The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-23


ushers. Those in the department who
will serve will include Mrs. G. H.
Allen, Mrs. B. G. Grggs, Mrs. c. P.
Buck, Mrs. w. E. Bulls, Mrs. ARA
Clark, Mrs. George w. Crawford. Mrs.
Glenn H. Beaver, Mrs. o. W. Doing,
Mrs. Eli G. Foster, Mrs. H. o. Garvey,
Mrs. Eleanor S. Hill, Mrs. Fred lies,
Mrs. Charles Joslin. Mrs. C. A. Ken
dali, Mrs. Monte Kistler, Mrs. F. A.
Mccoy, Mrs. R. H. Morehouse, Mrs.
Harry Pribble, Mrs. Irwin Pribble,
Mrs. B. H. Pugh, Mrs. George H.
Reed, Jr., Mrs. H. L. Rhodes, Mrs j.
r Sargent, Mrs. C. A. Scott, Mrs. E.
Claude Smith. Mrs. Frank Squires,
Mrs. C. A. WoH, Mrs. Frank L. Sturges
Mrs. Belva webster, and Mrs. P. 5.
Zampierre.
Others to take charge are: Tues
day morning: 1890 O'Clock, a group
of the members of the Social Service
club, including Miss Mary Clark, Mrs.
Carl Trap, Mrs. Phil Gray, Mrs.
Hinkle Guy, Mrs. Daniel Rumpf, Mrs.
E. y. Goeldner and Mrs. Ed Gossett.
Tuesday evening at high school, social
department; Wednesday afternoon at
the auditorium, literature department.;
Thursday afternoon at the auditorium
educational department, with Mrs. ].
H. LuXton, Mrs. L. c. Harbaugh, Mrs
r. r. Rollman. Mrs. j. d. Gossett
Mrs. w. A. Seger. Mrs. ]. r. Wadding-
ton, Mrs. Lloyd Smith and Mrs. l.. c.
Cutler as ushers- Thursday evening
the forestry department, Friday after
noon art department and Friday even
ing the civics department@w will take
charge.
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Topeka, Kan, April %, 1921
Dear Elizabeth: About the most
exciting piece of news 1 have been
I. hot q
club which is supposed to be dinner
bridge isn't. 1t is a dinner-poker af-
fair, but no one has courage enough to
call it that in print. Did any one in
New York have any eclipse parties
Thursday night or Friday morning?
If they did here they are keeping them
dark.
Say, Elizabeth. have you ever been
unfortunate enough to be around a
girl who is in the first agonies of a
thrilling love affair? Honest-to-good-
ness, is there anything in the world
that is any more abent minded than
this sort of a creature? You can talk
to her and she will wake up at the end
of the sentence to ask you what you
said. that is, sometimes she will
Sometimes she won't even know that
you have been speaking, but will look
at you with a dreamy expression on
her face and sort of mutter to herself,
wondering whether he will like her
better in pink apron with stripes or
a blue one with checks.
Several of Topeka's we'll known wo-
men have been having the MeNcans
who are out of work help them with
the house cleaning and do the yard
work. One of the women tells her ex-
periences in the funniest manner. She
said that she was compelled to stay
right by him as he worked in the yard
and that when he raked one spot too
long, she would exclaim, Fine, fine"
and the fellow would move on and
rake another, but that he wouldn't
move an inch from that one spot I'M
til she said the magic words. Fine.
fine"
Well, we have another thing to
blame on the war now, it's dancing.
Have you noticed that this past win
ter in Topeka if we hadn't had dances
and bridge clubs that there wouldn't
have been very much happening So
cially? Well some one has been trying
to eXplail why it is that so many. more
men dance now than they did before
the war. The men say that they just
had to learn to dance because every
one else did and if they didn't they
were left out in everything. Several
of the men tell funny stories about the
way in which they learned. One of
them picked out a good natured look
ing sort of girl and asked her to dance
with him. He had never danced be-
fore. so they did not get along at all
together, but he very carefully eX-
planned that they danced differently
in the east from where he came
(Which happened to be the very east
ern state of KanSas) and would she
please show him. He took his first
lesson then and there. He had almost
as much courage as a woman several
weeks ago at one of Pelletier's Satur-
day night dinner dances, who said to
her husband as they started toward
the floor to dance, "All right, John, if
you insist on it 1 will try and dance it,
but you know I never could wriggle
like that
Speaking of dancing makes me
think of one of Topeka's little cells
1--WE call them that because of the way
they ''slick" their hair down and glide
over a dance floor, sort of all bumped
the heels on his shoes Strengthened
one day this week in an Avenue shine
shop. Several of the sweet young
things whom the eel seemed to
know came into the shop and that
boy didn't know what to do with his
them around his chair, his face grew
red and he did everything but try and
sit on them.
Someone out at Washburn college
wrote a news story which was pub
lished in last weeks Review and in
W HlCH lilSy QuOltQ d pSISOh lIldl
the girls at Washburn were more nat
ural looking than the girls downtown,
and that they wore their hair done up
in the fan shape" 1 wonder if one
is ever natural looking with their hair
arranged to resemble a South Sea is
lander and with a head the size of
which is so enormous that one must
needs carry their hat. They can't
wear it. but just carry it along to
show that they really have one and
they are not going bareheaded be-
cause they don't have the hath But
you see it everywhere and the saints
pity one if you happend to get in a
movie show behind two girls with
their hair done in this fan" style.
Usually they have endless secrets to
tell each other and must have their
heads together half of the time. One
might as well move right then and
there for there's no use trying to see
either over or around them
The biggest piece of gossip going
the rounds this week is about two
women. the wives of prominent bust