The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-09

| hatred of the opposite sex, and SO skill
| fully were things managed that for so
years the fraulein neither saw nor spoke
| to man or boy.
| Another man-hater, and one who car
ried her hatred beyond the tomb, was
| Marie I.enoir, who died in Paris a few
| months ago. By her will she left her
whole estate, valued at $4,000. in trust
| to two women of her acquaintance
holding similar views with herself re-
garding men, "to be used in waging
warfare in such ways as may seem fit
ting to them against the selfishness and
tyranny Of man."
The Cause of Popularity.
"It is all very well to theorize on what
makes success, what causes popularity,
why some people are such great favor
ties and why others are not, but the
whole thing remains perfectly incom-
prehensible," remarked a woman re-
Gently. Take Fannie M. for instance"
says the New York Daily Tribune ''She
is no longer young, she is comparative
ly poor, she never was pretty, she is
not even clever and her family is prac-
tically unknown, yet she is asked to
places to which women who are far
more attractive, apparently, could not
get an invitation, and she could visit
all the year round at the incest houses
if she wished. She is the greatest sue
cess in her way of any one I know, yet
/ cannot see why she should be any
more than any number of others, but
all the same she is.
Then there is Bobby x He is a
masculine exponent of the same sort; he
is actually stupid, and has no quality
that could distinguish him from the av-
erage young man, and yet he has be-
come an habitue of the most exclusive
houses. 1t is the same way about mar
rying. Why should some women make
such excellent matches? Have you
never wondered, in looking at an as
semblage of prosperous dowagers, how
some of them ever managed to attract
their husbands. and what quality they
possessed that served in lieu of the
personal attraction which they certain
ly could never have been gifted with?
l have often wondered and have always
failed to make out the why and the
wherefore
1.-THE successes of the men In business
and public life present the same puz-
cling conundrums. While many owe
their prominence and triumph to per-
sonal ability, many undoubtedly do not
Some people think that chance is the
ruling divinity, but, although the blind
goddess may choose her favorites in
discriminatory, the people I speak of do
not owe their position to her. They
have the talent of succeeding, but of what
that talent CONSISTS and how it can be
cultivated Is one of the puzzles which, /
fear, will remain forever unsolved."
Fads and Fancies.
The fur and feather toque is one of
the seasons favorites. A handsome ex-
ample is of cream caracul, the brim
turned up and draped with white cloth,
partially concealed with a birds breast
of many colors, and ornamented with
handsome. strasse buckle.
Among the novelties are hand paint
ed velvet and cloth hats turned up at
one side and caught with two leather
quilts.
Stitched panne velvet is considerably
used for trimming cloth tailor gowns.
BaSques Of all lengths and shapes are
a feature of the newest tailor made
costumes. The range is from tiny tabs
to the flowing basques of the Louis
coats.
An English fancy is the pigskin quill,
either plan, embossed or picked out in
brown like yokes work
Buttons and buckles of gun metal
and steel are used on the newest travel
ing coats.
Plaid strappings on zibeline are con-
Sidered chic
cedar green, Pempeiian red, mahogany,
russell, champagne. claret. oyster and
amber.
The handsomest hat pins are of
enamel
On the dressy coats shown this sea-
son for children silver knob buttons,
richly chased, are among the novelties.
Corduroy and velvets are extensively
For their elders, gowns of brown or
mouse gray corduroy are considered
more stylish than velvet
The windmill bow of satin ribbon or
velvet is seen many of the latest de-
signs in children's hats.
Chinchilla fur, combined with white
dahlias and foliage, is the latest idea
in winter millinery.
Deep vandyke lace collars are seen
on many of the gowns intended for out
door and indoor wear this winter
Trimmings of suede kid on cloth
gowns is a Partisan fancy.
Cream white Persian lamb is used for
trimming some of the handsomest new
white and clay cloth coats.
Lace will be used for trimming all
but the corduroy waists.
A Lost Art.
Letter writing has been termed a lost
art for a number of years, and now it
looks as if note writing, which always
used to be considered as indicative of a
lady more than anything else, was also
in it's decadence, says the New York Tri-
bune.
The neatly turned clever little missive
in the Enthusiastically English hand
writing of the time which her mother
used to write would be an impossibility
to the modern young woman, who, with
her blunt pen, in awkwardly vertical cal
lgraphy. tells you that she had an aw-
fully Jolly time at your house party that
she is "dreadfully cut up about being
obliged to decline your invitation or that
she will come like a shot if she is able
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