The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-03
lie Berais fell in love with her.

de Berais fell in love with her.
Blanca Capello was SO when the Graffd
Duke Francis oe Florence fell caDtive
to her charms and made her ais wife,
though he was five years her Junior.
Nine. de Maintenon was 4S when united
to Louis, and Catherine II of Russia
was 80 when she seized the empire Of
Russia and captivated the dasning
young Gen. OrloH. I'D to the time OF
her death, at 81. she seems to have re-
cained her powers of bewitchery.
Cleopatra was nearl-z 40 when Mark
Antony fell beneath her spell. and the
most famous beauty the world has ever
known, Helen of Troy, was long past 20
when she perpetrated the most notable
elOpement on record and set the Trojan
warriors TO fighting for her sake
English women follow the old custom
of making New Years calls on the day
after New Years, commonly called La
dies day On New Years they receive
their men friends at their homes but
the following afternoon they troop forth
and often makes as many as 100 visits
in few hours as every one else IS out
on the same business and OF takes very
little time to leave a visiting card with
a New Years greeting written thereon
and a sprig of Christmas green at
! tached..
There is fed in New York this win
ter for going coatless. OF course this is
/ possible only on very mild days, but
! these are so frequent during our mild
winters that the fashion might be ex-
! pected to become very popular in To-
/ pelxa. There is really nothing that looks
/ so we'll as a swagger tailor made gown
I with fur collar or one of the magnifl-
cent new long stoles. It always seems
/ a shame to hide handsome street
toilet under a heavy cloak
Delaines the pretty old fashioned
figured stuffs our grandmothers wore
are being introduced by the fashionable
modistes. For blOuses and house gowns
they are very suitable and as they come
in all the beautiful cOlOrings, they
| threaten to supercede the wool challies
which have been popular for so long.
There is no one thing that indicates
the up to dateness of a woman more
than the bag she carries There has
bene a great run on chatelaines and
wrist bags and now the opera bag Is
the thing In 1t you may carry your
xerchief your change purse, anything
that goes in any such article except
your opera glasses. and yet it is called
an opera bag. Silk is the prevailing
fabric for these bags and the richer and
heavier it is the better Oblong and
square are the preferred shapes and
Persian and Pompadour silks the most
popular patterns.
Many reception toilets show the skirts
striped between the plaits with heavy
lace ard a band Of lace about the bot
tom edged with silver or gold lace.
Buttons of porcelaine, hand-painted,
are much in demand for shirt waist sets
and are shown in a variety of artistic
and beautiful designs, says the Brooklyr
Eagle. A local artist has just painted
q. set showing a double violet on a back
ground of shaded olive. Another set
heart-shaped, are decorated with tiny
four-leaf clover on a background oi
gold while in a third set the buttons
are cut in the shape of a miniature
pansy and painted in purple and pale
yellow shades.
The lace mitts which are now so much
the vogue for evening wear in Paris are
eli -,
them made of real lace cost as much as
S120 a pair in Paris.
One dra wback to their general accept
ance here is the association of lace mitts
with old age in the minds of most per-
sons, says the New York Sun. In Paris
they are worn by young girls, who ars