The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-16

Smith has done most OF her work in
the states of Texas. Arkansas and
Oklahoma this summer. The work of
an advance agent is to go to a town
about five days ahead of the chau-
tauQua and help the local committee
to organize and sell tickets, and just
generally get ready for the chautau-
qua. The booking work is selling
Iyceum or chautauqua contracts to a
town and is a little more strenuous
job.
The agent arrives in the small town
and watches the train depart and then
turns. with a sigh. to find the hotel.
1t is usually in need of paint and the
front porch is sagging- That's one
way you know 1t. The agent takes her
suitcase and starts for this travelling
mans paradise. registers at the dog
/ cared book and inquiries about the
prospects for a chautauqua or lyceum
in this town for the next season. The
hotel keeper tells her the name of the
prominent citizens of the town and
where to find them. She puts them
carefully down. powders her nose and
starts out The chances are the first
man she goes to is the banker, pom
pous, prosperous and conscious of his
( place as leading citizen. She tells him
her story and purpose and after lis
tening he says:
Now I tell you. Miss So and So. 1
U
| just this way: this town isn't a lyceum
town and know you can't land a con-
| tract. OF course I don't want to dis
courage you but I do think L should
tell you the truth"
THANK you, Mr.. Banker" she says
land If I get nine signers will you be
the tenth?"
yes, sure" he laughs, "but yop
can't get three and I know it"
And the final scene is: After thref
( days of hard hammering work she
( walks into the bank with the tenth
he usually gives gladly. for it has TAXI
en- grit and nerve and persistence and
he knows it. And that isn't the only
J problem of a booking agent But the
( others are another story.
The joys there are in the business
are also another story and most fas-
cinating one full of human interest.
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The Spalding Reading Circle will
entertain with a card party Friday
| evening. September 8. at the knights
of Columbus hall. Mrs. NJ. F. Gam
I lowski. Mrs J. w. Hesse, Miss Mary
Mooney, Miss Grace Donahue are in
/ charge of the affair. All members
9sd their friends are invited.
4 The Kappa Sigma fraternity OF
Washburn college. announces as q
D
\ Mr.. Ripley has only recently returned
from France.
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The Woman's Foreign Missionary
society of the First Methodist church
will meet Wednesday afternoon at
| O'Clock at the home OF Mrs. D. r
! Paxton. 315 West Tenth avenue. TIKI
assisting hostesses will be Mrs. o. E
! Rice, Mrs. A w. Smith, Mrs. c. H
/ Brownell. Mrs. c. S. Elliott, Mrs. H
( s. Morgan, Mrs. A. 2. Beers, Mrs. c
( c. Brown. Mrs. W. S. Miller, Mrs
I Charles O'Neil. Mrs. A. P. McKowan
Mrs. A. H. Dillon, Mrs. Elmer Eby
| Mrs. w. E. Jeffrey.
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What is the proper costume for thu
early part OF September? A hundred
| different answers go up and down thu
street Some say it is as hot as sum
! mer; keep on wearing white frock
and straw hats. Others say, fall +
/ officially here and it is smart to wea
velvet hats and serge dresses or fal
suits. Still others say It is the in-be
tween, uncertain season when sport