The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

In a woman but as a general thing the
answer can be summed up In a few
short words: He likes admiration and
other things being equal he will pre-
fer the girl who is most successful in
making him believe that she thinks
he's the candy with a mareschino cher
ry in 1t.
A Sunday ball game in a country town
in Kansas recently startled the Unco'
GUIDE out of their Sabbath calm to such
an extent that some of the elders of the
church went to the ball park to protest
and stop the game. But they found
big crowd of roOterS among Whom were
the village and as the outlook for pre-
venting the evil was not encouraging
they decided that as long as the game
would go on just the same if they were
not there they might as well enjoy it,
too, so they found shady seats and
watched il to the finish.
The girl who had not been to the
party was asking about those who had.
And what did Berenice Wear?"
Blue"
What color is her hair now?"
'I don't know what color it is now. 1t
was red last night
1t is hard for girl who has always
been the biggest toad in her small pud-
Gle to realize that she could ever occupy
the position of the small toad in the big
puddle The Tregworthys were the
richest people in the country town where
they lived. They had Big House with
steam heat and two bath rooms, where
as most of the other people in the viii
lage used stoves and took their baths in
q wash tub In the kitchen on Saturday
nights. Sue Tregworthy was the only
child and because her father was pTeSf-
l. l.
said she was beautiful. Well, she was
rather pretty, that is, she wore good
clothes and dry goods make the
Sue was sent away to boarding
school instead of finishing her education
at the state normal as the other girls
in town did, unless they quit after they
were graduated from high school and
she made a lot of girl friends in other
places and visited back and forth among
hem until she met an eastern man and
was married. She went to Brooklyn to
i've and she was so ignorant of New
York and the New York jokes on Brook
yn that she had no idea that this was
not as grand a place to live as one
could ask Her husband was rich, ac-
cording to the village standard, much
,icher than her own father, even, whom
she had always supposed was the rich
Est man il the whole world. They lived
n Big House n as fashionable a street
Is you can find in Brooklyn, which
pears about the same relation to New |
York, from a society standpoint, a 9
Sue afterwards found out, as Oakland |
loes to Topeka, and they kept three |
house servants, a carriage and coach |
nan and stable boy. This was more !
grandeur than had ever been dreamed of |
n Podunk or than Sue had met in any |
# her visits to her school friends and |
Is she had three fur coats and lots of |
diamonds she naturally expected that |
Brooklyn and New York society would !
eceiVe her with open arms. But she J
ocn found out that Brooklyn people cut |
s little ice socially in New York as
'odunk people and that she cut as little /
ce in Brooklyn as the humblest villager
id in Podunk. Her next door neighbor |
ad her name In the society columns of |
he Brooklyn papers all the time and
eemed to be the leader of the Brooklyn
mart set but she never left her card for
Tue who had to sit in bitterness and
MY behind the curtains of her boudoir
f1ndow and watch other more favored |
Folnen troop into her stylish neighbor's
ouse In response to Invitations which
ue never received. This neighbor. too.
ad eight house servants and when she
rove out In her carriage there were
wo men on the box. Sue hated her cor
tally, although the neighbor was ap-
arently unaware Of Sues existence