The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Crane Covers
were laid for twelve.
Mrs. Allen has asked twenty guests
for a sewing party to be given at her
home Tuesday afternoSn-
Mr. ard Mrs. Clayton Kline will
entertain the Kappa Sigma supper
club Sunday evening at their home on
Plass avenue.
Guests other than the club mem
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kenneth Kline.
Miller,
Mr.. and Mrs. Duane Van Horn,
Miss Martha sevitz. of La Junta,
Mr.. Russell swiler, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Mrs ]. NJ. Cornell will be hostess to
the members of her bridge club We'd
nesday afternoon at o'clock.
The regular meeting of the wo-
mans club will be held at the Y. W.
c. A Thursday, December 9, at 1880
O'Clock.
The art department will meet at
1880 o'clock and Mrs. L. d. White
more will give a talk on Taos"
The civic department will have an
open meeting in the afternoon and
will have no department meeting in
the morning.
The department OF literature will
meet at 1880 o'clock and Mrs. Pierre
Zampiere will talk on Poetry and
Literature of the Bible" A special
feature will be a book shower and
each member of the Woman's club Is
asked to bring an up to date book
from her library to leave with Mrs.
w. F. Bowen, chairman, or any other
member of the current magazine COM
mittee.
The department of home economics
will meet at 1880 and the subject Will
he stER Udid vvhPU NJ MrS.
J. r. Waddington.
The department of music will meet
at 1880 and a special program will
be provided. The department will
grim by Wagner. and the story will
be told by Mrs. H. o. Carney. The
music will be furnished by Mrs. Geo
W. Parkhurst. soprano; Mr.. Glenwood
Jones, tenor, and Mr.. Walter thinner
man. bass, accompanied by Mrs.
Robert Talbot.
The Bridal Chorus will be sung
by the Woman's Civic chorus under
Stearns. accompanied by Miss Bernice
Hemus.
Mrs. Raymond Murray will issue
invitations for a studio tea to be given
at her home next Saturday. This will
be the first of series of teas at which
Mrs. Murray will be hostess.
London.
TN His Majesty's Service. Industrial
Fatigue Research Board"
These words were on the envelope
and formed the letterhead for some
interesting bits of news just received
by Judge and Mrs. Ralph H. Cav, |
from their daughter Frances, who
writes as follows:
This little island is having a most
exciting time getting a government
elected. Today tho it is certain be- |
n that Rnnlr and |
the Conservatives have it. Election
night there were all sorts of demon |
STATIONS AT one of the most crowd |
ed points-Trafalgar Square-there
were two huge Thermometers up on /
one of the buildings. Every one threw |
confetti on every one else and all the |
small boys footed horns and every one |
had a good time till about a. M, |
when they went home in a dense fog /
which had suddenly come up. And |
dense doesn't begin to describe that /
log, by the way, nor one saw the day |
before They were my first expert /
natives said they We're pretty bad L /
was out till about midnight election 1
night. when the fog suddenly plotted /
c ut everything It's no eXaggera1on /
to say that you could not see the curb /
at the edge of the sidewalk 1t was
so queer to see a huge. hazy, dark |
shadow with two dim lights approach
ing very slowly thru the mist and real i
ize ii was an automobile cropping its
way along Then you'd hear the po-
hcemen at the intersections of the
streets shouting directions, to keep |
two cars from smashing into each
other.
"A little more to your right" More
this way" Careful there" and so on.
When the fog's at its worst, traffic
absolutely stops. and every one fiocKs
10 the subways and underground
Usually the bad fogs only last a few
hours. We had the lights on all day
Wednesday. Being the month of fogs
and a typical London institution. it's
rather fun, but it's inconvenient. It's
really rather impressive to have dim,