The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-20

Raw Beers. Mr.. Arch Walters. Serg..
Henry Hollenbeck of Camp Funston,
Mr. Don Gugler. Mr.. Lawrence Wood
ward. Mr.. Chesley Mccormick, Mr.
William Guiger. Mr.. George Allen, MI
John Parkinson.
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The musical program at Grace ca
thedra1 Sunday will be as follows:
Morning prayer at IL O'Clock.
Organ prelude-Mrs. ]. A. Camp
bell.
Ofertory Seek We the Lord Rob
erts)-Tenor solo and chorus Glen
wood Jones and choir.
Evening prayer at o'clock.
Organ prelude-Mrs. Campbell
Nunc Dimitis (Simper) Choir
Offertory, BE Merciful Unto Me"
(Sydenham baritone solo and
chorus, Hugh Dickerson and choir.
The Red Cross shop is the "dernier
cri'' in Red Cross activities, and some
of the women who have seen the
plan in operation in Los Angeles or
San Antonio are anxious to see it put
into operation in Topeka. The plan
is a simple one, and is bringing big
returns where it is in practice. 1t is
a scheme to salvage old articles that
are going to seed in attics and base
ments. These old things are contrib
uted to the Red Cross, which keeps
them in shop with a repair depart
ment, AMI then sells them when they
have been put into condition Mrs.
Hancock Banning of Los Angeles orig
mated the plan, and it was first tried
in her own city, with greater success
than her fondest hopes had foreseen.
The second shop was opened in San
Antonio, Tex. and that also was re-
warded with great success. Mrs. Fred
HILL who has lately returned from
San Antonio, saw how the shop in that
city was operated and is enthusiastic
over its possibilities in this getty
If the salvage department should
open doors in this city it would mean
that you go into the cellar and find
your old hair switches, last years
overcoat, old furniture and jewelry-
anything that can be repaired and
de salable- The Red Cross socie-
ties that have tried it have found that
they were able to pay their running
expenses and buy their supplies
And that is no joke, unless it be on
the rubbish that considered itself in
for an eternity of idleness in Com
missioner Porters trash heaps around
in the municipal dumps.
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Mr. and Mrs NJ c. Mcdonald an
nounce the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Marie Katheryn, to Sergt G. A.
Reid of the American eXpeditionary
forces. The marriage was solemnized
at Lawton, Okla, April 8, by Lieuten-
ant Mastgalio.
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A DEBUTANTE'S LETTER.
Dear S. r.: This Captain Leslie
Vickers, one of the original "la dies
from hell" brought a much needed
tonic to our little inland city this
week, when he spoke to the Red Cross
workers at their luncheon. He gave
us Americans a few sly hits on our
conceit and our boastfulness, but. ba-
Jove, y'know, we need it. We do SO
much of our Dragging about our
achievements before we get into ac-
ton, and you have it to say for the
British that what boaSting they do,
comes after the fact and not before it.
But that lecture of his got under the
skin because it was message from
the battlefield, and was given in the
language and tone of a gentleman.
Being told what to do by a man like
nat who has been to the inferno and
suffered and all but died, is mighty
different from being stormed at by
some of our fat, sleek, well-fed, we'll
housed, home keeping citizens with
German names who rage up and down
the town with advice and command
Whadayu know about the pretty
young married woman who took
company of friends, men and women
all married but none of them mar
ried to each other-in her car, for
little campfire supper the other night
in the country? One of the girls who
was attending a steak roast not far
from the blazing fire, is telling the
friends and-enemies of the crowd of
how they sang The Bird in the Gilded
Cage Teasing and some amorous
ditties usually affected by the senti
mental and the alcoholic. The whole
scene, she said, was very romantic,
under The soft light of the sky, with
no incandescent glare In fact it was
the double distilled, triple-strength
rarified, sun dried quintessence of ro-
nance, so long as the mates of the
jewellers don't find it out If they do
it will be something that the very
| best people-at least those in our
! warfare too refined to mention.
Such quaint things they think of,
these New Yorkersi For example, it
was not for US in Topeka to start
social register for dogs and cats, a
Who's Who for CANNES and feIines.
But in New York, a plan was begun
before the world got interested in
something more important, for every
dog or cat that could afford a check
OF 81 a year, to have its name, ad-
dress, telephone and pedigree, printed
in pretty book, and at the same
/ time become a member of the dog or
| cat brigade. Such a membership en-
titles him to a little red mite box
! worn on the collar, and if the wearer
| is winsome or does extra tricks, the
! friends of the adoring family dig
deep and drop something nice into
/ the mite chest. The proceeds were
/ to go for a cat and dog home. Mary
| Gardens Scotty amassed a fortune of
! SIP in that little mite chest. The
I latest news is that the money so COL
lected is @ow being used for war re-
+ lief work. Thus, war does have it's
CO mpensations.
The pleasures of the chase are
waxing more and more interesting
every week. even when you are not
engaged in it. if only you can be an
onlooker> A certain wealthy Topeka
widower is a marked man. Already
his pace has begun to slacken, they
say and he seems almost ready to