The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14

Miss Frances Solomon is expected over
/ from Atchison the last of the week to visit
Judge and Mrs. w. r. Smith.
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striped All the seats were taken but
/ the big. long seat at the front of the
car had room enough left for one
person. She squeezed in beside a lit
| tie freckle-faced, dirty newsboy and
very carefully pulled aside her skirts
to escape Contamination. The newsie
looked her over very carefully with
! the appTaising eye of the youngster
of today. and then remarked in a very
| audible tone of voice, Lady, yer
| stockin's twisted"
!, One of our Potwin society women
| has had a dress mySteriously diSap-
pear and she has turned the house
| upside down and wrong side out in
an effort to find it. but no use, it's
/ gone. Several weeks ago she was to
| be a guest at tea and when ready
| for her dress reached into the closet
for the garment. She found the
other frocks just as valuable, and
around the house were other things of
value, but nothing else had been
taken.
Isn't It queer, Elizabeth, how a
strain of music played just at the right
| time or the wrong time can disturb
| one? For instance. last week at the
meeting of the Womans club a pro-
gram was given during which 1.-The
! Old Gray Mare" was played softly over
and over. Several women whose boys
were in the 35th division, and espec-
tally in Battery A openly wiped their
| eyes and one of them left the room.
Well this week at the Grand, during
the showing of one part Of Way
Down East" the orchestra played
The Old Gray Mare" but it played it
in such a sort of gay, flippant fashion
that more than one person has said,
at just didn't seem right, cause it
meant more to us here than that.
Speaking of crying. there were sew
eral men who saw Way Down East"
ing to see them look around very care
fully to see if any one was looking
before they wiped their eyes.
The traffic cops in New York must
look very queer with their white
smocks on and the red. yellow and
! green lights working in the signal de-
vices which are hung over their Shout
ders. We have some traffic cops too
now, and they stand on little round
wooden boxes out in the center of the
street.
You remember how we have
of Powerful Katrinka. Well we have
a Katrinka right here in our midst, a
strong armed, darked hair Katrinka.
The other night she came out of one
OL the lnedIeTS, anu 1OunQ neT car,
which had been parked in front of
the house a long while. hedged in on
J both sides. She calmly contemplated
the scene a minute or two, walked out
to the rear of that car and, SO the
jazz hounds who were standing in
front declare, pushed it over an inch
or two, got in, started her engine and
backed out all right. She left them all
gasping. L tell you that's one woman
that will never be run over by an ordi-
nary husband. FRANCES.
Mrs. Olive Jones Whitmer, formerly
of Topeka, but who has been in Alex
andria, Va, for the past year, is as
sistant field agent for the United
States interdepartmental social by
| giene board. She has charge of Camp
Humphreys, Fort Myer and Quantico.
a marine station. Mrs. Whitmer, with
Mrs. Capper and Mrs. Will Montgom-
cry, all Topekans. were delegates to
the National Congress of the Woman's
I party held in Washington several
| months ago.
Mrs. Whitmer in writing a descrip-
ton of Virginia says: Am down here
in Virginia, having the time of my life.
My fathers mother and her people
and my mothers people left here
about one hundred years ago, and all
my life had heard tell Of the glories
and beauties of Virginia. OF course,
| my grandparents were old and /
| thought they saw Virginia thru the
mist of years and took all they told
! me with a grain of salt. had to live
! here year thru all the. seasons to
| really know how gorgeously lovely it
| is. live one block from the Potomac
river and just across We can see the
| lovely hills of Maryland. The streets
| mere (some of them) are still paved
with the ballast brought from Eng
! land IN the ships, and laid by the Hes
sian prisoners of Washington. In one
/ OF the churches here, Christ church,
are the pews of Washington and Lee.
! The same traditions hold in the fam
| lily life as were observed in the early
! days of Virginia. The market places
are kept intact and there on the pave
ment you will see old negro mammies
sitting on the curb, in the sunshine,
! selling flowers and COOLERS, vegetables
| and chickens. One old NANNY at
Mortified. where l visit week ends, is
| los years old. Her white folks as
she calls them. were desperately poor
at the close of the war so she took in
washing and supported them.
! I am living in the home of Doctor
Barrett, who is state regent of the d.
a r. If you want a slant on real
American society, you should come to
Alexandria. It's Who was her fam
ily?' What did they accomplish? or
| Who was her grandfather never,
| dow much has she?' Here the line is
drawn just as accurately as in the
olden days and you are or you are
not
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