The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

she met Mr.. Kinney, also a student in
the university. The bridegroom is the
son of DR.. Bruce Kinney, general su-
perintendent of the Midland division
og the Baptist Home Missionary So
ciety. He is a graduate of the Topeka
high school and of Denison university,
and is employed as registrar of Lake
Forest academy. Lake Forest, III. he
expects soon to be called into train
ing for the aviation service of the
army.
Mrs. Albert Green. Mrs. Frank
Bates and Mrs. Richard Thomas will
entertain the Mizpah. Bible class of
the First Presbyterian church Mon
day afternoon, February 4, at the
home of Mrs. Green. 921 Quincy street.
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LETTER OF A DEBUTANTE.
Dear S. r.:
Do you know where it is in the
scheme of life that the women get
even with the men in this man-ma ae,
world? No? Well, I'll tell you-it's
at grand opera. That is where the
male actors wear the tights, and mod
est, discreet maidens appear in con-
vert garb or the long, sweeping,
swathing robes that the meek and
gentle woman donned in the middle
ages.
1 think everyone must have no
ticed that after Kansas day celebra-
tons last Tuesday. there was feel
ing of anti-climax about the rest of
the week, which has been filled up
chiefly with the gossip that is al
ways a hangover from great event
in the community. The women dipped
little into politics, as they usually
do in these modern days. While her
hand ruled the world by rocking the
cradle. woman was content to know
only that a Republican and Demo-
cratic president were not in office
simultaneously. As for European poll
tics, she heard vaguely of the Hun
garian gOulaSh being now and then in
session." and of England's smart, So
ciable affair called parliament, where
titled ladies took tea on the terrace.
But today she is we'll informed on
national and local politics as a Mrs.
Humphrey Ward heroine or a ward
boss. So you may know that the
DANES who foregathered in Topeka on
Kansas day had their weather eye
out and were ready to start some
thing politically. So they rallied
about the prohibition standard in no
uncertain terms and tones. They are
huffy at England, and they don't care
who knows it. In fact, they wrote
letter to Mr.. Woodrow Wilson, the
president to tell him to make the
British government behave. The club
po1itics-so far as the Woman's Kan
saS Day club is concerned, at least
made not ripple of excitement. All
the officers were elected by acclama-
tion--the machinery was all properly
creased, and the slate went thru with
out the scratching of a single name.
There were some new clothes on
display that day-and about the first
ones that have been trotted out for
the general public this winter. And
Madame Topeka doesn't need to think
for a minute that she has the edge on
the women who come from the small
er towns in the matter of apparel.
But she made an impression all right,
even among the gowns of the fash
ionable outlying districts, such as
Dodge City and Sharon Springs. One
woman who comes from town down
near the mouth of the Kaw is the
envy of her state sisters by reason of
her garments and the sparkle of her
gems. She makes Solomon seem like
a dowdy old trump. And then there
was an article of sartorial furniture in
the crowd over which the whole town
is still holding its sides.
Did you notice the response to the
call for state presidents to take the
sawdust trail to the altar? The anX-
iety of one woman to acknowl edge the
courtesy took her forward at a brisk
trot. Another woman, who was spe-
cially asked to go to the front. found
herself involuntarily acting as coat
holder for two others who were afraid
of being too late for the blessing
Have YOU ever learned what is the
particular vanity of refined and ur-
ban man? I'll tell you what it is 1t
is to seem to make speech extern
poraneousiy. Why men are SO, anxious
to appear to burst into oratory in an
off hand fashion, 1 have not yet dis
covered. but just you ask one of them
to tell you what he is going to say in
his address before a large assembly of
women, and I'll wager the new hat I
am determined to have in the spring,
he will say he doesn't yet know, and
he will say that if it is ten minutes
before he is to deliver the rhapsody
which he expects to charm all ears.
Even the preacher class of orators is
not without this streak of vanity. L
parson of that most strict of all sects
the Methodists-and a belligerent
parson, at that. who is supposed to be
afraid of nothing in out of the
German empire-succumbed to this
preparation of his fiery address for
1 think, tho. that when a man pom
! fore he gives it, he should have credit
foI' his diligence and forethought;
even when he disclaims all such credit
/ ton flows from his lips with the free
Fails.
way into print in some of the eastern
publicatio S. is Josephine Bell. now
Mrs. Egmond Arens, of New York
he is- Of he