The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-07
. For +he Women.

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I of this description. You may actuall.'
say what you mean without danger OF
committing yourself t1r nobody can
ever be sure.
Every one can not carry Oft he frank
and open jolly There are certain men
and women who are masters and mis-
tresses of it but I is too frivolous for
the heavy dignity Of others 1ney
would consider is unseemly and for
their kind is the secluded nook beaind
the palms, a shaded light, preferably
noobdy to overhear and a subject WHO
will not interrupt and spoil their most
telling effects with laughter or a jest
as is perfectly permissible with the
jolly They would never by word or
manner E Omit that they were not abso-
lutely sincere and would resent such an
imDuta ton on the part of the iollied-
Their efforts are likely to be hack
neyed but they are never given in the
wrong mise en- scene. Men of this type
usually have fierce black moustaches.
soft persuasive voices and eyeIids that
droop over their eyes-something on th-
order of the villain in the Tnelodrama.
The women are of two kinds. deeply
religious and swooning on the slightest
provocation, or peroxide of hydrogen
blondes
You all know the jollier-a man this
time-who can carry it off with whole
roomful of victims. Good looking, de-
bonair and popular he can manage a
cluster of women of different ages and
types and make each one think he is
directing his remarks especially to her.
He hands it out with discrimination ard
telling effect to every woman in the
receiving line and before he gets to the
conservatory with the one he likes best
of all at that particular moment where
he will proceed to 'Scorch the begOniaS,
he has left every woman in his wake in
a pleasant flutter. from the hostess
I daughter who sits behind the
punch bowl to the old war horse of
full a dozen campaigns who has cho-
sen the corner with the rose shaded light
for the scene of her last heroic stand.
When it comes to the artless jolly this
accomplished hot air specialist of the
matinee hero type with his polish, his
urbanity. his experience andshis aplomb
is not in it with some chit of girl in
short froclSs-
If ever there was a born gift it is the
artless jolly and only women seem to
know the trick 1t goes best with d
certain type-svelte figure and RANT
face, whatever they may be-and like
the baby stare should be barred by the
weighs in the neighborhood of 200
pounds. 1t is the sort of thing that
goes with childish innocence and an air
of Inconsistencies 1t is apparently
frank, unconventional and unpremedi-
tated. Few men could resist 1t and no
man would dream of doubling it. He
smiles perhaps at the simplicity and
righteousness of the child-though she
were fifty such a woman Will always
seem a child to any man at such mo
ment-and sigh to think that few
years in a cruel world Will rob her OF
her unSOphiSticated charms But they
won't at least not so far as the art1eSs
jolly is concerned for no woman who
is A mistress of this trick Will fail 10
value il at its true worth
Your true artist jollier is not one OF
these, but a combination of them all;
He is a persistent borrower from all
schools of fiattery and knows every
form of jolly under the sun. Moreover
he knows life, reads his victim at a
glance and mentally elassifiese him as
to the kind of jolly that will be most
effective in his case. 1t would not do
to say that he never repeats himself
for there are certain stock compliments
which must be repeated People eX-
pect them and the true artist would be
the last to disappoint them. But he
will never tell you the same thing twice
in just the same language. He viii
never make the mistake of paying in
YOUR presence a compliment to another
which he formerly offered to you. L
| will not say that he never makes a mis-
take for even artists are human, but
he makes very few of them and knows
how to win forgiveness for each ana
of course. you understand that all
though say he. it is quite as often She
d
meant: this artist will never tell a clever
woman that she is clever. he viii make
her think that he thinks her beautiful and
charming. He may tell stupid woman
that she is clever but this is a compE-
ment to be used sparingly with woman,
and he is safe in telling any that she IS
intellectually inspiring. Some of them
will never know what he means, but it
will sound good to them. Moreover, when
all else fails him. he may fall back upon
a sure thing and accuse any woman OF
being a heartless coquette.
When the artistic jolier is a woman,
and the jollied a man. he is likely to
hear that he is one of those rare persons
who never bore her Almost every one
else does-but you are always different.
But you needn't be proud of tit is be-
cause you are such sophisticated crea-
ture and have had such a wide experience
of life. o I like you the better for t,
although I suppose l Shouldn L But
can't do much for the 'unco guide. can
you? Now don't be offended, but the
| first time 1 saw you l noticed that yon
. had that Rockwell, call it worldly" You
will never make a mistake in giving him
to understand that you think him a
devil
OF course. you are making colored silk
or linen disks, on spools for your fancy
houses this winter. Nearly every woman
shopping bag she can pull it out and
work on it al odd moments. You remem-
Der how you surreptitiously crocheted on
pins and a spool in your primer days;
well, the method is just the same The