The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-24
STATE JOURNAL-SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER "a 1917

ing IN the Tar emu OIL the luHHSis ahN
matches were being struck The
boche had discovered it was tunnel
and were making their way down.
There was no time to be lost we
officers crept out first to lead the way,
went into a trench and then onto the
open sand for about 800 yards on our
tummieS to the river. 1t was very
exciting getting thru their lines, and
our route lay along an old dump of
ours. There was a sentry there, but
he did not see us. On we erawled
like snaiIs. The boche kept sending
over shell lights, and then we would
lie absolutely quiet. We crawled into
shell holes and out again until we got
to the river. Here We saw sentries
all along, but we got between them
ALI right, took off our boots on the
waters edge, and swan across to
safety
= X
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw. head of the
National Woman's Committee of the
Council of Defense. has written to the
state chairman her Christmas mes
sage. Mrs. d. w. Mulvane, chairman
of the Kansas branch of the society,
has received the following word from
| the national chairman:
As the holiday season approach ss,
| the question which confronts us all
is What shall l do about Christmas?
Shall 1 follow my usual plan and pre-
sent to Oh of my friends such gifts
as l have been in the habit of be-
| slowing. or shall l refrain from doing
! so this year and expend all that can
| afford upon our soldiers and the
needy ones across the sea-
| 1T occurs to me that there are two
ways in which we may keep Christ
mas fresh and green in the mem orr as
of our children, and that this, of all
the years of our lives, should be
| children's Christmas year
1t is our duty not only to keep
the home fires burning but also to
keep the hearts of our household
cheerful and drive gloom and depres-
sion IS far as possible from those who
surround our hearth fires
| The custom of promiscuous Christ
mas giving as practiced in past years
has become a burden to many people
who were unable to bear it, and no
better time than this will ever pre-
sent itself for the inauguration of a
reform in this direction.
May we not, as a womans COM
rnittee, adopt the plainly patriotic as
well as common sense position that
no adult person should give or receive
presents of any sort which are not a
real necessity, and that all exchanging
should be vigorously discounte-
nanced ?"
Mrs. Alvarado NJ. Fuller who Is in
charge of the work of sending out
Christmas boxes to the soldiers for
the Red Cross, announces that about
1000 packages have been shipped.
Mrs. Fuller does not know what the
Ultimate destination of the boxes will
be, hut she thinks those from this
par of the country will be sent to
France. The Red Cross made a re-
quest that the Topeka chapter be re-
. sponsihle for between 900 and 1000
, bc%es. Topeka people were stunned
with the immensely of the request,
but the number has been filled nm
without great difficulty. One Topck
! maj gave twelve boxes which cost
f each A good many of the packages
were given by the small towns around
t Topeka. The local Red Cross society
: ing number were given by organiza-
/ tons and individuals outside of the
r Red Cross society.
E THERE'S \ WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
1 Who was strolling lately with a mar
e VINO insisted upon telling her stories
s to which her sense of propriety OBJ.
jected. Instead of scoIding him fol
it. she turned away and kept quiet
e What is the NATTER" he asked her
4 why don't you talk to me?"
< I was just thinking" she answered
4 Thinking? All, isn't that rather g
e rare form of rudeness - the man came
0 back
-
e Mr.. William Campbell of Los An.
I geles, Cal, is visiting his vister, Mrs
U Noble Prentis. Mrs. Prentis and Mr.
n Campbell will go to Newton, Kan.
o Monday to visit Mrs Prertis's daugh.
e ter. Mrs. J. c. Mack Mr.. Campbell
E has been in the east for the past three
4 months and is stopping in Topeka OF
| his return trip.
:. Mrs. Louis Van Dorp gave a choco
I late today for Mrs. Fred Woodbury. O.
Olivet, Kan, who is visiting Topeka
friends.
;, The newest verse by Willard Wat
II ties has appeared in the Universit,
4 Kansan and was copied in the Kan
o sas CITY star The Star recently rar
: an article of considerable length
a about Mr.. Watt1es, in which he wa,
= declared to be one of the forcr1oh
v living poets in America. Clad Thomp
3 son. of the Star. comments on Mr.. Wat
: ! tles's newly published lines in the;
:, betrayal of fIirtatious instincts on n,
: part of the poet. The lines are;
Z / have had sad love
| have had asgay one
5 L have had a bad love,
|, And a drabby- gray one;
: have had red love.
o have had u new one.
a But it is the dead love
= Ever Is the true one.
A contemporary of Mr. Wattles
u who has done a good deal of "versl
. tying" noticed his lines on the variAt
e of his loves, and submits the follow
= ing parody:
e | have had a fat love.
n | have had lean one;
: An aristocratic love,
- And country green one
- l have had a fast love
And a siInon-pure one.
But it is the last one
x y X
- That's the only sure one
l. The women of Grace Cathedra
n Guild are going to show their Iovait
o to the government and its conserva
y ton plan by emitting the usual cand
e booth from their Christmas sale De