The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-02
THE LETTER OF A DEBUTANTE

Dear S. A.:-Why doesn't any one
seem to like our president any more?
suppose they really like him, but
Just don't like some Of his ways. don't
you think? A few weeks ago one
would see his photograph In promi-
nent place even in the homes of some
of the staunch Republicans. but now
those large likenesses have disap-
pepared and can not be found any
place. Even the women, many OF
whom voted for him because he was
going to keep us out of war, are very
much put out with him. he must
have hurt their feelings in some way.
The small boys have taken up the
cause of democracy in the United
States and are doing their bit Around
on sidewalks and various public places
one may read in the almost legible
scribble of the schoolboy. Vote for
Wilson, he'll keep us out of war"
Some of the nephews of Uncle Sam.
after boy fashion. are undoubtedly
voicing the sarcasm of the heads Of
the household without realizing jpst
what it does mean.
Even Halloween Is not what 1t was
before the war and the flu, but still
very much the same spirit prevailed
in certain parts of town on Thursday
night. The small boys seemed to en-
JOY life almost as much as when their
jack o. Lanterns were real live pump
kins in which they had carved the
attra ctive features with their own
jackknives. The neighbours cat of
course was not dropped into the well
this year. but probably there were
only two reasons why It was not: there
was no we'll and the neighbors did not
have a cat. But the porch furniture
which was left out was moved from
one part of town to another and has
not all been delivered to its rightful
| owners yet.
The girls from six to sixteen. or per-
haps, twenty-six, celebrated the cen
| very much as usual with fortune tell
| ing, walking backward down the eel
lar steps and bobbing for apples.
What fun counting the apple seeds!
Who hasn't done it and half believed
the results-one. I love: two, I love:
three, I love. they say; four. love
with all my heart; five. I cast away;
six, he loves: seven, she loves; eight,
they both love: nine. he comes: ten,
he tarries; eleven. he courts; twelve
| he marries
And not only the little girls are IN
| terested in these sentimental hallow-
cen frolics; one of the town bachelors
| we'll past forty, was inquiring in what
| way one settled his fortune for better
| or for worse by walking backwards
| down the cellar steps on halloween.
He thought he'd try it until he hap
pened to think he might see the face
| of one of the twins and would be in
a worse predicament than ever. for II
| is only by their voices that he can dis
| tinguish between them.
Some of US girls were trying to tell
the difference between poise and pose
OF course we think the pretty girls
whom we don't like are merely posing
We decided that some people wohn1
we knew had poise framed in pose
but we were all of the opinion that
one of the young matrosn whom we
knew had poise and one of her enc
mics, who is almost catty at times
said, "poise? I should say she has
in fact it almost amounts to poison
Do you know that even if 1t does
look as tho the war is almost over the
| boys are still going over to France
Some one said that the American SOL
diers would still be in Europe until
the body Of every Americans who has
died over there has been taken ur
and moved home. Things pertaining
to the war in that country must be
run like clock works If they have
things systematized so that anything
like that is possible and those who
know say they have.
Some Of the good people interested
f, in humanity are worried because q
man who recently married a Topeka
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