The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-16

cut glass or similar articles, although
gold, silver. brass glass and porcelain
or anything which she can put to a
personal use is allowable and accept
abba.
Very pretty for youthful wearers are
the new dog collars made of many
strings of gold or coral beads fastened
with a finely wrought golden clasp.
Coral beads are especially beoDming
when worn with simple white froclzs.
The long sprays of artificial flowers
used to adorn evening frocks are so
! large that they trim the front of both
bodice and skirt. Nasturtiums and
yellow pansies are worn with gowns
of black lace. tulle or net.
A fashionable flower for table decora-
lions is the camellia. The pure white
flower nesting in its dark, glossy green
leaves is the most beautiful but the
scarlet and white and family tinted
blossoms are preferred sometimes OF
course the camellia is only practicable
when a low decoration is desired. but
! that is the most fashionable form of
centerpiece now. The camellia lies fiat
on the table and does not obscure the
view across which is the effect aimed at
by the up-to-oate decorator.
Never before was the slender woman
in such unquestionable supremacyas this
season. Bones are the rage and all the
fashions are designed and adapted for
women of almost extreme attenuation.
A few years ago every woman was
wearing hip pads and doing all she
could to increase her size below the
waist Now, although the waist is still
slender, the old contrast between it and
the hips and bust is not fashionable.
The hips must be slender and the
straight front effects which have done
so much for the female form divine pre-
clude the possibility of the bouffant
bust effect once fashionable
Formerly the woman who was inclined
to embOnpOint could console herself for
any defects Of her appearance in street
dress by the glories of her decollete. Her
plump neck and shoulders in her even
ing gowns made up for the too, too
solid flesh of her hips and waist. Now,
however, even that consolation is de-
MED her for the fashion for bones ex-
tends even to the neck. Plump Shout
| ders are not only unnecessary. they are
positively passe. Hollows there must be
and bones may be.
It was the pen and ink artists and
made bones fashionable. The Gibson
and Christy girls are slender, the
O'Neill, Latham, the Wenzen and the
Walter Appleton Clark girls have unde-
niable bones at the base of their long
slender threats and deep hollows on
their shoulders Do you remember how
/ thin the show girls in the F'1orodora
companies are? Wen, 1t is not merely
oSSltAeAt 4hSS are SlOSeu 1OI llell
height, for their 'slenderness that makes
them so stunning in the accepted
models of the day, and for the very
bones in their necks.
An almost gaunt look is now notice
able in the faces of half the women one
meets. This is not due alone to the
banting to which many women have
subjected themselves in order to re-
duce their hips and waists. A gaunt
look is fashion; and haven't you noticed
how women, once a certain type be-
comes fashionab BILE, manage to initiate
it? Recent styles of hair dressing have
exaggerated this effect which is the
very latest thing in faces, and the wo-
man who understands the art of make
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