The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-08

Brown. Miss Florence Miller, Mr.. and
Mrs. Warrick Updegraff, Mr.. and Mrs.
KurtZ Kellam, Mr.. and Mrs Robert
Carver, DR.. and Mrs w. F. Bowen,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wolf, Me. and
Ilif Felix. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Griggs
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Frost, Mr.. and Mrs.
Chester Woodard, Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin
F<istler, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Jordan,
! Mr.. and Mrs. Dana Davis, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Hayes, Mr.. and Mrs. Gull
ford Dudley, Mr.. and Mrs. Norman
! Wear, Mr.. and Mrs. Clay Hamilton.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Staebler. Mr.. and
Mrs. Monte Kistler, Mr.. and Mrs. Ran
dali Burrow, DR.. and Mrs. Merrill
Mills, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Pierce, Mr.
and Mrs. Jay House, Mr.. and Mrs.
/ Charles Skinner, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
, Wilson, Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Pierce,
DIR. and Mrs. Walter Wedding, Miss
Grace KoOntZ, Miss Marguerite KoontZ
Mr.. Ed Kellam. Mr.. Arch Walters, Mr.
John Bauerlein, Mr.. John FleiSchman,
Mr.. Hugh Mcfarland, and Mr.. Ches-
ter Wahle.
A May tea will be given Saturday
afternoon by Miss NJ. Davis, principal
of Bethany college, for the Topeka
chapter of the Collegiate Alumnae. The
| hours will be from until and the
affair will be held at the college. A
business meeting will be held at 5
O'Clock at which Mrs. Orville Martin
of Kansas City, sectional vice presi-
dent, will give an address. Miss Lewis
| music faculty will give a short musical
program.
The girls high school class of June
rs, the HAIR. rs. will give a garden
party for the boys of the class, the
The party will be held at the home of
Miss Helen Travis of 1895 Park
avenue.
| THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who says she saw a soldiers wife
act like spoiled baby the other day
at the Union Pacific depot. The re-
| turning man in o. D. greeted his wife
and when he turned from her to kiss
his little mother, the wife burst into
tears and didn't stop crying until he
had left the mother and returned to
| her side.
| JEST THINKIN'.
Sumtimes, when I git spell, aint
feelin' quite as well, as I used t.
mebbe blue (yeller jaunders II do it,
too), sort O. disagreeable ba1kin' when
1 orter pull-holdin' back my whiffle-
| tree, like 1 hadn't orter be. Times
like that I jest reflect Chuman nature
L expect. nursin' things yer can't for
geD. Jest reflect, an seem t see,
tlllie5S llhV WIIdl lilSy uSeu Ter De-
when L loved tn world an it never
found no fault with me. Git a spell
of thinkin' of puncheon floor an loft
above, where L slept before 1 knowed
boys was happiest-an' growed.
| Think about tn window. too, where
tn stars come peekin- thru. guessin'
to my hearts content, whence they
came, and where they went. every
sound-a crack or snap-I reckoned
was my rabbit trap. Then when drop
! pin off ter rest, mothers chair and
dustin wings, twisted into bears and
kings. Aint it jest th' beatenest, how
a yNHgster 'magines things? Some
! times when get a spell, thoughts like
these will make me, well-bring the
things I've nigh forgot, right back ter
/ me an like as not, where ter pet 'em
/ and caress brings tn OF time happA-
ness. Blame it all. with all there is,
/ in the line of rheumatic, yelfsr jaun-
ders. gettin' blue, quarreling with
1 your friends, too, mortgages and taxes
er. shirt-tail notes. that's fallin' when
/ you're worse off n you've ever been.
! Don't blame feller fer wishin' he's a
I boy again. N. S. A.
Mrs. Ada @. Perry of Manhattan has
announced the engagement of her
( daughter, Miss Annette Woodward,
and Mr.. Howard Adams O'Brien of
Manhattan. The date of the wedding
( has not been announced. Miss Perry
is connected with the Capper Publi-
cations.
Mrs. Lotta Johnson announces the
engagement of her daughter, Vera, to
Lieut.. V. W. Boyer of Cleveland, Ohio.
Miss Johnson has spent the past
year and a half in New York City and
has just returned home. While there