The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-08

in bunch in hand hanging loosely at
the side, and now everyone does it.
No doubt the popularity of extrav-
! agant productions OF society plays and
I musical comedies. and the evolution
/ of the chic, fascinating and picturesque
Show Girl, have had their effect on the
dress and manners of the Twentieth
century young women The women
VINO sit out in front are not slow to
recognize the charm of the actresses
who dress like ladies while acting like
/ chorus girls and the adaptability of
conventional costumes to unconven-
/ tlonal but artistic poses. The nearer.
nowadays, girl can approach in ap-
pearance the leader of the Sextette, the
oetter is she reputed to be gowned, and
the more her manners resemble those
or the cafe chantant the more does she
deserve what ever praise attaches to
the words chic and up-to-date.
But the English woman who noticed
the prevalence of the custom of leaning
upon the elbows at table said nothing
ABOUT another fad also comparatively
new in table etiquette. That is the
practice of keeping one hand under the
table throughout a dinner or luncheon
When she said that between courses
the fa1r diner rests both elbows on the
table and her chin upon her clasped
hands she may have been correct in
some instances but as a rule a woman
has only one hand visible during the
progress of dinner. The other is kept
dS SluQlOuSly unQer the table If II
could not be exposed without indecency.
Some coarse masculine cynic has no
ticed that it is never the hand upon
which she wears her rings that is kept
under the table but this is not a safe
deduction. Most women wear their
rings on the left hand and use the right
in eating but a change may be made
between courses and then is when the
chin is rested upon the jewelled hand
and the other lies carelessly in the lap.
fashion Of
and never letting the other be seen,
from cocktail to coffee" said a big,
| awkward, bashful quarterback to his
older sister, may be all right for you
women who can do anything from
standing up on polished floors to eating
lettuce with your fingers and it may he
all right for salad and ices and bon
bons and the kind of things you have
at your pink teas but I'd like to know
how you manage steaks and chops and
stuff like that"
The sister smiled the superior smile
of a Big Sister. Don't you," she re-
sponded sweetly.
George AIDES Broad Girl' who scat
tered several pounds of sunshine in low
~ places for philanthropical purposes is
| outclassed by New York woman who
has discovered new avOcation. She is
a professional dispenser of sunshine and
good cheer at so much per. She regis
ters at the Woman's Exchange as a
sunshine companion" and her duties,
once she is engaged, consist in scatter
ing just as much sunshine as her sub
! ject's temperament will take in"
Miss Townsend, for that is the name
of our heroine. is a California woman
and she accounts for her choice of a
career by the climatic conditions Of
her native state 1t is all, she says a
matter of mental attitude, and she fur
Their explains that she absorbed from the
radiant California climate so much more
sunshine and optimism than she has
any practical use for herself that she
can afford to hire it out in small driblets
to those who have lived in. murky. cloudy
places and are full of pessimism and
gloom. One is not without a suspicion.
| in reading all that Miss Townsend saws
| about her high calling that she is full
of California prunes as well as Califor-
( MIA sunshine.
And by the way, aren't the New