The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19
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BY FRANCES JONES

"a Borrowed Function at Which a
| Country Girl Met a Golden Youth Who
Just Loved to Borrow" is the title of
a very clever little short story appear
/ ing in the August number of the Wo-
| mans Home Companion. The writer
| is Jessie Wright Whitcomb who is
Mrs George H. Whitcomb of Topeka
! and with Judge Whitcomb and fam
! lily is spending the hot months in their
! summer home in Colorado. This is the
| second of Mrs Whitcomb's stories to
! be published in the Companion this
year, the first appearing in the April
number.
The latest one to appear. the Dor
| rowed Function" is about little New
England orphan, Jerry" who is Of
| fered home by an aunt and uncle
who lavish affection money and
! clothes on the pretty little niece. She
| is warned not to pay too much atten-
! ton to a certain very lovable Larry,
which has the effect such warnings
world over go out of their way to meet
! the Larrys. The Larry" in question
/ is always financially embarrassed,
! having been brought up to wealth and
| then lost it all. He has the habit of
/ borrowing and borrows everything
| from clothes to food. The love affair
progresses none too smoothly, the aunt
| having trailed the Jerry" over a good
portion of the world trying to make
] her forget the Larry" when they are
! thrown together at a wedding, he as
best man and she as the maid of hon
1 or Then it transpireS that Larry,
( being of such borrowing disposition.
! is inspired to ask the girl of his heart
/ to marry him and the affair comes to
a climax when they use the borrowed
wedding to be married at, the aunt
| having become suddenly willing when
| il is learned that the Larry" has been
reinstated and is now again worth
millions.
! A birthday party will be given
Tuesday morning by Mrs. F. A. Nc
for her little son, James Franklin.
Twelve small friends will help him
/ celebrate his NTH birthday anniver-
sary Mrs. Mccoy will be assisted by
her cousin, Miss Helen Vaughn, of
Philadelphia, Pa. :,
The "Marguerites." a missionary
class of the Westminster Presbyterian
church will celebrate the twenty-sec-
! ond- anniversary of their founding this
evening with a picnic supper on the
lawn at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. L.
W. Wilson in Boswell avenue. Mrs.
| Marguerite AXtell Mccall, a returned
| missionary from South America, will
| come up from Kansas City to be a. spe-
cial guest. The class when founded
was named for Mrs Mccall Mrs
Wilson is now the teacher OF the
class.
|
| Mrs. B. c. Ware and daughter Olive
have returned from Chapman, Kan,
where they went to attend the we'd
| ding of Miss Grace 10y and Mr.. Harry
Ware, which took place Sunday, July
10, at the brides parents home, Mr.
and Mrs. Edward 10y of Chapman
Mr. and Mrs. Ware left for Colorado
to spend their honeymoon and on their
return will make their home at Her
| ington. Mr.. Ware is a civil engineer
in the employ Of Il! ( KOek Island,
A Topeka woman and her husband
| who left here several weeks ago on
| motor trip to California and who are
now visiting in Cheyenne, Wyo.. write
| back saying they think they viii
| change their plans and return home,
| giving as the reason the high cost of
gas, which they say is selling in Chey-
enne and the surrounding country for
| SO cents.
One man at least chooses women
| life-savers in preference to men for
| patroIling his beach and that is a
| manager of the park pools in St.
Louis He declares that since trying
| women at this job during the war
while the bronzed heroes were abroad,
| he would rather have them than men
| Many women are now qualifying as
! life-savers and are getting their train
| ing for the tests in the Y W. G. A. and
school pools thruout the country The
tests which the girls must pass in
| clude. Removing waist, skirt and
| shoes while floating in the water,
| breaking the grip of a drowning per-
son without the old striking-in-the
head method, towing a body to shore
in three different ways and resuscitat-
ing IN the newest method.
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who says the other night at an ice
cream social on a church lawn she was
| deprived of the use of her hands. That
! is the use to which she intended put
ting them, of feeding herself the ice
| cream which she had purchased.
From the time she arrived until the
| time she left she shook hands with po-
| litical aspirants while the ice cream in
| the dish melted and ran over. The
| woman in our town also says that
when she walks down the avenue and
some one comes up smiling to her
| with his hat in his hand, she is I'M
| decided whether it is an old. almost
! forgotten, beau or schoolmate until
the inevitable little while card begins
to show up and then she knows-it is
| a candidate.
Mr. and Mrs Harvey Parsons have
| announced the enga cement of their
daughter. Maym, to Mr.. Charles B.
! Hoyt son of Mr.. and Mrs. c. W. Hoyt
| of Topeka. The wedding will take
place in the early fall.
| Miss Parsons is a graduate of this
years class at Washburn college and
is one of the popular girls of the col
lege set. Mr.. Hoyt is now connected
with the New York Sun
| y y =
The Topeka Business and Profess
sional Women's club at its next regular
meeting, Monday, July 26. will have a
! dinner at Pelletier's Tea room at $50.
| Tickets will be on sale at the Sullivan
Art store, at the Y. W. c A. and with
, Miss Anna Heartburg in the treas
urer's office at the Santa Fe offices.
Members and those interested in the
| organization with a view to becom-
! ing members are urged to purchase
| their tickets before Friday, July %, at
which time reservations must be made
| for the dinner.