The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-17

ents and treat older people with re-
spect and let his little sister have the
first bite out of his apple-and all
the folks said he'd grow up to be a
good and pious man like these folks
said he would. He did not. Instead
of that he grew up so desperate that
| before he was of age he was found
playing croquet with one of the bad
boys of the village for a gingerbread
cookie, and he kept on getting worse
and going to the dogs until he was
thirty and right at the age when he
should have been a ribbon clerk or
something like that, where do we find
him? Behind counter3 No. In a
Sunday school teaching the young
ideas how to shoot paper wads? No.
In the sacred precincts of the home :?
No. A thousand times no. Well. then,
where do we find him? you ask, in a
weak, hesitating voice. And declare
to you as solemnly as I ever declared
anything to anybody and knowing
what it means when l say it. that we
do not find him at all. For he IS NOT
THERE. n. S. A.
The HARRIS, the girls who fin
ished Topeka high school in June, 1918,
held a valentine party at the home of
Miss Leola Zimmerman. Those who
attended were Miss Olive Knox, Miss
Helen Travis, Miss Mildred Hender-
son, Miss Airline Milan, Miss Louise
Witt, Miss Josephine johnson, Miss
| Elizab beth Gates, Miss Bertha Gish,
Miss Lois Seely, Miss Blanche Mcleod,
Miss Anna Shaffer, Miss Marie Baxter.
Miss Mildred Baxter Miss Agnes Will
| hanson, Miss Isabel Sutherin, Miss
Althea Weide, Miss Vivien Horsfield.
Miss Helen Claypoole, Miss Geneva
| Zimmerman, Miss La Verne Snyder,
Miss Marguerite Mcdonald, Miss Eva
/ Kettering. Miss Nita Morett and Miss
IeOla Zimmerman
y
The Ideal Card club will meet
| Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Cyrus
/ Guthrie, SIS Monroe street
\ y
! Vera Grace Rickenbacher. the small
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. T. F. Ricken-
bacher, gave a valentine party at the
home of her parents, 1898 College ave-
nue.. The decorations were in red
hearts and the cakes and ice cream
| were also in heart shape. The guests
were Sarah Virginia and June Richie,
| Mary Louise Harbaugh, Louise Gates,
Mary Pease. Edith Rees, Mildred Lee,
Hazel Hepworth, Helen Louise Blan-
ton. Betty Tasker. Marian Elliott. Jean
Beverley, Leona Brintnall. Helen and
Ruth Rickenbacher, Louise Gish.
| x x x
THE Bohemian Girl is to be given
| by the Topeka Grand, Opera society
on the evening of March 4. Miss
Marie Hobbs, contralto, will appear in
i the role of the queen and Mr.. Horace
| Bowman will sing the part of Devils
| hoof." Both Miss Hobbs and Mr..
Bowman are well known in musical
circles of the town. They are both
young people who have graduated re-
Gently from the Topeka high school.
Mr.. Paul Lawless will put on the
| opera.
The Music Study club will meet
| Thursday afternoon with w. H. Bowl
| by, 1920 Buchanan street.
THERE'S a BOY IN OUR TOWN
| Who says his head aches in his head
and his two foots. He is Philip Hens
/ ley. the younger son of DIR. and Mrs.
/ C. NJ Hensley, and he has the flu as
you have perhaps guessed before this
! by the symptoms he expressed.
| Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. J. A. Campbell has returned
| home after a visit to her daughter.
| Mrs. Edwin Davis, and Mr. Davis, in
| Leavenworth
Mrs. w. A. Harshbarser has re-
turned from Emporia. where she at
TENDED the meeting of the State Mu-
sic Teachers association. she was the
guest of Prof. and Mrs. F. T. Owen
while in Emporia.
| Charles and Phillip Hensley. the
ssons of DR.. and Mrs. C. NJ. Hensley.
iare i'll with the influenza at their
i home in Fillmore street
I Mrs E E. Carter and her sons. Fol-
X let and McIlvane, are i'll with the in
tfluenza at their home. 1898 Western
{ avenue.
Miss Henrietta Allen has returned
from Lawrence, where she attended a