The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-19

their home in Harrison street in
compliment to Mr.. and Mrs. H. H.
Motter, of Mcpherson. Covers were
laid for Mr.. and Mrs. Motter. Judge
and Mrs. Lee Monroe and Mr.. and
Mrs. Monroe.
The following poem by Mrs. H. O..
Garvey of Topeka appears in the Oc-
tober number of The General Fedora
ton Magazine:
SPRING IN THE HEART
A patch of green sod meath the trees brown
and bare.
smell Of fresh mold on the mild southern
air.
A twitter of bird song. a flutter, call.
And tho the clouds lower, and threaten,
There's spring in my heart!
note the low branches, their beauty of
The tempest has blasted with frost and
But deep in earth's bosom hid safe from
the chill,
Live the flowers of hope no winter can
There's spring in my heart!
The buds will respond to the suns warm
With fragrance and fruitage, Loves con-
fidence bless.
What care 1 for Times hoary seal on nv
head?
The years cannot claim me, nor youth be
all fled
While Springs in my heart.
-Berta Alexander Garvey president Kan
sas Federation of Women's Clubs)
n Y X
THE LETTER OF A DEBUTANTE.
Dear S. R.:-The ban is on in To-
peka society for almost everything but
letter writing so 1 am taking advan-
tage of the one privilege left.
fEnr aP% he To- Il
great disappointment to those who
had garden and porch parties planned
for this weekend. You say how alb
surd, who ever thought of such a
thing at this season of the year? Why
the sororities at Washburn, of course,
and all of them seem to have thought
of it at once, aided by the faculty, who
nave forbidden any other sort of a
rushing party. The rush captains"
are almost frantic attempting to meet
the trying situation tactfully, but the
new girls are good sports.
They say one of the girls who has
been recently married has had quite
career since her early girlhood and
leaves string (and string is the cor
rect word) of disappointed men, all of
whom are old enough to be her father
1t began when one of her employers
happened to fall in love with her. He
left town and, by the way also left his
for divorce from his wife, and was
putting forth an effort to make him
self eligible, but in the meantime an
other elderly man bought the required
engagement ring and was to be the
happy bridegroom if the first was not
successful in obtaining his freedom.
There were several others equally in
terested and equally old, but anyway
now she has married a young man
and they say she wears a number of
diamonds and trophies of other kinds.
So ostrich feathers are again lead
ing the fashion for hat decoration ?
Is that on account of the war or be-
| cause it looks as tho it was almost
| over?
| And speaking of the war, heard
on good authority that with all our
! army, which is the largest in the his
tory of our country, we have not yet
| come near rivaling what our fore
| fathers did in the Revolution and the
| Civil war. considering that our popu-
| lation is about one hundred and two
millions as against about three mil
| lions and twenty-five and a half mil
, lions, respectively, then. If we had
the same proportion of men under
arms now as in the Revolution and the
Civil war we would have an army OF
| about twelve and three-fourths mil