The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-29

pears faded and pale away from the
sun Red is a tribe dangerous in COM
binatiOn and contrast, although very
cheerful and effective if used in winter,
when warm tints are acceptable.
Foliage green is always pleasing,
especially in summer. when ferns are
Obtainable everywhere outside of city
limits. Large and small ferns will keep
their fresh greenness if when gathered
they are placed one over the other COM
pactly on a thin piece Of board or card
board. and then sorinkled or even inn
mersed in cold water and kept in cool,
dark place for several hours. Ferns so
treated have been used twenty-four
hours later for church decoration and
were Is fresh as when growing on their
native mold
A pretty table decoration consists of
a circular mirror. with silver mounting.
if possible. set in the center of a fine
white linen cloth or pink EN- broidered
centerpiece- On the mirror rests a glass
bowl. filed with pink roses. while a
wreath of asparagus fern encireles it,
and one end is continued to a central
chandelier directly over the table. Can
delabra of glass or silver. holding pink
candles and pink silk or paper shades,
throw soft glow over the table.
After a Few Seasons.
THE SOCIETY GIRL BECOMES
PASSE.
II never see you anywhere nowadays
some one remarked to an attractive
young woman recently. DO you never
go anywhere now2 You used to be
the gayest of the gay Why have you
given it all up?''
Because am neither fish. fowl nor
good red herring" she laughed. Il
have no place in society. I ought to be
married and have my own establish
ment, and 1 have not. You see, it is
this way with girls whose people do not
entertain much: The first year they
come out they are feted and made much
of. and have a beautiful time; the next
their q
but they still feel it is their prerOgative
to go about and have a good time
Then comes a period of liberation,
which also lasts year or two. This
brings girl to her fifth or sixth winter.
If she comes out at eighteen she viii be
about twenty-four or twenty-five.
Still young enough to enjoy life, one
would think, but society has had enough
of her. She feels it herself very keenly
her invitations grow fewer in number,
her partners fall off. her father no
alacrity, her mothers attention is abb
sorbed by her younger sisters, who must
now be considered and she feels that
her day social butterfly is prac-
tically over
$ I wonder that those old girls try to
hang on overheard a caller youth re-
mark at the last dance I went to. Mrs
x. had rO9ed me in to dance the cOtll-
lon with one of them. / should think
they ought to know enough to say at
home with all the other girls coming
4
was not the old girl he had to dance
with, but it was one of my contempt
raries and i ute agreed with him. /
think there is something undignified
in keeping uD the same old routine of
year after year, still anxious to get
partners for the cotillon and supper at
every dance. and feeling all the time
that the game is not worth the candle
For married women it is different.
They have their assured place. and if
they enjoy that sort of thing there is
no reason why they should not attend
every function but it is becoming
more and more the fashion for young
women of my age who are unmarried
to drop general society BY that I do
not mean social life; we go to dinners,
theatre parties, and once in great
while to some particularly smart ball;
we have our warm friends and intelli-
gent interests but we decline to be so
ciety hacks. and 1 think we are right.
Don't you2''
IN Boston this habit of older girls
dropping OUT is even more of a recog-
nized thing. The women at the dances
Of the smart set there are nearly all
debutantes and married women; the
girls of several seasons are conspicuous
by their absence