The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-15

THE TOPEKA DAHL
Auley; Mexico, Ruth Porter; England.
Marie Carter; Italy, Flora Dyer; Scot
land. Gladys Ohappell; France, Gladys
Smith: India, Hazel Flanagan; Russia.
Mrs Dora Reaugh, and Sweden, Ann
Kristensen.
Topeka. Kan, Jan. Is, 1921.
Dear Elizabeth: Well. Elizabeth L
havn't written you for several weeks
since you went back to New York for
you managed to find out everything
yourself when you were here and I've
had to wait for something new to
happen.
The old town is just the same. We
are still romping on the deadly cigar
cite, still having as many bargain sales
and still newSing around the same as
we were when you were here. Talk
ing about cigarettes and reformers
makes me think of a tea held the first
of the week, where one of the guests
was served with sandwiches. Do you
know what that woman did, well she
picked one up off the tray and pro-
ceeded to stick the whole thing in her
mouth, reaching for another as she
did SO. You would think her manners
needed reforming. wouldn't you?
Monday we started social events off
with whizz bang, with the inaugu-
raj reception, which was certainly
pretty affair. Col. Charley Mitchell
was floor manager and he wore his
aide uniform, which fits him like a
glove He was rial kind to me,
placed me behind a palm or two SO
could see the whole affair. Colonel
Mitchell had his trials. One of our
women much in the public eye, who
has an insstent disposition, tried to
get ahead of some one else in the line
and he had to put her back in her
place twice. Then another one of the
women in the receiving line certainly
did some miscalculating somewhere
for she arrived after the affair was
half over. The decorations were GER
tainly pretty and 1 understand that
they are going to leave them up for
the Kansas Day celebration. One of
the women in the receiving line said
she had learned by past experience
not to wear a clean pair of white
gloves for they would be ruined. This
woman said she always wore a pair of
gloves which had to be sent to the
cleaners anyway and in that way
when they were sent they just had an
extra layer or two of dirt on them.
After one had shaken hands with
steen hundred people I should think
their gloves would be dirty. It was
lots of fun to watch some of the men
shake hands with the women in line.
Some of the American Legion men
made the pretttest bows and several
of them came to attention, clicking
their heels together each time they
shook hands with the ladies in the
line. One little, black haired, snappy
eyed chap shook and shook one of the
women's hands until finally she gen
thy disengaged it and greeted the next
person. He must have forgotten that
he was holding her hand.
They danced down stairs in the
basement of the state house. One of
the dancers had on the most unholy
color scheme I have ever seen, a vivid
blue skirt with a hennaish colored
blouse. The skirt was all draped up
the side and when she one-stepped or
waltzed or fox-trotted-well it was a
good thing she was wearing long hos
1ery. But, then, perhaps they wear
them that way in Washington.
Last Monday, our governors wife re-
celVed moro flowers. 1t seems that
everyone thought of her and sent her
lovely corsage or an arm bouquet
and besides that they sent her Just
stacks of other flowers. But then one
flowers for if you had ever met her
you would like her too and would
want to say it in flowers.
There's a. man in our town, Eliza
beth, who has had a promotion in his
office, has presented the girl of his
heart with a big solitaire, has bought
him dress suit and still insists that
he isn't going to be married. Well,
enc OF these days you're going to be
surprised that's all. And then there's
another couple who are going to be
married but not for several years as
he has few years of medical course
to finish yet. You remember the girl
who was my partner and who suffered
with me all thru chemistry expert
ments and who sings so much for the
M Erre
and the man is a K. U. man, a Phi
Delt. Then there's another girl who
was graduated from Washburn last
year and who is to be married this
spring. We are not having any we'd
dings just now, but from the looks of
things, the matrimonial business is
going to pick up right after Easter.
Speaking of weddings makes me
think of one of our newly married
couples and what time they have
been having to get up in time and
get the bridegroom of a few weeks off
to work. They bought an alarm clock.
The first night the bride set the alarm
but forgot to fix it SO it would ring.
The next night she carefully set it, re-
LEASED the lever SO it would wake them
bright and early and then forgot to
wind it. 1 guess the third night that
Mr.. Bridegroom himself attended to
the alarm clock.
You remember in that last letter,
wrote you I told you about the man
lin our town who had gone on picnic
taken some sentimental pictures and
then how he had married. but not the
girl of the pictures. How the men in
his office had found the films after
he had gone to war and had had them
printed and mailed to his wife. Well,
would you believe it. Elizabeth, he
won't speak to me? Now. isn't that
strange that one wouldn't be broader
minded than that. It's the Queerest
thing how the shoe fits and people
wear it figuratively speaking. For
instance, if you write woman in our
town" joke. within a week or two