The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-23

ending with bang, and then the dirt
flies all over you unless you are too
close; in which case it is even worse.
We have seen some gruesome sights
and had horrible experiences, but are.
for the most part, sound and whole
and so have much to be thankful for.
We have been attack by aeroplanes
and they have dropped bombs and
fired on us with machine guns while
we reciprocated with the latter as well
as with rifles.
1.-The German officers dugouts are
certainly swell, with electric lights,
concrete foot thick and from twenty
to forty feet below the ground. A let
ter was found in one of them telling
how fine a place the writer had in
which to spend the winter. lots Of beer
fire wood, etc. I wonder where he Is
now. I can't describe the inhabitants
of that part of the country as there
were none. 1t was the most ruined
place you ever SAVOY our own shells
probably. The French have hammer
ed at this point for three years and
thought it folly to attempt to take it.
1t was held by Prussians. There were
lots of souvenirs to be had. but we
were travelling light with only half our
horses, the rest being strug all the
way from our former position in the
mountains up here and back.
1.-The town in which we now are is
near a large town of three words
which if pronounced carelessly. sounds
/, like two English words, the first of
(Bar-le-duc.)"
THE LETTER OF A DEBUTANTE.
Dear S. R.: When topics for con-
versatiion are scarce there is always
the weather as a last resort and even
then the subject is constantly changing
in our state. Why not use the same
strategy in letter writing? There are
those who like winter and those who
don't, but if they live in Kansas they
might as well be as game as the boys
were when they first went to the mill
tary camps and Just like it anyway"
and as in camp life you can get used
to 1t.
This is the season of the year when
| there is some disagreement between
mother and young lady Every young
LADY, daughter. The mother is often
times old fashioned and insists upon
long ones with long sleeves and high
neck and some of them even buy wool
and the girls have to wear them, too.
But one of the debutantes know says
| she just puts her wool and silk mix
ture, which she is supposed to be
| wearing, in the floor of her closet,
| tears a hole in it's occasionally and
puts it in wash every week and ii
| doesn't scratch a bit. But what if she
should faint or something and then
| the truth would come out.
One of the soldiers who was in New
York on the night of the peace cele-
| bratiOn, when every one seemed to be
doing it, said a young man (and a
prince of a fellow, toO,) offered him a
| glass of champagne. Guess he didn't
know that soldier was from Kansas
and perhaps at that stage of the game
| he didn't know he was a soldier, far
be it from a Kansas girl to say. The
soldier from Kansas said he did hate
| to refuse. 1 suppose that was because
he thought it wasn't very polite to moi
| accept an invitation of a New York
man. don't you?
| I notice that Mrs. Wilson is not GO
French girls have a filtration with hel
husband. She's going along and
don't blame her with all those queens
and princesses over there.
| Large lockets are once more in style
as they were during the Civil wal
| small saucers. Women who have sol
! diers in France need not cut dowr
cherished photographs so that the!
/ will fit in small lockets. Many o.
these large lockets have mirrors il
one side Of the lid and the soldier,
photograph Is IitteQ INTO the Otner SlQt
SO every time girl looks to see if hel
hat is on straight she may have
view of her beloved and every tim,
she looks at the pictured visage of hi
heroic face she may be treasured O
her own appearance.
Can you tell me what a 1ayette is
Is it anything like a trousseau? TIL,
reason 1 wondered is 1 heard a CIR
say the other day. $50 many of tn
young society women are sewing OIL
layettes."
They say all movements of wa
4 workers to France have been temper
arily held UP and this has postpone,
the plans of a number of Topeka wo
men who expected to leave soon. Blu
they are still being called for physica
examination SO they have hopes.
Did you hear that General Woo
might come to Topeka this week
That is very true-he might have, b,i
he didn't. He never does. How doe
he know he wouldn't ike Topeka:
i. I heard one of the young wome
whose husband is in France say sh
. was going over in some sort of work
meet her soldi er husband and remain
, in that country for some time. Won
that be an interesting trip?
There were some diSa 0D0infed lfttI