The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-05

notice Elizabeth how many girls along |
in the springtime seem to have a deep
desire to haunt the furniture stores |
and the china and home making de- |
partments of the dry goods store. Sup |
pose it is the same instinct that makes |
robin go out in the spring and cast |
his eye around for the best looking
wisps of straw, because he might need
them later on. Somebody told me the
other day that two boys out at the
Alpha Delt house were engaged, but I
don't know. One of the men at Wash |
burn who isn't thru school yet, and
who was married not long ago. is sup
posed to have said that the reason
he took the fatal step was because he
spent all his time over at the girls
house anyway and wasn't doing any
good at school SO he thought he might
as well get married and be able to
study every evening with his wife right
across the table from him.
You remember the Washburn man,
who is in a bank out west and who
was engaged to the Toueka girl and
was SO sure of marrying her that he
came to see her one night and brought
"a license along and got Tilted for all
his trouble. Well he's engaged again
and they say it's really going to take
this time. Oh that's long drawn out
romance, Elizabeth. That same girl
and one of Topeka's handsome black
eyed business men who have been
good friends since last spring have
now decided to disagree.
oh, yes, l wanted to tell you some
thing else. Did you know that the
town millionaire had established him
self in an office down town in one of
the office buildings? Well, he has, and
has had an expert on draperies and
color harmony from one of the de-
partment stores arrange and plan his
office fixeures. The rug is taupe,
honest-to- goodness Louis XIV cur
tains, and lovely draperies, and ma
hogany furniture. 1t sure looks like
a million dollars.
Last Saturday evening at the Grand
theater, during one of the intermis-
sions, the audience on the first and
second floors heard ring out above
| them a woman's shrill Shrek of
| laughter followed by mans and then
half a dozen other laughs in various
| keys and tones. Every one who could
turned about in their seats and stared
| up in the gallery where the laughter
| seemed to be coming from, and Jack
Wilson, the manager, raced up the
! long flight of stairs to see what the
| trouble was. The matter was that a
| whole bunch of boys and girls attend
| ed the line party in a crowd and one
i of the boys happening to pull out a
| pair Of silk hosiery from one of those
boxes of candy they sell at the the
| alter. started the fun. Talking about
| theaters makes me think of something
| else. We had an orchestra here this
week at the Orpheum and one of the
singers was Junoesque looking per-
son wearing a very unusual sort of
| dress. all tight and having huge big
| flowers in it. Well one of the girls
in the audience who happened that
| evening TO be with man who is unu-
| sually polite and courteous, and think
| ing to have some fun leaned toward
| him and whispered. IF I should get Il
dress like that would you take me
| to the next Woman's club dance 20
| and the astonished man looking at the
stage beheld a dancer floating around
| in a wiSp of cheeSecloth with a rose
in her hand. Swallowing once or
| twice, he managed to say, "Why, yes
| if all the rest would dress that way
And then the joke was on the girl for
between the time she had started to
| speak and had finished the sentence
the Junoesque person had walked off
and the little dancer had fitted on.
The other day I asked one of our
best loved white haired women what
one must do to be really and truly
popular and here's what she said It's
SO good that am going to pass it on.
II could lay down rules. one hundred
and three of them, all good rules, too,
but there are two I'd remember, IL I
were you, and you can afford to let
the others take care of themselves
The first is when talking to a man
never run down another woman, no
matter how you dislike her The sec
ond-and even if you forget the first
please remember the second-never
when talking to man, praise another
man too effusively."
. There's a man up in the state house
who has new steno, an Irish girl
war bride, who was born in Irela nd
| educated in France and has lived ir
| Germany and Belgium, and she surely
is good locking, too. All the sner
around are making excuses to come ir
and borrow something from that of
flee. FRANCES.
! Boomers, pettibockers, knickers
. riding breeches, coveral1s, and all such
who has any feeling of shame to dor
these articles nowadays? 1t was not 81
twenty years ago. Then the decision
of girl who refused to wear bloom
ers in a gymnasium was of enough i'm,
2 portance to make a story out of, ant
on several succeeding days to follow
, up with additional information abou
the case and the results.
:. The girl told about in the story wa
. attending a school in the east wher'
the physical training teacher decided
that her girls must wear boomers il
their gym work. This several of thu
!, modest young maidens fatty declined
: to do and the patient teacher lookin,
i about for the next best thing to do
decided that her charges should wea
5 and box pleated. Well, the girls triet
them, and the ones who approved o
the boomers found that in playin
basketball they could not raise thei
( arms hurriedly in trying to make TIL
r basket without gathering up NOR