The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22

lege at Mexico, Mo, last year and there
met a number of Topeka girls who We're
students there and who have been, in a
way, their patronesses since they arriv
ed here.
Mrs. K1ingenberg has a number of or
iental rugs in her collection picked up
in her wanderings in Turkey Ara bia,
India, Persia and Egypt and there are
some beautiful Austrian tapestries. and
embrOideries in her collection. but these
are of far less interest than the Norwe-
gian rugs because while the oriental
rugs are We'll known in Topeka so many
are ignorant of the fact that the north
land has an art of the same kind and OF
equal development and, in proportion TO
the age of the Scandinavian civilization,
equal age. For hundreds of years, Mrs.
KHngenberg. says, the peasant women of
Norway have been making these rugs.
which they use mostly for bed coverings
but it was only recently that the indus
try received the recognition it deserves
in the artistic life of the nation. Now
they have large rug making Industries
under the patronage of the state and
the rugs of native design and manufae-
ture are an important part of the art
exhibits in all Norwegian museums
Rug making has become a great fad
and women of the upper classes have
taken it I'D. All the Weather homes
now have the frames on which the Iat-
terms are worked out and well born and
well educated women busy themselves
with TIE fork and needle OF ire rug
maker so long seen only in tfia peasant
home. Mrs Klingenberg hersele has
learned the art and has many examples
of her skill in this line. She describes
it asa most fascinating occupation, Of
fering wide opportunities to the artistic
talents and ingenuity of the worker who
may make her own designs, select her
own colors and make her own dyes. The
Norwegian peasants raise the wool
from which they make their rugs. for
wealthy purchasers and while the fash
ionable women who have taken 10 the
fad do not go SO far as that they MAKE
their own dives from the flowers Of the
field and garden.
The beauty and endurance of the col
ors thus produced are Incompatible,
and as no two pluchngs of the same
kind of flower will produce exactly the
same shade there is really no limit to
the vnriety possible. The woman of ar
tistic bent who has an eye for form and
color and can design her own work
/ would certainly find rugmaking a de-
/ lightWul change from the comparatively
limited field of china painting, water
| colors, mbroidery, lace making and the
/ like. Why wouldn't it be a good thing
/ for the manual training schools to take
up?
-Four prominent Topeka educators.
three bachelors and a benedict, were
discussing courtship, marriage and kim
bred subjects during luncheon hour at
downtown restaurant the other day.
The benedict tells the story.
"A man should marry the girl he
loves" quoth the first bachelor, ora
second Bachelor: mo. he shoule
marry the girl who loves him. What
do you say" turning to the third bach
elor. who replied; He should marry
the one he can get
Poor little Mary MacLane VINO came
= oh
of Life ana a real Devil has made a
disheartening and disillusionlzing dis
I covery: Many most as devils. but they
are not such. There are no real devils
in the world today" This was her
mournful admission to a newsnaDer re
porter last week in Boston where she is
pursuing the study of chemistry.
mo real devils!" Ha, you gay LOthar-
los who stand IN front of the cigar
/ stores and ogle the women as they passi
/ You have been posing. 10, these many
! years, as Devils of the darkest and most
/ dangerous dissertation. but little Mary
MacLane has found -ou out for the
/ imposters that you are.
Ho, you wicked college rakes, you
Z blase sophOmores with your hats AZ
saucy angles and your heinOus cigar
cites! For generations you have de-
! ceiVed the trusting boarding school girl
and the guileless coed with yolr MOTOR
ious college Dranks. and sombre hints
of uncomfortable scaoades but Mary
4 MacL3ne t2I 1Ot l-Net IN Ihe CLASSIC
environs of Harvard three months be-
fore she had penetrated your cheap dis
guise of deviltrv and exposed your
lamb-like "reminiscences.
And you, you gay deceivers of the
tribe of Benedictsi How long would
simple unsuspecting woman have lis
tened in sympathetic sorrow 10 your sad
stories of n,ismatsd union. misunder-
stood natures, unappreciated hearts md
blghted lives. telling themselves that
you are not nearly IS black as You are
painted, if Mary MacLane's wonderful
perspicacity had not probed your shall
low pretenses and shown you up IN Your
natural state of the False Alarm.
Less than half a year out of Butte.
Montana, away from the sand and bar
renness and the Dstiful lack of mascu-
line attractions that made her sigh for
a real Devil to WOO and win and lure