The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-23
IT IS A GREAT LIFE HEAR BIC TALENT
Course, Symphony Orchestra Out of
Weaken. Town Numbers Announced.
Blonde StenO Tells Of Visit to Daniel Muller Working Hard
Country. for Successful Season.
MAKE ICE CREAM AT ! A. N. SOUSES BAND IS COMING
Then on Goes Middleton Metropolitan
O'clock. Opera Bass, Also Booked
Even burned Old Auto Seven Events Dating
Enliven Nerves. Oct, 1S19 to May, 1920.
MAKE ICE CREAM AT IA. M.
Then on Goes Alarm Clock at
3 O'clock.
Even burned Old Auto Trucks
Enliven Nerves.

sE4lk about the quiet OF the coun-
try There amt no SIGH thing any
more. Say"-and the blonde steno
rolled her eyes and shrugged her geor-
Eette covered shoulders trying to I'M
press the girl listeners in the office
with the tale which she was reciting.
You know. girls" she continued. u
left here Saturday night for the quiet
country. Well, ] thought II was to
De nice lazy. comfortable week, but
I've covered more territory and shown
more speed than the traffic cop at
Eighth and Kansas avenue the past
week.
Can you believe it, kids, the first
night was there, along about 1 l
O'Clock when I was figuring strongly
on getting some sleep. those folks de-
cided they wanted some ice cream.
So out we got the little old seven
passenger car and beat it to the near
est town for ice. The whole town and
a part OF the surrounding territory
was up the road always attending an
leo cream social. We found the ice
man, who was also the general store
keeper. postmaster and lumberman
just starting on his third dish Of
strawberry cream, but we separated
him from 1t and got the ice, Say, be-
lieve me. they sure do have to pay
for ice out there. too. Eighty cents a
hundred and at another place on up
the creek they hold folks up for a
guess.
Cream Mt 1 n. m.
I'VE made the cream, five gallons of
Il and were enjoying il along about one
o'clock in the morning. Everybody
acted real sociable and nice. like we do
in town. They talked about their
neighbors and everything that had
happened lately. telling how one Ed
Raines had had a fight with thresh-
ing crew. Threshing crews sure seem
independent nowadays. This here guy
couldn't persuade them to thresh for
him so he tried the fistic method? And
then they wouldn't do anything for
him at all Anyhow. so said the folks,
Ed had to buy a separator and do it
himself That sounded queer. because
I always thought a separator had
something to do with cream. never
said a thing. not me. 1 had pulled a
boner before. by calling a field Of rye
awful pretty blue grass.
we finally went to bed and to sleep
and sayi 1 woke up. with the alarm
ringing in my ears. oh. geei l
thought. Why did go to bed at al
and began TO feel for my shoes. What
do you know about II. after had got
one shoe on 1 remembered that these
folks set the alarm clock every night
so Il would go off at three o'clock.
They got up and looked at several
hundred eggs in an incubator to see If
they were getting along all right. Well
went back to bed.
Up at $50 on Sunday.
THE next morning being Sunday,
we didn't get up as early as they did
on week days. 1 got down in the
kitchen about $40. but the folks who
belonged there beat me down a whole
half hour. All 1 did was help feed
dishes and spoons We had used the
night before. help get breakfast. make
the beds and whole lot more didn't
think l could do.
I'VE started to play croquet along
about 10 O'Clock that evening. 1t was
so dark we couldn't see the swickets
so they backed up the car and turned
on the lights. All the time l KEEP,
thinking about how you girls had
advised me to go to bed early so
wouldn't set homesick. But l didn't
have time to go to bed. Country peo-
pie don't have time in the dictionary
any more. Why should they, they
don't have any of It?
THE next night I was informed thai
was to be taken to a party. Somt
party, too. We arrived there on the
farm truck about 1 o'clock in the
morning. II all happened like this
The men at the house started q
Wanamaker On business trip ant
when almost there. the car went dead
A repair shop IN Topeka hauled it in
They took the evening train out, go
off at their depot, walked severa
miles to the house, stopped the pigs
pumped water for the stock and
changed their clothes. BY this tint
the family and yours truly were get
ting most nwfully sleepy. It was aftel
IL o'clock. hut they decided they'd go
$50 the farm truck was cranked VI
and the family all piled in. A little
way down the road the light busted.
guess Il busted-anyhow IL wouldni
work. So they hung the lantern or
the front and away We went. Coins
over one rough old spot the Lantern
globe broke. leaving us In the dark
And 10 can sure be dark in the coun.
try. too. We ratified up one OF thos,
hills and down the other and fordet
the creek in the dark Talk abou
excitement. Gee. was scared e
death. We finally got there tho