The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-25

now without being accused of frIvol-
ity. in light of the fact that the teach
er's looks have come up as proper
subject for discussion at the teachers
institutes, conventions and the like.
Therefore
Well, The honest-to-g awd truth is
that everyone of US is as much inter-
ested in what the thousan ds attending
the n. Z. A. convention look like as IN
what they do and say
Anyhow. whatever's the cause, the
women at the \. E A. convention
Eyes; and the men, too) are better
dressed and better groomed, are alto
gether smarter in appearance than it
was considered moral for the school
teacher to be in days gone by.
They present an agreeable, attrac-
tive comforta bly, worldly appearance
are quite as good looking as the
lucky irresponsibleS who do not have
to set a good example to the children
and impress the community with their
propriety.
Yet. it's not impossible to spot the
schoolmarm in a crowd.
Should some enterpriSing person
make a composite photograph of the
schoolmarms at this convention it
would give Us a definite type, with jaw
a little firmer, mouth little ~more
set, eyes Il little more searching-a
slightly grimmer, more reSolute, more
capable more -burdened and
more conscientious type than flour
ishes friVolously outside the school; a
type that you'd involuntarily address
as Teacher" because of the mildly
managerial, gently disciplinary cast of
countenance.
Mrs J. w. F. Whitney entertained
the following guests at luncheon
Tuesday: Mrs. j. A. Campbell, Mrs.
Edwin Davis, of Leavenworth, Mrs
Bayard Whitney, and Miss Elizabeth
Smith.
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The active chapter of the Beta So
rority will meet Thursday afternoon
with Miss Emile sseery:
Miss Edith Ingham and Miss Helen
Ingham will entertain at bridge Thurs
day for Miss Marguerite Lovewell, who
will leave soon for New York. The
guests will be few of Miss Love
wells close friends !. :. .
An effort is being made in the east
to prove that it is not sissy for a man
to wear a wrist watch. The jewellers
of the United States Deld a convention
in New York and they talked down
the theory that it is grille to wear
small watch strapped onto the wrist.
They showed pictures of Christy
Mathewson pitching a game while
wearing a wrist watch, and Richard
Harding Davis. Theodore Roosevelt,
teur soldiers now in camp were shown
wrist-watched in the Plattsburg
trenches The correctness of the
style for men is now established, and
the jewellers ought to be able to sell
countless wrist watches, after their
demonstration. Kay Laurell, of the
Ziegfeld Follies, was at the show. 1t
is not her purpose to let the men
catch up with her and steal feminine
perogatives in the matter of carrying
their jewelry; so she wore her watch
strapped to her ankle. 4,
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A dispatch from New York says
that about 1000 persons on the East
Side watched Miss Peggy O'Neil, the
actress, repair her electric coupe
with a hairpin after it had quit out
right and refused to bulge for more
than an hour. Miss O'Neil got out
and got under, pushed all the levers
pulled all the knobs and finally footed
the horn. The automobile was OBJ
durate. Finally she drew three hair
pins from her hair and, getting under
the machine, deposited them some
where. There was q rumble and the
motor began to hum. In a moment
the car was on it's way and it was not
a flivver
Boshi Topeka women thought of
that scheme a long while ago, and
some of them carry extra hairpin
along with them for just that use.
But no 1900 of the sophisticated
gather about to watch