The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15

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more than twenty of the boys of the
battery have knitted articles, anG only
a few of them a complete set mace
q set for my beloved, and worked III
his initials in red-the artillery color
and isn't that just too romantic =
red-the heart color, you know-but
as l was saying l put in the Initials
so that none of the other boys cculd
use them, as they could If the gov
eminent sent them
But how l ramble along! L wanted
to tell you about a perfectly good en-
gagement between West side girl
who is too cute for anything. She is
wearing a huge diamond. and she just
out of school She went to the uni
yersity, but l don't think she ever
finished down there. I know also
that she was wearing the ring before
she left school l should never do
that I told a girl one time L should
never marry till l was thirty. Guess
what the horrid cat said back. She
answered up real sudden like, And
I'll never be thirty till I'm married.
But to go back to this doll 1 started to
talk about. The man is a Topeka
chap, they tell me. Neither of them
deny the charge, but of course we all
know how girls simply dote on being
accused of having a wedding in the
| offing.
! When the magazines are not talk
| ing about war they are talking about
nice, refined old age, peaceful, gen.
! tie and unadventurous. Every wom-
ans journal is bent on holding old
| age up as an enviable state which we
| cannot arrive at too quickly. We are
! supposed to look delightfully."- senti-
mental when we tell what lovely old
/ ladies we are going to be, telling gra-
cious stories to well behaved grand
children. Well, / may get old some
day. but believe me, shall be dash
ing old lady. My precocious grand
children shall have nothing on me. l
shall smoke cigarets with naughty
deboniar insouciance, drive a big
| car, play skittish game of golf
stories and keep nice mammas in a
fluster when, under my indisputable
social wing. I chaperon their daugh-
tiers to a dance and annex all theil
handsome admirers. 70
That, my dear, is my elderly am
bthon, and nothing short of paralysis
shall thwart it. When I am SO 1 ex.
pect to develop penchant for a pre-
breakfast highball. 1 shall not have
a series of husbands, however. as thai
dashing old lady after that kind of
mill. You know how Wilde said thai
"a life of romances made a woman
look like an old ruin, but a life o.
marriage made her look like a public
building" And haven't you noticed
how the oft-married female always
gets puffy under the eyes and flopp!
jawed?
But that IS looking ahead Mean
while, all 1 have accomplished thi
week is two evenings at the opera, al
unsuccessful evening at bridge-un
successful because the girl most hat
in this world got the prize which wa
ducky little finger ring-and a it'll
dinner for four, at which I stole tn,
other girls beau, stunning youn,
chap with brand new commission
and as stupid as mud. Au revoir.-
= Agatha.
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Mr.. and Mrs ]. A. Davidson an
nounce the engagement of thei
7 daughter, Mildred Viola, to DIR. Harol
Lee Alden, of the University of Wiz
ginia. The wedding will take plac
Christmas night at the Davidso
L home.
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The Square and Compass club ha
: a dancing party Friday night at Kel
: lam Hall. Those who danced were:
Mr.. and Mrs VIII Russell, jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wilton