The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-26

An informal subscription dance at
the Country club last night was at
tended by Mr. and Mrs William E.
Drechsel, Mrs Everett H. Dallas of the
City of Mexico, Miss Floyd Robenson,
Miss Louise Kellam, Miss Helen Otis.
Miss Helen Brown, Miss Maud Grimes,
Miss Nellie Millspaugh, Mr.. Guilford
Dudley Mr. Dana MacVicar. Mr.. Bert
Reid. Mr.. Fraser Cole, Mr. Bob Pierce,
Mr.. Joe Wilson. Mr.. Harold Copeland
and Mr.. Monte Kistler. The club house
will be closed the first CO October, ex-
cept, possibly, for Saturday dinners
Ever notice a woman get on a street
ear which has somebody in every seat
but many vacant half seats? She looks
around hesitatingly but nobody moves
over invitingly and finally she drops
into a seat beside some other woman.
And how the other woman does CROWD
over to give her roomi Yes, indeed!
she almost pushes through the window
in her hospitable desire to make the
newcomer welcomed Of you don't care
what you say) And that attitude OF
the woman who has comfortable seat
on the street car with plenty of room
beside her for new woman who boards
the car and wants a seat is typical OF
the attitude of the sex in other sltua-
lions and relations of life. Bhe never
looks up to give the newcomer wei
coming smile, unless she be an OLD
friend, or one whose favor she mas rea-
moves over, diSpassionately. noticing
the scarcity of empty seats and reallz-
ing that the last woman on the car mas
as good a right there as the first. ana
II the last woman does sit down on
the ragged. uncertain edge of seat
which the first woman has not been
able entirely to cover with her skirts
and her bundles. the latter gives not
fraction of an inch but stubbornly. inn
passively selhshly ignoring the exist
ence of the newcomer persists IN
keeping all the room she can and max
ing it as difficult as possible for the
woman to hold her place on the peril
Gus edge of nothing as they turn those
sharp curves that are on every track
Miss Virginia Lee, daughter of the
late General Fitzhugh Lee, was mar
ried yesterday at Alexandria. Va. to
Lieutenant John Carter Montgomery,
Seventh L. S. cavalry, stationed at Fort
Riley.
At the boarding house this morning
the Silent Man and his chatty wife got
into a discussion about women's
tongues and soon the whole dining
room had been drawn into the contro-
versy. The women all shouted in con-
cert at the tops of their voices their
strenuous denials of the charge that
theirs is the gabby sex. The men con-
tented themselves with sardonic smiles
and tart, brief sarcastic retorts. Well,
the women finally said, if they did most
of the talking 1t was because it was up
to them. The whole burden of keeping
Up the conversation rested on a wo-
man from the first time a man called
on her until their golden wedding day,
unless she broke down under the
strain and his second wife marked that
anniversary by laying wreath on the
grave of her martyred predecessor. All
their lives, they declared, they were
obliged to sustain the responsibility of
filing those awkward pauses-when
there was company for dinner and the
husbands sat and stuffed in gloomy,
unbroken, inhospita bic taciturnity;
when his kin came as well as when
hers were entertained And if they
the men would begin by asking if they
were sick, then demand, We'll what's
wrong2" and then get sore and pick
up their hats and go off down to the
club for the evening.
\ X
y Topeka girl. well fitted for the role
Of Cinderella. lost her pump while she
was travelling in the east this summer.
The predicament was not unusual as
all wearers of pumps can testify, for |
the Tarnashun Things are always |
one gets into a carriage (if one ever |
pes get into a carriage), but this
particular girl dropped hers Just as /
she was getting on a train and it rolled |
under the car and There I was in nv |
stocking foot with the tram ready to |
start and all my other shoes in the |
baggage coach ahead" The outcome
however. was not so tragic as it threat |
ened for the Pullman porter { a hith-
erto unexpected hero) dived under the |
car. and rescued the little shoe, restor- !