The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-11

is visiting Miss Lottie Steinberg.
Miss Lesson is ,the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. R. V. Lesson, who formerly
made their home here:
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who was dumbfounded the other
noon when her small son walked into
the house, telling her in a matter of
fact manner that he had invited all
the gang in the neighborhood and
all mis- pals at school over that after
noon as it was his birthday, and that
he had told them they were going to
nave all the cake and ice cream they
could eat. He also informed her that
he had told the bunch just what he
mad wanted for birthday gift ana
forthwith produced a pair of roller
skates, which he had been down and
helped pick out. He also added. as
an after thought, that if she hurried
she could get the cakes baked in time
and he would help her by phoning for
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Topeka, Kan, June II, 1921.
Dear Elizabeth: There's one. man
in our town who has taken time
enough and gone slow about this get
ting married business Usually the
combination of a full moon, a pretty
face and an organdie dress will cause
the man. to rush down town the next
morning, get a license and hunt up
the preacher, but this time it didn't
A Topeka couple married June took
out their license Chat is the man
did) in January. Which do you sup
pose changed their mind, the man or
the girl?
| Our women golfers are getting wild
er every day about their game. Rain
or shine, it don't make any differ
ence. This week on ladies' day, it was
mostly rain, but the most enthusiastic
played thru it all. Several good arti-
cles of feminine wearing apparel suf-
fered severely. One of the players
who drove out in a lovely sweater Just
elongated, stretched affair reaching
almost to her heels.
Say, Elizabeth, we have an enter
prising widow here in town who has
all the methods invented yet of get
ting acquainted beaten. It's really
is to sit on the front porch of her
home, and II she sees nice looking
man driving by, she waves. If he
responds all right. If he don't all
right. for there's always a next time.
If after several wavings, he doesn't
respond to treatment, then the widow
gets busy. gets out her pencil and
paper and takes the number of his
car. calls the state license department
gets his name. calls him by phone and
the romance DSSlnS. HdI u.s. SOIHe-
times 1t begins.
We're having stirring times and
have had several right heavy domestic
rows among our younger married set,
recently. since the opening OF a sum-
mer camp near here. Quite few OF
the women folks have admitted to
most anyone but their husbands that
they are being fairly chewed up by
chiggers. Now as every husband
knows chiggers don't attack one from
the open dance floor, neither DO they
sneak up on their victim from a porch
railing, but they do sometimes gather
on the shady, inviting lovers lane
paths stretching out thru the woods.
The firnfnine contingents only con-
ISOLATION is that someone elses nus
! band, and maybe their own also, Is
being "chewed on" by the chiggers.
Il would sure surprise you, Eliza
beth, if I'd begin to tell you about
some of the extremely warm, not TO
say hot cases which have developed
between Topeka bachelor ano
numerous feminine frlenos. InetS
always a new face prettier than the
last, however, which is the only thing
which saves him from being COM
pletely submerged in matrimony' some
determined feminine person Is golns
to make up her mind. to marry MIN
some day. and then goodby bachelor
hood.
Speaktng of bachelors makes me
think of widows A short time ago at
a meeting of a club of business girls,
after the business had been complet-
| ed and the dancing started, up popped.
apparently from nowhere, a TopeKa
widow of one of the society CROWDS
who had as much fun as any or the
business girls dancing. The girls
haven't quite decided yet whether they
would feel free to go to one or the
Widows parties and Zine" right in the
festivities and feel at home, or not.
! Not long ago a woman in our town
engaged a maid, who took off her
coat and hat and began work right
then and there. The work happened
to be cutting bananas for fruit salad.
The girl sliced them very carefully
| lengthwise in good long strips.
! Mercy, me-" thought the woman,
wonder If that is the new style of
sIicing bananas: she said she came
from Mrs. MS and If Mrs. NJ, is do
! ing 1t, it's going to be a new style and
the sooner 1 learn to do it the better.
So the girl continued to slice the
bananas lengthwise, and that night at
dinner the family good naturally ate
their salad in strips. feeling sure that
they were abreast of the times because
If Mrs. NJ. was doing 1t, 1t was all
right.
| Two men and a woman got off of a
Eestbound Santa Fe train last week
and proceeded to the Harvey house
for dinner sfPOafafn called the Wo-