The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-14


Al the women were raving over a
summer gown worn by a visiting young
woman this week and she conf1ded to
one of her friends that it cost just S1.25.
She bought the material at a sale and
made it herself. At that rate almost
any man ought to be able to afford a
wife.
4 don't know why the women are
such slaves to the shirt waist habit"
said the loquacious girl who has opin-
Ions on every subject We pretend it's
because they're comfortable, but a shirt
waist means close high stock or col
lar OF some kind and comfort and a
high stock and warm weather are not
concomitants by any means. Then con-
slider the trouble incidental to the put
ting on of fresh shirt waist. Nothing
else requires as much time and patience
and makes as many demands upon the
temper on a hot day. I can get into
any gown in my closet in half the time
that can get a shirt waist ready to
wear. They're better than they used to
be when they came from the laundry
starched so stiffiy that You could only
fasten the cuffs with the aid of a glove
buttoner, but they're still SO much trou-
bic that I wonder at their continued
popularity especially with busy wo-
men"
A young Topeka matron recently
spent a month with Chicago friends
came home for a few days and went to
Kansas City for a fortnight. Her relief
from domestic cares was SO complete
and she had had such a giddy time go
ing to parties given in her honor and
having the men quarrel over her dances
that she dreamed that she had returned
to the pristine days Of her lost youth
and was a popular young bud again.
One day a visitor was announced and
she went down to see him expecting to
greet one of the half dozen young fell
lows who had been spending their idle
moments at her hostess house during
her visit The man who rose as she
entered the drawing room was however,
none of her new friends but he had a
strangely familiar look and as she adj
vanced with outsretched hand and her
'parlor face" saying "HOW-dO- you-do?'
very cordially she was mentally won
dering, Where have met this man be-
fore?'' Just then it flashed over her.
why, Fred!" she exclaimed 1T was
so dark in here I didn't know you.
How's everything at homer Does moth
er get on all right with the children?
So you did think you'd come to see me?
supposed you'd forgotten you had a
wife And she looked at her husband,
who had blown in unexpectedly with
that tender reproach which the simple
creatures assume when they wish to
conceal their own delinquencies.
commencement week at WaShburn and
the threatened tragedy of empty cottages
and deserted school rooms. 1t is safe to
say that never yet has daWned a summer
vacation that was entirely welcome to the
college boy or girl that is, in a co-educa-
tional school. The Christmas and spring
holidays are well enough, and the summer
vacation wouldn't be SO uncomfortable if it
happened at any other time of the year.
but in the spring every student who has
any respect for the traditions plunges into
the intOxlcatiOn of college case for
which, as everyone knows the long sum
Is nv a
one wear to the next s()ften fte e5,f11n5r
something always happens. No wonder
that commencement week is season OF
conditions Of her country home,
where the college yell has never
p Ise a the bueolie quiet and 70
never parted their hair in the middle, car
ried stick or wore college colors in their
lives and he is going back to the plow.
An end for a seasOn-ferever if it be his
senior senior. year-o5f the geietg and irresponsible
lege politics, the sure and regular remit
lance from papa, incidentally. the studies.
the fair coed the Washburn girl
It is said the Washbnrn girl is best seen
and studied at a ball game on Washburn
girls attend in numbers and although the
town girl and the Washburn girl are easily
should study the Washburn girl apart in
order to know her as she is. The baseball
divinities of Topeka avenue, but the Wash
burn girl is loyal to all the Washburn in
terests whether or not she knows a double
play from a base hit Most of them irnag-
inc that they know something of the ma
tional game, however, or at least they are
very busy with their score cards after ev-
cry play II is doubtless a good deal of
bluff because the usual typical feminine
questions are asked and it is no uncom-
mon to see a pretty freshman waving her
Washburn blue riumphantly over a sen
sational play by the visiting team. There
are some things that the average feminine
intellect never seems absolutely to master
and the mysteries of baseball are among
them.
Why is it you can tell a Washburn girl
as far you can see her2 It isn't only
that she's young and pretty and full of
the interests and enthusiasms OF youth.
The High school girls are all of those
things, and so are the Bethany girls. But
Washburn girl is not, either, to be con-
founded with the K o.. girl, nor the Ba-
prospective pedagoguess from the Normal
at Emporia. There is a difference in the
spirit and traditions of colleges and they
mark the manners and appearance, the
ambitions and ideals of their students
The Washburn girl is sweet and modest
and unassuming. but she is independent
and confident. The cottage system gives
her protection lacking in schools where
there are no doTmitorieS and where the
girls live underground and unguarded,
exposed to the dangerous influence OF uIl-
restricted limitations with the blase soph-
Onore of 10 years. The Washburn girl is
not a society girl. Her social recreations
student and usually she has a serious pur-
pose in life which gives her dignity Of
which the average college girl is entirely
innocent Its worst 0etractor never ac-
cused Washburn of being fast and the
stories Of the shocking esca pades of the
young women students of other colleges
whose widest irregularity is the occasional
skipping of the chapel. Her college career