The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-11-06

They called about six O'Clock with we'll
filed baskets and after an excellent sup
per the evening was spent Informally.
Mrs. Mary *. Ding of Boston was the
guest of honor.
THINGS HEARD AND OVERHEARD
Facts and Fancies Jotted Down in the Dai-
" Notebook
The fur cape that slopes from the
shoulders and falls straight and plain is
thing of the past in the world of fash
ion. There is nothing plain abou the
new cape, and nothing straight; ne ither
Is it cheap. Across the shoulders it gives
added width by the way it is fulled to
the yoke. Two or three short capes Of
different lengths are preferred to one
cape
There never was a marriage vet in
which one was not a loser; and it is gen
orally the mere gifted half that has to
pay toll.
slightly cynical bachelor says that
one trouble with the girl Of the period
ia public is that she has too much to say
in the opportunity at her disposal
Have you.seen the new evening gloves?
They seem scarcely thicker than the or
binary kid gloves and are lined through
out with d contrasting color of the finest
silken stockinette. And what is the adj
vantage2 They go on much smoother
and easier, and absorb the moisture thai
ruins 50 many gloves; besides being I'M
usually pretty.
ssairy Ann" he said with a touch Of
asperify in his voice
ssWhat j. itY" asked the president Of
the Know-it-au Association of Emancipa-
ted Women.
ssAny woman that can't sew on a sus-
pender button any bettern you did this
one couldn't discharge the duties of sher-
if nohow. An Pm burned eff I'll vote
fer ye"
sBonnets are dull this season. OBJ
served a bright little miiliner yesterday.
Nobody seems to want anything new,
and every body IS bringing her old things
to be freshened up and made over. It's
always SO election year. I'm sure 1 don't
know why the prospect of political
change should affect woman's millinery,
but it does invariably. After November
though when things are settled, Wen
have rush to make up for the present
lull in head gear
Socially ambitious people are those
who endure without murmur obstacles
that would discourage a hurdle leaPing
horse.
How to court the advanced woman
is a subject that is discussed by one man
and several women in Mr. jerome K /
Jerome's ~Idler;" The man opens the
ball, and describes what he is pleased I
to call the development of the enamel /
pated woman" He goes back TO I
the early days when women were F
spoil" when 'sman went counting +
with club form Of cOurtshiP which I
inclined the lady to s'respe her lord and I
master, and to have definite idea Of his /
superiority, physical and mental" and 4
this he finds the best way.
After all. the woman politician is hap
piest when she talks shopping"
a Chicago judge rules that woman j.
entitled TO all her wedding presents.
That doesn't alter the fact that the bride
is always given away
.sAre you incapable of affection,
s.Of course not; share that crowning
disability of my sex x X If it were
not for that we women would master the
world.
November, 1894, will long be remem-
bered as a financial harvest for clergy
men or0anists. caterers and others who
have to do with weddings.
The women Of Topeka, Kan, must be
shy creatures. Very. One hundred of
them have entered into a written agree
ment to wear a certain description Of re-
form dress. In order to give each other
moral support they have organized them
selves into relief squads, which insures
the presence of at least twenty on the
lie to take them on the installment plan.
A mighty "pother" about nothing,
when one comes to find that the reform
dress these timid Topeka women are
tremulotssly trying to introduce is just
what may be seen at almost any hour Of
the day on the Boulevard here, where
the trousered and gathered bicycle girl
disports herself as gayly as the painted
butter fiv who does not care a rose apple
whether there is another insect in the
whole wide world he adorns.-N. Y. Mail
and Express
Bigger Than Soup Plate.
The chrysan themum eclipses now the dude, and
hides from sight
The broad eXpan>e Of shirt front that once
cleaned 30 cold and white
III blossoms in his burtOn-hOie like "a head Of
curly kali
A shield from all the darts OF love good
coat of maiie-
It's bigger than soup plate The dudsIet
SlA4s yunl-y uIn
As the dude goes sailing by her with his big
chrysanthemum. Exchange /