The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-24

ways, loyal to their towns best inter-
| eStS, looking out for possibilities for
bachelors in town society. These
| girls thrust him forward into the no
4 tice of their friends. The town girls
! let him call and the town men well
| coined him warmly, took him into
| their clubs and made him one of them
| selves. Meantime he had gotten some
| few pointers about dress and other de-
! tails and although he is not likely ever
| to set the world on fire he has had a
| measure of success, because, the boys
are good natured and the girls not in
a position to be over-critical, and his
stock has gone up SO on College Hill
that he may safely be numbered
among the Washburn social head
liners.
"And that's all right" said Charley
who was telling the story. HE'S a
good fellow enough and nobody minds
having given him a lift. But the point
1 want to make is that when those
girls started to rush David because
they knew an extra man always comes
in handy and thought he would do,
we didn't frost him, did we? Nobody
ever saw US get together in a bunch
and look him over with trapped StareS.
We took him right in, didn't we, on
their suggestion, and asked no queS-
tons, though you know he was queer
enough at first and did some mighty
lumpy things. Ever hear any fellow
ask, But who is hep in that shifting,
superior tone a girl assumes about
another girl in a similar position? We
knew welltenough that when it comes
to a question of who's who none of us
are much of anybody anywhere and
that he was probably as important a
parsonage at Four Corners or Podunk
or wherever it is his father owns the
bank and the lumber yard and the
hardware store and the grain elevator
as we are in Topeka where we work
for fifty dollars month in the Santa
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on ourselves for our magnanimity nor
saying that we did any more than we
ought to have done, but want to ask
you how the girls in the crowd would
stances? I want to ask how they do
act and have acted alwys when any
of the fellows wanted them to loosen
up and spread out Gas we used to
say in drop-the-handkerch to make
room for another girl some of US had
met some place and had a notion to
take around bit? Do they welcome
her joyfully and gladly as we well
coined David and not David only but
half the men in the crowd just on our
recommendation? No sir. The best
you get from them is the frigid nod
for yourself or the girl. But who is
she?' they say although they may have
gone to high school with her and they
may have lived the same neighbor-
hood all their life. Why even if she's,
engaged to one of us-a fellow they've
known always and always welcomed
at their houseS-they'll hold off from
her as long as they can and invite him
without her as long as he'll come and |
when he refuses they drop him if they
dare and only take her up when his
position is so good that they positively
can't help it,
but you know those girls usually |
are kind O. funny she objected. 80, |
perhaps they're all right-but their |
you know what I mean.
ST
have found it out for themselves and |
would have known them always, don't |
you see ?'
mo, I don't see,' Charley denied stout |
", except that a man can ignore his |
family and a girl can't. One of the |
most popular men that ever lived in |
this town-nad more girls crazy about !
him than any other fellow in his set |
had brother who drove Laundry |
wagon around here. The girls |
overlooked that, all right, but they |
,an't overlook that fact that their |
mothers nave never exchanged visits
hink she must be queer somehow. I |
know one of you society girl pick-ups
who fairly murders the English lang
lage. He lives with his family some |
where but NOBODY seems to. know any
hing about them except that ilis sister
goes with a professional gambler I'm |
lot knocking, but if you're talking about
and pretending that you
,irls are only trying to keep Topeka
ociety like DR.. Prices Baking Powder,
LbSolutely pure 1 want to know why
he was asked to every dance last win
er the hostesses had to draw the line
It some of the prettiest, sweetest girls
n town because their mothers and /
athers belong to the Plain People?"
20 that's easy, Charley" she replied
With a laugh. 1.-THE hostesses need men
It dance-they must have them to
axe the daughters of the women their
Mothers do call on
well, I've figured it out like this"
aid Charley the philosopher con-
lusively. You women hate each other
n general principles but certain things
make it impossible for you to treat
very other woman as you really feel
oward her. You have to purr around
good many of them and smile and
mile and be a villain still but you take
/ out on those unfortunate ones who
ant defend themselves and form your
elves into a close corporation whose
main objects are gathering in new men
nd freezing out new girls unless they
ONE encompassed with such halos of
ocial glory as you can't ignore. When
comes to the keen and frosty business
ou've got a Christmas morning bested,
II right"
In general makeup she was not un-
Ike Mrs. Nation, or at least the carl
atures and pictures of Mrs. Nation