The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

reached the vanishing point.
There is an old saying that pro
pinquity and a smart woman can ac-
complish wonderful things" A story
is out around town that tends to
prove that adage.
They tell a widow story that points
the moral. The man in the case is a
former Topeka chap, and that gives
it local flavor. A certain man who
left Topeka to live in a college town
in another state, taking with him as
his bride a Topeka young woman of
very superior qualities and charm, is
the subject of the sketch. A few
years later he became n widower, and
as a man of good position, he nat
urally became a mark for the search
ers after a meal ticket. He entered q
boarding house kept by woman,
nearing middle age, who was twice a
widow (by process of law). Now the
world gives it to the widows that they
can hand the beautiful blushins-
young girls, cards and spade and beat
them at the game However, this
wisdom of experience never seems to
descend to baptize the male member
of the species. He goes on being an
easy mark, no matter how many
times he passes thru the matrimonial
mill. Thus it happened that the
widow missed her aim when she Sc
lected young chap who carried on
desperate filtration with her for a
liIHe, anu lIleH disappeared, Wn1le the
bereft, older man stood pat. He did
make it to another town for a few
weeks, but he left his new address,
which indicates that his move was not
in the nature of a flight. If it was
he was overtaken, according to the
story.
AS romances should always have an
exciting climax, rumor says that the
two have consoled each other in 1.-The
holy bonds of matrimony"
The T. Y. V. club had picnic at
Gage Park Wednesday night Those
present were:
Miss Violet Mathematics Helen RutIedge
Miss Florence FrittonMiss Ramona XIX
Miss S., Eut a.. Mccash ofM!ss Maym Parsons
Miss Dorothy Brad Miss Edna Becker 4,
MISS Lillian Gesner Miss Miss F Fam An Holman
X y
Notes and Personal Mention
Mr.. John Porter and Mr.. Lucien
Thrill are visiting Mr.. Sam Atkinson,
jr., of Lawrence.
Miss Dorothy Miller. who is attend
ing summer school at X u, was in
Topeka for the circus. She was ac-
companied by Miss Dorothy Tucker
and Miss Dorothy Querfeldt, and also
by Miss Hazel Pratt of the department
of physical education of the univer-
sity
Mr.. Ernest G. Gustafson has gone
to Washington, D. C., to accept po-
sition with the United States food
commission. He stopped in Lawrence
to visit his uncle, Mr.. j. ]. Collins
Mrs Louise Hoover has gone to
Detroit, Mich, to remain two weeks.
Miss Mildred Hazelrigg, Supervisor
of Music, the Topeka Public schools,
returned yesterday from a months
stay in Chicago. While there she
the well known Chicago musician,
and also took post graduate work in
the American Institute of Normal
Methods. Miss Hazelrigg was accom-
panied by her mother, Rev. Clara H
Hazelrigg, pastor of the West Side
Christian church, who spent the time
in a study of Community and Settle
ment work.
49, Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Allen and their
children, Catherine, Josephine, Flor
ence, Louise and Stephen, will leave
soon for a motor trip to Morton
county, to remain two weeks. They
will visit Mr.. Aliens sister, Mrs
Charles H. Drew, formerly Miss Emily
Mr.. and Mrs. o. K. Swayze have re-
turned from trip to Washington
d. c., and to New York
Fried chicken dinner at the Bunga-
low. Highland Park, July Is. Phone
1872, saturday for reservations.-Adv
Word has been received in Topeka
guson, the six-weeks-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. David Ferguson, of Col
by. Mrs. Ferguson, before her mar
riage, was Miss Clara Daniels. The
baby was the granddaughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. T. Daniels.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Tomlinson, Miss
Ruth Tomlinson and Miss Mary
Weightman, have returned from a
motor trip to Fort Riley. where they
visited Mr. Winiam Tomlinson, who
is taking the officers training.
Miss Mabel Craighead of Omaha
is spending few weeks with Mrs NJ
NJ Blinn.
Judge S. H. Allen has returned from
a trip to Pleasanton, Kansas. Miss
Nell Allen is visiting Mrs. Fred Gil
lette of Kansas City.
Mr. and Mrs Byron Curry and their
children, who formerly lived at Nor
ton, are in Topeka, and have taken
the house at 1877 Woodlawn avenue,
for the rest of the summer.
Miss Clara Armstrong, of the Y w
c. A. has returned from a vacation
trip to Erie, Penn.
Mr.. J. D. Walker has left for n
visit to relatives in Boston. His
daughter, Mrs. Harry Bowen, accom-
where she will visit Mrs Malcolm
Garrard, formerly Miss Ethel De-
Obert of Topeka.
Mrs. Orville Bowman of Kansas CITY
and her daughter, Doris, will arrive
tonight to visit Mr.. Bowman's brother.
Mr.. Clarence Bowman, and Mrs. Bow
man. They are on their return from
Manhattan, where they visited Mrs.
Bowman's son, Lieut.. Bowman, who is
in charge of a detail of men,
Mr.. Douglas Bowman is in Hutch
inson visiting his aunt Mrs Elmer
Bloom. He will return home Sunday.
DR.. and Mrs. J. T. Melvin and their
family, and Miss Helen Pendleton,
drove overland from Portersville. Cal
and are spending the week with DIR.
Melvin's sister, Mrs. R. A Rutledge,
They are on their way to the Atlantic
Coast. The Rev. A V. Pendleton and
MRS. Pendleton, of st. Joseph, No.
are also guests of Mr.. and Mrs, Rut-
ledge.