The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-24
Splendid Opportunities to Fight
Old Sol i'm Topeka.
City Is a Regular Summer Re.
sort for Inhabitants.
PLENTY OF PLACES TO GO
Endless Motor Trips-AH Sorts
of Attractions.
Try Movies, Parks, or Even
TruSty Cold Drinks.

How does Topeka keep cool when
the big south breeze isn't blowing
That's what everybody's wondering.
There are all sorts of ways. 1t isn't
necessary to board the observation
car and steam to the misty heights of
Colorado, the windswept shores of the
great lakes, or the salt marshes of
the Big Pond. There are six places
in Topeka guaranteed to be refresh
ing: Gage park, the nearest soda
fountain, the swimming pool, shady
sleeping porch, a motor car speeding
thirty miles an hour, and, II you nave
somebody to paddle, a canoe. Then
there's electric fans, peek-a-boo.
waists. Panamas, street cars, city
parks-innumerabIe recipes dealt out
by Old Man Hot Weather when the
thermometers soaring IKE an anpl-
tious youth.
Take the soda fountain, for exam
pIe The man who denied the cooling
qualities of a mint smooth, imeade
or a grape glace was either a mis-
anthrope or a member of the AnaniaS
club. Stroll into fragrant drug
stree: climb to a high stool and order
a frosty glass of grape juice a-tlnkle
whirrs in front of you; white coated
boy, whose air of comfort proclalms
the success of his trade, chips ice and
SCOOPS cream. You chat with your
a foaming chocolate soda.
Hot enough for you?" he asks,
amiably-
Doesn't worry me-" you respond,
and order another grape juice.
Everybody has a friend who has an
automobile; if he hasn't, he ought to
have. You're not expected to keep
cool in the morning. Work and heat
are conducive to a philosophical dis
position. It's up to you to be COM
Portable after dusk-call on your
friend who has machine.
Lets take a little SPIN" he sug-
guests; cars in pretty good condi-
ton"
Motors Are Bracing.
You crank, climb into the front
seat; you're off. Wind whistles across
your sun-tanned face. You chug up
the Country club hill and are almost
inclined to wish for the coat you left
at home. You speed over the North
Topeka bridge, curve around Garfield
park and take trip on the figure
eight. Then you roll over the moon
lit road to Gage park and think life's |
decidedly worth living.
To be sure there's no street rail- |
way to the park-there will be in a |
couple of years. You can get there |
somehow. Take the kiddies there for |
picnic. It's worth the trouble of |
spreading lettuce sandwiches in a |
kitchen aglow with gas heat. Take |
one-piece bathing suits, drop the |
youngsters into them, and let them |
splash about in the pond the park |
commissioners marked off for them.
They'll come up dripping and SILVER
Ing. Ouch" they'll choke, its coldi'
Have you a little sleeping porch in
your house? People who own one
have slept under a blanket every night
this year Talk about your summer
resorts what's the matter with To-
peka? The breeze blows over your
bed at night: the dawn is cold and
misty You wake with big ideas and
rosy cheeks. A sleeping porch makes
life worth living.
If you haven't a sleeping porch or
even a front lawn, go sprawl in a city
park; lie on the cold, cold ground
get close to nature. Topeka has all |
for everybody. Let the youngsters
play there-"hide-and-s steps"
statues run, sheep, run"-until
the curfew tolls the knell of 9 o'clock
and sends them scutt1ing homeward.
Go down and take a dip in the
swimming pool-Y. w. or Y. NJ. c. A.
If you can't swim or float, there's
somebody to teach you. Paddle
around for half an hour. Then slip
under a shower. You go home feel
You've got healthy hot-weather ap-
petite; you eat ravenously of potato
salad edged with curly lettuce and
drink deeply of your amber iced tea.
Much Abused Movies.
Then there's the movies-the much
abused movies. Thousands of weary peo-
PIE trail to the photo-plays every night.
You don't remember the heat when you're
chuckling at John Bunny or leaning for
ward, tense, wide-eyed, watching Love
and War in Mexico" or bill, the ANA
teur Craftsman A movie theater is an
excellent place to spend hot evening:
you see all sorts of pictures; you see your
friends. your wifes friends, and your chill
drens friends Some show, eh?' you say
to your neighbor. and forget to cast any
slurs at the temperature of the rare
month of June.
Paddle your own canoe is an i'll motto
In the good old sumner time-get some
body else to paddle II for you. Visit Sol
der creek after o'clock when the kindly
dusk casts silvery veil over the muddy
waters. If you're a girl, lean back in !
the cushions and discuss Tennyson moon |
light or any other subject requiring no
animation. If you're man, get the girl
enthused about hard muscles of modern
athletics and teach her to paddle; then |
settle back in the stern. II
The hot weather boyle is a big buffer
you can fool him If you try. How?
Freeze him out.
Buy a motor, borrow a bicycle, build a
sleeping porch. steal a bathing suit get a
iemon-sQueezer and a cake of ice
One of the city politicians, who Is in | ,
frequently seen in hot weather, always
manages to keep cool. His advice is brief. !
He says, calmly: Sit in your bones" !