The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-31

Mr. and Mrs. John NJ. Brunt
Mr. and Mrs. jay Close
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Southwick
Miss Edna Herbst
Miss Susan Southwiek
Mr.. Bert Thompson
Mr. Harry SOuthwick
Mr. BILLY" Snyder
Mrs. George MeDermott has invited
guests for a bridge luncheon which
she will give Wednesday at her home.
223 Woodlawn. There will be four
tables.
More than seventy-five men. men,
hers of the University club. were
guests at the smoker and party given
Friday evening at the club rooms. Re
freshments We're served.
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Mrs. Frank C. Lagerstrom will en-
tertain the members of the Topeka
Avenue Bridge-Luncheon club, Friday
at her home.
The Vanity Fair Bridge-Luncheon
/ club will be entertained on Tuesday
with Mrs. Charles Elliott as hostess.
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| Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. Beerbohm will
give a family dinner on New Years
Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. Beerbohm
1 Mr.. and Mrs II. W. Seery
| Miss Irene Seery
| Mr.. XenephOn Smith
| Mr.. Lawrence Seery
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Galloway, 1850
| Mulvane street. will entertain this
| evening at their home with a O'Clock
! buffet supper followed by bridge.
The guests will be the members Of
Mr. and Mrs. Ga1loway's evening
/ bridge club. There will be five tables.
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| Mr.. Ralph Kirschner, from Hutch
| inson, viii be a guest singer at the
| First Unitarian church, ga Topeka
boulevard, at IL o'clock tomorrow
morning, singing the baritone solo
1.-THE Call of the Wilderness (Scott)
| Mrs. Rose Gilberg- Nutter will sing
/ Lord God Omnipotent,7 to the music
| of "Panis Angelicum" Caesar Franck.)
Miss Lena Anderson will play as a
violin offertory THE Swan" Saint
! Saens.) Miss Bernice Hemus will be
| organist.
Topeka, Kan. Dec. 81, 1921.
| Dear Elizabeth: We heard the fun
niest story this week about a man in
our town and how he proposed, or
rather how his friends proposed for
him. But to begin at the first of the
story. 1t seems that the man had
| been trying to persuade the girl to
marry him for several months. Fin
ally he had gained her consent but
I not OF the parents. SO daughter MAD
gone home from Topeka where she
had been going to school and was try
/ ing to be patient until she arrived al
the age set by her father and mother
as. the time when she might be mar
ried. One night, a week ago, the To
peka man dropped in at a cigar store
| on the avenue and was complaining
| bitterly of his fate to his fellow smok-
ers when do you want to be mar
ried." asked one of the friends. to
right?"
"Sure." said he of the desolate heart
/ ''but how?" "Oh, that's easy" replied
two of his pals, and they proceeded Il
grab the Topeka man by the arm
showed him into their car outside anC
started to the town where the CIR
lived. During the drive the Topeka
man. being a literary sort of person
wrote out and memorized the speech
which he intended to deliver to th'
girl.
when the three men arrived at thu
town, they found the girl outdoors a
her home and they proceeded to pusl
the Topeka man out of the car ant
toward the girl and they remained il
the background TO watch the outcome
After watching their friend struggle
along for several minutes, trying Il
remember the memorized speech ant
failing utterly. they took a hand ant
between the three men the girl wa
persuaded 20 change her mind ant
come back with them and get married
She first told her parents that she wa
7 coming to Topeka for the night
packed her bag and away the four