The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-24
A Clever Woman.


IFrom the Washington start
she IS just the most wonderful wo-
man / ever saw" said the speaker
Why she does every bit OF her own
work and her house is spotless from eel
lar to garnet I never saw such house
Keeping in all my life I keep two ser
wants myself and I cant begin to come
up TO ner standard She does all her
own sewing she and her children are
always exauisiteiy dressed, and there
isn't more stylish looking woman on
the street than she is. It's standing
wonder TO me how she does 1t ALL
a wonderful Woman2
Yes indeed. And there are so many
of these women nowadays that they are
fast ceasing to be wonderful You find
them in every town, on every street, in
every social circle and-in every grave
yard their names are chisled on tomb
stones and little children come often TO
lay flowers on .'mamma's grave They
are the women who are trying to do the
impossible; trying to make the silk
purse out of the sow's ear; trying to
bridge the 40 foot chasm with the 20 foot
pole; trying to make both ends meet
when they never were intended to meet;
trying TO keep up appearances; trying to
conform to the requirements of society,
burning the candle at both ends. going
the pace that kills: using up their vital
forces, and dying % ye<r= TOO soon.
The really wonderful woman today is
the woman who takes things easy She
Is not known among her neighbOrs as a
model housekeeper. but she takes a com
plete bath, a long walk and a long nan
every day She is not always exquisite
" dressed and she frequently wears the
same bonnet and wrap two seasons but
she Keeps two servants and employs a
seanstress twice a year to help with the
sewing Her children do not look like
walking fashion plates but they are
healthy ard happy. She is not reaoWn-
ed for charitable work or club work or
missionary work; but, on the other hand
she never has nervous prostratiOn or
ar7d all
her she looks as young as she looked the
day she was married. Her name is sell
dom seen in the society columns OF the
newspaper, but the neighboTS declare
She reads and studies almost as much
as she did when she was in college. She
never embroidered centerpiece or
maze Battenburg table cover in her
life; but then she doesn't wear glasses.
and her eyes have the sparkle of a han
Ply school girl.
She is comfortable sort of a person
to live with, and her husband sits down
ana smokes wherever he pleases in his
own house and spills ms TOBACCO and
cigar ashes with a freedom that makes
him the envy of his friends She isn't
DONG anything at all rena rkabIe and
the ne1ghbcrs think her rather shift
less on the whole. But she is getting
d vast amount of good out OF life as she
goes along, and she is destined 70 live
to a green old age and be a Shining ex
ample of common sense to her children
grandchildren and great gra nd c hiIdren
would there were more wonderful wo-
men of this type
Types OF Beauty Changing.
A well known artist Of Philadelnhfa
recently made the statement that nor
only has the style of feminine beauty
changed greatly within the last few
decades, but that the Gibson girl Of to-
cay would have seemed actually honelv
10 the taste Of 40 years go.
That his statement Is correct a glance
at the portrait Of the girl of today and
that Of her grandmother Will prove. It
is rot merely the fnfirrnifies of , 20 which
make the grandmother lock 50 frafl he
side her staiwart era nddaughter The
fact Is that American women have in
creased II height. breadth and weight in
the last few years, says the Chicago
Chronicle
Nor is that all. When the girl Of to
day falnts 1t IS not considered a sign of
her extreme sensibility and related to
heF glory doctor is called in to pre-
scribe for the physical arrangement
which has caused it She no longer
purses her mouth after the prudes and
pl1sms fashion Of bygone years: she runs
about the campus Of Bryn Mawr or the
board walk at Atlantic City alike with
out hat until her skin takes on a tinga
which her ancestors would have coIdly
Hkened to that of q miIkmaid She
walks. wheels and plays golf until she
cannot carry out the traditions Of the
family by approaching the altar in her
glaIdnother'S wedding shoes: her hands
of beauty laid down in former years
and Yet. to our eyes. she is much hand
sOmer than the simpering, large-eyed
creature who stood for beauty in the
portrait of bygone years
What One Woman Thinks
Tears are ere CT wosnan's best weap-
ons of defense.
an INJURY forgiven is better than an
injury avenged.
A man is like the moon when he has
reached his last quarter.
Most every young mother thinks her
baby just little bit smarter than any
other wcmans
Mary a woman dresses shabbily in the
morning because no enc but her husband
is around to see her
The fashiona BILE Partisan woman is
now wearing ring on the first finger,
the marquise shape being in great re
quest
The woman who seeks to ainuse US by
speaking slightingly of others is quite
likely to use US for theme on another
occasion.
Some old maids" says a witty mod
er1 writer. remind one of rose leaves
and lavender: others of bread and but
ter that has been cut too long"
New Wrinkle.
Curl papers erimping pins and kid roll
ers are now things Of the past. for they
have been ousted by new device that
does the work equally well and is deeid-