The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-02

Francisco. Mrs. Wagner was for
merly Miss Florence WEIGH and Mrs.
Funnel, Miss Elizabeth Holiday. both
of Topeka. Mrs Funnel was in Los
Angeles with her husband, who made
a business trip down there. Mr.. and
Mrs Wagner also entertained Mr..
and Mrs. Funnel and Mr.. and Mrs
Yerkes at dinner at their home. MI.
and Mrs. Wagner have handsome
new touring car.
A letter was received this week from
one of the secretaries at Camp Fun
sion entitled lover the top with four
thousand sandwiches" and telling or
the making of the four thousand SAND
witches which the Y. w. c. A. or the
camp promised the Y. M. c. A for
tn, reception which they gave when
ex-President Taft was at the came last
week.
-Four thousand sandwiches is four
thousand slices of bread" remarked
one of the boys, land four thousand
slices of bread is some bread" He
was right, even more right than we
realized at the time. Four thousand
slices of bread is some bread. enough
butter to butter these four thousand
slices is some butter and enough sand
witch filler to fill those four thouSano
sandwiches is some filler
Little did we reck when we heard
of ex-President Taft's arrival what it
would mean to US. Even Wnen we
heard that the Hostess House had
undertaken to supply the Y. NJ. G. A.
with four thousand sandwiches LOT
the reception they were giving to the
officers at Camp Funston in honor OF
Taft. we merely thought that it would
be very nice. When Miss Kempton,
our cafeteria director, announced
that she would need our help we be-
gan to realize the situation but its
full gravity did not burst upon US un-
til we actually saw the long table in
the closed in porch part OF the care
terra. Six of the little tables had been
put together and covered with long
sheets of brown paper tackled down
with thumb lacks to keep 1t from
blowing away in the Kansas gale that
came in every time we opened a win
dow to let out a little of the odor of
melted butter and filler" At one
end of the table were several large
boxes, one or two sheets of paper
and a huge knife. At the other END
were boxes and baskets of bread, two
huge bowls of melted butter with
paint brushes and one huge dish of
filler. The rest rest of the table was
taken up with knives and plates.
Out in the cafeteria proper the vol
unteer hostesses were folding nap
kins-two thousand of them-as the
rest of us marched blithely by to our
table we began to realize what lay
before us, but our anticipations were
pale beside the dreadful reality. AT
first we laughed and joked as we took
our places at the command of the
cafeteria director, and wondered
which one of US would make the sand
wich for ex-President Taft Two of
us buttered the bread, which was con-
stantIy supplied US from the kitchen.
Three or four or five-aS many as we
could get, in fact-spread slices of
bread with filler; one person fitted
Gas nearly as possible) buttered slices
of bread with filtered slices of bread
and they were passed to the end of
the table, where a secretary with
rolled-up sleeves welded the huge
knife and cut them in two. Then the
packer counted and arranged them in
various assorted boxes. Under this
system the work progressed very rap
idly. Still four thousand sandwiches
are some and noon saw US only some
five hundred along. Lunch found our
spirits slightly diminished. We no
longer asked to have the lame ducks
passed around, but we still laughed
and joked as we spread and spread
and spread and painted and painted
and painted and cut and cut and cut.
Two or three of our workers were
called away as we reached eight hun
bred and those of us who were left
realized that a long hard afternoon
lay ahead of US. The sun beat down
upon the roof, the room was full of
the odor of melted butter and sand
wich filler, yet every time we opened
a window, the Kansas wind swept in,
bearing with it a generous quantity
of Kansas dust Conversation was
limited to, I'VE need more bread"
please see if Richards has any more
filler" Mrs Lannigan, how many are
there now?"
After time we ran out of bread
and took an hours rest, which was
agreeable and would have been more
so had it not been for the cloud of
sandwiches which still hung over us.
The bread came and our devoted band
returned tc their tables with dimin-
ished ardor but undiminished zeal. At
90 minutes to the counter an
nounced 3,992-eight short. We were
again out of bread, so, sta nding in a
circle, we so1emnly swore never to tell
the Y NJ. c. A. that the 1000 sand
witches for which they contracted
were eight short, and turned them
over to the waiting truck, which
whirled them off to the huge Y. NJ.
auditorium.
Thither a little later went our cafe
terra director to superintend the re-
retaries to represent the Y. w. c. A.
takes to France, thus carrying but the
special mention. In the corner of the
auditorium next the stage was a real
Y. NJ c. A hut closely copying the