The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-05

gave a piano solo, and Miss Matte
Barnes sang, accompanied on the
piano by Miss Margaret Prout
X
/. Miss Lila Martin and Miss Elizabeth
Morrison entertained the following
guests at cards: Miss Helen Scott,
Miss Edith Witt, Miss Lois Allison,
Miss Ruby Seymour. Mr.. Harold
Douglas, Mr. Ed Foster, Mr.. Stewart
Allen, Mr.. Lee Harper, Mr.. Robert
Douglas. and Capt F. A. Flanagan
X X X
La Douzaine Bridge club will meet
Monday with Miss Alice Meade.
A DERIVATIVES LETTER.
Dear S. r.:
Now is the winter of our discon-
tent" for there is positively nothing
to do but to listen to the animated
rattle of a complica ted battle, and the
rum-t um-tum of the military drum.
All romance is sneared with patriotic
sentimentality, and whereas 1t used TO
be a distinction to capture a brave
lieutenant now anything less than
major offers just an ordinary match
look back to the good old days of
three years ago when we al! knew
that spring was coming when the boys
crowded about and young mans
fancy drove him to tagging a skirt
But those times are in the dead past,
and the one harbinger of spring IN
these times is the collecting OF club
women to plan baby snow one
hears mutterings already of another
childhood conservation display and
all the ak, in the highbrow crowd is
better babies" To my notion better
husbands and more of them would be
much more to the point. But show
will be given, as usual, even II the
one last year was nearly disrupted be-
cause "a most immoral man" was in
vited to do some of the judging. and
the women riz up and demanded that
, he be sidetracked before he got be-
hind the first screen.
/ 1 am so crazy over the latest en-
gagement 1 have heard about. You
should just see the girls ring. 1t is
platinum, and by the way, it's lucky
she said yes when she did, for if
her answer had come a little later the
United States government wouldn
have let the man give the platinum.
And also he is the most forehanded
person you ever set your eyes on, Tor
he thought ahead far enough to buy
the wedding ring at the same time he
got the engagement ring. That we'd
ding ring is also of platinum-the
/ handsomest one, 1 know, that has
seen the light in our city. 1t is en-
blossoms. The girl was perfectly will
ing for her man to leave it with her
when he went away after a holiday
visit as she thought she might begin
the other ring. But he was obdurate,
and refused to let her wear it till the
knot was tied. l think men are hOr-
rid for such tricks as thati
! 1 wonder if people really appreciate
! the social opportunities of our town.
+ Well they are here all right At the
4 Woman's club meeting the other day
two women who were cousins sat at
! the same table at luncheon. Being &C.
cupied with their coffee and liberty
bread and war rabbit. they allowed the
conversation to flag a bit. Presently,
in fluttered the butterfly who never
onits the social amenities. She saw
the two women sitting silently (for
coffee is to be seen and not heard, you
know, just like children), so she
winged her way to their table, and in
troduced the two with much pomp and
4 circumstance. One of them trod on
the toes of the other, which, accord
ing to decoruIn, of course, were I'M
der the table and out of sight. The