The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

It wasn't so many years ago that The
One Woman was the belle of the little
country village in the eastern part Of
Shawnee county. If there was dance
It was she who received offers from
half a dozen escorts and it was she who
danced every dance unless she refused
90 be led out on the floor. 1t was she
who laughed the loudest at the quilting
bees and it was she who was the last to
be spelled down on her side in the
spelling match. Everybody for miles
and miles around knew heI.
But between the dances and the spell
ing matches she was taught to always
be cheerful and to do whatever she at
tempted the best she knew how and TO
slight nothing; a lesson that for the
learning or the sighting many another's
success or failure in higher walks OF
life has been determined. She learned
ghe lesson and she learned it well.
Nobody would have thought at that
time that she would ever do anything
remarkable. She hasn't if to accom-
plish remarkable things one must be
talked of and written about. But her
parents were well to do and of course
everyone supposed that some day she
would marry some rich farmer and that
she would drive to town behind pair
of fine horses.
She always did things just a little
better than others of the young folks
the best, spelled the best, and laughed
the loudest-
Now she is doing something better
than anyone else; making doushnuts
that are unequaleds and she IS sellns
them from door to door,
THIS happened and that happened,
and then The One Woman and her
husband. who was not as strong as ne
might be, had to seek a means of nVell-
hood different from what they had fol-
lowed. Many another couple has been
placed in the same situation, and many
another couple has failed But With
such a woman as she as one OF the
couple failure was impossible.
She saw just as bright side of life
as when she was free from care and
is still as bright to her and she carries
a cheerful word with her from door to
door.
She decided to make and sell dough-
nuts. Everyone in town who has eaten
any of them knows just who she is
how pleasant she is and how good those
doughnuts are. There are other people
who try for living in a similar way
with eatables only passably fair and
with questionable success.
Lawyers bankers; politicians and chill
dren inquire several times a week if she
has been around yet with her baskets of
doughnuts and if she hasn't there are
feelings of concern about her. There ISM
another woman in Topeka who is so
morely missed by so many persons as she
is if sickness or anything else keeps her
from making her rounds twice a week.
She never read paner before club.
never gave an afternoon tea and never
received informally. but there's a mighty
big lot of people who speak of her dozen
times week over those doughnuts and
coffee
The One Woman, for she IS one woman
IN a million, does not complain about her
lot in life She says that when she and
her husband meet a the church steps at
noon. while going from house to house
selling their wares, to eat their lunch
that they have the best meal and best
time during the noon hour of any people
IN Topeka. She has no aches nor pains,
no complaints nor resentments. She is
filling just as important sphere in life
as the person who makes the hest oil
paintings or the best embroidery work.
There are scores of people who say she
fills more important position for The
One Woman makes doughnuts just like
mother used to make