The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-16


able blue and green. These f1ounces
are deep and are frilled and ruched
at the bottom. All are of taffeta
| and are fitted with buttonholeS at
the top, concealed by a band. The
jersey part has a row of buttons at
| it's lower edge Detachable fiounces
| of fine cambria and embroidery are
also seem
Wide ribbons are no longer wound
| carelessly about the waist and tied in
| bow knots. The fitting and boning
and shaping of the girdle is an i'm
| portant item for even the simplest
summer frock. But many a girl is
accomplishing the feat for herself with
more art than her dressmaker shows.
Girdles are more often deep in the
front and low in the back than other
wise.
| Dimity petticoats are among the
| daintiest showings of lingerie count
ers. One skirt is of blue and white.
| The scalIoped bottom of the f1ounce
is buttonholed with the same shade
/ of blue. Lace medallions outlined
with blue coral embroidery, decorate
| the founce.
A Turk gives these directions for
| making Turkish coffee. Put three
Jumps of sugar into little pot, turn
| in the water and bring it to a boil
| Then put in two teaspoonfuls of fine
| ly ground coffee. AS soon as froth
rises lift the pot and tap the bottom
until the froth disappears. Repeat
the operation three times. Then turn
| the coffee into delicate china cups
giving each d share of froth. The
coffee should be freshly roasted and
ground, and the grounds should be
so fine as to pass the palate unnot-
iced.
Writing of the display of clothes at
| the Grand Prix, the fashionable racing
event in Paris, one writer says:
| Some of the most elegant gowns
worn by stout women employed the
| plated skirt. The 1880 styles have
surely taken a back seat. OF course,
many We're in evidence. but the new
est were less prim, which means that
| they were more striking and individ-
uaI in effect. Some of the sleeves
opened up to the shoulder over a
tight lace undersleeve. Dropping
| shoulder cuts, high centuries and less
pointed effects in belts were no
ticeable.
The hats. veritable dreams of beau
ty, were graceful, rich and summerish
with that indescribabIe air possessed
| only by the summer hat. A few en-
ployed wells or lace to fall in the
| back, but the newest were crowned
| with big roses or birds of paradise.
els of garden party hats that have
| been sent to Ireland in honor of the
kings recent visit. Some were made
of null. employing trimmings of plait-
| ed null. A large pink or yellow rose
was all the decoration such a chapeau
needed. The straw hats this season
| do not call for much decoration. They
are simple, but none the less hand
some in effect. This is particularly
the case with those trimmed with
! birds of paradise.
Elbow sleeves carried the day at
| the Grand Prix in spite. of the wealth
er. But long gloves covered the arms,
even to the elbows. Some of the new
gloves for thin arms employ padding
hot IN, b.
ming about half way up the wrist, so
that the woman of scrawny proper
tons can look plump as her sis
ter. The wadding can easily be re-
moved when the gloves are cleaned,
so that. after all, it is only a harmless
ruSe-one of the many thought of by
women whose aim is to assist nature
in every possible way. AS it is, there
is less artifice in women'S get-up at
this epoch than ever before. Less
false hair is in vogue, bustles and
padding is put in busts or shoulders
or sleeves of dresses. So a few little
things are pardonabfe, for every
woman has a right to make as good
an appearance as possible.
what my sex has accomplished-the |
things that it has actually done, not |
what it is ''whereasing,' and "be it |
resolving" to do in conventions it |
ment paleS into insignificance before |
the fact that somehow it has man |
aged to preempt the summer season |
for its own, and converted it into |
a holiday for its sole behoof and ben
eft. Just how it has done this no |
body knows. Just why it has done |
it is an equally inscrutable mystery, |
but the truth remains. At the begin |
ming of the summer, every woman |
who can afford it, and a good many |
who can't. pack their Saratogas, shake
the dust of their homes off their feet.
and HE away on two. or three, or
four months vacation, and no hus- |
band dareS say them nay.
The right to vote is a poor thing |
compared with the right to get up and |
go where and when you please and |
confess that I always look with awe |
upon the summer exodus of wives as |
final and complete proof of woman's |
real emancipation. In the beginning |
of the hegira some sort of excuse was !
always put forth, such as for the |
sake of the children my poor
nerves." 1.-The doctors orders" etc, |
but women have now abandoned ali |
of such subterfugeS and they bold |
ly seek the spring, or the seashore, |
or mountains, frankly and solely for
the purpose of enjoying themselves |
and not because they are driven away |
from home by the necessities of their |
children or their own i'll health.
In way. no phase of our curious
and contradictory social system pre-
sents more points of interest or is |!
more typically American, for the Gus
tom of the wives of the rich and we'll
TODD men forsaking husband and |
home for the summer, belongs ex. !
clusively to this land of the free and |
home of the brave women. To be- |
gin with. there is the humorous sug-
gestion involved in the spectacle of |
the class who least need a vacation |
getting one. If it were the hard
worked and overburdened husbands |
who were going off for a long rest
nOWf Int NJ Nnhndv
to more than snatch few days holt |
day at the best. Mrs. Benedict and