The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-19

go with me to the gallery and pay for
yourself. L can get a seat next to
ours easy. It's not till next Friday
night. All right, so glad, and say,
come here to dinner first. Bobby is
going to. Oh, not a bit of bother; you
know it's an apartment hotel, not even
an extra plate to plan for. III expect
you at s sharp SO we won't have to
hurry. Let's do it often. We can do
it lots of times and never know were
spending anything. Good-byl"
Then she rang up the theater. but
I must speak to the gallery. 1 have
two seats for Friday and I must ave
another right next. oh, please do
something. But 1 am afraid If 1 don't
have it held I may miss it. You see,
/ I nave two now. But if I exchange
for three together somewhere else I
may get horrid seats. Mine are front
row. Couldn't you personally oblige
me somehow? I'd send my maid right
About 10 or Is minutes oh. please
try. economy is the name. Initial?
! P. E., Petite E. economy. Yes, thank
you, goOd-by!"
Then she to the club for
a cab, hustled her maid off in it and
told her to give the driver a quarter
to drive fast. She got the seat all right,
but that theater taxes 81 for the first
three rows of the gallery, so Pettie's
party cost SO for tickets and 81 for
the cab already. She'll have another
cab Friday night, and that viii be
$3.50 anyhow. Then she will be
stuck for two dinners, very likely for
p Hits about $40 plus, but
that's the way with Petite, she simply
must save!
Comb and brush backs of solid ma
hogany are used now to match up h
dressing room set, which, especially in
rooms decorated in the popular green,
is the correct furniture. They are a
Paris importation, these mahogany
backed brushes, and may or may not
have a silver Otherwise
hey are perfectly plain. They come
in three or four different shapes and
sizes.
A useful adjustable table cover is
made of asbestos covered on both sides
with flannel. The covers are put to-
gether in sections, so that they may
be folded when not in use. Asbestos
has always offered a useful protection
against hot dishes for polished table
tops, but there has always been the
drawback that the f1reproof material
would neither roll nor fold without
breaking. This new device overcomes
the difficulty. They come round or
square from tea table to extension ta-
BILE size.
The rag carpet again: 1t has served
as bath mats and even for rugs of more
dignifed character, as portieres, table
coverings and even wall h~angings. Now
1T is out as a screen cover. A tall, sim
ply carved screen with three leaves has
each of the sections covered with a dull
rose colored strip. The carpet, fringed
at the upper end, is turned over to
furnish a finish at the top. The car
pet is attached to screw eyes the entire
length of each side Of the frame.
Sometimes for afternoon wear the
cloth skirt accompanies the coal of
velvet or silk There are many varia-
tions of this mode. Women who are
too short to look well in the long three
fronted coat with swallow tails behind,
or that finishing with a couple of huge
buttons at the waist. and cut square
across the front. With these coats
be worn one of the hats of the
period. OF these the old-fashioned rid
ing hat is the simplest, adorned with
a ruche of velvet and a waving plume
or bird of Paradise at the side. The
real Directoire hat is very wide and
high in the front, and almost covers
the couture at the back. This may be
decorated with braid, beautiful orna-
ments or embroideries and a waving.
wide ostrich plume on either side,
turned back from the face. The three
cornered "~highwayman" hat can also
be worn with cka Of gold or silver.
Colored taffetas, adorned with velvet
spots is one of the newest things Of
the day. 1t is specially worn in the
case of the long Directoire coat over a
skirt of plain silk of the same shade.
used in the construction of h jupe up
"a dafa