The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-18

Several Kansas avenue stationers are
showing exquisite lines of letter and
notepaper. 1t comes in the daintiest
boxes in all tints and colors and one
can scarcely make up her mind what
she wants, there is such ewildering,
array of it.
Nothing indicates a woman's char
acter as quickly as the writing paper
she uses; it depends less upon the color
and style than upon the general daint-
mess and neatness of it. The delicate
pinks. blues, grays, heliOtropes and even
the more vivid red are very fascinating
but one is apt to tire of them, so if you
cannot have quite an assortment of
paper, stick to white or cream which is
always in good taste.
One should always have two sizes of
paper; one small size for notes or in
Vitations, and the more generous letter
size. With white or cream colored pa
per sealing wax in all colors may be
used appropriately but with the tinted
papers. you should have a sealing wax
as near the same tint as possible. For a
seal most people use a single letter
though some use a monogram. One To-
peka girl who is very 'faddy," has a
seal ring of Roman gold with her mon
ogram reversed on the back and all of
her letters she seals with this
The Woman With Small Income.
The woman with a small income is
beginning at last to understand the law
of affinity and color in dress. and if she
which happens to be her own. By do
ing SO she brings in the virtue of in
dividual chic, which in itself is a quail
tty almost inimitable and not to be
purchased by gold.
The woman gazing dolefully at the
balance which threatens soon to be on
the wrong side of her bank book may
yet take heart of grace and go in for
the simple friezes and the inexpensive
stuffs. To the country dresser friezeS
and tweeds represent the modes of the
moment, says the Boston Post.
There are a great many women who
never look we'll in what is known as
the real tailor made, and this class will
bless the return of the Russian blouse
serge or tweed properly weighted and
pouching ever so slightly back and
front over jeweled band or simple
fold of glace deity swathed round the
figure. To woman of slight build
there is not more becoming fashion, and
she may wear it with confidence, al
though the newest Paris modes only
pouch in front. with the exception of a
very wide pointed band al the back 1t
is here that individual taste may have
full play, and several smart models
have the narrowest possible belts.
The Uses of Chiffon.
Without chiffon a woman setting foot
into the fashionable world of 1902. would
be in despair.
There is no one ia brio so much in evil
dence, no one material so much needed
in the schemes of dress, no one stuff
half as becoming.
Without chiffon the robes of 1902
would be robbed of their gauziness and
the general effect of the lightness would
be gone, says the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Chiffon is seen both winter and sum
mer and has been called the connect
Ing link between these two extremes oil
season. On Fourth of July a woman
wells herself in it and makes her stock
of it; in midwinter her gown is trim
med with it and her bodice is fashioned
entirely of it. Her fur coat is decorated
with it, and her Innings partake OF its
puffings. while her under skirts rejoice
in its shirrings.
Chiffon means more today to the wo-
man of fashion than it ever did before
and the prophets say that it will con
tinue to increase in meaning and in
fashionable growth.
The new uses to which it is put are
too many to be mentioned and too
varied to allow of description. AS a
yelling it now comes in dotted form the
dots of different colors on the opposite
sides If this very French form of veil
ing cannot be purchased, ready made.
a woman dots it herself. using a fine
needle and much patience
A Queen Louise stock is another ar
ttcle of chiffon which she wears This
is long veil coming from the back of
the winter hat, often from the back of
a fur hat, falling right out from under
much tailed animal, and this she
twists around her neck many times un-
til IT forms stock The two ends are
now allowed to hang down the front in
stole fashion, and, of course, these ends
are embroidered.
But this is not all the ways of chiffon
AS bodice stuff il is so much seen that
to attempt to tell of new ways of treat
rnent opens up field inexhaustive But
there is chiffon bodice that may be
new. 1t is made upon a foundation for
chiffon is too sheer to go alone. and it
Is shirred every inch, TO make inch wide
puffs These are attached to the under
part of lining until a waist is formed
an entire shirt waist, all little soft chif-
fon puffS.
Fads and Fancies.
The latest yelling is more ant TO
meet with appropriation from the ocu-
list than some of the styles to which
We have been accustomed of late 1t is
elaborate. but the elaboration is con-
fined to the top and bottom, the veil
being plain across the eyes.
White mousSeline de sole is uorcb
favored this winter for evening gowns.
lace trimmed and spangled.
Strings OF pearls are festooned on