The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-03

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have so few clothes but because they
/ care so i'll for what they have. The
writer went on to tell Just what was
necessary to keep ones clothes in good
order. In the first place we should have
plenty of room FOR our clothes They
should not be crowded into a closet with
/ two or three garments on hook. That
/ appealed to me especially because 1 live
in a little room that has no closet al
all, and I have TO keep my gowns IN a
dress box and an old wardrobe that has
altogether seven hooks, but have de-
cided to rent store room in order that
/ each garment may have the required
amount of space. Another thing that
find 1 have been careless about is tbs
number of hat boxes which I maintain
I Each hat this authority I am quoting
says. should have its own box I haven't
so many hats, still it would puzzle me l.
good bit TO find room for a box for each
one. There is a hat box in my chinonlel
which usually contains all the hats
an wearing at one time, and my trunk
holds those that are being saved from
4 one season to the next
I Every time a skirt is Worn it should
/ be carefully brushed and hung up,
gloves should be pressed out smoothly
and put in box, and damp and mud
stained clothes hung up where they VIII
/ dry and carefully brushed and shaken
This may not sound funny to other peO-
! pie but the girl who has only one work
/ ing toilet al a time will see the joke.
1t is good idea, suggests my
friend the writing lady, to set apart
enc afternoon each week for lnending
ard repairing And she is supposed to
/ be giving advice to the girl who works
/ for a living. Unless she means sun
! day afternoon, which / usually devote 10
shampOOlng my hair manlcurlng my
nails and trimming my corns, she ism t
/ talking to me! Silk corset laces2 You'u
4 find them or the other side. Yes. that
black velvet ribbon is twenty-five cents
4 toda-.
There's no mistake about It. To be
young, to be in the first flush Of youth,
is no longer fashionable.
The fashionable age now for a woman
! is between so and 40. Have not their
majesties, the King and Queen of Eng
/ land, given notice that the young person
is not to monoooIze social attention?
/ The doctrine of middle age Is being
I preached in London. and from the in
( nernost centres of Mayfa.~ exclusive
/ ness to the outer circles of BohemiaTisfn
the women who are the most popular
are those who have lived. The same is
true of New York.
1t is hard to get at the reason for
/ this inversion of fancy. Somebody saws
4 it is because the girls of the present day
are older and more wOrld-WOrn than the
women who have passed the first stages
of real youth. Whatever the reason. the
chief interest seems to center about wo-
men who have left the white muslin
stage and crept out to the once dreaded
verge of maturity.
The women of whom most is heard,
whether in New York or in London,
have certainly no longer any right 70
+ be considered young. They are frank
ly middle-aged, and they seem to glory
in it.
So people seem to have discovered
that the period succeeding youth is
more desirable than adolescence. The
strange thing is that it has not been
discovered before. with all the examples
that exist in history. The women OF
France and England who were iiOted
for their power and attractions reached
the zenith Of their glory after youth had
flown.
Those who have lived and seen the
world must always have a greater pow
er for swaying humanity than those
VINO are equipped only with the charm
Of youth. No one is DISPOSED to under
estimate this charm. for it comes to al
once, and partakes not only Of the
sweetness of the flower. but also of this
eVanescence.
Some one said that every face ought
to be beautiful at 40" and another thai
4 no old person has a right to be ugly
& because she has had all her life in
which to grow beautiful" The trans
hguration of pleasant smile. kindly
hghtlngs Of the eyes. restful lines OF
self-control about the lips, serenity oil
the face-these things no ftful yea- OF
4 two of goodness gives Only habffua
1t IS interesting to remember in con
nection with this that many of tie wo-
men who have been famous fer theil
beauty ard fascination for men achiev-
ed their greatest triumDhs between thS
ages Of 90 and 40
JoseDhine was 3s when she married
/ Napoleon, and, judging from the letters
/ written by the absent husband during
the early years of their union. she in.
spired him with intense love and faaI
{ ousy. It has been said that she wa;
the only woman Napoleon ever really
I loved.
Nine. Recamier was most beautiful
between the ages of 50 and SIS. and Mile
Mars at IS was at the zenith of her tri
+ umphs. Diane de Poitiers was Sc sNber
she won the heart of Henry II. Til,
king was half her age, but his devotion
1 never changed
Anne Of Austria was IS when dsscrib
ed as the most beautiful woman in Eur
/ ope, and Buckingham and Rirheliet
We're her Jealous admirers. Ninon d
I lEnclos, the most celebrated wit an,