The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-09
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sch ool frat bill was passed the affair
has lost this significance and the
youthful hostesses are very anxious
that 1t be known as strictly town at
| fair. mo connection with the high
school whatever" An Owls dance
nowadays. however is not strictly a
Me-lin's Food function. for the sorority
/ is such an aged affair that the Oldest
| members have been tout" two years
The invitations for tonight are limited
| to Owls and their men friends so the
company will range from the TWO
year-olds' and their men (Which takes
in lots of the older chaps) to the new
pledges (still in short skirts and with
their hair in braids) and fedgnngs to
match OF course all the WaderS
Union will be among those pres emit .
A Topeka chap has resigned his po-
sition because it didn't give him time
enough to ride his new "Put-Put," the
local name for the motor cycle.
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Miss Isabel Crawford celebrated her
sixth birthday anniversary today with
party for her little friends between
the hours of and O'Clock. There
were games on the lawn. supper, Jap
anese souvenirs and to conclude the
entertainment Perfectly Grand ride
with the hostess uncle. Mr.. Arthur
Capper. in his big six-cylinder ma
chine.
Most of the summer girls are home
or about to return but the catch for
the season is reported very light 1t is
rumored that a girl who has been
visiting at an army post has landed
lieutenant and one of the girls who has
been UP on the lakes all summer has
sent home Nostal card photographs or
her "fnd"-the skeleton of a man
which she dug up in the sands. She
says he is the only man she has seen
all summer and that none of the other
girls at that resort were any luckier
than she.
Mrs. A j Wollcot and Miss Susa
Wollcot have asked guests for cards
tomorrow afternoon for Mrs. Austin
Prescott of Los Angeles and Mrs
Charles Wilmarth of Sacramento.
&
Southern war story: A wounded Of
ficer of the Confederate army was
picked up and carried to southern
home. During a long and hard cam
paign he had acquired the whisky
habit and he Immediately began t"
ask for a drink. But there was no
whisky nthe house and servant had
to be dispatched to a neighbours, an
wounded man heard the master of the
house order a negro to go on the err
rand and he imm ediately began asking
about the distance sand how long X
would take the servant to get back.
Every few minutes he would roll over
on his restless couch and say, How
far do you think he is by this time
Do you think he's gone mile, yet 2?
be half way there ?'-And then. Don't
YOU think he's at the house now?' His
hest would answer IN the affirmative
reassuringly. and the man would turn
his face to the wall again for min
ute. Finally.-his torturing nerves still
impelling him. he demanded: He
must be almost home now. don't you
think so? Don't you suppose that's his
horse we hear on the bridge es.
yes. l think So replied his host and
lust then the negro Lila stuck his
head in at the door and drawled out:
BOSS where 70, say yo' done put that
thvar bridle?"
The motorcycle craze has struck the
Younger Set. Mr. Harold Copeland and
Mr.. Roland Histed have Joined Mr..
Will Webb and are flying around town
making a noise like a bat in night
mare new kind IF sbat' by the way,
and one that will probably tend to low
er their batting averages
The Delta Omicron Omicron which
closed its annual conciaVe in
Kansas City. Kansas. the last of tn .
week. will meet in Kansas city, Mis-
souri,, next year.
Arch Williams tells this story, so it
must be true: An Illinois man who lost
his wife erected monument over uet
grave with this inscription: zone more
to miss on earth-one more to meet in
Heaven" In years time he married
again and was again unlucky- The sec
ond wife died and was laid away beside
the first But the widower was a frugal
soul and instead of erecting second
tone he had the first Inscription changed
to read: Two more to miss on earth
two more to meet in Heaven
Mrs. Hallock Hill will give a recep-
ton tonight for DR.. and Mrs. Orvill O. |
Moore who leave tomorrow for their |
home in Effingham.
A visiting girl is so pretty that it |
has been suggested that her hostess
furnish binders or green goggles to all
the men who call on her
Mr.. and Mrs J. E. Collins of III Madi- |
son street gave a kitchen shower Sat |
urday night for Miss Verna Cook and |
Mr.. Rolla White whose marriage takes |
place this week
Talk about an embarrassment Of
riches. A Topeka man is up against this |
proposition: Two beautiful visiting |
girls in town this week and he thinks |
they're both the candy
Talk about irony! A Topeka girl who |
mas mas meyer been farther away from no ar9
than Chicago got a souvenir postal cara |
the other day from a friend who mas
been all over the world posted IN the |
Far East upon which she had written;
isn't the world small?
Mr.. Guernsey Prescott who played |
very cleverly the small part of the Chi |
To Remove Freckies q Pimples