The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-28

The shops all hav a deserted, for
1orn appearance since the hurry and
furry of Christmas are over. The
shelves and shelves of left over articles
which were so attractive up until the
night before Christmas, now have
a cheap common look with their marked
down signs in conspicuous places. Many
of them will make their appearance
next season with a bright new look
about them and will doubtless prove as
attractive as they have this year.
Not until long after New Years day
will the stores resume their normal APP
p~earance, and the clerks as well as
their customers get down to the rou-
tine of business. Before that however
comes the business of making New
Years resolutions. Every one makes
them. and every one breaks them. 1t
does not seem like New Years without
making some good resolutions but the
sensible person will make only one or
two, which he will honestly e~ndeavor
to keep all through the year. The ma
jority of persons make a long list which
they really mean to keep, but it is
such a tax on the memory to even re-
member what they are that they are
Usually broker before the week is out
After society RECEIVERS from the
Christmas m-errymaking there will be
a little furry of gaiety, and then cones
Lent.
The Mistress of the White House.
Mrs. Roosevelt is not as we'll known
10 the general public as her soldier
husband, but from can be learned
about her it is not difficult to predict
that she will speedily win for herself
the same universal admiration that fell
to the lot of Mrs. Cleveland, says the
Detroit Free Press. Though naturally
OF a retiring disposition. she is neither
cold nor repellant, but, on the contrary,
possesses most charming
among her distinctive attributes being a
.na6-- ---7-. 1rt-~ rr-1.426 made
many friends for her during Colonel
Roosevelt's g~overnorship Of New York,
and renders practically certain her UNI
qualified success as mistress of the
White House. She is as thoroughly
wideawake and "up-to-date' as it IS
possible for an American woman to be,
has decided literary talent, and is al
most as well posted on the subject OF
politics as her husband; but for all
that she In not n new woman" in tine
generally accepted sense of the term,
either herself OF her attachments into
public prominence, is not athletic in
her tastes-although she is an accom-
plished horsewoman-and cares abso-
lutely nothing for women's clubs, the
only organization in which she takes an
active interest being the Mothers asso-
citation of the state of New York. of
which she is a membe Her chosen
sphere Is that of the home, and in it she
reigns supreme, being at once a devoted
wife, a tender but judicious mother
0A4 ~ &aRD1A1 -. ~
her own five children, the eldest of
whom is Theodore, jr.-who is a replica
In miniature of his father-she gathers
under her maternal wing the 1S-year-
old daughter Of President R~oosevelt's
first wife. Alice Roosevelt, who is a most
attractive girl, inherits her fathers
athletic prociivities as well as his vigor-
Gus health, and. in addition. possesses
not a little of mis- sturdy decision of
character. This. indeed, is an attribute
which seems to be shared in common by
AI the V01InU OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES xrhnre
no healthier. ljvelier and happier family
of little folk ever existed.
The Girl With the Muff.
The winter girl of the twentieth cen
fury might step into a sixteenth cen
fury picture and not seem out of place.
Hair rolled plainly IN the sides, loose
wraps, large muffs and
funny little short wells. being conspicu-
Gus points of the costum for either
time.
A perfectly huge muff NIGH repre-
sent a drawing of the winter girl. with
a few WHISKY ponpons above and some
drapery lines below it, could be called
the girl behind the muff."
There really isn't much of the girl
left to show after she dOns one of the
new boas with her muff. says the Gin
cinnati Enquirer.
A despairing mother, who thought
sne mad her two daughters cloaked for
several seasons by purchasing seal
coats for them last year finds it not A
drop in the bucket. For what are seal
coats, or suits of any kind, without the
addition of the great furry thing wo-
men are wrapping themselves in? Furs
DID fair to be as caDricious in fashion
as the lesser thing in dress. One girl
said she was really economical for she
would take her mum another year and
have a coat made out of it.
tashAon seems to be reveling in a
perfect dissipation of display for her
mid season h never showed before
what an artist she was, and seems to
nave fairly lost her head in the success
Of her creations.
She has made Ter subjects slaves for
life by her sumptuous use of white |
NO composition is complete which goes
from her hand without this final artis-
TIC snowy touch White furs are the lat
est and most becoming affectations of
Iasnlon. Great furry boas of white fur.
feachang clear to the hem of a de-
any race.
Canes Of white krimmer and immense |