The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-23

ter, Mrs. Frank ConIan. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harshbarger Will make their home in
Rossville where Mt. Harshbarger has
charge of the local Thomas Lumber
company Mrs Harshbarger- was for
merry a student in Washburn college
and has spent good deal OF time in
Topeka.
Mrs. Arthur Mills gave a birthday
breakfast this morning for her little
daughter. Virginia, who is - years old
today. The guests were twelve of Miss
VirEinia's best friends:
A style which is causing some COM
in by Lady Thackesey, the wife of Sir
V D. Thackesey q rich Paree cotton
manufacturer OF Bombay, who has
just come to this country. 1t has
nothing to do with skirts or blouses,
but with the decoration of the nose.
mond in the depression of her nose
just above the nostril. 1t is worth
$4,000 and is u very pretty little stone
In order TO hold it in place the nose
has to be pierced just as the ears do
for rings In some southern countries
a nose decoration is made by running
slender bars of wood or bone thru the
se2tum or muscle portion of the nose.
Or IL may be a feather which is used
as decoration and this adds a bit of
color to the face which is most at
tractive-rose feathers, for blondes
red for brunettes- Only there are Few
native blondes in New Guinea and the
Malay states.
There are 'only a few small dinner
parties scheduled for this evening at
the Country club. Among those who
| will entertain are Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
| Freeman, Mr.. and Mrs. John Dean,
Mr.. C. y. Merriam. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Mitchell, Mr.. and Mrs. F. A.
Anton.
1t will soon be school time again
For the youngsters in the grade
schools it means new smelly books
and long bright pencils, stiff new hair
ribbons and neat school frocks and the
| joy of being in ii again. For the high
| school age 1t means the sizing up of
the new teachers. a new enthusiasm
over clothes and the beginning of
school cases. For the girl or boy who
starts to college for the first or even
| last time it means all this and more
1t means the days full of the greeting
| of old friends and the beginning OF
making new. 1t means the unpackins
| Of trunks and the hanging Of pictures
and the looking over of the freshmen
| II It is not their own freshman year
1t means the beginning of things as
/ they should be and all other days are
forgotten in the interest and concern
mental activity and social activity; for
every year is a little age of its own and
every college or university is its own
world It means long Indian summer
afternoons spent talking, talking when
they should be spent over French
verbs. it means rushing parties and
great concern and long drawn out fra
ternity meetings. 1t means receptions,
and new note books and rain and
dances and themes and football games
hnr
get cold and chrysanthemums are in
their glory and are worn by every
one at the game
] But there is still another class of
people for whom school opening is the
bfR hour of the year-and that is the
teachers, particularly these who are
| going at II for the first time There
4 is not the fascination of their own
school days. but there is Just as much
! interest and there may even be more
adventure. II is all an unknown book
and for the first time they are going
TO try out the theories they have been
1 learning for years, and to be the fol-
lowed and not the followers. They a e
/ trying to put on a great deal Of dig
nifty and to Geem very wise and old.
when really they are just the same as
I they were a year ago when they were
/ COLLEGE seniors They are just as
easily amused and as eager to play
7 round as the high school youngsters
/ and yet theg must not show il. 1t
makes an interesting situation, and q
[ number of Topeka girls are going to
I ind out about it very soon
! Miss Adelaide Seeds will go to Clyde
to teach. Miss MajeT Langhart has a
school in Blue Rapids. She will be
i head of the expression and dramatic
art department. Miss Katherine Mac
Farland will return to Corvallis. Ore
Miss Pauline McVey will begin her
| teaching career in Cottonwood Falls.
Miss Helen Neese viii go to Norton