The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-12
IS ON HER WAY TO AFRICA
Brother, just Home From
France, Her Companion.
He Tells of Wonderful Sister
While in Topeka.
BY w. NJ. MARKLEY.


Boy, howdyi "They haint no SIGH
Phyllis Hartman. You'd say it was
impossible. The idea that such a
beautiful, bewitching vision as she
haunting elephants and tigers and
rhinoceroses and trapping skunks and
Beavers and shooting grizzly, bears
and Rocky mountain sheep! But she's
In a class to herself-enough SO to
deserve the title of being the most
wonderful girl in America, and y,u'll
say so hundred times over when sou
learn all about her-her looks, educa-
ton, accomplishments - 'neverything.
Shes a wonder, that's ALL, but there's
no use getting excited. boys. She's
gone now-being whirled away toward
New York to embark for Zanzibar,
East Africa, to hunt big game. fe-
male Nimrodi
She Is a Beauty.
Phyllis is % years old and as for
lOoks-well, she has 'em! No one will
ever know what a dearth of<nice ad-
1ectives there is in the English lam
guage until an attempt is made to de-
scribe Miss Phyllis deliberately. She s
of medium. height, with rather dark
posure to sun, wind and rain. Weather
is not a thing to be considered with
Phyllis. But under the tan is the glow
OF real health and the roses in her
cheeks are enhanced by two of the
loveliest dimpleS a woman ever had.
Shes plump-that is. not exactly-not
enough so at least to detract one iota
from figure that would make Venus
ne Milo look like a brokendown brew
cry wagon. And she has dark golden
brown hair-oodles of it--and a pair
of big, blue, dreamy eyes that look
straight at you from under a pair of
long lashes and make you-but what's
The use? And she has pearly white
teeth and rosebud lips and-and every
thing the most foolish poet of the ages
ever said and then some.
Miss Hartman can do anything
almost. Athletics are her hobby.
Put on the gloves with her, Mr.. Pugi-
list, and the lettings ten to one you'll
be taking the count before the fourth
round. She's an expert swimmer
got medals to show for it-and can
dive like the pearl divers of the Orient
And she can row boat and play base
bail or any other game that takes
pep" and science.
An Expert NIarksman.
She's an expert shot-has hit nine
ty-nine bulls eyes out of an hundred
with a rifle. She knows more about
plants and trees and wild animals
than the average scientist. She's a
walking dictionary of information con-
cerning the war; she can tell you
some things you never knew before
ahout politics and she's as familiar
with the deeds of Rameses, Nebuchad-
nnzzar. Cyrus, Charlemagne and
Louis XIV as with those of Woodrow
Wilson. She plays bridge in polite
society; she has felt the lips of kings
On her hand: has listened to the music
OF the ukulele in Honolulu and ex-
pfored the abodes of the Cliff Dwell
ers I'm Arizona. She has hunted the
mountain goat, the mountain sheep,
the grizzly bear and elk in the wilder
parts of Utah, Montana and Idaho;
she has trapped beaver and skunk,
3cDon and opposum in Colorado, Mis-
aouri and the great Northwest. And
now she's going to Africa to hunt the
hippo and the rhino, the lion and
The elephant.
She Has n Brother.
Where is she from? oh, every
where. And that brings up the sub
ject of her brother, who, by the way,
rs accompanying her on her African
"trip. Frank has just returned from
France-receiyed his discharge about
three weeks ago and is glad to get
back to the old u. S. A. Fhey have
no relatives anymore, but they have
<-4er-a little money. They hailed
originally from Ohio. went west when
they were mere children-orphans-
.drifted from New Mexico to Cali
fofnia and from idaho to Oregon,
from Montana TO New York. and "a
carolina, Georgia, Florida and Ten
.nessee and back again. They've
lived on a ranch in Texas and
operated a little shop in Philadelphia.
They were in Topeka the other day
Nfs"And arn't you a bit afraid of the
lime you shall get in the jungle %
Miss Phyllis was asked.
~ "Afraid!' she tossed her pretty
head scornfully. ct should say not
] just can't wait till we get there. II
II wasn't that 1 anticipate such a good
lime on the voyage over, I'd be bored
70 death spending so much time get