The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28

went by and in the midst of an excited
discussion of the latest village gossip
one of the girls in the window seat call
ed out, Here comes Clemence now
and we all scrambled to the window in
time to see SwagEer little dog cart
driven by a good looking young chap
pull up at the curb in front of the house
and tall slim stylish creature jump
out. She turned to wave her hand and
shout back something to the man in
the dog cart as she ran up the walk and
a few minutes later she rushed up the
stairs and bounded into the room, her
fluffy. hair blown and her cheeks Grim
son from her drive in the wind. o,
girls she cried, throwing her long fur
boa in one direction and her gloves in
another and gasping for breath as she
unfastened her cloak. know you'll
kill me for being late but Joe came up
just after luncheon and wanted me to
go out to see the new track at the Driv-
ing club and when we got there we ran
into Mrs. Manley and her party and
we all went into the club
house and had high ball and do
you know that Lieutenant Crone who's
visiting the Manleys is just the dearest
thing! You'll all be crazy about him,
know! 1 raved about him all the way
in until Joe got perfectly furious
Mrs. Maniey's going to have US all
and 1 hope you'll notice the way her
cousin from San Francisco does her
hair. It's just worrying me to death
to know how she gets that grand, loose,
low coil. The cousin from Baltimore's
just as tacky as she can be-not a bit
my idea OF an aristocratic southern
girl-kind o. old maidish and plain, you
know. They just came yesterday, and
they've been out. 1 told Mrs. Manley
to bring them over to the club, and
she said perhaps they would drop in
late. I knew you wouldn't mind. To
the hostess) o, how do you do: Ito
me, and in response to Adelaide's muir
INJURED introductory. I'm so glad to
know you. Adelaide'S been telling me
so much about you. Girls. if could
live without Joe, I'd fan in love with
that lieutenant. He's a dear! What
have you all been doing. and what are
we going to do. My paper Why, it
isn't my day for the paperI It is?
Well. this is the first 1 knew of it!
What was it supposed to be about?
o, yes; you told me, Adelaide and |
was going down to get you to help |
me with it last week, but we had a |
dressmazer at the house all week and |
couldn't get away. o well, we can /
have it some other time. You'll help |
me, won't you, Adelaide?'
s-Adelaide said she would and an
other girl reminded her that she had |
promised to give her a start on her |
paper on The Medicean Influence on |
French Art that week. This recalled |
their papers to several of the other |
girls ana Inere was great scramble |
for year books to see what their dates |
and subjects were, and they all crowd |
ed around Adelaide to ask her what |
they meant and where they could find |
some good references. Adelaide an
swered them all gravely, and then |
asked what they would do with the |
remaining hour of the meeting. The
hostess, who was also the president, |
suggested that they read few chap
tiers in a new book she had just gotten |
and which she said was perfectly |
splendid
They said the hostess would have to |
read and she submitted and began |
search for the book which proved to |
be the 'Erivolity of Fiji a modern So
ciety novel Each girl curled herself up |
on couch or in a big chair and began |
seriously on a plate of fudge while the |
hostess read aloud She read indiffer-
entity we'll with an occasional hesitation |
over pronunciations, the final appeal be-
ing TO Adelaide who always knew every
thing. Now and then the girls inter- |
rupted her to say. Isn't that too cute?' |
Or why don't real lovers make love like |
THAR or, Doesn't that remind you of
Jack?' Before she had finished the first |
chapter the maid announced Mrs Man
ley and her guests and after the visi-
tors had been shown I'D and introduced
it was time for the luncheon which the
hostess had ordered and the meeting
broke up without my fears Of brain fag
being realized. I found out during my