The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-11

living room to tho college, the money
has been raised plus six dollars in half
the time allowed. thru the hard work
of Miss farrell.
The Rev. and Mrs. Alfred E. Greg
DRY of the First Congregational church
will give a reception Monday evening
at their home, 1919 Fillmore street,
for the members of the church and
congregation. The hours will be from
until 10 o'clock.
Invitations have been issued for the
first Helianthus dancing party which
will be given December %. Wednes-
day evening at Kellam hall. This is
the first party to be given by the club
for several years.
Mrs. H. j. Dotterweich will enter
tain the members of her bridge-lunch-
con club Friday afternoon at her home
in College avenue.
Mrs. Roy Shoaf will be hostess next
Thursday afternoon to the members
Of her sewing club (
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Whose husband has offered to buy
her Ford car but who has held back
and hasn't accepted the offer fearing
it would jeopardiZe her social position.
But the other day after she had wait
ed and watched the mails in vain and
listened all day for the phone to ring
for news of a party to which she
longed to be invited. but to which she
was not, she finally gave in 1t was
the last straw. And now she's the
possessor of new Ford.
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| Topeka, Kan. December II, 1920.
Dear Elizabeth: You remember
that clipping you sent me about the
Topeka man who was married in New
L To- Ton hapn
visiting here and those who were for
tunate enough to meet the bride GER
tainly did admire her. While the To-
peka man was an officer with the
Thirty fifth division in France he met
a New York girl who was serving in
a Military hospital. The romance
started then and eliminated in their
marriage last week. Isn't that excit-
ing?
You were speaking of New York
| telephones and that made me think of
a story man who has recently re-
! turned from there tells. It's a little
scheme carried out by business men
in New York who have their office in
their hat and who don't have any
! phone humber. When they leave a
number for a business prospect to call
it is usually a public phone number.
They HE themselves down to the
phone booth, take an "out of order
card from under their coat, hang it
| on the phone to keep the public out
and proceed to wait for their call
Two women here have been having
what must be a very exciting time,
calling each other up over the phone
| One of the women lives on the east
side of town and the other on the west
side. The latter woman called up the
| east side woman recently and asked
her if she could find her maid
Why, why" stammered the woman
addressed, How should 1 know where
to go to get you maid ?" Well" said
among them, don't you?" Then the
conversation ended. The more the east
side woman thought about it the worse
she felt, SO she finally called the ives
side woman and began, DO you sup
pose you could find me a coloret
washwoman?" Good gracious" splut
tered the west side person, why ds
you ask me?" "Oh, / don't know re
piled the inquirer, You live right GU
near that neighborhood, don't you p
And tFen another conversation ended
Did you hear about the Topeka mar
who was in Washington, D. c., tn,
first of the month and who tried t.
cash check as his roll of bills wal
getting mighty small He cheerill
went to the window at a bank Iden
tification, sure. He drew out hi
watch-halfway, and then happened
to think that it had his fathers mi
tials on it. Then he thought of hi
ring, but it bore his brothers initial
and he had no little gold letter
in his hat band. Finally he pulled GU
several cards showing he was a mem
Der of some Topeka clubs but the cole
bank clerk who had been watchin,
| his motions looked over his head ant
remarked that they might be stolen.
Finally he bought something in a de
: partment store and they cashed tn
check. The man in our town says h.
had a good notion to get fifty dolla
bill and go back to that clerk and asl
him for change"
. That raid you described on the poo
: little old BLACK Cat" down in Green
, wich village was too funny, tho it wa
. a shame it took ten policemen to raj,
a place that contained but eight bot
ties of drinkables. Does the same cir
with bobbed hair eat there with tn
same artist? I hope there is NOR
going on socially in New York thai
there is here. A woman said tn
other day that between the Red Gross
the tuberculosis drive, Christmas an
the starving Chinese, and the Nea
East solicitations, she was going to b
ready for a drive for her own benefi
along about the first of the year.
FRANCES.
The men of the Kappa Sigma fra
ternity will give a formal party an
dance this evening at the Elks' clut
, The affair will be one of the larges
which has been given this fall. Their
] will be special decorations of the fra
. ternity colors, scarlet. green an
white, and also Christmas greens an
. colors will be used. The Coates Hous
orchestra of Kansas City will furnis
music and also banjo players fror
. Lawrence. There will be a number @
:. favor dances.
Among the chaperons and alumr
will be: Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight I
!: Ream and Mrs. Pendleton A. Miller
: Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton E. Kline. Nj
and Mrs. Kenneth Kline of Miller