The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-26

and branches of the cherry trees. Mr..
end Mrs. Thompson have also visited
various other islands, one where there
were millions OF birds and another
! called Turtle island on account of the
| large number of turtles there. She
adds in one of her letters that it is
very hot most of the time and that
they have seen many flying fish.
Mr.. thompson is the son of Mrs
S. A. Thompson of West Seventh
street.
Topeka, Kan, Feb. &c, 1901.
Dear Elizabeth: No scandal all this
week, to tell you. the nearest thing to
it being the tale that is out about a
Topeka man who goes into the Crem-
erie each afternoon at four o'clock for
his cup of tea They say he acts ex-
actly like the dressmaker, Madam
Lucy in Irene and that his manners
are so sissified' they aren't even
funny. Speaking of tea-we have had
visitors here within the past few weeks
who were straight from England and
after they left the hostess drew a sigh
OF relief, for her usually coffee drink
ing family had been having, tea for
breakfast. lunch, four o'clock and din
ner. The English visitors said they
couldn't Imagine what was being given
them in their tea pot in the hotel
~
They couldn't think what the little
round metal things We're inside the
pots of tea. They were not accus-
toned to tea balls in their section of
England.
Another piece of news. the two girls
who have the leading parts in the
Washburn dramatic club play are sick
Isn't that tragic? But one of them
will be back in school within two
weeks One of the women here who
went to the Toscanini concert the
other night was very embarrassed by
something which happened. She was
IN hurry that evening and wore a
blouse with an old black silk skirt
which bad seen better days. 1t was in
shreds and was slit from the waist to
the hem in several places, but the
worst of all. she wore a bright co1ored
petticoat with it. OF course she
slipped out of her coat after she had
reached her seat and thought no one
would know the difference. When the
orchestra struck up the Star Spangled
Banner, UP popped the woman in our
town, stood thru the playing of part
of the piece and suddenly thought of her
skirt. She couldn't sit down again and
there she stood. We heard some of
the funniest expressions that night at
the concert. One woman said one of
the numbers sounded like the Midway
somewhere or other, another, that it
slightly resembled Riverside Park in
Chicago with {. celegration going on.
and still another wondered why all the
funny business" Just in front of us
was a little boy who complained to his
mother, This seat is so hard,' and
beyond him sat a girl arguing with
man that they had left one number
out of the program, which by the way
a whole lot of people said they did.
but Mr. Dotterweich says they didn't.
One of Topeka's well known men
told me a story the other day which
happened while he was going to school
down south. He had been told that a
girl whose family was from Topeka
was staying not very far from the
school, and that she was a mighty
handsome girl, so he dressed up in
his uniform, and went over to see her
one Sunday afternoon. When he
knocked the door was opened by the
most exquisite piece of femininity he
had ever seen. Well he caught his
breath and choked, mumbled and
stammered and finally managed to ask
If she was the young lady She was
and he introduced himself She in
vited him in and the poor fellow was
stricken dumb, he was SO awed by the
charm of the young person. Her
grandmother came in and she intro
duced her to the young captain as
My grandmother and the poor fell
low was SO far gone by that time that
he extended his hand and said also
my grandmother" Well the story
got out and the paper in the town
printed it and he has never heard the
last Ct it.
That was a funny tale you told me
muffs every morning as he comes
down in the subway Perhaps next
summer. when I arrive in New York
to visit you III bring along pair of