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

doubt the good woman had studied
English by the absent treatment cores
pondence school method and had learn
ed the enormity of saying, us it herr"
and the pitfalls which the nominaIve
who places in he path of the unwary
and unlettered and was proud in the
assurance that her language marked
her as Of the caste of We're de We're.
The newest idea in house furnishing
is to have wall covering, draperies, up
holstery and sofa cushions all exactly
matching in some plain solid color. h
rugs, bric-a-brac and other decorations
give the necessary variety and the eff
feet is very good. A Topeka woman re-
Gently ~returned from New York saw a
numbe of rooms so finished, some in
blue, some in green some in red and
some in sunshine yellow. Plain, mex
pensive burlap covered the walls, up
holstered the davenport and window
seat, and was used for portieres and
sofa pillows. The latter were of uni
form, size and shape perfectly plain,
alike on both sides n finished with
silk cord.
Solomon, the wisest of men, declared
women to be all enigma. He appears
to have studied the sex in patches and
to nave struck an average. He had
scarcely time to study the individual.
But many an honest Darby who pos
sessed a heart has understood more
thai one Joan. If it is possible to lay
down a general principle in such q
matter. 1 should say that where men
ave failed to understand women 1T
was owing to want of heart, and that
where women lave not understood men,
it was due to want of intelligence"
AS a matter of fact, it is only in rare
moments of establishment and devo-
ton to another that nyoody cares TO
admit he or she is understood. "'You
don't understand me n little bit,' is
often the last despairing cry of a wo-
mans injured pride to the man who is
revealing to her the fact that he knows
everything, even that this cry Is q
patent insincerity. And the man who
laments that a woman cannot see how
strong is his devotion, that h pervert
and twists all his assurances into some
thing quite foreign to their original
meaning, will admit some day that she
understood him only too well, that his
was a nature which required opposition
to stir it into activity, and what was
mistaken in the business was h a he
himself was so easily comprehended."
Men and women rave been deliber-
ately throwing dust in one another's
thing is that they understand EACH 9TH
er SO well."-English Illustrated Maga-
zine.
Seen in a mirror a woman always
finds her face pretty. The expression
is good; she holds her head archly;
she arranges her neck and her hat
just so. She is the pink of perfection
OGIOT6 n6T OWN I11TIOT anu III NOOhAAAS
Seen by her friends, this woman
looks quite different She has lost her
arch look. She is bored or tired or
so spic and span. And her friends
say: ''She is falling off in her looks"
This is the history of every beauty
who enters society and goes the pace.
Even the housefurnisher is out with
the thrown rom in which the nOD-t
ular color is relieved only by creamy
hangings and introductions of more
cheerful hues in the decorations of Ia
BILE, piano and in the books and brio
a-brac scattered about. OF the browns
hoodings the wardrobe this season,
there are not less than twenty shades
many more. The warm
browns-those that set off h charms
of creamy skins and auburn hair-are
in highest favor. The color merges at
one extreme of the scale into deep
bronze, copper and leather, and at the
other dies away into soft creams. In
deed, the demarkation between leather
color and burnt onion and brown is q
subtle one. Less is heard in fact, of
the fancifully named colors of the fall
and more of the brown family as the
season advances.
The telephone was sounding thus:
"Helloi That you, Name? Friday
night? Oh, I can't; I'm going to the
theater. Yes. I'm going to sit in the
gallery with Bobby. Don tell; I'm
getting the tickets. Can't; he's invit-
ed, and they're got. oh, Name, why
don't you come with us? Do! Now,
you now you'll neve get the girls to
come up for a box You'll simply
have half of it to pay yourself and sit
there all alone. You know how the
girls are. Yes, gallery. I've simply
at 50 and $3.50 a time, that's
all. It's that and car fare, even if o
do Dutch treat with some one. Papa
won let me be going with the boys
all the time, and besides. most of the
nice fellows I know amt afford and I
know it. oh, Bobby does not mind it at
II. Come on! No, of course noti Good
I guess I am not inviting you to