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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-06
Fashion Letter
Written for The
Topeka State Journal
BY
MARGARET ROHE

No wonder California fruit
Holds highest ranks without dispute
You find such lovely looking peaches
At all the California beaches
And speaking quite Pacificly
1t seems there's so much more to sea.
Coronado, Cal, Sept. 6.-Since pro-
hibition has put the ban on being in
an intoxicated state California is GER
tainly the next best state to be in. It's
SO free and untrammeled and close to
nature with its silver sands along the
sea and purple hills amid the zone
Take it from one who knows, however,
you really get closer to nature along
the silver sands and there too nature
is so apt tc be a perfect SO.
After a we'll spent season at the
| California beaches Annette keHerman
or Mack Sennett's beauties would
cause us as little thrill as well turned
| limb did the historic London bus con-
| ductor who pulled that antique wheeZe
Legs is no trat to me.
Way back in the effete east where
| bathing suits are complicated and
| fussy affairs of Bingham trimmed taft
| feta or yarn embroidered satin this
| season Dame Fashion fairly revels in
! a perfect orgy of bathing suit designs
! Out here among the wild waves and
/ the wild women of the wild west Dame
| Nature takes full responsibility for the
omnipresent one piece, all wool jersey
| bathing suit of one design but oh!
what a designing one. You just slip
| in or at least you slip as much Of you
as you can into the snug little close
/ fit knit garment and let nature take
its course Sometimes it's a bit too
/ coarse but not often.
To be brief and verify brevity is the
sole of it, the California bathing suit
! is a snappy little affair that snaps on
4 one shoulder thereby doing away with
! the necessity of getting in or out of it
with a shoe horn. Even as 1t is uni
versally one piece so is it one design
and the only changes to stamp one suit
little more daringly or more origin
ally than another is the stripe of color
that bands it round the quick finish,
| the middle and the shoulder straps
/ Sometimes this stripe is of solid con-
/ trastingl color sometimes Roman
stripes of divers hectic tones go roam
| in round il. Yet others stick to one
plain all round color without bit of
relieving trimming and these rely for
| their bit of dash on a chic headdress
\ of some sort. For the bathing mil
/ 1inery Of these bare limbed bathing
| nymphs is as intricate and varied as
their bathing suits are simple and
| frank. Jockey caps for riding the
waves, oriental turbans like a Persian
hey for still water bathing in thhe bay
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and Russian serf headdresses for surf
bathing, don't you know.
To vision these fascinating bathing
costumes in their native cline were
well worth a trip across the continent
They are indigenous to the Pacific
slope and transplanted to the Atlantic
would be subject to a sudden seizure
and soon succumb to the rigors of
Puritanicus hypocriticus blight. The
one piece bathing suit is as character
istic part of California as her golden
poppy and her native sun.
Speaking of the latter 1 never fully
appreciated the true value of a Cali
fornia native sun till sat in my Cali
fornia bathing suit on the sands last
Sunday sans an umbrella.
Since then even my girlish laughter
is pealing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-06

Among The many booths and stalls
at the Kansas Free Fair will be one
kept by the team of the Womans club
that Is headed by Mrs. Z. J. Clevenger.
IL will be lunch stand and home
cooked food will be on sale. The
menu will include doughnuts. hot cof-
Zee. hot, meat sandwiches. drop cakes.
popcorn. crackerjacks and gum. Mrs.
Clevenger is out OF town and the
women who are taking her place in
arranging for the booth are Mrs L. A.
Gillette and Mrs. F. p. Lindsay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-06

Miss Dorothy Souders will be the
hostess at a dinner party at her home,
I179 Garfield tomorrow evening.
Covers will be laid for Miss Alvina
Hults, Miss Elspie Shwartz. Miss
Grace Davis Mr.. Horace Bowman. Mr..
Lowell Gibbey, Mr.. Harry Mckee, Mr..
william Parrish, Miss sSouderss-s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-06

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Pierce have
invited few people to their home this
evening following the dance at the
Country club. A supper will be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-06

BY GRAC1A POW WOOO
EY ORAC1APoPE WOOD.

At II o'clock this morning at the
klrst Presbyterian church Miss Wini-
tFed Greene was married to Mr.. VIII
nam Sherman Van Horn. The cere-
mony was performed by DIR. S. S. Estey
before the altar, on either side OF
which were banked palms and large
bowls OF roses and white wild flowers.
me couple was unattended. Before
the ceremony Mrs. Robert Carver
played Invocation" by Cappocci;
Meditation" from That's, and Simon
cites "Madrigale." To Mendelssohn's
wedding march the couple came in.
During the ceremony Mrs. Carver
played softly ITO a wild Rose, by
MacDowel1. Mendelsshon's march was
used again after the ceremony.
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across his back or ''Nelson at Trafal-
gar, for. compared to forearm work,
that is involved. Bert specializcs
IN backs and is never so happy as
when etching along a spinal column
the portraits of United States Prcsi-
dents since the Harrison Administra-
ton.
IN Bert's windows arc illustra-
tons of his infinite variety. Here
there is heart pierced by a dagger
which may be tattooed neatly upon
the breast Of the lovclorn. Dancing
dcrvishcs, horses heads, sailors ex-
ecuting hornpipes, Cinnamon with
daggers thrust through their cheeks.
bathing girls reclining upon posts,
Christ crowned with thorns, and
hands claspcd firmly are among the
objects Of art from which the Gus
toner may choose. He may not only
select his own design, but he can
indicate the portion of his anatomy
which he wishes to be decorated,
being aided by such helpful sugges-
tons as occur to Bert after two
decades Of painless tattooing.
While the forearm work is done
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14

with less expense and is conse-
quently the most popular, it by no
means attains the dignity or the
prestige which is suggested by a
robust design upon the small of the
back. There are some, Bert afiirms,
who prefer snakes sketched about
the legs to any other tattooing art
istry, and the shiny scales upon the
snake give a wide range to the
business of tattooinr, with no small
opportunity for originality There
is screen handy to shield the Gus
toner from the brazen gaze of
Worth Street when conditions war
rant.
With an airy flourish of the cleo
trio needle Bert finished with the
forearm Of his latest customer and
handed it back to him, so to speak.
after first slapping a piece of tape
over the gorgeous lady and warning
the tattooee to be careful. The Gus
toner went his way. the WEIGHING
foot having again regained complete
normality.
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believe there's SIS in the crowd.
Who'll give it,"
A young man in his twenties
reaches for his pocket, feels its
contents and hesitates. At the same
time his neighbor, in a blue shirt
and khaki overalls. bids.
You will soon discover that the
boys are there to watch and are
permitted to stay by the tolerance
of the auctioneer, who knows that
the bigger his crowd is the more it
will grow. The real buyers are the
scattered older men.
"The gentleman bids IS. You
fooled me. | didn't think anybody
had it. Now who'll give Sc? The
watch alone, gentlemen. is worth
$40 anywhere you wish to buy it.
Who'll give me Sc for the watch
and chain?"
The young man reaches once
more for his pocket and once more
withdraws his hand, silent. But
this time the auctioneer has seen
him.
"I'll tell you what III do, gentle
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confidential tone. why, sometimes
you wave at EN- and they just look.
and then you yell at EN- and thew
stall their machines. Believe me. it's
a hard life with every one trying to
run away when your backs turned
and those in front not understand
ing good wave Of the hand.'
Your views in the matter will de-
pend upon whether you're a COD or
a driver. If, by any chance Won
are neither, and simply a pedes.
trian trying to get around. YOU will
admit that most of 1.-The finest arc
all of that, and that few cities ;f
any, have more courteous and Off
cient traffic patrolmen, even thouoh
their gestures have been ruined bv
machinery.
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with no buying power outwardly
apparent.
II have here a lady's watch,
gentlemen" said the auctioneer.
"Solid gold, imported movement,
worth $40 anywhere. Whatll you
give for it?
FIFTY cents? The gentleman
must think I got a coupla ham
sandwiches here. Well, so cents it
is. Anything's starter. Fifty
cents. Who'll give 81? One dol
lar. Anybody got it? Remember,
gentlemen, this watch is worth $40
anywhere you try to buy it.
"Nobody want it? Well, I'll
favor YOU. I'll give you a present.
| have here beautiful gold chain,
set with twenty-five small pearls.
I'm going to attach this beautiful
chain to this ladys watch and III
give 'em both to the gentleman that
buys the watch. How's that?
"Who'll give me SIS for the watch
and chain? Five dollars. | don't
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erty on Strawberry Hill to Cornelia
Nerplanck, but reserved the burial
plot. Later he decided to her that
small parcel of land. too, but only
on condition that she and her heirs
should preserve the grave in per
petuity.
Years afterward, when condemna-
ton proceedings were instituted to
enable the city to acquire the land,
this strange indenture was cncoun-
tered. Who says that the city is a
mere machine without sentiment?
The charge is refuted, for the city
accepted the land with the provision
that the grave be undisturbcd and
cared for always.
With the exception of the great
mausolcum which hovers protect
ingly over it, the grave of the ami
able child is the only one in New
York which is publicly maintained.
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The tat,coec tried. But the foot
continued q wigglc.
AS i. happens, the man who was
being iattoood was having one of the
simplest of designs indelibly etched
into his forearm. IT was a woman s
head with raven black hair, blue
eyebrows and apple red cheeks. Tho
wide eXpansc of the lily-white neck
was skotched in with an expert buzz
Of the needle. The neck tickled a
little and the foot wiggled
"Whatcha matter?' asked Bert.
"Nawthin',' answered the tat
tooee.
Bert took a long drag on his
unlt stogie. He was disappointed
in the tattooee - plainly disap-
rointed.
AS matter of fact. as Bert after
ward condded. these twenty-five
cent forearm designs are among the
easiest he does. There might be
some excuse for man WEIGHING his
foot if he were having Washington
Crossing the Delaware" tattooed
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Nv HERE Worth Street 81


W into the Bowery sits Bert. the
PAINLESS Electric Tattooer.
Bert is not much on small talk or
airing his affairs. hut if you want to
be "ta-chewed' step up, for you are
next. There is a sign to that effect.
There is also a chain guarding the
door With another sign Keep Out"
Tattoong is so much an art with
Bert that he does not feel he can do
justice 10 his work with passed. of
Boweryites hanging over his shout
der. What does a tattooer amount
to without temperament? At best he
would be only common, whereas
Bert is the 'onlv painless electric"
gentleman of his kind Outside
there are tall letters in blue paint
saying SO.
Painless as it was, the victim per
sisted in wiggling his foot each
time the electric needle began buzz
ing.
"Whatcha matter?" asked Bort.
'Nawthin' >" answered the tat
tooec
ST still" SAID Bor..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Machinery Spells Another Art

IN FRANCE they do things with
Z what they call beautiful ges-
ture.' The traffic cops had beau
tiful gestures also until machinery
spoiled them. Once the cop was an
artist, but now the go-stop machines
have reduced him to a mere automa-
ton with inhuman propensities for
making things unpleasant for the
unwary driver. 1t is necessary to go
outside the machine limits now to
see traffic regulated as it should be,
with the long sweep of the arm, the
quick nod of the head, the warning
lift of the finger.
There chauffeur and policeman
alike have learned sign language
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Meet the Lobby Van1p

TT E may be seen reclining COM
il Il fortably in the deep leatber
chairs of any hotel lobby.
ne IS PINK and smooth Of cheel; and
his hair is plastered back from an
untroubled brow. He sports a tight
ii''lng SUIT slashed high in the back.
and lavender 'kerchief is tucked
ha'fily IN his left cuff. He carries
the scent of perfumed cigarettes
and he knows ali the movie stars bv
their first names.
Girls meet the Lobby Vampire
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Tennis and the War

Flatbush local board No. - !
Kings Highway, for Instances. j
small numbers from which IN !
large quotas. The young men = j
away in camps, sticking bayo,,, !
into bundles of faggots, doing sr,,.1
right and kitchen police dur,l
months which in other years Il
found them on these tennis co,r.
The tennis courts. which had bs.
SO rich in youthful vigor and HAIL
ness and which had been smog.
with sharply defined chalk linz,
were hushed and grass grown.
Some of the courts had occaso,.
visitors, not players. The girls wm,
often pass and press strangely d.
faces against the screens and lc,
at the riffs in the surface and TIN,
or a lot OF things Some of 4,
stronger girls didn't cry. The SUI
mer was one of the longest Fit
ush.knew, but the reco-9 Tor leng,
was broken by the next Summa
The names of tennis partners We,
often on casualty lists. Some d
the girls threw the keys of the us
locks on the gates down seven
Germany finally quit and y
transports were crowded on tha
westward trips. Welcome hon
parties occupied most of the Fit
bush Winter. Keys creaked in loa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14

ball park on the rim of Flatbush he
offered the first bit of competition to
the local reigning sport. Some Flat
bushers came and some still come.
but the support of the Dodgers is
drawn chiefly from Ridgewood, Red
Hook, Williamsburg, East New York
and other Brooklyn sections which
are within less than a days journey
of Flatbush. Tennis is still the first.
second, third and fourth most popu-
lar pastime in Flatbush.
For almost ten years each sum-
mer found the section radiant with
clean-cut young folk frolicking on
scores of tennis courts. Rubber
comets seemed to make canopy of
the Flatbush sky. Every one played
tennis, although a few played mixed
doubles. Tennis partners became
life partners, in some instances. al
though a number of nimble young
men continued to play singles.
Well, this tennis playing, with its
amorous flavor, continued for ten
years, as aforehinted. Then, one
April, Flatbush and the rest of the
United States became vitality inter
ested in a war.
The clean-cut young fellows put
away their racquets, and most Of
them passed the physical examina-
ton. When the draft came the
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berry Hill, or Van Dcwater Heights,
in the days when little st. Claire. in
satin brecches. silk hose and starchel
rufiies, took the air on the banks of
the Hudson. One morning, evading
the vigilance of his nurse, the boy
ventured too near the edge Of the
cliff, fell over and was killed. His
uncle. George Pollock, the only rela-
tive whose name had gone down in
the chronicles of the event, bought
the land about that time and had
his beloved nephew buried near the
spot whore he died.
On his return to Ireland. not long
after, George Pollock sold his prop
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
The AnoiabLe Child

CT. CLAIRE POLLOCK has long
y been the bane of the existence
of the hundreds of little boys
and girls who spend their playtime
hours on Riverside Drive. When
Agnes stamps her foot in a temper
and won't go home, even if it is
dinner time, and Jackie Justly bellows
his refusal to lend his tricycle. to
little brother, nurse is sure to rake
up the memory of 1.-THE amiable
child" Solemnly she assures her
young charges that they need never
expect a tribute to their dispositions
in the form of tablet on the Drive
The little boy whose body is buried
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in courts in the very early Sprl
Nets came out Of cellars, raccz
were taken from protesting Ii.
brothers. Tufts Of grass We're pa,
out and the wounded clay was M
istered. Laughter was the langua
OF the neighborhood. The cheeks
girls became brown or freckled,
pending, of course, on the way ths
skin took to the sunlight.
There is one court on East Twel.t
Street, in the pith of tlatbus
which has been carefully groom
into fast playing shape But no on
uses it. 4 girl who laughs on,
seldom restored it to pre-war col
dition.
Her partner is still in Fran.
The casualty lists weren't very cla1
about what happened 10 him. TNl
called him wounded, iegree unde
termined. The War Department sen
his mother some foolish Telegram
about his being dead.
Almost every one else's partner hi'
come back, so why shouldn't he. 81
figures? Aren't they partners in tea'
MS and pals for life? Doesn't she lot
MIN million times more than thss
other girls love their partners? lsH'
that enough to bring any one ba'v
casualty lists or kilograms notvits
standingo
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men, to advertise the sale. l have
here IS safety razor outfit, IS
anywhere. III put the watch, the
chain and the safety razor to-
gether and give them to the highest
bidder. No favorites-the highest
bidder gets them"
He catches the young mans eve.
Who'll give me ST for the lot
Seven dollars The chain, gentle
men, is studded with twenty-five
small pearls. A beautiful thing for
any lady to wear
The young man looks at his
neighbor and fears he is about to
bid. "A beautiful thing for any
lady" SO it is.
"seven dollars" says the young
man, trembling.
"Sold," says the auctioneer.
And the young man pays and
walks out, regardless of the dozen
other watches, chains and safety
razors to be sold collectively that
afternoon for any price from 50 to
SO.
He is satisfied. For Mary Hogan,
like the ladies on upper Fifth Ave
nue., is fond of jewelry
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14

TORIES about tennis courts
- ought to be on the sporting page,
and stories about F'latbush fig
ure, naturally, among the absorbing
and touching real estate advertise
ments. But when yarn is about
tennis courts, Flatbbush and we'll
known world war besides, it doesn't
seem to fit in anywhere except in the
Sunday magazine section, which
shows that there is a reason and
purpose for everything.
When Manhattan Island was New
York City and the other boroughs
we're suburbs, the people who owned
or controlled outlying property used
to drink coffee so that they could
stay awake nights and work out
plans for Turing the provincial peo-
pie of Gotham from out their con-
crete and asphalt lairs. In Queens
they built Fairgrounds for the kid
dies; in Bay Ridge and Bath Beach
they smoothed the shore to make it
look like Rockaway; in The Bronx
they made things look as much like
the city as possible and turned to the
cheaper rent for the magnetic effect.
They sprinkled tennis courts through
where Flatbush now stands. People
came to Flatbush-second, to reside
there; first, to play tennis.
When Mr.. Ebbets reared his base
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ne haS become such pink, PEI
l - pest IN New York hotels rhat
10peiand Townsend, the hotel man.
declares that ar organized effort
must be made by Gotham hotel mo,
10 unseat him from his easy perch
in the foyers.
The days routine of the lobby
Vamp begins whenever he can force
himself to arise from the down, -
MS hall bedroom. This task accom-
phshed' he makes a careful toilet
and dashes forth to the nearest one.
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armed eatery Hs nan nurries =
his favorite hotel for lis nail Ii
approaches the desk and loudly &C
mands the mail of Mr.. Nickelsp0If
There is always something for h'
and there ought TO be, for "
wrote it himself.
After digesting bis inrpOrta',,
correspondence, he takes 3 turn d
the lobby to give the ladies' a t's''
-eying himself IN convenient nl''
rors en- route.
II some of the New York hc'%
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which has become so intricate that
it will soon have to be published in
the drill regulations of the force.
Il get it all right when he lifts
his hand and gives me the double
o. exclaimed taxi driver recently
but what l don't grab is when he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14

the loaly ramp. after he Is seS'sa.
IS approached by a bell-ooy W..
hands INN an envelope on si''''
tray. Inside the envelope IS n''
which reads:
The chairs in this lobby are "
served for the use of the guests &.
Bat does that trouble the valnf.
1t does not. He merely takes ger
drag at his 20-for-20 cigare's.
hicks an imaginary bit of fun i's.
his shoulder and smiles an'isn
He is unsquelchable.
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makes circles with his wrist. Does
he want me to come on or back up?
And when he starts waving both
hands at once-good night-does he
mean me, or the truck back there?'
They're all a bunch of bone
heads, said one traffic cop in a low,
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b Fifth Avenue are fond of
A iewelry. Mary Hogan, of
76 Bowery, is just as fond
of it.
This fundamental likeness of all
women is proved every day in Park
Row, under the roaring Third Ave
nue. elevated, where little iewelry
store conducts d perpetual auction
sale Of trinkets all day long and
every day, and never fails to draw
Il crowd.
The sale is not attended by
Women. A skirt is never seen in
Side the dusty doorsill. But the COL
larless young men and the unshaven
elders who enter to bid for RINGS
with red and blue stones and small
gold watches on jewelled chains are
not seeking adornment for them
selves.
Enter the place any noon hour.
The majority of those present are
boys under sixteen, released for
lunch from offices and factories, and
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- the shadow of Grants Tomb must
indeed have been wonderously sweet
tempered to merit a tombstone which,
more than a hundred years after his
death, is still one of the landmarks
of the city. Walking west of the
famous mausoleum and a block to
the north. one can scarcely miss the
grave-tluy, but in a prominent po-
Sition. And seeing the diminutive
monument. the casual passer or the
habitue Of the Drive must wonder at
the inscription:
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Erected
the memory of
an amiable child
81. CLAIRE POLLOCK
died Is July, 1877, in the
year of his age
The vicinity of the present site of
Grants Tomb was known as Straw