The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-31
IN THE FUTURE.
The New Editor Gives Instructions While
Her Husband Waits.

Her Husband Waits.
The editor of the future was in full
dress when she dropped into the office
about 8 o'clock to see if anything of a
startling nature had happened since she
left in the afternoon. Her boomers
were of black satin and had large sill
yer buckles at the knees. Her black silk
stockings had big blue clocks on them,
and tasSels of colored silk hung from
her shoe tops. Her white vest, which
showed great expanse of deliberately
embroidered shirt front, was trimmed
with colored braid, and her swallow
tail coat had all sorts of designs worked
upon it in brilliant hued silk, while the
somber black of her crush hat was re-
lieved by a bright feather that curled
over the top.
cit only shows" she had said in one
of her able editorials on the subject Of
fashions, chow women have proved
their superiority to men by making
something really striking out of the at
tire that was worn for SO many years
without attractive features being added
to it. 4"
On this occasion the editor of the fu-
ture explained in an offhand way that
her husband had induced her to take
him to ball that evening and that she
had dropped into the Office before going
to see if there was anything that needed
her attention.
81 am particularly anxious about that
editorial of Mrs. Scribbler's on the craze
our boys seem to have for foreign I'll
ties" she explained 81 want a strong
editorial on that-no mincing matters
or beating about the bush. "
81 have tried to make it as strong as
possible, - said Mrs. Scribbler. 81 have
called attention to some of the recent
unhappy marriages where titled fortune
hunters have come over here and found
favor in the eyes of our boys because of
the social position their titles give
them.
''That is all right as starter" adj
mitted the editor of the future, "but the
subject calls for more than that. The
practice Of marrying our boys to foreign
women with titles is an insult and an
injustice to our girls, and the parents
who encourage it should be condemned
by public opinion. We have as earnest,
courageous and deserving girls in this
country as are to be found anywhere in
the world, and it is an outrage that par
ents should lead their sons to believe
that their great aim in life must be to
marry some foreign woman with title
and an unsavory reputation. Did you
discuss that phase of the subject?'
every fully" replied the editorial
writer
"Did you picture the lives of these
boys-many of them frail and delicate
in the countries to which their wives
take them, where, in many instances,
they have not yet progressed beyond the
old idea that men should work while
women do nothing but loaf and wear
expensive clothes? Did you dilate upon
the fact that very few of these titled
foreign women have any conception of
the treatment that American boys are
in the habit Of receiving and really
look upon them as little more than
slaves? Did you suggest that they don't
care a snap for the boys themselves, but
only for the money that their mothers
foolishly give them in order to make
them marketable in titled society,""
81 went even further explained the
editorial writer. 81 compared them to
our ambitious, energetic American girls,
NnO eApeGG To SuppOTG tuo DOyS I1Sy
take for better or for worse, and called
attention to the fact that in case of re-
verses in one of these international I'M
ions the titled wife would never for a
moment think of trying to support her
husband, but would actually expect him
to work himself. In other words, the
natural conditions are just reversed and
the woman looks to the man for support.
That's what she narries him for.
81 guess you have the idea all right, "
said the editor of the future as she
brushed a speck Of dust from the lapel
of her coat. Il won't wait for the proof.
I'd rather be shot than go to this dance
tonight, but my husband was so anxious
that I thought I'd humor him. He's
down in the carriage waiting for me. -
Chicago Post.