The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28


The members of the junior depart
ment of the First Presbyterian Sunday
school with their teachers were enter
tanned at an Easter picnic Saturday
afternoon at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. B. Howard at Roseacres.
About seventy-five children were
present at the picnic. An Easter egg
roll was held during the afternoon, a
basketball and football game and
boating and fishing also formed part
of the amusementS. The afternoon
ended with picnic lunch.
The guests and chaperons included:
Judge and Mrs. ]. A. Mcclure, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. A. Derby. Mrs. S. S. Estey,
Mrs. J. W. F. Hughes and Mr.. William
Patton.
SIGNS OF SPRING.
young city fellow, riding in the
country the other evening with a
country lass. remarked with a superior
air. 81 don't see why anyone would
want to live in the country"
Now if it had been in mid-winter
with everything bleak and bare and
the roads full of ruts. this lapsus lin
guae might have been pardonabl but
at this season when one cannot help
but wonder if a city paved with shin
ing gold would have anything on the
country, such a faux pas is inexcus-
able.
dog-tooth violets and crocuses are pop
ping thru the green carpet that covers
the fields and pastures. The narcissuS,
golden bell, and burning bush are her
aids of the riot of bloom that we may
soon expect.
The pear, peach. plum and apricot
trees are SO prolific of bloom that if
every blossom matured, Kansas alone
could feed the famine-stricken coun-
tries of the world. Every time the
apricot tree blooms, hope is born
anew that there will surely be an
abundance of this luscious fruit But
honest, now, did you ever hear of a
Kansas apricot crop !? However there's
always a first time for everything
so here's hoping!
Did you ever stop to consider why
the peach blossoms are two distinct
shades of pink? It's known fact in
the flower-world that the plainest
looking blossoms give for the sweetest
ifragrance-the law of compensation
| So the small, plum colored peach
blossom produces the large, budded
fruit and the much prettier pale pink
one brings forth merely a scrawny
wormy Seeding.
| What with the fruit so unusually far
| advanced and Frosty F'loras pessi-
| mistic prediction that only twice in
| history has Kansas escaped a killing
frost after March %, the horticulturist
spends nights of agony followed by
days of hope.
But if the most dire predictions of
a pessimistic weather man proves true,
There is this consolation-cheaper SUI
gar and more fudge.
LOIS RoB1NErTE.
| The engagement of Miss Sarah
| Houston to Mr.. Ralph Burdick. both
of Wendell. Idaho. has been an
| nounced by Mrs. Charles Love. The
wedding will take place April at
| the home of Miss Houston's cousin,
Mrs. None Leland. Miss Houston for
merly made her home in Topeka.
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| An Easter breakfast was given Sun
day morning by Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde
Mills at their home, 1907 West Sixth
avenue. The guests included: Mr.
W. W. Mills, Miss Helen Schrook, Miss
| Maude Butler, Mr. William Shepard.
Mr.. Boyd Scheffler.
| The Sewing Society of Lincoln Cir
| Gle will have an all day meeting Tues
day at the hail.
| The date of the luncheon to be Civ
| en- next month by the Chancel Chapter
of Grace Cathedral in Guild hall has
II2.
Weeping gently upon occasion is a
normal function of femininity." If has
been said, and so the national board
] or the Y. W. c. A. is working out very
4 carefully housing plans for co-opera-
tive apartment houses and cottages
| where the feminine gender may rstire
and have one of those unequaIled
| solaces. a good cry
| 1t has been said that the lack of any
place in the whole scheme of things
where one may sit down and have a
comfortable cry is accountable for q
certain strained look which the work
ing girls and women of today wear on
become definite malady," so say the
authorities. Girls can't cry downtown
in their office; that is. they can't and
stay there long. and neither can they
cry at home without each member OF
ones family holding stop watch on
every sob, SO it's up to someone 10
find a way out of the dilemma. either
by building boarding houses with at
tics where there will be a little sob
room or else by putting special cry
ing room into ones home.
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III Notes and Personal Mention.
II Mr.. and Mrs. Will Eastman are al
Excelsior Springs for a short stay
Mrs. E. C. Waldo of Ellis. Kan. /.
| visiting Mrs John L. Hunt
Miss Hazel Loveland will come
"Wednesday from New York city to be
THE guests of her parents. DR.. and Mrs
Frank Love1and-
| Mr. and Mrs Edwin Kistler will
change their residence this week tc
their new home in Jewell avenue.
| Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bartel and 1T
tile son. Charles B. Smith Bartel. came
from Kansas City to spend Easter