The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-26

The affair was held in the basement
of the church which was decorated
for the occasion. DR.. and Mrs. Hotter
were presented with a reading lamp
and table and Mrs. Hotter and Mrs.
Mason were given corsages.
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Topeka, Kan, March. IS. 1921.
Dear Elizabeth: The other day a
couple of Topeka's well known girls
were having very absorbing CONVEX
sation at one of the avenue tea rooms.
They were surely in earnest, and 1
supposed it was a life and death mat
ter at first, they were speaking so
seriously. After while they began
to speak louder, and dear me, what
do you suppose the gist of their con-
versation was? They seemed to be
trying to figure out whether or not the
war had spoiled the men in our town.
One girl seemed to think that the boys
had been so pampered and catered to
and sought after and all when they
were in the army that now that they
were home, they expected the girls, If
they wanted to go anywhere, to invite
them, remind them of the date and
then come after them The other girl
agreed with her, but happened to
think of something one of the men she
knew had said. He thinks the boys
were. so disappointed, so many of
service and found the girls they were
engaged to had been going places with
the slackers and had even become en-
gagged to them, that they just thought,
now we've been done this way, you
can jusr pay for it; come along after
US" And SO the girl said they had
been doing it, and the other girl said
she had too. and was losing her pride,
for it wasn't half, as hard now to ask
boy to call on her as 1t had been.
But what are we going to do?" said
the other one. "A boy told me last
week that he had never been to call
on me. for 1 had never asked him to.
He thought 1 didn't care enough to
ask him to come and 1 thought he
didn't care enough to come, to ask my
permission to call. Well, Elizabeth
those girls argued and argued, and
finally, when 1 left. they were still
talking. They were having a mighty
serious time talking, and the waiter
and I Il blush to say it, were having
an interesting time listening.
Talking about restaurants m k
me think that a bunch of the young
folks here in town have nicknamed
some of the more important eating
places. They call one THE Beanery,"
another, the "Quick and Dirty" and
still another. 1.-THE Greasy Spoon" I
can't tell you the rest of them, for 1
know you'd be sure to guess where
they are on the avenue
1 saw the "stunningest' pair of
hosiery on the street the other day.
The girl was wearing a pair of grey
suede pumps, and with them a pair
of grey heavy silk hose, embroidered
in cut steel beads. One of Topeka's
clever girls who does beautiful en-
broidery is beading a pair of black
silk hose with black Jet beads. And
to be stylish in Topeka one must wear
| their skirts just slightly below their
knees. They say the skirts are worn
here two or three inches higher than
they are in Chicago.
Several of Topeka's families must
have gone describes last Sunday. In
one Topeka home they finished dinner
and were ready for their ice cream.
The man of the house very carefully
! removed the ice and salt from off the
top of the freezer, very carefully pried
off the lid and reached in, for the
brick of ice cream and found the can
empty. That was certainly surprise.
The company said they had had sew
eral complaints and that the man who
packed the cream must have been out
late. Talking about being out late,
| five men here one night this week
played poker until seven o'clock. One
OF the men thought he couldn't quit
because he was several dollars to the
bad and kept on playing. When the
game broke up he found that instead
OF losing he had won nine dollars and
had been playing for about five hours
to win back some money he hadn't
lost.
Do you know sometimes, we might
find out lot of news if we would
only go down to the depot like they
do in small towns and watch the train
come IN. The other night down at
the Santa Fe depot two women who
were waiting for a train were scandal
! lied to hear man behind them say,
Now you go on to Chicago and I'll
follow tomorrow and meet you at the
- hotel" They turned just in time
to see a Topeka business man talking
to an unknown woman. They hadn't
quite recovered from that when a
train from Kansas City came in and
Topeka married man was seen being
sentimentally attentive to one of To-
peka's society girls, they having come
in from Kansas City together. We
have hopes of one of our Topeka grass
widowers taking unto himself the sec
ond wife, for he-was overheard saying