The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-18

some woman. These will be Mrs.
Richard Alden. Mrs. Albert Reid, Mrs.
Chester Woodward. Mrs. J. c. Mohler.
The club officers this year are:
President, Mrs. George Clark; vice
president, Mrs. Frank Thompson; sec
rotary. Mrs H. L Alkire; treasurer,
Mrs J. D. Freeman
OF course one point of the party is
to make money No admission is
charged but a birthday offering will
be taken. and the money all goes for
charitable work The appointments
the policy of the club to use up a lot
of the funds gathered at the party in
the party itself
A dinner was given for Miss Nancy
Boone, whose engagement to Morris d.
Woods has been announced, at the
home of Miss Verna Wise, Friday
evening. October II. Those present
were Miss Nancy Boone, Mrs S. D.
Thachcr. Miss Marion Macarthur. Miss
s. D. Thacher, Mr.. Earle Palmatier
and willard Carlson.
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A college girl was going down town
the other cay TO buy birthday pres
ent for a friend. Asked if she knew
what she was going to get she replied.
Yes, eight hair nets"
And therein lies the kernel of the
hair net story. They have become so
universally used, they are getting so
high and hard to procure at all times
that they have reached the silk stock
ing class and are suita BILE for gifts.
A Topeka woman who has a daugh-
ter in parais sends her nets from here.
They're worn over there but not so
extensively and they aren't the same
large meshed. almost invisible sort
YOU find in the United States. OF
course the woman whose daughter is
in the wilds of Turkey must keep her
supplied. COnstantinOple may have
wonderful rugs, but it doesn't keep the
modern hair net. The girls who
went overseas in Y. NJ and Y. w.
work were instructed to take their
hair nets with them.
A few years ago only some college
girls who went without hats appreci-
ated the value of the almost invisible
cap-shaped net that could be pur-
chased for 10 cents. 1t was consid-
cred a little freakfsh to wear them
But now IN each of the Topeka stores
they sell them by the hundreds every
day. A girl at the notion counter in
one of the stores said each morning
they bring from the store room ten
dozen nets and they must return for
more more than once a day. They are
getting scarce and it is hard to keep
a supply on hand and very often one
cannot buy their shade. For that rea-
son when woman does find a supply
of medium brown-the average Amer
lean woman wears medium brown
she will buy from one to three dozen.
Altho the. three shades of brown,
light, medium and dark. are the most
used they also sell lots of black nets,
and blonde ones and white ones and
red ones There is no age or color
that doesn't use them.
They used to be 10 cents. Then
they were two for a quarter but If you
waited until hi
dozen for a dollar. Now they are
13 cents straight-and the same
chorus is sung: they are going up.
They come from China mostly and it
may be the Chinar1an is tired growing
nice long queues to selul to make nets
to be used to keep the hair of u1ilady
in America trim and attractive. They
are shipped to America in huge bales
like cotton only different
Sometimes hair nets are the cause
of strife and unpleasa ntness between
roommates. This. too. is a college
story. Two girls who got along beau
tifully in every other way quarreled
right gaily over nets. They are 50
light and blow around at night and
get stepped on and lost And when
one lost her net she always accused
the other of taking It Whoever got
up first always had the net and if
there was another left. the other did.
And speaking of nets and college
1t may be when hair is worn behind
the ears again they will dispense with
the net. The ears will serve to keep it
in place. And that is just what they
are doing down at K L. ~Lovely pink
! ears that have been carefully covered
for several years are beginning to
prick up again and look forth on the
world. And how immodest and I'M
clad it makes one feel the first time
But it's the thing.
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The Washburn hobos were some
thing to see Friday. But the hobos
in turn saw something themselves. To
watch the people who watched the
parade was fascinating. The little
| children and colored people laughed
out loud in delight. The Iaboring men
down the avenue stopped and watched
with a grin all over their faces. Mid
| die aged men and women in good
automobiles looked delightedly on
with benign p1ay-whiIeyou-a