The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-29

Then the girl broke away and the man
walked off in the, other direction,
plunging his hands deep into his pock-
cts and Shaking his head sadly. -t
When next the lawyer and his
vould-be-client met, the lawyer had
some advice that for once was free.
Young man." said he, the cost of
everything is dear. If you think you
can jew down the price of matrimony,
you're cheap. I'm a married man,
and 1 know the happy Welded life
comes high"
The Lakota club which was to have
met Monday OF next week. has decided
the influenza closing order is lifted.
On account of the closing order, the
luncheon and food conservation pro-
gram to have been given Wednesday
Of next week. is called off. .g.-
A telegram from Washington to the
food conservation director for the
campaign, Mrs. D. w. Mulvane, asks
that the women of Kansas Continue
their food economy program. Even
tho the meeting for Wednesday will
not be held. and new pledges will not
yet be given out, all women in the
state who buy or prepare food, are
asked to continue the same rigid
economy as they did during the war.
with millions in the old world to be
fed" the order reads, lit will be neces-
sary for America to exercise just as
much care in the use of food as during
the war, or even more. The best way
to restore and maintain order in the
countries threatened with revolution,
Us by bread. Food means everything
to Europe now. and for years to come;
America will have to do large share
in the task of feeding the hungry of
world inn obi iS
very pressing, with the return of starv-
ing thousands to devastated homes and
with no chance of adding to the home
supply for months"
The first week in December is set
aside for the food conservation cam
paign, and tho meetings may have to
be postponed or given up, the real
work of conserving can go on in the
homes just as 1t has for the past year.
MOST ALWAYS
After four years of a regular war,
up hobs Peru and Chill. They are
trying their best attention to seek,
with a fight that's real willi-nilli
They settled it once, but they soon
found out that the world paid little
attention. So. today I notice they've
started again, by a little seven-line
mention. 1 got to thinking how true
that all was, just like people 1 know
who start lots of trouble to put on a
show. The smaller they are, the big
ger they fuss. and the more idiotic it
seems. Some jump in the papers;
some cut up fool capers. and try all
manner of schemes, to get world at
tention by some sort of mention. But
no one seems really to care. Some get
swell-headed, and some get red-heads
and wild as proverbial March hare.
The excitement dies down, and people
just frown, and it's over in several
days. So the world rolls around and
Ego sits down, forgotten like all fool
1sh Jays. So, just as advice, which
hope will suffice, when you have a
batch of hollers. don't start in to shout.
your lung to tear out, for the world is
TOO busy to bother. N. s. A.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Freshman of
Portland, Greg, have arrived to visit
their daughter, Mrs. Don MuIvane, and
her children. They will remain until
after the Christmas holidays.
Mrs. w. p. Lyman is in Wichita to
visit Miss Beatrice Dimond
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Dallas of Chi
cago arrived today to visit Mrs. Dali
lars mother. Mrs. Anna Wilson.
+ Mr.. and Mrs. George Myers and Miss
| turned home, after a Thanksgiving
day visit to Mr.. and Mrs T. j. Myers
Mrs. Charles L. Short is moving to
her home at Twelfth and Fillmore
streets. The house has just been re-
modelled and redecorated
Prot. and Mrs. H. L. Alden of Jer-
sey City are the parents of a daugh-
ter. born November 81. Mrs. Alden,
before her marriage. was Miss Mil
dred Davidson of Topeka. The baby
is a grandchild of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A.
Davidson, 1894 Mulvane street,
Mrs. G. F. Rees of 1910 Wayne
| street received a cablegram Thanks
| giving morning from her two sons in
France, Don and William Rees, stat
| ing that they were well. The boys are
with Battery A. The cabiegram was
| sent November IL, the day of the
signing of the armistice.
| Miss Polly Morrow of Asheville, N.
G., is visiting her brother. Mr.. Marco
| Morrow. = >:
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