The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-21


rushing about these days with tired,
harassed expressions on their faces.
and the Christmas present problem con-
stantly revolving itself in their minds.
might be interested in the "Anti-F'a-
tigue League" which the CommercialAd-
v~ertiser describes as follows:
A few weeks ago several women
formed what they called an Anti-Fa-
tigue League. They were women who
had shopped in other years and had
been SO exhausted and disguised with
life when Christmas Day arrived that
they vowed they would never, no never,
do it again. OF course they didn't keep
their VOWS because Christmas shopping
is one of those things in which one can't
control oneself. 1t has to be done. But
this year they effected a compromise
They held a meeting just like that of a
real club where everything is talked
about and nothing is done.
The pledged themselves on
their words of honor as g-entlewomen
not to shop all of any day without suit.
able and proper refreshment. Suitable
and proper refresEmeHt was defined as
soup, meat, tea, wine, milk, coffee,
bread and butter, celery, rice, potatoes,
fruit and other digestible edibles and
bracing drinkables. Candy or cakes,
soda water, drug store chocolate, lob
ster salads or patties, croquettes and
fantastic entrees were forbidden.
Then each member pledged herself to
go about her shopping systematically,
10 make out a list of what she wanted.
and not to run around the shops to see
If n could not get d certain article 4
few cents cheaper in some other shop
than in the one where she originally
saw it.
Shopping three hours every day was
recommended as against shopping nine
hours on one or two days. but &is was
not practicable for the su~burbanite. The
urban members agreed to it, No parcels
were to be carried, and ~Oppin was
10 be done IN q short skirt.
Last, but not least, the women prom
ised to do all their shopping before the
23d, so as to have a little rest and
change before the great day, and so
not appear white, nervous and haggard
like a ghost at the Christmas feast.
An Englishwoman's Fad.
Lady Constance Mckenzie is one OF
the best known society women of Eng
land and enjoys a high reputation both
Tor her personal beauty and her intelli-
gence. She is somewhat eccentric as
well, and is continually adding to her
reputation in this regard, says the Sun
day Chronicle. The latest fad of Lady
Constance is to take as her pet a snake
and everywhere she goes the snake has
to go with her The snake is a very
small one. to be sure. but still it is a
snake, and as many people have an
aversion to reptiles, no matter what
their size. this fad of Lady Constance's
has aroused much comment. The snake
lodges in the bodice of LadyConstance's
dress, and the latter plays with it on
occasions as if it were a piece of lew
elry. b feeds it upon fish and in
sects, and says the reptile is possessed
of more intelligence than many per-
sons.
Again in Favor.
A word that is gradually coming into
It's W again after a period of neglect
Is lady After having been overwork-
ed until 1t lost its significance, the Word
was suddenly d and expelled
from all polite. if not educated CONVEX
satfon, says the sun.
Now there is a tendency to receive
lady" back into the modish ocabu
airy. The word is occasionally heard
in the talk of persons who fiatter them
selves that they speak the latest New
Yorkese. But it must be uttered with
q slight emphasis in order to show that
the word has just been taken up.
Party" has after a term of Danish
ment been restored to high favor in
drawing room conversation. Only a few
years 81 the word was as much scorn-
ed as lady" in circles that were sup
posed to be critical in details of such
Importance. 1t was never heard.
But now party" is among the over
worked words of the fashionable voca-
bulary and is added to every term OF
description
Thus one hears of musical parties"
dancing parties and SO throughout
the whole category.
The Chou.
Every woman who makes any pre- |
tense OF smart dressing is buying a
cnou and wearing it these days. The
chou IS the most fashionable dress ac- |
ressory of the moment.
once every chou looked like the other, |
with the exception that they varied in
color. Now there is a whole assortment |
70 choose from, and the nfodish woman
as apt TO have a collection all her own
OF these dainty trihes.
IN rloben choux there are three or
Tour varieties the vogue at present.
some are of shaded sa~tin-faced ribbon. |
and are just a cluster of loops of the
sort ribbon formed like a wheel rosette
ana trimmed with two or three rows Of
narrow black velvet ribbon. A chou OF
thls sort will have for its center either
some enectiye artificial flower or a
seweied buckle or button. Then there |
are the choux Of ribbon which have two
pulte long knotted ends, says the Pitts
CnAnon choux are also much worn.
and give a light, airy touch 70 . sit
@a@I Many OF the prettiest are shaped