The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14
FOR THE WOMEN.
The Visiting Girl Is Subjected
to Dissection.
The Oracle and Debutante Ex-
press Their Views.
MEN SCARCELY COUNT.
Their Opinion Not Necessary to
Social Success.
1t Is the Women Who Decide
Her Fate.
MEN SCARCELY COUNT.

The rubber Of bridge and the luncheon
which followed were over and most of
the club members had departed but the
two or three most intimate friends of
the hostess remained for the regular
hemuerfest without which such an
afternoon would be incomplete.
The visiting girl was the subject.
"Of course she's swagger." said the
girl with the red hair. But those tur-
uuolse beads are all out"
yves, her general effect is good as
scented the young matron, but L never
saw such a sloppy looking stock and the
binding was pinned onto her skirt for
at least half a yard
IL love the way she does her hair"
put in the Debutante, but / can't do
much for a MORE waist. They're as
common as dirt"
Would you call her pretty, exactiy2'
asked the hostess cautiously And they
all shouted.
What. with that nose2"
"She has an aWfully coarse mouth.
''Im sure she dyes her hair, but
don't know about her complexion. She
gets f. ON pretty smooth, anyway
The question is, said the Oracle who
who had been saving wood, Will she
III you noticed her at the dance last
night you must have decided that she II
DO the men rather successfully, replied
the Debutante.
right" agreed the girl with the red rair.
ST didn't see that she was 50 disas-
trously popular scoffed the young
You didn't retorted the Debutante-
"Phu had four dances and two sit outs
with her"
well, that proves she wasn't in such
great demand with the others. Phil S
always rushing the new girls
Then the Debutante turned to the
Oracle.
what's the matter with your ham
ner2" she demanded. Laid up for re-
pairs2 Do you think she'll dO2"
As YOU say" the Oracle replied, lit
seems she'll do as far as the men are
concerned"
wen. that's an that's necessary"
said the Debutante conclusively-
There speaks ineXperience, retOrted
the oracle. The favor Of the men is
not all that's necessary and anyone but
Miss hyllis-in- her-hrst-season would
know it. The opinion of the men IS i'm
portant but it isn't by any means final
I know a great many girls think 1t IS
sufficient for social success. but never
could see how they could make such
mistake. The friendship of women is
just as useful and to new girl it is alb
sOlutely indlsDens9 bic. Girls who have
had the advantage Of long residence
in a town and whose families occupy
an unquestiOnable position can afford to
turn uD their noses a the other girls
nd ignore their good opinion, but tie
new girl must be as careful about her
standing with the right girls and their
mothers as she is about the number and
eligibility of her men friends. I don't
care how pretty and charming a woman
is nor how irresistible the men may find
her, if the other women get down on her
she won't last as long as the Droverbial
SNOWFALL in a place uncomfortable in
polite society.
Both history and fiction furnish ex-
amples OF the helolessness of women at
the mercy of hostile members of their own
sex Becky Sharp was sharp in every
other respect, but she didn't know