The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-13

rush pellmell through with the previous
mobs, get walked on, pummeled, thump-
ed, miStreated, and come away leaving
a trail of skirt hens and other bits of
shredded clothing blowing up one aisle
and down another. The dullest city hall
detective could pick out her line of
march and self-destruction by the
pieces of herself that she has distributed
along the way. She saves 25 cents al
together. IS whole cents which she
promptly spends for headache tablets
if she doesn't choose the Judges.
Most women in ordinary circumstan-
ces have more clothes than they need.
Three good, well-made gowns are worth
three dozen cheap ones. 1t is not vari-
ETY. but quality. You can't wear but
one frOck at time to save your life,
so what's the use2
But watch the ways of the economical
woman Oh she is a treasure al her art.
Her mind is one big coming tower, from
which she scans the bargain horizon.
Nothing escapes her She rushes away
to one store and buys the materials of
a gown. She stamps around town to
another one and prOcures the trimming.
She rushes here. there and some place
+ else for a pattern, for the hooks and
eyes, for the braid or the buttons She
saves 2 cents on one thing and 81 on
something else. Then she turns the
house into a home for refined maniacs
and starts in on the dress building
cook leaves. Mr. Husband stays down
4 town with the fellows" and discord of
/ the domestic order ensues good and
plenty. Everything goes to the bow
+ vows generally, and the dressmaking
! tune plays on It is all a sorry affair.
4 BY and by when the tagged lady is put
ting the finishing touches onto the robe,
she sums up her bills She has paid
out about Sc more than seFvicea bic
4 ready made fr0ck would have cost or.
rasif ,dg7 1z e-I,o bod ana
constructed particularly for her after
her own individual plans and specifiea-
tons What the domestic cyclone has
/ cost there is no telling You can't esti-
mate such things by table of curren-
cy. You can more readily reckon it by
using a table of nerves and tear-drops.
There are various methods OF false ecol-
omy- We have heard of women who break
/ their backs scrubbing rugs only to pay
out splendid real coin for doctors bills.
We have heard of demented individuals
who save 50 cents washing a pair of err
tains and spend three times that much fer
+ hideOus stickpins of light Glue paste ard
impure gold with which to disigure them
/ selves. There is not enough value put on
I personal comfort and plain every day
health. We do not disdain rard work 9r
the needful saving Of money. But this
sort of economy that brings on untold OK
pense is not only ridiculous, but evidence
OF plain craziness.
Women seldom economic on luxuries.
/ They economic on necessities And
where's the sense in a deal like that
There is altogether too Iruch money
| spent on fiubdub articles of clothing. Wo-
men don't need half the foolish belts and
/ the silly feather boas and the generally
/ senseless rubbish that they buy gnis
preacher dame can understand how a We
man viii invest in good furs. fine laces or
things Of the sort, because in them Sod
have an Investment. Your money is there.
! But it is expensive wells that float away.
silk petticoats of the elaborate kind that
fail to pieces while you button your shoes,
a host Of hats when two VIII do That IS
the grand, great high summit of extrav-
| agance-
/ of life. needs few frocks. She needs one
| good street gown, and it should certainly
be good one if she can afford it. one
/ s1ro dress VIII outwear four $40 ones ard
Will look good when it is old. while the
/ cheap ones viii lock cheap from the start
to finish. However there is good deal
! IN wearing dress in keeping it brushed
/ and pressed. We have seer women in
gowns that cost 800 who locked trump
beside women in little so frocks because
the cheaper ones were worn correctly,