The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-04

| hiVNe' AilsS beuldn tTeOfSe.
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Beth Rogler and Mr. Lester Posvar |
are announced as new members. A /
! high consistent grade of school work |
| is required to AXE this fraternity and /
only small per cent of the senior |
class is elected to its membership. |
/ Tau Delta Pi holds the same place in
Washburn that Phi Beta Kappa does |
| in most colleges and universities
Miss owen and Miss Crane are both |
| Topeka girls. They are members of |
social sororties and have both been
1 chosen to belong to Nanosa the hon |
| orary senior woman,s society. They |
are active in all school affairs.
Miss Crane edited the Kaw last |
year. Miss owen has been assistant |
| in the English department for two
years. Miss Beth Rogler is from Cot |
tonwood Falls. She Is a member of |
| the Sigma Alpha Iota sorority and is |
active in the musical affairs of the !
school.
| Mr.. Posvar of Burns is distinguished |
| by being the only man in the senior
class who will wear the honor key |
! this year. He is assistant editor of !
team and prominent in school activi- |
, ties.
! 1t is only a jumping jack. 1t is !
soiled. half broken and SCARED with |
| the marks of little teeth. 1t lies on a |
desk in busy office down town !
where bright eyed Iaiss dropped 1t |
on one of those rapturous visits 10
daddy The toy, tho a cheap. rudelv !
constructed piece of mechanism, fur |
nished joy to its childish owner. but
now i: is performing a much larger
task
/ Dep in discussions of business with !
his callers, Daddy fondles the jump
| ing jack. Subordinates as they come
to his desk pick, it up and play with |
| iS ono in hat If
| flee but who in the past week has had
the baby's toy in his hands The mar |
! ried men, with little ones of their
own, are reminded again of them. !
| The unmarried ones joke about it but
! their jokes are sober ones
Since its coming to the office. the |
| jumping jack has spread a spirit of
comradeship and fellow feeling among |
! the workers and the innocence of its
owner still emanating from her for
gotten toy has made the place q
cleaner. better place in which TO work.
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! Grown up people chuckled over the !
story of Bah as told by Mary Roberts |
Reinhart in the Saturday Evening |
| Post some time ago. And many of |
them have enjoyed seeing the story
| performed by Marguerite Clark on the |
| screen. But the children will delight |
| in it just as much All the mistakes
| lover who was Il real man after all
are humorously and beautifully por-
! trayed in the picture. Even the fall
| into the filled bath tub while dressed
in BAH gown is artistically arranged. |
| "Babs Diary together with an edu-
| cational film and n surprise, will be
/ shown for the children a the Or
pheum saturday morning under the
direction of the Social Service club.
I (.VRT. IN nI-y
Tho. like most women she dearly
| loves to talk and tho telephone is an
aid to her pet bobby. one of the girl
employees a the city hall has given her
wherein she obtained a door to her
room equipped with a night lock in eX-
! change for the door she found there
unequipped with the desired attach
| ment.
! The girl in question rents a room in
/ a large rooming house in Topeka. This
week, another girl moved out of a
! room farther down the hall much
more deSira BILE room ard one on which
she had had designs for some time AS
soon the last bit of baggage of the
| other girl disa ppeared down the stair
way, the city hall girl had men NOV
! ing her trunk. piano and other pos
sessions into the priced location Set
| Ting herself in her new Quarters she
| happened to think that the landlord
might want to have something TO say
in the matter and for fear that he
! would attempt to move her back to
| her old location during her absence.
started to lock up. bu found that
| there was no night lock on the door.
Aiming herself with a screwdriver
and a hammer and otherwise unas-
sisted. she marched back to her old
room and Lcalmly removed the door
from its hinges. Repeating the oper-
alton at her new quarters she changed
doors and swapping the lock. she
promptly departed for the telephone
! office where she intended to order the
! telephone moved The telephon office
| was closed for the day and the next
| day she forgot but the third day she
appeared at the window where such
| orders are placed. only to be informed
that new occupants of her old room
| had already paid rental and it was
now impossible to move the instru-
| ment.
When can I get new on22" was
her anxious query. visions missed
dates flashing thru her mind.
! When some one in town moves out
of town and releases an instrument
was the answer. We will put your
name on our waiting list. tho, was the
consolation offered.
All right. I'm stunE." and she
swung away from the phone office de-
claring: But 1 have n better room
for the same money and a night lock
! on IL too
THERE Is \ GIRL IN OUR TOWN
| Who purchased yesterday a new
pair OF oxfords. some fancy silk hose
land some long Knockers with frills
She put them all on, and then settled
| herself in a chair with her feet on
Ianother chair to read Frank Simond's
history of the war. But her feet. re
lsplendent in their new glory. were so
enhancing TO look upon that she could
mot concentrate on Mr.. Sfmond's grip
ping story, and finally put it aside IN
read
| y :.
| When it is known that II is not
necessary for a woman to put down
her exact age in the registration books
at the city building. perhaps more of
them will hasten TO register for