The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

much.
Gifts in the places where they ought to go;
Or if they ought Not, why, then, If they
Must,
1t makes no difference when it comes to
The Bachelor Girl in the Washington
Post.
Little children: the text for today is,
No woman can make fool of a man.
innate asininity but her responsibility
can't be traced farther than that.
If a woman appears at once attrac-
tive and friendless there is nothing
equal to the hostility and suspicion an
other woman can put into the demand,
who is she?'
| OF two given admirers a woman is in
| love, not with the one who seems like
| Hest from your standpoint, but the one
who appears most inaccessible from
hers.
We hear a good deal about the "wo-
manly woman" meaning the woman
who stays at home and follows domeS-
| tic pursuits, as if womanliness were in
separable from the cookstove and the
! cradle, and there is many a bogie-story
| told in these days of the feminine in
vasion of the industrial world of wo-
mans lessening charm for men under
| the new conditions. The theory is all
| right Until you look for illustrative ex-
ampleS and then you learn that the
most fascinating women of history
have not been homekeepers, but world
| ly women who played a large part in
| the history of their times, were in
tereSted in mems work and mems am
billions and to whom the shrinking
violet-Startled-fawn role was utterly
| foreign. Let a woman achieve as an
actress, musician, writer, business wo-
man, or in any other way, fame or even
notoriety and she seems Immediately to
attract men and proposals of marriage.
| An old maid may sit at home behind a
darning basket for twenty-seven years
with nothing doing, but let her learn to
pound a typewriter and go out to seek
her fortune and she will have chance
to marry within a year.
Again we have evidence Of the rapid
| ity with which westward the course of
| fashion takes its way. A few weeks
ago we heard that red was the most
popular color at the New York horse
show and that everything that might
rose to hunting pink enlivened the box
eS of the multi-millionaireS' half circle
and now all the Topeka girls are wear
| ing red gowns. At an afternoon euchre
given here last week seven bright red
gowns were worn.
| hate to tell a story whose moral is
| so Interestingly immoral as this ones
| Is, DQC IN the interest OF truth, am al
ways ready to sacrifice personal incii-
nation, so here goes, says the Women
About Town in the Washington Star.
| There is in this town an elderly child
| less widow, who has money of every
| known kind. She has, too, two grand
| nephews, who would be more or per-
haps less than human if they did not
try to keep on the good side of her. One
of them is a thoroughly exemplary
young man, and the other is thoroughly
the other thing. Last Christmas the
good young man deliberated long as to
what sort of a present to send Aunt
| Amelia, and at last decided on a very
fine reading glass, set in a jeweled
frame, a gift eminently suitable for one
] whose eyes are beginning to confess
WEAKNESS. The other grand nephew
forgot all about Aunt Amelia till late
on the night of Christmas eve. He re-
memb ered her when he returned to his
rooms very much at peace with all
mankind, but scarcely in a condition to
select a suitable present for anybody. It
was born in upon him that he loved
1 Aunt Amelia and must give her some
thing he priced nightly. Dangling over
his mantle was pair of beribboned
| castanets. souvenirs of a Spanish dan
Ger before whose shrine he had once
burned incense. 1t seemed to him that
Aunt Amelia would be charmed with
| those castanets. so he took them down
wrapped them securely, and sent them
i to her by messenger. Next morning he
! remembered with sickening horror what
he had done. He perceived that Aunt
j Amelia would cut him dead, and he
/ Out of town was forwarded to him q
note from Aunt Amelia. He opened II
fearfully.
! MY dear boy wrote Aunt Amelia
J your remembrance has touched me
more deeply than I can say. do not
remember that I ever told you that
danced Spanish dance at the Christ
mas eve ball where I met your grand
! I11N rT-t I1ax -e
heard it from some one. The castan-
| cts
1t is unnecessary to say what she said
about the castanets, but the note had
an Enclosure which made her grand
nephew's eyes pop out. It was exactly
four times as large as the check the
sent the exemplary nephew, but 1t d1dn'1
! do the gracelesS young man bit OF
/ good for presuming on his amazing
/ luck, he lost every bit of it on hundred
to-one shots, so any way you look at il
the story hasn't an improving moral
Philadelphia society, it is rumored,
need have no further concern about
the dearth of perfect housemaids, for
spunky Miss Marianne Honeyman
Wood has announced that she will
bring about a reformation in that di-
rection.
Miss Wood is a member of one of the
most exclusive families of the Quaker
City. She is the daughter of Edward
RandOH WOOD, VINO Is MEMBER OF tne
Art club, the Penn club, and the Man
ufacturers' club. Her mother is one OF
the local society leaders. Her sister is
a member of the Acorn club.
| Miss Wood herself has always held
aloof from all organizations, either
social or athletic. Nevtheless, she has
ideals of her own and lots of spunk,
and she practices rather than theories.
Home life Miss Wood has found tame,
and she has experimental with the
stage, the telephone, and the hospital
In none of these did she realize her am
bition. She felt that she had a mission
in life and wanted to fulfill it.
AT last she had decided upon her vo-
cation. 1t is that of a housemaid. She
| declares that it is as honorable as any