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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1895
Page
6
In Topeka and nearby areas, society pages note ongoing social gatherings. Residents include notable names as clubs host dances, dinners, and charity drives delivering community engagement and updated event calendars.
In spite of a cold spell Mrs D A Clements hosted a party for Miss Blanche Joerger of Leavenworth with many guests. Harry Wood won fourteen games while Myrtle Davis took thirteen. later notes cover weddings, visits, club events, and upcoming engagements across Topeka society including Miss Bawden, Miss Curry, and the Veale and Kahn families.
Mrs Althea B Stryker created a sensation at the Tracy temperance meeting by accusing Topeka ministers of endorsing a local club. She described her resolve to speak after initially intending silence and spoke of her lifelong church work and quest for women’s enfranchisement. She contrasted her activism with constraints on women and noted a belief in a “perfect trust” in Dr Price’s baking powder.
A long list of Sunday religious events with sermons at First Presbyterian, Union Temperance meeting, Church of Christ Scientist, First Unitarian, North Topeka Baptist, Madison Street Baptist, Oakland Presbyterian, English Lutheran, Second Adventists, Liberty United Presbyterian, Grace Cathedral, St Simon’s Episcopal, Good Shepherd, Calvary Copal, Emanuel, Wesleyan Methodist, Second Baptist, and other venues. Topics include Lord’s Prayer, Joseph discourses, The True Sayings of God, and various sermons and Bible studies.
A fashion column notes the return of bell sleeves with bold detailing in velvet gowns and mantles. Describes gowns with black guipure trim, ostrich feather edging, and yokes, plus a sword of slate silk mantles and beaded velvet caps. Discusses the princess gown’s rising popularity and a peacock dinner dress with white lace cascades. Also mentions English fashionists favoring socks over long hosiery and a Kentucky equal rights discussion led by Laura Clay.
A Chicago Tribune note on the new evening bonnet favors women with low foreheads and pompadour hair, finding current velvet and aigret styles ill suited to round faces and frizzed hair, yet popular as the era’s fashion.
A New York Times quote attributes child cold resistance to avoiding bare feet in winter. A mother trains kids to wear crocheted bedroom slippers to keep feet warm and dry, asserting this practice prevents colds better than any other method.
In South London a Nonconformist marriage featured a bride who refused to be given away by her father, symbolizing a bold assertion of independence by the era’s so called new woman. The bride gave herself away while still agreeing to love and honor her husband, but declined to vow obedience.
The Box plait is steadily growing in favor in gowns by Redfern and other fashionable designers. Plaits range from small to real, often trimmed with fur or jet on edges. In dressy wear the space between plaits is filled with loose plaitings of chiffon or mousseline desoie in contrasting or harmonizing colors.
A ceremony in Orleans cathedral linked bride Bertha Piedune to Joan of Arc as her remote grandniece. Piedune, descendant through Pierre du Lys, becomes Mme Masson in the historic union celebrated last month.
Ortland announces cheap Texas excursions starting January 15 departing Topeka via the Santa Fe route. Low round trip rates cover Alvin Eagle Lake Matagorda county and all Texas points with stopovers possible. Also notes on new neckbands at Peerless Steam Laundry and a Blind Boone concert at St Johns AME Church.
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