The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-03
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS
Have~you answered "Ron CalI?" .

Noon lunch. Cremerie Cafeteria.-Adv.
Here's hopin' that Mother Nature
down in the gas fields will not join
the miners union.
! If the falling leaves give much more
. trouble the street railway may adopt
the "skip-stop" system without effort
Jay Houses page in the Ladies
Home Journal this month has sent
many Topekans scurrying to the die
/ tionary.
The ordinary Topeka man spends
half an hour Monday morning looking
Z for the work dayIclothes he discarded
Saturday night.
Keep the Home Fires Burning
that is, if you happen to have coal.
| First it was war, now it is the strike.
But the song lives on.
The fresh air fiends will have to
admit that keeping some of the win
dows closed during the coal strike is
practical if not healthful-
The union clerks in Topeka stores
are not very enthusiastic over the sug-
gestion of the Santa Fe union shop
man that the stores be kept open Sat-
uriay evenings.
A Topeka clothing dealer who sells
garments tailored in Chicago is una BILE
to fill his orders on s100 overcoats
and 500 suits ordered by poorly
I <
1t is considered ultra fashionable in
Topeka these evenings for the family
and guests TO gather snugly around
the wood fireside. Anything to save
! coal is socially correct.
DIR. Thomas H. Briggs Columbia
university, will address teachers of To-
peka schools Wednesday evening at
| lecture will be public.
s. E. Cobb, Topeka banker and
stern financier. is known as "Mr." in
business and social circles but at the
Central Y. M C. A. Tuesday and Fri
day afternoons between 4:30 and $3.50
| (dont forget the time and place) he
is known as ''Cicotte'' in the voIleyball
: contests.
Phil Eastman, Gree Fair PhiD, is
closing his 1919 golf season with oc-
casional games at the Shawnee club.
Eastman this year has carried in the
pocket of his trousers pedometer
| This season he has walked during golf
| more than the distance across the
state of Kansas, north and south.
Albert Patten, head of the Topeka
railway system, with w. r. Kercher
played golf at the Shawnee club Sun
of his street cars to the links, took out
his motor car. Owing to punctures
and road trouble he spent As minutes
! getting to place that a street car
That Topeka men do not put on
cosmopolitan airs easily in their home
town is proven by the fact that mani
curists in Topeka barber shops could
MT make more than silk stocking
money until a proprietor placed the
manicurist in an enclosed room in the
rear of the shop. In other words, To-
peka men can't have their hands held
| in public.
Topeka girls will be among dele
gates attending the high school Y. w.
c. A. convention at Wichita Novem-
Der %. "a and 25 to furnish minia-
ture school. These models will be sent
to Russia for demonstration purposes.
! The Topeka model is being planned by
Miss Louise Griest and will include
domestic science, gymnasium and reci-
tation rooms
With $50 in baby bonds on their
| persons and several pieces of jewelry,
| two men giving the names of L. w
Waiver and Earl La Rue were ar
rested early Sunday morning near
Eskridge. Their arrest followed the
robbery of the home of Jess Buckner,
a farmer living near Dover. The baby
| bonds were identified by Buckner
Sheriff Hugh Larimer states
/ From her sick bed, where she has
| been most of the time since her baby
was born in the summer. Pauline Rid
die. 463 Chester street, today applied
l.
i says that Riddle constantly abuses her
unjustly accuses her of wrongdoing
and has destroyed her peace of mind.
She wants a divorce and the custody
of the child born during the summer
as we'll as the custody of an adopted
child. They were married in Missouri
/ in 1912.
Sunday was another "last good day
I for golf on the Country club and Shaw
nee courses in Topeka Golfers. in the,
fall, never fail to take advantage OF
/ the pleasant Sundays, declaring. them
| to be the last chance of the season.
Sometimes these chances run thru No
vember and December but they ar
always made use of. The golf attire
! has made great change since Sep
/ tember. Leather coats, Sleeveless
I sweaters. heavy knickerbockers and
/ stockings and fuzzy caps have dis
4 placed the white hats, short sleeved
shirts and duck or palm beach
! trousers.