The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-30


upon Kansas in vast hordes this sum-
mer. For some reason or other they
failed to appear. but they sent in their
stead their cousins, the crickets. Many
a housewife in Topeka Is entertained
all day long by their cheerful chirp
and she has the excitement of find
ing the little black creatures in utterly
unexpected places - in shoes, for
instance and corners of closets.
Crickets are proverbial bringers of
good luck and are supposed to be an
addition to any hearth. But few peo-
pie seem to appreciate them. They
have been written about in song and
story. the title of THE Cricket on the
Hearth" has immortalized them and
their abode. William Cowper mas a
typical song about the cricket
Little inmate. full Of mirth
Chipping on my kitchen hearth
WheresO'er be thine abode
Always harblnger of good.
Pay me for thy warm retreat
With a song more soft and sweet
In return thou shall receive
Such a strain as can give"
He goes on and compares the
cricket to the grasshopper but says
the cricket is the better scout for.
Theirs but a summer song
Thine endureS the winter long
unlmpaired and shrill and clear
Melody turnout the year"
Harriet McEwen Kimball saws
Pipe little minstrels Of the waning year
In gentle concert pipe"
and further on:
Pipe Jour unceasing melancholy cheer"
Perhaps there is less poetry in the
race today and love of nature and all
that. At any rate most people agree
about the melancholy but see no cheer
In the cricket's song. And they chase
them right valiantly with fly swatter
or folded paper, for the crickets are
light on their. feet and difficult to kill.
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The West Side Forestry club has as
motto, In great things, unity; in
small things, liberty: in all things.
charity" and its flower is equally
charming for Kansas club-alfalfd.
Meetings are held the last Thursday
OF each month and the papers read
are on some out of door subject usual
not large, but it has always been very
active, and it is one of the clubs that
counts.
In September DR.. Elvenor Ernest is
the hostess and Mrs. d. o. Coe will
discuss From What and How Are
Sugars Made" In october Mrs.
Robert McGiffert will talk on "Wo-
mans Duty to the Municipality" Mrs.
w. A. Johnston and Mrs. T. E. Dewey
are hostesses. The November meeting
will be held at the home of Mrs. F.
G.. w. Travis and Mrs. Wilson Forbes
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| Flowers" The club will take a vaca-
ton in December. Floods, Cause and
Prevention" is the subject of the
January paper to be given by Mrs. j.
] w. f. Hughes. Mrs. Thomas Page is
| hostess. The February meeting is
called Presidents day and a parlia-
mentary drill is scheduled. Mrs. D.
/ H. Forbes will have "Our Friend
Beautiful" in March. and Mrs. Walter
Smith is hostess. In April comes
April Showers. May Flowers" by
Mrs. Ward Burlingame; Mrs. c. H.
Kicker hostess. The last meeting in
this years book is the one in May.
with Mrs. NJ. A. Low hostess. The
paper will be Fruits and Flowers Of
Other Chimes" by Mrs. o. E. Walker.
Mrs. Walter L. Bates is president of
the club and the program committee
is Mrs. NJ. A. Low. Mrs. w. A. John
ston, Mrs. T. z. Dewey. The roll call
each month is answered by recipe,
a current event. a quotation or con-
trlbution.
The year book Of the club is most
attractive. The cover is buff with a
design in green. The design. showing
a sprig of alfalfa and the initials of
the club, the word Topeka and the
year, was made by Albert T. Reid.
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The experiment the Y. w. c. A
has made this summer with It's "Busi'
ness Girls Summer club" has proved
the need there is in Topeka for Z
home for working girls where price.
are nominal, accommodations gCoC
and cleanliness and responsibility 6
matter OF course. For three months
the old Lakin home at the corner o.
First and Western avenues has baeI
turned into such a home. 1t is prett.
far from town, but the girls who hav'
stayed there were delighted with i
and now that fall is here and the.
have had to give it up, they are be
seeching the Y. W. c. A. to find an
other nearer town and establish sucl
a home for the winter. They say jus
anything will do. and that they vii
be willing to put up with lack o
room II they can only be together an,
in as honey an atmosphere as the,
have known this summer. Mrs. Mckee
who has been the house mother, ha
had much to do with making tina
honey atmosphere"
| girl who comes from out of tow.
to Topeka to take a position wher
the pay is not in keeping with tn
II. G. of L. has a real problem to fac
| in finding some place to live wher
she can be comfortable and not hav
Il to pay too much. Topeka people ar
/ only beginning TO awaken to this prof
i lem and realize It is one belonging I
y them as well as New York and Chi