The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-17

like and unheeded, and pouring out a
steady stream of mirth provoking
comment upon nurses and babies.
I'm gigantic high chair on the
infant contentedly playing with a
mammoth wooden reel. The eyes of
the nurse close and her head droops
in sleep, the rocking ceases and down
slips the baby on the floor. there to
carry on an interchange of witty cross
talk with his older brother, beginning
with offer to swop his yard or
more of boot-lace for the others cot
ton-reeL.
In the stalls the tall soldiers laugh
consumedly.
And before the last curtain drops
the sirens are screaming their warn
ing to the dark night that enemy aero
planes are on their way to Paris.
Twenty miles frorr, Paris.
Across the hilltop the clean br eeze
is blowing over the forests of green
trees. By twos and tours the PLAYERS
walk from the club to the tee and
drive long and straight down The
grassy slope towards the first green.
as they walk they talk of the beauty
of the day, the glory of wood md
scenery around, and speculate on the
condition of the green's after a week of
fiery sunshine.
1.-The little cadets p1od round with
the players. talking as caddies talk
everywhere of the game and the score,
and offering sage advice to the anna
teur who has not touched a club for
three years
Men who have been busy keeping
the wheels of the war going round are
here with soldiers just down from the
front, but they leave the war to run
itself on this glorious day in July, and
they. too, talk of the game and the
handicap, perchance of the lunch
which will be earned by midday. ard
the long, cool drink at four.
And down in the little railway VAL
ley below the black smoke of the en-
CINE betrays a train, carrying 1.-THE
young men in blue perched upon
guns and sitting in the open doors of
horse boxes, swinging their legs to the
air as you have seen them many
time and oft, on and ever onward to
the battle front
France has passed the day when
sentiment forbade the playing of golf
the laughter of theater or the sip
| ping of cool drinks on the boulevard.
These things are of life and the war
is of life, and we are all in it. But
there is no need to say so or even
think SO every minute of the day.
X X
THE LETTER OF a DEBUTANTE:
Dear S. r.: A rare bit of scandal
III WHICH you may SIlO" d
terest as other Topeka people have,
was told at Lake View a few weeks
ago. OF course, we aren't supposed
to tell many of the doins which hap
pen at the troop trains. but this is
harmless gossip. One of the soldiers
on his way 60 Camp Funston threw
a piece of paper with his name and
address on it off the train, as many
of them do, and one of the girls, very
popular in her set. picked it up and
wrote to him. Numerous letters were
exchanged between them and quite a
case developed thru the correspond
ence. The man proposed to the girl
and was finally accepted. He then
| invited her and her mother up to
| visit him at Funston and incidentally
| to meet the man who was to marry
! her. But when they were ushered
into his presence, they saw a large
| colored man. He was mulatto, but
| there was no doubt about his colored
I blood. The girl tainted and the
mother was at first almost equally
| However, the mother said that her
| daughter had promised to marry the
/ man and there was no reason why she
| shouldn't do it. She hadn't been told
any falsehoods; he was soldier and
| had learned to care for her, and she
| shouldn't be permitted to hold such
contracts lightly. Consequently they
were married the next day at camp,
according to the agreement. When
the ladies at Lake View got thru
listening to this scandal, there wasn't
much they didn't say about the
mother of that girl and 1 suppose
| you think too that she was a funny
kind of mother do you not? That
| seems to be a consentient of opinion
on the subject.
There was to have been a little
something to break the monotony
last evening in the nature of a dance
at Kellam Hall. but everyone was
pepless but few of the girls and
they couldn't have it alone, SO it
! didn't come off.
They say the latest fad in night
gowns is the short one A bride of a
rev weeks ago had those in her .rous-
seau made above her shoe tops. No
| we didn't see them, so we cant tell
you how they looked, but we know
| they must have been the latest fashion
Some of the little girlies shouldn-
be very warm even the hottest weather
| and, If they are. they can't blanc ii
/ 10 the extra amount of flesh they
nave put on this summer-or clothes
either.
You know what we were talk,n
about the other day? Well, she actu-
ally married him after all Knit one
Knit one. purl one, purl one-no one
can say I'm not attending to my knit
ting. can they? I was going to tel
| go what one VI the girls SAID tDoul
1t, but my knitting needs little more
| attention.
After the story (which came out .he
| other evening about the girl who held
a table at luncheon every day until
congenial company arrived to sit with
her, heard that several of the popu-
lar eating places had almost had the
| roofs raised: each of the girls who
came to 'see about it" was sure that
the story was on her and that .he
people running the lunch rooms had
told it. And each was equally
| wronged, in her estimation. But .'if
| the shoe fits"-you know the rest
| and SO does AGATHA
P. S. In the case of that girl VINO
married the colored man at Funston
| the girl was colored. too. A.
X T. =
The Rota club will give their usual
Saturday night dance this evening at