The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-06

than what we want for ourselves?
Christmas is the only time that the ma
jority of people ever give a thought to
anyone except themselves, and for this
reason it is the most blessed anniversary
of the -rear.
among other things that I want in
troduced into the curriculum of To-
peka'S new manual training school
when it is established" says the Phil
osopher of the Ribbon Counter, lis a
thorough course of instruction in the
uses and abuses of doors. There are
| lots of college graduates and prominent
club women who come in here who may
know all about Greek and higher mathe-
MATES, but they have no idea of the
purpose for which a door is built l
used to think when I was little thing
at home that it was only the men who
stood in need Of such instruction. My
mother was always complaining that
my father was never known to shut
/ door behind him and the same thing
was true of my brothers. But I've
learned that women are just as bad ex-
cept when they're in their own homes.
"A doors principal and original pur-
pose as anyone might be supposed to
know is to furnish ingresS and exit to
and from building. The windows are
designed for light and ventilation and
except in extreme cases the doors are
not depended upon for either A woman
of the most ordinary common sense
I might be expected to know that in the
summer tirnes when every one is swell
tering every Breath of air is welcome in
a shop and that a door may safely be
left open at that season, but some of
/ the women who come in here were never
known to shut a door except in July
and August, when they a9e very careful
and conscientious about it. AT this
season, however, the doors are left open
by nine out of every ten women who
/ enter the shop. Some of them find them
M GiOn1llW
thoughtful enough to shut them. but
this is so rare as to be positively aston
ishing.
1T isn't only in the shops that people
do not understand the intentions which
doors were designed to serve. At the
house where I lodge there are seven
! other rooms opening on the same hall
I as mine and the bath room for our floor
is at the end of the hall. When 1 want
I to go to the bath room 1 have to pass
a of doors and usually they are
gaping wide open for no reason except
carelessness. OF course it doesn't make
any particular difference. 1 am likely
to meet somebody at any time and have
gotten used to being seen in my bath
robe, but 1 prefer not to make my run
ming jump into the bath room trl-
umphal progress and wonder why the
people can't shut their doors, unless
they leave them open for purposes of
ventilation, which is sometimes, but not
frequently necessary. Moreover, is 1T any
more than polite to shut your room door
so that the married couple who lives
across the hall can have a chance to
quarrel without your hearing them?"
The swagger metal for feminine toilet
accessories is copper Silver is so mex
pensive as to be within the reach OF
everyone which puts it out of favor
with smart women who Ike to be ex-
elusive in their belongings, While gold is
so costly that its general use is consid-
cred vulgar. Copper, however. has the
advantage of novelt-T and is sufficient
ly expensive to prohibit its use to the
herd" and is iBdeed striking in the
new form in which it appears Wrist
bags of enormous size and hung from
long, heavy chains come in copper link
and this is positively the latest of all
the late ideas in shopping bags, wrist
bags, chatelaineS. or whatever name
you choose to give this convenient ar
ticle. The newest street gloves have
large copper buttons and copper is re-
placing gold, silver ivory, ebony, burnt
wood and decorated china for toilet ia
BILE belongings.
The new NUTS and boas which the
women are wearing this winter are SO
enormous that really when one is dress
ed for the street ones gown scarcely
shows at all. There has heen an at
tempt Tor two seasons to make the col
lar-shaped boa fashionable but the big
round ones are so much more becoming
that they continue to lead in popularity
| Iney make IL perfectly immense run
1 about the neck end extend in most
| cases clear to the bottom of the skirt
in front. and then when one of the
l great muffs is carried il matters LITTLE
| what else one is wearing as it is almost
l completely hidden. The sable conbina-
| ftions are the most fashionable. sable
| foxSetc. A set of real sables is, of course
| so expensive as to beyond the reach OF
the ordinary pocketbook but a boa and
muff of sable-fox come at s45 or $50 and
is almost as be autiful as the real thing
1 Some of the cheaper furs wear as vel
as or better than the rarest and mosi
| expensive kinds. and there IS some
I thing so cold-looking about a. woman il
/ winter without fur that everyone should
try to have a piece for her throat al
| least even if she has to dispense with 3
| cloak and muff. Besides nothing is more
| becoming than Surs. Given fun
thing" of the right color about he1
throat and candle light and any woman
l may pass for a beauty
1 The fancy silk borders on wells are
pretty new fashion of this fall. mar
! row border in black and white dotted Of
1 a gay plaid silk looks particularly vel
on black veil.
y Suede card cases edged with silver Of