gift
from the selection about the gorgeous
tree. In addition to that there was
package for each child. labeled with |
ms name, containing toys, books or
games Each little girl received a
doll, each boy a book, every child a |
box of candy and pair of mittens.
warm cap If he needed it, and a hand |
kerchief. There was a bright new
hair ribbon for each little girl. Trains
or cars, drums and games of all kinds |
taxed the floor capacity of the room |
Not only one dish of pink ice |
cream, but as much as everyone |
wanted was closing feature of this |
gaia occasion, as we'll as the biggest |
oranges that the market could supply
s: = y.
Announcement has been made of the |
marriage of Miss Ruth Aller, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Smith, 1916
Euclid avenue, to Mr.. Brian Muirhead
or oberlin, Kan. The ceremony took
place Friday. Decembe 10, at four
O'Clock at the home of the brides par
ents. Those present included onlyi
relatives of the bride and the BRIDE
groom's mother, Mrs. David Muirhead.
Rev. Edmund j. Kulp read the service
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Muirhead were
graduated from Washburn college and
have many friends in Topeka Mr..
Muirhead is a member of the faculty +
of the Oberlin High School, having be-
gun his teaching after his return from
army aviation service last, fall. After
brief wedding trip Mr. and Mrs.
Muirhead will make their home in
Oberlin. I
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The local chapter of The Association
Of Collegiate Aiumnae will present a
Durlesqee. play. The Lamentable
Tragedy Of Julius. Caesar under the
direction of Mrs. Will j. Miller, some
time in January, according TO. plans
at the monthly banquet of l.
he. association Saturday at Pelleder's
Tea Room.
Miss Bertha Hampstead, for many
years society editor and special writer
FOR The State Journal, left today for
N: M, where she will
spend the winter. Miss Hampstead
'eturned to Topeka a few weeks ago
seriously ill as a result of the hard
ships she endured representing the Y.
VI. c. A. in Bohemia. Previous to that
ime she was with the Y. NJ. C. A.
headquarters in Paris. In Bohemia
the suffered cold and hunger for many
n a serious condition. She will re-
main in New Mexico indefinitely.
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Margaret Hill McCarter widely
InoWn Iopeka author, mas written the
clever Christmas card to a
riend:
With BoIshevists rampant and dreary coal
shortage:
rhe Japs making trouble in each Orient
port;
20 sugar for sweet ming; the high cost of
living;
he Mexicans smashing up Yankees for
sport:
he strikers a:-striking; the railroads all
scrambled:
The old League of Nations run on a flat
tire:
'rop failures. herds dwindled, and lesser
dis3 sterS. |
ornado and drouth. zero weather and fire.
Veil, in spite of all these-I am wishing
you here
inlIr old f-hris4mas-n rrnrth while Neu