The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05

ing at her home, 1916 Topeka boule-
ward. Those dancing included: Miss,
Esther Mary Snyder, Miss Ruth Pinet,
Miss Grace McAndrewS, Miss Virginia
Mcdonald. Miss Isabel Guthrie. Miss
Eleanor Dillon. Miss Beck. Mr.. Alfred
McCloskey. Mr.. Dana Killinger, Mr..
Bernard Peterson. Mr.. Harold Nc
Lawrence McCloskey.
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Mrs. Ralph O'Neil will be hostess
next Friday at her home in the De-
lodes TO the members of her Luncheon
Sewing club.
Mrs. Silas Porter entertained a party
of fourteen at the Grand, Friday after
noon to see Otis Skinner in 'Kismet"
The theater party was followed by tea
at the Chocolate shop.
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Mrs. w. E. Davis will be hostess to
the members of the Elwell Bridge
Luncheon club, Tuesday. with a one
o'clock luncheon at Hadden hall.
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Topeka, Kan..- Feb. 8. 1921.
Dear Elizabeth: One of Topeka's
young women of the smart set whom
we all know and at whose taste in
dress We all marvel, was standing at
the corner of Eighth and Kansas ave-
nues rather late one afternoon this
week Along came a Topeka woman
and her husband who passed by on
the way to their car. The wife nudged
friend husband, intending to call his
attention to the girl. When they had
passed and she had told him who the
young woman was what do you sup
pose that man said, why I thot that
was a nobody and 1 thot you were
calling my attention to the flashy
a r1d I-fio rrl or-tx- to
work stocking" Wei, it only shows
that environment has lots to do with
what others think of US.
1 suppose by this time, that every
one in New York is wearing their new
spring hats. All of the millinery
the big city tell us about the new
shades of pewter, platinum, and
tomato, which 1 hope you pronounce
tomawto, as it would never do to have
hat of the shade of a tomato, but
to have one the shade of tomawto
is perfectly all right. Then they tell
us that there are blues, all sorts of
them, AMI they are to be popular be-
cause Mrs. Harding has chosen to
wear so much blue. The buyers also
say that if you wear a sailor hat this
year with a straight brim you won't
be in style. 1t must have a rolled brim.
| it must be double and the crown must
| be crushed.
I didn't hear so very much gossip
this week. Elizabeth, that I can tell
you about, the kind I heard the most
of is the kind that Injuries with each
passing on. One thing L did hear
| tho is. that there is a family In our
/ town, who has given up their home
and gone to live in two rooms down.
town. No one could figure out what
! was the matter and why the change.
! till finally the wife in a burst of conf
dence told her best friend and of
course that was the beginning 1t
seems that the husbands mother
father. brothers, sisters, nieces and
nephews, and the wife's relatives. all
came and stayed for weeks with the
man and his wife until their grocery
bill looked like the average families
around Thanksgiving, so they just
gave up their house and are now liv-
! ing where not a relative can come to
just stay over night with themi You
remember the bachelor I told you
about who was all ready to get mar
ried and who thot he had everything
all arranged. even the date, well the
other day the girl to have been his
| bride changed her mind and is now
wearing some one else's ring. She
must have been waiting for a man to
come along who could afford two IL
censes. one marriage. the other auto
mobile. Anyway. the disappointed man
has sold home on College avenue
and furniture which he had acquired
and has left town. Isn't that sad.
That don't happen to be half as sad
tho as the funeral which the Kappa
Sigs had here the other day out at the
! fraternity house, for their dog Straps.
Straps was run over and Thursday all
day the Kappa Sig house had crepe on
the door. where inside lay the frater-
nifty pet in a flower covered coffin. I