The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-20
Sights and Sounds at Union
Pacific Depot.
Jap Reads TOlstOy, Mexican
Eats BIackberrieS.
BRIDAL and FUNERAL PARTIES
Young and Old, Serious and
Frivolous, Side by Side.
Fair Haired Swedes and
SWarthy Italians Nearby.

edition of ToIstoy's Resurrection two
greasy Mexicans in the concail straw
hats tied around the chin with the
shoe string. and wearing dirty shirts
and overalls. calmly eating blackberry
Snortcake-these are two contrasts re-
Gently seen at the Union Pacific depot.
The place is full of contrasts.
Here the summer travel and imni-
grafton has set in and the coming and
going passengers with their variety of
human types make the depot one of
the most interesting places in Topeka.
From early morning until midnight the
scene changes with Kaleidoscope rapid
4ty-to you watching with your eyes
open.
OF course there are the round faced
Russian woman, with the plainest of
features but picturesque in their
gaudy garments with the inevitable
shawl of the fatherland over then
heads. They are likely waiting to &C
TO the beet fields in Colorado and III
gutteral German say goodby to their
friends. A few feet away may be
dainty woman gowned in a silk crea-
ton. with the most cultivated voice,
who steps from an auto and takes the
Pullman for a trip to the coast
Scattered on one end of the platform
perhaps is a laughing group scattering
rice at young couple. Huddled on the
other end may be a few dressed IN
black, faces tear-strained. Consoling
them may be a preacher, and near
by a girl whose snowy dress and has
as we'll as her highly colored face pro-
claims the typical chorus girl.
At her back probably stands Il Cath
Ole sister. whose black gown and
hood emphasizes the pallor of her pure,
severe face. In her charge it is not
improbable is little girl. whose flow
er-like face and violet blue eyes tell
that she still looks at life through rho
rose-eolored glasses of childhood.
And just little distance from these
perhaps you will notice a little slip of
a woman, face wrinkled with the sum-
mer suns of the grasshopper time,
hands with outstanding blue veins,
gnarled and trembling from seasons
of work in the garden, sometimes in
the fields. For she is one of the great
grand pioneer wives of Kansas.
Talking to her can be seen a fair
haired Swede, and watching the two
with sharp, black eyes, you might see
a swarthy Italian with gilt earrings
in his ears.
Talk heard is as wide in range as
the sights seen. You can hear the
tariff and other matters of state and
politics discussed from the lips of poll
ucfans and you can hear the best way
of removing freckles seriously pro-
pounded BY little fluffy haired girls
those cream puffs of society-whose
Impid eyes never grew dark with an
original idea. And on the same spot
you can hear the most substantial
farmer tell of crops-for crops at this
season are of the most general interest.
All day long is a continuous change
of people and conversation. Mean
while heavy trains rush in, pause and
pant awhile, and then thunder on,
while before the roundhouse west of
the depot waiting trains stand, like
dogs in front of a kennel.
BY and by night comes. The depot
crowd gradually thin out as in the
freight yards west of the station, the
hundreds of red and green and white
switch lamps glow like the jewels in
a tiara.
Program at the Princess: 1.-THE
Gypsy Bride" Nothing Shall Be Hid
den,'' For Love-" IAN Arabian
Theater.
She was exceptionally attractive in
face. and figure, especially for a ten
year-old girl, as the North side man
thought she was when she served him
ice cream at the Howard K. and L. of
s. reception at 100 West Tenth ave-
nue. last night The little girl wore
near-knee dresses, but was quite bright
and the n. S. NJ. wished he might kid
nap her. AS this was impra cticabIe
he had to- be content with calling her
treated her as he thought a child of
ten or twelve might not mind. Fur
thermore, he remarked to a friend
that little girls of ten or twelve were
their teens The child overheard
and smiled. A moment later she said
to another girl who was also waiting:
''Why didn't you come to nv party
the enc that mamma gave me last
week for my sixteenth birthday ami
versary?"
A Topeka man told North side
man that he would not vote for Taft
under any circumstances since his par-
ty tried to keep Roosevelt electors off
of the ballot You must have re-
ceived a letter from William Allen
White, said his friend. mo. II
didn't" was the reply. made in all
seriousn ess. Il don't even know the
gentleman
Rev. w. I Cole will fill his pulpit
Sunday as usual at the North Topeka
Baptist church.
.'David's Psychology, or the Work
ings of the Soul" will be the subject
of the sermon by Rev. w. c. Meeker
tomorrow morning at the Second
Regular services at the North Con-
gregational church tomorrow. Preach
ing at IL O'Clock by the pastor, Rev.
T. J. Pearson; subject. Development
of the Christian Sunday School"
Christian Endeayor at 66:45 p. M
The union meeting tomorrow even
ing at the corner of Park and North
JaCkSOil streets VIII ne neIQ as usual,
when Rev. Mr.. Pearson will speak on
s-Salvation.''
There will be a celebration of the
Holy Eucharist Sunday morning at Ii
O'Clock at the Church of the Good
Shepherd with the Rev. Mr.. F. c.
Rickard, of Colorado. as celebrant. NO
evening service during the month of
July.
Notes and Personals.
Lawrence Edmonds of 917 North
Monroe street has returned from