The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-11
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BY FRANCES JONES.

| Mrs. Tom King will entertain her
bridge club with a luncheon Wednes-
day at her home in the Delmar.
The members of the Leonardo club
will motor to Camp Daylesford this
evening for a picnic. There will be
twenty in the party.
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Mrs Mary Gohlke will give s
! o'clock dinner this evening at her
home in West Eighth avenue for her
daughter Marguerite, whose marriage
to Mr.. Nathan McGrew of Holton will
! take place this month.
: There will be places for: Miss
Gohlke, Mrs. Earl Taylor, Mrs. L. L.
King. Miss Media Howell, Miss Lola
| Curry, Miss Bess CASTOR, Miss Ger
trude Wheeler, Miss Myrtle Gohlke
and Mrs. Gohlke.
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| Miss Mildred Swearingen of Kansas
! City, Kan, who is visiting Miss Olga
Hancock, was the guest of honor at a
picnic given Sunday evening at Gage
park. There were ten guests.
A number of other affairs are being
planned in her X honor :.
Pet dogs. it's no longer the breed
or beauty of the pet dog that deter
mines the purchase. The mania for
, harmony in costume color has at last
reached the detail of the pets one
:
! thorobred dogs discovered the new
fad the other day, when he showed a
girl the very best Pekingese dogs he
had but they didn't suit her He ex-
tolled their dispositions. the shape of
their heads. their intelligence. but she
| just wandered discontentedly around
| looking for something else. Suddenly
she picked up one that wasn't nearly
as good. and ran to a mirror with it
There she held it carefully up to her
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exclaimed, and took it. They're all
| getting animals that match their own
/ hair.
/ In England society sensation seek
erS are replacing the familiar LAP
dogs with python pets. Alligators,
domestic cat from the hearth rug.
Harmless reptilian mascots are the
| latest fashion fad and "milady of
Mayfair" is swinging thru Hyde park
and Rotten Row with a pet snake
entwined around her waist.
Lounge lizards are found in the
most fashionable Mayfair drawing
rooms. Not the familiar lizard" of
the Broadway cabaret and the dan
SAINTS, but real reptiles that are even
more tame than the human species
| Water tortoises are great favorites
and are being stocked by leading West
End stores, who cater to the latest
whims of society.
Eric Carnage, director of the ia
nous A W. Ganmge stores, describes
tho latest fashion pets
There is no doubt that the keeping
Of harmless reptiles is becoming a
hobby with society women" he said
"ChameleonS are immensely popular
They are carried by ladies' in or on
their blouses attached with a gold
chain and collar.
"A ten-foot boa, which we recently
sold to lady, has become so attached
to its owner that it twines round her
waist and arms in a most affectionate
manner, yet resents any one caress-
ing it.
I'm one case lady carries a snake
around her wrist. Another lady car
ries two snakes with her in a small
bag A titled customer carries a
green lizard in her pocket wherever
dances"
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Announcement has been made of
the marriage of Miss Florence Esther
Joss, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G. E.
Joss of Valencia, and Mr. Robert I.orin
Thomas Robertson of Lawrence, which
took place Saturday, July Q at the
First Methodist church in Manhattan
Mr. and Mrs. Robertson both at
| tended Kansas State Agricultural COL
lege- Mr.. Robertson was graduate
from K. U. this spring They will make
tt;eii home in Lawrence.
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Mrs, George Anderson, a bride of
recent date, was the guest of honor
at miscellaneous shower given for
her Saturday evening by Miss Eleanor
Hines. 921 Lincoln street.
The guests included Mrs. Ander-
son, Mrs. Henry Stearns, Mrs George
| Anderson, Mrs. r. o. Miner. Miss
| Helen Scott. Miss Margaret Bell, Miss
Althea Wiede, Miss Thelma Johnston
Miss Eleanor Hines. Miss Irene How
ard, Miss Isabel Sutherin. Miss Sylvia
Silverthorne and Miss Merle Duggan.
The members of the Sigma Alpha
Iota sorority will have a meeting this
evening at the home of Miss Irene
Howard, 1919 Mulvane street.
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The members of the Rota club will
motor to the ranch of Mrs. Harry
Forbes. one of the members of the
club. Wednesday evening for picnic
supper.
Mr., John F. Bayless. of Auburn, an
nounces the engagement of his daugh-
tier. Gladys Lucille. to Mr. Kenneth
ICorbet, of Vale Fount Ranch. The
date of the wedding has not been an
Inounced.
Auburn high school Mr. Corbet was
student AZ Washburn college and is a
member of the Kappa Sigma fra
ternity. He is a son Of Mr.. J. D.
ICorbet.
An evening meeting of the woman's
Foreign Missionary society of the Low
man Memorial Methodist church will
> be held Tuesday at 8 O'Clock in the