The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-11

olive dra,b burst into tears and cried
internationally the remainder of the
day.
A DEBUTANTES LETTER
Dear S. R.: One occasionally meets
such mean little backbiters! have
just seen one who assures me that
the widow is by no means sure of the
wealthy widower, because there is
girl who is regarded with a favoring
eye by the man. To be sure, she is
a P. W. G., but she is as sharp as
tacks pretty good looking and then it
runs in the family to marry well.
How one envies the co-eds their en-
thusiasms! Out at the college the
girls are all knitting for dear life, and
they are wonderfully smart about all
military affairs. They know just what
unit and what division Of the unit
every Washburn chap belongs to; they
know all about army regulations and
army equipment. They have no end
of information on all sorts of military
subjects at their tongues end. They
even knit in class. The story is told
of one of the girls who studied trigo-
nometry and took her knitting to reci-
tation She was just in the precari-
Gus business of rounding off a toe,
when she was called upon to demon
strate a trig problem. Take the side
alb, cast twelve, purl eight to the apex
of a solid sock" but it's like this:
1.-The good girl is learning to knit, to knit,
1t is solemn to sit near by
And look as she frets in a pan1cky mt,
At the blood in her loving eye,
Knit, knit, lickity split,
Bound and determined to finish her bit,
Casting and purling. disdaining to quit,
The dear girl is lear sing to knit
But those college girls are bricks,
no question about that. The other
evening the Theta girls gave a party,
and every one of the fraternity men
in the school was invited to fill up the
lists so that each girl would have a
partner. That is in great contrast to
the old days when all the frat men
watched the mail box with a hawk
like eye to see that no one else SHIPPED
his invitation. In those times. it was
only a few from each frat house that
could expect a bid. Now, every one
of the mer is required for every par
ty. And the girls are not complain
ing. No, indeed. they are proud and
glad that the men are scarce, because
that means that their college has sent
nearly all it's men for the cause"
They consider it matter of pride,
and they boast of it, that their gradu-
ating class has but seven men this
year
This town is losing one of it's favor
lite sensations, so they tell me, but at
the same time it is acquiring a new
one. Now, now, Lizzie, not too fast.
Just let me meander thru this story
to suit myself. And step back lit
tie. Don't crowd. but watt your ears
gently in this direction.
In the first place, the old affinity
case that has been setting the city on
edge four months is all over. The
principals in the case are settling back
to the hum-drum of the old life of
matrimonial faithfulness. In fact, the
woman in the affair is now often seen
at the picture shows in the company
of her husband. and the mans auto
mobile is frequently graced by his
good looking wife. The woman has
achieved the possession of shoes
enough to last her a year, and her
fine shape. AS for bonbons. she is
tired of them.
But this strange new affair has
given a sorry jolt to all previous SEN
sations that have pretended to be able
to excite the gossips. 1t puzzles even
those who thought they had the cor
rect slant on all sorts of highly sea-
soned CONNECTIONS. One of the first
rate story tellers makes a word pic
ture of the woman in the case start
ing out with her new friend" in her
car, in open daylight, the two looking
adoringly and meaningly into each
others eyebrows. Along the street
walked the husband trundling the
baby carriage. But why the baby
carriage. seeing that his only child is
nearly grown " the narrator was
asked. II think that makes a better
story" the man answered. OF course,
the excitement all centers in the Per-
son with whom the Topeka woman is
enamoured. 1t is a strange case.
hope Doctor Lerrigo will write book
about it.
One of the men who has been flirt-
Jig with a Topeka girl for years went
down to Kansas City a few days ago
for a little visit to some friends. Hard
ly had ne boarded his train before one
OF the men gOssips rushed to the To-