The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
so NEAR and
NOW so FAR
Young Men of Topeka Still
ReyeI in Fond Memories.
Beauty Train Left a Trail of
Broken Hearts.
SOME VICTIMS HAVE HOPES
All Are Slow to Return to Old
SweetheartS.
Will Those "PeacheS" Ever
Come This Way Again?
SOME VICTIMS HAVE HOPES
SUNDAY.

Have you noticed that Topeka girls
all week have been rather blue? They
do not blithely sing along the high
ways of the capital city. The reason
is apparent. They feel neglected and
not one infinitesimal piece of love or
good feeling permeates their systems
for the fortunate girls who were here
Monday on the Universal Beauty Spe-
cial.
The young men of Topeka gather in
groups daily and discuss the forty
minute visit made Monday. Did you
hear from Alabama :? " one asked an
other Thursday.
NO" young man No. 2 answered
with a sigh, but Wisconsin came
across with four page letter from
Denver and a photo"
One young chap has been moody all
week Disconsolate he sits at drug
store fountains. Cupid has pierced his
heart. He is in love, madly, with
blonde miss from an eastern state and
she has forgotten him. No wonder
that the Topeka girls feel the lack of
attention that followed this memora-
BILE visit.
Perhaps the merriest bunch of
girls in America today are those Sc
lected by the Universal Film special to
go to the Pacific coast These girls
were Topeka and Kansas City guests
Monday. Colorado Springs and Den
yer guests Tuesday. Albuquerque
guests Wednesday and now they are
in Los Angeles.
These pretty maidens liked to talk
A reporter spent fifteen or twenty
minutes circulating among them
gathering their views on many sub
jects.
A True Jayhawl>er.
One of the most attractive whom
the reporter heard speaking was Miss
Fay Kimmel of Leavenworth, the
choice of Kansas.
.~This will be a great trip" said Miss
10
land 1 believe 1 shall enjoy it thor
oughly. And there is one thing 1 am
going to do. 1 am going to look up
the Kansas buildings at the EXPOSE
tions. am a native Kansan and 1
am going to tell everyone 1 meet on
the trip that I am Jayhawker and
very proud of the fact
AS pretty Annie Schrader of Brook
Ign stepped off the car in Topeka
Monday, she remarked. How lovely
of these gentlemen to meet u.s.
That sounded interesting and the
reporter rushed up nearer to the
crowd that lowered around her.
Don't you think you will get lone
some for little old New York;" some
body asked.
mot on your life" was the quick
reply. why, down there u person is
only a grain of dust and knows moth
Ing of the grand freedom of the west.
/ have only seen little of it, but 1
am in love with it. And the hand
some and gallant men. oh, my;
what did 1 say? Glad our chaperon
did not hear me. But then, what do
we care for chaperons in this great,
beautiful outdoor world with the
bright blue skies. I'll tell you a joke
on chaperons. Somebody wrote to a
newspaper this query:
docs a girl of 19 require a chap
eron when out walking7' The answer
was, No, provided she keeps on walk
ing"
But Miss Schrader was not the only
one who was delighted and willing to
confess it.
Il really like westerners but you
men are so goodlooking and so fright
fully forward" said stately Miss For
restine Dennison of Portland. Me. to
the Topekan in whose machine she
was riding. Really l don't think it s
quite proper, don't you know. but
so nice hammered with it all?' This
Topekan said later. and his voice
trembled like leaf in a wintry blast,
that her laugh tinkled and filtered
through the clear Kansas air and was
as musical as a nightingale's song on
a moonlight night.
One of the beauties who attracted
a great deal of attention was Miss
Lillian A Boltz, of Reading, Pa.
You see.' she declared, I'VE east
erners are rather shy of this great
west and stick together for mutual
protection and guidance. We have
seen so many cowboys with mustaches
and dashing hats in the movies. Are
there any cowboys in Topeka? We
would so like to see them in their
natural state. don't you know They
must be so jolly but I'm afraid my