The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

Steiner, baritone. and Mr.. Lawless,
tenor, will carry the solo parts.
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Miss Elizabeth Schick, a pupil of
Mr.. Paul Loveless. will give two vocal
numbers at the recital of the advanced
pupils of Mrs. f. A. Mccoy to be held
Monday evening, March Il. at the
Y. w. C. A.
A silver offering will be taken for
the benefit of the educational fund of
the P. E. o. Sisterhood. Mrs. w. r.
be present and will tell of the educa-
tional work of the order.
j. y y
Topeka, Kan. March Il, 1921.
Dear Elizabeth: Do you remember
! the Topeka girl in New York city who
is practicing law? Well. the news
leaked out the other day at a bridge
club meeting that she is going to be
married to a former Kansas university
man by the name of Langdon. He is
supposed to be a widower with one
child. Isn't that exciting, and too,
! just after she said last summer that
she never intended to get married, she
wanted a career.
| We had a great big rain here last
Monday, that certainly did help out
one Topeka family. A family out on
| Clay street has been trying to remem-
| Der for the longest time to buy some
grass seed and get it sowed before the
spring rains began. Every time they
were down town they would forget it
| and the last thing the woman's hus-
band said, Monday morning before he
i left home was, be sure and get some
grass seed and have it sowed for it
might rain. Well, it did that evening,
/ just poured and the Clay street woman
| felt so bad that she hadn't bought the
1,ry% = oh -nd at f1ac ard
the next morning there seemed to be
! plenty of seed all over it. Their next
| door neighbours grass seed had ~ been
| washed off and distributed itSSlf very
/ nicely on her lawn.
| Most everyone here is starting their
spring housecleaning and everyone
who hasn't actually begun, is starting
/ on the edges and is cleaning and re-
arranging the dresser drawers and the
p, cupboards. / think the rest of the
women who do things here, who are
not cleaning house, are planning their
spring wardrobes. Every day out of
the week, you will see some of the
prominent women here lined up at
the dress materials department. buy
| ing spring materials and asking advice
/ about their wardrobes. One Topeka
man clerk planned the spring outfits
of twelve of our best known women,
last Saturday.
! While we are speaking of clothes
that makes me think that over at Mrs.
Aliens tea Thursday, one of the we'll
known women of the state came up
to me and said: ct surely hope you
are not going to say anything in your
lpaper tomorrow about the clothes we
have on, for haven't had a new dress
| in so long a time, that this one has
been described three or four times al
Iready." She was telling a little joke
on her husband, too, saying that the
-I,1 I'D
friend husband looking up from his
work remarked that her petticoat
showed. Let it," remarked his wife,
I'm glad to have it show; it's the
first new one I've had in four years"
I felt sorry the other day for a lit
tie girl who called me over the phone
and who sounded as tho she had been
crying She wanted to know between
sort of half sniffIes and sobs whether
Tor not it was proper to hold a<man's
Iovereoat when he had been calling
on you and was about to leave. She
said she had read clear thru her book
on Social Customs and Manners and
all she could find to fit the case was
lsomething about being careful to al
ways be polite, which she felt as tho
she had been doing. But the mar
haG looked at her when she insisted
on doing it and said. gruffiy, whats
the idea. what are you holding my coat
for? If you insist on doing the mans
part, I'll let you do it. After this just
tget into your own coat alone" And
The had been doing it and she didn't
know what to do. everything was all
wrong and the whole world was blue
Isn't it queer that things like that can
spoil an otherwise perfectly enjoyable
levening?
They say. Eliza beth, that we have
Ian attractive widow here in town who
whenever she attends q dance and
thinks no one is looking insists on
doing the naughty shimmy. Everyone
was so shocked several weeks ago and
they say she always picks out some
other woman's husband, too. More