The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-13

! Mrs. Robert ). Pierce gave a party
for the children of the neighborhood
Williams sixth birthday anniversary.
The little guests were: Letitia
| Frost, Laura Ann Bennett. Frederick
| Wedding, Virginia and Eleanor Nitsch
and Marian and Arthur Capps.
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| Topeka. Kan, August 10, 1921.
Dear Grace. One of our bachelors
with whom we had almost lost all
! patience and had just about given up
| hope OF having a chance to write up"
| the next week has suddenly taken an
! interest in one of the girls at his place
| of business, and she's just half as old
| as he is. Our other bachelor and the
| nurse that we have been watching so
| long and have been so assiduously
reading all the wedding licenses. in the
hope that we would find theirs, hasn't
given me a chance to announce their
engagement yet. Someone said the
other day that it might be a wedding
announcement instead Of an engage
ment.
| Then one Of the girls who is very
active in club circles is wearing a dia-
! mOnd, a huge big stone with platinum
setting It's worn on the wrong hand,
| but then of course when no one is
around she can change it back again.
| This girl has suddenly taken a desire
| to make mems handKerchiefs, the kind
|
| drawn ones. hope when her gift is
| al; ready to be bestowed that she
| doesn't receive the treatment accorded
another girl in our town. This girl
| does things on impulse and being
actuated by a kindly desire to make
| one of these handkerchiefs for poor
masculine soul, who couldn't seem to
| find anyone to make him any, and
who was too careful with his money
to buy one. she did. She was thanked
for it the next day, and then was
snubbed by the receiver of the gift the
| next week.
| Someone told me the other day
/ about the very interesting work of
| Gracia Pope Wood, the Washburn girl
who was society editor here at the
time you were doing newspaper work
| in Topeka After the close of the Co
lumbia university, where Miss Wood
| had been taking journalism this year,
! she went out on Long Island to assist
! in the care of dozens of little children,
who are sent there for the summer:
| She is having a wonderful time ana
gathering oceans of material for
stories. You girls in New York have
such a good time even tho you do have
hard time finding a place to stay and
/ then travel miles and miles to get to
work.
Say. Grace. did you ever watch a
bunch of men talking about fishing?
A bunch of the Country club MEM
/ bers are fish fans and when they get
together it's curious to watch their
| fish measurements. Some OF them
measure the height of the fish from
! off the ground, those are the kind of
! fish we hear of in stories; others
measure them off with their hands up
/ and down, and then they measure them
crossways too. 1t is almost as good
as a circus to watch them reel off fish
| stories with their hands.
] 1t Of OI1tI trae
me think of several golf quarrels that
| husbands and wives have had at the
! club. Two of our golfist families had
quarrels a week ago and just now
, they are getting on good terms. Last
Saturday night while one of the men
was dancing with his wife (why don't
| they ever seem to want to dance with
their own wives?) he began doing all
sorts of funny little fussy steps and
| his wife's downright worried for all he
would tell her was that he'd been
watching the boys when she asked
where he learned them.
| A Topeka man who has been in
New York has just been in to tell US
/ how he found out the meaning of a
| sign placed in the window of a Sixth
avenue millinery shop. The sign read,
! Ten per cent discount for husbands"
/ The sales girl explained that it really
meant that they knocked off 10 per
/ cent for cash. You see," she said,
| in real money. Otherwise the women
get the hats sent c. o. D. or have
them charged. When the husbands
/ help pick EN- out they can't kick"
We're going to tell the Topeka milli-
ners about this. I suppose one need
not necessarily bring their own hus-
band along. Even in as small a VIII
! lage as ours there are times when
some of the husbands present do not
belong to the shoppers.
! FRANCES.
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! Mrs. c. ]. Drew will entertain the
Topeka Central w. c. T. L. and their
friends Monday. August Is. at 1880
o'clock at her home. 513 Clay street.
An interesting meeting will be held.
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The marriage of Miss Ruth Noah,
daughter of Mrs. J. L. Noah. 1908 Coll
| lege avenue, and Mr. Norris Keath,
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Keath of
Mexico, Mo, took place this noon at
the home of the bride.
The only attendants were the brides
( two little sisters, Katharine and Max
inc Noah, who unwound white rib