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

/ IuineSs 10TH It's tnaln attIacLiOH.
good; no fresh vegetables; everything
1 is cooked with lots of grease and all
sorts of funny goo poured over them.
'They drink tea here in glasses like
| our ice cream soda glasses Another
funny custom is the carrying of all
sorts of wares thru the streets on
| basket trays. one on each end OF a
wooden bar which they carry on their
shoulders-fruits, kitchen wares and
baskets of charcoal.
THE ladies here are beautiful
strikingly dark and very much
rouged. They wear very short skirts,
reaching just below the knees. I look
like a grandmother in comparison.
They all wear little hats with bows off
| one side"
Street cars run a foot from the side
walk in Bucharest, Mrs. Heath wrote.
and cars are parked on the sidewalk.
Traffic laws seem to be unknown in
that city.
A Rumanian funeral procession, as
described by Mrs. Heath, includes a
hearse about the size and appearance
of an American "hayrack," painted
white, with small evergreen trees on
each corner of the vehicle.
Housing conditions are even less ia
vorable in Bucharest than at home,
Mrs. Heath writes, with rents much
higher. For one furnished room, with
no fuel, the rent is about S57 per
month.
Some things, the writer finds. are
cheaper in Bucharest than at home.
A Dorm box, really necessary, the
writer apologies, such as we pay 60
cents for in Topeka, is only 10 cents
in Bucharest. Her husband bought
gray kid gloves for 80 cents, she
writes.
"Rumanians go and call on each
Af1 I tc1n nd Y1ti
or the next morning., she said.
IF they don't go calling they eat
about nine, then go to a cabaret or
two afterward. No one thinks of go
ing home until 8 or o'clock"
There are picture shows in Bucha-
rest she writes, but not the kind that
are enjoyable to Americans, from her
description:
1--WE decided to have some diversion
and went to a picture shown Ru-
manian-all SO funnyi Couldn't get
the drift-couldn't tell which was plot
and which was dream
y - -
When I was a young zap back in the
old home town we always considered
a man quite old when he reached 40,
says Roy *. Moulton, in the New York
| Mail. Thirty-five was also a rather
disgraceful age When my Uncle
| Peter was IS he wore a splendid set
of bolsheviks on his chin and he
walked with a decided front stoop.
We wondered how he managed to
| totter along to the age of 40. Wen,
now 1 am 40 myself and L met Uncle
Pete in New York the other day. 1t
seems that when we had about given
him up for dead, he disappeared from
our old home town and went to New
York.
When I met Uncle Peter, quite by
| accident the other day, he was attfred
| in lavender overcoat, a gray bowler
| hat, spats. green shoes and a long.
Russian c;garet holder, and he was
coming out of a Broadway cafe with
something very pleasant and soeiab BILE
hanging on his arm. 1t was either
sable or mink. 1 am not good at furs
as they are somewhat above my sta
| ton in life.
Every once in a while some scientist
| informs us that the ve-racking pace
| very rapidly. The other day one OF
them averred to the extent of one
! column that all New York men slow
| up perceptibly at 40.
A short time ago a friend of mine
from out of town asked me to go with
him to. see his Uncle Wilbur Doaks
You won't have much of an evening, .
said he" because Uncle Wilbur has
| lived in New York for thirty years and
must be about all in. He is around 70
and he will probably want to st in
front of the heatless radiator all the
evening and cackle about the good old
days"
We got up to Uncle Wilbur's apart
| ment along in the shank of the even
| ing and found the poor decrepit old
gentleman in a dress suit, smoking a
cigaret and reading one Of El,nor
GYMS novels. He had the physique
of Stranger Lewis and when he shook
my hand it felt as tho it had been
| pressed under a road roller.
| After Uncle Wilbur had shown us
around the town and we were leaving
roof show at 2 o'clock in the morn
ing, he asked: Well, what are you
two flabby young squirts going to dc
from now until bedtime?"
| After investigating the matter thoro-
ly from professional point of view
L have come to the conclusion that q
lot of these tottering old nerve-shaken
wrecks of 40 and over have Old Pa
Time fooled. and he is a middling, diff
ficult old party. to spool at that. The
BARRIERS know how half of it is done
and the tailors know the other half