The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10

dren, it's smelly. doors, and quaint
architecture, and we fancy we are
reading a book instead of actually see
ing what is before us. Our city lies
in a valley A short walk brings US
to a pine forest with it's spicy air and
soft pine-needle carpet. Any street
car takes US to a beautiful spot in hill
or valley, and around US are the blue
hills with their chateaux and villas.
The Seine runs thru our valley, with
its innumerable islands, the foliage of
which nearly meets the trees on the
banks. The cathedrals are navel
Gus, with their exquisitely colored
windows. Inside, women in deep
mourning and men and children may
be seen on their knees at prayer.
1.-The French people have fine,
friendly feeling toward US. They love
Americans and show it in hundred
ways How their faces light up when
we meet them.
II am on night duty in charge OF
the medical division with hundreds
and hundreds of patients. 1t rains
most of the time. Can you form men
tai picture of US in rubber boots, two
pound wooden stockings, rubber coats
and rubber hatS-lanternS in hand"
making our rounds. Our patients are
taken care of in tents, eight to nine
tents in a line, and from 112 to 125 on
a line. Our hospital is located ON the
race course, and there is lot OF
tramping to do. The stables have peen
fixed up as kitchens. We are Just
as healthy as we can be-We all look
better than when we came
THE sunrise this morning IS lovely
The sky is all colored in pastel shades,
and the light thru the trees shines ike
satin thru lace"
few friends of Mrs, George Stae-
bier were invited by Mr.. Staebler to DC
their guests Friday night, to celebrate
Mrs Staebler's birthday anniversary
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The Fillmore Street Whist club mas
disbanded for the season. The money
ir the treasury will be given to the
good cheer Christmas fund for the
soldiers.
A Topeka girl who has made place
for herself in the newspaper WorIo III
New York, is Miss Lee Haynes, who
was brought up in this county, and
has been in the east for some years,
working on the staff of various dali
les. She is now with the Brooklyn
Eagle as fashion artist. She draws
the illustrations for the fashion arti-
cles, and for some of the drawings she
writes the style story In a recent
number she has illustrations for a
page article by Mrs. Vernon Castle on
the subject Dress to Suit Your
Type" Her work is exceedingly clev-
6r, line touches u
For a style article on Distinctive
Apparel for the Limousine she has
some especially attractive drawings.
One of them is called The Peril of the
Bustle, and it shows in the picture
entitled To-day" the modest, slight
is really pretty. In the drawing en-
titled Tomorrow" as a question,
there is a hideous garment with an
atrocious hump across the hips. FLAIR
ing out in tiers of ruffles. that is
pretty safe prediction of the destina-
ton of the present hustle tendency.
Miss Haynes was in Topeka last
summer, resting after nervous
breakdown. She spent several weeks
here, and after returning, she went
into her work with a renewed vigor
that is apparent in every stroke of
her pen.
illustrator, she does some work on
the side in the advertising field.
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The musical program at Grace
cathedral for Sunday will be as fol-
lows: Morning at IL o'clock:
Prelude, Andante. .M erkeI
Mrs. J. A Campbell
TIE Deum OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Schilling
anthem '''''-''''Cc Choir. 80 'iouhod
Offertory. Adore and BE Still-AIonzo Stone
Quartette-Miss Jeanette Price, Mrs. Hugh
Dickerson, Mr.. Glenwood Jones,
Mr.. Hugh Dickerson-
Vesper service at o'clock.
Prelude Selected
Mrs. j. A. Campbell.
M Magc Dimittis Observation-Disclosures PPe er
Choir.
Anthem, Jerusalem ;;:---.-....---Go unod
offertory, Soft Sabbath Calm. .Barnby
Quartette.
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN