The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-29

David Page. Mr. and Mrs. ]. F. Bald
win. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Allison, Mr..
and Mrs. Mallon.
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Mrs. Dana Davis entertained her
bridge club Friday afternoon at her
home. COS Fillmore street.
Mrs. T. Snattinger and Mrs. Joseph
&c. Wilson substituted.
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Topeka, Kan, Jan. %, 1921.
Dear Elizabeth: So you are going
to the Kansas Day banquet in New
York City this evening, will get to
hear Margaret Hill McCarter speak.
When L talked to her the other day
over the phone she didn't say what
she was going to talk about, but then
it will be interesting L know. That
joke you told me about the laundry
man in 145th street who has the sign
on his window, Everything Relaun-
dered from a Lace Handkerchief to a
circus tent" was funny. Makes me
think of the joke We told here at the
office about a girl who weighed over
two hundred and twenty pounds, and
when she bought a new suit, one of
the men wanted to know if the Topeka
Tent and Awning company had made
it.
Something I found out the other day
about our governors household is
rather unusual. Governor and Mrs.
d
hold. their cook is a negress who is a
college graduate, and the maid who
does the second work is an Indian
girl from the Haskell institute.
I haven't very much gossip to tell
you this time, only that a single, good
looking lawyer here in town is said to
be rushing" one of our very attrac-
tive widows. They say it is a feeling
of spontaneous and mutual adnira-
ticn. Then they say that another well
known Topeka man and his wife have
separated and she has gone home. and
that probably in the end the children
will cause them to go back together
again, but then you never can tell,
perhaps that is only gossip after all.
Say. Elizabeth, it is the funniest
thing to see some of these little IA and
] ) year old flapperS at a dance. They
wear the most beautiful hosiery, all
embroidered and with insets of hand
some lace, but which were meant for
women who could show them to adj
vantage by wearing short skirts, not
by little flappers whose skirts haven't
reached the grown-up stage yet. One
of the boys in this set who is a strong
advocate for cheek to cheek dancing
said the other day that he liked to
dance cheek to cheek for it sort of
gave a support and helped hold him
up. 1t must be nice to be some sweet,
gentle mans prop in a dance, mustn't
it? I suppose by this time the toddle
has been worn out in New York and
they are starting something new now.
One of our good looking profess
sional girls who has resigned to take
a rest, said the other day that it was
to be a real rest and that she wasn't
to get married as everyone thought
when she resigned. But then why
should she be in hurry to get mar
ried as long as the proposals come
along at the rate of two a year?
bunch of young folks played a
joke on their parents the other Sun
day evening. They wanted to dance
at the house and knew that father
would object so they persuaded some
friends of the family to ask father and
mother over for Sunday evening
lunch, which they did. The dancers
rolled up the rugs, turned on the mu-
sic machine and had a good time, and
when it was time for dad and mother
TO return the friends 'phoned them
that they had started home and it was
time TO put down the rugs. But
after they had gone that far. the
bunch decided to face the music and
continued dancing, until ' father ar
rived and set his foot down.
A Topeka woman out on Taylor
street had a boy and a girl out to her
nome to dinner one night last week.
Ihey had been married just one week.
me Topeka woman has given the fol-
lowing report: First course, couple
acted all right; second course, began