The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-20

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heye complete understanding is pos
slbles when confidence would follow like
Q. e. D., but the average mans and
Woman'S training is prejudicial to it.
hste to say that every girl is taught to
look upon every man as a possible vic
tim, and every boy to view with alarm
the civility OF anything in petticoats as
probably with malicious intent, but
words to that effect would probably de-
scribe the situation. The average man
and woman are always trying to i'm
press one another, to deceive one an
other, to get the better of one another.
ners when he meets a new woman Il
don't mean an Advanced woman) and
every woman has company manners
when she meets a new man-and I don't
mean an-After Taking man.
We'll, what has that to do with Mr..
Dooley and his Guess on Women?'' in
terposed the red-haired girl, waving her
embroidery in the air as she stretched
her arms above her head and yawned.
L would have gone home long ago if
hadn't thought you'd get to him by
and by. l can't read him. His dialect
makes my head ache, but love to have
other people translate him and tell me
what he says"
We've been to him and got through
with him. retorted the Oracle, las you
would know if you hadn't been doing
over your Mount Mellick. Mr.. Dooley
confesses that he knows nothing at all
about women and that every other man
is in the same benighted condition, ex-
cept an occasional unmarried man be-
tween the ages of 10 and % who claims
to be able to read the feminine nature
as easily as a billboard, and I confess
that l don't understand men in the least
and tnat no other woman has much the
best of me in that respect. But l say
tnar II MI. DOOley would Judge a WO-
man by the same standards as he does a
man and ! base my Guess on Men on
my knowledge of women both of us
would arrive at pretty fair working
hypothesis. It's only false education
and training and foolish conventions
| that make a man and a woman mysteri-
Gus to one another. OF course a woman
would always be more or less of a mys-
terry to the man who loved her and a
woman thinks the man she loved so diff
ferent from all others: but distrust and
suspicion and jealousy would be largely
eliminated. If
What is it that Mr. Dooley finds so
unfathomable in woman?' the d-hair-
ed girl hastily interrupted before the
Oracle could get fresh start.
He wants to know. for one thing,
how woman can stick hatpin
through her hat without killing her
self" exclaimed the Debutante scorn-
fully. Battling mystery, isn't it?"
And why she always smoothes out
ner gown when she sits or stands in
front of fire." supplied the Oracle.
''Ill tell Mr.. Finley Peter Dunno that -
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/ tell me why man takes out his watch,
! looks at it and puts it back in his pock-
/ ct without being able to tell you wha
1 time it is, and why when he starts to
/ tell story to another man he takes off
/ his hat, pulls it down low over his brow
and pushes it clear back on his head
| again.
Another thing he wants to know" the
| Oracle went on, lis who woman always
loves young Larry who has curly hair
and plays the mandolin better than she
does Terrence with his big frecllles and
/ steady Job, but marries Terrence and
! the steady job
And they all looked at each other and
laughed, but no one attempted to ex-
plain.
rabbit set including dozen med
/ ium sized plates and a dozen "patties''
with ale mugs to match makes a new
and acceptable Christmas sgift which
would he appreciated by any chatting dish
artist, man or woman. They come in the
| prettiest of china, with several shades
of green contracted on the same plate
each ornamented with groups of small
! rabbits. The mugs are decorated in the
same manner and a little 'cottontaiI'
forms the handle as he chambers up the
side to look over into the nut brown"
+ depths within They come in satin lined
wood cases carved and colored in the ex-
act design of a large pineapple cheese.
The plates are about $50 a dozen and
/ In London the latest novelty is pro-
/ lessor or doctor of smiling Who for a
consideration. will teach one how to smile
like Queen Alexandra or the Mona Lisa
\ or after any pattern one may choose.
A woman selects the style of smile which
she thinks will most become her and thea
forthwith she is instructed in the art of
acquiring just that particular sample,
4 whether it be the coquettish, the winning,
the demure or the genially expansive
style.
The professor has list of some three
! score or more styles of smiles. Among the
number are the smile of sympathy the
smile of endearment the debutante's rimid
smile, $he reserved smile of the thoughtful
I woman and the smile of simple jollitY.
There are many others labeled as the
majestic. the thoughtful. the trusting the
dfstrustful, the incredulous. the seif-ccn-
scious, the hooking, the beguiling, the al
| Turing, the repelling, the restrained, the
daring, the penitent. the reproa chful the
1 infectious. the ebullient. the longing, the
expectant, the interrOgatiVe the hollow
/ the cold and classic, the scornful the
wistful and the radiant
There are smiles and smiles. The scorn-
| full and the distrustful, for example. are
! not recommended to smooth out wrinkles
round out contours, give sparkle to The
| eyes and enhance every charm. These re
| suits depend upon the amount of soul evil
/ dent in the production.
Back of the smile must be kindness and
/ good WILL if the countenance is to he
/ TRANSPORTED. The woman who takes life
l-cheerily, who knows how to smile, and.
above all. how to laugh, is going to retain
her youth ana ever prolOng her days.
. Every hearty laugh in which woman
| INDUCES tends to prolOng life, as it makes
| the blood move more. rapidly and gives a
new and different stimulus to all the or
gans of the body from what is in force
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