The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-04
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II hope sou don't encourage the
slaughter of our innocent sougsrers BY
wearing a bird in your hiatt" cried the
Amateur Raf0rmer with a gesture OF
horror. 10 a pretty young SRI who was
trying on Fhi-Cs 81 Archison wing
trimmed hat at q millinery opening last
VE4eE.
While the guilty culnrit was getting
ready a re-Iy one of her companions.
WHO has lately taken up the vegetarian
fad. turned quickly upon the Amateur
Fieformer and said w hat was il I
saw you doing To that quail al luncheon
yesterday Surely you don't encourage
The cruel slaughter OF helpless animals
The Amateur Reformer stared in fool
ISM Naeultg. and the fourth woman 3f
the party said to the vegetarian fad.
dist. How about your boots ana
gloves. Aren't they made from the
E--iu OF slaughtered animaIs2 I believe
In the = F. O.. A and ALI the other
nunauir tartan movements but somehow
con see my way 10 carrying OUT
radically humane ideas 20 their ultimate
limit. I've decided that I'll Just have to
content myself with avoiding deliberate
cruelties - dumb creatures be as good
and lust 20 my fellow man as possible
and shut nay eyes 20 the things cau'c
nelp- o. I know she said, as the ANA
taur Retormer caught her breath and
started 20 retort. that isn't the way the
Great Reforms have been broueilS
-H-~ d +A+-A-A 4E- YOU Ela l5luE
Srylng IN tha Wilderness. I'm not US
90 IT, have TO see results I'm no
&9ql WORKING for d hopeless cause
con wear p-rls on my hats but then
4 don care much for that sort OF trim
ming PERHAPS il did Ia wear rhar7
anc u [ did would 7 be any worse thaf,
Ane men Who are always shouting sh1ftr
tne cruelty ot the practice and vet hum
ana shoot FOR days at a timer,
The middle-aged matron with the sill
Fer1ug hair took the slim white hand
OF tne newly engaged girl in her rg,-.
ana sall indicating the big new shark
ler rrar flashed On the 'hearts fnrar..
Know 1usE how happy YOU were fe
So lnis GIT. and how charminglv and
s1-sls you let your pleasure be
-il.o r way or taking the things
sp-I over and husband does for v1s
A-e--=r OF course and not let him
49, your gratitude. know YOU are
- 49, .s -..-. = woman who makes fun
81 Lne 2llts her husband makes her ds~
DicrlnE what she calls his awaera 81.
-est@- cant understand such q rar..
- eo.si-erat1on. although [ have ire.
e-ei-l-F seen Il man Tested
a young matron I know who IL al
ways courteous and consf5erara ~ 80
one else IS positively cruel ia hz~
atltude 70 her husbands presents r
1919 'e hlnuy II IL were not so br7I-
-al % see the exaggerated exuressfnr A.
helpless DESPAIR with which zrs $50
MIN come home with a susuieirtt= r-51--
ing package and the horror win -,-hf-+
she views IL when # is opened r 49,
see. she eNclaims why when z-o-- 49,
sucn good taste in the matter ~ -tr,r,-
tls lecAtie or wife YOU can snau
money on such denominations as rhz=sfs
rf uou7trated with her once r,---s4
by the look. hair sheeuish. hair Daf7-.i
on the poor fellows face and shs sail7-
-ly dear I am trying to break him AZ
-n- uaQ-r OF giving me chiues He has
passiou FOR making me presents and
II didu curb il 1 would be seIurl7
with atrocities He can't select ar,--
thing % the way Of jewelry or personal
ornaments or things for the house +-a-
atl- selL-resp ectlng woman would have
II were IS polite YOU suggest Z
would De bedizeued with the most ho~.
rlnia looking pins and rings ana
brooches ana things and the house
would be curto shop. Is it is give
the -awelry away if I can get anv o-=
TO take 1t. or sell il and buy something
really want and as for the things ~
gets Tor the house the aztec is crowded
with them used to pretend to like
ms E1rts. when we were first married
but / couldn't keep IL up 10 the extent
of wearing OF using them Excuses
soon gave out and he saw the hollow
uznCkary Of nay praises Now Z ten him
frankly that I orefer to bay nv own
presents and he tries TO satisfy his alb
normal craving for gffr-rna king by
writing my checks
4 knew q woman Ike that once, too. ~