The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-07

figure to yourself if you're wearing
one. 1t can't be done. Seventy three
centimeters is not quite 20 inches in
good round figures and most of the
figures I have seen are especially
good round ones. indeed.
considering that the skirts are al
most as narrow as they are short, just
think what great saving in material
this is. For of course that is the only
reason why the dashing Partisan has
adopted this shortage Of skirt fashion
that and two other well understood
reasons. It's such a perfectly lovely
way to help pay for the war. espe-
cially if you have nice ankles. altho
one does have to go bit farther than
that on an allowance of only 10 cent?
meters and remember it's a long calf
that has no turning and that some
times where there's knee there's a
knock
IF you have the will power some
time to tear your eyes away and look
up into the faces of these chic short
skirted charmers it will do your heart
good to see how their countenances
fairly glow with the patriotic con-
bit by showing a bit"
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THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who donated apples for the Thanks
giving baskets which were sent to a
few needy families before Thanksgiv-
ing by the Mizpah class of the First
Presbyterian church. She paid the
man from whom she ordered them
and instructed him to deliver them on
West Eighth street by o'clock
Wednesday afternoon.
When he went to the number which
he had taken down there was no one
at home, but he left the apples on the
kitchen table and departed. When
the lady of the house found a fine lot
of red apples on her table she said,
"Oh. look children, what daddy has
sent US. That means that he wants
an apple pie right away"
When o'clock came the Mizpah
ladies were still waiting for the ap-
pies to finish filling their baskets.
They called the donor and she i'm
mediately called up the man to find
out why he had forgotten to deliver
| them when he answered. II took those
| apples to the number you gave me on
West Sixth street before o'clock"
West Sixth" shouted the lady, Il told
you West Eighth
When said man went after the beau
tiful red apples he had delivered he
found a number of them "all made
up into a pie for Thanksgiving, the
lady was peeling some more for apple
sauce for the evening meal and her
children and the neighbor children
were enjoying some of the remainder
The lady felt dreadfully about it and
offered to pay for them but the man
took what were left in fear and
trembling, saying, Money will not
| help me in this case for I may be
horsewhipped by a bunch of women
for having made this mistake" But
he was only browbeaten.
The following is an extract of let
ter recently received from Miss Annie
B. Sweet, who is financial secretary OF
all the Y.\W. c. A activities of which
there are half a dozen or more al
Tours, France:
yesterday afternoon was gorgeous
and as 1 had had only one day of
| since 1 came here three months ago
L joined Miss Shelton, the assistant to
Miss Bell, the chief nurse for France
and we went to see the American
| salvage plant. 1t is located at St
Pierre de Cour. which is really q
suburb of Tours There is no visible
way to tell where one begins and the
other ends. 1t is surprising to me
that the Y. w. c. A. can secure any
help at all in Tours when such high
wages are paid at the salvage plant
i Very high indeed for France Sever
francs a day is the lowest and some
make as much as thirty. The workers
here are enlisted for the duration OF
the war and that makes some OF
course, not care for it. The govern
ment (American) could hardly afford
to train the workers unless they were
to remain for it is all new work to
them -
The carload lots of uniforms are
taken to one place and put under ire
mendouS steam pressure to Sterflize
them and each separate class of arti-
Gle is sterilized before it is worked or
and none of this is done by hand ex-
cept the harness. When the suits are
dried by hot air the women turn the
pockets inside out to see if there is
H. in fhar
over and marked on the places where
patches are to be applied Then they
pass the table where the patches are
pinned to the proper places: then to
the tables where the patches are
pasted on; then to the machines where
they are stitched on: then to the tables
! where missing buttons are replaced