The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24
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| The Lambda Alpha lambda conclave
next week will furnish excitement for
/ the MellinS' Food crowd and break old
General Apat1y's prolonged midsummer
| nap. We have had the Owls sorority
heer In annual conclave but never the
l.. A. L. girls and there is much inter-
| est In the occasion especially among
the people who like that kind of scene
4 ry. 1t must be admitted that there is
no prettier sight in all the world than
| a group Of fresh, pretty young girls in
summer toggery and if the local l. a
LIS may be taken as a sample the
Beauty Show next week will be worth
going miles to see. 1t is not altogether
fa1r. either, to call them the Mellins'
Food crowd for some of the girls who
are most active In the preparations for
the conclave are out Of high school and
either attending college or among next
seasons debutantes. But there are 9TH
ers with skirts above their shoe tops
and their hair in braids and some of
the boys who will attend the dance
wednesday night are lads you can re-
member of holding on your knee year
OF two ago and entertaining with a
Jumping-jack.
Besides the dance Wednesday there
Will be a reception Tuesday afternoon
at the home of Miss Hazel Howe, one
MISS Howe graduated from high school
year ago last June and attended
Wasnpurn last year. She is one of the
most attractive girls in her set-tan,
NUMBER OF small entertainments
iuncheons, dinners, cards and rautomo-
bile parties-for the visiting girls.
Elsewhere in this issue a Topeka
mans letter from New York tells how
dull 1t is on Broadway Serves him
right for going east to spend his money,
though, OF course, as he suggests, it is
the east that needs it. A party of To-
peka people attended a race meet in a
Kansas town this week and take it
straight it was not dull there. Some
thing doing all the time. Bah game in
the morning, races in the afternoon and
dance at night. Big crowd and the
streets lined with the farmers family
carriages and top buggies. with the
shafts and tongues sticking up in the
OF the city in the capacity of marshal of
the day rode up and down the main
StrasSe and around the race track in
white duck uniform, high silk hat of
the vintage of 1879. or Whereabouts, a
red sash, epaulettes and other tilillal
and with a big megaphone hanging at
his side. There was a committee with
badges to bid the visitors welcome, turn
over the keys of the city and all that
sort of thing. In short 1t was a typical
country celebration in time of peace
and prosperity, and there was more fun
in an hour than you could have at Co
ney Island, Helms park or the White
City in a week. =. You know Mike
Murray and how he's always there with
the salve? Well, he had chance to
use it in ST. Mary's and if he hadn't
had it he might never have come back
A big Irishman, the color of whose face
indicated that he had been celebrating
for two days, wandered near the buck.
board which the Topeka party occupied
and taking a plug of tobacco out of his
pocket bit off a large chunk. Nike
Murray made some remark to the girl
beside him about men who were tight
with their chewing tobacco and didn't
offer it to visitors and the big Irish
man heard it. His face turned a darker
purple than ever and he took step
toward the wagon shouting out In a
threatening tone. You come right down
here and get it! Come down and get
it! o, you'll get it all right!' Every
body else in the party was speechless
with establishment and alarm at what
the little Irishman had started but he
was there with the salve. Thank you'll"
he said, climbing down over the wheel
and approaching the belligerent with,
you! I've been wanting a chew of to-
bacco all day and couldn't find man
who had any and all the stores shut UP
so couldn't buy it" And he reached
out and took the plug of tobacco, cut
off a generous piece, put it in his pocket, !
grasped the hand of the man-with- the |
chip-on-his- shook it warmly, |
thanked him profusely and backed off |
to the blackboard. He had talked his
big compatriot out of it so successfully |
that the latter was unwilling to let him
go and followed him to the wagon, !
Spreading a line of blarney to match |
Mikes best OF course there |
were the usual skin games to separate |
the yokels from their money but they /
weren't doing very well until one of |
the Topeka men who was looking for
excitement wandered around by thej
Smart Guy who was running some kind |
of a wheel of fortune and suggested /
that he act as capper for the game and
return the money. The Smart Guy |
readily assented and there was soon a
big crowd around watching the Topeka
chap breaking the bank. 1t was the