The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-09

are in evidence the black grosgrain
ribbon ties are also edged with white.
and the shortage of skirts these low
shoes and sheer stockings haven't
budged bit in favor Of the high boot
up to date. q
Some feet and some feat. believe
me! Is itsanyswender these Partisan
thorobreds win sin a walk? Take it:
from a woman who knows. however.
| l do think that the government when
! it equips our boys with helmets and
gas masks for the dangers of warfare
in the trenches ought also to include
binders for dangers of the warfare
in the boulevards.'' -
DOORS WILD. = S. %z7 e<'f N So
AS down the street I travel, while
! trying to unravel some advertising copy
| from the stores, 1 get choked and all
| most gassed, as in and out 1 pass
! calling on the merchants by the score
| I'm going to make holler, the Board
| of Health I'll collar, and make them
| cut this foolish ban, every office
where 1 call, some zap will yell and
| gawl, about the Flu and start his
electric fan. He fumigates the place,
and covers up his face, with some
awful, gaggy, smelling stuff. Some
are squirting gasoline, while others
try benzine, and others gag you with
Copenhagen snuff. Embalming fluid
sprinkle. some new disinfecting
| wrinkle, fomaldehyde and Lysole by
! the pecks. They creosote the hall
ways, burn sulphur in the stairways,
they wear Mafetida bags around their
necks. I get so blamed dizzy, my
+, throat gets rather squizzy, when 1 get
these whiffs of menthol by the ton.
carbolic solutions, quinine-sulphy po-
lut1ons, gosh, but they fill my nose
with odors that are bum. My poor
old eyes are red, I get lighter in the
head, and 1 smell like a walking drug
store. My feet don't seem to track
1 get shivers in the back, and see red
and purple spots by the score. So 1
know what 1 will do. as long as this
old flu, does every place 1 go, with
odors souse. I'm going to get a book,
pick a quiet little nook in some decent
sweet old slaughter house.
The Current Literature club will
have no more meetings until after the
first of the year on account of the in
fluenza epidemic.
The Monday Whist club did not
meet today as was formerly an
nounced, but has been postponed I'M
til December 49, Mrs. A. Zahner will
be the next hostess.
Mrs. Belle Shay of Belle PLANE
Kan, announces the marriage of her
daughter. Ida Frances, to Mr.. Harland
D. stewart OIL f1umDOlQt, winch TOOK
place in Kansas City, Kan, at the
home of the Rev. B. NJ. Powell pastor
Of the Central avenue church, on Oc-
tober "a.
Announcement of the marriage was
made in Baldwin Saturday night at a
fraternity party. Mr.. and Mrs. Stew
, art were both<former Baker university
students. Mrs Stewart was a mem
Der of the Delta Delta Delta sorority
and Mr.. Stewart was a Delta Tau
Delta.
Mrs. Stewart has made her home in
Topeka for several months with Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Close. 915 King street
She was formerly employed in the
state board of administration office
Mr.. Stewart has recently returned
from the officers training school at
Camp Pike, from which he was hon
orably discharged.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart may make
their home in Topeka.
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THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who has a name which sounds very
much like that of her employer. Not
long ago she happened to know about
some Of the business of the firm and
during the absence of her employer
was called upon to explain it. A few
days later the extremely dignified man