The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-07

hair, as it. is turning gray. She de-
clined ia spite OF artful coaxipg 70
have her hair restored to its natural
eoIcS. 'tWhyi should II" she exiaim-
ed. 81 am old enough to have gray
hair. and besides" she paused for the
final argument. -ny husband likes It.
One or the girls of our town who is
engaged and who is going about to a
number Of showers in her honor, is
bemoaning the fact that right now
when she ought to have her engage
ment ring to show off, it isn't here
she left it up in the country where she
was visiting several days ago
Do you know a man coming down
on the street car the other morning
said his neighborhood smeHed like
Milwaukee did before the war, and
then he began to talk earnestly to his
two pounds making twenty-foLr
quarts" What on earth do you sup
pose he is doing with brown sugar?
A girl told me the other day that
her UNCLE from st. Louis had come to
visit them and that since his arrival
two bottles of the loveliest smelling
hair tonic called Zero had begun to
disappear off his dresser. What do
you suppose he uses 50 much OF it. for
Yesterday when I was calling for news
a lady told me OF the incest thing a
woman in our town has done; she has
sent four working girls to Colorado on
a vacation trip and won't let anyone
know about it. The girls couldn't
have gone if-she had not sent them.
Wasn't that fine in her? Oh. yes. I
mustn't forget to tell you about the
man here whe went DIP in the airplaue
last week He is SO modest and quiet
that he wont mention the fact. Just
know that IL you and / had gone up
ana nad gone thru nose spins and tail
dives and everything we would have
talked about it for weeks. He had to
ask MS wife tho first IL he could go.
FRANCES.
We have begun to see them one by
one; at first they were Only in the
shop windows up and down the Ave
nue., then vacationists coming home
began to wear them and now the ones
IN the store windows have begun to
disappear only to reappear again on
the heads of Topeka's fairest. They
make dents in our pocketbooks, in ia
Tiers or friend husbands as the case
may be, but they are mighty attract
these new fall hats.
They are shown in silks, satins,
duvetynes, velvets and many other ma
teFials, in all sorts of shapes and sizes
and most of them bearing a touch of
hand work in embroidery, hand made
silk ornaments or flowers and beading.
Never has there been a time when
one could find a%hat of.any shape she
faRcied and which suited her, and still
be IN style, be it turned up brim, an
irregular style, tam, pleated or per-
feetlY plain crown as she can this sea-
son. Il do not remember" said a
buyer for one of the Topeka stores,
"a season when our hats and clothes
were any more beautiful than they are
this year. The styles. the colors, the
embroideries and hand work. are all
simply wonderful People seem salts
ned with them in spite of the objec-
Hons made by q few who still think
dish"
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
. Who says she will never feel as tho
she is really educated until she can
read, with some show OF intelligence.
that most pulling of things time
table!
The following persons picnicked
Friday at Gage park; Mr.. and Mrs.
James Chase. Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Heck, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gillespie, Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Heinz, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Griffith. Mr.. and Mrs Chester
Ebey Mr., and Mrs: E. G. Cavenaugh,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kuehne, Miss Ger
tFuds Heinz and Mr.. Edward Taylor.
The Lillian Mitchnsr W. C. T. U.
will hold their annual meeting
Wednesday. August II, at 1850 o'clock
with Mrs. V. Cross at 824 Madison
street Reports from the various de-
partments will be given. also there will
be an election Of officers.
The following piano pupils of Mrs.
q. W. Crawford will play in recital
Wednesday evening at 1880 o'clock at
the Highland Park Methodist church:
Minnie Davis, Roy Edmundson
Evelyn Hagen, Elsie Miller. Sybif zkn-
derson, Emma Relying. Mabel Her
rington, Audrey Haney, Frances At
henson, Warren Boast, Howard Skid
more. Lucille Lemons, CarolyA Roose,
Shirley Coddington, Pauline Marsh,
Atha Hicks, Bernico Simms, Walter
Rogers Clara Hauey.- TheIraa Haney,
Paul Steinrauf, Raymond Slzidmores
ana Ruth Berry.