The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-24
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The Phi Lambda Epsilon fraternity
will have their annual Corn Huskin'
November 1 at
Cleveland, Ohio, is to have the
Cleveland college to prepare young
ladies for wifehood.
Prepare?
Yes. Not cooking. sewing. house
keeping, etc. Bless you, no. But the
, realities. For vii,
be called at Z o'clock p. m. The teacn-
err, who will, of course, be a man. VIII
that he has business down.
town, and the class will march out into
the hall and sit on the stairs. 1t must
remain there until the teacher comes
in about midnight. This will be hard.
because the pupils will have no eartnly
interest in the teacher and will not care
If he never comes back; but they are
being prepared for wifehood, and sit
ting on the stairs waiting for a late
conner is one of the things to which
they must be accustomed II their
preparation is to be thorough.
The class in learning to bear with
hubby will be called for breakfast.
The teacher. another man. will come in
after all the young ladies are seated.
He will be clouded up like a real hus-
band, and his good morning Will pc
an inarticulate growl. During break
fast he will keep his steel-cold eyes
upon his plate, kick about the coffee.
storm about the meat and smash his
porridge bowl with his big. bull-foot
fist. Then he will slam himself out OF
the house h kissing his wife
goodby. OF course, he couldn't kiss
the pupils. anyway, but that is a mere
coincidence.
The class in Going Over the Bis
With Hubby will be called during din
ner. All the girls will sit around a
large table and the teacher will take
the bills out of his poke and lay
-, ID "a D1ofnL HiG fora
will be as hard as marble, and the chip
on his shoulder will get up on its hind
legs and brandish its knucks. He viii
begin with the grocery bill and wind
up with the millinery bill. He will
roar like a Bashan bull with a clothes
pin on his tail, and will follow his
climax with a one-word anticltmax, ut
tered in a suggesting King
vorce!" The young ladies of the class
will catch their cups full of tears. soak
their napkins, and then retire to their
rooms, their chins dripping salt and
their cheeks afre with shame. They
will utter as one voice,
The class in Asking Hubby for
Money will be called twice a week The
feature of the lesson will be that they
don't get any. The teacher will accuse
them of extravaganza and waste, and
when he goes out the class will cry in
concert: ''Stingy! Stingy!"
Their will be other classes. but these
few will suffice to satisfy the reader
that the Cleveland college to
young ladies for wifehood will really
prepare them.
General and Mrs. ]. W. F. Hughes
entertained informally last night for
their guests. Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel F.
Woolard of Wichita, and Mrs. Clarence
S. Hall of Lawrence. The others. pres
ent were Mrs. E. W. Hoch, Mr.. and
Mrs. f. S. Jackson, Mr.. and Mrs c. E.
Denton. Major and Mrs. A M. Fuller.
~ @.,d
Mrs. Frank NJ. Bonebrake. Mr.. ana
Mrs. H. o. Garvey, Colonel ana Mrs.
Charles S. Elliott and Miss Helen Lind
say.
Saturday if they're going to give away
a real live baby" the head of a family
who has a bunch of youngsters of his
own said today, "becaus it would be
just my luck to get it."
Miss Lucille Pollock has asked
guests for afternoon cards Friday to
meet her guest, Miss Fay Hardness OF
Kansas City.
Word has been received in Topeka
of the death of Mrs. Herbert Fuller of
New York city, which occurred Oc-
tober II. Mrs. Fuller was before her
marriage Miss Dora Furman and
formerly lived in Topeka where h
had a wide circle of friends. h was
one of the original members of the
Pansy club, an organization of To-
peka girls of sixteen years ago n is
the first member of the club to pass
away. The members of the club
were Mrs. Fuller, Mrs. Steward Beard
of New York city (Miss Leila Par
melee), Mrs. Fred Bonebrake of Usage
City (Miss Mettie Thompson), Mrs.
Arthur L. Murphy of Kansas City
Miss Ruth Redden). Mrs. Walter T..
Noble of Minneapolis (Miss Jessie
Small), Mrs. Ed Small of Atchison
(Miss Gertrude Keeler), Mrs. William
Cheatham of (Miss Maud
Stacey, Mrs. Solomon Stoddard of
Kansas City (Miss Franc Littlefield),
Mrs. Charles L. Brown of Arkansas
City (Miss Alice Prescott), Miss Rose
Horton of Colorado Springs, Miss
EIorence Greer of Blue RanidS. Mrs.