The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25

other garniture of lace. To be worn
with it is a simple blouse Of cham
payne crepe de chine
There is nothing more mournful
than most peoples idea of a good
time" declared the girl PHILOSOPHER.
With the distinguished Chinaman who,
as he watched a ballroom full of peo-
PIE perspiring and whirling, asked.
Why do they work SO hard2 Can they
not afford to have their servants do
ials cannot be prevailed upon to have
our good times for US.
Some one says that card playing.
for instance, is for those who cannot
converse. Still, they could twirl their
thumbs with less labor"
But understand that it develops
the memory" said the well poised girl
a memory that foFBetS every thing
else said the philosopher. Most wo-
men who play cards have truly re-
markable memories for inaccurate de-
tails in every other direction. Still, the
really alarming variety OF enjoyment
10 my mind is the alimentary kind.
4 Shudder when recall being
party to elaborate dinners. with their
brain paralysis as an immediate after
math. You know how it is. You go to
spend a week with Eleanor, and the first
thing she thinks of is giving little
dinner for you.
THE fatal day arrives, and just after
breakfast, as you look longing at the
sunshine outside and secretly plan a
long walk in the park or a tramp along
the lake shore, you are called into con-
sultatiOn as to the fitness of escalloped
lobster for the third course or creamed
whitefish in ramikins with buttered
brown bread. Shall we have two kinds
bet with the birds? Now, what is your
candid opinion about serving eight
courses, or do you think ten would be
better? Honestly, do you think that
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roast and birds and salad and plum
pudding and an ice and nuts and cof-
fee with cheese will be enough?
With tears of Vexation in her eyes
casm, which Eleanor takes in deadly
earnest, perhaps it will be enough TO
support life until morning.
'-iWth tears of vexation in her eyes
she imploreS you to tell her if you real
~ thing her timbel irons make awk-
ward receptacles for the escalloped lob
ster. And it would be just too awful
If she served but one kind Of vegetable
with the roast-because, you know, the
season is so late that she really has
been unable to procure decent peas.
This just after breakfast. Then you
and your hostess roll up your sleeves
and go into the kitchen to assist the
cook, who has no sense whatever about
seasoning and cannot for the life of her
bake a cake. Outside is the sunshine,
and the birds are daintily pecking at
their casual food. Inside you and your
hostess, red in the face, growing more
and more excited every minute, are
soaking the cut glass in ammonia, mix
ing cake dough and sputtering about
the cooks having forgotten to put the
sweetbreads in cold water before
throwing them into the boiling kettle.
And all, alas! in the effort to have
good time'i
''Politeness requires you and all the
other guests to overeat when the final
suspicious occasion is entered upon.
You poison your body and your brain,
IT.
life, button the altar Of enjoyment you
sacrifice yourself.
And then there are the parties
Even the well poised girl groaned.
have the time Of our lives CALCULATES
the girl of 20.
g What are you going to dor you
inquire with feigned interest.
We've told every one to bring pet
animal. and we'll have it in the billiard
room.
yes, and them
And then-weH. you know what a
perfect bedlam it viii be. Every one
with pet animal-isn't it just too kill
ing2'
. Tt is you assent Am invited?'
You like your friends, you know, and
you might love them if they didn't in
sist upon giving you a good time But
you're elected to go, and so you do,
feeling like an inmate of some feeble
minded institution as you carry along
other guests you find, have had the
intelligence also to bring with them
sham pet animals, thereby proving
their humanity. A very large assem-
bly, gathers in the billiard room and
they look about sheepishly at one an
other Two very callow youths In the
center Of the room are trying to Dark
like a dog and yowl like cat respec-
lively, which effort brings tributes of
laughter from surrounding debutantes.
Everybody Is embarrassed by the
knowledge that everybody else expects
him to be funny, and all have the con-
seriousness that a perfectly killing time
is expected-nay, demanded-of them
Result, a room full of silly-looking,
very bored human beings trying to en-
joy themselves.
dancing. though it is very warm, and
cards, though only the men know how
to play And as every one is too well
bred to talk about anything serious
and most of those present are far too
fashionable to know anything about
anything. really. you know, the even
ing is a huge success. Chicago News
fiat soIed, plain looking little
pedal novelty has won the hand and
purse of the smart woman, says the
Chicago Record-Herald's fashion au-
thority.
It is one of those things in fashion
which, lacking the approval of the
fashionable woman, would be unable
to stand on its good looks alone. The
pump closely resem bles a mans house
slipper; now that's fact It gives
the foot a fiat and commonplace
look. very prim and demure, with the
tailory little bow clapped on in front,
vet women who crave the enVlable
high arched ankle are favorlng the
pump, nevertheless.
Since the wise ones have resorted to
patented" means of gaining the high
instep, it is no longer thought neces-
sary to supply this deficiency when
wearing pumps: but for dancing
hn11rs and smart occa siOns when girls