The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-14
Smart Set Gossip.

1t is rumored that a local order of
the Garter is to be started as the
outgrowth of an episode which occurred
at a recent dance in the debutante set.
The object of the organization is not
announced but the incident which orig
mated the project was sufficiently like
the one in which, tradition says, the
Order of the Garter. founded by
King Edward III of England had its
origin. that that historical event may
safely be taken as a precedent.
1T was just in the middle of a two
step says young man who was
among those present, when 1t began
to attract attention, lying there in the
middle of the floor Everyone wonder
ed whose it was but nobody would pick
it up. We all gave 1t a wide berth,
dancing all around it and pretending
not to see it and leaving that particular
spot in the hall conspicuOusly empty
But we kept our eyes on it without
/ seeming to and the way in which its
owner-a chic little blonde-and her
lpartner-a young barrister-regai
i possession of it Wss worthy of dlplo-
mat They danced around nearer and
nearer to it and finally when they
reached 1t he dropped his handkerchief
artfully upon it ard picked them both
up together"
i Here is where the anecdote begins to
differentiate from the old legend of
King Edward III and the Countess of
( Salisbury Because if the young bar
/ TlSLer DaQ DESt aA1AE 10 lttE OpRO1
ties of the occasion he would have
said, handing it to the Ladye Fare
with a low bow: .'Honi soft qul mai
pense." and she would have fastened 1t
/ on his arm and named him her Knight
of the Garter But this pretty tableau
and the natural sequel of such ro-
mantle episode were spoiled by the fact
that the pretty little blonde IS the
! hancee of an out-of-tOwn man and that
their marriage will take place in June.
. Nc she had her lost
property in her possession again she
/ chucked in the front Of her gown ana
! ''hot-fOoted" it for the dressing room
What did it look hke?' the young
man who was relating the incident
We'll he replied, 1T was made out
of a strip of giddy pink elastic with
/ flowers and things embroidered on ~
land LITTLE lace ruffles on the edges
And at each end of the strip was long
! ruffly-huffly piece of hlny, airy PINK
stuff with frills and things on the end
of that and these long strings We're 1as-
tened to the elastic Win puLcLles u
tiny pink flowers / suppose they We're
supposed to tie and hold the article IN
place and some Of the dear girls We're
mean enough to hint that II they hau
been tied securely they Wouiah nav
come unfastened and it could never
have dropped off But anyway, no
bodv's going to quarrel about now li
happened 1t certainly was mighty
prettv and I guess nobody minded see
ing it,
Every one knows how the dear girls
love one another" and TINS natures
propensity has been greatly ehcouiaseu
among a trio Of debutantes who 60 IN
the same set and are very intimate, %
q recent occurrence One of the men
cf that crowd who is 2ood-looklhg,
clever. agreeable and popular, IS the NOT
entirely innocent but wholly blameiess
cause of the trouble. But don't lnler
ANYTHING serious because it ism IT, All
there is to it is that he asked the thfes
in succession to 60 to "ihe EineIdlu
Isle" when Jeff. De Angels was mere a
few weeks ago. and the girls got to-
pether at the Tell club and compared
notes. The controversy, which IS per-
fectly good natured on the surface, Is
as to whom was asked nrst. Ol coufSe
they all claim the honor. Two OF the
girls had other engagements, and tl-s
third who accepted. declares that the
man had already asked her and knew
that they had enga gements and couldh
accept when he asked them Maybe Is
did Such things have been heard o.
One day last winter visiting girl II
Tope<a had three invitations in one al
ternoon for a dance, and it afterWaTc
developed that the three men who asked
her had lunched together that day ana
that some one had told one OF them thai
the girl was going home the day before
the dance They were all very friendly
with her. hostess and indebted to her fos
rnanv favors. and the opportunity was
really too good to be missed And ye'
men say that women are deceitful.
s'Ffnnegan's Ball" was what is called
: in theatrical Darlance a rotten show.
: but there was one girl in the cast who
was uncommonly pretty This fact die
not esca-e the notice of a certain wei
known man about town After the PLAY
he invited her to 60 over to the clut
with him for supper. and he led her ints
. one of the dining rooms with careless
funconcern. not expecting 10 be seen bs
any one except the walters or possibly
a few Of the fellows who loaf there in
veterately. But the minute he Ell
tered with the nretty rather
shabbily dressed little girl with al
: armful of American Beauties. following
him they were greeted by a chorus G.
shouts from a party already occupyirs