The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15

if you see me going around in jumpers
don't be surprised. 1t was a regular
crackerjack picnic, and the star pei
former was d CharIottes vile girl who is
staying with a cousin of mine in George
town She is 4 winner. and from the
first minute l saw her l was a winner.
put on my most joyous toys TO take
her TO that al fresco feed. I had one of
these fan-taiIed coats with Fitzsimmons
shoulders. leg-of-muttOn trousers, and
Verandas all around my feet We
went up TO Great Falls. and il was hot.
My best friend. Harry, was along. and
he made rather a hit with Miss Char
lotte till ne took off his coat Then she
turned 70 me and laughed.
Isn't he a sight2' said she With
that coat on he looked as broad-shouI-
dered as an athlete. Now he's taken il
Off he looks like a taking poster.
A man must be awfully vain TO wear a
coat paded that way
We'll. 1 was padded out till my arms
looked as if they'd ben set on bias afte-
was finished. And take off my coat2
Not in a thousand years 1 was the
only man there that didn't flash his
shirtwaist. and I nearly had sunstrOke;
but 1 landed Miss Charlotte. I told her
I was brought up to think no gentle
man ever appeared in shirt sleeves in the
presence of ladies' She said she thought
I must be awfulIy strong. and she look
ed at my shoulders She said she ad-
mired athletic men Oh, I was the
whole thing but I wish the bully idiot
that set the fashion for square shoulders !
had died in his second summer. 1
made "A hit with Miss Charlotte. but
hope to goodness it will be cold weather
the next time she comes to town 1
couldn't stand another picnic with my
coat on. and if that girl ever sees me
without a coat it viii be over my dead
body''-The Woman About Town IN
the Washington Post
With the round necked bodices are
worn narrow strips of black velvet rib
bon tied high about the throat with (
the bow in the back. This is a revival /
Of a fashion Of some fifteen years ago. I
Some Of the new lace trimmed petit
coats are charming TO behold. The girls
are buying quantities of lace insertion
and sewing four or five rows together
with a wide edging to form a wide lace
fiounce for their dancing petticoats- The |
effect is exquisitely dainty
The 1903 summer girl looks something
like a walking menag erie, 50 many
beasts and birds and insects are REPRO
duced in her pins and ornaments Bull
dogs. lizards, butterflies. pigs. elephants
and snakes are some of the forms her
fancy runs to. The effect is very
bizarre. but that is what the summer
girl seems to like best
The new sleeves are large above as
we'll as below the elbow. The extreme
bagginesS just above the elbow. which
has been the characteristic feature OF
fashionable sleeves for some time. IS
less noticeable in the new fall models,
which show the puff beginning just be-
low the dropping shoulder and increas-
ing gradually toward the wrist
A new game being played at Trou-
vile and other French bathing places
this summer and which may be ex
pected out here in three or four years,
is rogue" 1t is something like croquet,
but the Wickets are about one-fourth
as large, the balls are of solid rubber
and the mallets tipped with hard rub
Der. Moreover the court. which is laid
out like croquet court, is fenced in
with rubber. from which the balls re-
bound as If on a billiard table.