The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19

F. II. Gades and given at the H. B.
Howard home, Rose Acres" Friday
evening.
Those present were Mrs. Carpenter,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Nelson, Mr.. and
Mrs NJ. w. Watson, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G.
Vogt. Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Howard, Mr.
and Mrs. A. B. Matthews DIR. and Mrs
A. K. Owen, Mr.. and Mrs. Gades, Mrs
Ada L. Butler. Mrs. S. w. Here, Miss
Lucille Willoughby, Miss Verta Wiley,
Mr.. Virgil Lawrence, Mr.. Ed Sibel, of
Kansas City; Mr.. Howard Here and
Mr.. Hubert Howard.
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A reception was given Friday eve
ming by Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Guild
at their home in West Eleventh
street. honoring Mrs. Guilds parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. S. Herbert, who are
visiting here from New Orleans. About
a hundred guests called during the
evening.
A breakfast was given this morning
by Miss Eleanor Campbell at her home
! in Polk street for some Of the girls of
the high school set who will spend
1 the summer away from Topeka. There
were places for eleven guests.
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Topeka, Kan, June 10, 1920.
Dear Elizabeth: I'm SO glad you
! enjoyed my letter of last week about
| the engagements. 1t was lots of fun
! to pick them out, wasn't it? I don't
/ think anyone's feelings were hurt
either, but one girl, 1 fancy, started
to thinking about it and the very next
| day she called me up and told me 1
! could announce hers. That was the
| pianist 1 told you about. I found out
also that one of the girls had an
nounced hers early this year and the
wedding was to take place in Sep
TENDER. 1 surely hope she doesn't get
married before I come home from my
vacation.
Did you ever in your life see the
! school teachers disappear as thew
have this week? Honestly 1 think
Topeka and Kansas are going to be
| short several very good teachers next
| rail-. L stopped to count them up on
my fingers and there were four mar
ried this week. There's another one
! who taught last year at Washburn.
She is to take the fatal step this fall,
/ 1 understand
Talking about getting married,
how would you like to get married
and go with your husband to a strange
| country to live and run into a plague
| or something and have to have all
your pretty clothes. trousseau gifts
and everything fumigated? Wouldn't
that be perfectly dreadful? I'd GER
tainly hate to see my best silk dress,
my new crepe-de- chimes and even my
J nail HSlS pdWSQ over Dy some OII1CeT
| and fumigated with horried smelly
stuff. Well, according to the Associ-
| ated Press bulletin that's what is
| liable to happen to one of our brides
of this week. 1 didn't tell you either,
| Eliza beth, how pretty she looked. Just
! as the clock struck half past eight,
only it didn't strike, not being the
striking kind, she and the bridegroom
! came down the stairs and walked be-
tween ropes of daisies held by her
sorority sisters to the place where the
! service was to be read. She had on a
! long white veil and It was thrown
| back from her face. And I didn't tell
! you about the pearls. You know how
| often you and have wished We could
| have a string of even imitation pearls =?
| Well this bride fell heir to the family
| ancestral Jewels on her wedding day
and now she has a string of pearls
| centuries old.
| Talking about school teachers
| marrying this week. It almost makes
me wish that instead of writing up
society and instead of your doing Y.
| w. work that we had gone on with
our original plans and been school
''marms." Well anyway. I'll know
| how to write up my own wedding.
And one thing I'll do, If ever I get
married and that is, If 1 don't want
anything said about the wedding, I'll
ask the S. r. nicely not to use it, be-
cause if 1 fibbed to her or instructed
everyone to keep still, she'd probably
find out about it anyway and use it
and get it all wrong. Once this week,
| Elizabeth, had the worst time. The
| bride who was to be married wouldn t
/ talk to me. her mother wouldn't talk
to me, her grandmother wouldn't
talk to me. the bridegroom siser-
| in-1aw wouldn't breathe a word, and
his own sister wouldn't say thing
and I couldn't locate the bridegroom.
| But I located the pastor and from
that I started.
I can't figure out why they don't
want to tell about their wedding plans
Maybe it's the same reason one of the
confirmed bachelors in one of our
banks gave the other day. He said
that the girl was afraid that the mar
wouldn't show up at the hour set and
that the man was afraid that the CIR
would run off with some other char
and so they didn't tell it for fear some
one would talk if they didn't have the
wedding. He said he had proposed t.
twelve girls already since the 18th OF
| February and that f one did so far
forget herself as to say yes, he was
going right out and buy regular ad-
Vertising at so much an inch, use lots
of white space and was going to an
nounce to the world that he had hel
promise to marry him. I don't know
but he's wise. for a girl did live here
| once who went around with a boy fol
five or six years. He went away tc
work and she changed her mind and
was married very quietly and quickly
to another chap so the man she was
engaged to wouldn't hear of it till ii
was all over. I never did hear how
they got along, tho.
One thing 1 forgot to say last time
and I'll let you guess who he is. He
is engaged to Z girl living in Ohio and
| is going back for her this fall. He was
in the Great Lakes band and met her
one day as she was walking along with
a bunch of girls. He says it was love
| at first sight and she-well I must