The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-01

party initiation services will be held
for the following new pledges to this
forensic debating fraternity: Miss
Mary Marie Wentz, Miss Helen Jor-
censor, Miss Laura Rohrer, Miss Ma
bel Taylor. Miss Florence Meisner, Mr..
George McCaustland and Mr.. Edward
Binger. Miss feline Evans and Mr.
Martin Miller were pledged two years
ago.
Mrs. Schoenberger will be assisted
in entertaining by Miss Mabel Jones
and Miss Nathana Corbin.
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! Announcement of the engagement of
Miss Edith Curtis to Mr.. Gordon Nc
Comb was made at a party given by
Mrs. P. L. Berkey at her home, 40S
Buchanan street. The announcements
were given TO the guests by little
Altheda Berkey presenting the guests
with heart shaped cards bearing the
announcement. The wedding will take
Miss Airline Milan entertained in
formally at her home in honor of Miss
! Curtis last evening. The most init
mate friends of Miss Curtis were in
vited, and each brought some gift for
! the bride-to-be
| Miss Frieda Hammerli entertained
J last evening at her home in Lane street
at miscellaneous shower in honor of
Miss Helen Claypool, whose maria ge
to Mr. Leslie Hawley will occur tomor-
row at the home of the brides parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. G; claypool.
| Alumnae members of the Alpha Phi
sorority had luncheon together this
noon at the Pelletier tea room. Among
| those present were. Miss Helen Rain
bach of Chicago; Mrs. J. J. Palmer
of Washington. d. c.; Mrs. Hiram
Kingsley of Chicago; Mrs. william
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netha Berry of Ann Arbor, Mich;
Miss Emily Seery, Mrs. William Sny-
| der. Miss Ethel Chase, Miss Ethel
Frizell. Mrs. Glenn Logan. Miss Ruth
Graham. Miss Helen Bennett, Mrs.
Tinkham Veale. Miss Annetta Nicoll,
Miss Maude McVey Miss Pauline Nc
Vey. Miss Helen Neese, Miss Gwen
Shakeshaft. Mrs. Forest Rice, Miss
Kathryn Albaugh. Miss Helen Brig
ham, Miss Mildred Lewis Miss Nina
Nicholas, Mrs. Frank Ripley.
The men of the Kappa Sigma fra
| ternity will entertain at an informal
dancing party in the college gymna-
nished by the fraternity orchestra.
The chaperons will be Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar Bolton.
Miss Beryl Buckley, who will come
! to Topeka next Friday to read Booth
Tarkington's Mr.. Antonio" at the
high school auditorium, is a Kansas
| woman. Her home is in Paola, but
] nowadays she is seldom home, as she
is one of Redpath's best performers.
When Miss Buckley began working
on this play she found the question of
Italian dialect and accent a difficult
matter to solve. She wanted a real
teacher and finally found him in New
York City in the guise of a happy
| faced little cobbler who talked as Otis
Skinner does in this play. Miss Buck
ley went to her dialect lessons faith
| fully day after day until the old cob
bier pronounced her very good.
| The tickets to this entertainment t
are now on sale by members of Mrs.
r. NJ. Johnson's club house team.
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The music department of the Wo-
| mans club will have their meeting
next Thursday at IL o'clock. accord
| ing to an announcement by the chair
man of the department. The program
| for the hour will be furnished by Mrs.
| Fred Munson, Miss Helen Phipps, Mrs.
| Glen Beaver. Mrs. Monte kistler, Mrs.
Harry Pribble, Mrs. Roy Towne, Mrs.
| Charles Joslin. Mrs Harlowe Dean
and Mr.. Paul Lawless.
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The choir of the First Baptist
church will give the Bach-Gounod
Sunday evening at o'clock. They
will be assisted by Miss Helen Phipps,
violinist; Mrs F. A. Derby. harpist,
and Mr.. o. E. Hunt. cellist. Mrs
ARA Clark is the accoompanist
Mrs Ida Green entertained with a
| slumber party Wednesday night and
breakfast Thursday morning, in honor
of her daughter, Miss Cora Green, the
| occasion being her birthday. The
guests were: Miss Green. Miss Cora
Hepworth, Miss Anna Robinson, Miss
Opal Loveless. Miss Edna LAWRENCE.
Mrs. C. N. Mertz and Mrs. Ralph NJ.
Myers of Ontario, Cal.
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1t was May night when in Ireland
the fairies are abroad and strage sing
ing is heard in the moonlight and one
must guard against enchantment, and
in our country little children were
taking May baskets to the homes OF
their friends and playmates.
1 For two weeks she had been work
ing with sheets of colored paper and
little boxes making funny sticky lit
tie baskets which on the great oc-
casion would have in them little
candy and nuts and many blossoms
and would be taken to the door of the
| home of some friend or relative and
after ringing the bell would be left
for them to find. There was a won
derfuf array on the dining table:
Square boxes and long boxes, high and
low, and some were in the shape oil
| cOrnucOpldS. lneSe ldSL were III Hci
eve the most beautiful and were made
| for the favorite uncle and the best
friend The color combinations were
unusual many times but most effective
she thought, blue and pink, red and
white and some lavender and green.
Some were trimmed with ruffled pa
per, some with fringed paper; some
had on them little bows for decora-
ton and some plain bands of a con-
trasting color. But however it was,
they were now ready and she viewed
her handiwork and saw it was good
Just as soon as dark came she set out
upon the task of delivering them in
hopes that she would be home when
her own door bell began to ring. She
| took only a few baskets at a trip lest
some would be damaged. After each lit
tie journey she came rushing in breath
less thinking there would be a basket