The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-12

of q child's party for grown up folks
Digniied society matrons and usually
sedate business men cut high capers
dressed like boys and girls of ten years
of age. At least twenty OF the most
prominent young married people Of the
city were present with dolls and one
couple was attended by a nurse who
scolded them for various FRANKS
The senator's son appeared in white
pantaloons, a rufI1ed shirt waist sailor
collar, long stockings and copper tOed
shoes. Mrs. Hanna wore an extremely
short frock. lavender stockings, and
slippers She brought a doll with her
and sat in humble submission at her
husbands feet while he fed dolly ginger
cakes or anon cuffed the baby's ears
3 We are told that the scene was en-
livened with games Of pussy wants a
corner and tag" and that the braids Of
hair down the girls backs made ex-
cellent handles for whip crack
When the luncheon period arrived a
score Of walters gTavely tucked bibs on
the guests and bouillon was served from
nursing bottles. This must have been
an edifying spectacle
Imagine how the grave and business
like senator would have stormed in dis
gust at the sight of his son indulging
IN SuCn frivolous pdSllI1G.
The short frock party then wound up
with a bestowal OF cotillion favors in the
nature of toy drums, whistles and other
noise making devices
The east must hustle to win out over
this childish form Of society amusement
MRS. LEASES DIVORCE SUIT
The eastern papers won't let Mrs.
Lease alone When she applied for q
divorce they said Il told you So" and
now that she is about to dismiss the &C.
ton they have released whole floods OF
satire.
The Chicago Times-Herald is the
leader in the onslaught. This is what
it says:
Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease, whose elo-
quence has shriveled up the corn blades
of Kansas and whose peppery satire| IS
said to have retired the late Senator
John ]. ingalls, from public life, has at
last come to her senses. She has con-
cluded to be a wife and a woman IN
stead of a political agttator.
'Of course people in all walks of life.
after more or less prolonged fits OF
mental alteration, are coming to their
senses every day and nothing Is sald
about it. But Mary Ellen has been a
public character She has handled poll
ticians without gloves. She has lam
4 pooned public officials from the stump
! she mas named out IE4 TGNCAulAOA liz
rebellion in large, lurid chunks to hun
dreds of audiences She has proclaimed
her ability to rectify the mistakes Of ma
ture and to improve upon the general
/ plan Of the universe If Mary Ellen has
| decided to settle down and be good it IS
therefore a matter Of public felicia
ton
Mrs. Lease has instructed her attor-
1 ney to proceed no further with the di-
vorce suit against her husband, and 1t
is reported that she will return to Wich-
tia and take up the wifely duties which
she abandoned in order to purify the
politics of Kansas While she has been
| cavorting about on the political hastings
I her quiet husband has been rolling pills
\ and leading a sober and Industrious life
at Wichita. Being a sensible man, thor
oughly fmbued with the spirit Of the
poet when he said 'Frailty. thy name
\ Is woman he Will doubtless take the
\ wandering Mary Ellen back.
1.-THE bee Of Populism has stopped
buzzing in Mary's bonnet Politics
could have no solace for the loneliness
\ Of a woman past hfty. estranged from
] the one whom she promised to love and
/ cherish with grown-up children as the
/ fruits of the troth that was plighted
4 long ago. Mrs. Lease has started the
new year on the right track"