The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-02

more, Mr.. Paul Van Ness, Miss Inez
Tiffany, Miss Blanche Ludington, Mr.
Roy Naylor, Mr.. Ralph Gabriel, Miss
Winifred Nash, Miss Florence Nc
Cord Miss Everingham and Mr.
Joseph Hicks. Mrs. Paul Van Ness
will pour French chocolate and Miss,
Faith Oracle will pour the English tea
which will be served.
A called meeting of the war work
council will be held saturday after
noon at o'clock at the Y. W. c. A.
Miss Mary Louise Allen, of New York
one of the national war secretaries
of the Y. w. c. A, will address the
council. She was one of the speakers
at the Kansas City meeting of the war
work council, from which a number
of Topeka delegates have returned.
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who has lately come back from
one of the far southern towns near
a military post. A part of the sights
around the city is n sort of amuse-
ment village, where the soldiers go for
their recreation. The village has an
entrance a good deal like a theater
doorway which leads by a little run
way to dance hall. All around the
hall are gardens, where there is beer
to be had, and girls and girls and
girls, to the most of whom nature was
lavish and the costumer was meager.
In fact, it was a regular village, and
our Topeka woman, who always fig
ures that she will pass this way but
once and may as well see all there is
to see, visited the place in company
with an old family friend, who prom
Used to chaperon her in the most APP
proved style. She had not long been
in the dance hall, when a soldier,
who had visited the beer garden too
and dropped his head on her shoulder.
She gave a distress signal, and the
man was carried out. She began to
think how thrilling it was to look on
at the wild night life where there was
no purity league to interfere and still
be unobserved by any eyes from home.
How free to be al.4Ous stranger for
a caper like that! At that moment
some one tugged at her elbow. She
jerked her arm away without turn
ing around, hoping the smartaleck
who was trying to get her attention
would consider himself squelched.
Then another more vigorous clutch on
her arm startled her. She turned to
give a freezing glance and a wither-
ing stare at the man who dared to
annoy her, and looked straight into
the eyes of a man from home-a lad
she had known nearly all his life. Il
thought you might speak to me, Mrs.
, he said, and then just saved
himself in time from asking her what
she was doing there, remembering
that the game of questioning works
two ways, like a gun that kicks.
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The Woman's club held it's Novem-
Der meeting Thursday all day at the
Y. w. c. A.
The club, in all it's departments, is
engaged in war work. The literature
department is sending magazines to
the soldiers abroad, and the entire
club, in it's pledge to assist the library
war council, has contributed $500 for
books. The last four dollars of the
amount was raised in a few minutes
at the afternoon meeting yesterday.
The address of the day was made
by Mr.. Raymond Kent, superintendent
of the Lawrence city schools Mr..
Kent's subject was Front Line
Trenches in Education.% He began
by explaining how the German rulers
were able to change the entire cur
rent of ideas in the nation thru the