The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-03

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Topeka's well known traffic cop,
George Brown. who studies human ma
ture at Eighth and Kansas avenues,
has a new story that should be post
script to his OCCUPATIONS of Traffic
Cop He says that a motorist ran /
down a pedestrian. The angry pedes- |
trian gave the motorist a murderous
glance.
Say. fella, don't give me such a
dirty look the driver said. 1t wasn't |
my fault
I'll admit you have dirty look" |
the pedestrian retorted, "bpt I didn't
give it to you
On a table that occupies seventy
five feet of valuable space in Hairs
Stationery shop is an array of Christ
mas cards so beautiful that the sight
/ of them gives immediate Christmas en-
! thusiasn. The display represents the
stock OF 5000 Christmas cards Halls
have to offer this year. Cards are
| there for every price and every need.
! Friends of a woman in our town"
who knows all there is to know about
Topeka population and the Happenings
of the day have christened her .'Pathe
News"
A Topeka bride has among cher
loveliest lingerie beautiful pink satin
night dress, made in sleeveless fashion,
hemstitched and picoted. The gown is
admired more than any other in her
trousseau, and it cost the least! 1t
only set her back $3.50. She found
/ it at Warren NJ. Crosby's, where there
is brand new line of silk indies at
| amazingly low prices, almost fifty per
cent less than in the holiday season
last year Think of finding teddies of
trousseau crepe "a beautiful new ma
teriaD Neptune satin, and crepe &c
chine for $500 and S5.95; satin and
crepe de chine caniisoles for $195 to
$3.50; knickers of trousseau crepe and
satin for $685.. $500 and $3.50 and
gowns of crepe de chine and satin for
$3.50 and $9-s5i Last Year no silk
nightgown worth having cost less than
fifteen dolla-s!
A Topeka man ran for his life after
he played practical joke on his wife
one morning. He had worn one loud
tie after another on successive morn
fIngs, anxious for her to comment on
his gay taste in neckwear. Finally he
chose a tie of deafening hue and she
finally said:
My dear. you're certainly not going
to wear that loud tiei''
"Oh, yes" he replied, "but it will be
all right when I put my muffler on
Large, Grecian vases, imported from
the small islands south of Japan where
natives have toiled to make them
beautiful, are being sold at Stansfield's
flor use as vases or lamp foundations.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday the
fvases are selling for one-fourth off the
Irregular price of seven to ten dollars.
Preferring to have something diff
ferent from the clothes worn by her
!. Topeka sisters, a woman in our
town" went to Chicago to buy her fall
. wardrobe Among her purchases was
an attractive gown which cost her sixty
dollars. What was her dismay-and
!: what was the amusement of her
ifriends-to learn that a gown exactly
like her exclusive one was sold from
Topeka shop for fifty dollars!
Artistic scarfs, table runners and pill
How tops of tapestry cloth add dis
!: Ittnctive note to any living room. A
NEW stock of tapestry furnishings has
arrived at Warren NJ. Crosby's art de-
Ipartment, along with beautiful stencil
| ed satin pillow tops and table covers in
: lorientaI designs. The art department
at this shop has a world of suggestions
: flor Christmas gifts to offer from the
supply of stamped articles to be en-
broidered-such as infants dresses and
little girls dresses in sizes up to twelve
years. luncheon sets card table sets.
table runners, centerpieces and pillow
ltops.
For the business person or student
no gift will be welcomed more for
utlitys sake than an Eversharp pen
cil-"always sharp and never sharp
ened" or a Waterman fountain pen
the pen used round the world
Halls have a complete holiday stock
: of the two gift suggestions.
The Gadabout followed a girl wear
: ing one of the new knee length
dresses down the avenue to see if the
: brevity of the skirt would attract at
tention. The report on the adventure
is affirmative. Men, women and chill
: dren stopped in their steps, let their
: mouths drop open in an amazed man
!: ner, watching the daring girl until she
was out of sight. Two of the city's
most attractive, conservative girls were
close behind the girl with the short
skirt, but no one knew they were on
!: the street. From the comments heard
| century or so before Topeka will adopt
: the newest feminine idea of a skirt
At lasti A way is found to keep
dishwashing from taking the joy out
of the lives of houSekeepers- 1t is not
a complicated way that is more trou-
Bile than the old-fashioned dish pan
method See the swift. sanitary. prac-
teal Walker dishwasher at the Topeka
Electric company.
Much inquiry has been made among
investigators in the city as to how far
: | 1t Is between the average humans
tears. The Gadabout's tip to those who
lare asked the question is the answer:
: "a block"