The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-22

about 1t from some OF the IadQlSIS
who keep $25 chickens in their back
yard. 1 knew one. woman who want
ed to enter some sort of live stock and
hoped there would be a dog kennel /
and a department for Angora cats.
saw her out by the garage one morn
ing combing out the goat to enter for
prize.
l heard a man and his wife discuss
ing the age of certain well known
bald-headed man of our village. The
man said he knew he was less than
81 and might have to go to war. The
woman declared he looked at least
Al, and then the man added insult to
injury by saying he knew the man
would never have registered and
counted himself a candidate for the
army unless his age compelled him to.
Is there anything so refreshing as the
frankneSS of friends?
The latest joke I have heard is
about L. M. Penwell. He had been to
meeting of one of the various boards
and organizations of which he is a
distinguished member He had told
one of his favorite and well known
comedy stories, and after he left one
of them said, There is a man who
gets the most out of life" And the
cynic in one corner replied, And out
of death, too"
In one of the drug stores the other
day 1 heard a young lieutenant dis
cussing with a girl his dread of going
overseas because ne naCeQ so QreaQ-
fully to leave behind the many pref
ty girls he knew. She assured him
that the French girls would fill the
bill to perfection, and reminded him
that a certain Topeka woman-the
wife, l think, of one of the Santa Fe
doctors-a man with an unmistakable
Irish name-was French, and a typi-
cal French woman of the northern
part of France. I'VE gods!" he cried
in accents wild. eff they look like
h01 CHI &c =
t test woman in Topeka. 1 can't land
on a foreign shore too soon.''
And speaking of doctors. there is
one in Potwin who has a dumping
by the house one day and one of them
remarked that it was DR.. So-and-So's
wife sitting on the veranda. "Oh, no,
another one said, that's not the wife
that's the hired girl
Did 1 hear someone ask for stork
news that is absolutely the latest in
formation? 1t is told to me that
preparations are being made for a
visit of the gay old bird at a house in
| the extreme west end of town, where
the first child has lately graduated
, into Buster Brown costumes.
This is absolutely all the gossip
know today, but next week 1 may tell
you about the poet from down the
river at the Athens of Kansas. Au
revoir.-Agatha.
The east is imploring help of the
west. A Topeka woman, Mrs M P
Hillyer, has received letter from her
daughter. Mrs Benjamin Armstrong,
I of Massachusetts, asking for a pound
of sugar. , Mrs. Armstrong, who used
to be Annie Laurie Hillyer. is living in
one of the towns near Boston, and she
writes that what small amounts of
sugar are shipped into the cities of the
! east, are absorbed before those in the
| suburban places and small towns can
/ obtain any of it. The sugar will cost
/ her nine cents for the pound. and the
| transportation charge will be 20 cents
/ That means sugar for % cents a
pound, as she doesn't want to order
more than that at one time, on account
of the difficulties they are having in
and near the large cities in the de-
livery of big packages.
At last the tables are turned, and
I now Topekans no longer send east to
do their buying, and the Yankees do
I their grocery bargaining in Kansas.
I The Story Tellers' club of the To-
! peka high school gave a Christmas
playlet Friday afternoon at Ouinton
| Heights school.
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THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Not at the first blush of youth, to be
sure, but woman we'll on the hope
full side of middle age. who is reported