The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-12
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The Alpha Phi sorority held militia
ton this afternoon at the house for
Miss Helen Thomas, Miss Margaret
Ripley, Miss Margaret Morns. Miss
Mildred Hope, Miss Berniece Dear
dorf, Miss jeanette Dooley, Miss Iva
Raines. Miss Ruth Lemon and Mrs.
VIII Mcbride.
evening at Pelletier's tea room: The
table will be decorated with a basket
of red roses and gilt leaves.
In addition to the guests of honor.
the newly initiated members, covers
will be laid for: Miss Orpha Baugh-
man, Miss Lucille Heym. Miss Marian
Moore. Miss Georgia Neese. Miss Char
lotte Myers, Miss Marie Moore, Miss
Margaret Tillotson, Miss Ruth
Hawkes., Miss Ruth Marsh, Miss Mar
garet Clark. Miss Florence Rowles.
Miss Mabel Howard, Miss Lois Robin
cite, Miss Miriam Van Horn. Miss
Muriel Lyman, Miss Gwenn Shake
shaft. Miss Ruth Tomlinson. Miss
Frances Olander Miss Ruth Graham,
Miss Kathryn Albaugh, Miss EtheI
Frtzell. Miss Annette Nicoll. Mrs
Frank Ripley. Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Ward
Keller and Miss Forestine Blank.
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Mrs. Forest Rice will entertain her
sewing club next Wednesday after
noon at her home in the Devon.
Mrs. Arthur j. Carruth, Jr.. enter
tanned at a thimble party this after
noon at her home in Mulvane street
complimentary to her-sister, Mrs. John
T. Boyle. of Jeffersonville, Ind. Mrs.
Boyle and husband, Lieutenant Boyle,
will sail April for Manila. P. l.,
where they will make their home.
The guests included former WASH
burn friends who are alumnae of
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, and
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Mrs. Cyrus Monroe, Mrs. David Neis-
wanger, Mrs. Louis Hall. Mrs. Arthur
Buff Mrs. Jesse Seaton, Mrs. J.
Arthur Myers, Mrs. Dwight Ream,
Mrs. Kenneth Lewis. Miss Mary Par
kinson and Miss Mary Van Vechten.
Mrs. Hugh Smith and Mrs ]. Arthur
Myers will entertain the members of
their Sewing club and their husbands
with dinner followed by bridge this
evening. at Mrs. Myers's home in
Jewell avenue.
The tables will be adorned with VAL
entine decorations. Mr.. and Mrs.
David Neiswanger will be guests of
the club. Dinner will be served at
quartet tables and places will be laid
for sixteen guests.
A tea will b. given by the member
ship committee of the Young Women's
Christian Association, to all members
of the association and the wives OF
the senators, legislators and state Of
ficials. Thursday afternoon, February
II. from three until six o'clock, at the
building.
The main building of the Y. w. c. A.
at Seventh and Van Buren, streets is
busy bee hive every day of the week.
1t is a restful place to the business
girl, stop-in place for the high school
girl, an ideal place for committee,
club and civic meetings and a popular
place for the athletic girl or the busy
Inatron who seeks diversion in the big
gymna sum. There is q private din
ing room where luncheonS may be
given, a reading room with well filled
book shelves and late periodicals, and
q comfortable parlor where friends
may meet and visit and young girls
receive their callers. A limited num-
Der of sleeping rooms are always filled
and a waiting list in line. corps of
trained secretaries are at the desk
tready to serve the public in any pos
sible way.
The wives of the representatives
and the senator's wives were compn-
mented this afternoon at a tea given
for them by Mrs. Matt Weightman,
.Jr., and Mrs. G. H. Searle at the home
of tho former in Fillmore street.
The guests were greeted by: Mrs.
Searle, Mrs. Weightman, Mrs. Allen.
Mrs. GEORGE W. martin anu MTS.
Charles Huffman. The wives of the
Justices and few other friends assist
ed thru the rooms, including: Mrs.
M A. Low, Mrs. j.. c. McClintock, Mrs.
Henry f. Mason, Mrs. r. Burch, Mrs.
II. y. West, Mrs. w. A. Johnston, Mrs
Silas Porter. Mrs. John Marshall ana
Mrs. John Dawson.
Valentine color scheme of red and
white was used thru the rooms. Red
tulips adorned the dining table and
We're used thruOut the rooms. Mrs.
Noble Prentis poured and was assist
ed by Mrs. n. B. Burge. Mrs. o. L.
Moore and Miss Genevieve Funk A
number of the younger girls assisted
in the dining room, including: Miss
Theo Thompson. Miss Beatrice Gilbert
of Chicago, Miss Elizabeth Purdy,
Miss Marian Reid, Miss Berniece He
mus and Miss Ann Weightman.
over g. hundred women called dur
iES the afternoon.
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Mrs. Homer Foltz's team of the Wo-
IT ans club will give Colonial dance
"Wednesday evening. February 16, at
IIellam Hall. Special music will be
furnished and refreshments will be