The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-18

visitors. Mrs. R. T. Herrick. chairman
of the committe. Mrs. L. w. French,
Mrs. H. L. Alkire. Mrs. e. C. Hind
man. Mrs ]. B. Wheelan and Mrs
I H. L. Klopfer were the hostesses.
Baskets of yellow spring flowers
were used thru the halls and in the
parlor. Two vases of pink roses were
fast room where tea was served dur
ing the afternoon with Mrs. Noble
/ Prentis and Mrs. w. A. Jhnston pour
! ing.
| The marriage of Miss NADIA Hayes,
! daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Hayes,
of 1856 Washburn avenue, and Mr..
Lee Wykoff, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Wykoff. of Osborne. Kan,
took place Thursday afternoon at $3.50
o'clock at the home of the Rev. w. E.
Blackburn, pastor of Trinity Methodist
f. church.
Mr.. and Mrs Wykoff will make
their home with the brides parents.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Hayes. Mrs. Wykoff is
employed by the Santa Fe and Mr.
Wykoff, who is a sophomore at Wash
burn college, has been identified with
college athletics for some time. He
also is connected with the athletic de-
partment of the First Methodist
church.
Mrs. Charles s. Huffman, Mrs
Francis Price and Mrs. Harold Chase
will be the guests who will substitute
Saturday afternoon when Mrs. James
L. King entertainS the members of
the Monday Whist club at her home,
sos Topeka boulevard.
The Plus Ultra class of the Trinity
Methodist church, of which Mrs.
Harry Cozzman is teacher. was enter
tanned at a valentine party at the
l.,
121 Huntington avenue. Thursday eve
ming. Mrs. Buck, Mrs. R. N. Haddon,
Mrs. o. L. Reservoir and Mrs. J. E.
Sissel were hostesses. The house was
decorated in the colors of the season,
red and white.
The guests included: Mrs. Harry
Cozzman, Mrs. Walter Geiser, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. W. Whitman, Mr.. and Mrs. o.
B. Zarker. Mr.. and Mrs. R. D. Palmer,
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Gilkeson. Mr..
and Mrs. N. A. Fitch, Mr.. and Mrs.
K. L. Smith. Mr.. and Mrs. C. E.
Mrs. Sissel, Mr.. and Mrs. Buck, Mrs.
Reservoir and Mrs. Haddon.
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The Ladies' Glee club of Washburn
college, under the direction of Prof.
Harlowe Dean. will give a concert at
Auburn this evening with Miss Laura
Martha Leland as pianist. Miss Car
olyn Thorp, violinist, and Miss Mabel
Shirk, reader.
The Topeka Branch of the Associa-
ton of Collegiate Alumnae will have
luncheon Saturday noon at PeIletier's
tea room at IL o'clock Prof. T. w.
Butcher of the Kansas State Normal
will give the address of the afternoon.
All college women have been invited
to attend.
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The Girl Reserves of the Y. W. C.
A. will have charge of the vesper serv-
ices to be given Sunday afternoon at
AIS O'Clock at the Association build
ing. The girls will have entire charge
of the afternoon, furnishing both the
music and the program.
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The reformers are always trying to
reform something. High heeled shoes
are condemned by persons in all walks
OF life, high collars are said to make
our necks wrinkled, and yet when we
wear them low, someone says, shock
ing, we'll be catching cold next, doc
tors and artists have campaigned for
years against corsets and tight lacing,
wells, with a mere dot or SO in them,
just simply ruin" our eyesight and
short skirts-unspeakabl The re-
formers never seem weary of finding
something to reform and yet they do
not seem to get anywhere.
"A little while ago." says Dry Goods
Economist, everyone was declaiming
against the long skirt. 1t was a germ
.disseminator, a street sweeper they
said. The short skirt has found even
less favor. and said reformers now
proclaim that the short skirt is the
root of all evil, and roll their eyes in
horror.
Again, the reformers were needing
they knew no what when they howled
against the iniquitous corset Now that
corsets have been abbreviated to give
greater freedom to the body and to
some extent have been altogether
that women are immodest. They have
no sense of decency, and are to be ever
lastingly censured for just what they
were urged to do.
There is no pleasing them, 1t seems.
Why will the reformers not concede
the dear things the privilege of doing
as they please? American women may
be depended upon to do the right
thing; they are not abandoned crea-
lures. they are not immodest.
1.-THE American Beauty loves her
place in the SUM- She will not sacrifice
her figure for a fad. 'Uncorseted' here
has reflected but family this fashion
abroad. When word came to us that
Paris, so long recognized as the highest
fashion tribunal, no longer favored
corsets. American women found 1t dit
ficult to disregard her mandates and
the fad found a certain following OF
ultra-smart Venuses over here.
This is passing happily. and the
reformers may pass on to the next
reform"
Mrs. c. L. Brit entertained at din
ner THURSDAY evening complimentary