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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06

more disposed to regard comfort and
freedom of action of the limbs.
There is no good reason indeed why
the female riders should not wear the
abbreviated skirt, all classes of them
The Chippendaie class can easily
enough place themselves upon the same
footing with their more favored sisters
by the skillfu1 use of padding. Sym
metry of all sorts can now be procured
at the shops If it be allowable for
less favored sister to conceal the raw
ages of time by the appliances of art
and to compensate for the cruel indif-
ference of nature by the skill of the
chemists and cunning artifcerS, If she
can go to the studios where female
beauty is compounded for sale and pur-
chase hair, eyebrows, complexion,
cheeks, neck, bust, arms and fingers,
which vie with the highest efforts of
nature, why should she not purchase
also the requisites of symmetry for the
motive power of the treadles and thus
enjoy all the pleasure of the most
favored class? It may be averred that
she is a flying figure of deceit, impos-
ing upon the public as she speeds along
the park or the boulevard, but that is a
science, and if the spectator is none the
wiser, as most certainly he will not be,
the conscience will find it difficult to
rise superior to innocent vanity.
Therefore there is no reason why the
entire world of female cyclers, young
and old, shapely and unshapely, lean
and fat, handsome and ugly, should
not adopt the abbreviated skirt and
have as good a time as the male pa
irons of the ''bil1e," who are grossly in
different as to their looks. The COM
ing woman in her competition with
man will surrender many of her pre-
negatives, but it may be assumed she
will never abandon her pride in her
natural or artificial charms, as the case
may be. She will never be content to
make as ridiculous an appearance as
most men do on the bicycle, and she
never should, for it is every woman's
duty to be as beautiful as nature or
money will allow, whether on or off
the flying wheel. In a word, let wom-
en- dress as they please for this health
giving exercise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06
Rlcvcles of Rare Beauty.

Queen Margharita of Italy is an ex-
pert rider of the fascinating wheel, and
recently the Cycle club of Milan pre-
sented her with gold wheel, which is,
probably, the most beautiful and valua-
BILE cycle ever made. With English
women, who are extremely fond of
cycling, it has become a fad to have
wheels quite out of the ordinary. Lady
Dudley has a white enameled wheel,
with handles of beautiful ivory. A
number of silver-plated ones have
been made, and others of the finest
polished steel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06

tillate a new idea if her brains were
properly rubbed. Her white creponl
dinner gown, touched up with cool,
green velvet and Valenciennes lace,
was faultless, and harmonized with the
youthful face under it's pompadOurl
frame of prematurely white hair. She
had been congratulated on the over
whelming success of her last charity
project, and not a care disturbed her
serenity. Everybody knows that this
woman, with her unassailable position
due to birth, wealth and natural lead
ership, can afford to point new way
even if hundred other women have
not discovered the possibility of leaving
the old one.
Bicycling was the subject. In the
midst of a breezy description of the
possible appearance of certain society
women as chaperons aboard bicycles
the hostess flung her little bomb.
Didn't you know that chaperons
are not insisted on now for girls who
bicycleP"
A couple of elderly dinner guests who
had returned to the drawing-room in
time to catch the question looked
amused, and the satirical one of the
pair smiled an appropriate smile as
she said:
''Ah! no doubt the bicycle will be
very popular in that case"
The hostess laughed.
''That expresses it, and, of course,
you will try wheel at once. It seems
ridiculous to think of the bicycle hav-
ing hand in the downfall of chape-
rons, but it appears very much that
way now. This is my experience. I
have two sons. Both my boys disap-
pear every pleasant day for several
hours. When they come back, if ask
where they have been, the answer is:
Out with the girls BICYCLING
"'Who went?' and they mention a
couple of girls who are going into So
ciety next season. AS to .chaperons,
never one is heard Of I have been
talking this over with the mothers Of
several girls. They agree that when
their daughters go out with their BIZ
cycles they never think to ask where
they may be going or to suggest tho
necessity of chaperOn- They know
that when couple of girls start to-
gether somewhere very shortly a
couple of boys meet them. Usually
the gang as they express it, gets to-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06
Some Tasteful New nosIies.

Very pretty doilies are made of fine
Japanese linen edged with rope stitch.
Cut the shape Of different leaves, the
edge may be in green wash silk. Or
they may be cut to simulate a rose and
the edge worked in pink to form petals.
Or decorate with a border to represent
an encircling ribbon tied with ends Or
they may be made of the sheerest linen
and decorated with indelible ink and q
pen to form any sort of quaint design
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06
Strained Eyea Mako WrInklna.

If more women realized that strain
ing the eyes produces wrinkles, more
would exercise proper care of these
valuable members. Reading by dim
or failing light, coming suddenly from
a dark room to light one, or vice versa,
overworking the eyes in any way, and
last, but by no means least, wearing
dotted and cross-barred vcils-these
and more taxing of the eyesight are Of
valuable assistance in the wrinkle-mah-
ing process.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06
How to Keep Lemons Fresh.

It is not generally known that lemons
may be easily and almost indefinitely
preserved under glass. Some, one year,
were purchased on the Fourth of July,
and, by way of experiment, each one
was put under an inverted goblet
Thus kept from the air, they were
finally removed. on Christmas day, in
perfect condition. and as juicy as ever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06
THE NEW SUMMER CLUB.
The BOhemIans Give Their First Dance s
VineWOOd.

The BOhemlans Give Their First Dance az
VinewoOd.
If Bohemian means unconventional.
the new summer club which danced for
the frat time last evening at Vinewood
has been rightly named
Early in the evening carriages and
other vehicles could be seen on the way
to the popular place for holding sum
mer parties.
If any intended going by the dummy
line it behooved then to be on time for
otherwise the car left them and other
conveyances must be secured as several
learned to their dismav.
Arrived at the scene of action, the
waxed floor polished and shining. the
music, the rustic seats and swings, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06
SHE COULDN'T KEEP UP, ANYWAY.

gether. Now, those girls are too in
tent on keeping the pace the young
men set to get into mischief. They are
going to get to Claremont in the fifty
minutes time limit, and the girl who
keeps up best with the boys is the
favorite. They don't dismount except
for few moments before returning.
1t is the athletic spirit again, and all
very favorable to the release of the
chaperon from many of her duties.
Such thing wouldn't have been heard
of five or six years ago, where we were
ultra English. Then chaperon was
Indispensable, and the proudest boast
of society mother was that her daugh'
ter had never been left alone moment
from her birth to the time she was
handed over to some young man at
the altar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06
rHE cHApERoMs DOWNFALL
How the Bicycle Has InauRurated an In
reresting Revolution.

How the Bicycle Has InauKurated an In
reresCing Revolution.
The bicycle has a new function. tt
is RELOCATING the chaperon to her;
proper sphere. It is not good-by nor a.
long farewell to the dowagers on duty.i
They will wag as long as society
swings. But in the last year there hass
been tightening of the letters that
fasten society girl to her chaperon'sI
side, and this, too, in the innermost
circles, the approval of which makes a
custom good form.
This is how the change was described
by one of the moving spirits in the POI
tential clique of New York's most de-
sirable society.
This white-haired young matron waG
In an after-dinner mode, ready to scin$
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-04

erect the finest villa In Newport. IL VIII
stand on the cliffs. just beyond the For
ty Steps," where his present summer res
idence now stands The latter Is to be
torn down. The new structure VIII be OF
of stone. While 1t is building Mr. ana
Goelet viii make a trip around tne
world.
DIR. Julius Rosenstein. a San Francisco
surgeon. is suing for $4,000 for six weeks
attendance on Joseph McDonough, the
millionaire Rosenstein charged W Tor
an hour of his time. His bills amounted
TO over $4,000. but he reduced 1t to $4,000
when the administrator of the estate re-
fused to pay him DR.. Rosenstein restored
his original bill and brought suit.
II is said that ex-senator ingalls,. who
NAV again represent Kansas In the sem
ate. that IL he could AFFORD It he would
wear a new suit of clothes every day,
Mr.. ingalls, is reputed to be worth about
s150.O00, and he lives In good style IN
Atchison, where he has a handsome
home. The ex-senator is now 81 years
old. but in the very prime OF his powers
as an orator and statesman.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-04
In Reference to Prayer.

No recent bulletins are out respect
ing the spiritual condition of Col. Rob-
ert Ingersol. The prayers of the Chris
tan Endeavorers at Cleveland were
offered in his behalf last Thursday.
Meanwhile, however. the Incident has
called out some highly sensible talk
and a good deal OF suggestive COM
ment-
The pastor OF the Euclid Avenue
Christian church In Cleveland said to a
Plain Dealer reporter: 81 question the
wisdom of the action and the theology
from which 1t springs. The conversion
of any soul is not simply a question of
divine will, It is chiefly a question of
personal choice. II Colonel Ingersoll
does not want to be Christian he will
not be one"
A Presbyterian Clergyman said: 'My
opinion is that God can't convert the
devil unless there is a change in the
devil The supposition that God can
do what He pleases irrespective of hu-
man choice Is unscriptural. II God can
save Mr. Ingersoll by force and does
not save him. God is responsible for
SIM"
Another Presbyterian clergyman con-
demned the action OF the Endeavorers
as inexpedient and not scriptural. II
would simply put. he said, into the
hands of Colonel Ingersoal a club which
he would use against the Christian re-
ligion and the efficacy of prayer. The
Plain Dealer produces plenty of testi'
mony furnished by clergymen who dc
not approve the course pursued by
singing out Ingerson for prayer and
thus advertising him
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-04
A Queer Idea.

South Cardinals constitutional con-
vention appears to have been one of the
queerest assemblages of that kind that
ever the sun shone on. The remarka-
BILE provisions as to marriage. divorce
and suffrage 1t has asked the state to
incorporate into its organic law are
now supplemented by a proposition.
which the convention formally adopted.
to perpetuate the peculiar liquor law
now IN force there and to turn over the
states profits from its whislzey bust
ness TO the support OF the public
schools. "A storm of protest Is going up
against thus linking the destinies OF
the two Institutions. The Charleston
News and Courier puts dt this way:
IF the profits of the dispensaries are
applied expressly to the support of the
schools every drunlOard in the state
will be able TO say that the state profits
by his vicious habits. The school teach
er who tells his pupils that liquor
drinking is an evil will also have to tell
them that his salary and their educa-
tion depend in large measure on the
continuance and extent OF the evil. The
more drunkenness. the more money fol
the schools. II would be on the same
line Of policy exactly 70 license gsmb.
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QUAINT OR CURIOUS.

panther weighing $50 pounds was kill
ed in Butler county, Missouri. recently.
Gottingen university has added to its
curriculum courses in insurance. ex-
changes and the theory Of navigation
1 Middletown, Conn. physicians report
that grip has reappeared there and that
there are many cases of the disease.
= France has solved the problem of ap-
plying the rule of compulsory military
service to priests by assigning them TO
ambulance work.
virginia negroes own 81. 100000 Of the
y3o3, 900, 900 worth of real estate and i'm
provements in the state reported by the
assessor for the year.
From Turin SO brothers of the order Of
st. Francis de Sales and 20 sisters were
sent out in October as missionaries to
South Africa.
Two ladies have just got divorces at
Toledo, Ohio. both on the ground OF their
husbands cruelty. One was Mrs. Orrin
s. Written and the other Mrs. Lillian
Phelps. Mrs. Whitten is Mrs. Phelps
grandmother.
An instance of remarkably well-pre-
served old age is reported from Green
Lake, Me-. where a log that had lain on
the bottom of the lake for rs years was
brought up and found to be as sound as
the day II was cut
Masters of oyster boats sailing out of
South Norwalk, Conn.,, are arming their
crews. 1t is said that the oyster pirates
have made their appearance again and
oyster men will make an attempt to run
them down.
Dr. Carines of Atlanta has just tre-
panned the skull of one of Hagenback 6
lions. Two of the animals had fight on
the Atlanta exposition midway and one
threw the other against the cage with
force enough to fracture its skull.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-04
JEST FORE CHRISTMAS.

Father calls me william, sister calls me
VIII,
Mother calls me Willie. but the fellers
call me Bill
Mighty glad I amt a girl-ruther be
boy,
without them sashes, curls, an things
70 that's worn by Fauntleroy!
Love to chawnk green apples an go
swimmin' in the lake
maze 10 taAe castor-ne tney give ivf
bellyache!
Most all the time, the whole year round,
there amt no flies on me,
But jes' fore Christmas I'm as good as
kin bel
Got a yaller dog named Sport sick him
h on the cat;
First thing she knows she doesn't know
II where she is at!
Got clipper sled, an when US kids goes
out to slide,
Long comes the grocery cart, an we
all hook a ridei
But sometimes when the grocery-man Is
Worried an cross,
He reaches at US with his whip, an
larrups up his boss,
An then laff an holler' on we never
touched me?'
But jes' fore Christmas I'm as good as
I kin be!
to be a man,
I'll be a missionarer like her Oldest broth
er, Dan,
| As was ct up by the cannibuls that lives
in Ceylon's isle,
| Where every prospeck pleases. an only
man is vile!
But gran ma she has never been to see
Wild West show,
| Nor read the life of Daniel Boone. or else
I guess she'd know
That Buff'lo Bill an cowboys is good
enough for mel
| Except jes' fore Christmas. when I'm
| good as / kin bel
An then old Sport he hangs around. so
| .solemn-like an still,
His eyes they seem a-sayin': whats
the matter. little Bill?"
| The old cat sneaks down of her perch
an wonders what's become
OF them two enemies of hern that used
TO make things hum!
But / am so perlite an tend so earnestly
| to biz.
That mother says to father: How i'm
| proved our Willie isl"
But father. havin' been a boy hisself.
When, jes' fore Christmas. I'm as good
as kin be!
For Christmas, with lots an lots of can
| dies, cakes an toys,
| was made they say. for proper kids
an not for naughty boys;
| On wash yer face an bresh yer hair. an
Il mind yer p's and as,
An don't bust out yer pantaloons. and
don't wear out yer shoes;
Say .'yessum" to the ladies. an 'yessir'
Il to the men,
An. when they's company. don't pass yel
plate for pie again:
r,ft. thinkin' OF the things yerd like Il
see upon that tree.
les fore Christmas be as good as vel
kin bel
Eugene Field.
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PROMINENT OR PECULIAR.

Ambassador Bayard will preside at the
Thanksgiving banquet that will be given
by the American society IN London 81
Fighting Bob" Evans, who Is to COM
mand the new battleship Indiana. is said
to be one OF the least snowy men In the
United States service. but one of the
strongest His left leg Is lame from q
twist n received at Fort Fisher, where.
while a midshipman, Evans showed very
daring bravery.
Thurman was an incessant reader OF
French novels while he was In congress.
and he used ordinarily to keep one of the
paper-bound volumes In his desk to while
away the time when things were dull.
The justices of the supreme court have
kind of literature.
Charles S. Fairchild, who has been one
of the leaders and mainstays Of the New
York democracy, has announced his In
tention Of retiring from active politics.
He will resign his position as chairman
of the executive committee and intends
to spend a large portion OF the coming
year in foreign travel.
Lord Knutsford. who was recently pro-
NOTED TO the rank Of viscount. is married
TO the favorite niece OF the great Lord
Macauley. II was to his Dearest Bah
ba /" as he called her. that Lord Macau-
lev addressed his Lays OF Ancient
Rome" which he composed for her espe-
clal entertainment and instruction
Joseph elliott was a jewelers. appren
| tice 60 years ago In Birmingham. Eng
mad. one day he accidentally split one
| az his fine steel tools. and being suddenl,
required TO sign a receipt. and not md
| ing a pen handy. he used the split tool Al
/ a substitute This happy incident lead q
the idea OF making pens Of metal
Robert Goelet is said TO be planning q
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the condition OF the treasury at the
times when the successive bond issues
were made, as in proof of the fact that
for all current needs the treasury was
in funds. This whole question is an
echo of the quarrel that involved ad-
ninistratfon and Observation-Disclosures
democrats when the Wilson tariff bill
was approaching its crisis.
In a patronizing way, the message in
fers that the free-coinage men have
had two trials In recent times and that
both failed. 1t assumes. for instance.
that the silver-purchase law Of 1890 was
a scheme of silvers advocates. Nothing
could be farther from candor. The
goldbugs gave the Sherman act to the
country, believing IT would serve for
a time as a sop. In Mr.. Cleveland's ex-
ira session every advocate of silver dis
claimed allegiance to the Sherman act;
the silver men wanted tt repealed and
a just measure Involving silvers full
restoration passed in Its place.
Respecting the currency. the practi-
cal suggestion in the message Is that
all the treasury notes, greenbacks. GER
tificates and the like, be called in and
the government go out Of the currency
business. OF course, the nat Withdraw
al Of these notes and their permanent
retirement, without a substitute, would
contract the country's currency unduly.
But the plan is to issue longtime bonds
with which to retire the greenbacks and
the other currency In question. and to
make these bonds the basis of circula-
ton for private banks-that is to say,
for banks with which the government
has not direct relation This would
furnish a new basis for circulation like
that on which the national banks were
originally organized. The message elab-
CRATES the plan.
If It is proposed to discontinue the
national currency. the plan outlined in
the message Is probably as good as
any. The first thing that would follow
this arrangement would be the disap-
pearance of the reserve; there would be
no farther use for it. If we understand
the message, dts theory Is that this
course would solve the whole financial
question. The silver men may be long
haired" lunatics, but will some clear
headed goldbug tell us how that result
could possibly follow? The message
would remove a wart on the finger
whereas it is strong right arm that
must be saved.
It is the old story; the message pro-
ceeds on the theory that the PROPOSE
ton is to put ''ifty-cent" dollar on a
par with a dollar worth a hundred
cents. That begs the questionable
proposition is. by restoring silver to Its
function. to let 1t have the place II
used to have as the peer and par OF
gold; what silver needs in order to
take that place 1t to have it's time
honored function freely recognized
Mr.. Cleveland says that the free-coin.
age men reckon from a cloudy stand
point. He insists that the advocate:
OF silver are wrong. and he simply
wants them TO take his word for 1t
There are some millions OF people II
this country who will not do tina
| thing
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-04

Cards are out for an entertainment
to be given on Thursday evening OF
this week by the inmates OF the prison
at Deer Lodge. Those to whom these
invitations are addressed. including
state officers. members of the legisla-
ture. newspaper people and others.
ought to make 1T a point to attend. It
is worth while to see the changes that
have been wrought inside the walls OF
the prison in recent years. to inquire
into the management of prison affairs
and to get information, through person
al inquiry. in regard to the discipline
and the care and treatment Of the in
mates.
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ling houses and houses of prostitution
and apply the profits of such institu-
tions to the support of the schools"
This is called sentimental and hysteri-
cal talk by the advocates Of the extra
ordinary provision. but 1t is sound sense
just the same, and II the good people Of
South Carolina can't strike out individ-
ual sections Of the proposed constitu-
tion at the polls. rather than permit
such a blot upon their state they would
better kill the work of the constitu-
tional convention as a whole.
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TO ADVERTISERS.

The Anaconda Standard guarantees it,
advertisers a bona nde paid circulation
Daily md Sunday. three times greater
than tlat of any other newspaper pub
lished IN the state of Montana Advertis-
ing contracts viii be made subject TO this
guarantee.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-04

A Tacoma dispatch says the Northern
Pacific is thinking of making rate to
actual settlers of $50 from st. Paul to
Tacoma. How they are ever going to
raise enough money to get out of Ia
coma is not stated. Actual settlers In
Tacoma are actual settlers with VEN
vaqnce-
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The only thing Grover seems to have
omitted in his discussion Of our inter-
national affairs Is the Dunraven incl
dent. But perhaps Bayard has convey
ed the presidents apologies to his lord
shin privately.
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The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany sent the message to the newspa-
pers yesterday free with It's compli-
ments. The operators supplied the re-
grets
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-04

The president ds particularly severe
on China. 1t ds pleasant to find a coun-
try that everybody can sass with
impunity.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-04

1t would be strange enough IL Presi-
dent Cleveland should become persona
non grata to England after all his
eminent services rendered.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-04

According to their published inter
views, a good many of the clergymen OF
the country are of the opinion that the
Christian Endeavorers should drop Bob
Ingersoll and pray rather for a little
more sense.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-04

If you don't see what you want in the
presidents message. draw on Wal
street.