The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30


Mrs. Mario Tastori, of Rome, for
merly Miss Ethel Devlin, of Topeka,
and more recently of Kansas City.
she met Lieut. Mario Tastori, who is
now her husband. Upon her most re-
cent trip abroad, the marriage was
solemnized according to the rites and
customs of the Italians
Alice Robe, by the way, who wrote
an account of the wedding from Rome,
for the Kansas City Star, is a former
Kansas girl, having previously made
her home in Lawrence. number of
Topeka people are personal friends of
hers.
The children of Central Park school
will present an operetta, THE Cruise
of the Trundle Bed Friday evening,
April 5, at Central Park school. The
entertainment will be under the d.
rection of Mrs. F. A. Mccoy, and the
proceeds will be given to the Junior
Red Cross in the school
X X X
The First Methodist Sunday school
will observe the new schedule of time
for its beginning hour tomorrow The
time for the Governing of the school
will be $50 by the clocks that have
been moved up an hour.
THE DEBUTANTE'S LETTER.
Dear Sir: In computing the causes
for the sudden fall of two old stand
by bachelors into the matrim onial
caldron, one is bound to blame it onto
the war. The war, in fact has us all
excited, and no one is to be held
strictly accountable 1t makes me
wonder who is to be the next There
is the one who is already engaged. but
he is off to the army, and there is no
h &c. 1-r-ia loo will
summated. Another one-a boyish
looking lawyer of the same crowd
was supposed to be devoted to a
Wichita girl the last I heard. And
still another one lives in his big
house and enjoys his wealth as ex-
clusively as tho he had no well wish
ers who are perfectly "willin''' Some
people consider him blighted being
cherishing the memory of an old love,
but 1 put no stock in that theory. He
looks much too healthy for that.
There was a temporary panic, I
hear, in the minds of some of those
who were planning the Nielsen din
ner party this week. The arrange
ments were going along well enough.
the guests were invited and had ac-
cepted to the number of sixteen.
Then presently a number of people
found they couldn't come, and the
guest list was reduced until the COW
erS TO De ptaceQ IOldIed 10 just tIllF
teen. That would never do. Some
thing had to be done, even If it was
the last minute. Some one else must
be asked to fill in, or some one would
have to be induced to withdraw. The
fatal thirteen could not be seated, es-
peeially on the very eve of Friday,
and the hour of midnight would prob
ably strike before the supper was
over. 1t was all comfortably arranged
at last, however, and good luck is
assured for another seven years. In
deed, we are not superstitious, but
you know yourself there's no use
tempting Providence
1t happened at the varsity dance.
He was chewing gum. which was out
of order. He was also talking con-
tinuously, which was impolite. A
wandering hair from the fair head of
his partner got worked into the gum,
which was embarrassing. The other
end of the hair was fastened, which
was natural. The hair would not sep
arate from the gum, which was in
convenient. The distance measured
by the hair from the gum to the gold
en- head grew shorter, which was
alarming. Then he bit off the hair so
he could talk and chew-which was
better.
Speaking of old love affairs that
have been carefully wrapped up in re-
grets and laid away in lavender, I am
thinking of an incident in the past of
a certain recently married man of our
city. He is supposed to have been at
one time engaged to one of the bright,
good looking, cultured young women
of Topeka who was not a member of
the society set, but just as attractive
and agreeable any of the village
bellies. A protest against the marriage
was entered by a relative of the man,
who. objected to the girl as not quite
good enough" Well, the engagement
was broken and single blessedness ap-
parent1y accepted by both parties as a
permanent state of being At last
when teh man got ready to change his
state, the relatives were not consulted
If the girl of his choice is not alto
gether the princess they think their
kinsman entitled to, they will have nc
chance to tell him SO.
Did anyone ever run into such a
mixed crowd as that which collected
! Thursday night to listen to the Stef-
fens lecture at the high school audi
torium? In one section of the house
were the high-brow sociology students
and scholars from Washburn college;
in another group were the intellectuals
| from down town who have advanced
ideas on social and political questions
There was crowd of the out-and-out
! Socialists who are affiliated with the
Local" and there was a group of for