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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-01-17

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DAVE HILL has chosen his running mate for
1904. 1t is Mayor Harrison, of Chicago.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-01-17
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day, for 20 cents, at the
Red Light.

INVESTIGATION has proved that drunkenness.
among women is rapidly increasing.
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IT is rumored that Germany will assist the
Boers. We hope the report is true.
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j. b. FORAKER has been reelected to the
senate from Ohio
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The little town of Waverly now has ma
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-21

career which was to be uncommon.
Like him, too, she used the water color
brush. painting in the beginning birds.
flowers and trees with striking fidelity
and expression. This was in her native
city, St. Louis, where her art instruc-
ton began.
Miss Shaw probably has painted more
miniature portraits of distinguished
persons than any other American art
list. In the field of miniature portrait
ture women excel. and naturally so-that
kind of painting is al once so beautiful,
so fine and so elusive. Moreover, min
iature portraiture lends itself with es-
pecial grace and charm to the portrayal
of womens faces. and here Miss Shaw
struck her gait. She paints mems pic
lures as well as she does women's, but
somehow the women's faces that look
out from the little frames appeal more
to the beholder. There are peculiar
softness and fneness as well as
strength in her work, which is among
her own sex largely, womans delicate
face depicted by womans delicate fin
gers.
Moreover, unlike most American art
lists. Miss Shaw knows also how to draw
and to color as well as to compose a
picture. 1t is painful to one familiar
with the work of French artists TO look
at q collection OF American paintings
because of their glazing lack alike in
drawing composition and color blend
ing. American artists viii not take
time to learn these things or to go and
live where they can be learned. Miss
Shaw seems to have had them by ma
ture, for she is only thirty years old.
and she is a master of her craft Per
haps part of this secret of being master
of her craft lies in the announcement
made of her that she is mot much Civ
en- to society" She stays at home with
her art for her society On it she be-
slows her love. her time and her labor.
and it has rewarded her devotion
grandly. In person she is a small.
graceful young woman with dark hair
and eyes and a beautiful neck and
shoulders, like so many of the fair Ia
dies whom she pictures.
Among miniatures lately painted BY
Miss SHAW is the portrait of Kate
Douglas Wiggin. After finishing some
work on which she is now engaged the
small brunette artist with the gifted
fingers will sail for England to paint
miniatures of Queen Alexandra and
several other ladies' Thence she jour
neys to st. Petersburg to make pictures
of several members of the cars fam
ilv What rare book of "reminiscences
Miss Shaw Will be able to make one OF
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cHARAcrER IN lie MourH.

BY her mouth you may know q
girl" philosopher declares: not al
ways by the words that issue there
from. but by the shape and color Of the
lips and by the delicate lines and dim
pies that gather about this feature He
is seconded by physiognomists in the
theory that no girl with a small and
very red Tipped mouth was ever intel
lectual or generous of heart
Give me a girl that is not fashions
slave, and L viii show you wide
mouth. with rather full and pink lips
covering square, strong teeth" and Il
she is Hospitality inclined there will be
little semicircular lines about the cor
ners of the lips that curl up when their
owner laughs.
1t is the fashion just at present for
young women to hold their lips ever SO
lightly apart. This is supposed to give
a wondering. wistful expression. youth
full as well: but your thin Tipped girl.
who IS always a self conferred aerea ture,
can never teach her lips this trick
Women who are much given to fads
and sudden friendships always show
the middle af the upper lip strengthen
ed TO a little point. Beautiful mouths
this pessimistic man believes. are rarer
than formerly; while among women the
Intellectual mouth is frequently noted.
and touching the question of the kissa-
bic mouth, he asserts it is temptation
seldom brought in ones way. It il
moisture and softness of the air that
give the rose leaf tenderness ana color
to perfect lips that are usually warmly
pink and smooth as satin.
For beauty Of lip and fair shane If
mouth, however, this masculine observ-
er awards the palm to Irish women
whose lips, he holds. are modelled on
classic pattern and are tint Venus
might envy.
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he eIRL MIG EuRTs.

That all girls do not act alike is prov
ed by the fact that many indulge in
flirting as a pastine while others nat
urally LOOK upon it as the next step TO
marriage, says a matron who has chap
eroned many young girls. The hirts
enjoy nothing better than masculine
attention, bur marry they viii not.
Girls of this type do not dislike young
men, neither do they think unkindly OF
them, but they simply take a delight in
making slaves and worshipers of men
as long as they can. They feel-and in
fact know-that they can do what they
like with men before marriage, and it
is this knowledge which keeps them
single.
Being opposed to marriage on the
ground that it would deprive them of
the pleasures and privileges of univer-
sal homage. they do not allow their
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Young American Woman Who Will
Paint Queen Alexandra's Portrait

these .daysl Let US hope she will take
notes, author fashion, that she may not
forget the scenes she beholds, the peo-
pie she meets.
One of Miss Shaw's portraits is that
Of Lady Clarke. wife of Sir Stanley
Clarke. King Edwards chief equerry.
The dreamlike, caressing softness of
touch which is one of the artists chief
characteristics is very marked in this
painting and it is no wonder that be-
cause of it the young American received
her order to put upon ivory the fair
face of England's queen
A queen and a baby alike appeal pow
erfully to the feminine heart, and most
women would consider next in impor-
lance after the miniature of Alexandra
one already painted by Miss Shaw, the
exquisite picture of Katherine, the
beautiful infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Maekay. She is just a
sweet, bright, dimpled baby, that is all.
though she is weighted with the burden
of millions of dollars and viii have to
dress six times a day when she is a
young lady.
To my mind Miss Shaw in her por-
traits has. perhaps unconsciously TO
herself, hit upon the true American girl
type more successfully than those art
lists who have been deliberately trying
at the thing so long The American wo-
man, so far as she has gone, is not long
and thin necked, with narrow, slipping
shoulders and a hollow chest. like the
court beauties of George Ills time
whom the artists who attempt to depict
the American girl type evidently can
not get out of their minds. Miss Shaw
portraits of American beauties show a
woman with shorter, fuller neck
deeper chest and broader, more athletic
shoulders than the typical English wo-
man possesses, however beautiful she
may be- The typical American girl has
also a shorter nose than the English
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hearts to be touched by love for any
man. They have a will of their own
which not the handsomest or richest
man can alter. He may go down on
his knees, make the most touching love
speech Imaginable, but the kind of girl
referred to only smiles.
Flirts are not necessarily heartless
girls but it is just such performances
that they greatly enjoy seeing their
admirers go through. This sort of
thing is really what they live for.
They must not be called deceivers, for
they are not. They will allow them
selves to be courted. but they Will not
promise TO marry. Girls of this class.
as a rule, are beautiful and fascinating,
but the man who has lost his heart to
such a girl pays no attention to her re-
fusal TO become a wife.
They do not mind being called pretty
names-they rather like it-but they
draw the line at kissing. They regard
that as Objectionable and only correct
for engaged couples They do not make
love Themselves Their happiness is de-
rived from the silly things said to them
by the men who are making a desperate
fight to win their hearts.
But they are not to be won. Mar
riage they would not have at any price
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Men have educated themselves up to
the point where they can fail in love
with a wOmans disposition instead of
her features. 1t isn't that they are no
longer attracted by a pretty face, but
only that a pretty face without brains
has mo longer the power it used to have
when men thought OF women only as
piaythings and treated them according
l-. If there is anything the up to date
man hates it is the conventional beau
ty. overdressed and cOnceited. who
hasn't an original idea OF her own and
is even short on those she has borrowed.
And speaking Of overdressing, do you
know that it's going to be rather fad
among the really attractive girls this
summer to dress simply They are
going to leave the elaborate bows and
rosettes. the huge chiffon arrangements
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THE WOMEN The tn: Ne"
WHO III ','''''
ATTRACT MEN Fashions
In
Fd5hiion6

mean. The material is royal blue veil
ing. that shade which is SO very fash
ionable just now. and, of course, it is
made up over taffeta of the same tint
A nice. glace taffeta which allows the
glimmer to shine through is used. The
waist blouses both back and front over
a wide taffeta belt made on a boned
foundation. The waist. skirt and upper
halves of the sleeves are all laid in pin
tucbs. and the sleeve puffs into a taft
feta cuff The collar is also of the tat
feta. with a dainty little turnover collar
of acru silk batiste embroidered in blue
French knots. The bottom of the skirt
is finished with a piping of black tat
feta. The hat is of ecru straw trimmed
on the upturned brim with a rosette of
blue taffeta and having a bow of eeru
lace at the back.
Could anything be simpler and at the
same time more chic OF course il is
unnecessary to tell you that white shirt
waists are more popular than ever this
season. They are made OF all sorts of
ma terial from mohair to china silk and
muslin In almost every case there is
a fancifullv applied trimming of lace
or embroidery. one OF the favorite
schemes is to run a tiny beading
through the center of a vide insertion
and to thread tiny black velvet ribbon
through this beading.
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woman and a somewhat shorter, fuller
face and forehead. Her nose is also in
nearly every case ever SO family tip
tilted These type characteristics ap-
pear with fidelity in Miss Shaw's dainty
portraits.
Notable as illustrating the typical
American beauties she has painted are
Mrs. Frederick Nelson, Mrs. Arthur
Kemp, nee Belle Nelson. and Miss May.
daughter of Henry May. of Washing
ton. OF the like fine and distinct Amer
lean type are a st. Louis beauty. Miss
Josephine Calhoun, now Mrs. c. Nor
man Jones, and ladies from several
parts of the Union, all showing the deep
chest. the strong, fun, columnar neck.
not too long, evidencing good physical
constitution, and the rounded though
delicate face, one of the chief charms Of
which is its animation.
ALICE w. MORTIMER.
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There Is a new tint of green just out
which is supposed to be the most fash
ionable thing imaginable. I consider it
horrid. Just think of the most vivid
grass you can and that will give you
some idea of it. It simply jumps into
your eyes. The great thing is to have a
sunburned straw picture shape trimmed
with a huge ostrich feather of this
shade. Black straw sailors are also
shown trimmed with it in some of the
more English Fifth avenue millinery
shops. All the bright things come from
England this year. 1t is a kind of re-
bellion against the mourning they were
forced to wear last summer You may
be sure no Frenchman would evolve
such a color as that green.
1t seems to me that women are be-
coming more and more absentminded-
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I don't know whether it IS that they are
attempting more than they can do and
are in consequence forced to go about
their daily duties wrapped in a brown
study or what but ii is fact neverthe-
less The other day my Aunt Sarah,
most respectable. middle aged spinster.
was riding downtown in a surface car.
Suddenly the car turned lightning
curve. and a stout gentleman was vio-
lenty seated on her lap. 1 think Aunt
Sarah must have been doing her ac-
counts or calculating how many yards
of alpaca it would take for her new
gown. for she received his excessive
apologies and protestations with a far
away glance and when he had finished
murmured absently, You're welcomel"
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~ T. LOUIS is prolific of gifted wo-
men artists, present and COM
ing. One already arrived is
Miss Anna West Shaw, who is
commissioned to paint the por-
trait of beautiful Queen Alexandra
This is one of the highest marks of dis
tinction bestowed on an American
great-grandfather, Benjamin West,
made pictures for highborn folk in
England a century ago. A leading
American newspaper graveiy an
nounces that when Miss Shaw was in
London some time since she visited the
grave of her great-grandfather in
Westminster abbey Now, the man
who wrote that evidently has never
been in England, or he would remember
it is not in Westminster abbey, but in
St. Paul's that a red faced verger
opens a door leading to one of the
tombs in its basement and says in a
singsong to the American visitor:
Ere's the grave of a fellow coun-
tryman of yours, the great Hamerican
hartist. Benjamin Vest
At that the citizen of the United
States viii perhaps ask, How do you
know I am an American" and the red
faced verger will reply triumphantly:
Hi know hit by your haccent"
IN MISS Shaw 5 case the Inherited
genius skipped not only one generation.
as il is said to do, but two, and repro
duces the artistic gift of Benjamin
West of the eighteenth century in his
descendant of the twentieth.
Miss Shaw even manifested her ar
tistic power in much the same fashion
as her grea grandfather did. When a
child. he made a charcoal sketch of a
baby brother that at once drew atten-
ton to his extraordinary promise. In
like manner, at the beginning of her art
work Miss Shaw painted a miniature OF
a SCHOOLGIRL friend that foresha dowed 9.
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AN ARTISTIC PRINcEss.

If by some social upheaval il became
necessary for the English royal family
to earn money, there is no doubt that
Princess Louise, duchess Of Argyll.
would take up art as a profession, for
she is an artist through and through.
The studio in which she does most of
her work is a small iron building half
hidden by trees and connected by a
passage with the apartments that she
occupies at Kensington palace
The princess usually works in a
large blue apron with bishop sleeves
and is seen at her happiest and best
amid the easels and paint brushes, CHS
els and other. paraphernalia of an artist
who is both painter and sculptor.
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WHAT WoMEN Ike.

Marriage is often a failure because
men and women do not understand
each other. Here are some things
which please a woman:
To be called sensible.
To be complimented on being well
dressed.
To be told that she is fascinating.
To be told that she improves a man
by her companionship.
To depend on some man and pretend
she is ruling him.
To be treated sensibly and honestly
and not as a butterfly. with no head
or heart.
To be loved and admired by a man
who is strong enough to rule and sub
due her and make his way her way
To find happiness in being ruled by
an intellect that she can look up to ad-
rairingly and one to whom her own
mind bows in reverence.
A man is pleased
To have a woman love him To have
a soft. gentle, magnetic hand alleviate
the pain of an aching head
To have a woman's hand smooth
away the careworn expression and
wrinkles from his brow. To have a wo-
mans strength to help him over the
weak places in life.
To have a woman lead him in the
way he wants to 60
To have woman sometimes treat
him as a big baby, to be cared for and
caressed.
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is content with herself as she is. or
IL she cultiVates anything it is her
physical side. The homely girl, on the
other hand recognizes her deficiencies.
cultivates her brain, is wen read. can
talk and is sympathetic. And these are
the qualities That count. All in all, we
are sure to be- repaid when we cultivate
the mental the higher. side of our
selves and it's just as we'll TO remem-
Der that from the point Of view Of self
interest If nothing else.
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difference in some way. used his brains
jog. a-l they+weIe worth. And it's all
ways brains that win in the long run
Tle same thing holds good with wo-
men I'm fact. what brings this episode
CO. s mind is that 1 have been study
ue f0o 2igls of my acquaintance. One
has auty. The other can't make even
tie s-n .est l-retense to it. Yet the
huf4cls Har is f. great success socially
ANS ha- nn nd of admirers while the
baauy newer holds hers for any length
uf Hue Iha secret is that the beauty
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of embroidery
curving down
ward in front.
T his " ais t
would be charm
ing Worn with
a white pique
skirt or with
one of the same
dotted muslin
made with a
circular hounce
headed by the
embroidery and
with a fe W
tucks clustered
on the hips.
I want to give
a dress hint TO
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bon. This trimming fits beautifully
around the collarless neck, and the vel
vet ribbon is knotted into. an irregular
rosette on the left side. The yoke is an
laid in tiny tucNs. an arrangement
providing a most becoming fullness,
in the midst of which appears a band
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forced to be economical. When she
has a suit made let her have the
bands of the taffeta silk and the out
side skirt separate. In this way when
she wants to go shopping or walking
she need not wear her silk slip, but can
substitute one made of the many half
silk materials. Another advantage is
that she can wear her black taffeta slip
as a petticOat with any other dressy
gown.
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WHITE FOR cHILDREM

Some children never wear ANYTHING
-but white until they are over six years
Of age. This is a dainty fashion ana
one to be commended not only for the
appearance which they present. bur
also on account Of the lack of dust thar
necessarily collects on frocI1s made Of
darker coIors.
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The little blouse in the Illustration
shows this effect. It is collarless and
has elbow sleeves which give it a very
chic and cool appearance This waist is
of white dotted muslin with trimming
of wide bands of embroidery run
through With narrow black velvet rib
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and the splatter dashings of lace to the
common herd and viii be seen in little,
simple gowns all Of one color with hat
TO match. But those little gowns win
be fitted beautifully and will be correct
~ and daintily fashioned in every par
ticular
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- ONE time ago prominent nov
clist, a little deformed man.
Was murdered by his brother,
an athlete This served as an
occasion for some Of the news
papers to- draw "a parallel between the
lives OF the CTo. They certainly start
ed out unequally fitted for the battle of
life. and YET II was The weak puny man