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WHERE THE FAULT LIES.

Flirting is especially attributed to
girls, but girls would never think of
deceiving if they were not themselves
deceived. They certainly possess a
wondrous faculty for leading their male
friends on, but they only do it because
they know it pleases them. Young men
are so conceited as to imagine that ev-
cry girl must fall in love with them,
and SO they f1irt upon every possible
occasion. Consequently the girls amuse
themselves by playing with this con-
ceit and appear to fall readily into
loves meshes.
IT'S not the ladies only who make all
these pretty vows They listen atten-
lively probably, but tits the men who
do the mischief in the first place, at all
events.
Flirting originates therefore with the
male sex, and men should bear the
blame, if any be deserved, for an
amusement which is the only thing
that makes an evening party tolerable-
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jewel, from which depends a tiny fill
gree ball in gold and enamel. This lit
tie ball contains a sponge saturated
with the favorite perfume of the wear
er. 1t is worn as a charm or a bangle.
A good idea-don't you think so?
There is no use talking, society wo-
men are becoming dreadfully supersti-
tious. 1 had it brought home to me the
other day when Daisy Van TwilIer re-
fused to write an important letter with
out first consulting her pet astrologer.
Want to be sure to send it on a pro-
pitious day, you know" she explained
alphabetically. And then, as I showed
my scorn, she justified herself by
quoting nearly every woman in our set.
1t appears that it's dreadfully smart
to be occult since that eastern seer ap-
peared at Newport last summer. There
is a perfect rage for finding out new
wonders at telling the future. Fash
ionable women prowl through dismal
streets dressed, as they fondly believe.
like servants and knock at dingy and
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shoulders and the well developed, linn
Der limbs that can only come from con-
tinual active outdoor games and exer-
else. They walk like queens, these
girls. with their long. free step, their
fine, strong faces and their steady,
straight looking eyes, which need to
droop before the gaze of none. but
which proclaim self evidently that
these American girls can take care OF
themselves the world over So they
can, so they do, whether they are the
daughters of the rich or are young wo-
men who earn their own living Mime.
WI. the bright little wife of the Chi
nese ambassador at Washington, says
the custom of footbinding in her coun-
try is going out so rapidly that in fifty
years more only old women will have
the deformed feet. In like manner we
may hope and believe that in fifty
years more in America there will be
found only few very old women who
were taught in their green girlhood
that stupidity and ignorance of life and
the world gave an added charm to fem
mime youth.
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Wight, the late Queen Victoria's favor
lite home, is a "cabby" and regularly
earns nearly SO a day, which is large
pay for either man or woman in Eng
land. Finally the same paper has con-
siderable to say of an English lady,
widow of a clergyman, who makes a
handsome income writing sermons for
ministers who either cannot write them
for themselves or are disincliped to do
so.
If an intelligent American woman,
say club member. will stop little in
the whirl and swirl and the dash of
things to consider how much woman's
world has moved in America in the past
thirty years, even she will be astonish-
ed. And America means the United
States. Thirty years ago, for instance,
there We're only two real clubs for wo-
men in the Union. One of these was
Sorosis of New York, and the other was
a society of Boston ladies. If the mod
ern clubwoman will take time to run
back over the files of the newspapers
of a generation ago. she will see in
their columns frequent gibes and sneers
at the newfangled wonans club idea.
1t is true that the newspapers of today
are even more prolific of gibes and
sneers at women's clubs than those of
thirty years ago were, but then it was
the monstrous innovation of a woman's
club itself that they gibed at, while to-
day it is the club proceedings upon
which reporters sharpen the knife of
their wit True, these proceedings are
sometimes silly; true, the club sister
hood is not infrequently tangled in the
most ridiculous and childish quarrels;
true, the women are too often given to
overdressing and social rivalry. But
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her corner and knitted, a stupid, grand
motherly old tabby, often only tolerat-
ed by her daughters, and by her sons
regarded with good natured contempt.
Look around you now. Where is the
decrepit woman of sixty who used to
sit in the corner in shabby, old, loose
gowns and knit. waiting for death. She
is surely enough dead. The decrepit
age for woman has been put off to
eighty and even ninety. The up to date
woman has discovered that she is as
strong and capable at sixty as she was
at thirty and much wiser than she was
then. An active intellectual life, above
all the thorough and systematic physical
training which even the elderly woman
now subjects herself to, has put off old
age Indefinitely. 1t is true there is yet here
and there a woman who between fifty
and sixty slumps down and makes her
age an excuse for laziness and glutton-
GUS eating, saying, I've not much lon
ger to live anyhow, and 1 may as well
take all the comfort 1 can," and so
chews the cud of a cowlike existence
through some twenty or thirty years
more, but this sort of superf1uous fe-
male is not common, and there is no
doubt that she gets her punishment for
her slumping as she goes along.
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forbidding doors. There are whispered
consultations in darllened rooms, and
later on, over their afternoon tea, the
women compare notes. Perfectly
wonderful, my dear. OF course he
couldn't know me in that old dress and
yet he told me everything about Jack.
and he said" etc.
Sometimes the results are not salts
factory. He said my ruling planet
was Her-Ierschel," sobbed a fair
haired demure little damsel. "and-and
L asked another one what Herschel
was. and he's just horrid, the beast
Hest planet of the who-ole lott"
Margery Briscome is very anxious
that I should have my horoscope
drawn. should have said Margery
Wentworth, for she's married to Jack
now. At first I couldn't make out why
she was so interested in my future.
Now know. Professor Upskinski, her
pet astrologer, foretold that she would
have her husband taken away from her
by a dark haired woman. AS IAN ounce
of prevention is worth a pound of cure"
Margery wants to find out which wo-
man. Now. have dark hair.
What shall / do?
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the sleeves and at the base of the tuck
ed collar A little butterfly bow of the
white mousseline edged with valenci-
ennes is tackled slightly to the left of
the center of the collar. From the fact
that both my waists are decorated
with French knots you may guess that
this style of trimming is very fashion
able. 1t is certainly very easy to do.
and there is no reason why any woman
should not have this dainty touch on
her costume.
There was another blouse which
should have bought had the colorings
been becoming to me. 1t was of Per-
sian liberty satin, a very fashionable
material, let me tell you. 1t opened
over a full front of accordion plated
white chiffon. On each side of this
front were white taffeta scallops en-
broidered by hand in black silk. A bit
of embroidery seems to be a necessity
on every smart waist just now.
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for each other, and you rejoice that you
did not buy anything you had seen be-
fore. Men little understand the thrills
of shopping when they make fun of US
for spending whole days in the stores.
Wen. then. to return to my subject, /
wanted two waists, one dark and one
light for semidress occasions. At the
first store they showed me smart lit
tie model which 1 thought would do
very wen for morning wear. Unfortu-
nately they only had two sizes left-S6
and 3S-and any of you women who are
81 tiny size) can easily see how much
too big those waists were. While 1 was
trying to determine what to do very
tightly gloved paw clawed me on the
arm, and a raucouS voice exclaimed:
why, dear me- Why. dear mel"
looked into the eyes of the woman of
all others whom least desired to meet.
Since 1 saw her last, more than a year
ago, she has been through all the hor-
rors of a divorce court, with a sensa-
tional trial in which her repartee figur-
ed brilliantly.
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THE NODES
SMALL
TALK

sonal injury, and this one had injured
only herself.
So 1 resumed my shopping. 1 went,
all told, to ten stores and found moth
ing that would at all suit me. OF
course there were waists. any number
of them, but they all looked alike,
ready made" without any of the subtle
style or chic I demand in my clothes.
So finally in despair 1 returned to the
first place. There, to my disgust, 1
found that of the two waists the SO had
been sold and only the SO remained. 1
gladly took it, and Felicie is altering it
for me as am writing this 1t is of
deep red peau de sole laid in inverted
box plaits in such a manner as to give
its wearer an unexceptional figure. In
front it fastens with three round gold
buttons. The little collar and cuffs are
banded with white taffeta dotted with
black French knots. shall be able to
get a good deal of service out of this
waist and at the same time look very
smart.
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The changed attitude in the mind
of man toward women in the business
world in the past thirty years is worthy
of special comment and matter OF sin
cere congratulation for that part of the
feminine half of the race that must
work for its living. 1t is only state
ment of fact to say that when girls first
invaded offices as stenographers, teleg-
raphers and copyists there were men
in those offices who found it hard to
understand that a young woman who
went from home daily to work deserved
to be treated with the same respect as
the one who lived with her parents in
her own home. What many excellent
young women who were the pioneers
of present day stenographers and girl
bookkeepers encountered and lived
down is best passed over. as they pass
ed it over, in silence. Now at last, aft
er years of trouble and misunderstand-
ing between man employer and girl en-
ployee, the girl has learned that 1t is
not in accord with business principles
for her to accept social attentions from
her employer and he on his part has
learned that it is not wise or kind in
him TO offer them. Men have learned
that girl in an office is merely part
of the business and in no way fit sub
ject for their masculine attentions.
Women in offices are at length respect
ed and regarded as a matter of course.
Business is business.
Thirty years ago the girl college stu
dent was rather the exception and was
looked on as somewhat injuring her
chances for matrimony by her strong
minded course of study in science and
mathematics. Today in the west near
ly half the students in the state uni
yersities are young women, while in, the
slower east college after college is let
ting down the sex bar and admitting
girls. In the. magnif1cently equipped
Columbia university in New York city
complaint has been made that the hall
and dormitory accommodations provide
more abundantly for female than for
male matriculants. This, however,
comes largely from the munificence of
rich women who have donated money
to the construction of college buildings
for their own sex.
The race is slowly learning that the
earth is for woman equally with man.
She has now only to reach out and take
her share of it. LILLIAN GRAY.
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Many women's clubs Now.

There are now certainly 1000 wo-
mems clubs in America. The number is
increasing constantly, one of the latest
started being on the borders of the arc
tic circle at Cape Nome. Women must
surely be very grateful to the club for
giving them an active interest in life
even up to hundred years of age, if
they are active enough at that age to
keep up with it. The prospect is that
in the future they will be.
The active middle aged woman of to-
day will remember that a generation
ago female person of sixty was no.
body. She was simply supposed to sit
in a corner and wait for death, emerg-
ing from her place now and then to
wait on her grandpa bies. She sat in
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ing and fastens down the back with
tiny white silk buttons. The collar,
yoke and tops of the sleeves are tucked
crosswise, and the front of the bodice is
laid in perpendicular clusters of three.
The odd thing is the trimming. This
consists of wide. wavy bands of NOUS
seine laid in tiny pin tucks and out
lined by pointed bands of white taffeta
embroidered with French knots of pale
blue silk. This trimming goes across
the bust and also appears low down on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-11

you're sure TO
happen upon it if
you look long
enough. That's
why I think it's
delightful TO buy
T e a d y m a q e
clothes. You run
in and out of a
score of shops,
looking at every
thing and having
a great time, and
by and by you
come across the
very thing you
want. It's a clear
case of love at
first sight. You
know that you
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cygne, q light and
lustrous variation
of peau de sole.
The blouse is
made without lin
ing, which seems
to be the proper
wrinkle now. You
see, these pale
waists have to
be cleaned ever
so often, and it's
much easier to do
1T if there's no lin
ing. At any rate
a good many of
the more expensive
French waiS t s
come that way.
Mine, then, is
.-,olA xr5rAan% liz,
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space they gave
me in the news
papers ?" At this
point 1 thought it
well to make a
move. Good gra-
cious!" I eXclaim-
ed in feigned as
constituent as my
eyes rested on the
clock. Twenty
five minutes past
3, and I have an
appointment with
Maisie Bender at
half past must
say goodby. So
glad to have met
you'll Do run in
and tell me all
about If W6ap xua
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Physical Training of Girls.

Physical culture and the athletic
training of girls in school are working
something very like a miracle among
women. A man of middle age who
walks along the streets of our largest
cities will see them filed in the busy
hours with girls of royal height who
seem to him certainly half a head taller
than the maidens he knew in his youth.
They have straight. fat backs, broad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-11
Fad. of the Moment.

Squares of blotting paper are sold
scented with the latest perfumes.
These are to be slipped inside ones
coat or blouse. They give a delightful
fragrance and are much less bulky
than the ordinary sachets. / under
stand that q new device for perfumery
has recently been invented in Paris
This consists of a single pearl or other
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DOM nave time, won't you?" And with
that L made a rush for the nearest ele-
Vator- OF course shall not be at home
when she calls.
HypocriteI you exclaim. That's not
very polite of you, and, besides what
else could have done? Hurt the poor
things feelings? 1 wouldn't cut any
woman unless she had done me a per-
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A SELF satisaed Divorcee.

OF course she was delighted to clasp
my hand again. and of course she
brought the conversation around imme-
diately to the subject of the trial.
such a triumph for me, my deari''
she explained in none too gentle tones
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KATE /
CLYDE'S
SOCIETY

49, NE other day I went on a
blouse waist hunt It's a great
deal more exciting than one of
the country club hunts, let me
n tell you, because with one it's
merely a question of aniseed
and the imagination, and with the 9TH
er you have a real object in view, and
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what then? If there is anything that
Will cure these defects, it is club asso-
citation and the caustic journalistic
comment that folly of any kind brings
upon itself. So let the good work go on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-11

Another blouse which I FASTENED to
buy is an altogether chic French mod
el. It is made of pale blue peau de
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so that several saleswomen looked in
terested. II got 'steen thousand out of
him and costs. Oh. tell you what. I
paralyzed the jury. Did you see all the
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|WOMAN'SS ,,..I, -
/ SHARE OF THE
$500, ==*@*= ] EARTH
====<=

A RECENT English paper an
nounces that Mrs. Evan
IA James Jones of Glyncerrwg
"A pronounce it, has been ap-
Il ~ pointed by her district COM
mittee as the first lady lamp
lighter in the United Kingdom. An
other woman, this time in the Isle of
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-29
New York MintnE Geotation..

NEW YORK, April 28.--The following are
the closing prices on mining stocks:
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-29

Sci Pacific coast 1901 crop. i5a1sc: 1900 crop.
HAY-puil shipping, 55ae5c; good to
HIDEsIQuiet: Galveston. 20 to Is lbs,
tsc; California. q to Is lbs, 1shc; Texas
MARLBOROUGH: acid, Qazsc.
R~GCE-Firm; domestic, fair to extra. ~
MoLGssEs-FfTm; New orleans. open
kettls- good TO choice. SS941c.
u5 6dBSoVI mass, ,iBSsi b stTonf harms. fap g9ilyjj
$ ia mess, sSsiSasi% CSt meats meats
shoulders, SIC; picked hams, lI1Iq
I2c. Lard, firm; western steamed. S10.30d
1910 refined, firm continent. no6; com
Pork, family, fs.Ooa1S.5O; short clear, $500
q2oOo; mess, S11.OOd1s.W. Tallow, hrm
BuTTERCRecepits, $50 pkgs.. firm;
state dairy, 19d22c; creamery, state, 2Ou
2Sc; June creamery, imitation. 1Sd2lc: fac
CHEEsECReceipts, so pkgs nrm; fancy,
large, full cream, colored and white, 12a
1!Hc; fancy, small, state, full cream, early
EGGS-Receipts,. 1915 -pkgs.; steady
state and Pennsylvania, 17a17lc; western,
MoLAssEsgFirm New Orleans, 8aanc.
POULTRY-Alive, quiet and uncertain
owing to Jewish holiday; turkeys' ICED.
ern, 12ci turkeys, frozen. l2alsc;0 chickens,
frozen, 7dl9c.
METALS-At London and New York
prices for tin were considerably higher.
London closed los higher for the day at
e12s los for spot and s125 los for futures.
New York closed about 80 points higher,
with spot at SOS. 15d2S.35. Copper was weak
and lower at New York, with lake on spot
at 81. 75@12. 90, electrolytic at 81. 5OG1l. 20 and
casting 81. 25q11.75. Standard. copper on
spot and for June and July delivery was
quoted at $40 5d11.25. London copper
closed rs Cd lower at esq 7s Cd for spot and
futures. Lead was steady here at S412it
was Is Sd higher at Ell 13s %.
Spelter ruled steady at SAP at New York.
while London was Is Cd lower at els. The
local iron market was steady and un-
changed. Pig iron warrants continued
nominal in lrlce. No. l foundry, northern,
Il .OOd20.OO; No. 2 foundry, northern, $4,000
No. l foundry, southern soft, S17.5Od1S.O0
The English markets were higher. with
Glasgow at 54s and Middlesborough at
ASS Cd.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-29
NEW YORK STOCKS AND BONDS.
Speculative Interest Relapses and
Prices Not Uniform.

NEW YORK, April 2S.-speculative inter-
est in stocks shared considerable falling
of today and the full days transactions
reached a million shares for the first time
In two weeks. The feverish activity which
has characterized the recent leadership
of the market was decidedly lacking. II the
rather leading dealings in Reading be ex-
cepted. The tone of the market was halt
ing and the movement In prices was not
The predominant movement, while It
failed to embrace the whole list: itself
The failure OF the conference committee
of the miners and operators to agree on
terms on Saturday was a di-"ppolntment
ties to the conference created a disagree
able impression. tt result was free sell
AZ Sf F tSe Wso IL i msr GRsn q fSis wea EhiSs
some Of the ,~high-priced coalers.
high:priced stocks. Of which the. floating
supply is very small. was notable and
their vide movements resulted from a
6 Hudson n of New Jersey Cen;
the squirt in the Chicago & Northwestern
stocks gave some strength to the Changers
and Pacifcs. st; Paul was lifted two
of one to two points among the southwest
erns.
and there were constant relapses when the
market was allowed to become quiet. New
York, New Haven & Hartford was an
other OF the high-grade stocks to move.
but It saved only a point Of its seven-point
ADVANCE
Among the Industrial specialties there
were wide advances in Pullman, Interna-
tional Power, American Express, Pressed
Steel Car Preferred, Railway Steel Spring
and some others which are even more act
i've. Cotton Oils. Virginia Carolina Chem.
zeal and American Agricultural Chemical
were advanced on talk Of consolidation.
Colorado Fuel and Tennessee Coal were
bid up late in the day as the local trac-
lions had been earlier, but relapsed again
without much effort on the general mar
ket.
The varying movement in the grain mar.
ket was reflected from time to time in the
stock market, but not In a decisive way,
| The usually active industrials were quite
generally heavy.
United States Steel seemed to reflect dis.
approval OF the bond issue. The frmness
OF foreign exchange ~reawakened discussion
of probable gold exports. but the money
market was unaffected. The market closed
dull and easy.
The BOND market was moderately active
and strong. Total sales. par value. 4,045.
600. United States bonds were all un'
changed on the last call.
The following are the closing prices OIL
tha New York Stock exchanged:
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-29
SOUTH OMAHA, April q.

The following table shows the average
price OF hogs SOLD or the South Omaha
market the past several days, with COM
parsons with former years:
Date. 1902. 1901 1890, 1889 HISS 1887 1885
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-29
HAS HUNGRY RIDE IN BoxcAR
Boy Found pt Cheyenne PROSTATE
from Hunger and Thirst when
Seal IL roken

CHEYENNE, wyo., April 2~s.-(special)
When the Union Pacific freight platform
men broke the seals on a Chicago & North
wesern car in the yards here Saturday
night the pallid face Of a young boy doomed
up through the darkness. The boy was
at arst unable to talk. He would not give
his name. but said he rad entered the
car at South Omaha several days ago, In
tending to steal a ride westward until
hunger compelled him to get out at some
station. The second Jay out OF Omaha,
he said, he attempted to get out OF the
car. but found all OF the doors locked.
He shouted and pounded with his nsts,
but he was unable to make anyone hear.
The car was sealed up at Chicago and
there Is no record OF these seals having
been broken or tempered with between
Chicago and Cheyenne. II this is true the
boy got into the car at Chicago and was
without food or water for Ave days and
nights.