The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-25

just learning to cook The other
night she thought she would display
I some originality and make up q per
! fectly "rpiffy" dish for dinner. So the
/ first thing she did was to cut up a
, frying pan full of round steak. which
she fried Then she dumped into this
several cups of Clipped beef, and
shirred it all together. By that time
! she was rather doubtful of her eX-
( pertinent so she added several cups
! of white sauce. Then the mixture did
look rather uncertain. She debated
with herself as to whether or not the
I enigma in the pan needed a finishing
touch. She had ii, oysters, and SO
proceeded~eo open can of oysters and
mix them with the unable stew,
When the head of the house. arrived,
and sat down to dinner, his wife anX-
ioux to know what he thought of the
dinner dish. asked him. DO you like
| it BnI?" Sure" he responded cheer
/ fully IT'S fine" Afterward when
, the little bride told the story she added
| her own personal comment to the eff
feet that she didn't like it very well
but then So she proceeded to an
nounce that they would warm up the
rest of it for dinner the next night.
At that her husband looked up from
trying to swallow several more mouth
fuls and actually groaned, Don't,
please, DON'T
Did I tell you about one of the
hostesses in our town. When she
was serving tea and cakes, to guests at
a club meeting one after, a wheel came
off the tea cart and spilled. sugar,
cream, tea, cakes, sandwiches, etc.
dainty cups and saucers and plates all
in a heap on the best rug. Such
mess. Some women would have sat
down and ALMOST cried but not this
hostess, she gathered up the pieces
quickly. wiped of fthe rug and reap
etc. Everything was replacabIe but
her lovely china Valentine day she
was surprised when she opened a big
box sent to her and found a gift of
cups and saucers, from the women of
the club. She was about as calm Is
the woman man once told OF and
he married her by the way, because,
just as she was serving dinner one
night to guests. she spilled all the
gravy and did not get excited or any
thing, but jOkingly told the assembled
dinner company the joke and fur
nished them butter instead of gravy
for the potatoes.
THERE'S \ WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who went to a party the other day.
She rang the bell at her hostess's
house, was shown upstairs, came down
and seated herself, after looking
around for some one she knew. The
guests were strangers, the hostess, or
the persons she took TO be the hostess,
was a stranger, and she began to feel
queer when the thought struck her
that she was an unlimited guest in a
strange house. Quietly she slipped out,
got her wraps, excused herself to the
person she supposed was the hostess,
sped down the street to the corner
where she could see a street sign, and
found she had been in the house of the
nh her an
y ;: =
Mr.. and Mrs J. z. Bresette an
nounce the marriage of their daugh-
ter Monica, to Mr.. Leo F. Ryan,
which took place February s at St
Joseph's cathedral. St. Joseph, Mo.
the Ri. Rev. Father J. J. O'Neil read
ing the service
Mr.. and Mrs Ryan have returned
20 Topeka and viii make their home
at 1915 Van Buren, street after
March l.
Miss Nela Fritz gave an oyster sup
per last night at her home on Lincoln
street following the Washburn-W es-
leyan basketball game. The guests
were the members at the team Miss
Fritz was assisted by Miss Edna Gish
and Miss Bertha Gish-
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Mrs VI. \. Linton gave a party this
afternoon at her home on Underwood
avenue in honor of the birthday ami
versary of her sen Archie. The chill
dren from the sixth grade at Potwin
school We're the guests and included:
Thelma Anderson Sarah Louise Gossett
Mary Esther Bone Betty kingsbury
Betty Freeman Harriet Fritz
Doris Bacon Jack Shaffer
Merrill Blanchard Edwin Fisher
Raymond Hewitt Clark Adams
Donald Linton Archie Linton
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Mr. NefrelI Gage Of Kansas City,
Mo. viii lecture in Topeka Thursday
morning and Thursday night at Bos-