The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-11
eddy "OLD Girl"
But GrandmotherS of England
Differ From Those of q. S.
In n. Y. They Do Fox TrOt and
Put ON Frills.
MAKE SACRIFICES FOR WAR
Aged Mother of IA Gives Up
Motor Car to Wounded.
Are Typical-London Boasts OF
Grandma BOnnets.
MAKE SACRIFICES FOR WAR
By Margaret Mason.

The Two Grandmothers.
In New -ork town a lady gay
Is tripping all the hours away
At the dansants along Broadway.
A bottle blonde she is 1 ween,
The rouge pot oft her face hath seen'
She has debutantish mein,
Her skirts are short to an extreme,
And yet a Grandmamma is she
Her years they number s1Xty-three-
In London town a lady rare
With gracious mein and kindly air
And tender eyes meath snowy hair
Is working all the hours away
To tend the Wounded day BY day.
Though w.rn and tired she does not stay,
And yet a grandmamma is she
Her years they number sixty three
London, Oct. 26 (By MaiD-In
American cities the grandmother is
as extinct as the Dodo bird. To be
sure we have a bit of giddy fluff that
is turned out daily by the masseuse,
the hair dresser, the smart dressmak-
er and the beauty doctor to fox trot
and fiirt and bridge its way thru
butterfly existence. 1t doesn't even an
swer to the name of grandmother,
however. for the youngest generation
has been painstakingly drilled to call
| it either by it's Christian name or
| pet one.
| Oh, where are the grandmothers of
yesterday? The grandmother of MEM
cries and story books. In rustling
black silk skirts with a bit of old lace
at her ivory throat and falling over
her ivory hands. A wee lace cap on
her silver hair and the peace and I'M
Outstanding and love of a double ma
ternity shining in her old young eyes
And l am an old sleuthi l have
tracked her to her lair. 1 have dis
covered her in all her old time charm
and old time lace and her habitat is
England.
American parents take their off,
spring I'd the zoo and to the museum
of natural history to see the ichthyo-
saurus. Surely the next step should
be to take them to London to show
them grandmother.
You can imagine the dramatic stu
ation.
Little Robert Injecting a lovely
white haired old lady in Hyde park
Oh, mother, what is that?
Mother-That is a grandmother, my
son.
Little Robert-Oh 1 want to take
her home with me.
Mother-No, my child, the air OF
America is fatal to grandmothers. Her
hair would turn red or yellow, she
would contract fox trotitis and be just
like your "momkins"
Little ROBERT SShuddertng)-
terrible.
He walks slowly away, looking back
sadly.
} And there you arel
Now l don't for a minute mean g
} imply that woman should not be as
young as she feels and as young as
she can nor on the other hand do
/ IN that the English grandmother
is an old trump. The true secret rec
: lpe for a successful grandmother IS
one who knows just when and how
to grow old gracefully. The English
grandmother has solved the problem
the American grandmother has not.
Altho the English grandmother is
a true one in I'll senses of the word
she by no means is a lack number
Indeed she keeps abreast of the times
is up on all the burning questions OF
the day and is also in the thick of the
wonderful war work that the women
of England are dc ing.
1 know of one wonderful old gen.
. tlewoman of so years. She is erect
, and entertaining and charming and
dear. She has had fourteen children
and at present four of her sons are N
parliament, two n the house of lords
and two in the house of commons.
This dear old lady has turned her
motor over to the wounded soldiers
and goes about behind a Flooding old
Dobbln because she thinks it wicket
, to pay the high price for petrol just
for her own selfish comfort. In many
: other ways she is doing her bit for the
war and she is but one among many
. She of course wears one of those sweet
: little lace caps on her snowy hair anc
a bonnet when she goes abroad.
| To American eyes it is a startlins
rand surprising sight to walk along tho
, smart shops on Pond street and
glimpse whole windows full of bonnet.
and little lacy caps not of the boudoii
persuasion that we know so well, bu
! real grandmother ones.
Some of the bonnets of course arr
real bristIing and hearse plun-ed af
= fairs but the majority arc soft dov'
grey or black flecked with a silver
leaf or blooming modestly with violets
Il purple pansy or sweet lavender
That's two things anyway that Eng
land may boast snc has and America
4. hasn't-honnets and grandmothersi
Noted Artist Found Dead.
: Hartford, Conn, Nov 11.-Sharlei
l Noel F'1agg. widely known as an arts
and nortrait painter, was found dea'