The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-17

are seen in wide sailor shapes, the
brims, as a rule, rolling. Very little
trimming besides ribbon bows and ends
| appear on these hats. Smooth beavers
show huge ribbon bows in front or q
fluffy feather pompom. School hats
should be of the simplest description
| although their simplicity need not in
terfere with their becomingness.
''Haf the world of mothers do not
| know the Importance of giving chill
dren a social start. They think that
( because the family income is not
| large, or the home palatial, the task is
hopeless. Society is only for the rich,
they argue. They sit up nights to
make fancy frocks for the girls, they
scrimp and save to pay for piano les
sons, they sacrifice themselves to give
the children a week at some summer
resort, but they go right up in the air
| if a child asks to have a friend over
night, or few girls to lunch.
| "'Oh, can't you take them to a
matinee instead?' is the wall. And SO
the children find their social life at tn e
! theater or on the street corner or in
the public parks. And, by the by, the
| pretty daughter may marry well-to-
| do man and find that she knows moth
| ing of her social duties as his wife, or
| the boys may become successful bust
ness men and find themselves face to
| face with the problem of taking a
course in social training when they
| reach middle age.
| ing the children to Sunday school or
to the dentist, but we let them work
out their own salvation, and it is not
fair to the child. A few less frills on
the best frock. a few less theater tick
cts and little more entertaining
around the family table will balance
matters better.
There is nothing more pathetic
than the child who has grown up
without any social training, and who
works her way up to a position where
she is forced to mingle with people
who have had such advantages. I
buy my daughters calling cards and
stationery just as I watch for bargains
lin clothes. I see to it that every mem
Der of the family circle is prompt to
acknowledge favorS and invitations
and to make dinner and party calls. L
want my boys to know how to escort-a
lady to the dinner table, as well as to
carve the fowl served upon it.
81 hope that every one of the chill
dren will some day have happy home
of his or her own and know how TO
preside over it. Some of my dearest
enemies call me maneuvering mann
ma, and I'm proud of the title: pc
Iieve in the social as well as the edu-
cational and financial campaign. -
Washington Star
A pretty subject for discussion has
been opened up by, the assertion OF a
lady novelist that the made-up woman
invariably reigns supreme despite the
rulings of moralists and the prevalent
superstition that the sweet, gentle
woman who is neat in her dress and
nothing more is really mans ideal:
That virtue is literally its own reward
in such cases is the substance of the
lady novelists attack.
Certainly clothes alone will not give
a plain or an unpleasant woman the
advantage over one whose wardrobe is
demode, if the latter have beauty and
grace, for it is possible to recall many
rrrHo
or the wears daughter has scored over
a veritable bevy of faultlessly dressed
women. Still, on the whole, perhaps II
is safer for every woman to make the
best effort she can to enhance such
charms as she may possess and to
simulate them as artistically as she
can when nature has not been liberal.
Beauty unadorned may ana oIten
does have very good chance, but
when by no manner of means can
beauty be. claimed, even in unadorned
fashion, then aSSuredly it is decidedly |
risky, and one night almost say I'M
artificialtys artful aid. No woman |
with the slightest self-respect would |
go about toothless or bald; she would
assuredIy expect if she did that the |
TAXED woman would triumph over
her. And if she is justified and indeed |
compelled by the laws of decency to |
supply dental and hirsute deficiencies
why should not woman who Is pall1d, |
inclined to wrinkles. small eyed or OF
Indifferent figure similarly improve
herself ?-The London World.
There is a radical change in the fash
ions this autumn, and there isn't wo-
man the world over who won't be glad.
In the first place, the new gowns are
built to show the figure and to empha-
size it's good lines. And this is not only |
welcome news to the woman who knows
she has a beautiful figure, and is nat
urally anxious to show it, but is an an
nouncement equally pleasing to the wo-
man whose figure can stand much I'M
proving; for good figures nowadays are
made to order with astonishing facility.
The new frocks show in their bodices
the most pronounced changes. the
1raped, boned, and fitted to the figure
bodice is taking the place of the loose,
careless blouse. Girdles, SO cleverly
that they are phable,
though stiffened, are a feature of the
new waists; in fact, are a part of them.
The shoulder line is gradually growing
broader as the 1880 droop is disappear
ng. In the dressier gowns the sleeve is
keeping up it's reputationAfor elabora-
ion. Fanciful elbow sleeves are con-
sidered modisn, as well as the sleeve
with the deep cuff, which clings to the
arm below the elbow, but shows much
,uIlness as 1t nears the shoulder.
The new skiFts-many of them-are
veritable old fashioned models. They
positively invite crinoline into their
'olds. Over the hips, however. they are