The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-19

THE TOPEK A Dali
another. Reached salina Crux. Mex
leo, Saturday and took more fuel and
water. Many fruit vendors and wide
eyed hombres looked US over. Tried
to talk to 'em but they shot 1t at me
so fast that 1 only caught about every
eighth word.
..sea had been smooth here, but
when we showed out into the Gulf of
Tehauntepec it was choppy, and she
cut loose on some of her diving ana
rolling Pretty hard navigating the
deck, and worse trying to stab some
chow as it slid by. but it's fact that
1 was never a bit sick-have con-
sumed three squares (four when pos
sibIe) a day to date
Reached Balboa, Panama, We'd
nesday, and after more supplies and a
fine shore leave, started thru the
canal the next day. Balboa is the gov
eminent city on the Pacific side. and
is only a few miles from Panama City,
but uniformed men are restricted from
there. 1t a beautiful little place with
streets like driveways; in fact, the
whole place resembles a park. A
magnificent administration building
overlooks the town and the Pacific,
from the hillside. A pilot came aboard
Friday morning and took us thru
then Gatun lake and Gatun locks on
the Atlantic side. The lake is about
eighty feet above sea level-the locks
take the ship up and down.
about fifty miles in five hours
brought us to Colon, where the skip
per went ashore for an hour, and we
were off into the Caribbean, escorted
by an airplane northward bound for
Cuba. Pulled into Guantanamo bay
Saturday night and squirmed in thru
the fleet lying at anchor to the de-
stroyer 'coIony'-about forty of 'em.
dreadnaughts with a thousand
launches hurrying from one to the
other"
ALWAYS AN ACTRESS.
(First Episode.)
The mortgage is due on the home
stead, the farmer is feeble and gray.
The sheriff has taken the heifer, q
cyclone has taken the hay. The stout
hearted son of the household. says.
Father, depend upon NELL carve
career in the city, and pay off the
mortgage by-gee." But see where the
sinister actress enraptures the fatuous
lad-she lures him away to the
chorus, away from his doting old Dad
He pawns the self binding thresher,
to buy her frock for the stage; the
father is left there to perish, a ter
rible thing at his age.
Second Episode.)
The home is unspeakably happy, the
kids play about on the floor, the wife
calmly waits for her husband. She
hears slight step at the door, he
staggers and falters before her;-but
who is this jade at his heels, who
brings in the scent of patchouli gin
fixes and automobiles? IAN actress.
oh, yes, it's an actress" the wife cries
in helpless dismay, but what is her
woe to the actress, who's stolen her
husband away. The wife must de-
pend in the future, on the wage of a
of the playwrights) the sinister actress,
has did.
(Third Episode)
The poet is writing a poem. he Ia
bors thru long winter nights, he still
has stanZa to finish, his feet nearly
freeze as he writes. An actress looks
in at the window, she sees that the
screed will bring fame. she smiles
(Such a SMILEY at the poet that gets
him to blow the whole game. He gives
up his claims upon laurels, he ruins
his golden young life. He follows the
actress distracted-she sneers (and
they sheer like a knife). New he is a
fragments of stone. oh, actress. oh.
sinister actress, why didn't you leave
him alone?
(Four-F'inis)
The elderly captain of finance has
four billion bones in the bank What's
that? Did you ask where he got it =?
He stole it, my friend, to be frank.
But now he intends to restore it. to
give every cent of it back; but just as
he feels for his check book, an actress
draws near, and a1ack. She tells him
she has something on him; she asks
frn- H. l., IL
derS and passes it over and she blows
1t all in on herself. oh actress, oh
sinister actress, we shrink meath your
sinister gaze. But we must confess,
nevertheless, without you we couldn't
write plays. N S. A
Madame Lunde-Souther, who re-
Gently took over the entire floor at
92S Kansas avenue, where she has her
studio, will have a recital at the First
Baptist church, Wednesday, April 80,
at p. m, to which the public is in
vited. Miss Euphemia Page and Mrs.
Martha Schultz Bowman and Mr. Ber-
nard McNown will sing. They will be
assisted by quartet composed of Miss
Ruth Clary, Miss Ruby Bush, Miss
Garnet STEERS and Miss Eckstrom.
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Miss Stella Keller was given a sur
prise at her home. 416 West Second
street, last night by Miss Helen Drey-
CT. Inc guests lHcluueu. MISS Ber-
nice Johnson, Miss Mary Rigby, Miss
Blanche Dryer. Miss Minnie Carrel.
Miss Evelyn Rinker, Miss Esther Ro-
dell, Miss Jennie Rodell, Miss May
Booher Miss Berenice Mourer Miss
Charlotte Keller, Mr.. Byron Wallace,
Mr.. Orville Diffenderfer, Mr.. Rich
ard VIM. Mr. Robert Myer, Mr..
Ralph Clary, Mr.. Ralph Briar, Mr..
Clarence Luthey, Mr.. Glen Owens, Mr.
Eddie Olson, Mr.. Edwin Keller and
Mr.. Cyril Stell.
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| Miss Marcella Tillmans, daughter of
| Mr.. and Mrs p. H. Tillmans. 916 Polk
| street, gave an Easter birthday party
to the following friends: Lucy Gibbs,
Jean Gibbs. Frances French, Adair
| Macfarlane, Mary Elizabeth Larimer
| Margaret Runciman, Harvey Good
rich. John Davis and Tommy Van