The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-08

The Alpha Phi girls will hold ini-
tiation this afternoon at their chapter
house followed by a seven o'clock din
ner at PeIletier's. The guests of honor
at the dinner will be the girls who
were initiated this afternoon and in
clude Miss Ruth Hawkes.. Miss Helen
Hawkes.. Miss Josephine Johnson. Miss
Francis Olander, Miss Marian Will
liams, Miss Ruth Marsh, Miss Forest
inc Blank, Miss Charlotte Myers, of
Whiting, Miss Grace Quinn of Nc
Pherson, and Miss Juliet Hughes.
Miss Eula Fleming will be toast
mistress at the dinner and talks will
be made by Miss Forest-ne Blank. Miss
Marie Moore, Miss Esther Thomas and
Miss Pauline McVey.
Girls from out of town who will at
tend are Mrs Cecil Meredith, of Waco,
Tex, who is visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. ]. w. F. Hughes, Miss Wini-
fred Creme and Miss Elizabeth Cul-
yer, who came from Berryton. and
Miss Mary Weightman, Miss Helen
Neese and Miss Glee Iden. who came
from Nortonville.
Tiger hunts in jungies
Are royal hunts they are;
Renard hunts in England
Are foxy sorts of play;
cootie hunt out at the front
Was part of the affray,
But hunting flats in Paris
Is the one sport today.
IL you nave the strength OF samson,
the patience of Job, the wealth of
Croesus and the aggressiveness of
Theodore Roosevelt, then you are fair
ly well equipped to become a success
full hunter of furnished flats in the
beautiful city of Paris in these be-
ginning days of peace.
Before you start out as first class
Diana or Nimrod to stalk the elusive
apartment meuble'' to its lair be sure
and lay in an extra stock of your sense
of humor. It's worth more than bull
lets in this form of chase.
The first step is the merry round
of all the agencies. English spoken"
is invariably embrazoned in letters of
gold on the front window of every one,
and invariably when you. enter you
find their silence in that language is
as golden as the lettering.
Blithely and guilelessly you state
your wants of a small apartment, not
too far out, with bath, heat and hot
water at about 500 a month. They
gaze at you pityingly or contemptu-
ously, and murmur like the beginning
of a fairy tale, "Once upon time
there were such things, but now since
the hordes of American correspond
entS and journalists and diplomats and
Kansas and Virginia have overlooked
fair France there isn't any such ami
mall
Finally if you persevere you manage
to scrape up three addresses out of
seven agencies One has an elevator,
and bath, all for s16O. No. is a
studio apartment, up six flights with
no ascensor and no heat. at S120. The
third and last is parlor, bedroom and
bath for only paltry $500.
You dash madly out to hunt taxi,
which is a sort of branch hunt or side
offshoot from the main or apartment
| hunt. In two hours that will take you
because he is going that way to his
| lunch. ~
You arrive at prospect No. 1. You
| climb three flights because the ascen-
sor is out of order, but the concierge
assures you it will be working in fif-
| teen days and as a matter of fact you
| can't have the apartment till then
anyway because there are four English
officers in it who won't be leaving for
t -een days.
In spite of the delay and the fact
it is more than you intended to pay,
| the place has possibilities. You reck-
| lessly decide to take it. The con-
T.. cierge goes to fetch the proprietor and
leaves you mentally shifting the turni-
| ture to more aesthetic angles. She
returns with joyful tidings. The pro-
| prietor is desolated but he has just
rented it that morning to a minister
| of war. What business has a min
lister of war now anyway, you'd like
| to know.
On to No 3 This is in Montmartre
up six winding flights of stairs. When
you reach the top you realize that it
fairly reeks with Murgerism, fascina-
ton and garlic. 1t is much fuller OF
atmosphere. than you are of breath.
/ The woman in charge isn't sure, but
| she thinks she has already rented il
| to a K. of c. man, but if you will call
| tomorrow at she will let you know
definitely.
1t is tomorrow at 2. You have
climbed the six flights of winding
stairs. You reel, weak and gasping
| against the door which opens to your
| rooms. Nobody homei
! You totter down and out. Marvel
ously corraling a taxi, you chug miles
and miles across the river to the third
and last address. OF course it is much
more than you can afford to pay, but
| desperation goads you to it. You ar
rive, bankrupt and broken, to find il
has been rented for three days
AT last, giboering and total wreck
you decide to take the next boat home
All, yes, they assure you at the French
| steamship line they have one nice
| berth left on a boat leaving six months
! from next Thursday.
And so on with the sad, sad story
| For the United Press by Margaret
Rohe).
Newspaper reports say that there
1 are twelve Chicago women whose
| money has been burning holes in theil
| pockets during the restrictions of the
recent war. Now that the war is over
they have let loose of their wealth
and last week each of them invested
/ $1,000 in fur sets. Many others spen
as much as $4,000 for skins and a large
number of $1,000 ones recently have
+! been purchased in the city, And the
say money is scarce.
| X x
/ Miss Caroline Hulhorst, of Chicago
who has been the guest of her niece
Mrs. Thomas l.. King, in Polk street
has returned to her home. Miss HUI
horst is graduate nurse and spen
the first year of the war in France il