The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-02

I'VE are taking the liberty of for
warding you a complimentary copy of
--- by -" writes a we'll
known eastern aq Furnishing house IS.
your column in the Public Ledger is
widely read thruout the middle west
and also that you have a number of
friends in that locality who are anx-
ious to call your attention to this book.
We feel that it is destined to be one of
the outstanding successes of the year.
We are sure you will be interested in
reading it, and trust it will meet with
your favor"
We don't know how the foregoing
communication would be regarded by
gentlemen born and reared along the
Atlantic seaboard, but in the rough,
elemental west. from which we so re-
cent emerged, 1t would be considered
lumpy work
Probably the well known publishing
house attaches no importance to the
tact, but the constituency the coll
umn is not confined to the middle
west. 1t has a number of readers in
Philadelphia and its environs.
1t Was Mere Matter of Caution.
Sir-Why have you omitted thus far
to use the material which the present
dance situation offers for a write-up
Why wait for Rupe Hughes to por-
tray danes in the best society compar-
ing notes as to how often their daugh-
tiers have been discovered returning
from dances wearing somebody else's
corsets?
l am Informed, on authority which
believe to be unquestionable, that
recently at an affair at one of the lead
ing hotels, no fewer than 1876 pairs of
corsetS were checked at the cloakroorla
| during the dancing
HUGH MERR.
We have no information bearing
upon the matter in question and no
| opinion germane to it. But, luckily,
We are in a position to shed a little
llght upon the general situation. Dur
ing the Christmas holidays Adelaide
was giving young Western girl of her
acquaintance good going over"
Ihe girl is not a product of the rough
| western school of social ethics; she is
by way of being carefully nurtured
and trained in an Eastern finishing
institution.
You are nice girl" quoth AIDE
| la1de, and you must wear a corset /:
all the nice girls do But" replied
the girl, and it seemed to US her de-
tense was impeccable, "the boys don't
like corsets; they won't dance with the
girls who wear them
Another of the presidents attributes
seems to be that of perspicacity Ger
many having set a neat trap baited
with personal glory, laughed gleefuily
as 1t prepared to spring it. But the
president merely cooked one eye at it
and then walked carefully around it.
big Bill Hayward's attorney be-
lieves his client will return to this
country OF his own volition. Let it be
hoped that the legal gentleman is mis-
taken. We can conceive of no joke
comparable to the one "on'' the gent
who flees a penitentiary sentence in
this country to live in Russia.
We have received the prognosis of
the annual spring tournament at Lake
wood Special attention is directed te
the play for the Stanley Memorial
Cup fer seniors fifty-five years and
over We wish to ask those who Sent
it if they meant anything personal
If they did. We desire to say that,
while our game may carry that inn
preston, we are ineligible to contest
for that particular trophy.
Meanwhile, we are perfectly willing
to admit the manuscript is Roger Ba-
cons, but purpose exacting something
in return for the admission. We shall
| want to know what difference il
makes.
It may comfort the Rev Dr. Nor
| wood to know that his dilemma is pre-
cisely our own. We can't afford gin al
the present prices, and we should not
know where to buy it if we could. But
if DR.. Norwood will pardon it, we are
| happy to offer the thread of a sug-
gestion. On a recent trip to Washing
ton we obtained from a congressman
who voted for the Vostead act the