The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-31

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| appeal to the youngsters.
The opening performance will be
Marguerite Clark in The Seven
| Swans THE Diary, Of a Puppy" and
a travel picture.
Beginning with the first Saturday
in July, there will be an educational
series, called The Son of Democracy"
| which is the life of Abraham Lincoln
| in detail. This is said to be one of
the finest pictures ever filmed. 1t was
| run in Kansas City in the schools, and
there were always a hundred or more
men who would leave their places of
business and go to the school where
it was being shown to see it.
Mary Pickford, and all of the big
war pictures are among those booked
by the club for the summer.
Exemption from the war tax on ad-
missions has been granted, because of
| the nature of the work undertaken by
| the Social Service club.
LETTER FROM A WASHBURN
GIRL.
Dear S. r.
| You know that this is the mating
season, of course, and you must also
know that the propinquity induced by
college life is responsible for more
eases than anything else.
Every spring when the last school
semester is reached at Washburn there
are a lot of 'suspe ets," v-hich often
develop, before many years have
passed, into bridal wells, plain gold
rings, and the slow, stately march
which ends at the altar, or the bower
in the living room.
This year is no exception to the
| rule, altho many of the stronger sex,
who might have been Suspects were
away at war until too late, unless, as
in some cases, the girl remained faith
full.
One pretty Topeka girl who goes to
Washburn was wearing the pin of a
Kappa Sig (and I suppose you know
the significance of that), but took it
off when he went to war. and had her
again, and has taken up the case
where he left off, and the other stu
dents are wondering how soon she
will begin wearing the pin again.
There is an out-of-town girl who
has done a lot of damage with her
dark eyes and her smile. who had a
Phi Delt stringing along faithfully be-
fore he went overseas. He came home
to find her switched to a Kappa Sig,
who had made hay while the sun
shone. Two lovely Topeka girls of
opposite types of beauty are tied so
tight to a couple of Kappa Sigs, and
have been for so long, that all others
realize that the yards around their
houses are sacred ground, and keep
off accordingly.
One of the Washburn girls, Theta,
was supposed to have case with
Kappa Sig last year. He came home
from overseas to find her affections.
transplanted to a Sigma Chi at Law
renee.
One of the senior Thetas has been
playing around with a young S. A. T.
c. chap, who is dreadfully good loolf-.
ing, and well hammered. He is a
Kappa Sig. but has been working the
last semester Their friends are won-
n net I7n ie
Another Theta girl was faithful
while HE, who is a Phi Delt, was away
serving in the navy, and didn't play
with anybody but his younger brother.
Now that he is home to look after
his own, little brother is satisfied that
he did his work well, and is glancing
around for a case of his own.
But it isn't the Thetas that are
| wearing fraternity pins and such like.
Dear me, no. There are plenty of
others who have caught the contagion.
There's the Alpha Phi of the fetch
| ing way, who is wearing the fraternity
| pin of one of the best looking young
chaps in town, a Phi Kappa Psi, late
| of the university, but now working
in an insurance office, in order pre-
sumably, to buy trimmings for the
dove-cote.
And there is the attractive Alpha
| Phi, who last year wore one Phi Delt
pin, and this year is still wearing one
whether of the navy or army chap,
no one seems definitely to know. One
thing is certain, however, and that
| is, that it is not ethical for one men,
| Der of a fraternity to offer any at
tention to a girl upon whom a fra
| ternity brother has cast a longing eye.
| The old Bible saying about greater
| love" has nothing on the fraternities,
| for a man in a college fraternity is
| supposed to lay down his affections
for his brother
A popular Phi Delt has lost his
fraternity pin. A certain pretty, dark
| eyed Alpha Phi is suspected of know
| ing where it was lost, but as yet she
| has not begun to wear it, and her sis
i tiers are wondering why.
Another Phi Delt, who is said to be
a very wealthy young chap, has been
wearing a perpetual smile for the past
| month. It is said that the smile is
| caused by the presence in town of an
extremely pretty Topeka girl, who has
recently returned from an eastern COL
| lege.
There are many other cases I could
mention, but maybe this will do for
| this time. A WASHBURN GIRL.
y = y
The members of the cast of "Fi-Fi
of the Toy Shop" the Eastern Star
show, are having a lot of fun getting
ready for the performances at the
Grand next Thursday and Friday.
Miss Minnie Doering. who has the
part of a laughing doll. was APP
preached today by a strange woman
! who wanted her to laugh to see if she
could do her part properly. Miss
Doering couldn't help laughing and
! the woman walked on, apparently
satisfied.
Mano Smith, who has a proposing
part. is letter perfect in his lines and
acting. There has been much kidding
aimed al Smith as to his previous
practice
There is a wedding march included
in Fiji" Members of the cast have
decided that the director. John P.
Allen, is just the man to be secured
for regular wedding rehearsals He
had Miss Marguerite Gohlke and
Mano Morris doing the proper step
after one minute of instruction
Little Helen Henry, whose father,