The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-01
Topeka DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, JAM

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Bliss Hill, Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Scard,
Mrs. Olive Malotte and Mr.. Clint Will
cox We're another group having dinner
together.
! Announcement is made of the en-
gagement of Miss Hazel Audrey Jones,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John F.
| Jones, 6O7 Buchanan street, and Mr..
| Louis r. Smith. The wedding will
take place early in February.
Both Miss Jones and Mr.. Smith are
Washburn graduates. Miss Jones is
a member of the Delta Gamma soror-
| ity, and Mr.. Smith is an Alpha Delta.
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| 1t is being whispered around that
| the Iowly game of craps" is making
its way into some of the best" of
our families and that a few of our
maids and matrons have little secret
sessions at rolling the bones" Maybe
SO. Anyway, the jewelers. are selling
f., little silver cases containing two dice
for craps or five for poker. Some of
the dice are plain tiny silver things
and Others are more deliberately made.
Someone wonders if the war is re-
sponsible for the game and someone
| else says that it is. When the ex-
service men came home from over
! seas they brought the ha bit with them
and taught it to their sisters, and to
someone else's sisters also, for at sew
eral parties a social hour or two has
| been whiled away to the tune of snap
| ping fingers as the bones are rolled"
Some of the girls shoot for theater
! tick cts, others for candy and others
! for pin money, tho it all depends on
what ones ideas are concerning pin
money.
| Not long ago a hostess entertained
| at a party and before the guests ar
| rived she had a talk with her little
coIored maid who had not been with
| her long. Wishing to warn her agalnst
| being shocked if anything unusual
happened, she asked the little mald
if the colored girls she knew either
| smoked or shot craps. mo m,' re-
sponded the little darby, rolling her
/ ewes. "Well, don't be surprised, re-
| marked the hostess, for if You have
never seen it before you probably Will
tonight"
The old. old, and exceedingly pleas
ant custom of holding open house on
New Years Day for friends has been
slowly dying out for the past twenty
wears In the society collins of twenty
years ago one reads of but a Few Oh
these open house affairs as compared
with the tw enty-five year ago ines.
Then nearly all the families in town
arranged for an open house on New
Years day, finishing in the evening
with a card party or dance. Several
girls of one set, or several OF the young
matrons CT another set, or number
of families arranged their New Years
! lat homes togeth n.
One of the reasons given today for
the passing out of this custom here
| is the apartment house, another is the
Ella borateness or the refreshments If
| one keeps up the standards of the day.
| One Topeka hostess remarked the
other day that where punch and
waters, or cakes, sufficed twenty years
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wiches and numerous other things too
numerous to think Of
| 'They don't have good times now,
| these young folks, like we did, rem1-
nisced one of Topeka's bachelors,
whose name was seldom absent from
a party list. Why. we called all after
noon and came home so tired along
about five o'clock that we could hard
| ly Wiggle. We would all flop down
| somewhere at home, have a short nap,
eat a bite of lunch and start in at it
again, calling all evening. Then after
we had finished along about nine or
ten o clock we would all pile into our
hack, which had been carrying us
| about all day, go to one of the girls
in the party's home, open up a cold
one or two and finish the day with a
supper and a Jolly good time. Now
II s hard work to get even a, trace of
one cold one, the old hacks are gone
you couldn't have half the fun and
enjoyment in making the calls in an
automobile, and all the old girls of the
crowd are scattered. Yes, those were
the days."
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Mrs. j. r.. Madison entertained the
members of the Western Sorosis club
at a luncheon Wednesday at her home,
20 Eimwood avenue. Covers were
laid for twenty-five guests.
| A feature of the pntortair1rn
la Christmas tree introduced by the
club and which contained a shower
OF gifts for Mrs. H. W. Roby, one of
the charter members of the club. Mrs
to spend the winter. Mrs. w. A Nc
Carter. the only other charter mem
Der of the club now here, presented
Mrs Roby with a gift of roses. The
| Western Sorosis club is one of the old
clubs of the city, having been in ex-
istence about twenty-seven years.
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| Mrs. w. W. Strickland's team of
the Woman's club will give a dance
January at Kellam Hall. The dane
ing will begin at $50 O'Clock and con-
tinue until IL.
Members of the team who are in
charge OF the dance are: Mrs. F. w.
Thomas, Mrs. E. c. Fable, Mrs. E. L.
Copeland, Mrs. George Hoyes. Mrs. r.
G. Merrick. Mrs. T. F. Doran, Mrs. W.
Moore. Mrs. W. F. Wilkerson. Mrs. NJ
A. Floersch. Mrs. W. G. Dickie, Mrs
Antoinette Smith. Mrs. Roy Bone, Mrs.
Tinkham Veale and Mrs. Strickland
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The Bridge Luncheon club will meet
| Monday with Mrs. Arthur Mills as
/ hostess.
The Spalding Reading circle will
(, give their holiday dance next Wednes-
day evening. Jan. S, at Kellam hall
A committee in charge is Miss Mayme