The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-28

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very old buildings. but they look so
1 very OLD. they are not attractive to me.
I think II they were in the states they
would be torn down and new ones
built in their places. Up to date
architecture is more beautiful than
lot of old dingy, mouldy piles OF rock,
and I'm sure more wholesome to live
| in. Their system of transportation,
the subways. is one grand corporation
but one is almost compelled to have
a guide to get around. / have some
funny experiences, for instance don't
| know anyone, can see lots of people,
( but can't talk to them and can't I'M
| derstand what they are telling me.
One sees here people from ell nations,
| but the English and Australians are
the only ones that speak our tongue.
| while this IS considered the fash
! ion center of the world at, present it is
very much on the 'bum,' and in my
judgment does not compare with New
York. Yet the stores are numerous
and beautiful; jewelry stores seem to
have the lead, and the art stores also
show up in great numbers.
| 1--WE took in an English theater last
night and it was just fair. The Grand
opera is only four or five blocks from
where we are staying, but we have no
desire to go there as everything is
spoken in French. 1t is a very large
place and from all appearances it
must be very handsome on the inside.
If I go it will be only to hear the
grand ochestra.
THE women do the work here: run
the street cars, sweep the streets, sell
papers. do all kinds of clerking and
delivering, are solicitors. dog catch
ers, ETC.; in fact, women are employed
| everywhere.
To-day we were in the church
, where Napoleon attended and saw his
tomb, we stood at the base of Eifel
, | 1t g.
, and looked all over Paris We walked
up and down along the river Seine,
!, over which are thirty-two handsome
, bridges, we were shown where shells
, from the boche cannon struck in diff
ferent parts Of the city and we. saw
the Big Bertha that was captured
August 8. by the British.
Now I will try to give you some
. OF the Paris fashions. The gowns
!, about all seem to be very plain of one
, and sash of same goods tied in front
with a few rows of buttons in rows
of one-hah dozen. The colors are
steel gray. tan, blue and black. The
hats worn are beaver and of the same
! shades as the dresses The shoes are
I very high and above the bottom OF
: the skirt, which is short. The furs
worn are almost all fox, red, black
and gray, very few white and SONS
black and white Mixed
!. Notes and Personal Mention.
I Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Lyman expec
!. to go to Junction City this week tt
visit Mr.. and Mrs. S. E. LUX.
: Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Veale II
D and three children, of Detroit, Mich.
i have arrived, called by the death o.
Mr.. Veale's mother, Mrs. Genevievs
T. Veale.
Y Mrs. T. ]. Myers went to Kansas Cit,
j today to attend the funeral of Mrs
: Robert McClintock. Mrs. McClintocl
j has often visited Mrs. Myers here.
: Mrs. S. D. Carr. of Toledo. o.. ar
S rived today to visit Mrs Matthew
/ Weightman, jr., and Mr.. Weightman
e Mrs T. s. Morrison and her daugh
j tiers, Miss Elizabeth and Margaret
: have taken an apartment at the Nei
| for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Merritt, who
are guests of Mrs. Merritt's sister. Mrs
: J. c. McClintock, and Doctor McClin
v took, will leave Sunday night for thcil
v home in San Luis Obispo, Cal.
: Miss Katherine Harrison will arriv'
Sunday from her home in Downs t.
attend the wedding of Miss Gertruds
+ Gray and Mr. Leland Kennedy Thomp
2 son Monday night.
0 Mrs. r. o. Thomen, of Junction
: City, is the guest of her daughter, Mis-.
: Kate Thomen.
e Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Merriam vii
e return SUNDAY from washington, L. =
a Mrs NJ. B. Van Petten has returned
n from Puget Sound. where she has beer
n the guest of her sister. Mr.. Van Pet
: ten was called home some time agt
:. by illness.
Miss Esther Baldwin is i'll at th'
home of her aunt, Ms Charles Skin
: ner
n Mrs c. R. Krauthoff. of Washing
Z: ton. D. c., who has spent the wintel
e with her sister. Mrs Norman s. Wear
v will leave Sunday for her home. Mrs