The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-12

and white lawn batiste and kindred
materials for afternoon and evening.
Her summer and winter wardrobeS
differ only in the weight of underwear
and outside wraps. OF course she al
ways has a dark suit or so and a short
skirt for travelling, outdoor wear in unfa-
Vorable weather and such purposes.
People ask me sometimes she says,
'if don't freeze. But why? Everyone
now wears white cotton waists all win
ter, why not skirts? Your underwear
may be as heavy as you like. Lots of
people wouldn't care to wear white on
the street and of course only wear it
under a long cloak and on bright dry
days. But everyone might wearitin the
house. OF course it is worn more than
anything else for dress up but mean
to wear it quite ordinarily at home af-
ternoons and evenings One doesn't
need to buy wool which is so expensive
and costs a small fortune to keep clean.
I wear all the inexpensive cottons
which launder beautifully. I have lots
of such gowns and iron them myself
l love to, but the laundry bills wouldn't
be so bad if one objected to being one s
own washlady. Besides it is worth
something to be Immediately clean as
you know you never are and can't be
if you follow the usual custom of max
ing two or three gowns do all winter
long and persuading yourself that they
are clean just because they are so dark
they don't show dirt although if you
lay your hands in your lap they are
positively gri1ny from contact with your
skirt
Among other new fancies in wall paper
is a deep dado in Gibson heads. The
artist himself was the originator. One
of his recent double page pictures in
Life was entitled, wall Paper Design
for a Bachelors Room" and showed a
conventionalized arrangement of his
loveliest girls heads-the typical patri-
clan beauty of the elevated chin and
dropping eyelidS, the roguiSh cOquette
and the sweet nun-like creature of the
demurely parted locks The wall paper
designers were quick to catch the idea
and now the pattern is a popular one.
The vogue for black and white has ex-
tended to household decora lions and the
Gibson wall paper comes just in time
to contribute effectively to it. A room
with plain white ceiling and the deep
Gibson dado in black and white has the
cartridge paper with a satin stripe, a
dull black photograph rail dividing
them. The floor is stained a dull black
in imitation of Flemish oak and covered
with black and white Indian rugs, some
of which have a tawny streak across
their black zigzags. The furniture may
be wicker painted black or white, OF
the dull black oak or all three. Prints
engravings and pen and inks in plain
black frames relieve the monotony OF
the white walls. At the windows the
sash draperies may be of plain white
and the overdraperies of any of the
Japanese or other Oriental silks with
black and white prevailing and some
tawny yellow flower intermingled. Old
copper and brass pieces will look espe-
cially we'll in such a room, but the color
scheme will furnish an excellent back
ground for any sort of pottery or brio
a-brac which the occupant may choose
for it, the only thing to avoid being a
heterogeneous display of odds and ends
which would be utterly out of keeping
with it's general character.