The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-04

TO DO his attention Is, easily dlStTacleu
from a love affair. You may have no.
ticed the indifference of little boys to
little girls and wondered about the
cases. which the little girls talk OF as
seriously as their older sisters. Well,
they begin by each girl claiming" a
| boy. The leaders get their choice and
the other girls take what is left. OFTEN
boy remains in ignorance of the fact
| that he has been tagged until the
girls begin to give parties and then he
finds out who is his girl by the number
of times she calls him in postoffice and
by the way the other girls tease them
and the fact that they go to supper to-
gether- So he asks to take her home
and that is as good as anannOuncement,
Boys, usually not so submissive with
regard to their parents and teachers
arrangements, are usually docile in
case of this kind because they are not
especially interested. They see it is the
proper thing to have "a girl and they
take whatever is thrust upon them, IT.
tie dreaming of the sometimes far
reaching consequences. Because some
times little girl who claims little
boy continues to exercise proprietary
rights over him until they are grown
up. He gets the habit and doesn't
know how to break 1t off without en-
barrassment and the first thing he
knows their engagement is announced
and she is preparing her trousseaa:
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DR.. and Mrs. J. C. McClintock have
| asked guests for a Shelly evening,
Saturday, December Z, at their house
on Fillmore street. Mr.. Charles Ora
ham Dunlap of the chair of English of
the University. of Kansas will be the
lecturer
"a
A country girl who lives in an old
fashioned farm house heated by stoves
with wood pile as big as mountain
in the back yard, has to endure a good
deal of patronage from the City Folks
frnr1 Xxyhn q
her house isn't modern. They say,
wouldn't it be lovely if you had
natural gas as we do in town." And
THE worst thing about living in the
country is using kerosene lamps" But
she was in town lately While the gas
pressure was so low that Sepulchre
would be cosy and comfortable COM
pared to the average gas-heated house.
wraps and furs on and is no long
er awed by the grandeur OF
Rich Folks who live in modern city
houses. Me for, the dear old farm,
she said, where you can have a good
wood fire in a dependable stove and
keep warm. Kerosene lamps may not
be stylish but you can at least read by
them and they don't go out on you
and leave you in danger of being
asphyxiated. You talk about visiting
in the country where you have to break
the ice in the pitcher to get water to
wash with in the morning, wiping on
a new crash towel, and sleeping in
parlOr bedroom that hasn't been in
habited for three months, you come up
to our house and We'll thaw you out
for fair and there's always hot water
in the reservoir in the kitchen stove.
The next time come to town I'm going
to drive down with load of wood and
give my stuck-up city friends a treat"
Father was doing in the library after
dinner when Daughter. ushered her
s.,4@ %I,o Il iaSH isa~r 1ayT
talked on Indifferent subjects for a
while but as Father showed no dispo-
sition to move on up stairs where Old
Folks belong when there are young
what do you say to going down to see
the new bill at the Odeon? Would you
like to go?'' why, 1 don't know
said Daughter with one ear on the
the library, would your It's up to
you" replied the Steady but I don't
want to say said Daughter coyly,
you say" No replied the Steady
say"
mo, you say
But 1 asked you
Yes, but I want you to decide it,
mo, 1 don't want to decide it. It's
all the same to me either way"
"And I'd just lief go as stay OF
stay as go. You decide.''
mo, you.'
mo, you"
mo, you"
mo, you. e.
At the ffty-seventh mo, you Faith
er who has listened to this brilliant ar
gument to the limit of human endur-
ance gave a gurgle, gasp, wild
shrek threw fit and was carried out
unconscious and Daughter and her
Steady had the davenport in front of
the fireplace all to their own tootsie- |
wootsies and didn't have to go down to |
the vaudeville in order to be Alone.
n
A meeting of the executive board and |
advisory committee of the Woman's
Kansas Day club was held this after
noon in the rooms of the State Histori- |
cal society and plans for the annual /
meeting were discussed. Mrs. Mary |
Vance Humphrey of Manhattan, pres1- |
dent of the club, arrived yesterday and /
is the guest of Mrs. w. A. Johnston, |
who is also entertaining Mrs. J. s.
Simmons of Hutchinson and Mrs. c..
c. Goddard of Leavenworth, members |
of the board.
Everybody, was having a good time
at the party except The Baby and no
body had noticed her for at least Is /
minutes. She stood in the middle of /
the room and looked around her but
her mother was talking to one man,
her aunt to another, her cousin to a /
third and she felt that If she got into
the game at all she'd have to break in.
SO she went over to the davenport |
where the visiting girl and a handsome
young chap had their noses together
and were looking into each others eyes
to beat the band and, tapping
the man on the knee, said, CONFIDENTIAL
ly. indicating his pretty companion,
Say, did you know Tess was going to-
wear her blue stockings tonight?"
Mrs. George Port Ashton entertained.