The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-06

| magnificent and complete chest of table
silver.
| The party in the smoking compart-
ment on the Pullman car had decided
| that the redheaded brat ought to pc
| suppressed. He was the noisiest, most
! impudent, i1lmannered and undisci-
| plined child they had ever seen. Every
man in the party took his turn tell
| ing what 1.-The kid had done to him
since he got on the train-how he
came up and kicked the newspaper
! that one was reading, how he slapped
another on the top of his bald head,
how he mauled a third with his sticky.
tatfy fingers and squirted orange juice
into the eye of a fourth. The fifth
was mad because the child had awak-
ened him at three o'clock in the morn
ing and the sixth because the little
imp" crawled over his new alligator
suit case and scratched it all UP with
his heels. The seventh said there was
no sense in a boy acting like that and
people ought not to stand for it. They
ought to protest. NOW" he said,
that little flend's father thinks he is
the candy, and he has no idea how
disagreeable other peopie-stranger
like us-find him. Somebody ought
to wait on that man and tell him what
we really think of hin-put the case
to him sensibly and plainly Here
we are travelling with the usual I'M
avoidable discomforts and we have
some rights which other peoples chill
dren should be taught to respect"
ThcreupOn the other men appointed
the last speaker a committee of one to
wait upon the father and deliver their
protest. They would stand for any
thing he said, but they each refused
to be the spokesman. The seventh
man, swelling up like a pouter pigeon,
said. well, he wasn't afraid to tell the
father that the boy was making him
self offensive. What he said behind a
mans back he would say to his face
and SO on, and he walked out of the
smoking room and down the aisle of
the car to the section occupied by the
redheaded brat and his daddy The
boy was quiet for the first time since
he boarded the car. Worn out with
the strenuous existence which had
caused the other passengers so much
uneasinesS, he had fallen asleep in the
seat facing his father and that mis-
guided man was leaning over him with
the fatuous expression with which the
dotfng parent watches the Angel
Child in his peaceful moments, pa
tiently tanning him with a folded
newspaper. The committee of one from
the smoking room paused and looked
down on them a second, then gIancing
back of his shoulder to see if any of
his hackers were following him, said,
genially: well, the little chaps
asleep. All tired out, I guess. No
wonder-he's such a lively little fell
low. All children of that age are pref
ty lively, and a man taking care of
one alone has his hands full"
Misses Lenore and Daisy Monroe
gave a morning card party at their
home, 900 Harrison street, today in
compliment to their house party
guests, Miss Edith Brown of Salina,
Miss Mary Louise Zanone Of Nashville
Tennessee, Miss Anna kaufman and
Miss Nettie Zimmerman of Valley
Falls, and Miss Irene Meh1 of Burlin-
game, who are spending the week with
them. About sixty guests were asked. |
the decorations and refreshments were
in yellow and white and the game was
Mrs. w E. McVey IS chaperoning
the Misses Monroe's house party dur
ing the absence of their parents, Judge
and Mrs. Lee Monroe, who are touring
the east.
The marriage of Miss c. T. Cation
of Oakland and Mr.. J. c.. Gresser of
North Topeka took place yesterday in
Junction City. They were married by
the probate Judge of Riley county, at |
his Office and will return to Topeka |
tomorrow.
A Topeka man and his wife were
taking their wedding trip this summer
they have been married
twenty years.
The members of one of last seasons |
five hundred club will go to Vinewood |
for dinner at the cafe and to spend the |