The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-22

People simply flock to hear the con-
certs by the Highland Light infantry
pipers Wednesday afternoons and Sat
urday nights, Tho a bagpipe isn't al
ways a treat except to a Scotchman,
an awful lot of the people who go are
lovely cartoons in the magazines
showing the arrival of the ~. S. A.
Expeditionary Forces"-meaning tour
lists.
1.-THE whole atmosphere of this place
is so delightful, and it does grow on
you so, with its Punch and Judy show
on a busy corner downtown, and the
funny old hurdy-gurdy man who
comes and plays under your window
every Saturday afternoon, and the
Kilties, whom you see on the streets
everywhere, and then the "Old town
and the student quarter. The univer-
Sity life simply faScinateS me. 1 have
some friends in two of the labora-
tea right in the labs. If there are
not cups enough to go around, some
one drinks out of g glass beaker or
flask. They get into such perfectly
delightful discussions, and are so
whole-heartedly devoted to an idea
or an ideal, even, tho it may be one
that seems wholly visionary, there's
a wonderful devotion. to the things
they're interested in-an understandable
atmosphere" The antiquity and
RlOTlOuS past anu I1InS-AOnOTSQ GUS
toms of the university add much to ii
all. The school is in two parts, the
"Old'' quadrangle about 400 years old,
and the New much younger. The
library in the ''old" quadrangle con-
tains volumes OF the university maya
zine to which Robert Louise Steven
son contributed when he was a stu
dent here. It's in this same Quad,
then two hundred years old, that the
university students were recruited to
go to America and fight in 1875 and
earlier.
Trhis has been rather a hectic week
but an interesting one. We have been
finishing the course at the university,
and doing about 1000 children in the
schools on some tests for co1or-blind-
ness. It's quite interesting work and
it's exceedingly interesting to see the
inside of these foreign schools. One
of them, the Royal high school, had
the dearest little boys, much younger
They had such wonderful manners,
all rose when we came in, and said
good afternoon" when we left, also
they salute If you meet them in the
halls.
Thursday I went thru the courts, 1
couldn't go before when Lord John
ston was to take me but went with an
advocate and his wife. You remem-
Der it all Dad. when you saw it. the
funny robes and wigs? And the huge
posed to be CODY of every book pub
lished in Great Britain, and saw the
judge with his gorgeous robes and
more OF the be-wigged lawyers. I
think one of the most interesting
things OF all tho, is the Old Parlia-
ment hall, down in the basement
where you see parts of SCOTS and
Burns works in their own handwrit-
ing Also the famous Covenant"
signed IN blood of Queen Elizabeth's
writing.
'.And the incest news, I'm so
thrilled I'm leaving at 10 tomorrow
for London for a month! I'm |
going as one of the delegates from the |
University Settlement, with the people |
from the university, and among other |
things I'm to attend some of the |
meetings OF the International Confer |
ence of Settlements. But III find |
time to visit lots OF things, how |
hope they won't move any of the |
famous ones like Westminster and |
the Thames. the National Gallery or |
any of it until I get there"
Later after she had arrived In Eng
as it was celebrated in London. Her |
letter is as follows:
This Settlement-Ratcliff in East !
London-is the oldest and most fam |
Gus in London. and deserves a whole |
volume in itself. and you certainly |
meet most interesting people here. Its !
like an oasis to come into its quiet /
cred old buildings from all the noise l
and Squalor CT the east end.
The most thrilling event so far tho /
has been the glorious fourth 1t |
poured of course and was cold but the /
city quite decorated itself for US OH !
from dozens of buildings in Regent