The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-07


merchants from over the state. Some
men well known in the mercantile
world were on the program MISS
BreSette'S subject was Maximum
hourS and minimum wages for women
and minors in stores" She also spoke
at the round table in the afternoon
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Some of the young men have in
vented money saving device at the
drug stores. The scheme is to lounge
over the counter or stand outside ana
wait until a couple that the chapple
knows drops in for something to
! drink. Then he saunters into the
| store sits at the table with his friends,
| and is pretty sure to be asked to order
something to drink with them. rms
| he does just to be polite and frlendlN,
/ and when the ticket comes 1T Is, OF
| course handed to the host of the oc-
| casion. This plan is good for at least
| ten "cokes," four or flve sunoaeS'
chocolates and SwiSseS in a week IL
promotes the art of conversation, and
| by discriminate in selecting the en-
tertainer, picking him out when ne
has a girl with him and doesn't want
meriting the consideration of any am
bilious young chap who wishes to get
! ahead IN the world
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr. ard Mrs. warrick Updegraff
will entertain their evening club Sat
urday night.
Mr.. and Mrs H. H. Haynes and
their baby of Geneseo, ILL.,, are visit
ing Mrs Haynes parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w A. Morton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Guild will go
to Kansas City Saturday to hear Fritz
Kreisler in concert at Convention
hall.
A. a,l NFrS CaorCe w GIaZier of
Chicago will arrive the last of the
week to spend few days at the
George Neil home. Mrs. Glazier is on
her way home from Hutchinson, where
she visited her parents, Judge and
| Mrs. William Lewis.
Miss Mary MacLennan will go to
Kansas City Saturday to hear Fritz
Kreisler in concert.
Mrs. ]. d. Waller and her son, Joe
| F'inney Waller of Kansas City, are Wis
iting Mrs. Walters parents, Mr.. and
! Mrs. L. H. Finney of Wellington. Mr..
! Finney is a representative and Mrs.
Finney is spending the winter in To-
peka with him. Mr.. and Mrs. Fin
neys little grandson, Joe Finney Wal
Ter, was first prize baby in the baby
contest in Kansas City last year, scor-
ing 99.3 points.
Miss Mary Rodgers and Miss Eva
Miller will go to Lawrence Friday for
a weekend visit to Miss Jeanette
Wagstaff.
Miss Bess Murphy has returned from
Lawrence, where she was a guest of
! friends at the Alpha Chi Omega
house.
Mr.. Fl. w. Charles went to Abilene
to deliver an address before a meet
ing of the Parent-Teachers associa-
-. ton Tuesday night
Miss Anna Huntsberger has gone to
Wichita for a visit to friends. She will
remain a week or more.
Miss Eva Smith has left for a visit
to San Antonio and Ell Paso, Tex
Mr.. Carl Seattle will leave soon to
enter the Wisconsin university school
of medicine. Mrs. Seattle and their
daughter will join him later.
Mrs. c. G. Foster and her daugh-
ter, Miss Lillian Foster, of Lawrence
are guests at the Virginia few days.
Miss Katherine Macleod of Evans
ton, Ill, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. E.
w. Thompson of Potwin Place.
Mrs. Guilford Dudley has returned
from a visit to friends in Danville,
/ Ill.
Mr.. w. w. Whitney went to New
York today on a business trip. While
he is in the east he will visit his