The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-11

Topeka, is visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. G. W. Miller, S26 Madison
street. Mrs. Briefer has spent the
summer doing prelude work as a
harpist and reader on the chautauqua
platform with a Kansas City company.
She will leave after a short visit here
for Chicago, where she will spend the
winter studying music. Mrs. Briefer's
husband, Mr.. Sherman A. Briefer, is
in France with the Eighty-ninth di
vision. He belongs to Company F, 353
infantry.
In a letter to a friend. Mrs. Joseph
P. Hicks has written that both she and
the Rev. Mr.. Hicks, who is stationed
at Camp Kearney, where he is en-
gagged in Y. NJ. c. A. work, are delight
ed with California. Mrs. Hicks says:
I'VE are living in five roomed cot
tage, in front of one window of which
is a palm tree forty feet tall and over
one corner of the cottage is a Marshal
Neil rose bush having a trunk ten
inches in diameter.
"San Diego is very patriotic; every
day at noon the chimes play Amer
ica,' and every head is uncovered in
silent prayer"
Mrs. Hicks says the aeroplanes are
as common a sight as birds at San
Diego. She spoke of a funeral OF one
| of the boys who was killed in his aero
plane out there when squad of aero
| planes followed the funeral procession
and dropped flowers on the grave.
Mrs. Hicks is living at 1925 Second
street, San Diego, Calf:
Mrs. Eli G. Foster entertained the
Topeka Avenue club this afternoon at
her home in West Sixth street.
X X Y
| A dear old lady who thought she
was patriotic. always took a little
| vxhi nd int in in o.
| room. She did not seem like person
who would eat candy for breakfast.
| One day we saw what it was. 1t was
her own private sugar supply from
home. which she made her family
| send her.
/ She added some to the amount the
| hotel allowed for her cereal and her
coffee, and sprinkled her fruit with it.
| We counted carefully one day, and
figured that she was using twelve tea
| 1owance. That would be eight pounds
| a month, instead of two pounds.
| One evening we read to her story
| in the paper about a man who was
trying to make the government pay
| him $4,000 for his house that was
worth only $4,000. Our old lady was
scandalized and said:
I'D like to see all those horrid prof
iteers put into jail
She was a profiteer herself. She
was Self1Shly breaking the rules of
4 the food administration; she was ac-
tually stealing sugar by taking some
+, one e1se's share!
If she had stopped to think she
could have seen that If everyone quad
rupled his sugar rations, the American
per capita annual allowance of "a
| pounds would go up to sc pounds a
! year-higher than the largest amounts
we in the United States used to con-
sumo in our days Of plenty before the
/ war. g.
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
| Who is the wife of a prominent lib
! erty loan worker, and yet who is too
| busy papering her house" to take part
| in the house to house canvass in the
residence district. The woman in ques-
ton acted as a block lieutenant in one
| or two drives-but in spite of just
finished trip to Kansas City she is
too busy to work in this drive"
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| Anticipation and realization are two
things closely related-sometimes
but farther apart than the poles of the
earth. The students at Washburn col
lege now know this to be a fact. not
/ by hearsay but by actual experience.
When the student army training
corps was announced for the school
on the west hill, sundry ambitious To-
peka youths saw opportunity staring
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