The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-07
Hill Homo Portrait.

was. Then, without meaning TO, L
went on to Scrooge, and something
strange seemed to be happening to
me. 1t. is a ghost story. and I was
seeing, really seeing, old Scrooge come
to life. OF course, Marley is the dead
one. but still in many books the live
ones stay just as flat, or flatter, on
the paper But here was Scrooge, so
doorway to keep away from him, as
the beggar and his dog did. I, too, be-
gan to feel the chill of his poorly
heated room. And before 1 could get
loose even to warm myself a bit, the
poor clerk Cratchit had me, and then
the nephew, the CHEEKY, not-to-be
downed nephew, and then came the
lovely old paragraph about Christmas
about this day being a forgiving.
charitable, pleasant time. After that,
the London night and Scrooge's house
and the clanking chains.
Oh, well, when I got that far knew
II might as well give up. My evening
was ruined for anything else. I had
expected to spend it with a new novel
| by one of the amazing young authors
of the amazing young American
school, for which I have been one of
the most enthusiastic rooters-one of
the sort who are not content just to
sit in the grandstand and follow the
cheer leaders motions. but must now
and then run down the sidelineS and
d
But tonight Scrooge had his hand
upon me. I couldn't let go. The long,
beautiful sentences seemed to roll or
perhaps pour out in a restful, sooth-
ing way. L was discovering something
for myself.
remember when I first discovered
Yeats, long ago on the steps of col
! lege library. Thru him I sudden
ly understood the reason for peoples
enthusiasm over poetry. Now I knew
what they had meant when they talked
about Dickens. This thing was so
amazingly easy to read. So full of
hidden humor over life and at the same
! time of sympathy for its tragedy, so
pretty without being sentimental And
then the music of that prose. wanted
to read it aloud. 1t would make such
delicious mouthfuls.
! I wonder what is happening to me.
| With the sparkling glasses of Ander-
son and Dell standing before me I
seem to be going back to the old thing
which my parents serve by their tran
quill fireside. Am getting old? Am
I backslidig and deserving my cause?
Is this the real new, the beautiful,
the dangerous thing have been want
ing? Or what, wonder-or what?
* y y
! Mrs. Rose Gilberg- Nutter will sing
Just for Today (Jane Bigham Alb
Dott), at the IL o'clock service tomor-
row morning at the First Unitarian
church, GA Topeka boulevard. Miss
Lena Anderson will play as a violin
solo Bach-Gounod's ave Maria" and
Bernice Hemus will furnish an organ
offertory. At 1880 in the evening,
| Prof. Harlowe F. Dean will be in
| charge of music for the peoples
/ forum meeting, and will lead the sing
| ing of hymns.
/ Mrs. T. D. Allen entertained a num-
Der of the children of her neighbor-
hood Friday night with a Twelfth
| Night party. The chief event of the
evening was the burning of the Christ
mas greens.
| The following children were guests:
| Jane Griggs Tommy Alden
I Henry Alden Mary Hayden
/ Joan Kramer Mary Edna Kramer
| John Kramer Roy Taylor
Ruby Pendleton Marcia Mohler
| Jimmie Mohler Phillip Robertson
Harrison Morgan Dick Hayden
I Frank Griggs, Jr. Alexander Harvey
y = =
The annual Epiphany party at Grace
/ cathedral Friday night was a thoroly
! successful festivity. The party was
/ held in the Guild Hall, which was
decorated with candles and Christmas
/ greens. Along each side were spread
the tables which held the refresh
Inents.
The program included songs by
/ G1enwood Jones and George W.
| Barnes, member and director of the
/ church choir; musical monolog by
I Miss Irma Lewis of Bethany college.
/ and an original poem by Mrs. 7. D.
: Strong
The king and Queen" of the party.
Ear! C. Williams and Mrs. John r.
Shelton. entered at the rear of the
I guild hall and made their way up the
/ aisle preceded by a trumpeter, be-
tween the bowling line of Subjects
The members OF the vestry and their
wives formed a guard of honor