The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-13


Miss Lena Sheldon is going to entertain
a number of her friends at picnic at Gar
field park this evening.
morning in compliment to Miss Har-
riet Wilson who will leave soon with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs H. B. Will
son, for a permanent residence in
Berkeley. Cal. Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Frank Smith chaperoned the party at
the park and the guests were: Miss
Harriet Wilson, Miss Mildred Nicholas.
Miss Alice Benning, Miss Elizabeth
Black, Miss Elizabeth Jones. Miss
Octavia O'Neil.
Mr.. William B. Joyce, president
since 1904 of the National Surety COM
pany, us Broadway, New York City.
who has resigned that position to be
vice chairman of the national finance
committee of the war camp commu-
nifty service. said:
II believe that one of the wisest
moves which the commission on train
ing camp activities has made was to
appoint the war camp community
service to carry on it's work in the
communities outside and adjacent to
our great camps, cantonments and
naval stations.
Invaluable as is the work of its
other agencies inside the camps, this
personal attention to our soldiers.
sailors and marines while they are on
leave and away from military dis
cipline will do more than anything
else to show them that the nation as
a whole is backing them up in every
way
Mr.. Joyce is reputed to have writ
ten, as agent, ths largest amount of
surety bonds of. any agent in the
world. He is the originator of the
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mobile bail bond power of attorney
and will now put all of his great finan-
cial experience at the disposal of this
war work.
| The Rota club Is doing this work
in Topeka, but it began it before any
outside had reached the middle west
and before 1t had been begun in many
Of the cities of the east.
! The following paragraphs by Miss
Esther Clark, of the Coffeyville
! Journal. will be of interest to the
/ Red Cross workers everywhere who
have added to the comforts OF the
soldiers lives;
| If you ever had anything to do with
the making Of q comfort bag for
| the convalescent soldier in France,
| it will do your soul good to know that
| Henry Allen raves over 'em, openly
| anu uIldSndL1eQs N one OF MS human
interest letters from the front. Now
! listen to this from the genial Kansan
| abroad:
I've seen both men and officers 90
| into raptures over the silly thing. I've
known the meanness of envyine a
man his enjoyment of it. He never
knows what he'll find in it. Neither
| does the woman who brings it. 1t has
| been made at home, maybe by some
Red Cross chapter. Those are the
best kind. (Thank you sweetly, Mr..
Henry j, Allen. they just perfectly are
| the best kindly
ITS a glad sight to see a man dive
| his hand in. He is a little sheepish
! about it at first, because we are look
ing at him. The first thing he grabs
may be a tooth brush, wrapped in
tissue paper with baby ribbon on it.
He's more gratified than he can say
I've never seen such a longing for
! tooth brushes. Generally when a man
arrives at the hospital from the battle
line he has lost his kit . : At any
rate, IT'S gone. I've never been so i'm
pressed in all my life with the innate
cleanliness of the American soldier
man as when I've witnessed his Joy
IN finding tooth brush in his com
I've gone away realizing the SIM
pie greatness of the idea of comfort
bags. God bless the mortal who
| thought of themI"
| y y
LETTER OF A DEBUTANTE
Dear S. R.: Once more it is the good
old Saturday night, hence I take my
pen in hand. etc.-Hoping you are the
same.
This is a dull town located in an I'M
interesting world. II it were not for
our bathing beach at Gage park, what
would those of US who are left
! (and most of US are left this year, in
town for the summer do? The lake
at Gage park is filled every evening
and all day Sunday On Sunday morn
Ing about IL o'clock the paths around
the lake are about as crowded as the
board walk ut Venice beach California.
on Sunday afternoons. OF course, there
are people there whom you know;
there is some one there whom every
ope knows for all classes of society are
represented both in and out of the
water. One of the best known men in
town is always there and altho he
doesn't go into the water they say he
enjoys the bathing thoroly. He just
walks up and down the shore lis that
the correct term?} and shines his
glasses.
II you had a beautiful young wife. I
mean IL you were a man and had a
beautiful young wife, would you want