The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-18

Kown. Miss Lucille Heym and Miss
Moore.
Miss Dorothy Nichols will entertain
at dinner next Friday evening at her
home in Fillmore street for Miss Dor
othy Crane and Mr.. Arch McKeever
whose marriage will take place soon
Saturday evening Mr.. Clyde Schenck
will give a dinner at Pelletier's tea
room honoring Miss Crane and Mr.
AcKeever. Monday afternoon, Sep
TENDER 27, Mrs. Davis Hill, of Salina,
will give luncheon for the members
Of the bridal party and other guests
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Alexander
Will entertain at dinner Wednesday
evening in honor of the approaching
marriage of Miss Dorothy Wahle and
Mr.. John Ripley and also Miss DorO-
thy Crane and Mr.. Arch Mckeever.
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who has been assisting one of the
churches in the city this week at the
fair grounds and has suggested that
there are just three songs in the
hymnal she would like to hear Sunday
morning and they are Art Thou
Weary. Art Thou Languid. Art Thou
Sore Distressed" also, Safely Thru
Another Week. also oh Day of Rest
and Gladness."
Mr.. and Mrs F J. Mileham, of
Newton, announce the engagement of
their daughter, Zillah Louise, to Mr.,
Thomas Austin Leddy, of Rhode
Island.
Miss NIileham made her home here
until number of years ago. when she
moved to Newton with her parents
She is niece of Mrs. E. j. Shak eshaft,
of 91S Fillmore street.
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Miss Margaret Gohlke is training a
community chorus of one hundred
voices for concert to be given next
Wednesday evening in Usage City.
Next week Usage CITY has its semi
centennial celebration of Homecoming
week, lasting thru the entire week
Miss Gohlke is supervisor of music for
the Oakland schools
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Topeka. Kan, Sept. IS. 1920.
Dear Elizabeth: The telephone
rang the other morning and it was
someone who wished to tell me the
| funniest thing about an apartment
house here in town, the owner of
which, being a bachelor, rents only to
people having no children. Well. in
some way or other those people GER
tain1y did fool that landlord for one
by one, to the families who had no
children, when they moved into the
fiat the babies began to creep in, until
there are now six families living there
and there are five babies in the flat
/ The other family has a girl eight years
OF age who practices violin. which the
woman said was worse than the ba-
bies One of the fathers being sort of
conscientious went to the landlord and
told him of the arrival in his family
| OF youngster and asked him if he
would be compelled to move. "Wen'
snapped the man. yours has as good
/ en-" also heard another baby story
about the Topeka mother who re-
ceived a boy instead of a girl and to
console her the grandmother of the
infant has given her daughter one
| whole dozen pairs of heavy black silk
4 hose and the grandfather a string of
pearls.
l.. You remember the woman from To-
! peka who has lived out on the west
ern coast for the past year, well she
she made her friends cross their
hearts and hope to die that they
wouldn't breathe it to soul that
they had seen her for she wished to
complete some business. slip out again
| and then come back in a few weeks
! to stay. But there is hardly any
such thing nowadays as a secret
! The other day I walked down the
street behind two of our wealthy wom-
! en-, both of solid substantial families
They were talking about buying
things. They seemed to have bought
! some jelly glasses at the ten-cent
/ store and finding them to be too thin
had taken them back and asked for a
! refund, which they didn't get, and
they exchanged them for an assort-
ment of dish mops, scrapers and pans
and were carrying them home. I just
thought of the difference between
( those two women in doing their shop
/ ping and in some others who haven't
| half the bank account that they have
and who buy one hundred fifty dol
lar coat in ten minutes. Talking about
| carrying home things reminds me of
a letter someone sent me the other
day asking me to write a There's q
/ Woman in Our Town" about women
in our town who order loaf of bread
| from grocery store two miles away
and compel poor delivery horse to
/ stumble to their door with It. This
woman said that when the movie
show, BLACK Beauty" came to town
4 that these heartlesS women would
weep over it and still continue to order
the loaf of bread-which perhaps is
the truth.
1 suppose you have heard of the
| Kansas Free Fair, we'll one of the
women down on Topeka boulevard
! has certainly heard of 1t and seen all
/ of it that she wishes too this week.
1 First, someone will come along and
ask: Lady, will you loan me a wash
cloth to wipe the licorish off the baby's
face" and Lady can leave my baby
! buggy on your porch; I'm afraid to
take it to the fair grounds" These
are a sample of the questions in the
morning. Along about noon they be-
come more insistent as their needs be-
come more urgent and the woman in
our town hears: Have you an ice
( box that I can put this bottle of milk
into; it'll sour if I carry it in the
lbaby's buggy" My dear woman.
would you permit me to park my car
in your driveway" "Ooh-say would
you kindly loan me a needle and
thread, I've run in my stocking and
if I don't fix it. it'll be awful by
night?" and then from the south:
Lady, can youan spah me a drink of
watah ?" and so the questions continue
until the Topeka boulevard woman is
considering rendering her bill for serv-
ice 10 the state