The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03

ialiZed. Shoulders are still broad and
still dropping and it is not reasonable
before next spring.
The blouse, too, remains, although
snugly fitting draped bodices giving the
high bust effect are also seen and have
been taken up by many fashionable
eastern women. Fanciful little bOlerOs,
StomacherS, vests, waiStcoatS and peas
ant waists are features of many modiSh
toilets. So far last years short jacket
is not conspicuously behind the times,
except in the matter of sleeves which
positively must not puff or sag below
the elbow-and that is just where last
years sleeves do puff and sag.
But a new mode which will be well
coined by the women who have old
gowns to remodel is the fancy for
sleeves of contrasting color and mater
ial from the waist. They may match
the yoke or waistcoat. This device is
used, as yet, only for evening or recep-
ton gowns of lace or gauZe but it may
be employed to save an otherwise hope
less gown for another season of useful
ness.
They say the new wraps are dolmans
and shawl shapes and redingotes and
things. 1t doesn't sound very alluring
but then there are always dire threats
of freak fashions at the beginning of
the season which come to nothing. Silk
and velvet redingotes bedight with furs
and lace jabots and frills are promised
riage wear for winter.
Why is it that a man must always
have SOmebOdy-and particularly some
woman-to accuse of his own failure?
asks a reviewer in the New York Even
ing Post. Here is George Bernard
Shaw with a brand new and character
istically paradoxical version of the old
baby plea, tine woman whom thou
gavest me-" His Man and Superman,'
am to1d-I own L have not read it's
an attempt to show that woman is a
sort of mastering divinity that broods
over mans life for his own confound
ing the ''superman'' or over-soul
who is more than his soul-tne she
5etebos who plays with poor, mis- !
amusement. We nave all seen this idea
developing in the brain of Bernard the |
Great. In Candida" it is surely |
strongly suggested. Candida merely |
makes her lordly-not to say her lady !
ike-choice between two pigs, taking |
me bigger pig of the two, with a per- |
;ect consciousness of her superiority to |
both. And if both the preacher and the |
poet went to the devil after she mad |
been toying with them so, could not |
Doth have blamed her for their down. |
fall?
Horizontal tucks are in Cor on) ev-
erything,'' writes a Topeka woman |
who is visiting in New York. land bid |
air to be as popular as the others have |
or slender figures. isn't it, but woe to |
he fat woman
The fad for beads which has been
growing apace (what is it, by the way, |
10 grow apace?) for the past three or
Jour years has now reached millinery
and many of the new fall hats are
in a most sensational man
1er by bands of small beads, or rows
IF larger ones bordering and decking
crowns and brimS.
1t was a sagacious looking young
He ordered lobster. He wanted his
obster boiled, and he wanted it boiled
alive. The waiter merely bowed.
Hold on there said the sagacious
lust bring me that lobster alive and
ct me put my mark on him before
Jou put him on to boil. No natural
,auses verdict in my lobster when I'm
IN deck
The live lobster was brought, and7
he only girl looked on admiringly
While the young man put his mark on
plugged claw. The lobster was car
led away to his fate, and half an hour
alter the young man and the only girl
vent into gaStrOnOmic action.
There's no sucker SO easy to beat
Is the man who knows it ALL" said the
elderly man, who observed the lob
tiers temperance. IF that man had
me he'd have got what he ordered,
,ut just to pay him off for that grand
tand play of his. the waiter unloaded
m him a lobster that was as dead as
rec silver before it went into the pot.
Mark on him2 1t didn't take half a
minute to duplicate that. Look at the
Lnimal. There it is on the dish with
is tail Strengthened out. A live lob
ter curls his tail under him as soon
IS he feel the hot water, and you can't
Incurl it without breaking it. And
-ou can't curl a dead Holsters tail up
hat way to save your life. Can't fool
ne on Holsters. I come from the
,Iace where they make 'en. The res
aurant keeper who wants TO deceive
ne has to cut ND the fowl and hron
i'm. You can always spot d BOILED
obster from the look of his tall
About Town, in the Wash
ngton Post.
MY dear girl, if you ever happen to
hink you are suffering from a blighted
1va ard a broken heart you will find that
york is an unfailing specific for it. The
eaSon men never die of such complaints
because they have something to do be-
ideS sit and think of the state of their
Elections. Love is an exotic that requires
siSure in which to grow. 1t is only the
lie who are overly sentimental and the
irI who finds that she is a victim of IN