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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
PAPER NAPERY AND TABLE.
WARE.

Everything in the shape of doilies,
casserole frills and sherbet cups is
now made of paper. They are as dainty
as possible and are made to initiate the
bautiful Tenerife work, Mexican drawn
work and all lace patterns in the
most wonderful manner. Despite their
fragile appearance they are proof
against liquids and do not get soggy.
Salad and ice cream cases come in a
variety of pleasing forms, and it is
possible to carry out a color scheme
with trifiing expense.
For children's parties these paper
dishes, supplemented by paper napkins.
will relieve the anxious hostess of much
apprehension in regard to breakage.
For picnics they are invaluable. Not
only do they save the bother of packing
up and carrying home dishes. but they
add materially to the beauty of the
OccaS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
SALT AND PEPPER MIXTURE BOX COAT.

and long cruises on beautiful yachts to
foreign shores and over wind swept
oceans.
The girl with money can improve
herself in a thousand ways. If she is
born homely, with poor complexion
or a scrawny neck. these can be REM
edied by costly treatment and mas
sage. She cannot help being graceful
because from her earliest years she has
graceful examples set before her, she
learns suavity from her French nurse
and dainty posings in the smart dane
ing class she attends from babyhood.
She is not allowed to grow sallow
over problems which confront hard
working girls nor dim her eyes with
too much study. She has just enough
book knowledge to enable her to carry
on conversation, and the rest is OBJ
tanned by travel and association with
clever people-the very best knowledge
in the world. Then. too, she knows the
thousand and one things so much more
necessary than mere book learning.
She can sail boat, help lead a cotillon,
play golf, ride to hounds, drive a four
in-hand. shoot. swim and fence. not to
speak of ordering an intricate house
hold. Above all she starts in life fear
less. independent and with a sound
brain in a sound body.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

couple of American ladies in London
society!
Heaven have mercy on your SOUL
Heaven broaden you to a comprehen-
sion of that larger, kindlier, sweeter
wisdom which radiates ever from the
soul of true womanhoodi
What's the good. Shelagh?
You can't do it, Your own kin and
fellow countrymen win rise up against
you. If American women have in Brit
ish society a vogue that you are jealous
of. who are to blame for it but Eng
lishmen themselves, sprigs of young
nobility who came over here and, with
tears in their eyes, as it were. besought
rich American girls to marry them and
keep them out of the poorhouse, or at
least relieve them from the necessity
of shipping as table walters on the
tr.ansa tlantic steamers. There be sons
of British lords who are that very thing
today, Shelagh.
Whether the millionaire American
girls did well to take the noblemen Is
neither here nor there. Considering
how women like you have sometimes
treated our American ladies when they
have thus rescued your Englishmen
from the bankruptcy court, II not
worse. it would probably have been
just as well if they had stayed on their
own side of the water and married just
chivalrous, plain American husbands
But something must perhaps be for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29


in the house of lords and finally estab-
lish, to go along with his strawberry
leaf title, a really noble family line.
She would have done this all by virtue
of her strong. clean, working peoples
blood.
But it did not happen. Your dukelet
is rich because his grandfather, the
first duke, increased his fortune by
methods akin to those in vogue among
plebeian American money magnets"
as they are sometimes called. He knew
how to juggle his income returns with
the best of them, that first duke. 1
have read a letter of his to a newspaper
protesting holly against the wild
guesses'' as to the amount of his in
come that were published sometimes.
He said report made him out more than
twice as rich as he was. But the fact
remains that he never would tell ex-
actly how rich he was. A recent Eng
fish writer confesses: I'm these days
there is always something peculiarly
fascinating about the possession of
great wealth. Just so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
ADVANCE FALL COSTUME OF BLUE BRoADcLoTH.

given to the natural jealousy the at
tractive American girl arouses in the
British feminine breast.
Or is it because you don't like your
brilliant and brainy American sister-in-
law, young Corvallis Vests wife,
that you thus leap into the arena with
a war whoop against all American wo-
men? Who knows? But, finally,
permit myself to commend to your con-
sideration two general propositions.
The first-one who attempts to stir
up race prejudice is an enemy to civ
ilization. The second--it is the mark
of crassest, most ignorant provincial
ism to hold ones own town superior
to other peoples towns. See?
PATRICIA STUART.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

The sentiment in favor of suburbs is
rapidly growing. The Saturday half
holiday, the better rapid transit ac-
commodations. and above all, the gay
yet wholesome suburban society life are
responsible for this. In former times
to live in the suburbs meant to be
buried alive. Now it is no such thing.
People of moderate means can have a
better time in a small suburb or town
than they can in the city. Golf and
country clubs are responsible for this.
and it is a fact that in many cases the
owners of town sites have actually paid
for the erection of a country club in
order to attract residents. So. you see
it has become an important and recog
nized factor.
We are certainly learning to live, to
enjoy existence in the English and the
French manner. and not to gallop
through it eating indigestible food
served in any old way. living in over
crowded and badly ventilated houses
and going through life ignoring all its
finer points, as foreigners have accused
us of doing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
FOR WOMEN cYcLERs.

Lady Marjorie, in the Cycle, says:
II should like to ask all my friends
to cultivate a pleasant, cheerful express
sion when cycling. So many girls when
learning quicker their brows and look
so terribly anxious and uncomfortable
that when the ordeal of their initiate is
over the strained look upon their faces
becomes habit and is very difficult
to overcome. Keeping the eye fixed
rigidly upon the front wheel or looking
anxiously ahead for troubles in the way
of approaching vehicles, hills. etc., ed
ucates this habit
Sit up and smile and look happy.
You will find how much more YOU will
enjoy your ride and with what a diff
ferent aspect your friends win look
upon cycling as a woman's pastime."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
THE SOCIAL
n IIAR OF q
Il DUCHESS

Was it because she is so radiantly
beautiful that you began your assault
on American women by cruelty snub-
bling sweet, innocent Gladys Deacon in
your husbands box at the Chester
races? You are not nearly so beau
tiful or so stylish as Miss Deacon,
not nearly so handsome and fascinat-
ing as your own mother was when she
belonged to the Prince of Wales set;"
but then you are good looking enough
and well dressed enough not to display
jealousy toward American ladies.
Worst of all, you let your husband dis
play the same rudeness to the sweet
American girl when Colonel and Mrs.
Cornwallis-W West brought Miss Deacon
to the Westminster stand at the races
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
AN ILLITERATE ANTI.

A man opposed to woman suffrage
sent to the Woman's Journal a docu-
ment setting forth his principles in the
Following remarkable grammar and
spelling:
When argueing the right of Wom-
ans Suffrage you clame that Women
ought to have right to vote because
she payes taxes. Allow me to inform
you that Women do not pay taxes. A
person tax is Poll tax land this alone
men nave to pay). Taxes on property,
is property. tax and the property avs
it. If women ar allowed to vote fhev
ought to pay Poll tax, to be eoui1 with
men. From one who is in favor of
women attending to their business
which is household dutis, and men at
tending to theirs"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND
AS A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.

The Duchess of Sutherland, who is
gifted with spirit which never wearies
of doing good, showed her enthusiasm
for improving the condition of the high
land crofters in characteristic fashion
during recent visit to Russia. She
took with her several trunks filled wit, Z
samples of the tweeds made by the
Scottish peasantry whom she and other
ladies are so anxious to serve. Then
she sent round to the tailors and invited
them to inspect the goods and give or
ders for them. In this way she expects
to open up a new market and thus ben
eft those whom she is DESTROYS of help
ing in the best possible way-by ena-
bling them to help themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

even though Cornwallis-West is your
own brother and a gallant soldier and
gentleman. You are young, but then
you are older than your husband, and
you ought to have toned him down by
this time to observe at least common
courtesy and good manners.
You have much to learn Shelagh-
The sooner you learn it the better for
yourself. Know, first of all, you cannot
possibly hurt American ladies socially.
You are bucking against the band wag
on when you attempt it. Already you
begin to get your "comeupance-" That
ball of yours, which was to be the social
event of 1903 and to which you omitted
to send invitations to every American
woman in London society whom you
dared leave out-did you not on that
account receive a direct social slap in
the face from your king. Albert Ed
ward himself? He declined to attend
you ball at all. the Duke and Duchess
sister in-law, also refused to attend,
and the actual reason was that you had
snubbed American ladies who are the
friends of royalty.
When he was only Prince of Wales,
Albert Edward was noted for his tact
fulness and genuine kindness of heart
He was too we'll bred to manifest
toward persons entitled to respect the
rudeness you and your husband were
guilty of at the Chester races and your
ball. How did you feel when. at that
ball. your biggest lion was a young lady
who had been an actress on the variety
stage? 1t was nothing against the
young lady; quite the contrary. But
after all it wasn't quite like having
the king and the Duke of Connaught
among your guests. was it?
The good will Albert Edward showed
to Americans socially when he was
Prince of Wales he manifests still
in the larger national field. and the
American people appreciate it. There
is dream among thinkers who dwell
in the United Kingdom on your side of
the water, those in our great republic
| this side of the Atlantic, those. too,
who inhabit the great continent of far
away southwestern seas-among these,
1 say. there is a dream that English
speaking peoples, united in the common
aims of human brotherhood, will be
| called to hold the vanguard of human
| civilization itself against the destruc-
tive forces even now making inroads
on it. The English speaking peoples,
Americans. Irish, Scotch. Canadians,
| English, Australians, all of them form
the most powerful. most inteili gent,
| most prosperous brotherhood ever unit
| ed by common ties of kinship and the
love of liberty. law and order. Human
destiny itself, upward moving, glorious
demands that they go forward together
| upholding one another's hands, broth
erly. And you think youIl stop it by
administering your infantile snub to a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

r. 49, -
CornwalIfs-West, known as She-
lagh CornwaIlis-Wes before her
- marriage to his grace Hugh Rich
ard Arthur Grosvenor, second
duke of Westminster, variously like
wise earl and marquis of this. that ana
the other has set her little head and
her English foot against the further
social recognition of American, women
in British society, has snubbed them
even to the point of very un-high bred
rudeness.
Shelagh. Shelagh, why did you do 1t?
You should have no particular grudge
against American ladies. You yoursen
have a good enough position. Your
husband has an income of IS a minute,
so tits said. While you are not nearly
SO beautiful or fascinating as many of
the American women in London So
ciety, it is said that you know how to
dress almost as we'll as they do. which
is to your credit 1t is true that just
on the eve of your marriage to is grace,
is grace was served with summons
to appear in an unpleasant lawsuit
brought by an enraged member of the
British military, but then that has
dropped out of mind; you got your
big blond duke safe enough and should
not have become soured against us,
particularly as no American woman
had anything to do with that unpleas-
ant law case. You got your dukelet.
True, it is more than possible that if
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
Kaz Azz
Bar Harbor. "
PATENT LEATHER PREcEPTs.
Bar Harbor.

Patent leather shoes and boots need
special care to keep them nice. When
they are fresh and new they should be
wiped after every wearing and put
away in some place. secure from dust,
where the air is neither too hot nor too
cold. Extremes of temperature injure
the leather. When the shoes begin to
show signs of wear they should be
wiped with a sponge and warm water,
and after being carefully dried, should
be brushed over lightly with patent
leather varnish sold for the purpose
Remember never to put patent leather
near the fire, for the heat is very likely
to crack it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

for certain girls. but it is a poor ed
ucation for the average one. The girl
1 mean who does not look with scorn
upon marriage and who hopes for a
little home of her own and a reasonable
amount of society, be it exalted or
otherwise.
For instance. if you cannot afford
both it is better to have a girl taught
dancing than Greek, She will forget
the Greek after the first year of her
married life Gf not before). and if she
is a bad dancer she will be forever out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

yacht club, the courtesy of any number
of clubs being always extended to man
belonging to one good one. The little
boat was fitted with everything one
could desire, and there was delightful
afterdeck, where the owner and his
chum could sit and enjoy their cigars
as their yacht swept along through
the blue summer seas. That I do cali a
vacation-not this stuffy hotel life, with
its gossip, its overdressing and its
dearth of any real enjoyment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
The G1orious American Girl.

The anamic, stoop shouldered, peev-
ish, overdressed American girl has
disappeared. In her place stands a
splendid athletic, wholesome young
creature. and suburban and out of door
life is largely responsible for her.
1 have a prophetic feeling that the
time will come when women will have
their own athletic and their own yacht
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

of things and will miss at least third
of the good times going. A good dancer
is always at her ease and is bound to
be a social success. She is a woman
her husband is proud to take around,
for although a man may not care for
that sort of thing himself he does not
particularly like to see his wife a wall
flower.
A course of massage treatment of
skinny neck-treatment which will en-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
And Why the City.

Then. too. there is this to be con-
sidered: Why live in a city coOped up
in any sort of a small. dark apartment
for the sake of sleeping and eating next
to the Greatroxes and the Van Dollars,
who never in the world bother their
heads about one, when one can live in
pretty little suburb. enjoy real
healthy country life. golf. driving. etc.
for the same price one pays for the
stuffy little apartment in town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

bread and butter-not to speak of jam
may come in on this. (Dear me, how
slangy / am gettingD
I know of enc girl. a schoolteacher,
who has given herself horseback les
sons and singing lessons. both great
sources of enjoyment to herself and
her friends. Another girl has divided
her wages in three parts. one for liV-
ing expenses. one for necessary clothes,
the third for self Improvement. Most
girls spend it all for clothes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

able it's owner
to wear a dinner
gown and look
attractive in in
the evening, is
far preferable to
the ability to
converse about
social economy
or higher math-
ematics.
1 certainly am
not in favor of
anything which
is aimless ed
ucation or any
thing else.
Even the girl
who makes her
own way in the
world. who has
to earn her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

with pink and white chrysanthemums.
with their own leaves appearing slight
ly at the edges Great masses of these
blooms make dining room. parlor or
boudoir look like fairy queens palace.
After all" remarked the old abarh-
elor. there is no place like home"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

clubs. Why, if
you please. can
not two women
go off for a
summer vaca-
ton on a cat
boat or a small
yacht without
losing any of
their Womanli-
ness? Men have
such a jolly
time that way.
Last week 1
went aboard a
little yacht on
which two men
h a d cruz s e d
around all sum-
mer. m e T e | Y
running in for
a few days in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
LIE WORLD FOR WOMEN Also.

After severe exposure the face should
be bathed in very warm water, after
which cold cream is in order
This season representatives of the
California fruit growers journeyed east
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

the dukelet had
been very poor
instead of very
rich he would
have chosen for
his wife not you,
but the daugh-
ter of some
healthy, h a r d
working Amer
lean Millionaire,
a girl who could
get him out
of bankruptcy
S u p or t him
h a n d S o mely,
brace him up
and stand be-
hind him while
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

and the horrid thing never put it in the
paper at all,
THE man who would satisfy the
marital requirements of some ladies"
says Max O'Rell, has still to be born
Nothing is more beautiful in a room
than large glass and china bowls filed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

Right you are" rejoined the bsId-
headed man who had loved and ,vo,
ana there are times when 1 am glad
tanner cloths wrung out from hot
severe pains. -~ O'''s-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
SHORT BROWN wooLEN STREET COSTUME.

which has 500 foreign pupils. has of
fered the chair of English to Miss
Jameson, an English woman, twenty
five, who is professor at the College of
Darlington in Scotland.
who can tell me the meaning of
leisure@' asked the teacher. please,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

for men and women to assist in gather
ing the fruit crop in that state. IN
skilled labor is very scarce in the
west.
The French University of Grenoble,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

in moderate circumstances follow the
same idea, for they have the ordering
of that girls life? If you and 1 will
look upon our girlhood we can count
the money which was wasted in teach
ing us useless things-things that now
bring us neither profit nor pleasure.
The higher education is all very well
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

The old fashioned tambour work is
among the most fashionable of any this
year and is seen in linen, muslin. chif-
fon and silk A great deal of it is done
by machine, but to be really smart and
handsome it must be done by hand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

miss. it's a place where married people
repenti' replied an infant novel reader.
It is no longer good form to discuss
your diseases at length with your
friends
May-Did you tell the reporter your
engagement was a secret? Ethel-Yes,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

But cannot the girl with moderate
means initiate her in some respects.
or rather cannot the parents of the girl
Bound 10 be a social success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

For heat prostration place hot
water Dag at the feet. with a cloth
oippeo IN cold water on the head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

(" HE poor envy the rich for many
reasons, but to my mind the
one great advantage the latter
- have is the power of leading
healthful strength giving,
wholesome, well rounded lives-that is,
II they choose to do so, which they un-
fortunately often do not. The man or
woman of money has the great advan-.
tage of being able to live much in the
open air and Of enjoying all the year
round sports which are events to other
people-horseback riding, hunting. polo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

pr appears that Constance Edwina
CornwalfiS-West known as She
lagh CORVALLIS West before her
rnarriaRe to his grace HUGH Rich
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1903-11-10
BROOKLYN BRIEFS

--Messrs Di Orio and Barrett are
constantly making improvements in
their tonsorial rooms and now have
one Of the neatest barber shops in the
city.
The hunters In this section are
having fine luck this season. They
report plenty of game and have little
complaint to make against the farm
ers, who have generally treated them
all right.
John Casey Of 179 Washington ave-
nue. returned Friday night from hunt
ing trip to Middlebury, bringing back
with him a large quantity of game, in
Guiding five rabbits and few squir-
rels. Saturday night he treated num-
Der of his friends to an excellent
spread at his home. 1t was finely pre-
pared by Mr. Casey and William Bull
ger. After the feast an entertainment
was enjoyed. Garet Henebery and
Thomas Troy entertained with songs,
while recitations were delivered by
jeremiah Shugrue and Thomas Cullen.
1t was a late hour when the merry
gathering was dispersed. Mr. and Mrs
Casey were voted charming entertain
ers.
Owing to the various and sudden
changes In the weather and the ar
rival Of cold weather many persons
are suffering from colds. These should
be treated at once. Don't allow them
to hang on. The result may be seri-
GUS. The best remedy and cure for
coughs and colds Is Partrees cough
syrup, the best syrup on the market
For sale at A. G. Walkers pharmacy.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1903-11-10

lring the past few days we
Ilayc received quite an addi-
ton to our already large stock
Of Ladies Ready-to- Wear Suits
and Jackets, and notWithstand-
ing the heavy business which
we have done in this depart
ment thus far this season, the
variety to be found is still up
to the High Water Mark,
Our garments have a set and
finish to them that easily dis
tinguishes them from the or
binary ready-made kinds. There
is a great deal in how a gar
ment is made as to how it is
going to fit and hang.
We are 4just as particular
about how our ready-to-wear
costumes are put together as
we are about our fine custom
suits, and this is why, there is
such a noticeable difference in.
the suit you buy here ready
made and that which is bought
elsewhere.